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HESCOR - Human & Earth System Coupled Research
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Our interdisciplinary, pioneering HESCOR project at the #UniCologne combines Earth system science, human system modelling, and humanities to explore nature-culture interactions shaping our past, present, and future world.

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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.

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The figure depicts the four ways that Machine Learning can benefit archaeology: feature detection, site identification, chronological modelling, and artifact classification.
October 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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📢 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

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Visualization of the least-cost path between three points, calculated using Dijkstra's algorithm. The route successfully circumvents major topographical obstacles like the Alps and the Pyrenees, while also finding optimal passages through the mountains where necessary. (copyright: Lena Perlberg).
October 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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📢 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!

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The map shows population shifts from south-western to north-eastern Europe during the last cold phase of the Ice Age. Photo: Isabell Schmidt, University of Cologne.
October 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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📢 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:
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#Neolithic #Networks #Archaeology
September 19, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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📢 New Blog Post
How might an #interdisciplinary database work? HESCOR Project Database Manager, Philipp Schlüter, lays out the technical problems and potential solutions for creating HESCOR's #database.

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Diagram showing a virtual machine running a Docker environment. Inside Docker are four isolated containers: NGINX proxy, CKAN application, PostgreSQL (metadata), and SOLR search—representing the HESCOR database components running separately.
September 17, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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New paper with Monika Stobiecka on the role of #conviviality thinking in deep-time #archaeology and #museum spaces and the need to speak to a critical #planetary moment 🏺: doi.org/10.1017/S138...

#multispecies #coexistence #heritage @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @hescor.bsky.social
Convivial Heritage: A Disruptive Archaeology Of Species Coexistence | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core
Convivial Heritage: A Disruptive Archaeology Of Species Coexistence
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September 8, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Upcoming @hescor.bsky.social and @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social event at the University of Cologne on the "Politics of More-Than-Human Life and Earth System Science" with an exciting programme: www.hescor-project.com/news/politic...
Politics of more-than-human life and Earth System Science - Hescor
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September 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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📢 New Blog Post
Living in high-altitudes is challenging - but humans in the #Ethiopian highlands have done it for tens of thousands of years! Dr. Götz Ossendorf introduces his hypothesis that social connectedness allowed past humans to endure such harsh conditions!

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View from the Afroalpine Plateau into the lowlands (Bale Mountains, SE Ethiopia).
September 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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📢 New Blog Post
What have we learned from animals and they from us? @shumon.bsky.social & Dr. Dominik Ohrem highlight their research to better integrate the ways that humans and animals learn from each other and how that knowledge-sharing impacts the Earth System!

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The figure contains graphical, iconic (human and animal icons) and textual elements. They are horizontally arranged to form three separate compartments, each of which is populated by a different configuration of humans and animals, accompanied by a symbolic and descriptive qualification of the associated learning mode. On the left, humans learn to think about themselves and their worlds through other animals (for example a raven), exemplified by the question “Who am I in this world?” (learning through). In the middle, humans take inspiration from other animals (for example beavers) in how to manipulate their environments, exemplified by the realization “Ah, this is how it works!” (learning from). On the right, humans make themselves at home in the world in such a way that they can coinhabit their environments with other animals (for example wolves), thereby co-learning how to live effectively in these environments with the respective animals (learning with). The framing arrows on the top and bottom indicate that human cultural frameworks can be expected to shape these modes of learning to various degrees and that their behavioural integration can be expected to differ across spatiotemporal scales.
August 21, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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📢 New Blog Post
#Interdisciplinary research demands extra effort, time, and communication—but it’s worth it! @isabell-schmidt.bsky.social outlines the challenges involved and explains why such collaboration is essential for answering questions about our deep #past.

