Helen Hoffmann
@helen-hoffmann.bsky.social
Palaeolithic Archaeology Master’s Student & Research Assistant @hescor.bsky.social
Investigating variability in the chaîne opératoire and morphology of Acheulean hand axes in North Africa for my MA 👩🏼💻🪨
Investigating variability in the chaîne opératoire and morphology of Acheulean hand axes in North Africa for my MA 👩🏼💻🪨
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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!
🔗 read on here:
shorturl.at/n2tND
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
October 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
📢 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
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
Reposted by Helen Hoffmann
📢 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
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
September 19, 2025 at 10:15 AM
📢 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
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
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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.
🔗 read on here:
shorturl.at/g3P7l
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.
🔗 read on here:
shorturl.at/g3P7l
September 17, 2025 at 10:09 AM
📢 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.
🔗 read on here:
shorturl.at/g3P7l
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.
🔗 read on here:
shorturl.at/g3P7l
Reposted by Helen Hoffmann
📢 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!
🔗 read on here:
shorturl.at/vH1en
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!
🔗 read on here:
shorturl.at/vH1en
September 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
📢 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!
🔗 read on here:
shorturl.at/vH1en
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!
🔗 read on here:
shorturl.at/vH1en
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I am looking for a multispecies archaeologist with a strong theoretical and interpretive profile to join my group (100%, 3 years): uni.koeln/2E7CR
Deadline: 30.09.2025.
Apply here: uni.koeln/ZQMKA ("Wiss2508-21")
@nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social
Deadline: 30.09.2025.
Apply here: uni.koeln/ZQMKA ("Wiss2508-21")
@nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 10:35 AM
I am looking for a multispecies archaeologist with a strong theoretical and interpretive profile to join my group (100%, 3 years): uni.koeln/2E7CR
Deadline: 30.09.2025.
Apply here: uni.koeln/ZQMKA ("Wiss2508-21")
@nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social
Deadline: 30.09.2025.
Apply here: uni.koeln/ZQMKA ("Wiss2508-21")
@nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social
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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!
🔗 read on here:
shorturl.at/6zdAa
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!
🔗 read on here:
shorturl.at/6zdAa
August 21, 2025 at 11:06 AM
📢 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!
🔗 read on here:
shorturl.at/6zdAa
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!
🔗 read on here:
shorturl.at/6zdAa
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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.
🔗 read on here:
shorturl.at/VSa6s
#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.
🔗 read on here:
shorturl.at/VSa6s
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
📢 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.
🔗 read on here:
shorturl.at/VSa6s
#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.
🔗 read on here:
shorturl.at/VSa6s
Reposted by Helen Hoffmann
📢 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!
🔗 read on here:
shorturl.at/vROZj
#PDE #data #mathematics #interdisciplinary #prehistory
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!
🔗 read on here:
shorturl.at/vROZj
#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
📢 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!
🔗 read on here:
shorturl.at/vROZj
#PDE #data #mathematics #interdisciplinary #prehistory
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!
🔗 read on here:
shorturl.at/vROZj
#PDE #data #mathematics #interdisciplinary #prehistory
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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!
🔗 read on here:
shorturl.at/KSiJK
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!
🔗 read on here:
shorturl.at/KSiJK
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
📢 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!
🔗 read on here:
shorturl.at/KSiJK
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!
🔗 read on here:
shorturl.at/KSiJK
Reposted by Helen Hoffmann
Very happy that our project was selected by the @volkswagenstiftung.de and looking forward to work on some spicy things with @nakedprimate.bsky.social in the coming years. Watch this space, there will be two post-doc positions (multispecies archaeology + primatology) advertised soon.
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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
tinyurl.com/kswsda4k
@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
tinyurl.com/kswsda4k
July 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Very happy that our project was selected by the @volkswagenstiftung.de and looking forward to work on some spicy things with @nakedprimate.bsky.social in the coming years. Watch this space, there will be two post-doc positions (multispecies archaeology + primatology) advertised soon.
