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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 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 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!

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July 7, 2025 at 1:13 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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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