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Bridging the Gap: Challenges of Interdisciplinary Science in Human Origins Research - Hescor
Interdisciplinary research demands extra effort, time, and communication—but it’s worth it! Dr. Isabell Schmidt outlines the challenges involved and explains why such collaboration is essential for an...
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August 6, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Our Dr. Elena Robakiewicz joined the KIND workshop by @icdpdrilling.bsky.social to discuss scientific #drilling ideas for Israel's Lake Kinneret. The team aims to address research questions relevant to HESCOR, including #paleoclimate variability and its link to human #evolution.

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Drilling into Deep Time - Hescor
HESCOR Researcher, Dr. Elena Robakiewicz, was one of 65 scientists from all over the world who gathered in Potsdam from July 12-15 to discuss ideas for scientific drilling of Lake Kinneret in Israel.
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July 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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📢 New Blog Post
How can we actually model human migration? Max Brockmann breaks down how mathematicians can use Partial Differential Equations to #model continental-scale human #migrations in prehistory!

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#PDE #data #mathematics #interdisciplinary #prehistory
Modelling human migration on networks using partial differential equations - Hescor
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July 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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📢 New Blog Post
What does innovation have to do with #population? And what drives #innovation - hardship or abundance? @tilmanhartley.bsky.social explores some of the theoretical questions about how different aspects of #human #societies might impact innovation!

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How do population size and connectedness, and resource scarcity and sufficiency, influence technological innovation? - Hescor
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July 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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📢 New Publication
@shumon.bsky.social was invited to write an authoritative overview of core themes, findings and research frontiers in the emerging field of #Palaeolithic #human-animal studies.

#multispecies #humananimalrelations

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Paleolithic and Human-Animal Relations
"Paleolithic and Human-Animal Relations" published on by null.
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July 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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🚀 New Project!
@shumon.bsky.social and his colleagues Johannes Schick & @nakedprimate.bsky.social just received funding from @volkswagenstiftung.de for their new research project „ZOOGESTURES“! #multispecies
Congrats!

@mesh-research-hub.bsky.social
@unicologne.bsky.social

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July 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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📢 Join #HESCOR at the #VarI #Tag-der-Archäologie this Saturday (July 5, 11–17 h) in Bonn! Tilman and Johanna will present our research on long-term #human–environment interactions. Discover #archaeological institutions and projects in #Cologne & #Bonn. More info here:
July 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Researchers at universities rarely work with researchers in other departments - why? Dr. Elena Robakiewicz highlights the difficulties of understanding #research and #data in other fields and what HESCOR is doing to address data #communication issues!

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Communicating Interdisciplinary Data - Hescor
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June 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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✍️ HESCOR Comics
We are collaborating with Dr Frederik von Reumont (Institute of Geography Education) to create easily digestible #educational #comics about the #interdisciplinary scientific process for the public, ranging in age from school children to the young at heart!

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June 20, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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📢 New Publication
This #interdisciplinary study with Co-Author Andreas Maier (HESCOR) outlines how an #archaeology of #climate change can bridge gaps between cultural and Earth system models - offering a framework for developing integrative models for future research.

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The archaeology of climate change: a blueprint for integrating environmental and cultural systems - Nature Communications
Here, the authors propose how climate change archaeology can explain how cultural systems impact interactions between humans and the environment, and vice versa, presenting a framework based in c...
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June 18, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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What is HESCOR? 🤔
Join Andreas Maier and Nikki Vercauteren for insights into HESCOR‘s vision and research goals!

want to learn more?
hescor-project.com

#HESCOR #Interdisciplinary #UniCologne #EarthSystem #HumanSystem #ResearchProject #Culture #Nature
June 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Hello Bluesky! 👋
Welcome to the official Bluesky account of #HESCOR - an interdisciplinary research project based at the #UniCologne!
We explore how the human and earth system co-evolve, bridging natural sciences, system modelling, and the humanities.

🔗 Learn more: www.hescor-project.com
HESCOR: Human & Earth System Coupled Research
HESCOR unites Earth system science, human modelling & humanities to study how climate and culture have co-evolved across history.
www.hescor-project.com
June 4, 2025 at 8:51 AM