Main research interests
• Modern human origins
• Neanderthal evolution and paleobiology
• Pleistocene human evolution, phylogeny, taxonomy and adaptation
• Human dispersals
• The peopling of the Americas
• Interactions between the phenotype, genotype and the environment
• Paleoanthropology of South-East Europe
Academic background
Recipient of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2021) and the Landesforschungspreis Baden-Württemberg (2014)
Since 2009 W3 Professor, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
2009 Habilitation in Palaeoanthropology, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
2001 PhD, Anthropology, City University of New York and New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology (NYCEP)
1998 MA, Anthropology, Hunter College, CUNY
1994 BA, Anthropology (Summa Cum Laude), Columbia University, New York
List of Publications (selected from a total of >150 publications)
Harvati K.2022. The hominin fossil record from Greece. In: Vlachos E (ed) The Fossil Vertebrates of Greece Vol. 1 – Basal vertebrates, basal tetrapods, afrotherians, glires, and primates. Springer – Nature Publishing Group, Cham, pp. 669-688
Konidaris G., Athanassiou A., Panagopoulou E., Harvati K. 2022. First record of Macaca (Cercopithecidae, Primates) in the Middle Pleistocene of Greece. Journal of Human Evolution 162, 103104DOI:10.1016/j.jhevol.2021.103104
Karakostis F.A., Haeufle D., Anastopoulou I., Moraitis K., Hotz G., Tourloukis V., Harvati K. 2021. Biomechanics of the human thumb and the evolution of dexterity. Current Biology 31, 1-9
Karakostis F.A., Harvati K. 2021. New horizons in reconstructing past human behavior: Introducing the “Tübingen University Validated Entheses-based Reconstruction of Activity” method. Evolutionary Anthropology 30, 185-198 https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21892
Mori T., Profico A., Reyes-Centeno H., Harvati K. 2020. Virtual reconstruction and geometric morphometric analysis of the mid-Pleistocene hominin KNM-OG 45500 (Olorgesailie, Kenya). Journal of Anthropological Sciences 98, 49-72. doi 10.4436/jass.98022
Harvati K., Röding C., Bosman A., Karakostis F.A., Grün R., Stringer C., Karkanas P., Thompson N.C., Koutoulidis V., Moulopoulos L.A., Gorgoulis V.G., Kouloukoussa M. 2019. Apidima Cave fossils provide earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in Eurasia. Nature 571, 500-504 doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1376-z
Beier J., Anthes N., Wahl J., Harvati K. 2018. Similar cranial trauma prevalence among Neanderthals and Upper Paleolithic humans. Nature 563, 686-690
Karakostis F.A., Hotz G., Tourloukis V., Harvati K. 2018. Evidence for precision grasping in Neandertal daily activities. Science Advances 4, eaat2369
Harvati K., Konidaris G., Tourloukis V. (Eds.) 2018. Human Evolution at the Gates of Europe. Quaternary International Special Issue, Volume 497 Part A, pp. 1-240.
Hublin J.J., Ben-Ncer A., Bailey S., Freideline S., Neubauer S., Skinner M.M., Bergmann I., Le Cabec A., Benazzi S., Harvati K., Gunz P. 2017. New fossils from Jebel Irhoud (Morocco) and the Pan-African origin of Homo sapiens. Nature 546, 289-292 (Cover article)
Harvati K. and M. Roksandic, (Eds.) 2016. Paleoanthropology of the Balkans and Anatolia: Human Evolution and its Context. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series, Springer Verlag: Dordrecht.
Fu Q., 38 authors, Harvati K., Moiseyev V., Drucker D.G., Svoboda J., Pinhasi R., Kelso J., Patterson N., Krause J., Pääbo S., Reich D. 2016. The genetic history of Ice Age Europe. Nature 524, 200-2005
Reyes-Centeno H., Ghirotto S., Détroit F., Grimaud-Hervé D., Barbujani G, Harvati K. 2014. Genomic and Cranial Phenotype Data Support Multiple Modern Human Dispersals from Africa and a Southern Route into Asia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 111, 7248-7253
Harvati K., Darlas A., Bailey S. E., Rein T. R., El Zaatari S., Fiorenza L, Kullmer O., Psathi E. 2013. New Neanderthal remains from Mani peninsula, S. Greece: The Kalamakia Middle Paleolithic cave site. Journal of Human Evolution 64, 486-499
Benazzi S., Douka K., Fornai C., Bauer C. C., Kullmer O., Svoboda J., Pap I., Mallegni F., Bayle P., Coquerelle M., Condemi S., Ronchitelli A., Harvati K., Weber G. W. 2011. Early dispersal of modern hum ans in Europe and implications for Neanderthal behavior. Nature 479, 525-528
Harvati K., Panagopoulou E., Runnels C. 2009. The Paleoanthropology of Greece. Evolutionary Anthropology 18, 131-143 (Cover article)
Grine F.E., Bailey R.M., Harvati K., Nathan R.P., Morris, A.G., Henderson G.M., Ribot I., Pike A.W.G. 2007. Late Pleistocene Human Skull from Hofmeyr, South Africa and Modern Human Origins. Science 315, 226-229 (TIME top 10 discoveries of 2007)
Harvati K. and Weaver T. 2006. Human cranial anatomy and the differential preservation of population history and climate signatures. Anatomical Record 288A, 1225-1233 (Cover article)
Harvati K., Frost S.R., McNulty K.P. 2004. Neanderthal taxonomy reconsidered: Implications of 3D primate models of intra- and inter-specific differences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 101, 1147-1152
Das Bild der Frau im Paläolithikum
Die Verarbeitung und Nutzung organischer Materialien, Schwerpunkt Mammutelfenbein
Mobile Kleinkunst und Wandkunst Kunst im Jungpaläolithikum
Der Einfluss der paläolithischen Menschen auf ihre Umwelt
Akademischer Werdegang
18.04.2013
Disputation zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades Dr. phil., sehr gut abgeschlossen
2010 – 2013
Doktorandin, Abteilung Ältere Urgeschichte und Quartärökologie der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
November 2007
Magister Artium im Fach Vor- und Frühgeschichte an der Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz
2005/2006
Erasmus Semester in Tours (Frankreich) an der Université Francois Rabelais de Tours
Sommer Semester 2002
Wechsel des Magisterstudienganges mit dem Fach Vor– und Frühgeschichte im Hauptfach, der Klassischen Archäologie und der Alten Geschichte in den Nebenfächern an der Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz
Winter Semester 2001
Beginn des Magisterstudienganges der Klassischen Archäologie im Hauptfach, der Alten Geschichte und der Christlichen Archäologie in den Nebenfächern an der Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz
Beruflicher Werdegang
Seit 01.03.2016
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin und Koordinatorin des Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment an der Universität Tübingen
01.02.2014-29.02.2016
Wissenschaftliche Koordinatorin des Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment an der Universität Tübingen
01.07.2013-31.01.2014
Postdoc am Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters, Abtlg. Ältere Urgeschichte und Quartärökologie der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen innerhalb des UNESCO-Auswertungsprojektes “Höhlen der Schwäbischen Alb”
22.04.2013-30.06.2013
Wissenschaftliche Angestellte am Landesamt für Denkmalpflege im Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart für das Projekt „Zusammensetzung des Löwenmenschen aus dem Hohlenstein-Stadel“
01.09.2009-28.02.2010
Wissenschaftliche Angestellte des Archäologischen Landesmuseums Baden-Württemberg; Assistenz der Ausstellungsleitung der Großen Landesausstellung Baden-Württemberg 2009 „Eiszeit – Kunst und Kultur“
01.06.2008-31.08.2009
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters, Abtlg. Ältere Urgeschichte und Quartärökologie der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen für das Projekt „Große Landesausstellung Baden-Württemberg 2009, Eiszeit – Kunst und Kultur“
Drittmittel / Auszeichnung
DAAD Förderung Procope
2024-2025 „More than beauty & More than beads: The Legacy of Upper Palaeolithic Ornamentation”. Kooperationspartnerin in Frankreich: Dr. Marian Vanhaeren, CNRS, PACEA, Universität Bordeaux
Workshop Sonderausstellung URMU
2023/24 Moderne Kunst und Eiszeitarchäologie. Gefördert durch die GfU Blaubeuren
Internationale Tagung
4.–6.10.2023 „Ritual in Human Evolution – Interdisciplinary Perspectives” gefördert durch die Fritz Thyssen Stiftung (gemeinsam mit Rimtautas Dapschauskas M.A.)
Wanderausstellung Weltkultursprung “Figürliche Eiszeitkunst Europas“ 2021/2022 gefördert durch die Baden-Württemberg Stiftung, Univ. Tübingen, Förderverein Eiszeitkunst im Lonetal e.V., Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte und Förderverein des Urgeschichtlichen Museums e.V., Museumsgesellschaft Schelklingen e.V., Stadt Ulm, LK Heidenheim, Alb-Donau-Kreis
Antragsteller 1. Vorsitzende/r des Steuerungskreises Weltkultursprung, gemeinsam mit Sibylle Wolf
CIVIS Summer School 2022
CIVIS Call 2 – Short Term Mobility – Intensive Programs: CIVIS Schools (IP: CS)
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Gender Archaeology (gemeinsam mit PD Dr. Dorothée Drucker, Dr. Marta Díaz-Zorita Bonilla) 6 Tage, 35 Studenten von insgesamt 8 Partner-Universitäten
Nov. 2020 – April 2023
Leitung DFG Projekt wiss. Netzwerk “Commission Modified Bone & Shell of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP) – Bâtons perçés (Band XVI)”. Projektnr. 454029596
2017
Verleihung des Kurt-Bittel-Preises für Süddeutsche Altertumskunde der Stadt Heidenheim an der Brenz, dotiert mit 5.500€ (Verleihung am 17.11.2017)
Oktober 2013
Bewilligung einer DAAD Kurzzeitdozentur an der University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City
März 2010 – Feb. 2013
Doktorandenstipendium innerhalb des UNESCO-Auswertungsprojektes “Höhlen der Schwäbischen Alb”, Abtlg. Ältere Urgeschichte und Quartärökologie der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Thema „Elfenbeinbearbeitung im Schwäbischen Aurignacien“
Nov. 2006 – April 2007
Förderungsstipendium der Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz für wissenschaftliche oder künstlerische Abschlussarbeiten
Weitere Erfahrungen und wissenschaftliche Projekte
2022-2024
Mentee des Leibniz-Mentoring Program
2021/2022
Wehrberger, K., Reiche, I., Müller, K., Wolf, S.: IPHERION HS: Investigations of the Lion Man of Hohlenstein-Stadel Cave. Paris, AGLAE facility (Louvre)
September 2021
Leitung der Ausgrabung Barnberghöhle bei Neuffen, gemeinsam mit Dr. Gregor Bader und Dr. Manuel Will
2020
Certificate „Leadership“ (Modul II) der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
2018
Mitherausgeberin der Sonderausgabe „Objets d’ivoire – archives de vie“ des Journals Anthropologie 122 (2018), 3, Paris, Institut de Paléontologie Humaine
März – Oktober 2016
Wissenschaftliche Beraterin und Autorin der Begleitpublikation „EisZeiten – Die Kunst der Mammutjäger“ im Archäologischen Museum Hamburg, Stadtmuseum Harburg/Helms Museum
2015/16
Zusammenschluss der Wissenschaftler Prof. N. J. Conard Ph.D., Dr. D. Drucker, Dr. S. Münzel, Dr. S. Wolf (Univ. Tübingen), Dr. C. Vercoutère (IPH, Paris) und M. Lanzinickova-Galetova (Moravské Muzeum Brno), um organische Materialien des Gravettien der Schwäbischen Alb und Südwestfrankreichs zu analysieren
November 2014 – Juni 2015
Konzeption und Umsetzung der Wanderausstellung „Weltkultursprung“, ein gemeinsames Projekt des Alb-Donau-Kreises, des Landkreises Heidenheim und der Stadt Ulm
Oktober 2013 – Mai 2014
Mitwirkung bei der Umgestaltung der Dauerausstellung des Urgeschichtlichen Museums Blaubeuren
November 2013
Konzeption und Kostenkalkulation für eine Wanderausstellung „Die Schwäbische Alb – Weltkultursprung“ für den Alb-Donau-Kreis
August 2013
Konzeption einer Ausstellung „Eiszeit im Norden“ für das Archäologische Museum Hamburg, Stadtmuseum Harburg/Helms Museum
Juni – Juli 2013
Organisation des UNESCO/Erasmus Intensiv Programms „Prehistory at the Crossroads of Science and Conservation“ für die o.g. Abtlg. Vor Ort als Lehrende mit dem Vortrag: “An ongoing mystery – the restauration of the lion-man (Hohlenstein-Stadel, Swabian Jura, Germany)”
2011 – Mai 2012
Mitwirkung bei der Umgestaltung der Dauerausstellung der Abtlg. Ältere Urgeschichte und Quartärökologie im Museum Schloss Hohentübingen
Juni 2012
Organisation des UNESCO/Erasmus Intensiv Programms „Prehistory at the Crossroads of Science and Conservation“ für die o.g. Abtlg. Vor Ort als Lehrende mit dem Vortrag: “Ivory working and personal ornaments during the Aurignacian of the Swabian Jura”
März 2012
Forschungsaufenthalt in Sankt Petersburg (Eremitage und Kunstkamera)
November 2011
Organisation der Sonderausstellung „Bemalte Steine – Das Ende der Eiszeitkunst auf der Schwäbischen Alb“ im Museum Schloss Hohentübingen
Juni 2011
Teilnahme und Organisation des UNESCO/Erasmus Intensiv Programms in Quinson, Alpes de Haute-Provence „Prehistory at the Crossroads of Science and Conservation“, Vortrag “Ivory Working and Adornment during the Aurignacien of the Swabian Jura”
März 2011
Teilnahme an einem einwöchigen Workshop „technologie osseuse“ an der Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Defense, HMPEE203-HMUEP202
November/Dezember 2008
Organisation der Sonderausstellung „Das Mammut vom Vogelherd. Tübinger Funde der ältesten erhaltenen Kunstwerke“ im Museum Schloss Hohentübingen, sowie Redaktion des gleichnamigen Begleitheftes
Organisation und Durchführung der jährlichen Verleihung des Förderpreises für Ältere Urgeschichte und Quartärökologie 2009-2014
Organisation und Durchführung der internationalen Konferenz am 22.07.2011 in Tübingen „Thresholds in Prehistory“
Organisation der UNESCO HEADS-Tagung vom 25.02. bis zum 01.03.2013 in Tübingen gemeinsam mit E. Dutkiewicz M.A.
Lehrerfahrung
Lehre 2023/24
Übung „Fire, pigments, art” in Zusammenarbeit mit Rudolf Walter M.A.
Lehre SS 2023
Vorlesungen im Modul ASHE Stone Age Technology
Übung und Viertägige Exkursion „Exkursion nach Thüringen – paläolithische Fundstellen im Herzen Deutschlands“ in Zusammenarbeit mit Dr. Ewa Dutkiewicz
Lehre WS 2022/23
Vorlesung und Übung „osseous raw materials” in Zusammenarbeit mit Dr. Keiko Kitagawa
Eintägige Exkursion ins Landesmuseum Württemberg Stuttgart
Lehre 2022
Vorlesungen im Modul ASHE Stone Age Technology
Lehre WS 2021/22
Vorlesung und Übung „osseous raw materials” in Zusammenarbeit mit Dr. Keiko Kitagawa (BA/MA)
Seminar „female depictions and modern art ” in Zusammenarbeit mit Dr. Nuria Sanz (MA)
Eintägige Exkursion nach Frankfurt: Senckenberg Naturkunde Museum und Archäologisches Museum Frankfurt (BA/MA)
Eintägige Exkursion ins Deutsche Elfenbeinmuseum Erbach/Odenwald
(BA/MA)
Lehre WS 2020/21
Seminar „osseous raw materials” in Zusammenarbeit mit Dr. Keiko Kitagawa (MA)
Übung „Urgeschichte in Baden-Württemberg II“ in Zusammenarbeit mit Benjamin Schürch M.A. und zwei Tage Exkursion ins Obere Donautal/Veringenstadt (BA/MA)
Lehre SS 2020
Übung „Urgeschichte in Baden-Württemberg II“ in Zusammenarbeit mit Benjamin Schürch M.A. (BA/MA)
Lehre WS 2019/20
Übung „Urgeschichte in Baden-Württemberg I“ mit zweitägiger Exkursion auf die Schwäbische Alb (BA/MA)
und Ethnologie im Dialog“ in Zusammenarbeit mit Prof. Dr. Harald Floss und PD Dr. Sabine Klocke-Daffa (MA)
Lehre SS 2017 Dreitägige Exkursion nach Südwestdeutschland, Schweiz und Ostfrankreich in Zusammenarbeit mit E. Dutkiewicz M.A. (BA/MA)
Lehre WS 2016/17
Seminar „Museologie/Museographie“ in Zusammenarbeit mit Dr. S. Kölbl/Urmu (MA)
Dreitägige Exkursion auf die Schwäbische Alb in Zusammenarbeit mit Ewa Dutkiewicz M.A. (BA/MA)
Lehre SS 2016
Seminar „Museologie/Museographie“ in Zusammenarbeit mit E. Dutkiewicz M.A. (MA)
Workshop „Gebrauchsspurenanalyse an organischen Materialien“ (BA/MA)
Dreitägige Exkursion nach Bayern in Zusammenarbeit mit Ewa Dutkiewicz M.A. (BA/MA)
Lehre WS 2015/16
Seminar „Organische Materialien“ in Zusammenarbeit mit E. Dutkiewicz M.A. sowie
Dreitägige Exkursion ins Achtal (MA)
Workshop Fellbearbeitung mit Elefantenrippen in Zusammenarbeit mit Dr. S. Münzel und Ch. Baumann (BA/MA)
Lehre WS 2014/15
Dreitägiger Workshop „Spalten von Elefantenrippen“ in Zusammenarbeit mit Dr. S. Münzel und Dr. P. Krönneck (BA/MA)
Dreitägige Exkursion ins Rheinland und Schloss Monrepos in Zusammenarbeit mit E. Dutkiewicz M.A. (BA/MA)
Lehre SS 2014
Seminar und Vorlesung „Organische Materialien“ in Zusammenarbeit mit G. Bigga M.A. und E. Dutkiewicz M.A. (MA)
Übung „Museologie/Museographie“ (BA/MA)
Eintägige Exkursion nach Veringenstadt und ins obere Donautal in Zusammenarbeit mit E. Dutkiewicz M.A. (BA/MA)
Lehre WS 2013/14
Übung „Elfenbein, Knochen und Geweih – Identifizierung, wichtigste Fundstellen und eigene Experimente“ in Zusammenarbeit mit Dr. M. Barth und E. Dutkiewicz M.A. (BA/MA)
Zweitägige Exkursion auf die Schwäbische Alb in Zusammenarbeit mit E. Dutkiewicz M.A. (BA/MA)
Lehre SS 2013
Vorbereitendes Seminar „Die Grotte Chauvet und ihr archäologischer Kontext“ und Leitung einer einwöchigen Exkursion in die Ardèche-Region (F) in Zusammenarbeit mit Prof. Dr. H. Floss (MA)
Lehre SS 2011
Vorbereitende Übung und Leitung einer einwöchigen Exkursion nach Nieder-Österreich und Tschechien (BA/MA)
Leitung einer dreitägigen Exkursion nach Schöningen, Bilzingsleben und ins Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle/Saale;
beides in Zusammenarbeit mit Prof. Dr. H. Floss und G. Bigga M.A., Abtlg. Ältere Urgeschichte und Quartärökologie der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (BA/MA)
2010 – 2013
Vorlesungen, eingebunden in Lehrveranstaltungen von Prof. N. J. Conard Ph.D. und Prof. Dr. H. Floss (BA/MA)
Ausgrabungen, Praktika und weitere Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Seit 2011 Vortragende und Mitwirkende beim Tag der Steinzeit am Geißenklösterle, Blaubeuren
2012, 2016, 2018, 2022 Teilnahme Petersfelstage bei Engen
02.07.2016 Mitwirken beim Heubacher Kinderfest 2016: steinzeitliche Farb- und Schmuckherstellung
Juli/August 2011 und September 2008
Grabungshelferin der Ausgrabung in der Höhle Hohle Fels auf der Schwäbischen Alb, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Februar 2011 „Umwelt und Leben in der Eiszeit“, Steinzeitprojekt an der Grundschule im
Hölderstöckle Tuttlingen in Kooperation mit der Univ. Tübingen. 2 Tage experimentelle Archäologie
mit Schülern der 3. und 4. Klasse
Oktober 2010 Praktikum im Deutschen Elfenbeinmuseum Erbach
2005 Grabungshelferin in der Kaiserpfalz Ingelheim, Stadt Ingelheim am Rhein und Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Rheinland-Pfalz
2005 Praktikum im Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen, Abtlg. Archäologie und Paläontologie, Außenstelle Darmstadt
2004 Praktikum zur Analyse steinzeitlicher Fundkonzentrationen, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz
2004 Grabungshelferin in der Kaiserpfalz Ingelheim, Stadt Ingelheim am Rhein und Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Rheinland-Pfalz
Juli 2003 Grabungshelferin in Florstadt–Nieder-Mockstadt, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz
Semester 2002/2003 Praktikum „Feldbegehungen rund um den Glauberg, Hessen“, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
2002 Grabungshelferin im Kastellbereich von Alzey, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz
1999 Grabungspraktikantin der archäologischen Mittelaltergrabung Schloss Romrod/Vogelsbergkreis, Forschungsgesellschaft für Kultur & Denkmalpflege GmbH
Mitgliedschaften
Seit 2021: Förderverein Eiszeitkunst im Lonetal e.V.
Seit 2020: Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte
Seit 2020: Freunde des MUT
Seit 2014: Mitglied der Commission Internationale de Nomenclature sur l’Industrie de
l’Os Préhistorique (zugehörig der UISPP)
Seit 2013: Mitglied im Koordinierungsausschuss Weltkultursprung (Vertreter*innen des Alb-Donau
Kreis, des Landkreises Heidenheim, der Stadt Ulm)
Seit 2013: Archäoguide Archäopark Vogelherd
Seit 2012: Hugo Obermaier-Gesellschaft
Seit 2011: Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte und Förderverein des Urgeschichtlichen Museums
Blaubeuren e.V., seit 2020 1. Vorsitzende
Seit 2008: Museumsgesellschaft Schelklingen e.V.
Seit 2008: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte e.V.
Tagungen (n=41, davon aktive Teilnahme n=30, eingeladen und Kosten übernommen n= 16)
-06.10.2023 Organisation und Teilnahme an der Tagung Ritual in Human Evolution – International Perspectives in Tübingen, mit dem Vortrag „The Lion Man of Hohlenstein-Stadel Cave – A ritual deposition?“
-29.09.2023 87. Jahrestagung des West- und Süddeutschen Verband für Altertumsforschungen e.V. gemeinsam mit dem MOVA in Tübingen, mit dem Vortrag am 28.09. „Ungeahntes Potential – organische Werkstoffe zur Herstellung von Schmuck und Werkzeugen während des Jungpaläolithikums auf der Schwäbischen Alb“
-09.09.2023 Teilnahme an der UISPP Tagung in Timisoara, mit den Vorträgen “Chaîne opératoire of Upper Palaeolithic smoothers from the Swabian Jura and the ‘Molly’ experimental workshops” mit B. Schürch, C. Baumann, N.J. Conard, S.C. Münzel sowie “Smoothers and burnishers – osseous tools from the Upper Palaeolithic cave sites of the Swabian Jura (southwestern Germany)” mit M. Barth, Kitagawa, K., Münzel, S.C., Schürch, B., N.J. Conard (session 6-1)
-13.04.2023 Teilnahme an der 64. Hugo Obermaier-Tagung in Aarhus
25.09.2022 The European Society of the Study of Human Evolution in Tübingen, mit dem Poster “More than art and music: mammoth ivory tools of the Swabian Aurignacian” mit K. Kitagawa, R. Walter, A. Fatz und N.J. Conard sowie am 25.09. Führungen im Urgeschichtlichen Museums Blaubeuren für alle Exkursionsteilnehmerinnen
-25.06.2022 The International conference „Vallées de Préhistoire” in Trigance und Comps-sûr-Artuby. Vortrag “Personal ornaments and social relations during the Aurignacian of the Swabian Jura “mit N.J. Conard
-10.07.2022 CIVIS Summer School Interdisciplinary approaches to Gender Archaeology, mit dem Vortrag “The female statuettes of the Upper Palaeolithic – research history and interpretations” sowie practical part “Exhibitions from a Gender Perspective”, gemeinsam mit S. Kölbl
-26.04.2022 DFG Workshop of the UISPP Commission Modified Bone & Shell at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (Germany), mit dem Vortrag „The bâtons percés from southern Germany – an overview” sowie Kitagawa, K., Andrews, A., Boucherat, T., Walter, R., Fatz, A., Wolf, S. “Experimental Archaeology resorting to bâtons percés from Germany”
-21.04.2022 Teilnahme an der 63. Hugo Obermaier-Tagung 2022 in Berlin, mit dem Vortrag „Ivory chisels and wedges of the Swabian Aurignacian“ sowie Bataille, G., Kitagawa, K., Tafelmaier, Y., Wolf, S., Conard, N.J. „The Hohle Fels IV-facies in the Swabian Jura (Germany) & its implications for understanding Aurignacian cultural variability”
-04.12.2021 Symposium Biocultural Implications: An Agenda for Integrative Approaches of The DFG Center for Advanced Studies Words, Bones, Genes, Tools, mit dem Poster “Memes in the Early Upper Palaeolithic of the Swabian Jura? Personal ornaments made from mammoth ivory in the focus”
-13.11.2021 Tagung „Magisches Denken als Kulturkonzept“ Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle (Saale). Vortrag „Schamanen-Darstellungen in der Altsteinzeit“
11.2019 Wolf, S., Ebinger-Rist, N., Wehrberger, K., Kind, C.-J. International Conference – Images and Signs in the Stone Age Art, 27-29 November 2019, Institute of Archaeology RAS, Moscow “New perspectives on the Lion Man Figurine of Hohlenstein-Stadel Cave (southwestern Germany)”
11.-20.11.2019 GISFOH Conference in Jerusalem (Humboldt Gesellschaft & Israel Academy of Scienes and Humanities) „Personal ornaments as markers of group identity during the Aurignacian and Gravettian time periods in Central Europe
05.2019 Tübingen CIERA meeting / Archéologie Alsace Upper Palaeolithic „Ivory processing of the Aurignacian and Gravettian of the Swabian Jura“
Münzel, S. C., P. Krönneck, N. J. Conard, Wolf, und C. Baumann. World of Gravettian Hunters. Krakau, Polen, Mai 2019. Chaîne opératoire of Gravettian bone tools from the Swabian Jura and the ‘Molly’ experimental workshops. (Vortrag von S. C. Münzel)
Münzel, S. C., P. Krönneck, N. J. Conard, Wolf, and C. Baumann. World of Gravettian Hunters. Krakau, Polen, Mai 2019. Chaîne opératoire of Gravettian bone tools from the Swabian Jura – ‘Molly 2’: Processing of skin with Proboscidian ribs smoothers. (Poster)
Münzel, S. C., P. Krönneck, N. J. Conard, S. Wolf, and C. Baumann. World of Gravettian Hunters. Krakau, Polen, Mai 2019. Chaîne opératoire of Gravettian bone tools from the Swabian Jura – ‘Molly 1’: Processing of Proboscidian ribs as raw material. (Poster)
04.2019 SAA 84th annual meeting Society for American Archaeology, session Culturing the Body: Prehistoric Perspectives on Identity and Sociality, Ewa Dutkiewicz, Sibylle Wolf, Nicholas J. Conard “Constructing Identity in the Swabian Aurignacian“
06.-08.06.2018 XVIIIe Congrès de L’UISPP, Université 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Gravettian personal ornaments of southwestern Germany and southwestern France – a link of a shared cultural behaviour? Gemeinsame Präsentation Sibylle Wolf, Carole Vercoutère, Dorothée Drucker, Susanne Münzel, Nicholas Conard
06.-08.06.2018 XVIIIe Congrès de L’UISPP, Université 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Examining the place of the Swabian Jura within the Aurignacian world. Gemeinsame Präsentation Nicholas Conard, Guido Bataille, Ewa Dutkiewicz, Keiko Kitagawa, Christopher Miller, Sibylle Wolf, Michael Bolus.
05.-01-06.2018 Teilnahme und Leitung der session n°5 bei der Senckenberg Konferenz „Images, voices, gestures, lives – What can we learn from Palaeolthic art?“
04.-12.04.2017 International Conference „Art of the Stone Age: imagery, signs, context” at Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) (Russian Federation) Gemeinsame Präsentation Ewa Dutkiewicz, Sibylle Wolf, Nicholas J. Conard “Aurignacian portable art of the Swabian Jura: new documentation methods and perspectives on the markings”
15.10.2016 Vortragende bei der Tagung „Das Magdalénien im Südwesten Deutschlands, im Elsass und in der Schweiz“ mit dem Thema: Schmuck des Magdalénien aus Südwestdeutschland
05.-20.05.2016 Poster Präsentation “Second Conference World of Gravettian Hunters” in Krakow “Personal ornaments of the Gravettian of the Swabian Jura – the tear-drop-shaped beads revisited”, gemeinsam mit Prof. N. J. Conard Ph.D.
-08.12.2015 Teilnahme an der Tagung „Art and the Brain – How Imagery makes us Human“ im McDonald Institute an der University of Cambridge mit den Vorträgen „The secrets of the Lion Man of Hohlenstein-Stadel cave (southwestern Germany)“ und „The use of color during the Upper Paleolithic of the Swabian Jura of southwestern Germany”
04.2015 Teilnahme an der Hugo Obermaier-Tagung in Heidenheim, mit dem Vortrag „Early Aurignacian personal ornaments of southwestern Germany and southwestern France: commonalities and differences“, gemeinsam mit Claire Heckel, NYU
04.-10.04.2013 Teilnahme an der Tagung „Aurignacian Genius: Art, Technology and Society of The First Modern Humans in Europe“ an der New York University mit dem Vortrag „Personal Ornaments of the Swabian Aurignacian – Early Ivory Working in Central Europe” & Öffentlicher Vortrag, gemeinsam mit Prof. Dr. H. Floss „Sculptural Art and Musical Instruments from The Swabian Jura (Germany)“
04.-04.04. 2013 Teilnahme an der Hugo Obermaier-Tagung in Wien, mit dem Vortrag „Die Elfenbein-Industrie und der Schmuck des Schwäbischen Aurignacien“
02.-01.03.2013 Teilnahme und Vortrag an der UNESCO HEADS-Tagung, Tübingen “Adornment of the Swabian Aurignacian”
-23.02.2013 Teilnahme an der Tagung “European Palaeolithic” im British Museum, London mit dem Vortrag “Personal ornaments of the Swabian Aurignacian”
-31.05.2012 Teilnahme an der UISPP-Tagung in Lüttich „Modes de contacts et de deplacements au Paléolithique supérieur“ und Co-Autorin bei dem Vortrag von Prof. N. J. Conard „Testing models for cultural change using organic artifacts from the Swabian Aurignacian“
-14.04.2012 Teilnahme an der Hugo Obermaier-Tagung in Toulouse
-27.10.2011 Teilnahme an der Tagung „Quo vadis? Long-term research projects in European Archaeology“ in Schleswig, Schloss Gottorf
06.-18.06.2011 Teilnahme am ROCEEH Symposium „The Nature of Culture“, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
05.-21.05.2011 Teilnahme am Symposium „Homo portans“ im Deutschen Hygiene Museum Dresden; Vortrag: „Die Anfänge unserer Kultur – Schmuck und Kleidung tragen: Befunde und Funde aus der jüngeren Altsteinzeit“
-30.04.2011 Poster Präsentation auf der Hugo Obermaier Tagung 2011 in Herne (Westfalen) zum Thema „Elfenbeinbearbeitung und Schmuckproduktion im Aurignacien der Schwäbischen Alb“
09.2010 Teilnahme und Vortrag bei der Tagung „Deutscher Historikertag“ in Berlin „Tragbare Frauenfiguren aus ganz Europa – Anhänger aus der Altsteinzeit“ in der Session Homo portans
-18.04.2010 Vortrag bei der Society for American Archaeology (SAA), St. Louis, USA: “Ivory Working in the Swabian Aurignacian”
04.2009 Poster Präsentation während der Hugo Obermaier-Tagung, “Die Große Landesausstellung Baden-Württemberg, 2009 “Eiszeit – Kunst und Kultur”
-18.04.2009 Teilnahme und Poster Präsentation auf der Hugo Obermaier-Tagung in Ljubljana, Slowenien zur Großen Landesausstellung Baden-Württemberg 2009 „Eiszeit – Kunst und Kultur“
-29.03.2008 Teilnahme und Vortrag auf der Hugo Obermaier-Tagung mit dem Titel „Eine neue Venusstatuette vom jungpaläolithischen Fundplatz Dolni Vestonice/Mähren – Fälschung oder Original?“
58 Vorträge (eingeladen), Dozentin, Teilnahme an Podiumsdiskussionen
12.2023 Institut Historische Geisteswissenschaften Goethe Universität Frankfurt „Formschön – Mammutelfenbein als Werkstoff für eiszeitlichen Schmuck“
10.2023 Archäo-Akademie Blaubeuren „Pracht und Prestige – Schmuck und Mode der Altsteinzeit“
08.2023 Internationale Sommerkurse der Universität Tübingen “Das UNESCO-Welterbe vor der Haustür – Eiszeitkunst aus Schwäbischen Höhlen“
08.2023 Sommerbühne Blaubeuren, STRATA – Eine performative Filmvorführung und Künstlergespräch mit VESTANDPAGE. Moderation
06.2023 Kinderuni am Heidengraben, Grabenstetten „Höhlen und Eiszeitkunst auf der Schwäbischen Alb“
04.2023 Stadtmuseum am Markt Wiesbaden „Der Mensch als Schöpfer – Mobile Kunst und Höhlenmalerei zwischen 42.000 und 11.000 Jahren vor heute“
02.2023 Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte und Förderverein des Urgeschichtlichen Museums Blaubeuren e.V. & Urgeschichtliches Museum Blaubeuren. Grundkurs Archäologie: „Eiszeitschmuck“.
