Miriam Haidle
Biographic Data
| ID | 826545 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miriam Haidle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miriam |
| FAMILY NAME | Haidle |
| SIGNATURE | HAIDLE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4923-7880 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 296 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Laudation: Dr. Paola Cerrito, Twenty-sixth Recipient of the Tübingen Prize for Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology
It is a great honour and pleasure for me to introduce the 26th
Reconstructing situated learning in a community of practice using cognigrams: An ethnographic case study and its archaeological implications
Artefacts are the primary resources of archaeological research, and they provide us with evidence about the evolution of hominin sensory-motor and cognitive capacities. Extended childhood is an evolutionary hallmark of Homo sapiens and developmental psychology provides rich insights on how specifically human cognition emerges from infancy to adulthood. Yet, attempts to analyse the cognitive abilities of past children as reflected in their tool be…
Cultural evolution: A review of theoretical challenges
The rapid growth of cultural evolutionary science, its expansion into numerous fields, its use of diverse methods, and several conceptual problems have outpaced corollary developments in theory and philosophy of science. This has led to concern, exemplified in results from a recent survey conducted with members of the Cultural Evolution Society, that the field lacks ‘knowledge synthesis’, is poorly supported by ‘theory’, has an ambiguous relation…
Laudation: Dr. Lucía Cobo-Sánchez, Twenty-fourth Recipient of the Tübingen Prize for Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology
Ladies and
The Aggregation of Road Data in the Ariadne Pipeline: Pitfalls and successes
In this article we describe an online database about human evolution, called the ROCEEH Out of Africa Database (ROAD), and discuss our experience in aggregating Palaeolithic data from ROAD in the ARIADNE data processing pipeline. As of April 2023, ROAD contains more than 2400 localities in Africa and Eurasia dating between three million and 20,000 years ago. The database is transdisciplinary by nature and includes cultural artefacts, human and an…
Traces of Life in Prehistoric Artifacts – Obituary for Linda Rae Owen (* 31.01.1952, † 26.02.2021)
Explore the History of Humanity with the new Road Summary Data Sheet
Laudation: Dr. Flavia Venditti, Twenty-Second Recipient of the Tübingen Prize for Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology
it is a great honor and pleasure for me to introduce the 22nd
Human Origins—Digital Future, an international conference about the future of archeological and paleoanthropological databases
Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analyzed in this study. FIGURE S1 Mind-map drawn using the collaboration platform NextCloud showing the results of all five conference sessions: Databases, Methods, Applications, Products and Perspectives, each in a different color Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any qu…
Thinking Tools. With Cognigrams from Reconstructions and Interpretations to Models about Tool Behavior
In the study of cultural and cognitive evolution, the diverse expressions of tool behavior in animals, hominins and humans are of central interest. To compare different performances between varying contexts and species and with a developmental perspective, they have to be translated from different formats of documentation to a common standard. Cognigrams systematically encode reconstructions of perception-and-action sequences for tool behavior pr…
Cognition: From Capuchin Rock Pounding to Lomekwian Flake Production
Although it is sometimes suggested that modern-day chimpanzee nut-cracking behaviour is cognitively similar to early stone-tool-knapping behaviour, few systematic comparative studies have tested this assumption. Recently, two further techno-behaviours were reported that could both represent intermediary phases in hominin cognitive evolution pertaining to our ultimate technological astuteness. These behaviours are that of bearded capuchin monkeys …
Hansjürgen Müller-Beck: 13 August 1927-2 August 2018
Lessons from Tasmania – Cultural Performance Versus Cultural Capacity
The Nature of Culture: Based on an Interdisciplinary Symposium ‘The Nature of Culture’, Tübingen, Germany
Bridging theory and bow hunting: Human Cognitive Evolution and Archaeology
Modeling the Past: Archaeology
Isotopic evidence (C, N, S) for a high aquatic dietary contribution for a Pre-Dorset muskox hunter from Umingmak (Banks Island, Canada)
Increasing Behavioral Flexibility? An Integrative Macro-Scale Approach to Understanding the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa
Archaeology
Thinking a Bow-and-arrow Set: Cognitive Implications of Middle Stone Age Bow and Stone-tipped Arrow Technology
