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G. Quénéhervé
organizational unit
ROCEEH
Address
The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans
University of Tuebingen
Hölderlinstrasse 12
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
University of Tuebingen
Hölderlinstrasse 12
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
Tel
+49 7071 29-77505
Curriculum Vitae
Geography/GIS
Main research interests
- Geoinformatics and remote sensing
- Landscape evolution and geomorphology
- Use of data mining and machine learning techniques on cultural and scientific databases
- The Late Pleistocene of Eastern South Africa
Employment
Since 2021 Post-Doc
2017-2021 Doctoral student
Education
2021 Dr. rer. nat. in Geography, University of Tübingen.
2016 M.Sc. in Physical Geography: Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing, University of Tübingen.
2012 B.Sc. in Physical Geography, University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
Selected publications and lectures
Publications
- Kandel, A. W., Kanaeva, Z., Sommer, C., Hochschild, V., & Haidle, M. N. (2023). The Aggregation of ROAD Data in the ARIADNE Pipeline: Pitfalls and Successes. Internet Archaeology, 64. https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.64.9
- Kandel, A. W., Sommer, C., Kanaeva, Z., Bolus, M., Bruch, A. A., Groth, C., Haidle, M. N., Hertler, C., Heß, J., Malina, M., Märker, M., Hochschild, V., Mosbrugger, V., Schrenk, F., & Conard, N. J. (2023). The ROCEEH Out of Africa Database (ROAD): A large-scale research database serves as an indispensable tool for human evolutionary studies. PLOS ONE, 18(8), e0289513. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0289513
- Fischer, L. M., Sommer, C., & Fitzsimmons, K. E. (2023). An open-source GIS approach to understanding dunefield morphologic variability at Kati Thanda (Lake Eyre), Central Australia. Frontiers in Earth Science, 11(1196244). https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2023.1196244
- Khan, S., Omran, A., Schröder, D., Sommer, C., Hochschild, V., & Märker, M. (2023). A QGIS-plugin for gully erosion modeling. Earth Science Informatics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-023-01092-7
- Dapschauskas, R., Göden, M. B., Sommer, C., & Kandel, A. W. (2022). The Emergence of Habitual Ochre Use in Africa and its Significance for The Development of Ritual Behavior During The Middle Stone Age. Journal of World Prehistory, 35(3), 233–319. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-022-09170-2
- Omran, A., Schröder, D., Sommer, C., Hochschild, V., & Märker, M. (2022). A GIS-based simulation and visualization tool for the assessment of gully erosion processes. Journal of Spatial Science, 0(0), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/14498596.2022.2133020
- Kandel, A. W., Haidle, M. N., & Sommer, C. (Eds.). (2022). Human Origins – Digital Future: An International Conference about the Future of Archaeological and Paleoanthropological Databases. Propylaeum. https://doi.org/10.11588/PROPYLAEUM.882
- Sommer, C., Kandel, A. W., & Hochschild, V. (2022). The use of prehistoric ‘big data’ for mapping early human cultural networks. Journal of Maps, 18(4), 674–685. https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2022.2118628
- Will, M., Bader, G. D., Sommer, C., Cooper, A., & Green, A. (2022). Coastal adaptations on the eastern seaboard of South Africa during the Pleistocene and Holocene? Current evidence and future perspectives from archaeology and marine geology. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10(964423). https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.964423
- Bader, G. D., Sommer, C., Conard, N. J., & Wadley, L. (2022). The final MSA of eastern South Africa: A comparative study between Umbeli Belli and Sibhudu. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 57(2), 197–238. https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2022.2078553
- Rodríguez, J., Willmes, C., Sommer, C., & Mateos, A. (2022). Sustainable human population density in Western Europe between 560.000 and 360.000 years ago. Scientific Reports, 12(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-10642-w
- Zakerinejad, R., Sommer, C., Hochschild, V., & Maerker, M. (2021). Spatial Distribution of Water Erosion Using Stochastic Modeling in the Southern Isfahan Province, Iran. Geografia Fisica e Dinamica Quaternaria, 44(2), 183–196. https://doi.org/10.4461/GFDQ.2021.44.14
