Rimtautas Dapschauskas- Heidelberg University
Rimtautas Dapschauskas
- Heidelberg University
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I am a postdoctoral researcher at the research centre ROCEEH ('The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans') located at the University of Tübingen. Additionally, I am a lecturer at the University of Heidelberg. My research is focused on the origins and early evolution of human sociality, ritual and art in the Palaeolithic period. I work explicitly in an interdisciplinary manner, combining archaeology with (evolutionary) psychology and anthropology, including computational methods.
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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...
What are rituals, how do they function, when and why did they emerge during the course of human evolution? These questions are answered in the present work through an extensive, interdisciplinary synthesis. Approaches from evolutionary, cognitive, and cultural studies are combined and related to the archaeological record of the Paleolithic. Communa...
Over the last two decades, red ochre has played a pivotal role in discussions about the cognitive and cultural evolution of early modern humans during the African Middle Stone Age. Given the importance of ochre for the scholarly debate about the emergence of ‘behavioral modernity’, the lack of long-term spatio-temporal analyses spanning large geogr...
In this 14th issue of ROCEEH’s newsletter, we begin by examining the origin of
ocher use in Africa. From there, we establish a definition of what cumulative culture
means and explore when it began. These articles are followed by reports about
three conferences co-organized by ROCEEH: 1) “KULT-UR-MENSCH”; 2) “Computer
Applications in Archaeology”; a...
While the earliest evidence for ochre use is very sparse, the habitual use of ochre by hominins appeared about 140,000 years ago and accompanied them ever since. Here, we present an overview of archaeological sites in southwestern Germany, which yielded remains of ochre. We focus on the artifacts belonging exclusively to anatomically modern humans...