For various reasons increased effort has recently been made to detect the early use of mechanically-projected weaponry in the archaeological record, but little effort has yet been made to investigate explicitly what these tool sets could indicate about human cognitive evolution. Based on recent evidence for the use of bow-and-arrow technology during the Middle Stone Age in southern Africa by 64 kya, we use the method of generating and analysing c…
Pleistocene Modernity: An Exclusively Afro-European Issue? An Introduction to Session A1
The earliest settlement of Germany: Is there anything out there
Working-Memory Capacity and the Evolution of Modern Cognitive Potential: Implications from Animal and Early Human Tool Use
Tool use is the main database to track down behavioral developments in the archaeological record and thus human evolution. Working-memory capacity and modern cognitive potential, however, are no simple and obvious characters in tool behavior. Coded in cognigrams, which allow a direct comparison, animal and human tool use can be examined for specific aspects of the working-memory capacity. Detailed studies of tool behavior of wasps, sea otters, bo…
Genetic Discontinuity Between Local Hunter-Gatherers and Central Europe’s First Farmers
Cultivating Farmers Were the ancestors of modern Europeans the local hunter-gatherers who assimilated farming practices from neighboring cultures, or were they farmers who migrated from the Near East in the early Neolithic? By analyzing ancient hunter-gatherer skeletal DNA from 2300 to 13,400 B.C.E. Bramanti et al. (p. 137 , published online 3 September) investigated the genetic relationship of European Ice Age hunter-gatherers, the first farmers…
Missing Types: Overcoming the Typology Dilemma of Lithic Archaeology in Southeast Asia
In Europe as well as in the Americas, typology of at least some key forms was and still is the basis of relative chronology. For Southeast Asian prehistory, attempts to classify lithic assemblages morphologically and technologically in order to fit them into established stone tool typologies from other parts of the world have not proved to be very useful. Up to now, the formation of a specific regional typology system has failed. Session 1C of th…
Thinking a Bow-and-arrow Set: Cognitive Implications of Middle Stone Age Bow and Stone-tipped Arrow Technology
For various reasons increased effort has recently been made to detect the early use of mechanically-projected weaponry in the archaeological record, but little effort has yet been made to investigate explicitly what these tool sets could indicate about human cognitive evolution. Based on recent evidence for the use of bow-and-arrow technology during the Middle Stone Age in southern Africa by 64 kya, we use the method of generating and analysing c…
Working-Memory Capacity and the Evolution of Modern Cognitive Potential: Implications from Animal and Early Human Tool Use
Tool use is the main database to track down behavioral developments in the archaeological record and thus human evolution. Working-memory capacity and modern cognitive potential, however, are no simple and obvious characters in tool behavior. Coded in cognigrams, which allow a direct comparison, animal and human tool use can be examined for specific aspects of the working-memory capacity. Detailed studies of tool behavior of wasps, sea otters, bo…
Increasing Behavioral Flexibility? An Integrative Macro-Scale Approach to Understanding the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa
The earliest settlement of Germany: Is there anything out there
Circular Earthwork Krek 52/62: Recent Research on the Prehistory of Cambodia
Since 1996 research on circular earthworks in the red soil region of eastern Cambodia and adjacent Vietnam has intensi ed. Several as yet undocumented Mimotien sites have broadened the knowledge about the regional distribution, location, and the layout of this site group. Within the scope of a German teaching program at the Royal University of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh, intensive eldwork at Krek 52/62 and soundings at Phoum Beng, Phoum Kampoan, and t…
Bridging theory and bow hunting: Human Cognitive Evolution and Archaeology
The LBK Enclosure at Herxheim: Theatre of War or Ritual Centre? References from Osteoarchaeological Investigations
Numerous highly fragmented bones and some partial skeletons characterise the human skeletal remains at the Early Neolithic Linear Pottery Culture (LBK) enclosure of Herxheim, near Landau, Rhineland-Palatinate. The predominant portion of the archae-ological and osteological finds had been deposited within apparent ditches, and these finds and the possible circumstances of their deposition led to the preliminary assump-tion that they were the resul…
Fragments of Glass Bangles from Krek 52/62 and Their Implications for the Dating of the Mimotien Culture
Until recently the Mimotien complex of southeast Cambodia and adjacent Viet Nam was dated to the Neolithic. The artifact assemblages of circular earthworks with outer walls and inner ditches consisted only of ceramic and stone artifacts: absolute dating of the organic temper of the pottery did not yield reliable results. Other organic material and metal artifacts have not been preserved due to the acidity of the red tropical soil with a pH value …
Cognition: From Capuchin Rock Pounding to Lomekwian Flake Production
