Jordy Orellana F.

University of Tuebingen | EKU Tübingen

In 2018, the presence of too many hireable women generals in the game Total War: Rome II caused a public controversy. Calls decrying a lack of ‘historical accuracy’ arose, despite women military leaders being known historically and the game only allowing a small percentage of available generals to be women. Their inclusion was also limited to only...

Prehistoric stone tools are an important source of evidence for the study of human behavioural and cognitive evolution. Archaeologists use insights from the experimental replication of lithics to understand phenomena such as the behaviours and cognitive capacities required to manufacture them. However, such experiments can require large amounts of...

The identification of actors and effectors of bone surface modifications (BSMs) in the archaeological record is often a source of contention. Many debates centre on whether a given archaeological BSM was made by stone tool-using hominins, carnivore predation, and/or trampling. More research has similarly attempted to accurately assess the agent of...

With recent advances in omics data collection, generating very large datasets of patient omics data for health research has become common, and several data sharing platforms have emerged to allow for researchers to more effectively access broader collections of data. Lacking an existing platform in Germany, the German Human Genome-Phenome Archive (...

Experimental replication of stone tools is an important method for understanding the context and production of prehistoric technologies. In scientific undertakings, experimental control is a valuable and necessary means of ensuring that confounding variables are not influencing the outcomes of the study. One way that researchers can exert control i...

Supplementary Information for the publication 'A Historical Analysis of Women in Video Games Based on Classical Antiquity'. The supplementary information consists of: 1. Video Game List and Analysis Spreadsheet (.xlsx file)

With recent advances in omics data collection, generating very large datasets of patient omics data for health research has become common, and several data sharing platforms have emerged to allow for researchers to more effectively access broader collections of data. Lacking an existing platform in Germany, the German Human Genome-Phenome Archive (...

The experimental replication of prehistoric stone tools is an important tool for raw material studies. Methods such as the calculation of core reduction intensity and cortical index are commonly based on studies performed on experimental lithic replication (e.g. Clarkson and Hiscock, 2011; Shipton and Clarkson, 2015; Braun et al., 2008). However, s...

The identification of archaeological bone surface modifications (BSMs) as anthropogenic in origin has been an important goal for zooarchaeology, with wide-ranging implications for our understanding of human evolution. Traditionally, the identification of BSM effectors (e.g. lithics or teeth) involves the examination of the morphological characteris...

Stone tool manufacture has been a staple of human behaviour for at least 2.6 million years. Due to their longevity and prevalence through a large period of hominin evolution, stone tools are a valuable source of evidence for archaeologists. For most of prehistory, stone tools were made percussively by striking a core with a hammer stone to produce...

Prehistoric stone tools are an important source of evidence for the study of human behavioural and cognitive evolution. Archaeologists use insights from the experimental replication of stone tools to understand things such as the behaviours and cognitive capacities required to manufacture them. However, such experiments can require large amounts of...

We present here the first results of a proof of concept for a machine-learning based ‘Virtual Knapper’: a framework for a computer program capable of quickly and accurately predicting the shapes of flake removals from 3D cores using neural networks. For this initial evaluation of the Virtual Knapper framework, we programmatically generated a datase...