01.2023 Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte „Frauen der jüngeren Altsteinzeit – Darstellungen in der Eiszeitkunst und Interpretationen“
12.2022 Museum Ulm im Rahmen der Wanderausstellung „Urformen – Figürliche Eiszeitkunst Europas“ Edle Elfenbeinkunst – Mammutelfenbeinbearbeitung in der Eiszeit und heute
11.2022 Museum Herxheim – Steinzeit und Kulturgeschichte „Faszination Urgeschichte – Die Ursprünge unserer Kultur“
10.2022 20jähriges Jubiläum des Qualitätszirkels Schwaben West des Berufsverbandes Deutscher Kieferorthopäden Bayern „Das UNESCO-Welterbe vor der Haustür – Eiszeitkunst aus Schwäbischen Höhlen“
08.2022 Internationale Sommerkurse der Universität Tübingen „Das UNESCO-Welterbe vor der Haustür – Eiszeitkunst aus Schwäbischen Höhlen“
06.2022 Museum Alte Kulturen Schloß Hohentübingen „Die abenteuerliche Reise der Vogelherd-Figuren – von ihrer Auffindung bis heute“
05.2022 Mitgliederversammlung des Förderverein Eiszeitkunst im Lonetal e.V. „Schmuckstücke des Schwäbischen Aurignaciens – eine umfassende Zusammenschau“
04.2022 Archäo-Akademie der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte Blaubeuren und des Urgeschichtlichen Museums Blaubeuren „Vogeldarstellungen in der Steinzeitkunst – Hilfsgeister oder alltägliche Begleiter?“
01.2022 Hohle Fels „chisels“ of the Swabian Aurignacian – new insights with experimental archaeology. Kolloquium Abtlg. Ältere Urgeschichte und Quartärökologie, Univ. Tübingen.
12.2021 Was kommt von draußen rein – und wie? Objekte aus der Entwicklungsgeschichte des Menschen im Museum. Senckenberg Vortragsreihe „Museum for Tomorrow: Die Praxis der Museen“. Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde
10.2021 Rotary Club Mittelhessen „Schamanen-Darstellungen in der Altsteinzeit“
06.2021 Museum Universität Tübingen, „Das Gold der Eiszeit – Mammutelfenbein als Rohstoff“
02.2020 Kunstmuseum Albstadt, Neujahrsempfang „UNESCO Welterbe „Höhlen und Eiszeitkunst der Schwäbischen Alb“ – Anfänge von Kunst und Kultur
02.2020 Lions Club Stuttgart Villa Berg “Meisterwerke aus den Höhlen der Schwäbischen Alb – die ältesten figürlichen Kunstwerke & Musikinstrumente weltweit“
09.2019 Vortrag Lions Club Ehingen/Alb-Donau „Meisterwerke aus den Höhlen der Schwäbischen Alb – die ältesten Kunstwerke & Musikinstrumente weltweit“
09.2019 Vortrag im Rahmen der Sonderausstellung „Der Vogelherd. Unser Mammut – seit der Eiszeit groß“ in Langenau „Das Gold der Eiszeit – Mammutelfenbein als Rohstoff“
08.2019 Vortrag im Rahmen der 35. Internationalen Sommerkurse der Univ. Tübingen „Mammut, Venus, Höhlenlöwe – Einblicke in die Erforschung der ältesten Kunstwerke der Welt“
07.2019 Blaubeuren Vortrag im Rahmen der Achtal UNESCO Lectures Series „Female depictions of the Palaeolithic“
06.2019 Führung des Biologie Leistungskurses des Joachim Hahn Gymnasiums Blaubeuren im Museum Alte Kulturen Schloß Hohentübingen und in der Abteilung Ältere Urgeschichte und Quartärökologie
05.2019 Kinderuni am Heidengraben „„Höhlen und Eiszeitkunst der Schwäbischen Alb – das Weltkulturerbe vor unserer Haustür“
04.2019 Eröffnung der Sonderausstellung Formensprache im Urgeschichtlichen Museum Blaubeuren „Faszination Frau – Weibliche Darstellungen der Altsteinzeit“
04.2019 Jahreshauptversammlung der Museumsgesellschaft Schelklingen Verein für Heimatgeschichte e.V. „Der Hohle Fels und das Aachtal im Herzen des gravettienzeitlichen Europas“
02.2019 Vortrag in der Orangerie Erbach „Faszination Frau – Weibliche Darstellungen der Altsteinzeit“
11.2018 Karl-von-Frisch-Vortrag 2018, Gymnasium Dußlingen, Vortrag „Vorherrschaft der Frau? Weibliche Darstellungen der Altsteinzeit“
11.2018 Kinder-Universität Weil der Stadt, Vortrag „Höhlen und Eiszeitkunst der Schwäbischen Alb – das Weltkulturerbe vor unserer Haustür“
10.2018 Führung der Teilnehmer der Archäo-Akademie „Das verschwundene Leben“ (Urgeschichtliches Museum Blaubeuren) im Achtal sowie Vortrag „Wertvorstellungen im Aurignacien. Schmuckstücke der Schwäbischen Alb im Vergleich“.
06.2018 Geschichte und Mythos der Löwenmensch-Figur. Über die Faszination eines 40.000 Jahre alten Kunstwerks. Symposium Kunsthalle Luzern, gemeinsam mit Wolfgang Held.
09.2017 Vortrag im Museum Alte Kulturen Schloß Hohentübingen „Und ewig lockt das Weib – Frauendarstellungen der Altsteinzeit“
08.2017 Vortrag beim Rotary Club Alsfeld „UNESCO Weltkulturerbe „Höhlen der ältesten Eiszeitkunst“: der Weg dorthin“
08.2017 Vortrag der Sommer-Universität der Stadt Tübingen „Vorherrschaft der Frau? Weibliche Darstellungen der Altsteinzeit“
08.2017 Dozentin bei dem “Internationalen Sommerkurs” der Universität Tübingen mit dem Vortrag „Mammut, Venus, Höhlenlöwe – Einblicke in die Erforschung der ältesten Kunstwerke der Welt“
06.2017 Vortrag im Museum Würth/Künzelsau „Faszination Eiszeitkunst – die ältesten Belege für Kunst und Musik weltweit“
29.04.2017 Dozentin BANU Zertifizierungskurs (Akademie für Natur- und Umweltschutz des Ministeriums für Umwelt, Klima und Energiewirtschaft Baden-Württemberg) im Urmu „Höhepunkte der Eiszeitarchäologie in Baden-Württemberg“ und Exkursion zu Höhlenfundstellen im Achtal
03.2017 Vortrag im Obst- und Gartenbauverein Ruppertenrod „Pflanzennutzung während der letzten Eiszeit – ein reich gedeckter Tisch vor 40.000 Jahren“
02.2017 Vortrag im Archäologischen Museum Hamburg/Stadtmuseum Harburg, Helms Museum „Und ewig lockt das Weib – Frauendarstellungen der Altsteinzeit“
08.2016 Dozentin bei dem “Internationaler Sommerkurs” der Universität Tübingen mit dem Vortrag: Mode und Schmuck in der Altsteinzeit – was Bestattungen und Venusfigurinen über das Aussehen unserer Vorfahren verraten
08.2015 Vortrag im Rahmen der 31. Internationalen Sommerkurse der Univ. Tübingen „Mammut, Venus, Höhlenlöwe – Einblicke in die Erforschung der ältesten Kunstwerke der Welt“
07.2015 Alumni-Vortrag an der Univ. Tübingen „Höhlenmensch adé – wie die frühesten Kunstwerke von der Schwäbischen Alb unser Bild über die Eiszeit revolutionieren“
07.2014 Alumni-Vortrag an der Univ. Tübingen „Mammut, Venus, Höhlenlöwe – Einblicke in die Erforschung der ältesten Kunstwerke der Welt“
04.2014 TÜFFF-Vortrag an der Univ. Tübingen „Eiszeit-Archäologie hautnah“
10.2013 Vortrag beim Rotary Club Alsfeld „Die ersten modernen Menschen in Europa – Physiognomie, Schmuck und Selbstdarstellungen“
10.2013 Vortrag im Rahmen des Festkolloquiums der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte „Einmaliges Achtal – Früheste Elfenbeinbearbeitung und -schmuck vor 40,000 Jahren“
02.05. 2013 Dozentin an der Stuttgarter Volkshochschule im Kurs „Antike Kulturen“, Titel „Die Jüngere Altsteinzeit – Kunstwerke des modernen Menschen“
02.05. 2013 Dozentin an der Stuttgarter Volkshochschule im Kurs „Antike Kulturen“, Titel „Die Jüngere Altsteinzeit – Kunstwerke des modernen Menschen“
04. 2013 Vortrag „Faszination Elfenbein – Eine Reise zu den Ursprüngen der Schnitzerei im Achtal“ im Rahmen der Jahreshauptversammlung des Museumsvereins Schelklingen
06. 2012 Vortrag an der Université Bordeaux 1 ”Ivory working and personal ornaments during the Aurignacian of the Swabian Jura”
03.2012 Vortrag beim Heimatverein Nagold e.V. „Venus, Mammut, Höhlenlöwe – die ältesten figürlichen Kunstwerke der Menschheit“
01.2012 Vortrag beim Rotary Club Alsfeld “Die frühesten Kunstwerke der Menschheit – oder: alles begann auf der Schwäbischen Alb“
01.2012 Vortrag im Helms Museum Hamburg Harburg im Rahmen der Eiszeitausstellung „Der Beginn unserer Kultur – die ersten Kunstwerke der Menschheit“
10.2011 Vortrag bei den Soroptimisten in Marburg „Die Venus von der Alb – das älteste figürliche Kunstwerk der Menschheit“
05.2011 Vortrag in Blaubeuren-Asch „Die Anfänge unserer Kultur – oder: alles begann auf der Schwäbischen Alb“
05.2011 Vortrag im Deutschen Elfenbeinmuseum Erbach „Kleidung und Elfenbeinschmuck in der Altsteinzeit – wie sahen die Menschen aus?“
04.2011 Vortrag „Die Wiederentdeckung einer Venus“ im Rahmen der Jahreshauptversammlung des Museumsvereins Schelklingen
10.2010 Podiumsdiskussion im Urgeschichtlichen Museum Blaubeuren zum Thema Venusstatuetten
10.2010 Vortrag in Offenburg „Das Aussehen der Menschen in der jüngeren Altsteinzeit“
09.2010 Vortrag „Der Alltag einer Archäologin des Eiszeitalters“ für die Gewinner des Schülerwettbewerbs, organisiert vom Landtag Baden-Württemberg; Seminar über die Altsteinzeit für behinderte und nicht behinderte Jugendliche
10.2009 Vortrag im Rahmenprogramm der Großen Landesausstellung Baden-Württemberg „Eiszeit – Kunst und Kultur“: Kinder-Universität „Frauenfiguren, Tierfiguren, Mischwesen“
10.2009 Vortrag im Urgeschichtlichen Museum Blaubeuren: „Wie sahen die Menschen in der Altsteinzeit aus?“
Sonstiges
Sprachkenntnisse Englisch fließend in Wort und Schrift
Französisch fließend in Wort und Schrift
Latinum an der Universität Mainz WS 2002/2003
Zusatzqualifikationen PC-Anwenderkenntnisse: MS Windows und Office
Führerschein der Klasse 3
Mitwirken als Expertin für Urgeschichtliche Archäologie (Auswahl):
Juli 2022: Präsentation des Funds des Jahres (Meißel aus Mammutelfenbein aus dem Hohle Fels) im Urgeschichtlichen Museum Blaubeuren, gemeinsam mit Prof. Nicholas J. Conard Ph.D. mit anschließenden Radiointerviews und Reutlingen TV.
Juli 2017: Präsentation des Funds des Jahres (Perlen aus Mammutelfenbein aus dem Hohle Fels) im Urgeschichtlichen Museum Blaubeuren, gemeinsam mit Prof. Nicholas J. Conard Ph.D.
SWR2, 29.06.2017, Forum. „Der frühe Homo sapiens. Wie viele Wiegen hat die Menschheit?“
Reise mit Journalisten am 20.05.2017. Beitrag in SWR2, 03.07.2017. „Eiszeit-Kunst auf dem Prüfstand.“
ZDF/Terra X: Mammuts – Stars der Eiszeit (Erstausstrahlung 29.12.2016)
SWR: Archäologie erleben – Mission Eiszeit (Erstausstrahlung am 25.03.2018)
ARTE/ORF: Rätselhafte Venus (Erstausstrahlung am 28.05.2022 in Deutschland)
Zadig Productions & Escalenta & France Télévisions: Sapiens or the birth of art (Erstausstrahlung am 04.01.2023)
ZDF/TERRA X: Europa in der letzten Eiszeit, mit Mirko Drotschmann (Erstausstrahlung am 30.04.2023)
Podcast der Künstlerin Nadine Kulis Undomestiziert, aufgenommen 09.01.2024 „Die Venus vom Hohle Fels – Interview mit Frau Dr. Sibylle Wolf“: https://undomestiziert.podigee.io/#latest-episode-player (besucht am 17.01.2024) und auf YouTube
(ARTE: Das Ende der Eiszeit Giganten, Erstausstrahlung am 05.10.2021)
Bücher
Wolf, S., David, É, Andrews, A., Schwab, C. (Hrsg.) in Vorb. Bâtons percés” & other perforated antler of the Stone Age. Tübingen: Tübingen University Press.
Wolf, S., 2015. Schmuckstücke – die Elfenbeinbearbeitung im Schwäbischen Aurignacien. Tübingen: Kerns Verlag.
Wolf, S., Conard, N.J. 2022. Urformen – Figürliche Eiszeitkunst Europas. Primal Forms – Figurative Ice Age Art of Europe. Formes Primaires – L’Art Figuratif Paléolithique. Первообразы. Европейское фигуративное искусстволе дникового периода. Begleitheft der gleichnamigen Wanderausstellung. Ulm: Weltkultursprung.
https://www.weltkultursprung.de/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2022/11/EISZEITKUNST_Europas_Begleitheft_2022_Final.pdf
2. Auflage: Conard, N. J., Wolf, S. 2020. Der Hohle Fels in Schelklingen. Anfänge von Kunst und Musik. Tübingen: Kerns Verlag.
Conard, N. J., Wolf, S., 2015. Der Hohle Fels bei Schelklingen. Ursprungsort für Kunst und Musik. Schelklingen: Museumsgesellschaft Schelklingen Verein für Heimatgeschichte e.V.
Conard, N. J., Bolus, M., Dutkiewicz, E., Wolf, S., 2015. Eiszeitarchäologie auf der Schwäbischen Alb. Die Fundstellen im Ach- und Lonetal und in ihrer Umgebung. Tübingen: Kerns Verlag.
Fachzeitschriften
Kitagawa, K., Wolf, S., Conard, N.J., in Vorb. Aurignacian Ivory Points from the Swabian Jura: unique technological adaptation and diversification.
Wolf, S., Weiss, R.-M., Schmidt, P., Venditti, F., submitted. On the authenticity of two presumed Paleolithic female figurines from the art market.
Wolf, S., Kitagawa, K., Walter, R., Fatz, A., Conard, N.J., in review. The Age of Ivory. Innovative osseous technologies of the early Upper Paleolithic.
Venditti, F., McCartin, M.J., Ostermann, M.-L., Conard, N.J., Wolf, S., 2023. Foxes in retrospect. Unraveling human-fox relationships through fox tooth ornaments in the Swabian Jura. Quaternary 6(3), 50; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat6030050
Heckel, C., Wolf, S., 2023. The circulation of ornaments in Aurignacian contexts. In: É. David, H. Hnrčiarik (Hrsg.), Contacts, Circulation, Exchange. Proceedings of the Modified Bone & Shell UISPP Commission Conference (2-3 March 2017, University of Trnava). Archaeopress Publishing Lpt, 13-32.
Conard, N.J., Schürch, B., Haack, F., Wolf, S., 2023. On the Status of the Boar Tooth Artifact from the Backdirt of Vogelherd. Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte 31 (2022), 87-105.
Schürch, B., Venditti, F., Wolf, S., Conard, N.J. 2023. Glycymeris molluscs in the context of the Upper Palaeolithic of Southwestern Germany. Quartär 68 (2021), 131-156.
Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, M., Drucker, D.G., Wolf, S. 2023. CIVIS Sommerschule »Interdisciplinary approaches to Gender Archaeology« an der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. Blickpunkt Archäologie 3/2022, 228-231.
Kitagawa, K., Wolf, S., Conard, N.J., in Vorb. Aurignacian Ivory Points from the Swabian Jura: unique technological adaptation and diversification.
Schürch, B., Venditti, F., Wolf, S., Conard, N.J., im Druck. Glycymeris molluscs in the context of the Upper Palaeolithic of Southwestern Germany. Quartär 68, 1-26 .
Heckel, C., Wolf, S., im Druck. The circulation of ornaments in Aurignacian contexts: Aquitaine and the Swabian Jura. Proceedings of the Trnava Workshop 2017.
Díaz-Zorita Bonil, M., Drucker, D.G., Wolf, S. 2023. CIVIS Sommerschule »Interdisciplinary approaches to Gender Archaeology« an der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. Blickpunkt Archäologie 3/2022, 228-231.
Wolf, S., Conard, N.J., 2023. Mammutelfenbein aus schwäbischen Höhlen. Archäologie in Deutschland 2023 (1), 8-13.
Wolf, S., Conard, N.J., 2022. Welterbe „Höhlen und Eiszeitkunst der Schwäbischen Alb“: das erste deutsche urgeschichtliche Bodendenkmal der UNESCO. Jahrbuch nassauischer Verein für Naturkunde 143, 7-25.
Wolf, S., Bader, G.D., Will, M., 2022. Neue Ausgrabungen an der Barnberghöhle bei Neuffen. Archäologische Ausgrabungen in Baden-Württemberg 2021, 92-94.
Tafelmaier, Y., Wolf, S., 2022. Nachruf für Reiner Blumentritt, 30.9.1943-8.12.2029. Fundberichte aus Baden-Württemberg 40, 2020, 309-311.
Wolf, S., 2022. Faszination Frau seit der Eiszeit. Weibliche Darstellungen des Paläolithikums. Bayrische Archäologie 1, 14-22.
Wolf, S., Schürch, B., Frick, J.A., Seifert, M., 2022. Der abenteuerliche Weg der Vogelherd-Figurinen. Von ihrer Auffindung bis heute. Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte 30 (2021), 115-143.
Schürch, B., Wolf, S., Schmidt, P., Conard, N. J., 2021. Mollusken der Gattung Glycymeris aus der Vogelherd-Höhle bei Niederstotzingen (Lonetal, Südwestdeutschland). Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte 29 (2020), 53-79.
Velliky, E. C., Schmidt, P., Bellot-Gurlet, L., Wolf, S., Conard, N. J., 2021. Early anthropogenic use of hematite on Aurignacian ivory personal ornaments from Hohle Fels and Vogelherd caves, Germany. Journal of Human Evolution 151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2020.102900
Wolf, S., 2019. Bemalte Steine aus dem Magdalénien der Hohle Fels Höhle bei Schelklingen. Laichinger Höhlenfreund 53, 51-62.
Wolf, S., Dapschauskas, R., Velliky, E., Floss, H., Kandel, A. W., Conard, N. J., 2018. The use of ochre and painting during the Upper Paleolithic of the Swabian Jura in the context of the development of ochre use in Africa and Europe. Open Archaeology 2018, 4, 185-205.
Wolf, S., Vercoutère, C., 2018. L’exploitation de l’ivoire de Mammouth au Paléolithique. The use of mammoth ivory during Palaeolithic times. Die Nutzung von Mammutelfenbein während des Paläolithikums. L’Anthropologie 122, 3, 579-587.
Paillet, P., Wolf, S., 2018. Le mammouth dans l’art paléolithique. Mammoth in the Palaeolithic art. L’Anthropologie 122, 3, 522-545.
Khlopachev, G., Vercoutère, C., Wolf, S., 2018. Les statuettes féminines en ivoire des faciès gravettiens et post-gravettiens en Europe centrale et orientale : modes de fabrication et de représentation. The ivory female statuettes from the Gravettian and post-Gravettian facies in Central and Eastern Europe: Ways of manufacturing and of representation. L’Anthropologie 122, 3, 492-521.
Dutkiewicz, E., Wolf, S., Floss, H., Conard, N. J., 2018. Les objets en ivoire du Jura Souabe. The ivory objects of the Swabian Jura. L’Anthropologie 122, 3, 447-468.
Ebinger-Rist, N., Wolf, S., Wehrberger, K., Kind, C.-J., 2018. L`homme-lion d’ Hohlenstein-Stadel. The lion-man of Hohlenstein-Stadel. L’Anthropologie 122, 3, 415-436.
Vercoutère, C., Wolf, S., 2018. Gravettian tear-drop-shaped beads Perles gravettiennes en forme de larme. L’Anthropologie 122, 3, 385-401.
Wolf, S., Heckel, C., 2018. Ivory Ornaments of the Aurignacian in Western Europe: Case studies from France and Germany Éléments de parure en ivoire de l’Aurignacien d’Europe occidentale : études de cas en France et en Allemagne. L’Anthropologie 122, 3, 348-373.
Vercoutère, C., Wolf, S., 2018. Objets d’ivoire – Archives de vie Ivory objects – Archives of life Objekte aus Elfenbein – Archive des Lebens. L’Anthropologie 122, 3, 287-291.
Dutkiewicz, E., Wolf, S., Conard, N. J., 2018. Early symbolism in the Ach and Lone Valleys of southwestern Germany. Volume “Role of Art in Prehistory UISPP 2014”, Quaternary International 491, 30-45.
Ebinger-Rist, N., Wolf, S., Wehrberger, K., Beutelspacher, T., Kind, C.-J., 2016. The restoration 2012/13 of the Lion Man of Hohlenstein Stadel Cave. In: J.-J. Cleyet-Merle, J.-M. Geneste, E. Man-Estier (Hrsg.), L’art au quotidien – Objets ornés du Paléolithique supérieur. Actes du colloque international. Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, 16-20 juin 2014. PALEO, numéro spécial, 2016, 535-546.
Münzel, S. C., Wolf, S., Drucker, D., Conard, N. J., 2016. The Exploitation of Mammoth in the Swabian Jura (SW-Germany) during the Aurignacian and Gravettian Period. Quaternary International 445, 184-199.
Heckel, C., Müller, K., White, R., Wolf, S., Conard, N. J., Normand, C., Floss, H., Reiche, I., 2016. F-content variation in mammoth ivory from Aurignacian contexts: Preservation, alteration, and implications for ivory-procurement strategies. Quaternary International 403, 40-50.
Wolf, S., Conard, N. J., 2015. La parure aurignacienne du Jura souabe/Personal Ornaments of the Swabian Aurignacian. In White R., Bourrillon R. (dir.) avec la collaboration de Bon F., Aurignacian Genius: art, technologie et société des premiers hommes modernes en Europe, Actes du symposium international, 8-10 avril 2013, New York University, P@lethnologie, 7, 330-344.
Wolf, S., 2015. Personal ornaments as signatures of identity in the Aurignacian – the case of the Swabian Jura and Western Germany. World Heritage Papers 41. Paris: UNESCO World Heritage Center, 92-102.
Kind, C.-J., Ebinger-Rist, N., Wolf, S., Beutelspacher, T., Wehrberger, K., 2014. The Smile of the Lion Man. Recent Excavations in Stadel Cave (Baden-Württemberg, south-western Germany) and the Restoration of the Famous Upper Palaeolithic Figurine.
Das Lächeln des Löwenmenschen. Neue Ausgrabungen in der Stadel-Höhle (Baden-Württemberg, Südwestdeutschland) und die Restaurierung der berühmten jungpaläolithischen Figur. Quartär 61, 129-145.
Heckel, C., Wolf, S., 2014. Ivory debitage by fracture in the Aurignacian: experimental and archaeological examples. Journal of Archaeological Science 42, 1-14.
Wolf, S., Ebinger-Rist, N., Kind, C.-J., 2013. „Die Rückkehr des Löwenmenschen. Geschichte – Mythos – Magie“. Sonderausstellung im Ulmer Museum vom 15.11.2013 bis zum 09.06.2014: Die Präsentation der Figur. Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte 22, 115-120.
Wolf, S., Kind, C.-J., Conard, N. J., 2013. Schmuck aus dem Aurignacien von der Schwäbischen Alb im Vergleich mit Inventaren aus dem Lahntal und dem Rheinland. Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt 43, Heft 3, 295-313.
Wolf, S., 2010. Ursprung der Kunst oder Perfektion auf der Schwäbischen Alb. Impuls 2010, Jahrespublikation der Fachschule für Druck- und Medientechnik Stuttgart, 14-17.
Wolf, S., 2009. Eine Reise durch 30 000 Jahre Eiszeitkunst. Archäologie in Deutschland, Heft 6, 62-65.
Wolf, S., 2008. Eine neue Venusstatuette vom Mittel-Jungpaläolithischen Fundplatz Dolní Vĕstonice (Mähren)? Acta Mus. Moraviae Sci. soc. XCIII: 69-97.
Buchbeiträge
Wolf, S. in review: Schamanendarstellungen in der Jüngeren Altsteinzeit Europas? In: H. Meller (Hrsg.), Magisches Denken als Kulturkonzept. Begleitband zur gleichnamigen Tagung am 12./13. November 2021. Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle (Saale).
Wolf, S., im Druck: Memes in the Early Upper Palaeolithic of the Swabian Jura? Personal ornaments made from mammoth ivory in the focus. In: Kitagawa, K., Tumolo, V., Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, M. (Hrsg.), Proceedings of the conference “Beyond subsistence” of the Sonderforschungsbereich 1070 RessourcenKulturen, Tübingen 2019. Tübingen University Press.
Wolf, S., Floss, H., Conard, N. J., im Druck. Centers of creativity within the Aurignacian: case studies from Swabia, Belgium and Eastern France. Proceedings of the Hugo Obermaier Tagung Heidenheim 2015. Tübingen: Kerns Verlag.
Conard, N. J., Meister, C., Sanz, N., Wolf, S., im Druck: The Path to UNESCO World Heritage – Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura. In: M. N. Haidle, M. Porr, S. Wolf, N. J. Conard (Hrsg.), Images, voices, gestures, lives – What can we learn from Palaeolithic art? Senckenberg/ROCEEH/Univ. Tübingen conference Tübingen May/June 2018. Heidelberger Academy of Sciences.
Floss, H., Wolf, S., 2021. Elfenbein – der Werkstoff, der den Menschen zum Menschen macht. Ivory—The Material that Makes Humans Human. In: Saviello, A., Müller-Wolff, S. (eds.), Terrible Beauty. Elephant – Human – Ivory. Catalogue of the homonymous exhibition at the Humboldt Forum Berlin June 12-November 28, 2021. Berlin: Hirmer Verlag, 30-35.
Wolf, S., Ebinger, N., Wehrberger, K., Kind, C.-J., 2020. What the recent restoration of the Lion Man figurine of Hohlenstein-Stadel Cave tells us about its treatment in the Early Upper Palaeolithic. Proceedings of the conference “Images and Signs in the Stone Age Art”, 27-29 November 2019, Institute of Archaeology RAS, Moscow. Camera praehistorica 2 (5). DOI: 10.31250/2658-3828-2020-2-58-66
Wolf, S., 2019. Der magdalénienzeitliche Schmuck aus südwestdeutschen Fundstellen. In: H. Floss (Hrsg.), Das Magdalénien im Südwesten Deutschlands, im Elsass und in der Schweiz, pp. 249-265. Tübingen: Kerns Verlag.
Wolf, S., 2019. Schmuck aus den neuen Ausgrabungen. In: Kind, C.-J. (Hrsg.), Löwenmensch und mehr. Die Ausgrabungen 2008–2013 in den altsteinzeitlichen Schichten der Stadel-Höhle im Hohlenstein (Lonetal), Gemeinde Asselfingen, Alb-Donau-Kreis mit Beiträgen von Alvise Barbieri, Thomas Beutelspacher, Àngel Blanco-Lapaz, Nicole Ebinger-Rist, Sireen El Zaatari, Christophe Falguères, Katerina Harvati, Tina K. Hornauer-Jahnke, Claus-Joachim Kind, Keiko Kitagawa, Petra Krönneck (†), Christopher Miller, Edwige Pons-Branchu, Maïlys Richard, Daniel Richter, Sibylle Wolf, Kurt Wehrberger, Reinhard Ziegler. Forschungen und Berichte zur Archäologie in Baden-Württemberg 15. Esslingen: Landesamt für Denkmalpflege im Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart, 125-128.
Kind, C.-J., Ebinger-Rist, N., Wolf, S., Wehrberger, K., 2019. Neue Ergebnisse zum Löwenmenschen. In: Kind, C.-J. (Hrsg.), Löwenmensch und mehr. Die Ausgrabungen 2008–2013 in den altsteinzeitlichen Schichten der Stadel-Höhle im Hohlenstein (Lonetal), Gemeinde Asselfingen, Alb-Donau-Kreis mit Beiträgen von Alvise Barbieri, Thomas Beutelspacher, Àngel Blanco-Lapaz, Nicole Ebinger-Rist, Sireen El Zaatari, Christophe Falguères, Katerina Harvati, Tina K. Hornauer-Jahnke, Claus-Joachim Kind, Keiko Kitagawa, Petra Krönneck (†), Christopher Miller, Edwige Pons-Branchu, Maïlys Richard, Daniel Richter, Sibylle Wolf, Kurt Wehrberger, Reinhard Ziegler. Forschungen und Berichte zur Archäologie in Baden-Württemberg 15. Esslingen: Landesamt für Denkmalpflege im Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart, 128-134.
Wolf, S., 2019. Die Deponierung der aurignacienzeitlichen Löwenmensch-Figur aus dem Hohlenstein-Stadel, Südwest-Deutschland – eine rituelle Handlung? In: M. Baales, C. Pasda (Hrsg.), „All der holden Hügel ist keiner mir fremd..“ Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Claus-Joachim Kind. Universitätsforschungen zur Prähistorischen Archäologie. Aus dem Seminar für Ur- und Frühgeschichte der Universität Jena. Bonn: Verlag Dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH, 197-209.
