📢 New Blog Post How do humans act in the #Earth System? Dr. Dominik Ohrem and Dr. Shumon Hussain argue for a multi-dimensional account of "human agency." 🔗 read on here: shorturl.at/KldFY

📢 New Blog Post To understand the #Earth and Human Systems, we break them down into spheres. Dr. Dominik Ohrem and Dr. Shumon Hussain describe the critical elements of the human sphere to create more accurate Earth System Models! 🔗 read on here: shorturl.at/UX0Bs

📢 New Blog Post How closely can #climate models reproduce Earth’s changing #vegetation over the past 20,000 years?🌳 Dr. Anne Dallmeyer explains how she and her colleagues explore where models succeed - and why they still miss important regional detail 🔎 🔗 read on here: shorturl.at/PmTyi

📢 Call for Papers HESCOR project leads are guest editing a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Quaternary Science on Human-Earth system interactions, population dynamics, and cultural #evolution during the #Pleistocene and #Holocene! Open to external submissions! 📬 🔗 shorturl.at/9n3Ri

Journal of Quaternary Science Call for Papers – Humans in the Earth System: Perspectives and Case-Studies on Population Dynamics and Cultural Evolution During the Pleistocene and Holocene

<em>Journal of Quaternary Science</em> publishes papers on any field of Quaternary research, advancing understanding of earth's history over the last 2.58 million years.

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📢 New Student Blog How to integrate uncertainty and biases in the #HEPModel? Anna shares experiences from her Master's thesis at #UoC, where #ClimateScience & #Archaeology come together. 🔗 Read her story here: www.hescor-project.com/student-pers... and learn more about #HESCOR #OpenScience

📢 New Blog Post How did Europe's first #farmers 10,000 years ago interact with their environment? 🌾 Dr. Johanna Hilpert shares how HESCOR researchers are studying the #Linearbandkeramik culture and their relationship with the environment! 🔗 read on here: shorturl.at/E6alg #Neolithic #LBK

📢 New Blog Post How did past humans utilize some of Africa’s highest landscapes? ⛰️ In his new publication, Dr. Götz Ossendorf explores evidence that reveals how humans 15,000 years ago took advantage of newly ice-free landscapes in #Ethiopia. 🔗 read on here: shorturl.at/9VPId

📢 New Publication Why did humans intermittently use harsh Afroalpine environments in prehistory?⛰️ Dr Götz Ossendorf et al. present new data from Ethiopia's Bale Mountains offering insights into past landscape change & high-altitude human adaptation! 🔗 shorturl.at/S5dbm #Ethiopia #Alpinearchaeology

📢 New Blog Post Can artificial intelligence transform how we classify artefacts? 🏺 Discover how Dr. Boqiang Huang is using transfer learning to overcome limited data and subjectivity, unlocking new insights into the past! 🔗 read on here: shorturl.at/guxgUDiagram

📢 New Publication How can environmental records be recovered from the Ethiopian Rift? Dr Verena Foerster-Indenhuck and colleagues show how overlapping sediment cores from the Chew Bahir drilling campaign enable reconstructions of past climate and human evolution!🔬 🔗 read on here: shorturl.at/BzEDT

📢 New Publication Dr Yaping Shao and colleagues present a new open-access PLOS ONE study simulating population dynamics during the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic Transition (ca. 50–38 ka) on the Iberian Peninsula. #MiddlePalaeolithic #Neanderthals #Aurignacien #AMH 🔗 read on here: shorturl.at/YU0Da

📢 HESCOR Seminar #UoC Master's students! 👋 Curious about how humans and the Earth interact in complex, dynamic systems? 🌐🤝 Explore cutting-edge research and modelling approaches from climate science, archaeology, mathematics, and the humanities – all in one seminar! 🔗 read more: shorturl.at/OxQzZ

📢 New Blog Post How might the first anatomically modern humans have migrated across Europe? 🌍👣 @isabell-schmidt.bsky.social explores this question using the “Our Way Model” and results from our recent Nature Communications paper! 🔗 read on here: shorturl.at/5WsC6

📢 Studierendenperspektive Von Großwildjagd zur Polykrise: Student der HESCOR Ringvorlesung Tristan Boente erklärt, warum wir für die komplexen Herausforderungen unserer Zeit neue wissenschaftliche Denkansätze brauchen! 🌍💡 🔗 Hier weiterlesen: shorturl.at/auQIK

📢 Student Perspective What makes Earth Scientists so sure that the current #climate crisis is man-made? HESCOR Ringvorlesung student Bethan Callow explains why scientists have a lot of certainty about our role in current global climate changes!🌦️ 🔗 read on here: shorturl.at/1K1ez

