ROCEEH Out of Africa Database
Also known as ROAD · The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans Out of Africa Database
ROAD is a spatio-temporal database designed to support a systemic understanding of human activities and expansions between 3 million and 20 thousand years ago (3 Ma – 20 ka) across Africa and Eurasia. It contains cultural, anthropological, environmental, and geographical information about archaeological sites and assemblages. Open access is provided through several tools: the basic web map 'Simple Search', the simplified data query tool 'AskROAD', the 'Summary Data Sheets', which compile all information on a locality in a user-friendly PDF format, and 'roadDB', a package for data retrieval through R. After registration, full access to the database is available via a SQL query interface and…
Getting access
Open access Open
- How to apply
- Not yet verified — we don’t publish a route we haven’t checked.
Summarised from a registry — the exact application route is not yet verified.
About this database
| Website | https://www.roceeh.uni-tuebingen.de/roadweb/smarty_road_simple_search.php |
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| Subjects | Humanities and Social Sciences · Natural Sciences · Humanities · Geosciences (including Geography) · Ancient Cultures · Geology and Palaeontology · Geography · Prehistory |
| Last updated | 2026-09-11 |