Vercoutère, C., Wolf, S., 2018. Le travail de l’ivoire de mammouth au Paléolithique supérieur. In: P. Cattelain, M. Gillard, A. Smolderen (Hrsg.), Disparus? Les mammifères au temps de Cro-Magnon en Europe. Guides archéologiques du Malgré-Tout. Treignes: Éditions du Cedarc, 55-66.
Wolf, S., 2016. Faszination Frau – Weibliche Darstellungen der Altsteinzeit. In: R.-M. Weiss, M. Merkel, Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg (Hrsg.), EisZeiten. Die Kunst der Mammutjäger. Die Menschen des Nordlichts. Hamburg: Druckhaus Köthen, 149-157.
Darin folgende Katalogbeiträge:
Das älteste Mischwesen weltweit, 160.
Die Frauen von Mainz-Linsenberg, 172.
Ein zwittriges Wesen, 174.
Frauenfigur mit Zierband, 176.
Geschmückte Frau, 178.
Unbekannte Schöne, 180.
Frauenfigur aus Elfenbein, 182.
Frau mit Band, 184.
Pralle Weiblichkeit, 186.
Mit erhobenen Händen, 188.
Frauenfigur aus Gagarino, 190.
Frauen in Serie, 192.
Fliegender Schwan, 194.
Stilisierte Schönheit, 196.
Kopflose Damen, 200.
Wolf, S., Münzel, S. C., Dotzel, K., Barth, M., Conard N. J., 2016: Osseous Projectiles from the Aurignacian and the Gravettian of the Swabian Jura (Southwest Germany) reflect changing patterns of raw material, technology and typology. In: M. Langley (Hrsg.), Osseous Projectile Weaponry: Towards an Understanding of Pleistocene Cultural Variability. VERT Series. Springer Verlag, 71-87.
Wolf, S., 2013. Mensch und Mammut – Elfenbein als Rohstoff. In: K. Wehrberger (Hrsg.), Die Rückkehr des Löwenmenschen. Geschichte, Mythos, Magie. Begleitpublikation zur Ausstellung im Ulmer Museum 15.11.2013 – 09.06.2014. Ostfildern: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 110-114.
Wolf, S., 2013. Nicht nur schön – Schmuck vom Beginn der Jüngeren Altsteinzeit. In: K. Wehrberger (Hrsg.), Die Rückkehr des Löwenmenschen. Geschichte, Mythos, Magie. Begleitpublikation zur Ausstellung im Ulmer Museum 15.11.2013 – 09.06.2014. Ostfildern: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 90-95.
Ebinger-Rist, N., Kind, C.-J., Wehrberger, K., Wolf, S., 2013. Von Kopf bis Fuss. Der Löwenmensch, näher betrachtet. In: K. Wehrberger (Hrsg.), Die Rückkehr des Löwenmenschen. Geschichte, Mythos, Magie. Begleitpublikation zur Ausstellung im Ulmer Museum 15.11.2013 – 09.06.2014. Ostfildern: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 64-73.
Ebinger-Rist, N., Wolf, S., 2013. Ein Gigantisches Puzzle – die Restaurierung der Statuette 2012/13. In: K. Wehrberger (Hrsg.), Die Rückkehr des Löwenmenschen. Geschichte, Mythos, Magie. Begleitpublikation zur Ausstellung im Ulmer Museum 15.11.2013 – 09.06.2014. Ostfildern: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 52-61.
Floss, H., Wolf, S., 2012. Eiszeitfiguren. Sammlung der Älteren Urgeschichte. In: E. Seidl, B. Engler (Hrsg.), Schätze aus dem Schloss Hohentübingen. Tübingen: MUT, Band 1, 33-53.
Wolf, S., 2011. Eine neue Venusstatuette vom jungpaläolithischen Fundplatz Dolní Vĕstonice (Mähren). In: Jahrbuch des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums 55, 1-42.
Wolf, S., 2010. Vorherrschaft der Frau – Eiszeitliche Venusstatuetten aus ganz Europa. In: N. J. Conard, S. Kölbl (Hrsg.), Die Venus vom Hohle Fels. Blaubeuren: Urgeschichtliches Museum, 39-65.
Wolf, S., 2009. Ein archäologischer Krimi. Die Wiederentdeckung einer Venus. In: Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg (Hrsg.), Eiszeit – Kunst und Kultur. Ostfildern: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 278-281.
Wolf, S., 2008. Die Vogelherd-Figuren – ein Beitrag für Kinder. In: N. J. Conard, E. Seidl (Hrsg.), Das Mammut vom Vogelherd. Tübinger Funde der ältesten erhaltenen Kunstwerke. Tübingen: MUT, 44-45.
Ansprechpartnerin für SGN-IT-Belange innerhalb des SHEP Tübingen
Betreuung und Lehre im CT Labor
Working Group Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology
The Institute for Pre- and Protohistory at the University of Tübingen with its three divisions is the continuation of the prehistoric research institute founded by R.R. Schmidt in 1921. The Division for Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology conducts field research in the field of prehistoric archaeology in different parts of the world. The training of the students in field work is part of their university education. The division possesses extensive collections: especially the ivory figurines from the Vogelherd, which are among the oldest evidence of prehistoric art, are invaluable.
Lithic, taphonomic, faunal and spatial analysis of archaeological sites.
Pleistocene chronostratigraphy, evolution and dispersal of modern humans
Environmental reconstruction, settlement history of western Eurasia and southern Africa.
Origins of agriculture and sedentism.
Academic education and backround
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1987-1990, Master of Philosophy 1988,
Doctor of Philosophy 1990, Anthropology.
University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, 1985-1986, Master of Science 1986,
Interdisciplinary study of Physics, Geology, and Anthropology.
University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, 1984 and 1989, Prehistoric Archaeology.
University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, 1980, 1981 and 1983, Bachelor of Arts
with highest distinction 1983, Anthropology and Chemistry.
University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, 1982, Ethnology and Chemistry.
Chair of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, Institut für Ur-und Frühgeschichte, Universität Tübingen, 8/95-present. Diverse research, teaching and administrative duties.
Director, Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment. 10/2017-present.
Franke Research Fellow, Yale University Whitney Humanities Center. 9/2018-11/18
Speaker, Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften project The Role of Culture in the Early
Expansion of Humans. 4/2017-present.
Dean of Studies, Archaeological Sciences. 4/2016 – present.
Short-term Visiting Professor, Department of Archaeology, Peking University. 9/2012 & 12/2017.
Director of the Archäopark Vogelherd since 2011
Elected member of the Fakultätsrat, Mathematische Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, University of Tübingen. 4/2011-9/2015.
Senior Professor of the Tübingen/Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment.
10/2009-present.
Founding Director of the Insitut für Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie, University of Tübingen.
1/2008- present.
Elected Member of the Structural Committee of the University of Tübingen 1/2007-9/08
Elected Member of the Senate of the University of Tübingen, 10/2006-present.
Visiting Professor, Department of Archaeology, University of Cape Town, 2/2005 -3/05.
Vice Dean of the Faculty of Geoscience, Universität Tübingen, 10/2004-9/06.
Director of the course of study in paleoanthropology, 10/2000- 9/2009.
Dean of the Faculty of Geoscience, Universität Tübingen, 10/1998-9/2000.
Keeper of Schloss Hohentübingen, Universität Tübingen, 6/1998-9/2006.
Scientific Director of early prehistoric exhibits in Museum Schloss Hohentübingen, 6/97-present.
Scientific Director of the Urgeschichtliches Museum in Blaubeuren, 8/95-present.
Editor: Tübinger Monographien zur Urgeschichte, Archaeologica Venatoria, Urgeschichtliche
Materialhefte, 1995-present. Museumshefte, Urgeschichtlichen Museum Blaubeuren, 2001-present, Tübingen Publications in Prehistory, 2001-present. Tübinger Arbeiten zur Urgeschichte, 2002- present. Tübingen Publications on the Archaeology of Southwestern Asia, 2006-present.
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Forschungsbereich Altsteinzeit Museum Monrepos, Neuwied, Germany, 6/93-6/95. Archaeological and paleoenvironmental research.
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, 1/91-5/93.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Giza Plateau Mapping Project, 10/90-1/91. Analysis of archaeological materials from the 1988-1989 excavations at Giza.
• Archaeobotany
• Emergence of agriculture in the Near East
• Bronze and Iron Age environment and economy in Eastern Mediterranean and Near Eastern societies
• Environmental archaeology of the Middle East
• Stable carbon isotopes as palaeoclimate proxies
Academic background Since 2013 Research scientist and curator of the seed comparative collection at the University of Tübingen and the Tübingen Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironments
2010-2013 Heisenberg-Awardee (DFG)
2009 Habilitation (Venia Legendi for the disciplines Environmental Archaeology and Bioarchaeology/Archaeobotany) at the University of Tübingen
2006-2007 Interdisciplinary Research Fellow at the Center for Climatic Research – Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
1999 Ph.D. degree at the Faculty of Geosciences at the University of Tübingen (Germany) and Department of Atchaeology at the University of Sheffield (UK)
1994 M.A. degree in Early Prehistory, Botany and Geology
Research representative publications (for a full list and download see www.researchgate.net/profile/Simone_Riehl)
Riehl, S. (2019, March 26). Barley in Archaeology and Early History. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science. Ed. Retrieved 30 Mar. 2019, from http://oxfordre.com/environmentalscience/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199389414.001.0001/acrefore-9780199389414-e-219.
Riehl, S., 2017. Regional environments and human perception: The two most important variables in adaptation to climate change. In The late third millennium in the ancient Near East: Chronology, C14, and climate change. F. Höflmayer, ed. Pp. 237-260. Chicago, Illinois: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
Gruchy, M., Deckers, K. and S. Riehl. 2016. A diachronic reconstruction of the Northern Mesopotamian landscape (4th to 2nd millennia BCE) from three separate sources of evidence. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 8:250-267. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.05.047.
Riehl, S., 2016. The role of the local environment in the slow pace of emerging agriculture in the Fertile Crescent. Journal of Ethnobiology, 36/3, 512–534.
Riehl, S., Shai, I., 2015. Supra-regional trade networks and the economic potential of Iron Age II sites in the southern Levant, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 3, 525-533.
Riehl, S. 2015. Palaeoethnobotany. In: Beaudry, M; Metheny, K. (ed) The Archaeology of food: An Encyclopedia. AltaMira Press. P.29-31
Fiorentino, G., Ferrio, J., Bogaard, A., Araus, J., Riehl, S., 2015. Stable isotopes in archaeobotanical research, Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 24/1 215-227.
Riehl, S. 2014. Agriculture in the Ancient Near East. Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures · Article ID: 388650 · Chapter ID: 10189
Riehl, S., Pustovoytov, K.E., Weippert, H., Klett, S., Hole, F., 2014. Drought stress variability in ancient Near Eastern agricultural systems evidenced by δ13C in barley grain, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111, 12348-12353.
Riehl, S., Marinova, E., Deckers, K., Malina, M., and Conard, N., 2014. Plant use and local vegetation patterns during the second half of the Late Pleistocene in southwestern Germany. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences:1-17.
Riehl, S., Zeidi, M., Conard, N.J., 2013. Emergence of Agriculture in the Foothills of the Zagros Mountains of Iran. Science 341 (6141):65-67. doi:10.1126/science.1236743
Riehl, S. 2012. Variability in ancient Near Eastern environmental and agricultural development. Journal of Arid Environments 86: 113-121.
Riehl, S., Pustovoytov, K., Dornauer, A., Sallaberger, W. 2012. Mid-late Holocene agricultural system transformations in the northern Fertile Crescent: A review of the archaeobotanical, geoarchaeological, and philological evidence. L. Giosan, P. Clift (eds), Past Climate, Landscapes & Civilizations. AGU monograph series. 115-136.
Education
2018 Habilitation, Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie, University of Tübingen. Hominin Subsistence Strategies in the Eurasian Quaternary.
2011 Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson. Major: Archaeology; Minor: Environmental Anthropology. Dissertation title: Trends in Subsistence from the Middle Paleolithic through Mesolithic at Klissoura Cave 1 (Peloponnese, Greece), advisor Dr. Mary C. Stiner.
2005 Masters of Arts in Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson. Thesis title: Faunal Data from Hallan Çemi Tepesi: A Late Epipaleolithic/Neolithic Transition Site in Southeast Anatolia, advisor Dr. Mary C. Stiner.
2003 Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Bachelor of Science in Biology, with honors, University of Wyoming, Laramie.
Employment History
2012-present Researcher in Zooarchaeology, Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment and Institut für Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie, Universität Tübingen
2011-2012 Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Dr. Mary Voyatzis
Grants and Scholarships (PI or co-PI)
2017-2021 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) SFB 1070 Project A05 “’Das Land in dem Milch und Honig fließen.’ Entwicklung und Bedeutung von Agrarressourcen im bronze- und eisenzeitlichen Palästina.” (PI; co-PIs Prof. Jens Kamlah and PD Dr. Simone Riehl).
2016-2020 Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP) Research Grant: “Dietary Change During the Upper Paleolithic at Kephalari and Lakonis Caves,” (PI)
2012-13, 2015 Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP) Research Grant: “Dietary Change During the Upper Paleolithic at Kephalari Cave,” (PI)
2013 The Leakey Foundation: “The evolution of late Pleistocene hominin diets in southern Greece,” (PI)
2012 Research Prize for Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters, Abteilung Ältere Urgeschichte und Quartärökologie, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Research Experience
2016-present Sibudu Cave, Middle Stone Age, South Africa
2015-present Hohle Fels, Middle to Upper Paleolithic, Germany
2014-present Lakonis, Middle Paleolithic, Peloponnese, Greece
2012-present Schöningen, Lower Paleolithic, Germany
2012-present Chogha Golan, Aceramic Neolithic, Iran
2010-present Kephalari Cave, Middle and Upper Paleolithic, Peloponnese, Greece
2007-2012 Mount Lykaion, Late Neolithic through Hellenistic period, Arcadia, Greece
2011-2012 AMS dating of calcined bone from Mount Lykaion, Greece
2011 Walnut Canyon and Wuptaki National Monuments, late Prehistoric, northern Arizona
2005-2009 Klissoura Cave 1, Middle and Upper Paleolithic, Peloponnese, Greece
2009 Mule Creek, late Prehistoric, Southeast NM
2004-2007 Hallan Çemi Tepesi, Epipaleolithic/Neolithic, SE Turkey
Current Teaching
Instructor, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
2012-present Osteologie IV (undergraduate lecture)
2013-present Diet and Subsistence in Prehistoric Context (graduate lecture and seminar; co-instructor)
2013-present Erweiterte Grundlagen der Archäozoologie (graduate seminar and lab)
2012-present Knochen als Quelle (graduate lecture and seminar; co-instructor)
Working Group Membership
2014-2016 International Union for Quaternary Research, Commission for Humans and the Biosphere. Project 1404: Cultural and Palaeoenvironmental Changes in Late Glacial to Middle Holocene Europe – gradual or sudden?
Selected Publications
Rhodes, Sara E., Britt M. Starkovich, and Nicholas J. Conard
2019 Did climate determine Late Pleistocene settlement dynamics in the Ach Valley, SW Germany? PLoS One, 14(5): e0215172. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215172
Kitagawa, Keiko, Susanne C. Münzel, Petra Krönneck, Britt M. Starkovich, Nicholas J. Conard
2018 Explaining Diachronic Trends in Paleolithic Subsistence in Central Europe, pp. 209-246. In Foraging in the Past: Archaeological Studies of Hunter-Gatherer Diversity, edited by Ashley Lemke. Colorado University Press, Colorado.
Rhodes, Sara, Britt M. Starkovich, Reinhard Ziegler, Nicholas J. Conard.
2018 Small mammal taxonomy, taphonomy, and the paleoenvironmental record during the Middle and Upper Paleolithic at Geißenklösterle Cave (Ach Valley, southwestern Germany). Quaternary Science Reviews 185:199-221.
Starkovich, Britt M., Paraskevi Elefanti, Panagiotis Karkanas, and Eleni Panagopoulou
2018 Spatial differences in site use in the Middle Paleolithic of Lakonis I (Peloponnese, Greece). Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-018-0006-x.
Starkovich, Britt M., Natalie D. Munro, Mary C. Stiner
2018 Terminal Pleistocene Subsistence Strategies and Aquatic Resource Use in Southern Greece. Quaternary International 465:162-176.
Toniato, Giulia, Susanne C. Münzel, Britt M. Starkovich, and Nicholas J. Conard
2018 Middle and Upper Palaeolithic bone retouchers from the Swabian Jura: Raw materials, curation and use. In, The Origins of Bone Tool Technologies, edited by J. Hutson et al. Römisch- Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Forschungsinstitut für Archäologie, 251-267.
Frost, Stephen R., Charles Saanane, Britt M. Starkovich, Hilde Schwartz, Friedemann Schrenk, Katerina Harvati
2017 New cranium of the large cercopithecid primate Theropithecus oswaldi leakeyi (Hopwood, 1934) from the paleoanthropological site of Makuyuni, Tanzania. Journal of Human Evolution, 109:46- 56.
Starkovich, Britt M.
2017 Paleolithic Subsistence Strategies and Changes in Site Use at Klissoura Cave 1 (Peloponnese, Greece). Journal of Human Evolution 111:63-84.
Starkovich, Britt M. and Maria Ntinou
2017 Climate change, human population growth, or both? Upper Paleolithic subsistence shifts in southern Greece. Quaternary International 428:17-32.
Aluwé, Kim L. M., Britt M. Starkovich, and Jeroen Van Vaerenbergh
2016 A noble diet at the Hof van Leugenhaeghe (Steendorp, Belgium): pig skulls as a 14th-15th century delicacy? Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg DOI 10.1007/s12520-016-0349-5.
Starkovich, Britt M., Simone Riehl, Mohsen Zeidi, and Nicholas J. Conard
2016 Subsistence Strategies in the Aceramic Neolithic at Chogha Golan, Iran. In Bones and Identity: Zooarchaeological Approaches to Reconstructing Social and Cultural Landscapes in Southwest Asia, edited by Nimrod Marom, Reuven Yeshurun, Lior Weissbrod, and Guy Bar-Oz. Oxbow Books, 45-71.
Sauer, Daniela, Anette Kadereit, Peter Kühn, Michael Kösel, Christopher E. Miller, Taeko Shinonaga, Sebastian Kreutzer, Ludger Herrmann, Wolfgang Fleck, Britt M. Starkovich, Karl Stahr
2016 The loess-palaeosol sequence of Datthausen, SW Germany: Characteristics, chronology, and implications for the use of the Lohne Soil as a marker soil. Catena 146:10-29.
Aluwé, Kim L. M., Britt M. Starkovich, and Jeroen Van Vaerenbergh
2015 The diet of the Portuguese merchant family Ximenez at the “Blauwhof” (Belgium): Between tradition and display in the 16th-17th centuries. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 3:581-590.
Conard, Nicholas J., Jordi Serangeli, Utz Böhner, Britt M. Starkovich, Christopher E. Miller, Brigitte Urban, Thijs van Kolfschoten
2015 Excavations at Schöningen and paradigm shifts in human evolution. Journal of Human Evolution, 89:1-17.
Riehl, Simone, Eleni Asouti, Doga Karakaya, Britt M. Starkovich, Mohsen Zeidi, and Nicholas J. Conard
2015 Resilience at the transition to agriculture: The long-term landscape and resource development at the aceramic Neolithic tell site of Chogha Golan (Iran). BioMed Research International Article ID 532481:1-22.
Serangeli, Jordi, Thijs van Kolfschoten, Britt M. Starkovich, Ivo Verheijen
2015 The European Saber-toothed cat (Homotherium latidens) found in the “Spear Horizon” at Schöningen (Germany). Journal of Human Evolution, 89:172-180.
Starkovich, Britt M. and Nicholas J. Conard
2015 Bone Taphonomy of the Schöningen “Spear Horizon South” and its Implications for Site Formation and Hominin Meat Provisioning. Journal of Human Evolution, 89:154-171.
Starkovich, Britt M.
2014 Optimal Foraging, Dietary Change, and Site Use during the Paleolithic at Klissoura Cave 1 (Southern Greece). Journal of Archaeological Science 52:39-55.
Starkovich, Britt M.
2014 Appendix 5: Preliminary Faunal Report. In Mount Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project, Part 1: The Upper Sanctuary, by David Gilman Romano and Mary E. Voyatzis. Hesperia 83:644-648.
Starkovich, Britt M., Gregory W.L. Hodgins, Mary E. Voyatzis, David Gilman Romano
2013 Dating Gods: Radiocarbon Dates from the Sanctuary of Zeus on Mt. Lykaion (Arcadia, Greece). Radiocarbon. 55(3-4):501-513.
Starkovich, Britt M.
2012 Intensification of Small Game Resources at Klissoura Cave 1 (Peloponnese, Greece) from the Middle Paleolithic through Mesolithic. Quaternary International. 264:17-31.
Stiner, Mary C., Natalie D. Munro, Britt M. Starkovich
2012 Material input rates and dietary breadth during the Upper Paleolithic-Mesolithic at Franchthi and Klissoura 1 Caves (Peloponnese, Greece). Quaternary International. 275:30-42.
Starkovich, Britt M.
2009 Dietary Changes during the Upper Paleolithic at Klissoura Cave 1 (Prosymni), Peloponnese, Greece. Before Farming [online version]. 2009/3(4):1-14.
Starkovich, Britt M. and Mary C. Stiner
2009 Hallan Çemi Tepesi: High-ranked Game Exploitation alongside Intensive Seed Processing at the Epipaleolithic-Neolithic Transition in Southern Turkey. Anthropozoologica 44(1):41-61.
Edited Volumes
Manne, Tiina and Britt M. Starkovich
2012 Quaternary International guest editors. Vol. 264.
Dr. Gregor Donatus Bader
Scientific member/Curator Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology
Gregor Bader is focusing on cultural variability of hunter gatherer societies living during the Middle- and Later Stone Age in Africa. He is specialized in lithic technology and combines different approaches, such as attribute analysis and chaîne opératoire in order to connect qualitative and quantitative data. His main research area is KwaZulu-Natal in the eastern part of South Africa, where he is about to establish a better regional archaeological framework for the last 40.000 years, respectively the final-MSA and LSA. The three major sites under investigation so far are Umbeli Belli, Sibudu and Holley Shelter. Furthermore, he is involved into a project run by the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) focused on a reinvestigation of archaeological collections of Swaziland and new excavations of selected sites in the country. This project encompasses several time periods from the MSA, LSA to the early Iron Age and hence the early contact period between hunter gatherers and farmers. Gregor Bader is also involved in the VW-funded project “evolving human minds”, focused on a reinvestigation of Mumba Cave in Tanzania and the surrounding area.
October 2017
Dissertation at the Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, University of Tübingen, Germany (magna cum laude).
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Topic: On the variability of Middle Stone Age lithic technology during MIS3 in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Supervisor: Prof. Nicholas J. Conard Ph.D.
Prof. Dr. Michael Bolus
April 2014 – October 2017
Ph.D. Student at the Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, University of Tübingen, Germany.
Topic: On the variability of Middle Stone Age lithic technology during MIS3 in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
September 2013
Master of Arts at the Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, University of Tübingen, Germany.
Topic: Holley Shelter, Neue Erkenntnisse zur Variabilität des Middle Stone Age im südlichen Afrika.
Supervisor: Prof. Nicholas J. Conard Ph.D.
Prof. Dr. Michael Bolus
October 2011 – September 2013
MA-studies: Prehistoric archaeology at the Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, University of Tübingen, Germany.
July 2011
Bachelor of Artsat the
at the Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, University of Tübingen, Germany.
in prehistoric archaeology.
Topic: Stratigraphische Befunde aus dem Paläolithikum der Höhle Grotte de la Verpillière I in Germolles (Saône-et-Loire, Frankreich).
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Floss
October 2008 – July 2011
BA-Studies in prehistoric archaeology and paleoanthropology at the University of Tübingen, Germany.
Employments
Since June 2018
Collection Curator
Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution
and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen.
Burgsteige 11, 72070 Tübingen (Germany)
January 2018 – June 2018
Post-doctoral researcher in the project “Evolving human minds, Behavior and Subsistence during the Middle to Upper Pleistocene in Tanzania” granted to Dr. Pastory Magayane Bushoziand funded by the Volkswagenstiftung.
January 2014 – October 2015
Research assistant (MA-degree) at the Roceeh-Projekt (The role of culture in early expansion of humans) of the Heidelberg academy of science.
May 2012 – December 2013
Research assistant (BA-degree) at the Roceeh-Projekt (The role of culture in early expansion of humans) of the Heidelberg academy of science.
May – October 2011
Student assistant at the DFG-Projekt of
Dr. Philipp Drechsler, Dosariyah Archaeological Research Project (DARP).
Scholarships
October 2015 – October 2017
July 2014
Doctoral dissertation grant in the research
project “The Evolution of Modern Human Behavior” under the state of Bade-Württemberg (Landesgraduiertenförderungsgesetz).
PAA student travel grant for the participation at the “14th Congress of the Pan African Archaeological Association of Prehistory and Related Studies scientific programme”in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Oral presentations and poster (exemplary)
June 2023 Oral presentation
Bader, G.D., Mabuza, A., Price-Williams, D., Will, M., Conard, N.J. On the persistence of Middle Stone Age technologies to 30.000 and beyond at the Society for Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA) in Houston, Texas, US.
September 2022 Oral presentation
Bader, G.D., Riedesel, S., Velliky, E., Linstädter, J., MacDonald, B. The oldest ochre mine in the world – new ages for the Lion Cavern in Eswatini and implications for human behavioral evolution during the Middle Stone Age in southern Africa at the 12th annual ESHE conference in Tübingen, Germany.
August 2022 Oral presentation
Bader, G. D., Mabuza, A., Price Williams, D., Will, M., Rethinking the MSA/LSA transition in southern Africa – A perspective from the highveld of Eswatini at the 16th Congress of the PanAfrican Archaeological Association of Prehistory and Related Studies in Zanzibar.
April 2022 Oral presentation
Bader, G. D. and Linstädter, J., Over 60 years of archaeological research in Eswatini – Old paths and new perspectives at the 1st international workshop of ‘Ochre Procurement, Use and Meaning in Prehistoric Africa (OPUMPA)’ in Eswatini.
September 2021 Oral presentation
Bader. G. D., Will, M., Mabuza, A., Forester, B., MacDonald, B., Velliky, E., Linstädter, J., Revisting Sibebe Rock Shelter in Eswatini. New insights on the nature and timing of the final MSA in southern Africa. at the UISPP, XIX conference, online.
August 2021 Oral presentation
MacDonald, B. L., Velliky, E. C., Linstädter, J., Ehlers, L., Bader, G. D., Ochre provenance in Eswatini: Geochemical insights on MSA LSA ochre procurement. at the 24th Biennial Meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists
(SAfA), Online.
Oral presentation
Velliky, E. C., MacDonald, B. L., Linstädter, J., Ehlers, L., Bader, G. D., Archaeological, archaeometric and ethnographic perspectives on ochre behaviours in Eswatini at the 24th Biennial Meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA), Online.
April 2021 Oral presentation
Bader et al., Regional perspective on the final MSA in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa at the 58th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA), Online.
June 2020 Oral presentation
Bader et al., The final MSA of KwaZulu-Natal. Umbeli Belli in its regional context at the conference ‘Cultural dynamics of the Middle Stone Age in coastal and interior contexts of southern Africa’ in Tübingen.
May 2019 Oral presentation
Sommer et al. 2019., Prediction of palaeolithic sites in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa using remote sensing, digital landscape analysis and statistical classification at Computer Applications in Archaeology Conference in Kraków.
December 2018 Oral presentation
Bader et al., Preliminary results on the late Pleistocene occupation of Iron Pig Rock Shelter in Mpumalanga, South Africa at the Meetings of Modern Air and African Prehistory conference in Paris, France.
June 2018 Oral presentation
Bader et al., Umbeli Belli and its significance for the final MSA of southern Africa at the UISPP, XVIIIe conference in Paris, France.
March 2018 Oral presentation
Bader et al., The lithic technology of the final MSA assemblages from Umbeli Belli, KwaZulu-Natal at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.
June 2017 Oral presentation
Bader et al., It´s all about shape, point morphology and diagnostic features of the final MSA at Umbeli Belli, KwaZulu-Natal at the Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary ecology, University of Tübingen.
July 2016 Oral presentation
Bader et al., Umbeli Belli Rock Shelter in KwaZulu-Natal and its implications for our understanding of lithic technology and raw material economy during the MSA at the 23rd Biennial Meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA) in Toulouse, France.
Poster
Bader et al., Implications of spatial and temporal variation in point technology in KwaZulu-Natal during the MSA at the 23rd Biennial Meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA) in Toulouse, France.
Oral presentation
Bader et al., Umbeli Belli Rock Shelter in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Current results from the Tübingen excavation in 2016 at the Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary ecology, University of Tübingen, Germany.
June 2016 Oral presentation
Bader et al., The Middle Stone Age of KwaZulu-Natal, New insights from Holley Shelter, Sibudu and Umbeli Belli at the Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany.
September 2015 Poster
Bader et al., The Middle Stone Age lithic assemblages of Umbeli belli Rock Shelter in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa at the 5th annual meeting of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE) in London, Great Britain.
July 2015 Oral presentation
Bader et al., Change and Continuity in the organization of lithic technology during the later Middle Stone Age of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) at the Roceeh ‘Expansions’ conference in Frankfurt, Germany.
September 2014 Oral presentation
Bader et al., Holley Shelter, regional signatures in the MSA of KwaZulu-Natal at the workshop ‘Contextualizing technological change and cultural evolution in the MSA of Southern Africa’ in Tübingen, Germany.
July 2014 Oral presentation
Bader et al., Holley Shelter, New results on the variability of the South African Middle Stone Age at the 14th Congress of the Pan African Archaeological Association of Prehistory and Related Studies scientific program in Johannesburg, South Africa.
September 2013 Poster
Bader et al., Holley Shelter – How an old excavation contributes to our understanding of behavioral variability within the MSA at the 3rd annual meeting of the European society for the study of human evolution (ESHE) in Vienna, Austria.
Publications
Published peer review articles
Bader, G.D., Val, A., Gevers, E., Rhodes, S.E., Stahl, N., Woodborne, S., Will, M. 2024. Behind the waterfall – Interdisciplinary results from Holley Shelter and their implications for understanding human behavioral patterns at the end of the Middle Stone Age in southern Africa, Quaternary Science Reviews 331,108633.
Blessing, M.A., Conard, N.J., Bader, G.D. 2023. Cultural developments between the final MSA and the Robberg at Umbeli Belli, South Africa. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology.
Zastrow J., Affinito, S., Bader, G. D., Mentzer, S. M. 2023 Twelfth annual meeting of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution. Evolutionary Anthropology. 2023;1‐3. doi:10.1002/evan.21973
Bader, G. D. and Will, M. 2022. 70 Years Later – New research at Holley Shelter, a Middle and Later Stone Age Site in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. S Afr J Sci. 2022;118(11/12)
Bader, G. D., Mabuza, A., Price Williams, D., Will, M. 2022. Rethinking the Middle to Later Stone Age transition in southern Africa. A perspective from the highveld of Eswatini. Quaternary Science Reviews 286, 107540.
Bader, G. D., Wadley, L., Sommer, C., Conard, N. J., 2022. The final MSA of eastern South Africa, a comparative study between Umbeli Belli and Sibhudu. AZANIA. DOI: 10.1080/0067270X.2022.2078553
Bader, G. D., Schmid, V., Kandel, A. W. 2022. The Middle Stone Age of South Africa. Oxford University Press.
Will, M., Bader G. D., Sommer, C., Cooper, A., Green, A. 2022. Coastal adaptations on the eastern seaboard of South Africa during the Pleistocene and Holocene? Current evidence and future perspectives from archaeology and marine geology. Front. Earth Sci. 10:964423
Blessing, M. A., Conard, N., Bader, G. D. 2022. Investigating the MIS2 microlithic assemblage of Umbeli Belli rock shelter and its place within the chrono-cultural sequence of the LSA along the east coast of southern Africa. African Archaeological Review.