📢 New Publication We often think of clothing in early human evolution as „dress“, „haute couture“ or simply as functional. @shumon.bsky.social argues that this has fundamentally clouded our view for the role of clothing in negotiating past human-animal relationships!🔎 🔗 read more: shorturl.at/JyXsk

Together with Krist Vaesen, I have written some words of caution about #replication in lithic analysis. We fear that the way the issue has been taken up in #Palaeolithic #archaeology can narrow the scope of disciplinary inquiry 🏺🧪🦣 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢 New Blog Post Lakes may seem stable in our everyday experience, but over hundreds to thousands of years they can change a lot! Dr. Elena Robakiewicz explains lake #coring and what Lake Nakuru (Kenya) reveals about the past 35,000 years!🔬 🔗 read on here: shorturl.at/FRHLi

📢 New Blog Post How can a rock from hundreds of kilometers away become a stone tool? Dr. Johanna Hilpert explains how HESCOR researchers study prehistoric #networks of interaction and #exchange 🌐🤝 🔗 read on here: shorturl.at/f0t5G #Magdalenian #LBK #Modelling

📢 New Blog Post Understanding #reconstructions of past vegetation can be difficult…. @oliverkern.bsky.social introduces his PALVEG app to make the maps from #paleovegetation reconstructions more accessible to researchers across all disciplines! 💻🌳 🔗 read on here: shorturl.at/dNas6

📢 New Publication Dr. Elena Robakiewicz’s team used #multi-proxy data to trace 40,000 years of change at Kenya’s Lake Nakuru, showing why such records matter in alkaline lakes and hinting that Nakuru’s chemistry responded to short-term Northern Hemisphere #climate shifts. shorturl.at/ArQbd

Moisture availability and productivity at Lake Nakuru, Kenya leading into the African Humid Period

Lake Nakuru, a lake with the one of the highest primary production rates in the world, is an eastern African soda lake that contains important records…

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📢 New Blog Post Achieving true interdisciplinarity is hard! @shumon.bsky.social makes an argument for accepting the transformative nature of #interdisciplinary research - even if that means researchers must revisit their standard methods and assumptions! 🔗 read on here: shorturl.at/YE4gx

My grapple with the "ontological turn" and its implications for human-animal archaeologies; many points are not new but I contend that "ontological" cannnot be a mere replacement for "culture" and that the critique is radically empirical (not "metaphysical"): www.eaz-journal.org/index.php/ea... 🏺

📢 Upcoming Event BLE & HESCOR Workshop: Interdisciplinary Cooperation and Profile Building 🌐🤝 When: November 28th, 10:00-14:00 Where: Stadtpalais in Aachen 🔗 detailed program & information on how to register: shorturl.at/PRotW #interdisciplinary #research #collaboration

🔔🔔New Paper 🔔🔔 Pollen-based REVEALS land-cover reconstructions for Europe during the latter half of the Last Glacial Period essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/... We show that glacial refugia and frequent openings of migration corridors may have played a substantial role human dispersal

Landscape reconstructions for Europe during the late Last Glacial (60–20 ka BP): a pollen-based REVEALS approach

Abstract. Vegetation change during the Last Glacial period in Europe plays a crucial role in better understanding the ecosystem dynamics response to abrupt climate change. Yet, most quantitative recon...

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📢 New Blog Post What's a (good) model? Dr. Annika Vogel highlights the questions that need to be answered and decisions that need to be made to appropriately #model interdisciplinary phenomena - there are always tradeoffs! 🔗 read on here: shorturl.at/JklT1

What is a good model? - Hescor

What's a (good) model? Dr. Annika Vogel highlights the questions that need to be answered and decisions that need to be made to appropriately model interdisciplinary phenomena - there are always trade...

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📢 New Blog Post How can machine learning be used in archaeology? 💻 Dr. Boqiang Huang lists the ways that archaeologists could use machine learning to revolutionize standard archaeological methods. 🔗 read on here: shorturl.at/PRwTl

📢 New Blog Post How can we actually map out potential patterns of human #migration? Max Brockmann discusses how he and Lena Perlberg use methods of #probability to estimate how earlier humans may have moved throughout Europe! 🌍 #modelling #leastcostpath #costmap 🔗 read on here: shorturl.at/lIKIB

📢 New Blog Post How did #Palaeolithic humans cope with the sudden cold of the Younger Dryas (~12,000 years ago) in Europe? ❄️ A team led by HESCOR’s @isabell-schmidt.bsky.social and Andreas Maier has answers! 🔗 read on here: shorturl.at/n2tND

📢 Upcoming Event HESCOR Vision Forum Session on European Neolithic Transitions, Networks, and Beyond! 🔍 When ⏰: Monday, September 22nd, 2025, from 09:00-12:00 Where📍: @unicologne.bsky.social 🔗 detailed program & information on how to register: shorturl.at/YO1Qk #Neolithic #Networks #Archaeology