Dr. Christian Sommer
Geographisches Institut
Universität Tübingen
Rümelinstr. 19-23
D-72070 Tübingen
Westbau 1. OG / Raum W401
Forschungsprojekt ROCEEH: The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans
Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften
Hölderlinstr. 12
D-72074 Tübingen
Raum S237
Kontakt
+49-(0)7071-29-77505
christian.sommer @uni-tuebingen.de
Sprechzeiten: Nach Vereinbarung
Ausbildung
2017 - heute
ROCEEH Projekt
Anstellung als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im ROCEEH-Projekt der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaft. Zunächst als Promotionsstudent, jetzt als Post-Doc.
2021
Dr. rer. nat.
Abschluss der Promotion an der Uni Tübingen mit dem Titel: "Reconstruction of the Pleistocene Landscape of Southern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa by means of GIS, Remote Sensing and Geomorphological Techniques".
2016
M.Sc.
Abschluss des Masterstudiums "Landscape System Sciences" am Lehrstuhl für Physische Geographie und Geoinformatik der Uni Tübingen.
2012
B.Sc.
Abschluss des Bachelorstudiums der Physischen Geographie an der Uni Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
Forschung
Publikationen
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, 1–12. 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
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
Preprints
Axen, S. D., Gessner, A., Sommer, C., Weitzel, N., & Tejero-Cantero, Á. (2022). Spatiotemporal modeling of European paleoclimate using doubly sparse Gaussian processes (arXiv:2211.08160). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2211.08160
Omran, A., Schröder, D., Sommer, C., Hochschild, V., & Maerker, M. (2022). A GIS-based Simulation and Visualization Tool for the Assessment of Gully Erosion Processes. Research Square. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1751074/v1
Tagungen und Konferenzen
- 08/2022 48th Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Oxford, UK.
- 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), online.
- 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)
Andere
Sommer, C., Kandel, A. W., & Hochschild, V. (2022). Mapping a macroscale image of prehistoric cultural networks. ROCEEH Newsletter, 21, 2–3. https://www.hadw-bw.de/sites/default/files/documents/Newsletter_ROCEEH%2021_2022.pdf
Sommer, C. (2021). The evolution of the landscape surrounding Sibhudu Cave – and its implications for early occupants. ROCEEH Newsletter, 19, 2–4. https://www.hadw-bw.de/sites/default/files/documents/Newsletter%20ROCEEH%2019_2021.pdf
Sommer, C. (2019). Geomorphological field campaign in KwaZulu-Natal (RSA) in spring 2018. ROCEEH Newsletter, 15, 5–6. https://www.hadw-bw.de/sites/default/files/documents/Newsletter%20ROCEEH%2015-2019.pdf
Lehre
Universitäre Lehre
Jährlich wechselnde Kurse an der Uni Tübingen. Da sich die Zuständigkeiten jedes Semester ändern, entnehmen Sie die aktuellen Dozenten bitte direkt der Modulseite.
- GEO 25: Statistik (B.Sc.)
- GEO 31: Physische Geographie II: Geländepraktikum (B.Sc.)
- GEO 51: Integratives Projekt (B.Sc.)
- 2017: Geomorphologie des Oltrepo-Pavese, Italien
- 2021: Streuobstwiesen im Klimawandel
- GEO 54: Geographische Methoden II (B.Sc.)
- GEO 76: Angewandte Geographische Informationssysteme (M.Sc.)
- GEO 87: Angewandte Fernerkundung (M.Sc.)
Betreute Abschlusarbeiten
- Fischer, Lorenz M. (2022). Remote-sensing based analysis of aeolian-fluvial interactions in the Kati Thanda (Lake Eyre) Basin, Australia, using open-source GIS [B.Sc. Thesis]. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
- Nübel, Manuel (2022). GIS-gestützte Least-Cost-Modellierung des Mobilitäts- und Ressourcenraumes früher Jäger und Sammler [M.Sc. Thesis]. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
Berufsbegleitende Lehre
Kurse im berufsbegleitenden Zertifikatsstudium Geodatenmanager/in am Zentrum für Wissenschaftliche Weiterbildug der Uni Tübingen.
- Geographische Informationssysteme I
- Fernerkundung II (aktuell)
- Kartographie