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Dr. Isabell Schmidt
@isabell-schmidt.bsky.social
Researcher at the Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Cologne |
Coordinator of the HESCOR Project
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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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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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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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October 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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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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September 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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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
www.hescor-project.com
September 8, 2025 at 8:56 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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September 17, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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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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August 21, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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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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📢 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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📢 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...
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
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When was the last time we wondered about who puts things on shelves?

Today, those invisible ones are seen only to be criminalized for fleeing poverty and oppression.

Are they really stealing a glamorous life from us?

Pass it on if you stand with those who work in the shadows.

#OnYourSide
June 11, 2025 at 11:50 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
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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