Dr. Christian Sommer

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

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

• 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)

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