Bader, G. D., Forrester, B., Ehlers, L, Velliky, E., MacDonald, B.L., Linstädter, J., 2021. The forgotten kingdom. New investigations in the prehistory of Eswatini. Journal of Global Archaeology, 1-8.
Bader, G. D., Bushozi, P., Will, M., Schmid, V., Val, A., Blessing, M., Schmidt, P., Conard, N., 2021. Investigating the 1930s Kohl-Larsen collection from the Lake Eyasi Basin, Tanzania. Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte 29, 93-103.
Bader, G. D., Linstädter, J., Schoeman, M. H., 2020. Uncovering the Late Pleistocene LSA of Mpumalanga Province, South Africa: Early results from Iron Pig Rock Shelter. Journal of African Archaeology 18, 1-19.
Bader, G. D., Tribolo, C., Conard, N. J., 2018. A return to Umbeli Belli: New insights of recent excavations and implications for the final MSA of eastern South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 21, 733-757.
Bader, G. D. and Will, M., 2017. Recent research on the MSA in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte 26, 79-108.
Bader, G. D., Cable, C., Lentfer, C. Conard, N. J., 2016. Umbeli Belli Rock shelter, A forgotten piece from the puzzle of the Middle Stone Age in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 9, 608-622.
Bader, G. D., Will, M., Conard, N. J., 2015. The lithic technology of Holley Shelter, KwaZulu-Natal, and its place within the MSA of southern Africa. SAAB 70, 202; 149-165.
Conard, N. J., Bader, G. D., Schmid, V. C., & Will, M., 2014. Bringing the Middle Stone Age into Clearer Focus. Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte 23, 121-127.
Will, M., Bader, G. D., Conard, N. J., 2014. Characterizing the Late Pleistocene MSA Lithic Technology of Sibudu, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. PLoS ONE 9(5): e98359. doi:10.1371.
Peer reviewed book chapters in edited volumes
Bader, G. D. & Conard, N. J., 2023. Holley Shelter. In: Willkins, J., Beyin, A. Wright, D., Bouzouggar, A. Olszewski, D. (eds.), Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa: Hominin Behavior, Geography, and Chronology.
Bader, G. D., Linstädter, J., Schoeman, A., 2023. Iron Pig. In: Willkins, J., Beyin, A. Wright, D., Bouzouggar, A. Olszewski, D. (eds.), Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa: Hominin Behavior, Geography, and Chronology.
Bader, G. D. & Conard, N. J., 2023. Umbeli Belli, In: Willkins, J., Beyin, A. Wright, D., Bouzouggar, A. Olszewski, D. (eds.), Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa: Hominin Behavior, Geography, and Chronology.
Published field reports
Will, M. & Bader, G. D. 2020. Neue Grabungen zur Erforschung des Paläolithikums im Ermstal. AABW 2020, 82-84.
Wolf, S., Bader, G. D., Will, M. 2021. Neue Ausgrabungen an der Barnberghöle bei Neuffen. AABW 2021, 92-94.
Popular science and outreach (exemplary)
2023
Newspaper article: The trail of the red rust that leads to the beginning of human culture. Daily Maverick, February 2023
2022
Popular scientific publication
Bader, G. D., MacDonald, B., Velliky, E., Forrester, B., Linstädter, J., 2022. Älteste Ockermine der Welt? Lion Cavern im Süden Afrikas. Archäologie in Deutschland – Weltweit 3, 2022.
2021
Oral presentation
Bader, New archaeological research at the Middle Stone Age site Holley Shelter on Fountainhill Estate at the 5th Fountainhill’s research symposium, Wartburg, South Africa.
Oral presentation
Bader, New stone Age research in the Kingdom of Eswatini at Waterford High School, Mbabane, Eswatini.
2020
TV-Interview
Auf den Spuren der Steinzeit im Ermstal. 21.08.2020 at Südwestdeutscher Rundfunk (SWR).
TV-Interview
Ausgrabungen in der Schachtfelshöhle. 23.08.2020 at Regio TV (RTF1).
2020
Oral presentation
Bader, Eswatini. Das vergessene Königreich und seine Bedeutung für die Steinzeitforschung im südlichen Afrika at the public lecture series of the Museum of the University of Tübingen, Germany.
2019
Oral presentation
Bader, Tübinger Urgeschichtsforschung im südlichen Afrika at the public lecture series of the Museum of the University of Tübingen, Germany.
Oral presentation
Bader, Archaeological research at the Middle Stone Age site Umbeli Belli, KwaZulu-Natal at the Rotary society Scottburgh, South Africa.
2018
Oral presentation
Bader et al., The MSA of southern Africa at the University of Swaziland.
2016
Oral presentation
Bader et al., Umbeli Belli, a forgotten piece from the Stone Age of KwaZulu-Natal at the Durban Archaeological Society in Durban, South Africa.
2015
Educational talk
Bader et al., Sibudu, Cultural heritage and a site of great significance for the understanding of human evolution at Pelham Highschool in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Archaeology of the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene in Iran and the Near East, Lithic Technology
Academic Background
2014 Dissertation in Prehistoric Archaeology (Dr. rer. nat.) University of Tübingen
2004 M.A. in Archaeology, University of Tehran
2001 B.A. in Archaeology, University of Tehran
Field Experience 2022 Archaeological Excavation at Vogelherd cave, southwest Germany. (Assistant director and Field director) 2021 Archaeological Excavation at Qadi Barmshour, Iran (Co-director)
2021 Archaeological Excavation at Kälbermahdhalde, southwest Germany. (Assistant Director and Field director)
2020 Archaeological Excavation at Langmahdhalde, southwest Germany. (Assistant Director and Field director)
2019 Archaeological Excavations in Langmahdhalde, southwest Germany. (Assistant director and Field director)
2018 Archaeological Excavations in Langmahdhalde, southwest Germany. (Assistant director and Field director)
2018 Archaeological Excavations in Sibudu rock shelter, South Africa. (Area Supervisor)
2017 Archaeological Excavations at Ghar-e Boof, Iran (Co-director)
2017 Archaeological Excavations in Langmahdhalde, southwest Germany. (Assistant director and Field director)
2017 Archaeological Excavations in Sibudu rock shelter, South Africa. (Area Supervisor)
2016 Archaeological Excavations in Langmahdhalde, southwest Germany. (Assistant director and Field director)
2016 Archaeological Excavations in Sibudu rock shelter, South Africa. (Area Supervisor)
2015 Archaeological Excavations at Ghar-e Boof, Iran (Co-director)2015 Archaeological Excavations in Wolftalhöhle cave, southwest Germany. (Assistant director and Field director)
2015 Archaeological Excavations in Sibudu rock shelter, South Africa. (Area Supervisor)
2014 Archaeological Excavations in Fetzershaldenhöhle cave, southwest Germany. (Assistant director and Field director)
2014 Archaeological Excavations in Sibudu rock shelter, South Africa. (Area Supervisor)
2013 Archaeological Excavations in Lindenhöhle and Fetzershaldenhöhle caves, southwest Germany. (Assistant director and Field director)
2013 Archaeological Excavations in Sibudu rock shelter, South Africa. (Area Supervisor)
2012 Archaeological Excavations in Vogelherd cave, southwest Germany. (Assistant director and Field director)
2012 Archaeological Excavations in Sibudu rock shelter, South Africa. (Area Supervisor)
2011 Archaeological Excavations in Vogelherd cave, southwest Germany. (Assistant director and Field director)
2010 Archaeological Excavation in Chogha Golan, Ilam Province, western Iran (Co-director)
2010 Archaeological excavations in Hohle Fels cave, southwest Germany. (Lab work Supervisor)
2010 Archaeological Excavations in Vogelherd cave, southwest Germany. (Assistant director and Field director)
2009 Archaeological Excavation in Chogha Golan: Ilam Province, western Iran (Co-director)
2009 Archaeological excavations in Hohle Fels cave, southwest Germany. (Lab work Supervisor)
2009 Archaeological Excavations in Vogelherd cave, southwest Germany. (Team member)
2009 Archaeological Excavations in Chia Sabz, an early Neolithic Site in the Seymareh region, Lorestan Province, Iran. (Representative of Tübingen University for two weeks in April)
2008 Paleolithic survey of Kazerun and Marvdasht regions, southern Zagros Mountains, Iran (Director)
2008 Archaeological excavations in Schöningen, north Germany. (Team member)
2008 Archaeological excavations in Hohle Fels cave, southwest Germany. (Lab work Supervisor)
2008 Archaeological excavations in Vogelherd cave, southwest Germany. (Team member)
2007 Archaeological excavations in Hohle Fels cave, southwest Germany. (Team member)
2007 Archaeological excavations in Vogelherd cave, southwest Germany. (Team member)
2007 Joint expedition of Iranian Center for Archaeological Research and CNRS of France to excavation
in Garmud 2, an Upper Paleolithic site in Amol,Mazandaran province, Iran. (Co-director)
2007 Joint expedition of Iranian Center for Archaeological Research and University of Tubingen,
Germany to excavation in Boof cave, an Upper Paleolithic site in the Nurabad-e Mamasani, Fars
province, Iran. (Co-director)
2007 Archaeological survey in Fereydun shahr, Esfahan province, Iran (Director)2007 Joint expedition of Iranian Center for Archaeological Research and University of Tsukuba, Japan to
survey of Bolaghi valley and Pasargadae plain, Fars province, Iran. (Co-director)
2006 Joint expedition of Iranian Center for Archaeological Research and Novosibirsk Institute, Russia to survey of the Paleolithic sites in the southern coasts of Caspian Sea, Iran. (Co-director)
2006 Joint expedition of Iranian center for Archaeological Research and University of Tsukuba, Japan to excavation of TB75, a late Paleolithic and early Neolithic site in the Bolaghi valley, Fars province, Iran. (Co-director)
2006 Joint expedition of Iranian Center for Archaeological Research and University of Tubingen,
Germany to excavation in Boof cave, an Upper Paleolithic site in the Nurabad-e Mamasani, Fars province, Iran. (Co-director)
2006 Archaeological survey in Behbahan, Khuzestan province, Iran. (Team member)
2005 Archaeological excavations in Tappeh Sialk, a Neolithic site in Esfahan province, Iran. (Area supervisor)
2005 Joint expedition of Iranian Center for Archaeological Research and University of Bochum, Germany to excavation of Old Copper Mines, Qom province, Iran. (Team member)
2005 Joint expedition of Iranian Center for Archaeological Research and University of Tubingen,
Germany to survey of Stone Age sites in provinces of Esfahan, Fars and Kohgiluye va Boyerahmad, Iran. (Co-director)
2005 Joint expedition of Iranian Center for Archaeological Research and University of Tsukuba, Japan to excavation in TB75 and TB130, two late Paleolithic and early Neolithic sites in the Bolaghi valley, Fars province, Iran. (Co-director)
2004 Test excavation in south area of Malek Mosque, Kerman province, south Iran (Director)
2004 Archaeological Survey in Somehsara, Gilan province, Iran (Director)
2004 Joint expedition of Iranian Center for Archaeological Research and Oriental Institute of University of Chicago to excavation in Tal-e Jari A and B, two Neolithic sites in Fars province, Iran. (Area supervisor)
2004 Joint expedition of Iranian Center for Archaeological Research and Oriental Institute of University of Chicago to survey of Tappeh Beladieh and Chogha Dosar, Khuzestan province, Iran. (Surveyor)
2004 Archaeological excavation of Kultarikeh Cemetery, an Irone Age cemetery in Kurdistan Province, Iran. (Team member)
2004 Archaeological survey of Qazvin plain, Qazvine province, Iran. (Surveyor)
2003 Archaeological survey of Mehran and Dehluran, Ilam province, Iran (Director)
2003 Joint expedition of Iranian Center for Archaeological Research and University of Sydney, Australia to excavation of Tol-e Nnurabad, a Neolithic site in the Nurabad-e Mamasani, Fars province, Iran. (Area supervisor)
2003 Joint expedition of Iranian Center for Archaeological Research and University of Sydney, Australia to survey of Rostam plains, Nurabad-e Mamasani, Fars province, Iran. (Team member)
2002 Archaeological survey of Tappeh Qabrestan, Qazvin province, Iran. (Surveyor)
2002 Joint expedition of Iranian Center for Archaeological Research and Oriental Institute of University of Chicago to excavation of Bard-e Karegar and Darkhazineh, Khuzestan province, Iran. (Area supervisor)
2002 Archaeological excavation of Prehistoric sites in Mianab plain, Khuzestan province, Iran. (Team member and area supervisor)
2002 Archaeological survey of Mianab plain, Khuzestan province, Iran. (Team member)
2001 Systematic archaeological survey of Tomb-e Bot, Fars province, Iran. (Team member)
2001 Archaeological excavation of Sorkhdom-e Laki, Lorestan province, Iran. (Area supervisor)
2000 Archaeological excavation of Tappeh Ebrahimabad, Qazvin province, Iran. (Team member)
Attended Workshops
2011 Prehistory at the crossroads of Science and Conservation, Erasmus Intensive Program, June 18th –
July 2nd, Quinson, Alpes de Haute Provence, France.
2011 Technologie de la Pierre Tailleee Prehistorique: Methodologie et initiation pratique qui s’est déroulé
au Château de Campagne, 21- 29 septembre, Dordogne, France.
Skills
Archaeological excavation, Survey, Lithic and pottery illustration
GIS software, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe illustration, Microsoft office
Former Activities
2005-2007 Iranian Center for Archaeological Research (Researcher).
2004 Persepolis pottery data bank (supervisor).
2002-2003 National Museum of Iran, Research center for archaeological survey (Member).
Books (in English) 2008 A. Tsuneki, M. Zeidi (eds.), Tange Bolaghi, The Iran-Japan Archaeological Project for the Sivand Dam Salvage Area. Department of Archaeology, History, and Anthropology, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba press.
Books (in Persian) 2011 V. Jahani, M. Zeidi. Archaeology of Somehsara (Introduction of cultural and historical monuments of Somehsara). Gilan CHTHO and Somehsara governorship, Bolour press, Rasht.
Papers (in Persian) 2013 Preliminary Report on the Archaeological Survey of Russian-Iranian Archaeological Expedition on the Southern Coasts of the Mazandaran Sea, Iran. Anatoly Derevianko, Mohsen Zeidi, Anatoly Zenin, Sergey Gladyshev, Andrey Krivoshapkin. In Iranian Archaeology, vol. 4, pp. 7-22.
2012 M. Zeidi. Report on the archaeological survey in Mehran and Boluk-e Anaran in Dehluran, Ilam Province. In Namvarnameh: Papers in Honour of Massoud Azarnoush, H. Fahimi & K. Alizadeh (eds.), Tehran, 157-168.
2012 M. Zeidi. Gozareshe kavoshe boreshe laye negari dar borjake tape shomali Sialk. In Malek
Shahmirzadi, S. (ed.), The Villagers of Sialk, Reports of the Sialk Reconsideration Project, Tehran, 39-60.
2008 M. Zeidi. Settlement pattern and population fluctuation of Prehistoric to the Islamic period in the Kur River valleys, northwest of Fars Province, Iran. In Journal of Archaeology and History, Vol. 21(2); Vol.22 (1), pp. 5-31.
2006 M. Zeidi. Report on the Archaeological survey in Somehsara, Gilan Province. In Journal of Gilehva. Papers in Collective Volume.
2005 Alireza Khosrowzadeh, Mohsen Zeidi, et al. Description of the Archaeological sites in Mianab plain, Shushtar. In Abbas Moghaddam (ed.), Archaeological survey in Mianab plain, Shushtar, pp. 37-105.
2005 Negin Miri, Mohsen Zeidi. Description and classification of prehistoric potteries in Mianab plain, Shushtar. In Abbas Moghaddam (ed.), Archaeological survey in Mianab plain, Shushtar, pp. 109-114.
2005 Negin Miri, Mohsen Zeidi. Description of Uruk potteries (Susa II). In Abbas Moghaddam (ed.), Archaeological survey in Mianab plain, Shushtar, pp. 115-120.
2005 Negin Miri, Mohsen Zeidi. Report on the test excavation in Tappeh Meshval III (ks1617). In Abbas Moghaddam (ed.), Archaeological survey in Mianab plain, Shushtar, pp. 525-540.
2005 Negin Miri, Mohsen Zeidi. Report on the test excavation in Tappeh Abu Amud Nejat (ks1558). In Abbas Moghaddam (ed.), Archaeological survey in Mianab plain, Shushtar, pp. 451-476.
Papers (in English)
(in press) Nicholas J. Conard, Christopher Miller, Simone, Riehl, Mohsen Zeidi. Testing the Paleolithic Harvesting Hypothesis at Ghar-e Boof with improved botanical recovery. In Revisiting the Hilly Flanks: the Epipaleolithic and Neolithic periods in the eastern Fertile Crescent.
(in press) M. Zeidi & Nicholas. J. Conard. The Earliest Neolithic Lithic Traditions: Evidence from Chogha Golan in the western foothills of the Zagros Mountains of Iran. In Revisiting the Hilly Flanks: the Epipaleolithic and Neolithic periods in the eastern Fertile Crescent.
(in press) P. Khadish, S. Hamzavi Zarghani, M. Zeidi. Tepe Bahari: The first evidence of Aceramic Neolithic occupation in Kuhdasht County, Lorestan Province, Western Iran. Journal of Neo-lithisc. ex-oriente (Berlin).
(in press) M. Zeidi, S. Hamzavi Zarghani, C. Barfi. Tepe Qaterchi: a New Aceramic Neolithic Site in Fars Province, Southern Zagros Mountains, Iran. Journal of Neo-lithics. ex-oriente (Berlin).
(In press) Zeidi, M., & Hamzavi S. Zeidi and Hamzavi. The Human use of cave and Rock shelters in the Neolithic Period of southern Zagros Mountains, Iran. In Taheri, K. et al. (eds.), Caves and Kars Research in Iran. Springer Nature.
2022 Blanco, A., Mata-Gonzalez, M., Starkovich, B. M., Zeidi, M., Conard, N. J. Late Pleistocene environments in the southern Zagros of Iran and their implications for human evolution. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 14 (161). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-022-01615-1
2022 Mata-Gonzalez, M., Starkovich, B. M., Zeidi, M., Conard, N. J. New zooarchaeological perspectives on the early Upper Paleolithic Rostamian sequence of Ghar-e Boof (southern Zagros Mountains, Iran). Quaternary Science Reviews 279 (2022) 107350.
2021 Heydari, M., Guerin, G., Zeidi, M., Conard, N. J. Bayesian luminescence dating at Ghar-e Boof, Iran, provides a new chronology for Middle and Upper Paleolithic in the southern Zagros. JHE 151 (2021) 102926.
2019 New Research on the Paleolithic Occupation of Ghar-e Boof, Fars Province. Nicholas J. Conard, Mohsen Zeidi. Archaeology No. 2, Spring 2019. Pp. 1-10.
2019 Blade technology characterizing the MIS 5 D-A layers of Sibudu Cave, South Africa. Viola C.
Schmid, Guillaume Porraz, Mohsen Zeidi, Nicholas J. Conard. In Lithic Technology (Accepted on 17 June 2019).
2016 Subsistence Strategies in the Aceramic Neolithic at Chogha Golan, Iran. Britt, Starkovich, Simone Riehl, Mohsen Zeidi, Nicholas J. Conard. In Bones and Identity: Zooarchaeological Approaches to Reconstructing Social and Cultural Landscapes in Southwest Asia, N. Marom, R. Yeshurun, L. Weissbrod, and G. Bar-Oz (eds.), pp. 45-71, Oxbow Books, Oxford, UK.
2016 Rasoul Seyedin Borujeni, Saman Hamzavi Zarghani & Mohsen Zeidi. Discovery of long-term occupation in the Saimarreh River Valley, western Iran (Report on the archaeological survey). In Proceedings of the 9th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, R. A. Stucky, O. Klein & H-P Mathys (eds.), Vol. 3 (Reports), pp. 379-391.
2016 S. Hamzavi & M. Zeidi. Tappeh Poustchi: A Prehistoric Site in Shiraz, Fars Province, Iran. In The Neolithic of the Iranian Plateau (Recent Research), K. Roustaei & M. Mashkour (eds.), Studies in Early Near Eastern Production, Subsistence, and Environment 18, pp. 227-240.
2016 Tang-e Khiareh: A New Discovered Neolithic Site in the Kur River Basin of Fars Province, Iran. M. Zeidi, S. Hamzavi and N. J. Conard. In The Neolithic of the Iranian Plateau (Recent Research), K. Roustaei & M. Maskour (eds.), Studies in Early Near Eastern Production, Subsistence, and Environment 18, pp. 217-226.
2015 Resilience at the Transition to Agriculture: The Long-Term Landscape and Resource Development at the Aceramic Neolithic Tell Site of Chogha Golan (Iran), S. Riehl, E. Asouti, D. Karakaya, B. Starkovich, M. Zeidi, N.J. Conard. In BioMed Research International, Volume 2015, Article ID 532481, 22 pages.
2015 Upper Paleolithic archaeobotany of Ghar-e Boof cave, Iran: a case study in site disturbance and methodology, Jonathan A. Baines, Simone Riehl, Nicholas J. Conard, Mohsen Zeidi. In Journal of Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 7(2): 245-256.
2015 Using new morphological criteria to identify domesticated emmer wheat at the aceramic Neolithic site of Chogha Golan (Iran), Alexander Weide, Simone Riehl, Mohsen Zeidi, Nicholas J. Conard. In Journal of Archaeological Science 57: 109-118.
2013 M. Zeidi & N. J. Conard. Chipped stone artifacts from the Aceramic Neolithic site of Chogha Golan, Ilam Province, western Iran. In F. Borrell, J. J. Ibanez, M. Molist (eds.), pp. 315-326, Stone tools in transition: From Hunter-Gatherers to Farming Societies in the Near East. Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.
2013 N. J. Conard & M. Zeidi. The ground stone tools from the Aceramic Neolithic site of Chogha Golan, Ilam Province, western Iran. In F. Borrell, J. J. Ibanez, M. Molist (eds.), pp. 365-376, Stone tools in transition: From Hunter-Gatherers to Farming Societies in the Near East. Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.
2013 Zeidi, M., S. Riehl and N. J. Conard. Archaeobotanical Archiving, Reply to Golzari. Science 341: 840.
2013 Emergence of Agriculture in the Foothills of the Zagros Mountains of Iran. Simone Riehl, Mohsen Zeidi & Nicholas J. Conard. Science 341:65-67.
2013 Revisiting Neolithisation in the Zagros Foothills; Excavation at Chogha Golan A PPN Site in the Foothills of the Zagros Mountains, Western Iran. Nicholas J. Conard, Simone Riehl and Mohsen Zeidi. In R. Mathews and H. Fazeli, (eds.), pp. 76-83, The Neolithisation of Iran, London.
2012 Plant use in three Pre-Pottery Neolithic sites of the northern and eastern Fertile Crescent: a
preliminary report. S. Riehl, M. Benz, N. J. Conard, H. Darabi, K. Deckers, H. Fazeli Nashli, M. Zeidi-Kulehparcheh. In Journal of Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, vol. 21: 95-106.
2010 Archaeological evidence for Achaemenid settlement within the Mamasani Valleys, Western Fars, Iran. A. Asgari Chaverdi, A. Khosrowzadeh, B. McCall, C.A. Petrie, D. T. Potts, K. Roustaei, M. Seyedin, L.R. Weeks, and M. Zeidi. In J. Curtis and S. Simpson (eds.), The World of Achaemenid Persia, History, Art and Society in Iran and the Ancient Near East, Proceedings of a Conference at the British Museum 2005, I. B. Tauris & Iran Heritage Foundation, London.
2009 Takuro Adachi and Mohsen Zeidi. Achaemenid and Post-Achaemenid Remains from TB 75. In Boucharlat R. and Fazeli Nasli eds., Achaemenid Research on Texts and Archaeology (ARTA) 2009 (002), pp. 1-8.
2008 Akira Tsuneki and Mohsen Zeidi. Excavations at TB75 (Haji Bahrami Cave), In Tang-e Bolaghi, The Iran-Japan Archaeological Project for the Sivand Dam Salvage Area. A. Tsuneki, M. Zeidi (eds.). Department of Archaeology, History, and Anthropology, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba press. pp. 41-68.
2008 Akira Tsuneki and Mohsen Zeidi. Excavations at TB130. In Tang-e Bolaghi, The Iran-Japan Archaeological Project for the Sivand Dam Salvage Area. A. Tsuneki, M. Zeidi (eds.). Department of Archaeology, History and Anthropology, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba press. pp. 69-84.
2007 Conard, N. J., E. Ghasidian, S. Heydari, R. Naderi, and M. Zeidi. The 2006 Season of the Tübingen-Iranian Stone Age Research Project in the Provinces of Fars and Markazi. In Archaeological Reports 7.2, On the occasion of the 9th Annual Symposium on Iranian archaeology, ed. By H. Fazeli, pp. 43–67. ICAR, Tehran, Iran.
2007 Zeidi, M., K. Yamauchi and S. Nishiyama. Preliminary Report on the Archaeological Survey in the Bolaghi Valley and its vicinity. In Archaeological Reports 7.2 On the occasion of the 9th Annual symposium on Iranian archaeology, H. Fazeli (ed.), pp. 27-41. ICAR, Tehran, Iran.
2007 Proto-Neolithic Caves in the Bolaghi valley, southern Iran. A. Tsuneki, M. Zeidi and K. Ohnuma. In Journal of IRAN, vol.XLV, pp.1-22.
2006 Eight thousand years of history in Fars Province, Iran. D.T. Potts, K. Roustaei, K. Alamdari, K. Alizadeh, A. Asgari Chaverdi, A. Khosrowzadeh, B. McCall, L. Niakan, C.A. Petrie, M. Seyedin, L.R. Weeks M. Zeidi. In Near Eastern Archaeology, 68 (3): pp. 84-92.
2006 Neolithic settlement in highland Fars: new evidence from the Mamasani district. L.R. Weeks, K. Alizadeh, L. Niakan, K. Alamdari, M. Zeidi, A. Khosrowzadeh, B. McCall. In Journal of IRAN, vol.XLIV.
2006 Conard, N. J., E. Ghasidian, S. Heydari, and M. Zeidi. Report on the 2005 Survey of the Tübingen-Iranian Stone Age Research Project in the Provinces of Esfahan, Fars, and Kohgiluyeh-Boyerahmad. In Archaeological Reports 5, M. Azarnoush (ed.), pp. 9-34. ICAR, Tehran, Iran.
2006 Survey of Dasht-e Rostam-e Yek and Do, in the Mamasani district, M. Zeidi, A. Khosrowzadeh, B. McCall. In Mamasani Archaeological project, stage one. ICAR and University of Sydney.
2006 Excavation at Tol-e Nurabad (Trench B). M. Zeidi, A. Khosrowzadeh. In Mamasani Archaeological Project, stage one. ICAR and University of Sydney.
2003 Excavation at Tall-e Bakun A and B, Jari A and B, and Mushki: reconstruction of the prehistoric environment in Marvdasht. A. Alizadeh, M. Zeidi, L. Niakan, A. Asgari, A. Atabaki. In Annual Report, University of Chicago, pp.33-45.
Field Reports (in Deutsch)
2022 Conard, N. J., M. Zeidi, A. Janas and S. Hamzavi. Ausgrabungen an der Kälbermahdhalde im Lonetal. Archäologische Ausgrabungen in Baden-Württemberg 2021. pp. 80-83.
2021 Conard, N. J., A. Janas and M. Zeidi. Ausgrabungen der Magdalénien-Horizonte und
Testschnitt in tiefe Schichten an der Langmahdhalde. Archäologische Ausgrabungen in Baden-
Württemberg 2020. pp. 55-68.
2020 Conard, N. J., A. Janas and M. Zeidi. Ausgrabungen an der Langmahdhalde im Lonetal:
Raumnutzung und Siedlungsdynamik im Magdalénien. Archäologische Ausgrabungen in Baden-
Württemberg 2019. pp. 51-55.
2019 Conard, N. J., A. Janas and M. Zeidi. Ausgrabungen an der Langmahdhalde liefern weitere Einblicke in magdalénienzeitliche Lebensweisen auf der Schwäbischen Alb. Archäologische Ausgrabungen in Baden-Württemberg 2018. pp. 60-63.
2018 Conard, N. J., Janus, A., Zeidi, M. Ausgrabungen in dem magdalenienzeitlichen Schichten der Langmahdhalde im Lonetal. Archäologische Ausgrabungen Baden-Württemberg 2017. pp. 55-59.
2017 Conard, N. J., Janus, A., Zeidi, M. Neue Ausgrabungen unter den Felsdächern der Langmahdhalde bei Lonetal. Archäologische Ausgrabungen Baden-Württemberg 2016. pp. 58-63.
2016 Conard, N. J., Zeidi, M., Janus, A. Abschließender Bericht über die Nachgrabung am Vogelherd und die Sondage in der Wolftalhöhle. Archäologische Ausgrabungen Baden-Württemberg 2015. pp. 66-72.
2015 Conard, N. J. A. Janus and M. Zeidi. Neues aus dem Lonetal: Ergebnisse von Ausgrabungen an der Fetzershaldenhöhle und dem Vogelherd. Archäologische Ausgrabungen Baden-Württemberg 2014. pp. 59-64.
2014 Conard, N. J. and M. Zeidi. Ausgrabungen in der Fetzershaldenhöhle und der Lindenhöhle im Lonetal sowie neue Funde aus dem Vogelherd. Archäologische Ausgrabungen Baden-Württemberg 2013. pp. 63-67.
2014 Simone Riehl, M. Zeidi and N. J. Conard. Neu Ergebnisse aus der Wiege der Landwirtschaft. In Senckenberg Natur-Forschung-Museum 144 (7-8): 250-255.
2013 Conard, N. J., M. Zeidi and J. Bega. Die letzte Kampagne der Nachgrabungen am Vogelherd. Archäologische Ausgrabungen Baden-Württemberg 2012. pp. 84-88
2012 N.J. Conard and M. Zeidi. Zur Fortsetzung der Ausgrabungen am Vogelher in Lonetal. In
Archäologische Ausgrabungen in Baden-Württemberg 2011 (Stuttgart 2012), 61-65.
2011 N.J. Conard and M. Zeidi. Der Fortgang der Ausgrabungen am Vogelherd im Lonetal. In
Archäologische Ausgrabungen in Baden-Württemberg 2010 (Stuttgart 2011), 61-64.
2010 N.J. Conard, M. Malina, M. Zeidi Kulehparcheh. Neue Kunst und erste Einblick in ungestörte Schichten am Vogelherd. In D. L. Krausse, Archäologische Ausgrabungen in Baden-Württemberg 2009 (Stuttgart 2010), 57-61.
Book review 2013 The Earliest Neolithic of Iran: 2008 Excavations at Sheikh-e Abad and Jani) Central Zagros
Archaeological Project, Volume 1(, Edited by R. Matthews, W. Matthews, and Y. Mohammadifar. In Iranian Archaeology, Vol. 4, pp. 122-124 (in English).
Conference Proceedings 2019 Report on the Fourth season of excavation at Ghar-e Boof. In 16th Annual Symposium on the Iranian Archaeology. 5-6 March 2019, Tehran. Pp. 235-238.
2012 Mohsen Zeidi, Simone Riehl, Hannes Napierela and Nicholas J. Conard. Chogha Golan: A PPN Site in the Foothills of the Zagros Mountains, Ilam Province, Iran: Report on the First Season of Excavation in 2009), In, Matthews, R., Curtis, J. (eds.) 7th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Proceedings of the 7th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. Volume 3: Fieldwork & Recent Research Posters. 7th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag, 259-276.
Poster Presentations 2019 The Early Upper Paleolithic faunal assemblage of Ghar-e Boof (Southern Zagros Mountains, Iran). Mario-Mata Gonzalez, Britt. M. Starkovich, Mohsen Zeidi, Nicholas J. Conard. In Hugo Obermaier Society 61 st Annual Meeting, Erkrath & Mettmann, Germany 23 April 2019.
2016 New Results from Ghar-e Boof and their implications for the shift from the Middle to the Upper Paleolithic in the southern Zagros Mountains. M. Zeidi, K. Bretzke & N. J. Conard. In 6th Annual ESHE Meeting, 14-18 September 2016, Madrid, Spain.