Although it is sometimes suggested that modern-day chimpanzee nut-cracking behaviour is cognitively similar to early stone-tool-knapping behaviour, few systematic comparative studies have tested this assumption. Recently, two further techno-behaviours were reported that could both represent intermediary phases in hominin cognitive evolution pertaining to our ultimate technological astuteness. These behaviours are that of bearded capuchin monkeys …
The role of culture in early expansions of humans – A new research center
The Aggregation of Road Data in the Ariadne Pipeline: Pitfalls and successes
In this article we describe an online database about human evolution, called the ROCEEH Out of Africa Database (ROAD), and discuss our experience in aggregating Palaeolithic data from ROAD in the ARIADNE data processing pipeline. As of April 2023, ROAD contains more than 2400 localities in Africa and Eurasia dating between three million and 20,000 years ago. The database is transdisciplinary by nature and includes cultural artefacts, human and an…
Survival of a multiple skull trauma: The case of an early neolithic individual from the LBK enclosure at Herxheim (Southwest Germany)
The Early Neolithic enclosure of Herxheim yielded the human remains of more than 450 individuals mainly represented by cranial vaults and numerous fractured cranial and postcranial bones. The skulls were shaped post-mortem into skull caps by intentional separation of the cranial base and facial bones. One of these calottes revealed four ante-mortem traumatic lesions and additional cut marks.The defects of this individual were analysed in detail t…
A multiple myeloma of the late middle ages from unterregenbach, southwestern Germany
In the early 1960s the grave of a probable donor was discovered in the St Veit church in Unterregenbach, Stadt Langenburg, Kreis Crailsheim, southwestern Germany. After a re-examination, the skeleton may be regarded as clearly corresponding to the typical clinical picture of a multiple myeloma/plasma cell myeloma. The 45-55-year-old female individual shows all the characteristics of a malignant plasma cell tumour, with specific osteolytic lesions…
Reconstructing situated learning in a community of practice using cognigrams: An ethnographic case study and its archaeological implications
Artefacts are the primary resources of archaeological research, and they provide us with evidence about the evolution of hominin sensory-motor and cognitive capacities. Extended childhood is an evolutionary hallmark of Homo sapiens and developmental psychology provides rich insights on how specifically human cognition emerges from infancy to adulthood. Yet, attempts to analyse the cognitive abilities of past children as reflected in their tool be…
The Nature of Culture: Based on an Interdisciplinary Symposium ‘The Nature of Culture’, Tübingen, Germany
Isotopic evidence (C, N, S) for a high aquatic dietary contribution for a Pre-Dorset muskox hunter from Umingmak (Banks Island, Canada)
A multiple myeloma of the late middle ages from unterregenbach, southwestern Germany
In the early 1960s the grave of a probable donor was discovered in the St Veit church in Unterregenbach, Stadt Langenburg, Kreis Crailsheim, southwestern Germany. After a re-examination, the skeleton may be regarded as clearly corresponding to the typical clinical picture of a multiple myeloma/plasma cell myeloma. The 45-55-year-old female individual shows all the characteristics of a malignant plasma cell tumour, with specific osteolytic lesions…
Circular Earthwork Krek 52/62: Recent Research on the Prehistory of Cambodia
Since 1996 research on circular earthworks in the red soil region of eastern Cambodia and adjacent Vietnam has intensi ed. Several as yet undocumented Mimotien sites have broadened the knowledge about the regional distribution, location, and the layout of this site group. Within the scope of a German teaching program at the Royal University of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh, intensive eldwork at Krek 52/62 and soundings at Phoum Beng, Phoum Kampoan, and t…
Fragments of Glass Bangles from Krek 52/62 and Their Implications for the Dating of the Mimotien Culture
Until recently the Mimotien complex of southeast Cambodia and adjacent Viet Nam was dated to the Neolithic. The artifact assemblages of circular earthworks with outer walls and inner ditches consisted only of ceramic and stone artifacts: absolute dating of the organic temper of the pottery did not yield reliable results. Other organic material and metal artifacts have not been preserved due to the acidity of the red tropical soil with a pH value …
The XIVth Congrès de l'Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques (UISPP) in Liège, Belgium, 2–8 September 2001. Or: What can we learn about the archaeological world if we at…
The XIVth Congrès de l'Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques (UISPP) in Liège, Belgium, 2–8 September 2001. Or: What can we learn about the archaeological world if we attend a world congress? - Volume 5 Issue 1
Survival of a multiple skull trauma: The case of an early neolithic individual from the LBK enclosure at Herxheim (Southwest Germany)
