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  1. Testing the limits of archaeological datasets: Neanderthal behavior during the MIS 6–MIS 5e glacial cycle indicates cultural flexibility

    Article • Quaternary Environments and Humans, December 2026, Elsevier

    Dr. Christian Sommer

  2. Expanding data-driven research on human prehistory

    Article • PLOS One, October 2026, PLOS

    Dr. Christian Sommer

  3. Specialised and persistent raw material procurement by humans in the Middle Pleistocene

    Article • Nature Communications, April 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Christian Sommer

  4. Comment on essd-2025-644

    Article • February 2026, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr. Christian Sommer

  5. roadDB: Access Data from the ROCEEH Out of Africa Database (ROAD)

    Article • February 2026, The R Foundation

    Dr. Christian Sommer

  6. Decoding hunter-gatherer-knowledge and selective choice of lithic raw materials during the Middle and Later Stone Age in Eswatini

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, August 2025, Elsevier

    Dr. Christian Sommer

  7. A direct comparison of single-grain and multi-grain aliquot luminescence dating of feldspars from colluvial deposits in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Article • Geochronology, March 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr. Christian Sommer

  8. Revisited and Revalorised: Technological and Refitting Studies at the Middle Stone Age Open-Air Knapping Site Jojosi 1 (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)

    Article • Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Christian Sommer

  9. The Jojosi Dongas: An interdisciplinary project to study the evolution of human behaviour and landscapes in open-air contexts

    Article • Southern African Field Archaeology, May 2024, University of Johannesburg

    Dr. Christian Sommer

  10. The Aggregation of ROAD Data in the ARIADNE Pipeline: pitfalls and successes

    Article • Internet Archaeology, November 2023, Council for British Archaeology

    Dr Andrew W Kandel, Dr. Christian Sommer

  11. A QGIS -plugin for gully erosion modeling

    Article • Earth Science Informatics, September 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Christian Sommer

  12. The ROCEEH Out of Africa Database (ROAD): A large-scale research database serves as an indispensable tool for human evolutionary studies

    Article • PLOS One, August 2023, PLOS

    Dr Andrew W Kandel, Dr. Christian Sommer

  13. An open-source GIS approach to understanding dunefield morphologic variability at Kati Thanda (Lake Eyre), Central Australia

    Article • Frontiers in Earth Science, July 2023, Frontiers

    Dr. Christian Sommer

  14. The Emergence of Habitual Ochre Use in Africa and its Significance for The Development of Ritual Behavior During The Middle Stone Age

    Article • Journal of World Prehistory, December 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Andrew W Kandel, Dr. Christian Sommer

  15. A GIS-based simulation and visualization tool for the assessment of gully erosion processes

    Article • Journal of Spatial Science, October 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Christian Sommer

  16. Coastal adaptations on the eastern seaboard of South Africa during the Pleistocene and Holocene? Current evidence and future perspectives from archaeology and marine geology

    Article • Frontiers in Earth Science, August 2022, Frontiers

    Dr. Christian Sommer

  17. A GIS-based Simulation and Visualization Tool for the Assessment of Gully Erosion Processes

    Article • June 2022, Research Square

    Dr. Christian Sommer

  18. Sustainable human population density in Western Europe between 560.000 and 360.000 years ago

    Article • Scientific Reports, April 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Christian Sommer

  19. The final MSA of eastern South Africa: a comparative study between Umbeli Belli and Sibhudu

    Article • Azania Archaeological Research in Africa, April 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Christian Sommer

  20. The use of prehistoric ‘big data’ for mapping early human cultural networks

    Article • Journal of Maps, January 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Andrew W Kandel, Dr. Christian Sommer

  21. Human Origins—Digital Future, an international conference about the future of archeological and paleoanthropological databases

    Article • Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews, November 2020, Wiley

    Dr Andrew W Kandel, Dr. Christian Sommer

  22. Geomorphology of the upper Mkhomazi River basin, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, with emphasis on late Pleistocene colluvial deposits

    Article • Journal of Maps, July 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Christian Sommer

  23. Quantitative assessment of gully erosion dynamics using a GIS implementation of Sidorchuks' DYNGUL model in Southern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Article • March 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr. Christian Sommer

  24. Visualizing Landscapes by Geospatial Techniques

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Christian Sommer

  25. A Mobile Application to Visualize Historic Land Use along Hiking Trails in Southern Germany

    Article • GI_Forum, January 2020, Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften

    Dr. Christian Sommer

  26. Geomorphological processes, forms and features in the surroundings of the Melka Kunture Palaeolithic site, Ethiopia

    Article • Journal of Maps, July 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Christian Sommer

  27. Digital Data and Tools in Archaeology: The ROCEEH Out of Africa Database (ROAD)

    Article • GI_Forum, January 2018, Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften

    Dr. Christian Sommer