Manual for the ROCEEH Out of Africa Database (ROAD)
Authors/Creators
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Kandel, Andrew William
(Project member)1
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Bruch, Angela
(Project member)1
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Sommer, Christian
(Project member)1
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Hertler, Christine
(Project member)2, 1
- Groth, Claudia (Project member)1
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Pedersen, Jesper Borre
(Project member)1
- Heß, Julia (Project member)1
- Malina, Maria (Project member)1
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Haidle, Miriam
(Project manager)1
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Kanaeva, Zara
(Project member)1
- Schrenk, Friedemann (Project leader)3
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Conard, Nicholas
(Project leader)4
- Hochschild, Volker (Project leader)4
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Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
(Hosting institution)
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1.
Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- 2. Senckenberg Society for Nature Research
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3.
Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt/M
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4.
University of Tübingen
Description
The Manual for the ROCEEH Out of Africa Database (ROAD) provides a comprehensive guide to navigating and utilizing the ROAD relational database. This resource combines an introduction to essential concepts with practical, hands-on exercises for working with the database. The tutorial offers an in-depth overview of the database's logical model, covering key components such as locality information, detailed assemblage descriptions, geospatial data, stratigraphy, dating techniques, and bibliographic references. Additionally, the manual introduces the fundamentals of SQL and provides instructions for data retrieval through the database's user-friendly, browser-based interfaces, including the ROADWeb Query Tool and the ROAD Map Module.
The ROAD Manual, along with the accompanying Table Descriptions and Entity Relationship Diagram, offers valuable insights into the ROAD database. This resource focuses on human prehistory, spanning from 3,000,000 to 20,000 years ago, covering Africa and Eurasia. It includes data from multiple disciplines, such as archaeology, paleoanthropology, paleoenvironmental studies, and geography. The database is curated by the research center The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans (ROCEEH) and funded by the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
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Additional details
Related works
- Documents
- Dataset: 10.5281/zenodo.18171454 (DOI)
- References
- Software documentation: 10.5281/zenodo.17660207 (DOI)
- Diagram: 10.5281/zenodo.17720874 (DOI)
Dates
- Updated
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2019-05-27