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

• Andrew W. Kandel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew W. Kandel, Christian Sommer, Zara Kanaeva, Miriam N. Haidle, Volker Hochschild

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: a.kandel@uni-tuebingen.de

  Affiliation The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Tübingen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9889-9418

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• Christian Sommer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew W. Kandel, Christian Sommer, Zara Kanaeva, Miriam N. Haidle, Volker Hochschild

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Tübingen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9062-0876

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• Zara Kanaeva ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew W. Kandel, Christian Sommer, Zara Kanaeva, Miriam N. Haidle, Volker Hochschild

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Tübingen, Germany

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• Michael Bolus ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ MB, AAB, CH, MM and MM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Tübingen, Germany, Department of Geosciences, Working Group Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Angela A. Bruch ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ MB, AAB, CH, MM and MM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans, Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

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• Claudia Groth,

  Roles Project administration

  Affiliation The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans, Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

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• Miriam N. Haidle ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew W. Kandel, Christian Sommer, Zara Kanaeva, Miriam N. Haidle, Volker Hochschild

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Geosciences, Working Group Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans, Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

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• Christine Hertler ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ MB, AAB, CH, MM and MM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans, Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8252-9674

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• Julia Heß,

  Roles Project administration

  Affiliation The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans, Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

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• Maria Malina ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ MB, AAB, CH, MM and MM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Tübingen, Germany

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• Michael Märker ,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ MB, AAB, CH, MM and MM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, Working Group on “Soil Erosion and Feedbacks”, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany

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• Volker Hochschild ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew W. Kandel, Christian Sommer, Zara Kanaeva, Miriam N. Haidle, Volker Hochschild

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Geography, Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Volker Mosbrugger,

  Roles Funding acquisition

  Affiliation The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans, Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

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• Friedemann Schrenk,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans, Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

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• Nicholas J. Conard

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Geosciences, Working Group Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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