Conference Sessions – CAA 2026
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...
23.09.2025 07:52 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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...
17.09.2025 14:35 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
The long sequence of occupations of the Faya Paleolandscape indicates that the Arabian Peninsula was not just a corridor, but an independent region of human cultural evolution.
22.07.2025 07:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Faya is famous for one of the world’s oldest and most continuous records of early human presence in arid environments over 200,000 years. It yielded evidence for the long-supposed southern route of modern human expansion “out of Africa” via the Bab-al-Mandap strait.
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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)
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
22.07.2025 07:51 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
New article with ROCEEH's Andrew Kandel and based on the ROAD database! 🎉
26.06.2025 12:34 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New article with ROCEEH contribution
25.06.2025 07:27 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Cover of ROCEEH Newsletter #25
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
16.06.2025 11:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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.
07.05.2025 11:59 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Update: Deadline is March 14th, not February 28th as falsely stated in previous post.
26.02.2025 10:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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 …
💼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
20.02.2025 12:21 — 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 3
⏩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...
22.01.2025 15:12 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
