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The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans | Home of the ROCEEH Out of Africa Database (ROAD)

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ROCEEH Research Center @roceeh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Neanderthals weathered wild climate swings in Europe during the ice age 191–116 thousand years ago, but their behavior? Surprisingly steady. Stone tools, hunting, mobility: all held firm. They just carried on, because their tech was flexible. 🧵3
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ROCEEH Research Center @roceeh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Neanderthals survived ice ages and warming climates. You’d think their lives would change dramatically. Spoiler: They didn’t. Here’s why that’s fascinating (and what it tells us about early human resilience). 🧵2
Comparison of the two phase's megabiomes and vegetation types, as inferred from faunal remains.
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ROCEEH Research Center @roceeh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New ROCEEH publication: Sommer, Haidle, Bolus, Bruch, Hertler, Kanaeva, Malina, Hochschild, Conard & Kandel (2026). Testing the limits of archaeological datasets: Neanderthal behavior during the MIS 6–MIS 5e glacial cycle indicates cultural flexibility. QEH 4(4), 100117. doi.org/10.1016/j.qe... 🧵1
Neanderthal sites of last interglacial (MIS 5e) and penultimate glacial phase (MIS6). Timelines show the temporal development of the habitable zone, as well the density of dated finds used in this study.
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ROCEEH Research Center @roceeh.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The roadDB workshop at #CAA2026 is in full swing!
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ROCEEH Research Center @roceeh.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
The latest ROCEEH Newsletter is available! 🇦🇪 @unesco.org World Heritage site Faya Paleolandscape 📱🎲 Visual Communication Design meets Neanderthals 👩‍💻 The R package 'roadDB' 🕸️ ROCEEH Symposium “Diversifying networks. How culture infuses the environment” www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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ROCEEH Research Center @roceeh.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Our joint workshop on "Big Data and Human Evolution" between ROCEEH and @boneslab.bsky.social, organized by Giulia Marciani in Ravenna, is in full swing! Great talks, good company and Sangiovese🍷
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ROCEEH Research Center @roceeh.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
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ROCEEH Research Center @roceeh.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
From October 8–10, 2025, ROCEEH hosted the international symposium “Diversifying Networks – How Culture Infuses the Environment” — three days of rich, interdisciplinary dialogue exploring the deep links between culture and environment. Book of Abstracts: www.roceeh.uni-tuebingen.de/diversifying...
Cover of the abstract book, showing a network connecting environmental and cultural nodes.Group picture with the participants of the ROCEEH Simposium "Diversifying Networks – How Culture infuses the Environment".
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ROCEEH Research Center @roceeh.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Submit an abstract to the dedicated session on use cases of the ROCEEH Out of Africa Database (ROAD) at CAA 2025 in Vienna! S25: How to do ROAD: An Essential Tool for Conducting Multidisciplinary Studies Related to Human Evolution Deadline: October 26th 2025 2026.caaconference.org/conference-s...
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ROCEEH Research Center @roceeh.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
We congratulate the Faya Paleolandscape on its inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List! (whc.unesco.org/en/list/1735/). Since its early years, ROCEEH has supported research in Jebel Faya and neighboring sites financially and with personnel. 📷Sharjah Archaeology Authority
Overview of the 10 km long Jebel Faya mountain and the plain with the archaeological sites in front. The ridge forms a barrier to the Rub’ al Khali desert. (photo: Sharjah Archaeology Authority)
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ROCEEH Research Center @roceeh.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
ROCEEH Newsletter #25 is out! tinyurl.com/298mya2t 🪨 The Jojosi Dongas’ hidden history of early humans and landscapes 👣 Lateurope: Why Western Europe was settled by hominins later than other regions of Eurasia 🏛️ South-Africa‘s Sibhudu Cave named a UNESCO World Heritage Site 🏹 Becoming a bow hunter
Cover of ROCEEH Newsletter #25
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ROCEEH Research Center @roceeh.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
ROCEEH's Jan-Olaf Reschke, Christine Hertler and Christian Sommer @sommergeo.bsky.social spotted at #CAA2025 in Athens! Hear our talks in Session 14: "Advances in modelling past human ecosystems", held in Room A5 on Thursday, May 8th, 13:45–16:05.
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ROCEEH Research Center @roceeh.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
💼Open position in the ROCEEH Project! Join the team as Data Curator for Paleolithic Archaeology and help expand the ROAD database! 🔍Details: www.hadw-bw.de/aktuelles/au... 📅Deadline: 28.02.2025
The project "The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans (interner Link)" (ROCEEH) is a research project of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences within the framework of the Academy Program of the German Federal and State Governments. It explores the changing interactions of cultural and ecological developments as well as spatiotemporal expansions in the course of human evolution between 3 million and 20,000 years ago in Africa and Eurasia. ROCEEH is projected to run until 2027.

The Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities is seeking for the project ROCEEH at the work place of the University of Tübingen starting on 01.05.2025 a
Data Curator (m/f/d) with a background in Palaeolithic Archaeology

(TV-L E13, 100% for two years)

Your tasks: 

    Data maintenance and quality control of the project's database ROAD
    Support of archaeological areas of the ROAD database, incl. compilation of relevant data on material culture (e.g. stone tools, organic artefacts etc.)
    Conceptual development of the database applications
    Input of literature and maintenance of literature data in ROAD
    Coordination of work on ROAD between the research centres in Tübingen and Frankfurt
    Technical supervision of students working on the ROCEEH project
    Participation in the preparation of specialist publications
    Presentation of the database at conferences, as part of training courses and in public relations work
    Involvement in university teaching is possible.

Your profile:

    A university degree with a doctorate in the field of material culture in Palaeolithic archaeology
    Experience in working with relational databases
    Experience with SQL and R programming is an advantage
    Experience in the completion of specialist publications
    Very good knowledge of written and spoken English, other language skills are an advantage
    Very good communication and teamwork skills

The position is limited to two years. Severely disabled applicants will be given …
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