2016 Alexander Weide, Doga Karakaya, Simone Riehl, Mohsen Zeidi, Nicholas J. Conard. Preliminary results on harvesting techniques and domestication of cereals at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of Chogha Golan, Iran. In 17th Conference of the International Work Group for Palaeoethnobotany 4-9 July 2016, Paris, France.
2015 Detecting heat treatment among the Aceramic Neolithic artifacts from Chogha Golan; Iran, Mojdeh Lajmiri, N.J. Conard, M. Zeidi, M. Bolus, P. Schmidt. In 57th Annual Meeting of Hugo Obermaier – Gesellschaft für Erforschung des Eiszeitalters und der Steinzeit e. V., April 7–11, Heidenheim, Germany.
2013 Doga Karakaya, Simone Riehl, Britt M. Starkovich, Mohsen Zeidi, Nicholas Conard. Pre-Pottery Neolithic Plant Remains from Chogha Golan in Southwestern Iran. In 16th Conference of the International Work Group for Palaeoethnobotany, 17-21 June 2013, Thessaloniki, Greece.
2013 Alexander Weide, Doğa Karakaya, Simone Riehl, Mohsen Zeidi, Nicholas J. Conard. Cultivation and domestication of cereals at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of Chogha Golan, Iran. In 16th Conference of the International Work Group for Palaeoethnobotany, 17-21 June 2013, Thessaloniki, Greece.
2012 M. Zeidi, S. Riehl, B. Starkovich, N. J. Conard. Chogha Golan; an Aceramic Neolithic Site in the Foothills of the Zagros Mountains, Western Iran. In 11th Annual Symposium of Iranian Archaeology, 15-18 December, Tehran, National Museum of Iran.
2009 M. Zeidi, R. Naderi and N. J. Conard. Archaeological Survey in the Kazerun and Marvdasht Regions of Southwestern Zagros Mountains of Iran. In 51th Hugo-Obermaier-Tagung, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Oral Presentations
2021 Zeidi, M.,& Conard, N. J. The Earliest Neolithic Lithic Traditions of the Iranian Zagros Region: Evidence from Chogha Golan in the western foothills of the Zagros Mountains of Iran. In Revisiting the Hilly Flanks: The Epipaleolithic and Neolithic periods in the eastern Fertile Crescent University of Copenhagen on 21-25 June 2021.
2021 Conard, N. J., & Zeidi, M. Chogha Golan and its High-Resolution record of cultural and economic change during the Aceramic Neolithic in the foothills of the Zagros Mountains. In Revisiting the Hilly Flanks: The Epipaleolithic and Neolithic periods in the eastern Fertile Crescent University of Copenhagen on 21-25 June 2021.
2019 M. Zeidi, J. Linton and Nicholas J. Conard. Lithic use-wear analysis from the Early Neolithic site of Chogha Golan in western Iran. In The 9th International Conference of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Chipped and Ground Stone Industries of the Near East (PPN9). Tokyo, November 12- 16, 2019.
2019 Report on the Fourth season of excavation at Ghar-e Boof. In 16 th Annual Symposium on the Iranian Archaeology. 5-6 March 2019, Tehran.
2019 Pre-agricultural subsistence strategies in the Early Neolithic of the Zagros Mountains: Moving beyond a focus on the “wild progenitor species”. Alexander Weide, Simone Riehl, Mohsen Zeidi, Nicholas J. Conard. In 18th conference of the International Workgroup for Palaeoethnobotany, June 3-8, Lecce (Italy). (Presented by A. Weide).
2016 V. C. Schmid, G. Porraz, V. Rots, C. Lentfer, M. Zeidi and N. J. Conard. Bifacial Technologies and the definition of Still Bay: New data from the basal layers of Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal. 23rd Biennal meeting of SAFA, 26 June-2 July, Toulouse, France (Presented by V.C. Schmid).
2016 Conard, N. J., Miller, C.E., Rots, V., Schmid. V.C., Will, M., Zeidi, M., Porraz, G. Cultural
Stratigraphy at Sibudu and its implications for our understanding of the MSA. 23rd Biennal meeting of SAFA, 26 June-2 July, Toulouse, France (Presented by N. J. Conard).
2016 Conard, N. J. and Zeidi, M., Zanoni, A., Miller, C.E. High-resolution stratigraphic observations and its formation processes at the Aceramic site of Chogha Golan, Ilam Province, Iran. 10th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, 25-29 April, Vienna, Austria. (Presented by N. J. Conard).
2016 Zeidi, M. and Conard, N. J., The lithic economy reflected in chipped stone artifacts of the Aceramic Neolithic of Chogha Golan, Iran. 10th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, 25-29 April, Vienna, Austria.
2015 Zeidi, M. and Conard, N.J., Ghar-e Boof, an Upper Paleolithic site in Southern Zagros, Iran. ICAR, Tehran, September 2015.
2014 Conard, N. J., V. C. Schmid, M. Zeidi and G. Porraz. 17th UISPP Congress. Burgos, Spain.
September, Characterizing the stratigraphy of bifacial technology in the assemblages from the Deep Sounding at Sibudu Cave, in Kwa-Zulu Natal (Presented by N. J. Conard).
2014 Nicholas J. Conard and M. Zeidi. The record of clay objects from the aceramic Neolithic site of Chogha Golan, Ilam Province, Iran. In 9th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. Basel, Switzerland, June 2014. (Presented by N. J. Conard).
2013 Nicholas J. Conard, V. C. Schmid, M. Zeidi and G. Porraz. Bifacial technology at Sibudu and its implications for our understanding of the Still Bay. In Annual meeting of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution, Vienna, Austria, September 2013 (Presented by N. J. Conard).
2012 M. Zeidi, S. Riehl & N. J. Conard. New excavation results from Chogha Golan: a PPN site in the western Zagros region of Iran. In 8th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, April 30-May 4, 2012 in Warsaw, Poland.
2012 M. Zeidi & N. J. Conard. The sequence of chipped stone artifacts from the PPN site of Chogha Golan, Ilam Province, western Iran. In 7th International Conference on the Chipped and Ground Stone Industries of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, 14-17 February, Barcelona (Presented by M. Zeidi).
2012 N. J. Conard & M. Zeidi. The ground stone tools from the PPN Site of Chogha Golan, Ilam Province, western Iran. In 7th International Conference on the Chipped and Ground Stone Industries of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, 14-17 February, Barcelona (Presented by M. Zeidi).
2010 M. Zeidi. Chogha Golan: A PPN Site in the Foothills of the Zagros Mountains, Ilam Province, Iran. In Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie, University of Freiburg.
2007 M. Zeidi. A preliminary report on the archaeological survey in the Bolaghi valley and Pasargadae plain. In Faculty of Beautiful Arts, University of Tehran.
2007 M. Zeidi. Archaeological excavations and surveys in Fars Province (2003-2006). In Middle Eastern Cultural Center, April 14th, Tokyo.
2007 M. Zeidi. Report on the last finds of archaeological excavations in the Bolaghi valley. In Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran.
2006 M. Zeidi. Archaeological excavation of joint expedition of Iran-Japan in the Bolaghi valley. In National Museum, Tehran.
2006 M. Zeidi. Preliminary report of archaeological excavations in Bolaghi valley. In Hotel Homa, Shiraz.
Main research interests:
. Ichtioarchaeology
. Collections Management
. Restoration
. Microfauna remains from archaeological contexts
Current Position:
Since 06/2015: Collection Manager of the Archaeozoology and Archaeobotany Collections
Coordinator of the Microvertebrate Working Group (MVWG) in ICAZ
Additional scientific editor of Journal of Palaeontological Techniques
Angel Blanco studied Geology (Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), 2003). Has the Master in Experimental Paleontology (UB) (2005) and Master in Prehistoric Archaeology, Ancient and Medieval History (UAB) (2012). During several years he have worked as curatorial preparator and taxidermist in the most important Museums or Scientific Institutions of Spain (Museum of Natural Sciences of Barcelona, Natural History Museum of Madrid, Zooarch Lab of Barcelona…). Also, he worked during the same period as palaentologist in different sites in Spain from Cretaceous to Early Pleistocene. Currently, he works on multiple fish assamblages from Pleistocene sites of Iberian Peninsula (Atapuerca, Barranco León, Fuentenueva 3 Baza and Pinilla del Valle) and Germany (Hohlenstein-Stadel, Helga Abri and Hohle Fels), on others from Pliocene-Pleistocene in Republic of Georgia (Dmanisi); early history and historical time deposits of Neolithic Age (The Draga, El Mirador), Iberian (Mas Castellar de Pontós) or medieval (Castles of Montsoriu and El Catllar).
List of Publications
Blanco-Lapaz, A., Fischl, K.P., Röpke, A., Zerl, T., Nolde, N., Schmidt, M., Kienlin, T.L. 2023. Reconstruction from the Bronze Age Site of Borsodivánka (North-Eastern Hungary). Diversity, 15: 340. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15030340.
Luzi, E., Blanco-Lapaz, A., Rhodes, S.E., Conard, N.J. 2022. Paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental reconstructions based on the small vertebrates from the Middle Paleolithic of Hohle Fels Cave, SW Germany. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 14(6): 107. https://www.doi.org/10.1007/s12520-022-01568-5.
Blanco-Lapaz, A., Marín-Arroyo, A.B., González-Morales, M.R. 2022. Upper Paleolithic fishermen from Fuente del Salín cave (Cantabrian Region, northern Iberia). Abstract. Journal of Taphonomy, 16(1-4): 21-22. For submission to Quaternary Sciences Reviews, special issue for the 6th ICAZ-TWG + 9th TAPHOS.
Blain, H-A., Sánchez-Bandera, C., Fagoaga, A., Blanco-Lapaz, A., Martínez-Monzón, A., Bisbal-Chinesta, J.F., Moclán, A., Huguet, R., Laplana, C., Márquez, B., Sevilla, P., Arsuaga, J.L., Pérez-González, A., Baquedano, E. 2022. A warm and humid paleoecological context for the Neanderthal mountain settlement at the Navalmaíllo rockshelter (Iberian Central System, Madrid). Quaternary Science Reviews. 293: 107727.
Blanco-Lapaz, A., Kitagawa, K., Kind, C-K. 2021. Aquatic resource exploitation during the Paleolithic in the Swabian Jura based on fish remains from Hohlenstein-Stadel Cave. Quartär, 68: 1-14.
Blanco-Lapaz, A., Martínez-Monzón, A., Blain, H-A., Cuenca-Bescós, G. 2021. Early-Middle Pleistocene freshwater ecosystems in the Sierra de atapuerca (northern Iberia) based on the Gran Dolina fisch record. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. DOI:10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110444.
Starkovich, B.M., Cuthbertson, P., Kitagawa, K., Thompson, N.C., Konidaris, G.E., Rots, V., Münzel, S.C., Giusti, D., Schmid, V.C., Blanco-Lapaz, A., Lepers, C and Tourloukis, V.2020. Minimal Tools, Maximum Meat: A Pilot Experiment to Butcher an Elephant Foot and Make Elephant Bone Tools Using Lower Paleolithic Stone Tool Technology. Ethnoarchaeology. DOI:10.1080/19442890.2020.1864877
Blanco-Lapaz, A., Mata-González, M., Starkovich, B.M., Zeidi, M., Conard, N.J. 2020. The Microvertebrate Assemblage of Ghar-e Boof (Iran): New data for the Late Pleistoce Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction of the Southern Zagros Mountains. Proceedings III MVWG Meeting. Tarragona 2020.
Agustí, J., Pinero, P., Furió, M., Blain, H-A., Blanco-Lapaz, A., Oms, O., Chochisvili, G., Lordkipanidze, D. 2020. Small vertebrates from the upper Miocene hominoid-bearing site of Udabno, Georgia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2019.1716776
Blanco-Lapaz. A. 2019. 15. Fische in: Löwenmensch und mehr. 5. Die Grabungen 2009 bis 2013 in der Stadel-Höhle. Forschungen und Berichte zur Archäologie in Baden-Württemberg, Kind, C-J (Hrsg.)
Münzel, S.C., Hess, T., Blanco-Lapaz, A., Conard, N.J. 2019. Faunal remains of Helga Abri, a Late Magdalenian/Early Mesolithic rockshelter in the Ach Valley near Schelklingen (Swabian Jura). Proceedings of the Hugo Obermaier Meeting 2019
Antolín F., Berihuete, M., Blanco-Lapaz, A., Buxó, R., Garcia, L., Marlasca, R., Naarrete, V., Saña, M. and Verdún, E. 2018. El rebost domèstic i el rebost salvatge in La Revolució Neolítica. La Draga, el poblat dels prodigis. ISBN 9788439396505. pp 45-50
Blanco, A., Szabó, M., Blanco-Lapaz, A. and Marmi, J. 2017. Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes from northeastern Iberia. Palaeogeography Plaeclimatology Palaeoecology 465:278-294
Rey-Rodríguez, I., López-García, J.M., Bennàsar, M., Bañuls-Cardona, S., Blain, H-A., Blanco-Lapaz, A., Rodríguez-Alvárez, X-P., Lombera-Hermida, A., Díaz-Rodríguez, M., Ameijenda-Igleisas, A., Agustí, J., Fábregas-Valcarce, R. 2016. Last Neanderthals and first Anatomically Modern Humans in the NW Iberian Peninsula: Climatic and environmental conditions inferred from the Cova Eirós small-vertebrate assemblage during MIS 3. Quaternary Science Reviews 151:185-197
Blanco-Lapaz, A. and Vergès, J-M. 2016. Fish remains from the Neolithic site of El Mirador cave (Atapuerca, Spain): Seasonality and resource management. Comptes Rendus Palevol 15(6)
Blanco-Lapaz, A. and Solís, G. 2014. Restoration of mounted animals – new techniques in old taxidermies. Journal of Paleontological Techniques Special Volume 13:70-74
Blanco-Lapaz, A. 2009. Processing and mounting of a red neck ualabi skeleton (Macropus rufogriseus). Paleontologia I Evolució, Memòria especial 4(2009):169-173)
Blanco-Lapaz, A. and Orta, C. 2009. Naturalization of an ophidia (Eunectes murinus). Paleontologia I Evolució, Memòria especial 4(2009):241-244
Roqué, L., Blanco-Lapaz, A. and Orta, C. 2009. Falco tinnunculus skeleton preparation. Paleontologia i Evolució, memoria especial 4(2009):245-251
Blanco-Lapaz, A. 2005. Estudio de Canariomys bravoi (Crusafont y Petter, 1964) del Plio-Cuaternario de las Islas Canarias. Un ejemplo de evolución insular. Miscelánea Paleontológica SEPAZ, pp. 187-204
– Stone and bone technology in the Palaeolithic
– Palaeolithic art
– The relationship between humans and the environment (today and in the past)
– Extinction and migration of species (today and in the past)
– Archaeological exhibitions
Since 2008 Local director of the Palaeolithic excavations in Schöningen
2006 – 2008 Scientific advisor for the exhibition “Ice Age. Art and culture” in Stuttgart.
2001 – 2005 Research associate at the TroiaVR project
1997 – 2004 PhD candidate in the field of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology in Tübingen.
1993 – 1997 Graduate student in Pre- and Early History at the Eberhard-Karls-University in Tübingen.
1991 – 1993 Undergraduate student in Pre- and Early History at the Johannes-Gutenberg-University in Mainz.
▪since 2017- PhD. Candidate. Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology,
Institut für Ur-und Frühgeschichte, Universität Tübingen.
Thesis topic: Characterization of the lithic assemblages at
the site of Schöningen (Germany) Economic strategies, social behaviorand cognitive implications as seen through low density sites.
▪2009-MS in Quaternary Archaeology and Human Evolution, UniversityRovira I Virgili, Tarragona (Spain).
Master thesis: “Experimental study on the hammerstones
selection criteria for using in three
daily tasks during human evolution”.
▪2007-BA in History. Universidad Autónoma of Madrid (Spain).
Working Group Archaeo- and Palaeogenetics
The research focus of our group entails the genetic analysis of ancient human, pathogen and animal diversity. We apply cutting-edge computational pipelines and molecular biology methodologies to extract genomic information from ancient specimens, to aid the understanding of human history and evolution over tens of millennia. Our interests span from reconstructing the demographic history of Neanderthal populations to tracking human dispersals during the Late Pleistocene and early Holocene across Eurasia. Moreover, our team investigates the genetic history of early inhabitants of the Asia-Pacific region and the peopling of the Americas. In more recent periods, our group is engaged in reconstructing the mobility, admixture and living conditions of historical populations though the genomic analysis of humans and their associated pathogens. Our research expands beyond human fossils by investigating multiple ancient DNA sources including ancient animal remains.
Genetic composition of European historical populations
Vita
Junior Professor of Archaeo- and Palaeogenetics, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (since April 2020)
Group Leader of ‘Human Paleogenomics’ at the Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany (2019-2020).
Post-Doctoral researcher at the Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany (2017-2019).
Doctoral dissertation in Archaeological Sciences, Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen, Germany (2013-2016). Thesis title: ‘Paleogenetic investigations of hominin diversity and dispersals in Eurasian prehistory’.
Master in Anthropological Sciences, University of Florence, Italy (2010-2012).
Bachelor in Natural Sciences, University of Florence, Italy (2006-2010).
Key, F. M., Posth, C., Esquivel-Gomez, L. R., et al. (2020) ‘Emergence of human-adapted Salmonella enterica is linked to the Neolithization process’, Nat Ecol Evol, 4(3), pp. 324-333.
Marcus, J. H.*, Posth, C.*, Ringbauer, H.*, et al. (2020) ‘Genetic history from the Middle Neolithic to present on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia’, Nat Commun, 11(1), pp. 939.
Feldman, M., Fernandez-Dominguez, E., Reynolds, L., Baird, D., Pearson, J., Hershkovitz, I., May, H., Goring-Morris, N., Benz, M., Gresky, J., Bianco, R. A., Fairbairn, A., Mustafaoglu, G., Stockhammer, P. W., Posth, C., Haak, W., Jeong, C. and Krause, J. (2019) ‘Late Pleistocene human genome suggests a local origin for the first farmers of central Anatolia’, Nat Commun, 10(1), pp. 1218.
Villalba-Mouco, V., van de Loosdrecht, M. S., Posth, C., et al. (2019) ‘Survival of Late Pleistocene Hunter-Gatherer Ancestry in the Iberian Peninsula’, Curr Biol, 29(7), pp. 1169-1177 e7.
Posth, C.*, Nakatsuka, N.*, Lazaridis, I., et al. (2018) ‘Reconstructing the Deep Population History of Central and South America’, Cell, 175(5), pp. 1185-1197 e22.
Amorim, C. E. G.*, Vai, S.*, Posth, C.*,et al. (2018) ‘Understanding 6th-century barbarian social organization and migration through paleogenomics’, Nat Commun, 9(1), pp. 3547.
van de Loosdrecht, M., Bouzouggar, A., Humphrey, L., Posth, C.,et al. (2018) ‘Pleistocene North African genomes link Near Eastern and sub-Saharan African human populations’, Science, 360(6388), pp. 548-552.
Posth, C.*, Nagele, K.*, Colleran, H., et al. (2018) ‘Language continuity despite population replacement in Remote Oceania’, Nat Ecol Evol, 2, pp. 731-740.
Mathieson, I., Alpaslan-Roodenberg, S., Posth, C., et al. (2018) ‘The genomic history of southeastern Europe’, Nature, 555, pp. 197-203.
Key, F. M., Posth, C., Krause, J., Herbig, A. and Bos, K. I. (2017) ‘Mining Metagenomic Data Sets for Ancient DNA: Recommended Protocols for Authentication’, Trends in Genetics, 33(8), pp. 508-520.
Posth, C., Wissing, C., Kitagawa, K., et al. (2017) ‘Deeply divergent archaic mitochondrial genome provides lower time boundary for African gene flow into Neanderthals’, Nature Communications,
Skoglund, P., Posth, C., Sirak, K., et al. (2016) ‘Genomic insights into the peopling of the Southwest Pacific’, Nature, 538(7626), pp. 510-513.
Fu, Q. M., Posth, C.*, Hajdinjak*, et al. (2016) ‘The genetic history of Ice Age Europe’, Nature, 534(7606), pp. 200-205.
Posth, C., Renaud, G., Mittnik, A., et al. (2016) ‘Pleistocene Mitochondrial Genomes Suggest a Single Major Dispersal of Non-Africans and a Late Glacial Population Turnover in Europe’, Current Biology, 26(6), pp. 827-33.
Archäo- und Paläobotanik (botanische Makroreste, v. a. Holzanatomie)
Paläoumwelt
Subsistenz im Paläolithikum
Nutzpflanzen des Menschen (Nahrung, Rohmaterial, etc.)
Beruflicher Werdegang
Seit Oktober 2023
Projektkoordinatorin GACT (Tübingen)
2022-2023
Eventmanagerin am Tübingen AI Center
2021
Bereichsleitung Bildung Bayern und wissenschaftliche Referentin bei der Initiative Junge Forscherinnen und Forscher e.V. (Würzburg)
2019-2021
Projektkoordinatorin für die Stiftung Weltethos (Tübingen)
2015-2019
Referentin Forschung bei der Baden-Württemberg Stiftung gGmbH (Stuttgart)
2014-2015
Wissenschaftliche Projektkoordinatorin für Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment (Tübingen)
2014
Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft am eScience-Center, Universität Tübingen
Akademischer Werdegang
2020-2022
Fernstudium zur Geprüften Kulturmanagerin an der Deutschen Akademie für Management (Abschluss mit 1,3)
15.12.2014
Disputation zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades Dr. rer.-nat. (magna cum laude)
2009-2014
Promotion im Bereich Ältere Urgeschichte und Quartärökologie: „Die Pflanzen von Schöningen. Botanische Makroreste aus den mittelpleistozänen Ablagerungen und das Nutzungspotential einer interglazialen Paläoflora.“
2009
Magister artium an der Uni Tübingen in Kooperation mit Uni Frankfurt mit einem Stipendium der Markelstiftung: „Archäobotanische Untersuchung von Frucht- und Samenfunden aus der Fundstelle Mege (Nordost-Nigeria).“
2002-2008
Studium der Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters, Vorderasiatischen Archäologie, Geologie und Paläontologie in Tübingen. Abschluss: Magister artium (Abschluss mit 1,6):.
Fortbildungen
2021
Managementtraining für Führungskräfte (IHK Würzburg)
2020
Open Educational Resources H5P und CodiMD (Nele Hirsch)
Interkulturelle Kompetenzen (Landeszentrale für politische Bildung)
2017-2018
Fortbildungen zu Social Media, DSGVO, Bildrechte, Storytelling, Moderationstechniken (verschiedene Anbieter)
2009-2014
Kurse u. a. am ZDV der Uni Tübingen zu: Access, VBA, SQL, MySQL, Python, Adobe Suite, Webdesign (HTML, CSS, Typo3, WordPress), XML
2011-2012
Holzanatomie bei Fritz H. Schweingruber und Werner H. Schoch
Lehrerfahrung und Wissensvermittlung
Lehre im Bereich Archäobotanik (Seminare, Übungen, einzelne Vorträge) an den Universitäten Tübingen und Leipzig
Exkursionen im Bereich Urgeschichte
Wissenschaftliche und populärwissenschaftliche Vorträge (u. a. VHS, diverse Museen, Archäoakademie Blaubeuren) und Führungen
MINT-Workshops und Demokratie- und Wertevermittlung für Jugendliche an Schulen
Steinzeitwerkstatt für Kinder
Conard, N.J., Serangeli, J., Bigga, G. et al. A 300,000-year-old throwing stick from Schöningen, northern Germany, documents the evolution of human hunting. Nat Ecol Evol 4, 690–693 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1139-0
Serangeli, J., Rodríguez-Álvarez, B., Tucci, M., Verheijen, I., Bigga, G., Böhner, U., Urban, B., van Kolfschoten, T., Conard, N. J., The Project Schöningen from an ecological and cultural perspective. Quaternary Science Reviews, Volume 198 (2018) 140-155.
Bigga, G., Die Pflanzen von Schöningen. Botanische Makroreste aus den mittelpleistozänen Ablagerungen und das Nutzungspotential einer interglazialen Paläoflora (2018).
Bigga, G., Schoch, W. H., Urban, B., Paleoenvironment and possibilities of plant exploitation in the Middle Pleistocene of Schöningen (Germany). Insights from botanical macro-remains and pollen. Journal of Human Evolution, Volume 89 (2015), 92-104.
Urban, B., Bigga, G., Environmental reconstruction and biostratigraphy of Upper Middle Pleistocene lakeshore deposits at Schöningen. Journal of Human Evolution, Volume 89 (2015), 57-70.
Schoch, W. H., Bigga, G., Böhner, U., Richter, P., Terberger, T., New insights on the wooden weapons from the Paeolithic site of Schöningen. Journal of Human Evolution, Volume 89 (2015), 1-12.
Abbt, M., Bigga, G., Körner, K., Lang, M., Schwabe, F., Svoboda, D. F., Auf den Spuren von Julius Euting durch den Orient – eine virtuelle Forschungsreise (2015). Digital Classics Online 1. http://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/dco/article/view/18453/14273
Our working group understands Biogeology in the sense of investigating biological questions in the framework of geological times. The focus is on biological processes and how organisms lived in the past, within the context of a long time-scale perspective.
We aim to understand how organisms adapted in response to environmental changes, either abiotic (climate change) or biotic (species extinction, invasion or evolution) and conversely how organisms influenced the environment around them (biotic and abiotic aspects). We are not only interested in the life history of specific organisms (autecology) but also in the way organisms interacted (synecology).
Our research covers a wide range of geological time periods, dating as far back as the Jurassic but with a special focus on hominid relevant time periods i.e. the Miocene to the Anthropocene (~23 Ma-present). The focus is essentially on terrestrial ecosystems, with projects all across the globe.
Our main investigative approach is isotopic tracking within the organic and mineral fractions of ancient skeletal remains (bones and teeth) of both hominids and terrestrial animals. This methodological tool provides us with information about interactions between animals and hominids, particularly relating to diet, landscape and ecosystem utilization. We look at animals, many now extinct, including the woolly mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, giant deer, cave lion, cave bear, Neanderthal, as well as ancient modern humans in order to determine specific palaeo-ecological information. One particular focus of our research is understanding changes of past biodiversity related to environmental change, natural or caused by hominids, especially the processes that lead to species extinctions and their ecological consequences, in order to provide useful insights for the preservation of future biodiversity.
Isotopic ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS) measures the variations of isotopic abundances in samples by separating and quantifying the number of heavy and light isotopes of a given element. By using IRMS of elements such as carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, sulphur and deuterium in different biogenic fractions of ancient bones and teeth (collagen, amino acids, carbonates, etc…), an “isotopic signature” for a sample can be measured. This is because all living things (plants and animals) are made up of atoms, which are taken up from food, water and air and are eventually deposited in an organism’s cells. The unique composition of these atoms somewhat reflects the natural surroundings of an organism or more particularly its diet. Therefore, IRMS helps us to reconstruct palaeo-environmental information such as dietary preference (e.g. terrestrial carnivory, omnivory, herbivory or aquatic based diet), environmental niche and ecological interactions.
The Fog Plant Oases (FPO) Project
The underlying premise of this project is that fog harvesting plants initiate the succession of mini ecosystems in deserts by modifying the abiotic environment to their favor, thereby building niches for other organisms. Such fog plant oases (FPOs) evolved independently from each other in the coastal deserts of Namib (Namibia) and Atacama (Chile) under similar abiotic boundary conditions. Together with our partners from the Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz (SMNG) and two Namibia-based scientists from the Gobabeb Research Station, we formed a research consortium to study the tussocks of the Namib desert dune grass (S. Sabulicola), which represents such fog collecting plants in the hyper-arid environment. We aim to investigate the ability of S. sabulicola to modify the composition and the structure of the substrate it settles on in a way that favors the recycling of water and nutrients, as well as on the establishment of soil fauna communities. By employing the strength of isotopic analysis, we aim to identify the trophic connection between the belowground soil fauna and the aboveground substrate. Currently, we are planning a field excursion to the Namib Desert which will take place in August-September 2022.
Research actors:
Hervé Bocherens (SHEP), Tatiana Miranda (SHEP), Martin Ebner (SHEP), Huei Ying Gan (SHEP), Karin Hohberg (SMNG), Clément Schneider (SMNG), Ricarda Lehmitz (SMNG), Gillian Maggs-Kölling (Gobabeb), Eugene Marais (Gobabeb)
Main research interests
• Interaction of primates, hominins and humans with their environment through time
• Evolution of mammalian communities in interaction with their environment
• Isotopic tracking of terrestrial paleoecosystems
• Conservation paleobiology
Since 2008 Professor, Chair of Biogeology, Department of Geosciences, Univ. Tübingen (Germany)
2006 – 2007 Invited Researcher, Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters, Univ. Tübingen (Germany)
2005 – 2006 Humboldt Foundation Senior Research Fellow, Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters, Univ. Tübingen (Germany)
2003 – 2004 Invited Researcher, Prairie & Northern Wildlife Research Centre, Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment Canada, Saskatoon (Canada)
2001 – 2008 Associate Researcher, CNRS, Inst. Sciences de l’Evolution, Univ. Montpellier 2 (France)
1996 – 2001 Associate Researcher, CNRS, Lab. Biogéochimie Isotopique, Univ. Paris 6. (France)
1994 – 1996 Assistant Researcher, CNRS, Lab. Biogéochimie Isotopique, Univ. Paris 6. (France)
1992 – 1994 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Carnegie Institution & Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C. (USA)
List of Publications (10 exemplary publications of the last 4 years – out of 180 peer-reviewed articles since 1988)
Bocherens, H., 2018. The rise of the anthroposphere since 50,000 years: an ecological replacement of megaherbivores by humans in terrestrial ecoystems? Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 6:3.https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2018.00003
Bocherens, H. 2019. Isotopic insights on cave bear palaeodiet. Historical Biology 31: 410-421. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2018.14465419
Bocherens, H., Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, M.,Moncel, M.-H., Daujeard, C., Raynal, J.-P., 2016. Direct isotopic evidence for subsistence adaptability in middle Pleistocene Neandertals (Payre, southeastern France). Quaternary Science Reviews 154: 226-236.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.11.004
Bocherens, H., Cotte, M., Bonini, R., Straccia, P., Scian, D., Soibelzon, L., Prevosti, F.,J., 2017. Isotopic insight on paleodiet of extinct Pleistocene megafaunal xenarthrans from Argentina. Gondwana Research 48: 7-14, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2017.04.003
Drucker, D.G., Naito, Y.I., Péan, S.C., Prat, S., Crépin, L., Patou-Mathis, M., Chikaraishi, Y., Ohkouchi, N., Puaud, S., Lázničková-Galetova, M., Yanevich, A., Bocherens, H., 2017. Isotopic analyses suggest mammoth and plant in the diet of the oldest anatomically modern humans from far southeast Europe. Scientific Reports 7: 6833. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-07065-3
Hofman-Kaminska, E., Bocherens, H., Borowik, T., Drucker, D.G., Kowalczyk, R., 2018. Stable isotope signatures of large herbivore foraging habits across Europe. PLoS ONE 13(1): e0190723. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0190723
Ma, J., Wang, Y., Jin, C., Hu, Y., Bocherens, H., 2019. Ecological flexibility and differential survival of Pleistocene Stegodon orientalis and Elephas maximus in mainland southeast Asia revealed by stable isotope (C, O) analysis. Quaternary Science Reviews 212 : 33-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.03.021
Owocki, K., Kremer, B., Cotte, M., Bocherens, H., 2019. Diet preferences and climate inferred from Oxygen and Carbon isotopes of tooth enamel of Tarbosaurus baatar (Nemegt Formation, Mongolia) Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology in press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.05.012
Posth, C., Wißing, C., Kitagawa, K., Pagani, L., Racimo, F., van Holstein, L., Wehrberger, K., Conard, N.J., Kind, C.J., Bocherens, H., Krause, J., 2017. Deeply divergent archaic mitochondrial genome provides lower time boundary for African gene flow into Neandertals. Nature Communications 8: 16046.https://doi.org/ 10.1038/ncomms16046
Wißing, C., Rougier, H., Baumann, C., Comeyne, A., Crevecoeur, I., Drucker, D.G., Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S., Germonpré, M., Gómez-Olivencia, A., Krause, J., Matthies, T., Naito, Y.I., Posth, C., Semal, P., Street, M., Bocherens, H., 2019. Stable isotopes reveal patterns of diet and mobility in last Neandertals and first modern humans in Europe. Scientific Reports 9:4433. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-41033-3
see also Research-ID (F-3580-2011) and ORCID-ID (0000-0002-0494-0126)
pdfs of (almost) all publications can be downloaded at:
Isotopic tracking of terrestrial ecosystems evolution
Academic background
Since 2017 Research Fellow, Senckenberg Centre HEP at Univ. Tübingen (Germany)
2017: Habilitation in Paleobiology and Archeological Sciences, Department of Geosciences, AG Biogeology, Univ. Tübingen (Germany)
2012 – 2017 Margarete-von-Wrangell Habilitation program for women fellow (ESF, Baden-Württemberg), Department of Geosciences, AG Biogeology, Univ. Tübingen (Germany)
2009 – 2012 Research assistant, Department of Geosciences, AG Biogeology, Univ. Tübingen (Germany)
2007 – 2009 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation post-doc fellow, Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters, Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie, Universität Tübingen (Germany)
2005 – 2006 CNRS SHS 22 post-doc fellow, Archéologies et Sciences de l’Antiquité – UMR 7041, Archéologies environnementales, MAE, Nanterre (France)
2003 – 2004 Fyssen Foundation post-doc fellow, Prairie & Northern Wildlife Research Centre, Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment Canada, Saskatoon (Canada)
2001 – 2003 Post-doc fellow, Lab. Paleontologie, Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution, Univ. Montpellier 2 (France)
1997 – 2001 Ph.D. in Biogeochemistry, Lab. Biogéochimie Isotopique, Univ. Paris 6, Paris (France)
List of Publications (12 most representative over the last 4 years)
Drucker, D.G., Stevens, R.E., Germonpré, M., Sablin, M.V., Péan, S., Bocherens, H., 2018. Collagen stable isotopes provide insights into the end of the mammoth steppe in the central East European plains during the Epigravettian. Quaternary Research 90, 457-469.
