Maria Malina

Maria Malina
Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

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January 2008 - March 2021
Research Centre The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans
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The 24th newsletter begins with the story of how ROCEEH began, describing the friendship and scientific circumstances that led to the project’s conception. We then describe how ROCEEH applies agent-based models to examine whether early human expansions included the ability to cross sea straits. Next, we describe how ROCEEH’s collaboration with...
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In this 23rd newsletter, we report on PlantBITES, a database of plants that were useful to early humans. Next, we explore the remains of a prepared meal from Shanidar Cave in Iraq, which tells us a story about the interaction of Neanderthals with their environment. We describe how the recent discovery of an additional piece of an ivory figurine...
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The present paper provides a multidisciplinary approach integrating musicological, acoustical, and manufacturing aspects to the archaeological study of the mammoth ivory instrument from Geißenklösterle Cave (GK3). We present information on the archaeological background and the find history, and new insights into the playing technique of the instrum...
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Large scale databases are critical for helping scientists decipher long-term patterns in human evolution. This paper describes the conception and development of such a research database and illustrates how big data can be harnessed to formulate new ideas about the past. The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans (ROCEEH) is a transdisciplina...
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In this 22nd newsletter we report on the entry of Chinese sites into the ROAD database. Next, we provide new insight into ROCEEH’s ongoing work at excavations in South Africa‘s KwaZulu-Natal province. Finally, the research center also considers how machine learning can be used to design climate models that help explain prehistoric climatic cond...
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Die Forschungsstelle ROCEEH (The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans) ist ein Projekt der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften* mit dem Ziel, das frühe kulturelle Erbe der Menschheit zu erkunden, in einen Kontext zu stellen und zu bewahren. ROCEEH erforscht die Geschichte der Menschheit und ihrer frühen Ausbreitungen von drei Millione...
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The research center ROCEEH (The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans) is a project of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities* whose aim is to discover, contextualize and preserve the deep past of humankind’s cultural heritage. ROCEEH explores the history of humanity and its early expansions between three million and 20,000 years...
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Report on the paleolithic excavation at Hohle Fels cave 2018 with focus on the Middle and Upper Paleolithic layers.
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European farmers' first strides from the south The early spread of farmers across Europe has previously been thought to be part of a single migration event. David Reich and colleagues analyse genome-wide data from 225 individuals who lived in southeastern Europe and the surrounding regions between 12000 and 500 BC. They analyse this in combination...
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Farming was first introduced to southeastern Europe in the mid-7th millennium BCE - brought by migrants from Anatolia who settled in the region before spreading throughout Europe. However, the dynamics of the interaction between the first farmers and the indigenous hunter-gatherers remain poorly understood because of the near absence of ancient DNA...
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Excavation report on the excavation at Hohle Fels cave 2015. We present new results and extraordinary ivory tools.
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How modern humans dispersed into Eurasia and Australasia, including the number of separate expansions and their timings, is highly debated [1, 2]. Two categories of models are proposed for the dispersal of non-Africans: (1) single dispersal, i.e., a single major diffusion of modern humans across Eurasia and Australasia [3-5]; and (2) multiple dispe...
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How modern humans dispersed into Eurasia and Australasia, including the number of separate expansions and their timings, is highly debated [1, 2]. Two categories of models are proposed for the dispersal of non-Africans: (1) single dispersal, i.e., a single major diffusion of modern humans across Eurasia and Australasia [3–5]; and (2) multiple dispe...
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In light of recent discoveries of early figurative art in Paleolithic sites of southwestern Germany, gaining an improved understanding of biological, cultural, and social development of these hunter-gatherer populations under past environmental conditions is essential. The analysis of botanical micro- and macrofossils from the Hohle Fels Cave contr...
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In the Swabian Jura a considerable change in the faunal composition took place over the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). During the Gravettian the typical Pleistocene megafauna were still present including species, such as mammoth, woolly rhino, cave bear and hyena and new species appear such as moose (Alces alces), roe deer (C. capreolus) and beaver (C...
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Considerable debate surrounds claims for early evidence of music in the archaeological record. Researchers universally accept the existence of complex musical instruments as an indication of fully modern behaviour and advanced symbolic communication but, owing to the scarcity of finds, the archaeological record of the evolution and spread of music...
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ZUSAMMENFASSUNG Bei Ausgrabungen der Universität Tübingen in den Höhlen der Schwäbischen Alb in Südwest-deutschland konnten drei paläolithische Flöten aus den aurignacienzeitlichen Schichten des Geißenklösterle geborgen werden. Darunter sind zwei Exemplare aus Vogelknochen und seit kurzem auch eine Flöte, die aus Mammutelfenbein gefertigt wurde. Di...
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Excavations at the Geißenklösterle Cave in the Swabian Jura of southwestern Germany have produced parts of three flutes dating to the Aurignacian period. Particularly noteworthy among these finds is the discovery of a flute carved from mammoth ivory. These finds document the oldest musical tradition known and confirm arguments based on the presence...

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