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Reposted by Helen Hoffmann
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!
🔗 read on here:
tinyurl.com/bdffven4
🔗 read on here:
tinyurl.com/bdffven4
Communicating Interdisciplinary Data - Hescor
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June 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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!
🔗 read on here:
tinyurl.com/bdffven4
🔗 read on here:
tinyurl.com/bdffven4
Reposted by Helen Hoffmann
✍️ 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!
🔗 tinyurl.com/ed825wmf
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!
🔗 tinyurl.com/ed825wmf
June 20, 2025 at 12:28 PM
✍️ 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!
🔗 tinyurl.com/ed825wmf
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!
🔗 tinyurl.com/ed825wmf
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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.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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...
www.nature.com
June 18, 2025 at 8:41 AM
📢 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.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Helen Hoffmann
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
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
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
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
Reposted by Helen Hoffmann
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
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
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
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
Reposted by Helen Hoffmann
There is a job opening (Post-Doctoral Research Associate, 2 years, 100%) in my new VW project on the macro-evolution of Pleistocene technological ecosystems in Europe: ecolithic.uni-koeln.de/opportunitie...
Deadline 25.05.2025
Please distribute widely!
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Deadline 25.05.2025
Please distribute widely!
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May 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
There is a job opening (Post-Doctoral Research Associate, 2 years, 100%) in my new VW project on the macro-evolution of Pleistocene technological ecosystems in Europe: ecolithic.uni-koeln.de/opportunitie...
Deadline 25.05.2025
Please distribute widely!
🏺🦣
Deadline 25.05.2025
Please distribute widely!
🏺🦣
Reposted by Helen Hoffmann
In @nature.com we report the presence of the Mesolithic on Malta - upending everything we knew about the seafaring capabilities of late European hunter-gatherers and pushing back Maltese prehistory by 1000 years. Watch the clip, link to open access paper is below. 1/5
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
April 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
In @nature.com we report the presence of the Mesolithic on Malta - upending everything we knew about the seafaring capabilities of late European hunter-gatherers and pushing back Maltese prehistory by 1000 years. Watch the clip, link to open access paper is below. 1/5
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Helen Hoffmann
Our study on #demograpic responses of #huntergatherers during the #FinalPalaeolithic in #Europe is out now:
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
💪🏼 Thanks to the great collaborative effort that has gone into putting together an #archaeological #database - available at zenodo.org/records/1313...
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
💪🏼 Thanks to the great collaborative effort that has gone into putting together an #archaeological #database - available at zenodo.org/records/1313...
Large scale and regional demographic responses to climatic changes in Europe during the Final Palaeolithic
The European Final Palaeolithic witnessed marked changes in almost all societal domains. Despite a rich body of evidence, our knowledge of human palaeodemographic processes and regional population dyn...
journals.plos.org
April 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Our study on #demograpic responses of #huntergatherers during the #FinalPalaeolithic in #Europe is out now:
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
💪🏼 Thanks to the great collaborative effort that has gone into putting together an #archaeological #database - available at zenodo.org/records/1313...
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
💪🏼 Thanks to the great collaborative effort that has gone into putting together an #archaeological #database - available at zenodo.org/records/1313...
Reposted by Helen Hoffmann
The #PriorityProgramme "On the Way to the Fluvial Anthroposphere" invites proposals from archaeology, the geosciences and history that use multidisciplinary and cutting-edge methodological approaches for its 2nd funding period. Deadline: 20 June 2025. More information: www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles...
Priority Programme “On the Way to the Fluvial Anthroposphere” (SPP 2361)
www.dfg.de
March 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The #PriorityProgramme "On the Way to the Fluvial Anthroposphere" invites proposals from archaeology, the geosciences and history that use multidisciplinary and cutting-edge methodological approaches for its 2nd funding period. Deadline: 20 June 2025. More information: www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles...