How might an interdisciplinary database work? HESCOR Project Database Manager, Philipp Schlüter, lays out the technical problems and potential solutions for creating HESCOR's database.
How do people survive extreme altitudes? Living in high-altitudes is challenging today - but humans in the Ethiopian highlands have done it for tens of thousands of years! Dr. Götz Ossendorf introduces his hypothesis that social connectedness allowed past humans to endure such harsh conditions.
Humans exist within a commingling network of other living organisms. What have we learned from them and what have they learned from us? Dr. Shumon T. Hussain and Dr. Dominik Ohrem highlight their research to better integrate the ways that humans and animals learn from each other and how that knowledge-sharing impacts the Earth System!
Interdisciplinary research demands extra effort, time, and communication—but it’s worth it! Dr. Isabell Schmidt outlines the challenges involved and explains why such collaboration is essential for answering questions about our deep past.
How can we actually model human migration? Max Brockmann breaks down how mathematicians can use Partial Differential Equations to model continental-scale human migrations in prehistory!
