From major global congresses to focused specialist workshops, HESCOR’s conference presence underscores how the project is pushing forward knowledge transfer, methodological innovation, and interdisciplinary exchange: Noteworthy national events were the Kiel Conference 2025, where the project was represented with its own session on Approaches to Coupling Earth and Human System Data: Pitfalls and Potentials and an exceptional number of contributions—ranging from new modelling approaches to Early Neolithic population dynamics, to deep-learning–based artefact analysis, and advances in the HESCOR database. The project was also prominently visible at the CAA Workshop 2025 Köln, which showcased methodological and technical innovations in archaeological network analysis and modelling.
On the international stage, the project demonstrated its disciplinary breadth across a wide spectrum of conferences: from the American Geophysical Union General Assembly – AGU24 in Washington and the European Geophysical Union General Assembly – EGU25 in Vienna to the IBS Conference on Climate and Human Evolution in Busan, the World Archaeology Conference – WAC 10 in Darwin, and the World Congress of Environmental History – WCEH 2024 in Oulu. Additional major events included the Landscape Archaeology Conference – LAC 2024 in Alcala de Henares, the World Neolithic Congress 2024 in Sanliurfa, and the International Mountain Conference – IMC 2025 in Innsbruck. These platforms provided opportunities to introduce the Cologne based HESCOR research hub as fostering sustained knowledge exchange in archaeology, Earth system science, environmental humanities, and data science.
Further insights into our research – ranging from theoretical frameworks to collaborative data-driven case studies and development of infrastructures such as the HESCOR database, and from archaeological applications of AI to new environmental and linguistic perspectives – can be found at publications and our blog.
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