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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New color tool for #dataviz just dropped: Phosphor by @jscarto.bsky.social This is my first crack at a palette, rendered in QGIS with compositing in Illustrator and Photoshop. You can download or modify the color sequence here: www.joshuastevens.net/phosphor/#c=...

Equal area map of Earth centered on the Americas. NDVI (vegetation) is shown in shades of green and beige. Darkest greens are the most heavily vegetated. Very light green and beige is barren rock, sand, or soil. Open ocean is blue, ice is gray, and there are dark gray graticules spaced every 15˚.

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Geomorphica @geomorphica.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

New paper alert! Svennevig and Theusen present "Open Access 3D-printable Landslide Models for Outreach and Teaching" Check out the full article here: journals.psu.edu/geomorphica/...

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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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Christian Sommer @sommergeo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Beautiful hand drawn #MapInTheWild at the Supermarket in Aus, Namibia 🇳🇦

Map of Namibia drawn at the outer wall of a Supermarket.

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Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias @ceciliapad.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Come to Tübingen! Can’t think of a better place to do Human Origins research, and mentor students in our field 😍

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 11/04/2026

A study in Nature Communications shows that hominins were consistently and specifically procuring a single kind of raw material to make stone tools at the South African site of Jojosi between 220 and 110 thousand years ago. go.nature.com/4cyKgiX 🏺🧪

This is figure 3, which shows Structure from Motion (SfM) orthophotographic overviews of the excavated artefact lenses and surfaces at Jojosi 5 and 6.

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Universität zu Köln @unicologne.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

🔨 Early humans in South Africa were quarrying stone as long as 220,000 years ago That was found by an international research team including the @unituebingen.bsky.social and #UniCologne. ▶️ uni.koeln/7MBKW 📺 youtu.be/JMQudzjLmUw 📰 doi.org/10.1038/s4146…

Schicht aus flachen, blaugrauen Gesteinsplatten in bröckeligem, hellbraunem Erdhang in trockener Landschaft.

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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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Jesper Borre Pedersen @jesperborre.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

News on Neanderthal population history! 🧬 We combined archaeology (from @roceeh.bsky.social ROAD) + ancient DNA, to uncover a genetic turnover ~65 ka linked to a SW France refugium. Together, aDNA & archaeology reveal a richer, nuanced past than either could alone. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Archaeogenetic insights into the demographic history of Late Neanderthals | PNAS

The demographic history of Neanderthals is only partially understood. In Europe, some degree of genetic continuity has been shown from 120 thousand...

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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 · 06/11/2025

📢Last call: Submit your presentations to the ROCEEH (co-)hosted sessions at @caaint.bsky.social by November 9th! S25: How to do ROAD: An Essential Tool for Conducting Multidisciplinary Studies Related to Human Evolution 🪨💀🦣🌼 S39: Palaeo-GIS 🌍📌 🔗https://2026.caaconference.org/conference-sessions/

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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 · 16/10/2025

The deadline for abstracts for CAA 2026 in Vienna is approaching — only 10 days left! Showcase your research using the ROAD database in Session S25 "How to do ROAD", or highlight your spatial archaeological studies in Session S39 "Paleo-GIS". More info: 2026.caaconference.org/conference-s...

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Christian Sommer @sommergeo.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

CFP for CAA 2026 Vienna is open (deadline Oct 26)! We're back with Session 39: Palaeo-GIS — for GIS in Palaeolithic & prehistoric contexts. Reflective, context-aware papers especially welcome. 🔗 Session info: 2026.caaconference.org/conference-s...

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Christian Sommer @sommergeo.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Annoucning two sessions at CAA 2026, Vienna 🎉 📢 Call for papers is open — abstracts due Oct 26, 2025 🧩 S25: How to do ROAD – A Tool for Multidisciplinary Studies in Human Evolution 🗺️ S39: Palaeo-GIS 👉 Details & submission: 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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Christian Sommer @sommergeo.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

📄📢New article: Bader, Sommer, Linstädter, Masia, Blessing, Forrester, & MacDonald (2025). Decoding hunter-gatherer-knowledge and selective choice of lithic raw materials during the Middle and Later Stone Age in Eswatini. Journal of Archaeological Science, 180, 106302. doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

Fig. 3. (a) View of the Mgwayiza valley; (b) detail of red jasper outcrop with white quartz veins; (c) knapped materials.

Stream power analysis in relation to chert bearing lithologies in the study area.

Least cost path analysis indicating the optimal transport routes between raw material outcrops and archaeological sites.

A scatterplot of NAA data representing PC1 (40 % var.) and PC2 (21.5 % var.) for all source and artifact samples. Element vectors are shown, representing elements that drive variation between compositional groups.

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Christian Sommer @sommergeo.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

New @roceeh.bsky.social Newsletter #25 with an article on our archaeoligcal + geoscientific work in the Jojosi Dongas!

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Seeing Blatten buried again and again, from every angle... Properly staggering! 😮😱

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Christian Sommer @sommergeo.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I strongly recommend visiting @gideys.bsky.social 's talk on the Mai Adrasha archaeological site in Tigrai, to be held in Session S29: "Heritage under bombs - digital methods in the studies of endangered heritage in conflict zones"!

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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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Christian Sommer @sommergeo.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Become my colleague and work with ROCEEH on the ROAD database!

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Christian Sommer @sommergeo.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

⏩Fast forward: You can easily create animated maps in R using data from the ROAD database @roceeh.bsky.social. This example shows the appearance (🔴) and deposition (⚫) of ~6000 dated assemblages with stone artifacts between 2,780,000 and 10,000 years BP. 💻 github.com/sommergeo/ro...

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Christian Sommer @sommergeo.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I'm very proud that Marie Luise Geisbusch, whose B.Sc. thesis I supervised, has been awarded the Sustainability Prize of the University of Tübingen for her thesis "Restoration Effects on Peatland Vegetation – Integrating Field and Landsat Data" 🌱🛰️

Presentation of the sustainability prize for final theses at the university of tübingen 2024. Prof. Potthast announces the winners with images of Marie Geisbusch's work in the background on a screen.

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Christian Sommer @sommergeo.bsky.social · 23/05/2024

Ok, first bluesky post here: I'm excited to share our introductory paper on joint archaeology + geomorphology work in the Dongas of Jojosi, KwaZulu-Natal 🇿🇦. doi.org/10.36615/saf...

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