Vita
Prof. Dr. Christopher Miller
Arbeitsgruppe Miller
christopher.miller@uni-tuebingen.de
Academic Background
2010 Dr. rer. nat. in Prehistory, University of Tuebingen, Germany
2006 M.Sc. in Earth Science, University of Maine, USA
2004 B.A. in Archaeology and Earth Science, Boston University, USA
Academic Affiliations
2018-present Professor II, SFF Centre for Early Sapience Behaviour (SapienCE), AHKR Institute, University of Bergen, Norway
2017-present Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen
2016-present Professor for Geoarchaeology, Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, Germany
2010-2016 Junior-Professor for Geoarchaeology, Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, Germany
Awards / Honors
2006-2009 Scholarship, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
Third-Party Funding
2018-2021 DFG, (PI). Geoarchaeology of a Middle Stone Age paleolandscape in the central interior of South Africa: paleoenvironments and foraging practices during the transition to behavioural modernity
(MI 1748/4-1)
2014-2018 DFG, (Co-PI). A geoarchaeological investigation of Middle Stone Age human response to environmental change on the shores of Lake Malawi (MI 1748/3-1)
2013-2016 DFG, (Co-PI). Heat treatment of raw material and the development of modern behaviour in the Middle Stone Age of southern Africa (MI 1748/2-1)
2013-2018 DFG (PI). A microcontextual investigation of combustion features from Middle Stone Age sites in South Africa (MI 1748/1-1)
2012-2015 Baden-Württemberg Ministerium WFK—Junior Professor Program (PI). Late Glacial landscape development and human repopulation of the Ach and Lone Valleys, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Publikationen
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Bouchard, G.P., Mentzer, S.M., Riel-Salvatore, J., Hodgkins, J., Miller, C.E., Negrino, F., Wogelius, R. and Buckley, M., 2019. Portable FTIR for on-site screening of archaeological bone intended for ZooMS collagen fingerprint analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 26, p.101862.
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Barbieri, A., Leven, C., Toffolo, M.B., Hodgins, G.W.L., Kind, C.-J., Conard, N.J. and Miller, C.E. (2018). Bridging prehistoric caves with buried landscapes in the Swabian Jura (southwestern Germany). Quaternary International 485: 23-43.
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Goldberg, P., Miller, C.E., Mentzer, S.M. (2017). Recognizing fire in the Palaeolithic archaeological record. Current Anthropology 58, S175-S190.
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Haaland, M.M., Friesem, D.E., Miller, C.E., Henshilwood, C.S. (2017). Heat-induced alteration of glauconitic minerals in the Middle Stone Age levels of Blombos Cave, South Africa: implications for evaluating site structure and burning events. Journal of Archaeological Science 86, 81-100.
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Wright, D.K., Thompson, J.C., Schilt, F., Cohen, A.S., Choi, J.H., Mercader, J., Nightingale, S., Miller, C.E., Mentzer, S.M., Walde, D. and Welling, M., (2017). Approaches to Middle Stone Age landscape archaeology in tropical Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science, 77, pp.64-77.
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Miller, C.E., Mentzer, S.M., Berthold, C., Leach, P., Ligouis, B., Tribolo, C., Parkington, J., Porraz, G., (2016). Site formation processes at Elands Bay Cave, South Africa. Southern African Humanities 29, 69-128.
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Stahlschmidt, M.C., Miller, C.E., Ligouis, B., Hambach, U., Goldberg, P., Berna, F., Richter, D., Urban, B., Serangeli, J., Conard, N.J., (2015). On the evidence for human use and control of fire at Schöningen. Journal of Human Evolution 89, 181-201.
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Rademaker, K., Hodgins, G., Moore, K., Zarrillo, S., Miller, C., Bromley, G.R., Leach, P., Reid, D.A., Álvarez, W.Y. and Sandweiss, D.H., (2014). Paleoindian settlement of the high-altitude Peruvian Andes. Science, 346(6208), pp.466-469.
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Soressi, M., McPherron, S.P., Lenoir, M., Dogandžić, T., Goldberg, P., Jacobs, Z., Maigrot, Y., Martisius, N.L., Miller, C.E., Rendu, W. and Richards, M., (2013). Neandertals made the first specialized bone tools in Europe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(35), pp.14186-14190.
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Miller, C.E., Goldberg, P., Berna, F., (2013). Geoarchaeological investigations at Diepkloof Rock Shelter, Western Cape, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science 40: 3432-3452.
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Miller, C.E. and Sievers, C., (2012). An experimental micromorphological investigation of bedding construction in the Middle Stone Age of Sibudu, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science, 39(10), pp.3039-3051.
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Wadley, L., Sievers, C., Bamford, M., Goldberg, P., Berna, F., Miller, C., (2011). Middle Stone Age bedding construction and settlement patterns at Sibudu, South Africa. Science 6061: 1388-1391.
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Texier, P.-J., Porraz, G., Parkington, J., Rigaud, J.-P., Poggenpoel, C., Miller, C. E., Tribolo, C., Cartwright, C., Coudenneau, A., Klein, R., Steele, T., and Verna, C., (2010). A Howiesons Poort tradition of engraving ostrich eggshell containers dated to 60,000 years ago at Diepkloof Rock Shelter, South Africa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 107: 6180-6185.
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Miller, C. E., Conard, N. J., Goldberg, P., Berna, F., (2009). Dumping, sweeping and trampling: experimental micromorphological analysis of anthropogenically modified combustion features. In : The taphonomy of burned organic residues and combustion features in archaeological contexts,, Théry-Parisot, I., Chabal, L. And Costamagno, S. (eds.). Actes de la table ronde, Valbonne, 27-29 May 2008. Palethnologie, 2 : 25.37.
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Goldberg, P., Miller, C. E., Schiegl, S., Ligouis, B., Berna, F., Conard, N., and Wadley, L., (2009). Bedding, hearths, and site maintenance in the Middle Stone Age of Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 1: 95-122.