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G. Quénéhervé
Organisationseinheit
ROCEEH
Adresse
The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans
University of Tuebingen
Hölderlinstraße 12
72074 Tübingen
Germany
University of Tuebingen
Hölderlinstraße 12
72074 Tübingen
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 09/2016 research assistant in maintaining and completing the ROAD-Database (Roceeh Out of Africa Database). Analisys of paleo landscapes and geomorphology using GIS and remote sensing.
02/2016 – 08/2016 student research assistant for GIS analysis and cartography. Implementation and maintenance of a geographical database for web services and metadata.
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.
Ausgewählte Publikationen und Vorträge
Publications
- 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, 6907. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-10642-w
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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, 0(0), 1–42. https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2022.2078553
- Bolus, M., Bruch, A., Haidle, M., Hertler, C., Heß, J., Kanaeva, Z., Kandel, A., Malina, M. & Sommer, C. (2021): Durch die Menschheitsgeschichte mit dem neuen ROAD Summary Data Sheet. Archäologische Informationen 43, 413.
- Bolus, M., Bruch, A., Haidle, M., Hertler, C., Heß, J., Kanaeva, Z., Kandel, A., Malina, M. & Sommer, C. (2021): Explore the history of humanity with the new ROAD Summary Data Sheet. Archäologische Informationen 43, 413-414.
- Bosino, A., Bernini, A., Botha, G.A., Bonacina, G., Pellegrini, L., Omran, A., Hochschild, V., Sommer, C. & Maerker, M. (2021): Geomorphology of the upper Mkhomazi River basin, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, with emphasis on late Pleistocene colluvial deposits. Journal of Maps 17(3), 5-16. DOI: 10.1080/17445647.2020.1790435.
- Hochschild V., Braun A., Sommer C., Warth G., Omran A. (2021): Visualizing Landscapes by Geospatial Techniques. In: Edler D., Jenal C., Kühne O. (Eds.): Modern Approaches to the Visualization of Landscapes. RaumFragen: Stadt – Region – Landschaft. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-30956-5_4
- Sommer, C. (2021): Reconstruction of the Pleistocene Landscape of Southern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa by means of GIS, Remote Sensing and Geomorphological Techniques. Dissertation, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. DOI: 10.15496/publikation-63042.
- Bolus, M., Bruch, A., Haidle, M.H., Hertler, C., Heß, J., Kanaeva, Z., Kandel, A.W., Malina, M. & Sommer, C. (2020): Explore the history of humanity with the new ROAD Summary Data Sheet. MGfU 29, 145-147. DOI: 10.51315/mgfu.2020.29008.
- 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. DOI: 10.1002/evan.21870
- Märker, M., Schillaci, C., Melis, R.T., Kropáček, Bosino, A., Vilímek, V., Hochschild, V., Sommer, C., Altamura, F. & M. Mussi (2019): Geomorphological processes, forms and features in the surroundings of the Melka Kunture Palaeolithic site. Ethiopia Journal of Maps 15 (2) 797-806. Informa UK Limited. DOI: 10.1080/17445647.2019.1669497
- Kanaeva, Z. & Hochschild, V. & Maerker, M. & Sommer, C. (2018): Digital Data and Tools in Archaeology: The ROCEEH Out of Africa Database (ROAD). 1. 3-12. 10.1553/giscience2018_02_s3
Conferences
- 06/2022 Joint conference by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte (DGUF) and NFDI4Objects, Franfurt/Main, DE.
- 05/2022 ESA Living Planet Symposium, Bonn
- 11/2021 Mid European Geomorphology Meeting (MGM 2021), Munich
- 07/2021 48th Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), virtual
- 05/2020 EGU Generaly Assembly 2020, online
- 04/2019 47th Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Kraków, PL.
- 01/2019 The 22nd conference of the Southern African Society of Quaternary Research (SASQUA), Mossel Bay (ZA).
- 06/2018 Special Session on Digital Humanities at the Symposium for Geographic Information Science (GI_FORUM), Salzburg (AT)
- 03/2018 46th Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Tübingen, DE.
- 09/2016 Modelling Environmental Dynamics and Hominin Dispersals Around the Mid-Pleistocene Revolution (METHOD), Sassari (IT).
- 09/2016 Jahrestagung der Arbeitskreise „Fernerkundung“ (DGfG) und „Auswertung von Fernerkundungsdaten“ (DGPF), Halle/Saale (DE).
- 2013-2019 AGIT Symposium & GI_Forum for applied geoinformatics, 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