The Early Neolithic enclosure of Herxheim yielded the human remains of more than 450 individuals mainly represented by cranial vaults and numerous fractured cranial and postcranial bones. The skulls were shaped post-mortem into skull caps by intentional separation of the cranial base and facial bones. One of these calottes revealed four ante-mortem traumatic lesions and additional cut marks.The defects of this individual were analysed in detail t…
The LBK Enclosure at Herxheim: Theatre of War or Ritual Centre? References from Osteoarchaeological Investigations
Numerous highly fragmented bones and some partial skeletons characterise the human skeletal remains at the Early Neolithic Linear Pottery Culture (LBK) enclosure of Herxheim, near Landau, Rhineland-Palatinate. The predominant portion of the archae-ological and osteological finds had been deposited within apparent ditches, and these finds and the possible circumstances of their deposition led to the preliminary assump-tion that they were the resul…
Archeology
[Archaeology in Cambodia] Shiny Exceptions? Glass in Mimotien Context
Genetic Discontinuity Between Local Hunter-Gatherers and Central Europe’s First Farmers
Cultivating Farmers Were the ancestors of modern Europeans the local hunter-gatherers who assimilated farming practices from neighboring cultures, or were they farmers who migrated from the Near East in the early Neolithic? By analyzing ancient hunter-gatherer skeletal DNA from 2300 to 13,400 B.C.E. Bramanti et al. (p. 137 , published online 3 September) investigated the genetic relationship of European Ice Age hunter-gatherers, the first farmers…
Missing Types: Overcoming the Typology Dilemma of Lithic Archaeology in Southeast Asia
In Europe as well as in the Americas, typology of at least some key forms was and still is the basis of relative chronology. For Southeast Asian prehistory, attempts to classify lithic assemblages morphologically and technologically in order to fit them into established stone tool typologies from other parts of the world have not proved to be very useful. Up to now, the formation of a specific regional typology system has failed. Session 1C of th…
Shouldered Adzes, Bifaces, and Chert Prisms: A Characterization of Mimotien Stone Tool Assemblages From Later Cambodian Prehistory
Mimotien circular earthworks in the red soil area of east Cambodia and southern Vietnam (Anonymous 1930; Malleret 1959; Groslier 1966 a, b) are dated to the end of the Neolithic and the beginning of the Metal Age with the settlements ending in the second half of the first millennium BC (Haidle 2001). Fifty-six of these very homogeneous settlement sites with outer wall, inner ditch and central platform have been recorded so far (Nguyen 1984, 1997,…
The role of culture in early expansions of humans – A new research center
The earliest settlement of Germany: Is there anything out there
Working-Memory Capacity and the Evolution of Modern Cognitive Potential: Implications from Animal and Early Human Tool Use
Tool use is the main database to track down behavioral developments in the archaeological record and thus human evolution. Working-memory capacity and modern cognitive potential, however, are no simple and obvious characters in tool behavior. Coded in cognigrams, which allow a direct comparison, animal and human tool use can be examined for specific aspects of the working-memory capacity. Detailed studies of tool behavior of wasps, sea otters, bo…
Pleistocene Modernity: An Exclusively Afro-European Issue? An Introduction to Session A1
Thinking a Bow-and-arrow Set: Cognitive Implications of Middle Stone Age Bow and Stone-tipped Arrow Technology
For various reasons increased effort has recently been made to detect the early use of mechanically-projected weaponry in the archaeological record, but little effort has yet been made to investigate explicitly what these tool sets could indicate about human cognitive evolution. Based on recent evidence for the use of bow-and-arrow technology during the Middle Stone Age in southern Africa by 64 kya, we use the method of generating and analysing c…
Archaeology
Modeling the Past: Archaeology
Isotopic evidence (C, N, S) for a high aquatic dietary contribution for a Pre-Dorset muskox hunter from Umingmak (Banks Island, Canada)
Increasing Behavioral Flexibility? An Integrative Macro-Scale Approach to Understanding the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa
Lessons from Tasmania – Cultural Performance Versus Cultural Capacity
The Nature of Culture: Based on an Interdisciplinary Symposium ‘The Nature of Culture’, Tübingen, Germany
Bridging theory and bow hunting: Human Cognitive Evolution and Archaeology
Cognition: From Capuchin Rock Pounding to Lomekwian Flake Production
Although it is sometimes suggested that modern-day chimpanzee nut-cracking behaviour is cognitively similar to early stone-tool-knapping behaviour, few systematic comparative studies have tested this assumption. Recently, two further techno-behaviours were reported that could both represent intermediary phases in hominin cognitive evolution pertaining to our ultimate technological astuteness. These behaviours are that of bearded capuchin monkeys …
Hansjürgen Müller-Beck: 13 August 1927-2 August 2018
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