Drucker, D.G., Valentin, F., Thevenet, C., Mordant, D., Cottiaux, R., Delsate, D., Van Neer, W., 2018. Aquatic resources in human diet in the Late Mesolithic in Northern France and Luxembourg: insights from carbon, nitrogen and sulphur isotope ratios. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences10(2), 351-368. doi:10.1007/s12520-016-0356-6
Fellows Yates, J.A., Drucker, D.G., Reiter, E., Heumos, S., Welker, F., Münzel, S.C., Wojtal, P., Lázničková-Galetová, M., Conard, N.J., Herbig, A., Bocherens, H., Krause, J., 2017. Central European woolly mammoth population dynamics: insights from late Pleistocene mitochondrial genomes. Scientific reports, 7(1), 17714.
Drucker, D.G., Naito, Y.I., Péan, S., Prat, S., Crépin, L., Chikaraishi, Y., Ohkouchi, N., Puaud, S., Lázničková-Galetová, M., Patou-Mathis, M. and Yanevich, A., 2017. Isotopic analyses suggest mammoth and plant in the diet of the oldest anatomically modern humans from far southeast Europe. Scientific Reports7.
Münzel, S.C., Wolf, S., Drucker, D.G., Conard, N.J., 2017. The exploitation of mammoth in the Swabian Jura (SW-Germany) during the Aurignacian and Gravettian period. Quaternary International 445, 184-199.
Jürgensen, J., Drucker, D.G., Stuart, A., Schneider, M., Buuveibaatar, B., Bocherens, H., 2017. Diet and habitat of the saiga antelope during the late Quaternary using stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios. Quaternary Science Reviews 160, 150-161.
Fu, Q., Posth, C., Hajdinjak, M., Petr, M., Mallick, S., Fernandes, D., Furtwängler, A., Haak, W., Meyer, M., Mittnik, A., Nickel, B., Peltzer, A., … Drucker, D.G., Svoboda, J., Richards, M.P., Caramelli, D., Pinhasi, R., Kelso, J., Patterson, N., Krause, J., Pääbo, S., Reich D., 2016. The genetic history of Ice Age Europe. Nature 534, 200-205.
Drucker, D.G., Rosendahl, W., Van Neer, W., Weber, M.-J., Görner, I., Bocherens, H., 2016. Environment and subsistence in northwestern Europe during the Younger Dryas: an isotopic study of the human of Rhünda (Germany). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 6, 690-699.
Kuitems, M., van der Plicht, J., Drucker, D.G., van Kolfschoten, T., Palstra, S.W.L., Bocherens, H., 2015. Carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes of well-preserved Middle Pleistocene bone collagen from Schöningen (Germany) and their palaeoecological implications. Journal of Human Evolution 89, 105-113.
Immel, A., Drucker D.G., Münzel, S.C., Schünemann, V., Bonazzi, M., Herbig, A., Kind, C.-J., Krause, J., 2015. Mitochondrial genomes of Giant Deers suggest their late survival in Central Europe. Nature Scientific Reports 5, 10853.
Drucker, D.G., Vercoutère, C., Chiotti, L., Nespoulet, R., Crépin, L., Conard, N.J., Münzel, S.C., Higham, T., van der Plicht, J., Lázničková-Galetová, M., Bocherens, H. 2015. Tracking possible decline of woolly mammoth during the Gravettian in Dordogne (France) and the Ach Valley (Germany) using multi-isotope tracking (13C, 14C, 15N, 34S, 18O). Quaternary International 359-360, 304-317.
Bocherens, H., Hofman-Kamińska, E., Drucker, D.G., Schmölcke, U., Kowalczyk, R., 2015. European bison as a refugee species? Evidence from isotopic data on Early Holocene bison and other large herbivores in northern Europe. PLoS ONE 10(2), e0115090.
Since 10/2017 Researcher and SEM Lab manager at Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment (HEP)
2014 – 2017 Post doc Project developed in partnership between Univ. Tübingen – Geosciences and Department of Art and Design of the university PUC-Rio, Brazil.
2009 – 2013 PhD Student at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany
2007 – 2009 Tutor for the course “Introduction to Pollen Analysis” and field work for the BMBF Project 3D Bio-filter at Geosciences – University Tübingen.
2003 – 2005 Master´s Student at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Brazil
2001 – 2003 Field biologist for t project “Inventory of epiphytical orchids and their pollinators in Plateau of Araucarias in southern Brazil” at PUCRS, Brazil
1996 – 2000 Graduate studies in biology at PUCRS, Brazil
Publications
Anita Roth-Nebelsick, Wilfried Konrad, Martin Ebner, Tatiana Miranda, Sonja Thielen, James H Nebelsick (2022). When rain collides with plants — patterns and forces of drop impact and how leaves respond to them, Journal of Experimental Botany, erac004. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erac004
Konrad Wilfried, Roth-Nebelsick Anita, Kessel Benjamin, Miranda Tatiana, Ebner Martin, Schott Rena and Nebelsick James H. (2021). The impact of raindrops on Salvinia molesta leaves: effects of trichomes and elasticity, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 182021067620210676. http://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2021.0676
Ingmar Werneburg, Anna Krahl, Andreas T. Matzke, Henrik Stöhr, Tatiana Miranda, Annett Junginger, Hartmut Schulz, Martin Ebner, Sibylle Wolf, Agnes Fatz, Madelaine Böhme (2021). Denkschrift zur Bedeutung und zum Zustand der Senckenberg-verwalteten Paläontologischen Sammlung an der Eberhard-Karls-Universität in Tübingen, anno 2021, nebst einem Konvoluten-Inventar ihrer Petrefakte, ihres Literaturbestandes sowie einer möglichen Zukunftsperspektive zum Erhalt und zur Erschließung derselben.
Riczar Fuentes, Rintaro Ono, Nasrullah Aziz, Sriwigati, Nico Alamsyah, Harry Octavianus Sofian, Tatiana Miranda, Faiz, Alfred Pawlik (2021). Inferring human activities from the Late Pleistocene to Holocene in Topogaro 2, Central Sulawesi through use-wear analysis, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Volume 37, 102905, ISSN 2352-409X. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.102905
Roth-Nebelsick, A., Miranda, T., Ebner, M.et al. (2021). From tree to architecture: how functional morphology of arborescence connects plant biology, evolution and physics. Palaeobio Palaeoenvhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-020-00466-9
Miranda, T., Roth-Nebelsick, A., Junginger, A., Ebner, M. (2020). Habitat conditions, spatial distribution and trichome morphology of different species of Tillandsia growing on trees on the Ilha Grande Island, Brazil.Flora 272, November 2020, 151692. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.flora.2020.151692
Heidgen, S., Marinova, E., Krauß, R., Nelle, O., Ebner, M., Märkle, T., Miranda, T., Bofinger, J., Klingler, S., Junginger, A. (2020). Palaeoenvironment and potential resources for early Holocene subsistence in the Ammer River Valley (Germany) based on palaeoecological and bioarchaeological evidence.Quaternary International, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.05.038
Fuentes, R., Ono, R., Carlos, J., Kerfant, C., Sriwigati, Miranda, T., Azis, N., Sofian, H.O., Pawlik, A. (2020). Stuck within notches: Direct evidence of plant processing during the last glacial maximum to Holocene in North Sulawesi. Journal of Archeological Science: reports 30 (2020) 102207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102207
Ebner, M., Poli, F., Keil, R., Radtke, R. & Miranda, T. (2020). Die Epiphyten in den Baumkronen des brasilianischen Küstenregenwaldes als Modelle zur Gewinnung und Einsparung von Wasser. In: Werneburg I., Betz O. Phylogenie, Funktionsmorphologie und Bionik. Schriften zum 60. Phylogenetischen Symposium in Tübingen. Scidinge Hall Verlag Tübingen, 332 Seiten. ISBN: 978-3-947020-10-2
Fuentes, R., Ono, R., Nakajima, N., Nishizawa, H., Siswanto, J., Aziz, N., Sriwigati, Sofian, H.O., Miranda, T., Pawlik, A. (2019). Technological and behavioral complexity in expedient industries: The importance of use-wear analysis for understanding flake assemblages. Journal of Archaeological Science, ISSN: 0305-4403, Vol: 112, Page: 105031. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2019.105031
Miranda T., Ebner M., Traiser C. Roth-Nebelsick A. (2013). Diurnal pattern of stomatal conductance in the large-leaved temperate liana Aristolochia macrophylla depends on spatial position within the leaf lamina. Annals of Botany 05/2013; 111(5):905-15.
Tötzke C., Miranda T., Konrad W., Gout J., Kardjilov N., Dawson M., Manke I., Roth-Nebelsick, A. (2013). Visualization of embolism formation in the xylem of liana stems using neutron radiography. Annals of Botany 02/2013, 111(4).
Miranda T. (2013). Water Relations of Lianas. Dissertation der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, 99p.
Voigt D., Roth-Nebelsick A., Miranda T., Ebner M., Gorb S. (2012). Visualization of small water droplets on surfaces with different degree of wettability by using Cryo-Scanning Electron Microscopy.Journal of Advanced Microscopy Research 03/2012; 7(1-7):1-4.
Roth-Nebelsick A., Ebner M.,Miranda T., Gottschalk V., Voigt D., Gorb S., Stegmaier T., Sarsour J., Linke M., Konrad W. (2012). Leaf surface structures enable the endemic Namib desert grass Stipagrostis sabulicola to irrigate itself with fog water. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 02/2012; 9(73):1965-74.
Ebner M., Miranda T., Roth-Nebelsick A. (2011) Efficient fog harvesting by Stipagrostis sabulicola (Namib dune bushman grass). Journal of Arid Environments 01/2011; 75(6):524-531. DOI:10.1016/j.jaridenv.2011.01.004
Ebner M., Miranda T., Roth-Nebelsick A. (2010) Fog harvest by Stipagrostis sabulicola as a survival strategy to overcome water stress on sand dunes of the hyper arid Namib Desert. Gobabeb Newsletter of the Research Station Namib 2010 5(2): 16.
Miranda T., Ebner M., Solé M., Kwet A. Spatial, seasonal and intra polulational variation in the diet of Pseudis cardosoi (Anura-Hylidae) from the araucaria Plateau of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.South American Journal of Herpetology 06/2006; 1(2):121-130.
Solé M. & Miranda T. (2006). T. Sub- Aquatic feeding in the Hylidae frog Pseudis cardosoi (Anura, Hylidae) from Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil. Bol. De la Asoc. Herp. Esp. 17: 101-102
Miranda T., Ebner M., Solé M., Kwet A.(2005). Estimativa populacional de Pseudis cardosoi (Anura: Hylidae), com emprego de método fotográfico para reconhecimento individual. Biociências 6/2005; 13:49-54
Kwet A., Miranda T., Zillikens A. (2004). Hyla albomarginata Geographic distribution. Herpetological Review 35:78.
Kwet A. & Miranda T. (2002) Hyla prasina First Record. Herpetological Review 4(32):271.
Kwet A., Solé M., Miranda T., Melchiors J., Naya D.E., Maneyro R. (2002). First record of Hyla albopunctata Spix, 1824 (Anura: Hylidae) in Uruguay, with comments on the advertiment call. Cuadernos de Bioetica: Revista oficial de la Asociacion Espanola de Bioetica y Etica Medica Bol. Asoc. Herp. Esp. 13:1-2.
Kwet A. & Miranda T. (2001). Zur Biologie und Taxonomie der Schwarz-Kröte Melanophryniscus atroluteus (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920).Herpetofauna 10/2001, 134:19-27.
Book Chapters
Ebner, M., Poli, F., Keil, R., Radtke, R. & Miranda, T. (2020) Die Epiphyten in den Baumkronen des brasilianischen Küstenregenwaldes als Modelle zur Gewinnung und Einsparung von Wasser. In: Phylogenie, Funktionsmorphologie und Bionik. Schriften zum 60. Phylogenetischen Symposium in Tübingen. Werneburg I., Betz O. (2020). Scidinge Hall Verlag Tübingen, 332 Pages. ISBN: 978-3-947020-10-2
Ebner M., Roth-Nebelsick A., Miranda, T., Lopes J., Belmonte S., Coreixas Kuroki I., Kuroki I. (2013). Bromelias Bromeliads. In: 3D Technologies: Unveiling the past, shaping the future, 1. edited by Jorge Lopes, Antonio Brancaglion Jr, Serg io AlexAzevedo, Heran Werner Jr., chapter Bromelias Bromeliads: pages 132-139; Lexicon., ISBN: 978-85-8300-003-7
Contribution to conferences
Miranda, T., Poli, F., Carlos, J., Kerfant, C., Ono, R., Fuentes, R. (2021), Identification of microfossils of hominin tools from late Pleistocene using microscopy and energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDS). PANOS Spring Meeting 2021 – Building an Imaging Network, Contribution ID 35, Poster.
Crazzolara, C., Ebner, M., Platis, A.,Miranda, T., Bange, J., Junginger, A. (2018). A new multicopter-based unmanned aerial system for pollen and spores collection in the atmospheric boundary layer. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Discuss,, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2018-305
Crazzolara, C., Platis, A., Bange, J., Junginger, A., Ebner, M., Miranda, T. (2017) EMS2017-549 First results on the concentration of biogenic airborne particles in the ABL collected with a new developed particle sampling unit carried by a multirotor UAV. multirotor UAV.EMS Annual Meeting at Dublin, Ireland Abstracts. 14, EMS2017-549.
Miranda, T., Junginger A., Harter-Marques, B., Cardoso, N., Engels, W., Radtke, R., Ebner, M. Flowering pattern of epiphytic orchids in rainflorests of the Planalto das Araucárias in Southern Brazil. 9° Deutsch-Brasilianisches Symposium – 15-17/09/ 2019 – University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart – Book of Abstracts.
Thielen, S. M., Ebner, M., Miranda, T., Nebelsick, J. H., Roth-Nebelsick, A. (2019). Moss-water interactions: Effects of dehydration and hydration on moss surface structures. Poster presentation at the joint Conference of the International Association of Bryologists, the International Molecular Moss Science Society and the Sociedad Española de Briología,9-12/07/2019 Madrid, Spain.
Thielen, S. M., Ebner, M., Miranda, T., Nebelsick, J. H., Roth-Nebelsick, A. (2019). From dry to wet: How moss surface structures interact with water. Oral presentation at the Society for Experimental Biology’s Annual Meeting, 2-5/07/2019 Sevilla, Spain.
Ebner, M., Miranda, T., Konrad, W., Roth-Nebelsick, A. (2012) The Namib desert dune grass Stipagrostis sabulicola as a model for the development of effective fog collectors. International symposium of nature inspired technology. Conference: Proceedings of the isnit 01/2012at Kangwon- South Korea Volume: 1.
The Geoarchaeology Working Group studies the interaction between humans and the Geosphere in the past. We are interested in understanding how environments and landscapes influenced the evolution of human behavior and culture and how human adaptation and innovation allowed people to modify their surroundings.
Members of the Geoarchaeology working group address these research goals through fieldwork conducted on all inhabited continents and on all time periods, ranging from the Lower Paleolithic to the Iron Age. Our group is particularly focused on studying sites related to 1) the emergence of behavioral modernity, 2) human biogeographic expansions into Europe, Asia and the New World, and 3) the development of behaviors related to fire-use, sedentism, and animal domestication.
In addition to fieldwork, our group uses a number of laboratory-based techniques to study human-geosphere interactions. Much of our laboratory analyses focus on the study of archaeological deposits using microscopic techniques. This approach, known as micromorphology, employs intact blocks of sediment which have been indurated with polyester resin and subsequently thin sectioned. Dip.Ing.Panagiotis Kritikakis produces the thin sections in our in-house thin sectioning laboratory. We analyze the samples in our microscopy laboratory which has a suite of petrographic microscopes. Additionally, the organic petrology laboratory in the working group specializes in reflected-light and fluorescence microscopy for the analysis of organic-rich sediments and raw materials (i.e., jet and oil shale).
We are also able to digitally document our samples using a high-resolution scanner. Other digital techniques that we regularly employ include high-resolution 3D documentation of archaeological sites and profiles using photogrammetry (structure-from-motion). The Working Group is at the forefront of developing novel applications of microanalytical techniques in the field of geoarchaeology. Our microanalytics laboratory, headed by Dr. Susan Mentzer, contains a FTIR bench (Cary 660, Agilent) attached to a microscope with integrated ATR and a μXRF (M4 Tornado, Bruker). Additionally, the group has two portable FTIR spectrometers (Cary 630, Agilent) which can be taken into the field.
The Geoarchaeology Working Group is also responsible for curating the Geoarchaeology collection which, with over 15,000 objects, is the largest of its kind worldwide. The collection contains material collected from around the world by Senckenberg and Tübingen researchers as well as materials donated by Drs. Paul Goldberg and Richard MacPhail. The collection contains both archaeological and reference materials.
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
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.
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.
Goldberg, P., Miller, C.E., Mentzer, S.M. (2017). Recognizing fire in the Palaeolithic archaeological record. Current Anthropology 58, S175-S190.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Main research interests
• Geoarchaeology and site formation processes
• Human use of space in Pleistocene cave and rockshelter sites
• Integration of microanalyses and micromorphology in the study of hearths and combustion features
• Anthropogenic and biogenic deposits at the forager-farmer transition
Academic background
since 2017 – Scientist, Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment Tübingen (HEP-Tübingen), Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
2012-2016 – Postdoctoral researcher, Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
2011 – Postdoctoral researcher, HEP-Tübingen
2011 – Ph.D. University of Arizona, Anthropology with concentration in Archaeology and minor in Geosciences
2005 – M.A. University of Arizona, Anthropology with minor in Geosciences
2003 – B.A. Boston University, Archaeology and Earth Sciences
Selected publications
2019 Pothier Bouchard, G., Mentzer, S.M., Buckley M., Wogelius, Negrino, F., Hodgkins, J., Riel- Salvatore, J., Miller C.E. Portable FTIR for on-site screening of archaeological bone intended for ZooMS collagen fingerprint analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 24.
2019 Abell, J.T., Quade, J., Duru, G., Mentzer, S.M., Stiner, M.C., Uzdrurum, M., and M. Özbaşaran Urine salts elucidate Early Neolithic animal management at Aşıklı Höyük, Turkey. Science Advances 5(4), eaaw0038.
2019 Larbey, C., Mentzer, S.M., Ligouis, B., Wurz, S. and M. Jones. Cooked starchy food in a 120,000-year-old hearth from Klasies River Cave, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution 131: 210-227.
2018 Mentzer, S.M., Seil, M., Berthold, C., Adler, H., Chassé, T., Ligouis, B., Miller, C.E. Morphological and Geochemical Analysis of ‘Ubaid Period Plaster Samples from Dosariyah, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. P. Dreschler (ed.) Dosariyah. Re-investigating a Neolithic coastal community in Eastern Arabia. BFSA Monograph Series (Archaeopress).
2018 Wurz, S., Bentsen, S., Van Pletzen-Vos, L., Reynard, J., Brenner, M., Mentzer, S., Pickering, R., and H.E. Green. Connections, culture and environments 100,000 years ago at Klasies River main site. Quaternary International 495 (30): 102-115.
2018 Mentzer, S.M. Micromorphological analyses of anthropogenic materials and insights into tell formation processes at Aşıklı Höyük, 2008-2012 field seasons. M. Özbaşaran, G. Duru and M. Stiner (eds.) The Early Settlement at Asıklı Höyük: Essays in Honor of Ufuk Esin. Istanbul: Ege Yahınları. 105-128.
2018 Mentzer, S.M. Caves and Fissures. S. Lopez Varela (ed) The SAS Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences. Wiley Blackwell.
2017 Goldberg, P., Miller, C.E. and S.M. Mentzer. Recognizing fire in the Paleolithic archaeological record. Current Anthropology 58(18): S175-S190.
2017 Mentzer, S. M., Voyatzis, M., and D.G. Romano. Micromorphological contributions to the study of ritual behavior at the Ash Altar to Zeus on Mt. Lykaion, Greece. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences: 9(6), 1017-1043.
2017 Mentzer, S.M. Isotope Mass Spectrometry (on micro-drilled powders). G. Stoops and C. Nicosia (eds). Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology. Wiley Blackwell. 403-410.
2017 Mallol, C.M., Mentzer, S.M. and C.E. Miller. Combustion Features. G. Stoops and C. Nicosia (eds). Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology. Wiley Blackwell. 299-330.
2017 Villagran, X.S., Huisman, D.J., Mentzer, S.M., Miller, C.E., and M.M.E. Jans. Bone and Teeth. G. Stoops and C. Nicosia (eds). Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology. Wiley Blackwell. 11-38.
2017 Mentzer, S.M. Micro XRF. G. Stoops and C. Nicosia (eds). Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology. Wiley Blackwell. 431-440.
2017 Berthold, C. and S.M. Mentzer. “Micro X-ray diffraction,” G. Stoops and C. Nicosia (eds). Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology. Wiley Blackwell. 417-430.
2017 Mallol, C. and S.M. Mentzer. Contacts under the lens: Perspectives on the role of microstratigraphy in archaeological research. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 9(8): 1645-1669.
2016 Mentzer, S.M. Hearths and Combustion features. A. Gilbert (ed) Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology, Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Heidelberg: Springer: 411-424.
2016 Mentzer, S.M. Rockshelter settings. A. Gilbert (ed) Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology, Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Heidelberg: Springer: 725-743.
2016 Miller, C.E, Mentzer, S.M., Berthold, C., Leach, P., Ligouis,B., Tribolo, C., Parkington, J., Porraz, G. Site formation processes at Elands Bay Cave, South Africa. Southern African Humanities 29:69- 128.
2016 Lowe, K.M, Mentzer, S.M., Wallis, L.A., and J. Schulmeister. A multi-proxy study of anthropogenic sedimentation and human occupation of Gledswood Shelter 1: exploring an interior sandstone rockshelter in Northern Australia. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 1-26.
2016 Wright, D., Thompson, J.C., Schilt, F., Cohen, A.S., Choi, J-H., Mercader, J., Nightengale, S., Miller, C., Mentzer, S., Walde, D., Welling, M., and E. Gomani-Chindebvu. Approaches to Middle Stone Age landscape archaeology in tropical Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science.
2015 Baykara I., Mentzer, S.M., Stiner, M.C., Asmerom, Y., Guleç, E.S. and S. L. Kuhn. The Middle Paleolithic occupations of Üçağızlı II Cave (Hatay, Turkey): Geoarchaeological and archaeological perspectives. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports 4: 409-426.
2014 Mentzer, S.M. Microarchaeological approaches to the identification and interpretation of combustion features in prehistoric archaeological sites. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory: 21(3): 616-668 (2014).
2014 Sanchez, G., Holliday, V.T., Gaines, E.P., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Martínez-Tagüeña, N., Kowler, A. Lange, T., Hodgins, G.W.L., Mentzer, S.M., and I. Sanchez-Morales. Human (Clovis)– gomphothere (Cuvieronius sp.) association ~ 13,390 calibrated yBP in Sonora, Mexico. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111, no. 30: 10972-10977.
2014 Stiner, M.C., Buitenhuis, H., Duru, G. Mentzer, S.M., Munro, N.D., Pöllath, N., Quade, J., Tsartsidou, G., and M. Özbaşaran. The forager-herder trade-off, from broad-spectrum hunting to sheep management at Asıklı Höyük, Turkey. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(23): 8404-8409.
2013 Mentzer, S.M. and J. Quade. Short contribution: Compositional and isotopic analytical methods in archaeological micromorphology. Geoarchaeology 28(1): 87-97.
RESEARCH PROFILE
๏ Occupation: Geologist, Paleoenvironmentalist, Paleoclimatologist working in an interdisciplinary biologi-
cal-geological-chemical-physical context with focus on human evolution, human impact & climate
change.
๏ Research Focus:
(1) Human Evolution & Paleoenvironment (0 – 2.4 Mio. years)
(2) Human-Climate-Biosphere interaction (0 – 150 years)
(3) Analytical Method Development (proxies & machinery)
๏ Methods: lacustrine sediments | drilling lake beds | drill cores & outcrop sampling | catchment studies |
microfossils | geochemistry | strontium & stable isotopes | time series analysis | hydro-balance modeling
| water provenance | sedimentation processes | modern analogues | paleo-seasonality.
๏ Research Locations: Eastern Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi), Morocco, Greece & Southern
Germany.
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS since May 2014 Professor (as Juniorprofessor, non-tenure track) for Micropaleontology | Tuebingen
University, Germany | Department of Geosciences | Core team member of the Senckenberg
Centre for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment (S-HEP) at the University Tübingen |
Positive end-evaluation on May 10, 2019 (Habilitation equivalent). 2012-2014 Postdoc | University of Potsdam, Germany | Institute for Geosciences | Paleoclimate
Dynamics Research Group lead by M.H.Trauth | Kenya: Suguta Valley & East African climate
variability of the past 800,000 years
EDUCATION 2007 – 2011 PhD student | Degree: Dr. rer. nat. | University of Potsdam, Germany | Institute for Geo-
sciences | DFG Graduate School GRK 1364 | Topic: Suguta Valley (Kenya) & East African
climate variability of the past 15,000 years | Supervisor: apl. Prof. Dr. Martin H. Trauth & Prof.
Manfred Strecker 1999 – 2006 Studies in Geosciences | University of Potsdam and Free University Berlin, Germany | Focus
on Geology, Hydrology & Meteorology | Degree: Diplom Geologist | Diploma thesis (equiv.
MSc): Drill core and micro-facies analysis on laminated lake sediments from Lake Nakuru,
Kenya | Supervisor: apl. Prof. Dr. Martin H. Trauth & Dr. Jens Mingram
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL FIELD CAMPAIGNS & WORK EXPERIENCE ABROAD
Since 2003 participation and organization of field trips of several weeks to: Ethiopia (Drilling and field work in
Chew Bahir, Chamo, Abaya | since 2014), Kenya (Drilling and field work: Suguta Valley & Rift Valley lakes | since
2003), Tanzania (field work: Lake Manyara & catchment | 2012), Malawi (drilling and field work: Lake Chilwa &
catchment; Lake Malawi | since 2014), Morocco (field work: Lake Sidi Ali & catchment | 2016), Greece (sam-
pling paleo-lake sequences: Peloponnese, Epirus, Mygdonia | since 2017), USA (LacCore, Minneapolis: Chew
Bahir core opening party | 2015), SW-Germany (Ammer Valley Drilling). Attendance of numerous conferences
and workshops worldwide.
RESEARCH PROJECTS 1 Since 06/2019 Resolving the MIS 9-11 paleo-climate gap in Africa | Angola & Kenya 2 Since 03/2019 Environmental modeling and remote sensing linked to climate proxies | Ethiopia 3 Since 10/2018 Human-climate interaction in the Ammer Valley since 12 ka BP | SW Germany 4 Since 09/2018 Mid-Pleistocene paleoenvironment of Greece | Greece 5 Since 05/2018 Human-Water interactions in Malawi of the past 150 years | Malawi 6 Since 03/2018 Controls of lacustrine sedimentation during continental rift evolution | Kenya 7 Since 01/2018 Human-Climate interactions at the horn of Africa of the past 0.5 Ma | Gulf of Aden 8 Since 11/2017 Water availabilities along hominin dispersal routes of the past 0.5 Ma | Ethiopia, Kenya 9 Since 09/2017 Lake Nakuru: Hydro-climatic variability of the past 50,000 years | Kenya 10 2017-2019 Grain size analysis using the FlowCAM | Method Devel. 11 2017-2019 Geomorphotectonic Evolution of the South Malawi Rift (Shire River) | Malawi 12 2016-2018 MULTIPP: Morocco Desert Margin Project | Morocco 13 2016-2017 Developing an unmanned aerial collection system for pollen & spores | Method Devel. 14 2016-2017 Environmental changes at lake Dendi over the past 11,000 years | Ethiopia 15 Since 2015 Paleobiomics: Metabolic Ecology Field Project at Lake Chilwa | Malawi 16 2013-2018 Member of the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP) | Kenya, Ethiopia 17 Since 2010 Anthropogenic impact on the East African Rift lakes | Kenya, Malawi 18 2007-2013 The structural and environmental history of the Suguta Valley | Kenya 19 2005-2006 Sediment analysis of drill core sediments from Lake Nakuru | Kenya
COLLABORATIONS University of Tübingen department cooperations
1) Environmental physics | Prof. J. Bange | Method developments (pollen collector, deep learning)
2) Environmental system analyses | Jun-Prof. C. Zarfl | East African lake sediments microplastic
3) Paleoanthroplogy | Prof. K. Harvati & V. Tourloukis | Mid-Pleistocene paleoenvironment of Greece
4) Prehistory | Dr. R. Krauss | Ammer Valley coring Project
5) Pre- and Early History | Prof. N. Conard | SW Germany drilling project
6) Biogeology | Prof. H. Bocherens | Mid-Pleistocene paleoenvironment of Greece
National (Germany) cooperations
1) University of Cologne | Prof. F. Schäbitz, Dr. V. Förster | Chew Bahir Drilling Project
2) University of Cologne | Dr. B. Wagner | Lake Dendi Drilling Project
3) University of Potsdam | Prof. M. Trauth | Suguta Valley (I) & Chew Bahir Drilling Project
4) University of Potsdam | Prof. R. Tiedemann | East African lake sediments ancient DNA
5) University Frankfurt | Prof. F. Schrenk | Lake Chilwa & Lake Malawi projects
6) University of Leipzig | Prof. C. Zielhofer | Lake Sidi Ali coring & catchment project
7) University of Greifswald | Dr. Finn Viehberg | Water availabilities Ethiopia 0.5 Ma Project
8) University of Konstanz | Jun.Prof. L. Epp | East African lake sediments ancient DNA
9) Max Planck Research Institute in Mainz | Dr. H. Vonhof | Water availabilities Ethiopia 0.5 Ma Project
10) Senckenberg Centre Frankfurt | Prof. A. Mulch | Mid-Pleistocene paleoenvironment of Greece
11) Geo-Research Centre Potsdam (GFZ) | Dr. J. Kallmeyer | East African lake sediments Microbiology
International cooperations
1) USA: University of Connecticut | Prof. L. Park-Boush | supervisor of shared PhD (dual degree) student
2) USA: New York University | Prof. T. Bromage | Lake Chilwa & Lake Malawi projects
3) USA: University of Arizona | Prof. A. Cohen | Hominin Sites Paleo-Lakes Drilling Project (HSPDP)
4) USA: Berkley Geochronology Centre | Prof. A. Deino | HSPDP & Suguta Valley (I) Project
5) USA: University of Colorado Boulder | Dr. S. Kübler | HSPDP & Suguta Valley (II) Project
6) Canada: University of Saskatchewan | Prof. emerit. R. Renaut | HSPDP & Suguta Valley (II) Project
7) China: University of Hong Kong | Prof. R. B. Owen | HSPDP, Malawi & Suguta Valley (II) Project
8) Ethiopia: University of Addis Abeba | Prof. A. Asrat | HSPDP & Chew Bahir Drilling & Catchment Project
9) Kenya: University of Nairobi | Prof. D. Olago & Dr. L. Olaka | Suguta Valley Project
10) Malawi: University of Zomba | Dr. Z. Dulanya | Lake Chilwa & Shire River Project
11) Greece: University of Athens | Prof. T. Karkanas | Mid-Pleistocene paleoenvironment of Greece
12) UK: Univ. of Aberystwyth | Prof. H. Lamb, Prof. H. Roberts, Dr. S. Davies | Chew Bahir Drilling Project
13) UK: University of Cambridge | Prof. C. Lane | Chew Bahir Drilling Project
Courses every summer term since 2014:
• Geological & botanical mapping course Austrian Alps (Vorarlberg) | BSc | 11 days | Coordin. & Supervisor
Other courses:
• Summerschool in Kenya | M.Sc., PhD | 2011 | Paleoclimate Dynamics of Eastern Africa, 1 week | Lecturer
• Summerschool in Kenya | M.Sc., PhD | 2016 | Designing Posters, 1 week | Lecturer
• Paleobiology Seminar | all department members | every 3rd semester | organization of speakers | 1h Mondays
Supervisor activities
• Since 2012 | Supervision of 12 BSc projects (completed), 1 ongoing (see Table 1)
• Since 2014 | Supervision of 12 MSc projects (completed), 2 ongoing (see Table 1)
• Since 2018 | Supervision of 4 ongoing PhD students
1) Elena Robakiewicz: “Resolving the MIS 9-11 paleo-climate gap in Africa: Hydro-climate reconstruc-
tion using lacustrine sediments across Africa” | Supervisors: (1) Jun.-Prof. A. Junginger (U Tuebin-
gen), (2) Prof. L. Park-Boush (U Connecticut) | Start Date: 06/2019 (Dual PhD)
2) Markus Fischer: “Environmental modeling and remote sensing linked to lacustrine climate proxies:
the rift basin Chew Bahir (Ethiopia) during the late Pleistocene” | Supervisors: (1) Jun.-Prof. A. Jun-
ginger (U Tuebingen), (2) apl. Prof. M. Trauth (U Potsdam) | Start Date: 05/2019
3) Shaddai Heidgen: “Human occupation, activities and environmental changes of the past 50,000
years in two archaeologically well investigated regions in Southwestern Germany” | Supervisors: (1)
Jun.-Prof. A. Junginger (U Tuebingen), (2) Prof. N. Conard (U Tuebingen) | Start Defense: 10/2018
4) Ines Bludau: “Middle-Pleistocene sedimentation history of Greece” | Supervisors: (1) Jun.-Prof. A.