- Hochschild, V., Braun, A., Sommer, C., Warth, G., & Omran, A. (2021). Visualizing Landscapes by Geospatial Techniques. In D. Edler, C. Jenal, & O. Kühne (Eds.), Modern Approaches to the Visualization of Landscapes (pp. 47–78). Springer Fachmedien. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-30956-5_4
- Sommer, C., Braun, A., Hanold, M., Rosner, H.-J., & Hochschild, V. (2020). A Mobile Application to Visualize Historic Land Use along Hiking Trails in Southern Germany. GI_Forum 2020, 8(2), 45–54. https://doi.org/10.1553/giscience2020_02_s45
- Haidle, M. N., Bolus, M., Bruch, A. A., Hertler, C., Hochschild, V., Kanaeva, Z., Sommer, C., & Kandel, A. W. (2020). Human Origins—Digital Future, an international conference about the future of archeological and paleoanthropological databases. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, 29(6), 289–292. https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21870
- Bosino, A., Bernini, A., Botha, G. A., Bonacina, G., Pellegrini, L., Omran, A., Hochschild, V., Sommer, C., & Maerker, M. (2020). Geomorphology of the upper Mkhomazi River basin, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, with emphasis on late Pleistocene colluvial deposits. Journal of Maps, 0(0), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2020.1790435
- Maerker, M., Schillaci, C., Melis, R. T., Kropáček, J., Bosino, A., Vilímek, V., Hochschild, V., Sommer, C., Altamura, F., & Mussi, M. (2019). Geomorphological processes, forms and features in the surroundings of the Melka Kunture Palaeolithic site, Ethiopia. Journal of Maps, 15(2), 797–806. https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2019.1669497
- Kanaeva, Z., Hochschild, V., Märker, M., & Sommer, C. (2018). Digital Data and Tools in Archaeology: The ROCEEH Out of Africa Database (ROAD). GI_Forum 2018, 6(2), 3–12. https://doi.org/10.1553/giscience2018_02_s3
Conferences
- 2023/11 | Big Historical Data Conference (BHDC) at the Max-Planck-Institute for Geoanthropology, Jena, DE. 💾 Presentation
- 2023/10 | 41st annual meeting of the Working Group Climate (AK Klima), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geographie (DGfG), Tübingen, DE. 💾 Organized
- 2023/07 | 21st Conference of the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA), Rome, IT. 💾 Presentation
- 2023/07 | FPCUP Summer-School and Workshop "Copernicus for Cultural Heritage", German Aeorospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, DE. 💾 Poster
- 2023/04 | 50th Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Amsterdam, NL. 💾 Presentation
- 2022/08 | 49th Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Oxford, UK. 💾 Presentation
- 2022/06 | Joint conference by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte (DGUF) and NFDI4Objects, Franfurt/Main, DE. 💾 Presentation
- 2022/05 | ESA Living Planet Symposium, Bonn, DE. 💾 Presentation
- 2021/11 | Mid European Geomorphology Meeting (MGM 2021), Munich, DE. 💾 Presentation
- 2021/10 | EUROPEANS Workshop "Simulating Human Behavior - Targeted design of agent‐based models", virtual. 💾 Presentation
- 2021/07 | 48th Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), virtual. 💾 Presentation
- 2020/10 | Workshop of the Academies' Union, "Fair & Co", virtual. 💾 Presentation.
- 2020/06 | ROCEEH Conference "Human Origins – Digital Future: An International Conference about the Future of Archaeological and Paleoanthropological Databases", virtual. 💾 Presentation, Proceedings, Article
- 2020/05 | EGU Generaly Assembly 2020, virtual. 💾 Presentation
- 2019/04 | 47th Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Kraków, PL.
- 2019/01 | The 22nd conference of the Southern African Society of Quaternary Research (SASQUA), Mossel Bay, ZA.
- 2018/06 | Symposium for Geographic Information Science (GI_FORUM), Special Session on Digital Humanities, Salzburg, AT.
- 2018/03 | 46th Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Tübingen, DE.
- 2016/09 | Modelling Environmental Dynamics and Hominin Dispersals Around the Mid-Pleistocene Revolution (METHOD), Sassari, IT.
- 2016/09 | Jahrestagung der Arbeitskreise „Fernerkundung“ (DGfG) und „Auswertung von Fernerkundungsdaten“ (DGPF), Halle/Saale, DE.
- 2013-2019 | AGIT Symposium & GI_Forum, Salzburg, AT.
Other resources
- Homepage at the University of Tübingen
- Personal homepage at sommergeo.com
- Github: sommergeo
- ORCID: 0000-0001-9062-0876
- List of publications: Zotero
- Presentations and figures: figshare.com
- Twitter: @sommer_geo
- Mastodon: @sommer@fosstodon.org