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Kandel, Andrew W., Haidle, Miriam N. and Sommer, Christian (Eds.): Human Origins – Digital Future: An International Conference about the Future of Archaeological and Paleoanthropological Databases, Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2022. https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.882

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Andrew W. Kandel (Ed.), Miriam N. Haidle (Ed.), Christian Sommer (Ed.)

Human Origins – Digital Future

An International Conference about the Future of Archaeological and Paleoanthropological Databases

This eBook presents the proceedings of an online conference entitled, “Human Origins – Digital Future” which took place from 27-31 July 2020. The main aim of the conference was to discuss integrative aspects and approaches for developing, using and securing large scientific databases in the future, specifically in the context of archaeological and paleoanthropological research. The conference focused on how databases with novel information technology can be used to gain new knowledge by linking, retrieving and analyzing archaeological, paleoanthropological, paleobiological and geographical information. In addition to addressing fundamental questions of digitalization and open science, the conference examined approaches using innovative methods. Given the digital nature of the conference, we designed the format of this publication to employ multimedia and interactive features. Therefore, this volume brings together the abstracts of the talks, each containing a link that allows the reader to view the video as presented at the conference. In addition, the volume closes with a round-table discussion that can be accessed through links to interviews about selected topics related to the future of databases.

Andrew W. Kandel is a Paleolithic Archaeologist in the Research Center "The Role of Culture in the Early Expansions of Humans" of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He specializes in the analysis of cultural changes that occurred during the transition from Middle to Upper Paleolithic in the Levant and Caucasus.

Miriam N. Haidle is a Paleolithic Archaeologist and Paleoanthropologist in the Research Center "The Role of Culture in the Early Expansions of Humans" of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Her work focuses on the development of tool behavior in humans and animals and the implications thereof for cultural and cognitive evolution.

Christian Sommer is a Physical Geographer in the Research Center "The Role of Culture in the Early Expansions of Humans" of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He studies the prehistory of landscapes and their influence on early humans by the analysis of large geospatial datasets with quantitative methods.

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Table of Contents
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Table of Contents
vii-x
Andrew W. Kandel, Miriam N. Haidle, Christian Sommer
Volume Abstract
Human Origins – Digital Future: An International Conference about the Future of Archaeological and Paleoanthropological Databases
2
Volker Hochschild
Preface
4-5
Introduction
Mind Map – CONFERENCE OVERVIEW
8
Andrew W. Kandel, Miriam N. Haidle, Christian Sommer
Overview of the Conference: Human Origins – Digital Future
9-15
Chapter I – Databases
Mind Map – DATABASES
18
Eric C. Grimm , John W. Williams
The Neotoma Paleoecology Database
Shared Standards, Community Curation, and Active Reanalysis of Paleo Data
19-20
Andrew W. Kandel
A Beginner’s Guide to the ROCEEH Out of Africa Database
21
Franco Niccolucci
A Data-Centric Archaeological Research Methodology: Opportunities and Risks
22
Christopher Nicholson
Challenges of Archiving Complex Archaeological Datasets for Reuse: An Example from the American Southwest
23-24
Jesús Rodríguez
The Specific Problems of Palaeontological Databases and How NQMDB Deals with Them
25
Chapter II – Methods
Mind Map – METHODS
28
Juan A. Barcelo
Solving Archaeological Inverse Problems – A Reverse Engineering Approach
29
Christian Sommer, Volker Hochschild
New Perspectives for Data Exploration in ROAD
30-31
Alice Williams
How Well Does the Circumscription Theory Explain the Formation of Complex Societies?
Using Agent-Based Models to Evaluate Archaeological Theories against Existing Archaeological Data
32-33
Christian Willmes
PaleoMaps – Creating, Collecting and Compiling Geospatial Paleoenvironment Data for Culture-Environment-Interaction Modeling Applications
34-35
Chapter III – Applications
Mind Map – APPLICATIONS
38
Rimtautas Dapschauskas, Christian Sommer, Andrew W. Kandel, Matthias Göden
Using a Georelational Spatial Information System to Examine Questions about the Large-Scale Development of Cultural Behavior in Human Evolution: The Example of Ochre in the African Middle Stone Age
39-40
Ewa Dutkiewicz
Structuring the Unstructured: Databases for Paleolithic Art
41-42
Christine Hertler
The Map Module for the ROAD Database
43-44
Ericson Hölzchen, Christian Sommer, Christine Hertler
NeMo – An Agent-Based Model for Simulating Neanderthal Mobility
45-46
Zara Kanaeva
ROAD Summary Data Sheet – A Publication and Data Sharing Tool
47
Ana Mateos, Christian Willmes, Jesús Rodríguez
Matching Datasets and Palaeoenvironment to Frame Human Palaeoecology in Europe around MIS 11
48-49
Shannon McPherron
Is a Decentralized, Non-Standardized Approach to Data Sharing in Archaeology Good Enough?
50
Mika Puspaningrum, Christine Hertler, Ericson Hölzchen, Angela Bruch, Iwan P. Anwar, Agus T. Hascaryo, Jan-Olaf Reschke, Susanne Krüger
Living in Sangiran
51-52
Denné Reed
Paleo Core – A Platform for Data Integration in Paleoanthropology
53
Manuel Will, Mario Krapp, Jay T. Stock, Andrea Manica
Combining Paleoenvironmental and Paleoanthropological Datasets to Understand Human Brain and Body Size Evolution
54-55
Andreas Zimmermann, Isabell Schmidt
Prehistoric Population Dynamics – Extended
56-57
Chapter IV – Products
Mind Map – PRODUCTS
60
Wolfgang Börner
Wien Kulturgut: Web Portal for the Contribution of Archaeological Data from the Paleolithic until Today
61
Tanja Neumann, Liane Giemsch
METAhub Frankfurt – A Database as Link Between Museum Cultures and Performative Art
Yasuhisa Kondo
Interdisciplinary Challenges of the Cultural History of PaleoAsia Project and its Database Development: Lessons Learnt
63-64
Matthias Lang, Philippe Kluge, Colin Emonds, Vinzenz Rosenkranz
Spacialist – A Virtual Research Environment for the Spatial Humanities
65
Chapter V – Perspectives (as Interviews)
Mind Map – PERSPECTIVES
68
Sarah Whitcher Kansa, Andrew W. Kandel
Sustaining Open Data: Lessons from Open Context
69
Peter McKeague, Volker Hochschild, Christian Sommer
Mapping Our Heritage: Towards a Sustainable Future for Digital Spatial Information and Technologies in European Archaeological Heritage Management
70-71
Julian Richards, Christian Sommer, Volker Hochschild
The FAIR Principles in Archaeology
72
Dieta Svoboda-Baas, Miriam N. Haidle
Research Data Infrastructure – Securing Long-term Storage and Use
73
Appendix A. Digital Resources
76
Appendix B. List of Authors
78-82
Appendix C. Participants List
84-91

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