Junginger (U Tuebingen), (2) Prof. K. Harvati (U Tuebingen) | Start Date: 09/2018
Examination board activities
• Since 2017 | Examiner of 19 BSc final oral exams
• Since 2016 | Examiner of 13 PhD defenses (7 chaired)
• Since 2016 | External reviewer of 2 PhD theses
PUBLICATIONS
16 Publications in ISI listed journals since 2009 (9 to be submitted in 2019/2020)
5 Extended abstracts in ISI listed journals
2 Monographs
73 Conference contributions since 2006
OUTREACH
2019 | TV Documentary at PBS | „Climate of the hominins“ | by Doug Prose and Diane LaMacchia (Earth Images
Foundation)
2016 | Web documentary (PALEOBIOMICS PROJECT) | „The human water system of Lake Chilwa“ | by P. Kehm
and S. Edschmidt
2015 | TV show (GEOSHOW UNTERIRDISCH) | Die Chew Bahir Tiefbohrung (Chew Bahir Deep Drilling) | with V.
Foerster & A. Junginger
2014 | Magazin Article (SENCKENBERG) | Rapide Seespiegelschwankungen im Ostafrikanischen Rift | by A.
Junginger
2013 | Blog Article (GEOLOGS BLOG EGU) | Arid lands and ancient lakes | by A. Junginger
2013 | Magazin Article (IMPULSE – VW FOUNDATION) | Von der Wildnis getestet | by B. Sakschewski, S.
Borchardt and A. Junginger
2012 | Magazin Article (PORTAL) | Summerschool in Kenia – Wie die Bildung eines globalen Netzwerks
interdisziplinäre Forschung ermöglicht | by B. Sakschewski, S. Borchardt and A. Junginger
2011 | TV Documentary at PBS-NOVA (USA) | „Becoming Human“ | by Graham Townsley
2010 | TV Documentary at ARTE TV (Germany) | „Das Geheimnis des aufrechten Gangs“| by Joe Siegler, 2010
REFERENCES
Prof. Dr. R. Bernhard Owen, Department of Geography, University Hong Kong | owen@hkbu.edu.hk
Prof. Dr. Mark Maslin, Department of Geography, University College London | m.maslin@ucl.ac.uk
Prof. Dr. Andrew Cohen, Department for Geosciences, University of Arizona | cohen@email.arizona.edu
Prof. Dr. Martin H. Trauth, Department for Geosciences, University of Potsdam | trauth@geo.uni-potsdam.de
Working Group Palaeoanthropology
Our research focus is on Pleistocene human evolution with a special focus on Neanderthal paleobiology and modern human origins; functional anatomy, adaptation and relationship of skeletal morphology to genetics and environment in primates and humans; growth and development in human and non-human primates; and human skeletal analysis. We approach these research topics from a quantitative perspective, and one of the strengths of our section is the use of state of the art computer assisted imaging and analysis techniques, such as virtual anthropology, high resolution computing tomography and geometric morphometrics. Our
imaging laboratory is one of the best equipped in the country.
Team Palaeoanthropology
Prof. Dr. Katerina Harvati
Head of the Working Group and currently Director of the Institute
Main research interests
• Modern human origins
• Neanderthal evolution and paleobiology
• Pleistocene human evolution, phylogeny, taxonomy and adaptation
• Human dispersals
• The peopling of the Americas
• Interactions between the phenotype, genotype and the environment
• Paleoanthropology of South-East Europe
Academic background
Recipient of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2021) and the Landesforschungspreis Baden-Württemberg (2014)
Since 2009 W3 Professor, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
2009 Habilitation in Palaeoanthropology, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
2001 PhD, Anthropology, City University of New York and New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology (NYCEP)
1998 MA, Anthropology, Hunter College, CUNY
1994 BA, Anthropology (Summa Cum Laude), Columbia University, New York
List of Publications (selected from a total of >150 publications)
Harvati K.2022. The hominin fossil record from Greece. In: Vlachos E (ed) The Fossil Vertebrates of Greece Vol. 1 – Basal vertebrates, basal tetrapods, afrotherians, glires, and primates. Springer – Nature Publishing Group, Cham, pp. 669-688
Konidaris G., Athanassiou A., Panagopoulou E., Harvati K. 2022. First record of Macaca (Cercopithecidae, Primates) in the Middle Pleistocene of Greece. Journal of Human Evolution 162, 103104DOI:10.1016/j.jhevol.2021.103104
Karakostis F.A., Haeufle D., Anastopoulou I., Moraitis K., Hotz G., Tourloukis V., Harvati K. 2021. Biomechanics of the human thumb and the evolution of dexterity. Current Biology 31, 1-9
Karakostis F.A., Harvati K. 2021. New horizons in reconstructing past human behavior: Introducing the “Tübingen University Validated Entheses-based Reconstruction of Activity” method. Evolutionary Anthropology 30, 185-198 https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21892
Mori T., Profico A., Reyes-Centeno H., Harvati K. 2020. Virtual reconstruction and geometric morphometric analysis of the mid-Pleistocene hominin KNM-OG 45500 (Olorgesailie, Kenya). Journal of Anthropological Sciences 98, 49-72. doi 10.4436/jass.98022
Harvati K., Röding C., Bosman A., Karakostis F.A., Grün R., Stringer C., Karkanas P., Thompson N.C., Koutoulidis V., Moulopoulos L.A., Gorgoulis V.G., Kouloukoussa M. 2019. Apidima Cave fossils provide earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in Eurasia. Nature 571, 500-504 doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1376-z
Beier J., Anthes N., Wahl J., Harvati K. 2018. Similar cranial trauma prevalence among Neanderthals and Upper Paleolithic humans. Nature 563, 686-690
Karakostis F.A., Hotz G., Tourloukis V., Harvati K. 2018. Evidence for precision grasping in Neandertal daily activities. Science Advances 4, eaat2369
Harvati K., Konidaris G., Tourloukis V. (Eds.) 2018. Human Evolution at the Gates of Europe. Quaternary International Special Issue, Volume 497 Part A, pp. 1-240.
Hublin J.J., Ben-Ncer A., Bailey S., Freideline S., Neubauer S., Skinner M.M., Bergmann I., Le Cabec A., Benazzi S., Harvati K., Gunz P. 2017. New fossils from Jebel Irhoud (Morocco) and the Pan-African origin of Homo sapiens. Nature 546, 289-292 (Cover article)
Harvati K. and M. Roksandic, (Eds.) 2016. Paleoanthropology of the Balkans and Anatolia: Human Evolution and its Context. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series, Springer Verlag: Dordrecht.
Fu Q., 38 authors, Harvati K., Moiseyev V., Drucker D.G., Svoboda J., Pinhasi R., Kelso J., Patterson N., Krause J., Pääbo S., Reich D. 2016. The genetic history of Ice Age Europe. Nature 524, 200-2005
Reyes-Centeno H., Ghirotto S., Détroit F., Grimaud-Hervé D., Barbujani G, Harvati K. 2014. Genomic and Cranial Phenotype Data Support Multiple Modern Human Dispersals from Africa and a Southern Route into Asia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 111, 7248-7253
Harvati K., Darlas A., Bailey S. E., Rein T. R., El Zaatari S., Fiorenza L, Kullmer O., Psathi E. 2013. New Neanderthal remains from Mani peninsula, S. Greece: The Kalamakia Middle Paleolithic cave site. Journal of Human Evolution 64, 486-499
Benazzi S., Douka K., Fornai C., Bauer C. C., Kullmer O., Svoboda J., Pap I., Mallegni F., Bayle P., Coquerelle M., Condemi S., Ronchitelli A., Harvati K., Weber G. W. 2011. Early dispersal of modern hum ans in Europe and implications for Neanderthal behavior. Nature 479, 525-528
Harvati K., Panagopoulou E., Runnels C. 2009. The Paleoanthropology of Greece. Evolutionary Anthropology 18, 131-143 (Cover article)
Grine F.E., Bailey R.M., Harvati K., Nathan R.P., Morris, A.G., Henderson G.M., Ribot I., Pike A.W.G. 2007. Late Pleistocene Human Skull from Hofmeyr, South Africa and Modern Human Origins. Science 315, 226-229 (TIME top 10 discoveries of 2007)
Harvati K. and Weaver T. 2006. Human cranial anatomy and the differential preservation of population history and climate signatures. Anatomical Record 288A, 1225-1233 (Cover article)
Harvati K., Frost S.R., McNulty K.P. 2004. Neanderthal taxonomy reconsidered: Implications of 3D primate models of intra- and inter-specific differences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 101, 1147-1152
Dr. Scherf’s research interests lie in the effects of locomotor loads on internal bony structures of long bones in primates including fossil and extant humans. Analyses of locomotion related structures in extant species are used as comparative basis to interpret the bony morphology in long bones of fossil species with regard to their preferred type of locomotion. In this field of research special attention is paid to:
• Functional adaptation of cancellous bone
• Quantification of the trabecular architecture
• Functional structures in cortical bone
• Application of high resolution CT to fossil bones
• Estimation of habitual locomotor loads
• Estimation of stresses in bone structures caused by habitual locomotion
As accurate handling of digital data, e.g. CT data, build the first step for the interpretation of internal structures, Dr. Scherf has put an additional research focus on the development of reproducible and accurate computerized pre-processing and analysing methods for complex internal bone structures (e.g. cancellous bone).
Current position
since 11/2009
Research Fellow in the Paleoanthropology Section of the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Paleoecology (SHEP),
Institute for Archaeological Sciences at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen Academic background
09/2006 – 10/2009
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Department of Human Evolution (Leipzig, Germany), Postdoctoral fellow
01/2005 – 06/2006
Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung (Frankfurt/Main, Germany), Academic Staff, in charge of the project ‘MultiMedia-Materialien Messel’ of the Senckenberg Nature Research Society
Education
10/2000 – 07/2006
Ph.D. at the Darmstadt University of Technology (Darmstadt, Germany), in cooperation with the Senckenberg Research Insitute (Frankfurt/Main, Germany)
10/1993 – 05/2000
Diploma in Geology and Paleontology at the Darmstadt University of Technology (Darmstadt, Germany) Major: Geology – Palaeontology Qualification: Diploma degree (Dipl. Geol.)
Röding, C., Zastrow, J., Scherf, H., Doukas, C., & K., H. (2021). Crown outline analysis of the hominin upper third molar from the Megalopolis Basin, Peloponnese, Greece. In:
Ancient Connections in Eurasia. Reyes-Centeno, H. & Harvati, K. (eds.) Tübingen: Kerns Verlag, pp. 13-36
Karakostis, F. A., Hotz, G., Scherf, H., Wahl, J., & Harvati, K. (2018). A repeatable geometric morphometric approach to the analysis of hand entheseal three-dimensional form. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol., 166(1), pp. 246-260 doi:10.1002/ajpa.23421
Karakostis, F. A., Hotz, G., Scherf, H., Wahl, J., & Harvati, K. (2017). Occupational manual activity is reflected on the patterns among hand entheses Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 164(1), pp. 30-40 doi:10.1002/ajpa.23253
Scherf H., Wahl J., Hubiln J.J., Harvati K. (2016) Patterns of activity adaptation in humeral trabecular bone in Neolithic humans and present-day people. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol., 159, pp. 106-115 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22835
Scherf, H.; Harvati, K.; Hublin, J.J. (2013) A comparison of proximal humeral cancellous bone of great apes and humans. J. Hum. Evol., 65, pp. 29-38
Scherf H. (2013) Computed tomography in paleoanthropology – an overview. Archaeol. Anthropol. Sci., 5, pp. 205-214, DOI 10.1007/s12520-013-0128-5
Saparin, P.; Scherf, H.; Hublin, J.J.; Fratzl, P.; Weinkamer, R. (2011) Structural Adaptation of Trabecular Bone Revealed by Position Resolved Analysis of Proximal Femora of Different Primates. Anat. Rec., 294[1], pp. 55-67
Preuschoft, H.; Hohn, B.; Scherf, H.; Schmidt, M.; Krause, C.; Witzel, U. (2010) Functional analysis of the primate shoulder. Int. J. Primatol., 31, pp. 301-320
Scherf, H.; Tilgner, R. (2009) A new high resolution-CT segmentation method for trabecular bone architectural analysis. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol, 140[1], pp. 39-51
Scherf, H. (2008) Locomotion-related femoral trabecular architectures in primates – High resolution computed tomographies and their implications for estimations of locomotor preferences of fossil primates. In: Anatomical Imaging. Endo, H. & Frey, R. (eds.) Springer Japan, pp. 39-59
Scherf, H.; Koller, B.; Schrenk, F. (2005) Locomotion related structures in the femoral trabecular architecture of Primates and Insectivores.Senckenbergiana biologica, 85[1], pp. 101-112
Scherf, H.; Beckmann, F.; Fischer, J.; Witte, F. (2004) Internal channel structures in trabecular bone. Optical Science and Technology SPIE’s 49th Annual Meeting, Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 5535 – Developments in X-Ray Tomography IV, Ulrich Bonse, ed., pp. 792-798
Habersetzer, J.; Scherf, H.; Seidel, R.; Beckmann, F. (2004) 3-D-Animation knöcherner Gesamskelette und mikro-tomographischer Skelettdetails von Fossilien aus der Grube Messel. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, 252, pp. 237 – 241
Scherf, H. (2004) Virtuelles 3-D-Modell der Fossilienfundstätte Grube Messel.
Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, 252, pp. 233 – 236
PD Dr. Fotios Alexandros Karakostis is a Senior Scientist in Biological Anthropology (Permanent Academic Staff), leading interdisciplinary projects on the development and use of multidisciplinary approaches for reconstructing habitual behavior in past humans and their interaction with the surrounding environment. He has created and experimentally validated novel methodological approaches, including the “Validated Entheses-based Reconstruction of Activity” (“V.E.R.A.”) method, novel 3D geometric morphometric techniques for analyzing functional morphology, and biomechanical musculoskeletal modeling. His studies have provided new insights into manual dexterity and behavior across fossil hominins and recent human populations. Currently, he is leading the junior research group “Co-evolution of Tool Use and Language.
1. Karakostis, F. A. & Jäger, G. (Editors). (2024). Biocultural Evolution: An Agenda for Integrative Approaches (Edited Volume). Kerns Verlag, Tübingen. http://tinyurl.com/BioculturalEvolution
2. Karakostis, F. A. & Wallace, I. (2023). Climbing influences entheseal morphology in the humerus of mice: An experimental application of the V.E.R.A. methodology. American Journal of Biological Anthropology 181, 130-139. Doi: 10.1002/ajpa.24700
3. Karakostis, F. A. & Hotz. G. (2022). Reflections of manual labor in the hand entheses of early industrial women workers with extensively documented life histories. American Journal of Biological Anthropology 183, e24636. Doi: 10.1002/ajpa.2463
4. Karakostis, F. A., Hauefle D., Anastopoulou, I., Moraitis, K., Hotz, G., Tourloukis, V., Harvati, K. (2021). Biomechanics of the thumb and the evolution of human dexterity. Current Biology 31, 1317-1325. Doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.12.041
5. Karakostis, F. A., Hotz, G., Tourloukis, V., Harvati, K. (2018). Evidence of precision grasping in Neandertal daily activities. Science Advances 4, eaat2369. Doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aat2369
Current position Research associate / Curator of the Human Osteological Collection
Research interests Hannes Rathmann is a Bioarchaeologists specialized in human osteology, dental morphology, population and quantitative genetics, bioinformatics, and programming. His research interests center primarily around questions relating to human migration in the past. He worked on different archaeological projects including the reconstruction of the ancient Greek colonization of the Mediterranean; hunter-gatherer mobility in Ice Age Europe; and out-of-Africa dispersal models. He has conducted fieldwork in several European countries. His work promotes interdisciplinary synergy between Physical Anthropology, Paleogenetics and Archaeology.
University Education
2014 – 2018
Ph.D. Archaeological Sciences / Paleoanthropology (magna cum laude)
Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen
Supervisors: Professor Katerina Harvati and Professor Richard Posamentir
2011 – 2013
M.Sc. Archaeological Sciences / Paleoanthropology (magna cum laude)
Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen
Supervisors: Professor Joachim Wahl and Professor Heinrich Härke
2008 – 2011
B.A. Pre- and Protohistory and Medieval Archaeology (magna cum laude)
Institute for Pre- and Protohistory and Medieval Archaeology, University of Tübingen
Supervisors: Professor Joachim Wahl and Professor Martin Bartelheim
Previous Employments in Academia
2018 – 2019
Research Fellow at the DFG Center for Advanced Studies “Words, Bones, Genes, Tools: Tracking Linguistic, Cultural and Biological Trajectories of the Human Past”, University of Tübingen
2018
Research Assistant at the DFG Center for Advanced Studies “Words, Bones, Genes, Tools: Tracking Linguistic, Cultural and Biological Trajectories of the Human Past”, University of Tübingen
2015 – 2017
Doctoral Fellowship through the Gerda Henkel Foundation, Düsseldorf.
2014
Research Assistant at the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment, University of Tübingen
2014
Research Assistant at the Institute of Classical Archaeology, University of Tübingen
Research Grants
2015 – 2017
Doctoral dissertation grant of the Gerda Henkel Foundation (57,850 Euro).
Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals (by December 2022)
Rathmann H, Stoyanov R, Posamentir R (2022). Comparing individuals buried in flexed and extended positions at the Greek colony of Chersonesos (Crimea) using cranial metric, dental metric, and dental nonmetric traits. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 32 (1): 49-63. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3043
Rathmann H, Reyes-Centeno H (2020). Testing the utility of dental morphological trait combinations for inferring human neutral genetic variation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 117 (20): 10769-10777. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1914330117
Rathmann H, Kyle B, Nikita E, Harvati K, Saltini Semerari G (2019). Population history of southern Italy during Greek colonization. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 170 (4): 519-534. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23937
Rathmann H, Reyes-Centeno H, Ghirotto S, Creanza N, Hanihara T, Harvati K (2017). Reconstructing human population history from dental phenotypes. Scientific Reports 7: 12495. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-12621-y
Reyes-Centeno H, Rathmann H, Hanihara T, Harvati K (2017): Testing modern human out-of-Africa dispersal models using dental non-metric data. Current Anthropology 58 (S17): S406-S417. https://doi.org/10.1086/694423
Rathmann H, Saltini Semerari G, Harvati K (2017). Evidence for migration influx into the ancient Greek colony of Metaponto: A population genetics approach using dental nonmetric traits. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 27: 453-464. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2569
Dr. Giusti’s main research interest lies in the
study of archaeological site formation processes through spatial
analysis. He is specialized in GIS-based documentation of archaeological
excavations and surveys, image-based modeling, database management,
exploratory and hypothesis-driven spatial data analysis. Since 2009 he
is active in several international archaeological research projects.
Main research interests:
Palaeolithic archaeology
Site formation processes
Taphonomy
Spatial analysis
Education
Ph.D. 2014–2018
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany – Institut für Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie,
Paläoanthropologie
M.Sc 2010–2012
University of Ferrara, Italy – Department of Biology & Evolution
International Erasmus Mundus Master in Quaternary and Prehistory
MA (pre Bologna process) 1998–2006
University of Perugia, Italy – Department of Anthropology
Master in Cultural Heritage Management
Professional training
GIS (Geographic Information System) with Free Software, 2012
CTS Bozen, University of Bozen, TrueLite, Faunalia, Italy
QGIS/GRASS, 2011
Faunalia, ItalyDomenico Giusti
Principles and Applications of Global Positioning System (GPS), 2011
CGT, University of Siena, Italy
DataBase, 2011
CGT, University of Siena, Italy
Teaching
Adjunct Lecturer, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
’Open Science. Basic principles and best practices’ (Spring 2021)
Fieldwork experience Excavations
Sala del Fuoco, Grotta del Fiume, 2021, Frasassi, Italy [Scientific and field director]
TSR, 2015–2021, Macedonia, Greece
TSR, 2015–2019, Macedonia, Greece
Marathousa 1, 2014–2019, Megalopolis, Greece
Dibbe Rockshelter, 2018, Oromiya, Ethiopia
Morfi, 2017, Epirus, Greece
Pirro Nord, 2010–2015, Apricena, Italy
Gradiscje di Codroipo, 2009, Codroipo, Italy
Surveys
Awash-Megenta, 2018, Afar, Ethiopia
Megalopolis Basin, 2018, Peloponnese, Greece
Middle Kalamas, 2015–2016, Epirus, Greece
Mygdonia Basin, 2014, Macedonia, Greece
Professional experience
Rescue archaeology
archeoRes, 2013, Cremona, Italy
Arc-Team, 2013, Laives/Leifers, Italy
Archeologia e Restauro, 2013, Bologna, Italy
Archeologia e Restauro, 2010–2012, Bologna, Italy
AR/S Archeosistemi, 2009, Vicenza, Italy
Museums
Centro di Documentazione del Mondo Agricolo Ferrarese, 2008–2009, Italy
Comune di Ferrara, Centro di Documentazione storica, 2007–2008, Italy
Museo Civico Archeologico di Teramo, 2007, Italy
Museo Etnografico Teramano, 2006–2007, Italy
Public sector
Regione Abruzzo, 2006, Italy
Publications Peer-reviewed journal articles
Starkovich B. M., Cuthbertson P., Kitagawa K., Thompson N., Konidaris G. E., Rots V, Münzel S. C., Giusti D., Schmid V. C., Blanco-Lapaz A., Lepers C., Tourloukis V. 2021. Minimal Tools, Maximum Meat: A Pilot Experiment to Butcher an Elephant Foot and Make Elephant Bone Tools Using Lower Paleolithic Stone Tool Technology. Ethnoarchaeology. DOI: 10.1080/19442890.2020.1864877
Sahle Y., Giusti D., Tourloukis V. 2019. Newly discovered Middle Pleistocene hominid-bearing deposits from the Lower Awash basin, Ethiopia. Anthropological Science Brief Communication. DOI: 10.1537/ase.190603.
Sahle Y., Giusti D., Gossa T., Ashkenazy H. 2019. Exploring karst landscapes: new prehistoric sites in south-central Ethiopia. Antiquity Project Gallery 93 (370), 1–6. DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2019.94.
Giusti D., G. E. Konidaris, V. Tourloukis, M. Marini, M. Maron, A. Zerboni, N. Thompson,
G. Koufos, D. S. Kostopoulos, K. Harvati. 2019. Recursive anisotropy: a spatial taphonomic study
of the Early Pleistocene vertebrate assemblage of Tsiotra Vryssi, Mygdonia Basin, Greece. BOREAS.
DOI: 10.1111/bor.12368.
Giusti D., V. Tourloukis, G. E. Konidaris, N. Thompson, P. Karkanas, E. Panagopoulou, K. Har-
vati. 2018. Beyond maps: Patterns of formation processes at the Middle Pleistocene open-air
site of Marathousa 1, Megalopolis Basin, Greece. Quaternary International 497, 137–153. DOI:
10.1016/j.quaint.2018.01.041.
Karkanas P., V. Tourloukis, N. Thompson, D. Giusti, E. Panagopoulou, K. Harvati. 2018. Sedi-
mentology and micromorphology of the Lower Palaeolithic lakeshore site Marathousa 1, Megalopolis
basin, Greece. Quaternary International 497, 123–136. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2018.02.037.
V. Tourloukis, N. Thompson, E. Panagopoulou, D. Giusti, G. E. Konidaris, P. Karkanas, K. Har-
vati. 2018. Lithic artifacts and bone tools from the Lower Palaeolithic site Marathousa 1, Megalopolis,
Greece: Preliminary results. Quaternary International 497, 47–64. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2018.05.043.
Konidaris G. E., A. Athanassiou, V. Tourloukis, N. Thompson, D. Giusti, E. Panagopoulou, K. Har-
vati. 2018. The skeleton of a straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) and other large
mammals from the Middle Pleistocene locality Marathousa 1 (Megalopolis Basin, Greece): prelimi-
nary results. Quaternary International 497, 65–84. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2017.12.001.
Panagopoulou E., V. Tourloukis, N. Thompson, Konidaris G. E., A. Athanassiou, D. Giusti, G. Tsart-
sidou, P. Karkanas, K. Harvati. 2018. The Lower Palaeolithic site of Marathousa 1, Megalopolis,
Greece: Overview of the evidence. Quaternary International 497, 33–46. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2018.06.031.
Marwik B., J. d’Alpoim Guedes, C. M. Barton, L. A. Bates, M. Baxter,
A. Bevan, E. A. Bollwerk, R. K. Bocinsky, T. Brughams, A. K. Carter, C. Conrad, D. A. Contreras,
S. Costa, E. R. Crema, A. Daggett, B. Davies, B. L. Drake, T. S. Dye, P. France, R. Fullager,
D. Giusti, S. Graham, M. D. Harris, J. Hawks, S. Heath, D. Huffer, E. C. Kansa, S. W. Kansa,
M. E. Madsen, J. Melcher, J. Negre, F. D. Neiman, R. Opitz, D. C. Orton, P. Przystupa, M. Raviele,
J. Riel-Salvatore, P. Riris, I. Romanowska, J. Smith, N. Strupler, I. I. Ullah, H. G. V. Vlack,
N. vanValkenberg, E. C. Watrall, C. Webster, J. Wells, J. Wintersand C. D. Wren. 2017. Open
Science in Archaeology. SAA Archaeological Record 17, 8–14. DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/3D6XX
Giusti D. and M. Arzarello. 2016. The need for a taphonomic perspective in spatial analysis:
Formation processes at the Early Pleistocene site of Pirro Nord (P13), Apricena, Italy. Journal of
Archaeological Science: Reports 8, 235–249. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.06.014.
Konidaris G., V. Tourloukis, D. S. Kostopoulos, N. Thompson, D. Giusti,
D. Michailidis, G. Koufos, K. Harvati. 2015. Two new vertebrate localities from the Early Pleis-
tocene of Mygdonia Basin (Macedonia, Greece): Preliminary results. C.R.Palevol 14, 353–362. DOI:
10.1016/j.crpv.2015.05.004.
Panagopoulou E., V. Tourloukis, N. Thompson, A. Athanassiou, G. Tsartsidou, G. E. Konidaris,
D. Giusti, P. Karkanas, K. Harvati. 2015. Marathousa 1: a new Middle Pleistocene archaeological
site from Greece. Antiquity Project Gallery 89(343). DOI: 10.15496/publikation-5878.Domenico Giusti
Chapters in edited volumes
Giusti D. 2021. Investigating the spatio-temporal dimension of past human-elephant interactions: A spatial taphonomic approach. In: Human-Elephant Interactions. From Past to Present. Ed. by Harvati K., Barkai R., Konidaris G., Tourloukis V. Tuebingen.
Menéndez L. P., D. Giusti. 2018. Global and local trends of craniofacial variation in southern South
America. In: New Perspectives on the Peopling of the Americas. Ed. by K. Harvati, G. Jaeger and
H. Reyes-Centeno. Tuebingen: Kerns Verlag.
Published conference abstracts
Giusti D. 2019. Investigating the spatio-temporal dimension of human-elephant interactions: a spatial taphonomic approach. VWS Symposium Human-elephant interactions: from past to present, 16–18 October 2019, Hannover, Germany.
Konidaris G. E., Tourloukis V., Athanassiou A., Giusti D., Thompson N., Panagopoulou E., Karkanas P., Harvati K. 2019. Marathousa 2: A new Middle Pleistocene locality in Megalopolis Basin (Greece) with evidence of human modifications on faunal remains. In: Proceedings of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution 9, 82. Liège.
Tourloukis V., Konidaris G. E., Giusti D., Karkanas P., Thompson N., Athanassiou A., Tsartsi- dou G., Panagopoulou E., Harvati K. 20018. Small tools, big bones: first results from the Lower Palaeolithic site of Marathousa 1, Megalopolis, Greece. XVIII world UISPP Congress. Paris
Giusti D., V. Tourloukis, G. E. Konidaris, N. Thompson, P. Karkanas, E. Panagopoulou, K. Harvati.
2017. Beyond maps: Patterns of formation processes at the Middle Pleistocene open-air site of
Marathousa 1, Megalopolis Basin, Greece. In: Proceedings of the European Society for the Study of
Human Evolution 6, 74. Leiden.
Harvati K., E. Panagopoulou, V. Tourloukis, N. Thompson, P. Karkanas, G. E. Konidaris, A. Athanas-
siou, G. Tsartsidou, D. Giusti. 2017. Marathousa 1: New Lower Paleolithic elephant butchering site
from the Megalopolis basin, Greece. In: Proceedings of the European Society for the Study of Human
Evolution 6, 84. Leiden.
