Central Scientific Services and Synthesis

核心项目2 （C2）的主要目标是(i)提供科学数据管理服务，并编制子项目要求的遥感和模型支持的高级数据集，（ii）通过古代DNA分析补充过去人类与环境相互作用的观点，（iii）提供基因组和生物信息学支持，以及（iv）研究成果的整体综合。科学数据服务将扩展至涵盖P7收集的大量甲虫记录，包括该物种的3D数字模型。探地雷达观测将用于绘制巨型鼹鼠的洞穴结构（链接到P4）。机器学习方法将用于提供区域完整的数据集。所有数据集将转移到长期数据管理设施，以确保RU结束后的数据可用性。除了这些中心服务之外，在RU第一阶段发现的世界上最早的人类居住在高海拔地区的记录为古代DNA的基因组分析提供了巨大的潜力，可以提供：(1)直接确认人类的存在，(2)对人类进化的核心见解，(3)更高的分类分辨率来分析沉积物中的动植物遗骸。（iv）了解巨型鼹鼠作为贝尔山脉生态系统的生态系统工程师和关键物种以及MSA觅食者的主要食物资源的种群遗传历史。最后，C2将促进协作过程，以得出跨学科环境历史的共同综合，同时概述剩余的知识差距，数据和潜在的学科矛盾。

The major aims of core project 2 (C2) are (i) the provisioning of scientific data management services and the compilation of remote-sensing and model supported higher-level data sets requested by the subprojects, (ii) the complementation of the view on past human environment interactions by ancient DNA analysis, (iii) the provisioning of genomic and bioinformatics support, and (iv) the overall synthesis of the research outcome. The scientific data services will be extended to cover the extensive beetle records collected in P7 including 3D digital models of the species. Ground-penetrating radar observations will be used to map the Giant Molerats’ burrow structure (link to P4). Machine-learning approaches will be used to provide area-complete datasets. All datasets will be transferred to long-term data curation facilities to ensure data availability after the end of the RU. Besides these central services, the worldwide earliest record of human occupation in high altitude discovered during Phase 1 of the RU bears a tremendous potential for genomic analyses of ancient DNA to provide (i) direct confirmation of human presence, (ii) central insights into human evolution, (iii) higher taxonomic resolution for analysing plant and animal remains from sediments, and (iv) insights into the population genetic history of Giant Molerats as the ecosystem engineers and keystone species in the Bale Mountains ecosystem and as central food resource of MSA foragers. Finally, C2 will facilitate the collaborative process to derive a common synthesis of the environmental history across disciplines while also outlining remaining knowledge gaps, data and potential disciplinary contradictions.