Konidaris G. E., A. Athanassiou, V. Tourloukis, N. Thompson, D. Giusti, E. Panagopoulou, K. Har-
vati. 2017. The Elephas (Palaeoloxodon) antiquus skeleton and other large mammals from the Lower
Palaeolithic locality Marathousa 1 (Megalopolis Basin, Greece): preliminary results. In: Proceedings
of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution 6, 104. Leiden.
Tourloukis V., N. Thompson, E. Panagopoulou, G. E. Konidaris, D. Giusti, A. Athanassiou, G. Tsart-
sidou, P. Karkanas, K. Harvati. 2017. The lithic assemblage and bone tools from the Lower Palae-
olithic site of Marathousa 1, Megalopolis, Greece: first results. In: Proceedings of the European Society
for the Study of Human Evolution 6, 202. Leiden.
Harvati K., E. Panagopoulou, V. Tourloukis, N. Thompson, P. Karkanas, A. Athanassiou, G. E. Konidaris,
G. Tsartsidou, D. Giusti. 2016. New Middle Pleistocene elephant butchering site from Greece. In:
Abstracts of the Paleoanthropology Society 2016 Meeting. PaleoAnthropology, A14–A15.
Giusti D. 2016. Applicazioni FLOSS per l’acquisizione, gestione ed analisi dei dati archeologici. Il
caso studio del sito paleolitico di Pirro Nord, Apricena (FG), Italia. In: ArcheoFOSS – Free, Libre
and Open Source Software e Open Format nei processi di ricerca archeologica. Atti del VIII Workshop
(Catania, 2013). Ed. by F. Stanco and G. Gallo G. Archaeopress.
Giusti D. 2013. A GIS approach to the Paleolithic site of Pirro Nord, Italy: From data management
to spatial analysis through a Wiki documentation. In: Proceedings of the European Society for the
Study of Human Evolution 2, 98. Vienna.
Terrestrial ecosystems and terrestrial climates were and are of crucial importance for the evolution of humans and their environments. They are extremely dynamic and are characterized by a strong spatial and temporal heterogeneity. The research into the ecosystems and the climate of the continents is therefore dependent on the one hand on a chronology that has the highest-resolution as possible and on a spatially extensive data basis, but on the other hand also on a large number of methodological approaches. The group works with vertebrates and plants as proxies and it works terrain-oriented (own field work and excavations). In our research, we also use isotope geochemical and geophysical approaches, as well as database-supported analyses.
Main research interests
• Evolution and palaeobiology of vertebrates
• Hominid evolution
• Neogene continental palaeoclimatology
• Neogene stratigraphy
• Multi-proxy reconstruction of past ecosystems and environments
Academic and professional career
2012-2017 Founding director of the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment (HEP)
2011-2017 Speaker of the department „Palaeobiology“ at the University Tübingen
Since 2009 Professor for Terrestrial Palaeoclimatology at the University Tuebingen, Department of Geoscience, Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoecology (SHEP) and Director of the Paleontological Museum and Collection of the Tuebingen University
2007-2012 Heisenberg fellow and Heisenberg Professor of the German Science Foundation
2007/2008 visiting Professor in Terrestrial Paleontology and Paleoclimate at University Tuebingen
2003 Habilitation in Geology and Paleontology at the Faculty of Earth Sciences of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
2001-2006 Research Assistant at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Paleontology Section of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
1998-2001 Research Fellow, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
1997 Promotion (Dr. rer. nat.) at the Department of Earth Sciences, University Leipzig
1993-1998 Research Assistant at the Institute of Geoscience, University Leipzig
1993 Geoscientist at ENMOTEC GmbH, Freiberg
1992 Diploma in Geology and Palaeontology, TU Bergakademie Freiberg
1987-1992 Student at the Institute of Geology, TU Bergakademie Freiberg
1984-1986 Pestalozzi-Gymnasium, Dresden
List of Publications
AYVAZYAN A, VASILYAN D, BÖHME M 2019. Possible species-flock scenario for the evolution of the cyprinid genus Capoeta (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) within late Neogene lake systems of the Armenian Highland. PLoS ONE 14(5):
e0215543.
GARBIN, M., BÖHME, M., JOYCE, W. 2019. A new testudinoid turtle from the Middle to Late Eocene of Vietnam. PeerJ
FUSS J, UHLIG G, BÖHME M 2018. Earliest evidence of caries lesion in hominids reveal sugar-rich diet for a Middle Miocene dryopithecine from Europe. PLoS ONE 13(8): e0203307. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0203307
BÖHME M, VAN BAAK, CGC, PRIETO J, , WINKLHOFER M, SPASSOV N 2018. Late Miocene stratigraphy, palaeoclimate and evolution of the Sandanski
Basin (Bulgaria) and the chronology of the Pikermian faunal changes. Global and Planetary Changes 170, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2018.07.019
ROCHOLL, A., BÖHME, M., GILG, H.A., POHL, J., SCHALTEGGER, U., WIJBRANS J. (2018): Comment on ‘‘A high-precision 40Ar/39Ar age for the Nördlinger Ries impact crater, Germany, and implications for the accurate dating of terrestrial impact events” by Schmieder et al. (Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 220 (2018) 146–157). Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta in press.
FUSS, J., SPASSOV, N., BÖHME, M., BEGUN, D.R. (2018): Response to Benoit and Thackeray (2017): ‘A cladistic analysis of Graecopithecus’. South African Journal of Science 114(5/6) doi: 10.17159/sajs.2018/a0267.
AYVASYAN, A, VASILYAN D, BÖHME M 2018. 3D morphology of pharyngeal dentition of the genus Capoeta (Cyprinidae): Implications for taxonomy and phylogeny. J Zool Syst Evol Res., DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12217
IVANOV, M., VASILYAN, D., BÖHME, M., ZAZHIGIN, V.S. 2018. Miocene snakes from northeastern Kazakhstan: new data on the evolution of snake assemblages in Siberia. Historical Biology, https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2018.1446086
RAHEEM, D.C., SCHNEIDER, S., BÖHME, M., VASILYAN, D., PRIETO, J. 2017. The oldest known cyclophoroidean land snails (Caenogastropoda) from Asia. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2017.1388298
IVANOV, M., RUTA, M, KLEMBARA, J., BÖHME, M. 2017. A new species of Varanus (Anguimorpha: Varanidae) from the early Miocene of the Czech Republic, and its relationships and palaeoecology. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2017.1355338
BÖHME M, SPASSOV N, EBNER M, GERAADS D, HRISTOVA L, KIRSCHER U, KÖTTER S, LINNEMANN U, PRIETO J, ROUSSIAKIS S, THEODOROU G, UHLIG G, WINKLHOFER M 2017. Messinian age and savannah environment of the possible hominin Graecopithecus from Europe. PLoS ONE 12(5): e0177347. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177347
FUSS J, SPASSOV N, BEGUN DR, BÖHME M 2017. Potential hominin affinities of Graecopithecus from the Late Miocene of Europe. PLoS ONE 12(5): e0177127. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177127
ROCHOLL, A., SCHALTEGGER, U., GILG, H.A., WIJBRANS, J., BÖHME, M. 2017. The age of volcanic tuffs from the Upper Freshwater Molasse (North Alpine Foreland Basin) and their possible use for tephrostratigraphic correlations across Europe for the Middle Miocene. Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch)
DOI 10.1007/s00531-017-1499-0
VASILEIADOU, K., BÖHME, M., NEUBAUER, T.A., GEORGALIS, G.L., SYRIDES, G.E., PAPADOPOULOU, L., ZOUROS, N. 2017. Early Miocene gastropod and ectothermic vertebrate remains from the Lesvos Petrified Forest (Greece). Paläontologische Zeitschrift, DOI 10.1007/s12542-017-0352-x
VASILYAN, D., ZAZHIGIN, V., BÖHME, M. 2017. Neogene amphibians and reptiles (Caudata, Anura, Gekotta, Lacertilia, Testudines) from south of Western Siberia, Russia and Northeastern Kazakhstan. PeerJ 5:e3025; DOI 10.7717/peerj.3025
VASILYAN, D., BÖHME, M., KLEMBARA, J. 2016. First record of fossil Ophisaurus (Anguimorpha, Anguidae) from Asia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 10.1080/02724634.2016.1219739
KIRSCHER, U., PRIETO, J., BACHTADSE, V., ABDUL AZIZ, H., DOPPLER, G., HAGMAIER, M., BÖHME, M. 2016. A biochronologic tie-point for the base of the Tortonian stage in European terrestrial settings: Magnetostratigraphy of the topmost Upper Freshwater Molasse sediments of the North Alpine Foreland Basin in Bavaria (Germany). Newsletters on Stratigraphy 49(3): 445-467.
STÜBNER, K., DROST, K., SCHOENBERG, R., BÖHME, M., STARKE, J., EHLERS, T.A. 2016. Asynchronous timing of extension and basin formation in the South
Rhodope core complex, SW Bulgaria and northern Greece. Tectonics,
10.1002/2015TC004044
TRÖSCHER, A., MAIER, W., RUF, I., HUGOT, J.-P., BÖHME, M. 2015. The epitensoric chorda tympani of Laonastes aenigmamus (Rodentia,
Diatomyidae) and its phylogenetic implications. Mammalian Biology 80 : 96–98.
MENNECART, B., YERLY, B., MOJON, P.O., ANGELONE, C., MARIDET, O., BÖHME, M., PIRKENSEER, C., 2015: A new Late Agenian (MN2a, Early Miocene) fossil assemblage from Wallenried (Molasse Basin, Canton Fribourg, Switzerland). Paläontologische Zeitschrift DOI 10.1007/s12542-015-0275-3
SCHALLER, M., LACHNER, J., CHRISTL, M., MADEN, C., SPASSOV, N., ILG, A., BÖHME, M. 2015: Authigenic Be as a tool to date river terrace sediments? – An example from a Late Miocene hominid locality in Bulgaria. – Quaternary Geochronology 29: 6-15
FUSS, J., PRIETO, J., BÖHME, M. 2015: Revision of the bovid Miotragocerus monacensis Stromer, 1928 (Mammalia, Bovidae) at the Middle to Late Miocene transition in Central Europe. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 276/3: 229-265.
UHL, D., DOLEZYCH, M., BÖHME, M. (2014). Taxodioxylon-like charcoal from
the Late Miocene of western Bulgaria. Acta Palaeobotanica 54(1): 101–111.
CORSINI, J., BÖHME, M., JOUCE, W. (2014). Reappraisal of Testudo antiqua (Testudines, Testudinidae) from the Miocene of Hohenhöwen, Germany. Journal of Paleontology 88(5): 948–966.
HAVLIK, P., JOYCE, W., BÖHME, M. (2014). Allaeochelys libyca, a new Carettochelyine Turtle from the Middle Miocene (Langhian) of Libya. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 55(2): 201–214.
BÖHME, M., AIGLSTORFER, M., ANTOINE, P.-O., APPEL, E., HAVLIK, P., MÉTAIS, G., SCHNEIDER, S., SETZER, TAPPERT, R., UHL, D., PRIETO, J.: Na Duong (northern Vietnam) – an exceptional window into Eocene ecosystems from South-East Asia. Zitteliana A 53: 120-167.
BÖHME, M., GROSS, M., PRIETO, J. (2014). The fossil lagerstaette Gratkorn (Styria, Austria). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 94 (1): 1-4.
GROSS, M., BÖHME, M., HAVLIK, P., AIGLSTORFER, M. (2014). The late Middle Miocene (Sarmatian s.str.) Fossillagerstätte Gratkorn – First decade of research, geology, stratigraphy and vertebrate fauna. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 94 (1): 5-20.
AIGLSTORFER, M.O, BOCHERENS, H., BÖHME, M. (2014). Large Mammal Ecology in the late Middle Miocene locality Gratkorn (Austria). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 94 (1): 189-213.
AIGLSTORFER, M.O, GÖHLICH, U., BÖHME, M., GROSS, M. (2014). A partial skeleton of Deinotherium from the late Middle Miocene locality Gratkorn (Austria). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 94 (1): 49-70.
AIGLSTORFER, M.O, HEISSIG, K., BÖHME, M. (2014). Perissodactyla from the late Middle Miocene locality Gratkorn (Austria). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 94 (1): 71-82.
AIGLSTORFER, M.O, RÖSSNER, G.E., BÖHME, M. (2014). Dorcatherium naui and pecoran ruminants from the late Middle Miocene locality Gratkorn (Austria). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 94 (1): 83-123.
VAN DER MADE, J., PRIETO, J., AIGLSTORFER, M., BÖHME, M. (2014). Taxonomic study of the pigs (Suidae, Mammalia) from the late Middle Miocene of Gratkorn (Austria, Styria). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 94 (4): 595-617.
BÖHME, M., VASILYAN, D. (2014). Ectothermic vertebrates from the late Middle Miocene of Gratkorn (Austria, Styria. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 94 (1): 21-40.
HAVLIK, P., AIGLSTORFER, M.O, BECKMANN, A.K., GROSS, M., KEUPER, M., BÖHME, M. (2014).Taphonomical and ichnological considerations on the late Middle Miocene locality Gratkorn (Styria, Austria) with focus on Large Mammal Taphonomy. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 94 (1): 171-188.
BASTIR, M., BÖHME, M., SANCHIZ, B. (2014). Middle Miocene remains of Alytes (Anura, Alytidae) as an example of the unrecognised value of fossil fragments for evolutionary morphology studies. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(1): 69-79.
CONARD, N.J., KITAGAWA, K., KRÖNNECK, P., BÖHME, M., MÜNZEL, S.C. (2013): The Importance of Fish, Fowl and Small Mammals in the Paleolithic Diet of the Swabian Jura, Southwestern Germany. In: J.L. Clark & J.L. Speth (eds.) Zooarchaeology and Modern Human Origins: Human Hunting Behavior during the Later Pleistocene, Springer. p. 173-190.
REICHENBACHER, B., KRIJGSMAN, W., LATASTER, Y., PIPPÈRR, M., VAN BAAK, C.G.C., CHANG, L., KÄLIN, D., JOST, J., DOPPLER, G., JUNG, D., PRIETO, J., ABDUL AZIZ, H., BÖHME, M., GARNISH, J., KIRSCHER, U., BACHTADSE, V. (2013). A new magnetostratigraphic framework for the Lower Miocene (Burdigalian/ Ottnangian, Karpatian) in the North Alpine Foreland Basin. Swiss J Geosci 106:309–334
DAXNER-HÖCK, G., KOSSLER, A., BÖHME, M. (2013): New data on Biostratigraphy and Palaeoecology of the Olchon Island (Lake Baikal, Siberia). In: Fossil Mammals of Asia – Neogene Biostratigraphy and Chronology, Ed. X. Wang, M. Fortelius, L. J. Flynn. Columbia University Press. p. 508-520.
VASILYAN, D., BÖHME, M., CHKHIKVADZE, V.M., SEMENOV, J.A., JOYCE, W.G. (2013). A new giant salamander (Urodela, Pancryptobranchidae) from the Miocene of Eastern Europe (Grytsiv, Ukraine). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
SCHNEIDER, S., BÖHME, M. & PRIETO, J. (2013): Unionidae (Bivalvia; Palaeoheterodonta) from the Palaeogene of northern Vietnam: exploring the origins of the modern East Asian freshwater bivalve fauna.- Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 11 (3): 337-357.
NEUBAUER, T.A., SCHNEIDER, S., BÖHME, M., PRIETO, J. (2012). First records of freshwater rissooidean gastropods from the Palaeogene of Southeast Asia. Journal of Molluscan Studies (2012) 0 : 1 – 8. doi:10.1093/mollus/eys011
BÖHME, M., VASILYAN, D., WINKLHOFER, M. (2012): Habitat tracking, range dynamics and palaeoclimatic significance of Eurasian giant salamanders (Cryptobranchidae) – indications for elevated Central Asian humidity during Cenozoic global warm periods. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.04.032
VASILYAN D, BÖHME M (2012) Pronounced Peramorphosis in Lissamphibians—Aviturus exsecratus (Urodela, Cryptobranchidae) from the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum of Mongolia. PLoS ONE 7(9): e40665. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0040665
BÖHME M, AIGLSTORFER M, UHL D, KULLMER O (2012) The Antiquity of the Rhine River: Stratigraphic Coverage of the Dinotheriensande (Eppelsheim Formation) of the Mainz Basin (Germany). PLoS ONE 7(5): e36817. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0036817
PRIETO, J., ANGELONE, C., GROSS, M., BÖHME, M. (2012): The pika Prolagus (Ochotonidae, Lagomorpha, Mammalia) in the late Middle Miocene fauna from Gratkorn (Styrian Basin, Austria). Neues Jahrbuch Geologie Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 263/2: 111-118.
SPASSOV, N., GERAADS, D., HRISTOVA, L., MARKOV, G.N., MERCERON, G., TZANKOV, T., STOYANOV, K., BÖHME, M., DIMITROVA, A. (2012): A hominid tooth from Bulgaria: the last pre-human hominid of continental Europe. Journal of Human Evolution 62 (2): 138-145.
IVANOV, M., BÖHME, M. (2011): Snakes from Griesbeckerzell (Langhian, Early Badenian), North Alpine Foreland Basin (Germany), with comments on the evolution of snake faunas in central Europe during the Miocene Climatic Optimum.- Geodiversitas 33 (3): 411-449.
UTESCHER, T., BÖHME, M., MOSBRUGGER, V. (2011): The Neogene of Eurasia: Spatial gradients and temporal trends – The second synthesis of Neclime.- Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 304 (3/4): 196-201, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.03.012
PRIETO, J., HOEK OSTENDE, L.W. VAN DEN, BÖHME, M. (2011): Reappearance of Galerix (Erinaceomorpha, Mammalia) at the Middle to Late Miocene transition in South Germany: biostratigraphic and paleoecologic implications.- Contribution to Zoology 80 (3): 179-189.
BÖHME, M, ABDUL AZIZ, H., PRIETO, J., BACHTADSE, V., SCHWEIGERT, G. (2011): Bio-magnetostratigraphy and the Environment of the oldest Eurasian Hominoid from the Early Miocene of Engelswies (Germany).- Journal of Human Evolution. 61 (3): 332-339. DOI 10.1016/j.jhevol.2011.04.012
GROSS, M., BÖHME, M., PRIETO, J. (2011): Gratkorn – a benchmark locality for the continental Sarmatian s.str. of the Central Paratethys.- International Journal of Earth Sciences. DOI 10.1007/s00531-010-0615-1
BÖHME, M., WINKLHOFER, M., ILG, A. (2011): Miocene precipitation in Europe: Temporal trends and spatial gradients.- Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 304 (3/4): 212-218, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.09.028
KLAUS, S., BÖHME, M., SCHNEIDER, S., PRIETO, J., PHETSOMPHOU, B. (2011): Evidence of the earliest fossil freshwater decapod of Southeast Asia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura). – The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 59(1): 47-51.
BÖHME, M., PRIETO J., SCHNEIDER, S. (2011): Cenozoic basins of Northern Vietnam: biostratigraphy, vertebrate and invertebrate fauna. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 40: 672-687.
FREY, E., MUNK, W., BÖHME, M., MORLO, M., HENSEL, M. (2010): First creodont carnivore from the Rupelian Clays (Oligocene) of the Clay Pit Unterfeld at Rauenberg (Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg): Apterodon rauenbergensis n.sp.- Kaupia 17: 107-113.
PRIETO, J., BÖHMER, C., BÖHME, M., GROSS, M. (2010): Insectivores and bats (Mammalia) from the late Middle Miocene of Gratkorn (Austria): biostratigraphic and ecologic implications. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie – Abhandlungen 258 (1): 107-119.
PEREA, S., BÖHME, M., ZUPANČIC, P., FREYHOF, J., ÖZULUG, M., ABDOLI, A., ŠANDA, R., DOADRIO, I. (2010): Phylogenetic relationships and biogeographical patterns of perimediterranean Leuciscinae (Teleostei, Cyprinidae) inferred from both mitochondrial and nuclear data.- BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 265
PRIETO, J., BÖHME, M., GROSS, M. (2010): The cricetid rodent fauna from Gratkorn (Austria, Styria): a cornerstone for the understanding of the late Middle Miocene (Sarmatian s. str.) continental biostratigraphy in the Central Paratethys. Geologica Carpathica 61 (5): 419-436.
BÖHME, M. (2010): Ectothermic vertebrates, climate and environment of the West Runton Upper Freshwater Bed (early Middle Pleistocene, Cromerian II).- Quaternary International 228: 63-71
BÖHME, M. (2010): Ectothermic vertebrates (Osteichthyes, Allocaudata, Urodela, Anura, Crocodylia, Squamata) from the Miocene of Sandelzhausen (Germany, Bavaria): their implication for environmental reconstruction and palaeoclimate.- Paläontologische Zeitschrift 84 (1): 3-41.
KLEMBARA, J., BÖHME, M., RUMMEL, M. (2010): Revision of the anguine lizard Pseudopus laurillardi (Squamata, Anguidae) from the Miocene of Europe, with comments on paleoecology.- Journal of Paleontology 84 (2): 159-196.
ABDUL-AZIZ, H., BÖHME, M., ROCHOLL, A., PRIETO, J., WIJBRANS, J., BACHTADSE, V. (2010): Integrated stratigraphy and 40Ar/39Ar chronology of the Early to Middle Miocene Upper Freshwater Molasse in western Bavaria (Germany).- International Journal of Earth Sciences, 99:1859–1886
MOSER, M, RÖSSNER, GE, GÖHLICH, UB, BÖHME M, FAHLBUSCH V (2009): The fossil lagerstätte Sandelzhausen (Miocene; southern Germany): history of investigation, geology, fauna, and age.- Paläontologische Zeitschrift 83 (1): 7-24.
Pitruzzella, G., Delfino, M., Böhme, M., Rook, L. (2008): Osteology of genus Salamandrina: preliminary observation from a paleontological perspective.- In: Angelini C. & Utzeri C., Survival analysis of two populations of Salamandrina perspicillata (pp. 15-17). In: Corti C. (ed.), 2008. Herpetologia Sardiniae. Societas Herpetologica Italica/ Edizioni Belvedere, Latina, “le scienze” (8), 504 pp.
Böhme, M. , Ilg, A., Winklhofer, M. (2008): Late Miocene “washhouse” climate in Europe.- Earth and Planetary Science Letters 275: 393-401.
PRIETO, J., BÖHME, M., MAURER, H., HEISSIG, K., ABDUL-AZIZ, H. (2009): Sedimentology, biostratigraphy and environments of the Untere Fluviatile Serie (Lower and Middle Miocene) in the central part of the North Alpine Foreland Basin – implications for basin evolution.- International Journal of Earth Sciences 98: 1776-1791. DOI 10.1007/s00531-008-0331-2
BÖHME, M. (2008): Ectothermic vertebrates (Teleostei, Allocaudata, Urodela, Anura, Testudines, Choristodera, Crocodylia, Squamata) from the Upper Oligocene of Oberleichtersbach (Northern Bavaria, Germany).- Cour. Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg, 260: 161-183.
CZICZER, I., PIPÍK, R., BÖHME, M., ĆORIĆ, S., BAKRAČ, K., LANTOS, M. MÜLLER, P., BABINSZKI, E., SÜTŐ-SZENTAI, M., MAGYAR, I. (2009): Life in the sublittoral zone of Lake Pannon: paleontological analysis of the Upper Miocene Szák Formation.- International Journal of Earth Sciences 98: 1741-1766. DOI 10.1007/s00531-008-0322-3
Reichenbacher, B., Böhme, M. & Lang, L. (2008): Fossilien aus der Oberen Süßwassermolasse bei Ried (Kreis Neuburg an der Donau).- Archaeopteryx 25: 49-53.
Abdul-Aziz, H., Böhme, M., Rocholl, A., Zwing, A., Prieto, J., Wijbrans, J., Heissig, K., Bachtadse, V. (2008): Integrated stratigraphy of the Early to Middle Miocene Upper Freshwater Molasse in Lower Bavaria (Germany, Bavaria).- International Journal of Earth Sciences, 97: 115-134, DOI 10.1007/s00531-006-0166-7.
GARDNER, J., BÖHME, M. (2008): Review of the Albanerpetontidae (Lissamphibia), with Comments on the Paleoecological Preferences of European Tertiary Albanerpetontids.- In: SANKEY, J.T. and S. BAszio (eds.): Vertebrate Microfossil Assemblages: Their Role in Paleoecology and Paleobiogeography, p. 178-218; Indiana University.
DELFINO, M., BÖHME, M. & ROOK, L. (2007): First European evidence for transcontinental dispersal of Crocodylus (late Neogene of Southern Italy).- The Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 149: 293-307; London.
BÖHME, M., BRUCH, A. & SELMEIER, A. (2007): The reconstruction of the Early and Middle Miocene climate and vegetation in the North Alpine Foreland Basin as determined from the fossil wood flora.- Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 253: 91-114.
BÖHME, M. (2007): Herpetofauna (Anura, Squamata) from the Oligocene and Miocene of Central Mongolia (Valley of Lakes) and their palaeoclimatic implications – preliminary results.- Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien, 108A: 43-52.
Böhme, M. (2007): Revision of the cyprinids from the Early Oligocene of the České Středohoří Mountains and the phylogenetic relationships of Protothymallus LAUBE 1901 (Teleostei, Cyprinidae).- Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae B, 63: 177-196.
Böhme, M. (2007): The frog from Seifhennersdorf.- Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae B, 63.
PRIETO, J., BÖHME, M. (2007): Heissigia bolligeri gen. et sp. nov.: a new enigmatic dormouse (Gliridae, Rodentia) from the Miocene of the Northern Alpine Foreland basin.- Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie – Abhandlungen, 245 (3): 301-307.
BÖHME, M. , ILG, A., OSSIG, A., KÜCHENHOFF, H., 2006: A new method to estimate paleoprecipitation using fossil amphibians and reptiles and the Middle and Late Miocene precipitation gradients in Europe.- Geology, 34 (6): 425-428.
LANGE-BADRE, M., BÖHME, M. (2005): Apterodon intermedius, sp. nov., a new European Creodont Mammal from MP22 of Espenhain (Germany).- Annales de Paléontologie, 91: 311-328; Paris.
BÖHME, M., ENGESSER, B., MARTINI, E. & STORCH, G. (2005): Eine oberoligozäne Fauna in den Basis-Tuffen des Wasserkuppen-Vulkanismus (Rhön).- Geol. Jb. Hessen 132: 69-78.
BÖHME, M. (2004): Migration history of air-breathing fishes reveal Neogene atmospheric circulation pattern.- Geology, 32, (5): 393-396; GSA.
KVAČEK, Z., BÖHME, M., DVORAK, Z. KONZALOVA, M., MACH, K., PROKOP, J. & RAJCHL, M. (2004): Early Miocene freshwater and swamp ecosystems of the Most Basin (northern Bohemia) with particular reference to the Bílina Mine section.- Journal of the Czech geological Society, 49 (1-2): 1-40; Praha.
REICHENBACHER, B., BÖHME, M., HEISSIG, K., PRIETO, J. & KOSSLER, A. (2004): New approaches to assess biostratigraphy, palaeoecology and past climate in the North Alpine Foreland Basin during the late Early Miocene (Ottnangian, Karpatian).- Cour. Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg, 249: 71-89.
BÖHME, M. (2003): Miocene Climatic Optimum: evidence from Lower Vertebrates of Central Europe.- Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, vol 195/3-4 pp 389 – 401; Elsevier Science, Amsterdam.
SACH, V. J., GAUDANT, J., REICHENBACHER, B. & BÖHME, M. (2003): Die Fischfaunen der Fundstellen Edelbeuren-Maurerkopf und Wannenwaldtobel 2 (Miozän, Obere Süßwassermolasse, Südwestdeutschland).- Stuttgarter Beitrage für Naturkunde, Serie B, 334: 25 S.; Stuttgart.
BÖHME, M. & REICHENBACHER, B. (2003): Teleost Fishes from the Karpatian (Lower Miocene) of the Western Paratethys.- In: Brzobohaty, R. et al. (Ed.): The Karpatian. A Lower Miocene stage of the Central Paratethys: 281-284, Masaryk University, Brno.
HARZHAUSER, M., BÖHME, M., MANDIC, O. & HOFMANN, C. (2002): The Karpatian (Late Burdigalian) of the Korneuburg Basin – A Palaeoecological and Biostratigraphical Syntheses. – Beitr. Paläont., 27: 441-456; Wien.
BÖHME, M. (2002 b): Lower Vertebrates (Teleostei, Amphibia, Sauria) from the Karpatian of the Korneuburg Basin – palaeoecological, environmental and palaeoclimatical implications. – Beitr. Paläont., 27: 339-354; Wien.
BÖHME, M. (2002 a): Freshwater fishes from the Pannonian of the Vienna Basin with special reference to the locality Sandberg near Götzendorf, Lower Austria.- Cour. Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg, 237: 151-173; Frankfurt/M.
BÖHME, M. (2002): Paläoklima und aquatische Ökosysteme im Neogen Europas – Neue Forschungsansätze auf der Basis von Niederen Wirbeltieren.- Habilitationsschrift, Department für Geo-und Umweltwissenschaften, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 194 S. ; 19. Juli 2002, München.
BÖHME, M. & RÖSSLER, R. (2002): Fund eines zweiten Skelettes von Archaeotriton basalticus (Urodela, Salamandridae) aus dem Unter-Oligozänen Maar von Hammerunterwiesenthal (Erzgebirge).- Veröffentlichungen des Museums für Naturkunde Chemnitz, Bd. 25: 63-68; Chemnitz.
RÜCKERT-ÜLKÜMEN, N., BÖHME, M., REICHENBACHER, B., HEISSIG, K., WITT, W. & BASSLER, B. (2002): Die Fossilführung des Ober-Miozän/Unter-Pliozän Profils von Halitpasa (Manisa, Türkei).- Mitt. Bayer. Staaatssammlung f. Paläont. Hist. Geol., 42: 51-74; München.
BÖHME, M., GREGOR, H.-J. & HEISSIG, K. (2001): The Ries- and Steinheim meteorite impacts and their effect on environmental conditions in time and space.- In: Buffetaut, E. & Koerbel, C. (Eds.): Geological and Biological Effects of Impact Events.- 215-235; Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York.
BÖHME, M. (2001a): Die Landsäugerfauna des Unteroligozäns der Leipziger Bucht – Stratigraphie, die Genese und Ökologie.- N. Jb. Paläont. Geol. Abh., 220 (1): 63-82; Stuttgart.
BÖHME, M. (2001b): The oldest representative of a brown frog (Ranidae) from the Early Miocene of Germany.- Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, vol. 46 (1): 119-124; Warszawa
UHLIG, U. & BÖHME, M. (2001): Ein neues Nashorn (Mammalia, Rhinoceratidae) aus dem Unteroligozän Mitteleuropas.- N. Jb. Geol. Pal. Abh., 220 (1): 83-92; Stuttgart.
BÖHME, M. (2000): Die Cypriniden (Teleostei, Cypriniformes) des oberoligozänen Maares von Enspel nebst Bemerkungen zur Phylogenie und Biogeographie der Phoxininae.- Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 74 (1/2): 99-112; Stuttgart.
BÖHME, M. (1999a): Die miozäne Fossil-Lagerstätte Sandelzhausen. 16. Fisch- und Herpetofauna – Erste Ergebnisse.- N. Jb. Paläont. Geol. Abh., 214 (3): 487-495; Stuttgart.
BÖHME, M. (1999b): Doppelschleichen (Sauria, Amphisbaenia) aus dem Untermiozän von Stubersheim 3.- Mitt. Bayer. Staatssammlung f. Paläont. Hist. Geol., 39: 85-90; München.
DARGA, R., BÖHME, M., GÖHLICH, U. & RÖSSNER, G. (1999): Reste höherer Wirbeltiere aus dem Alttertiär des Alpenvorlandes bei Siegsdorf/Oberbayern.- Mitt. Bayer. Staatssammlung f. Paläont. Hist. Geol., 39: 91-114; München.
BÖHME, M. (1998): Archaeotriton basalticus (v. MEYER, 1859) (Urodela, Salamandridae) aus dem Unteroligozän von Hammerunterwiesenthal (Freistaat Sachsen).- Abh. Staatl. Mus. Min. Geol. Dresden, 43/44 (1998): 265-280; Dresden.
MICKLICH, N. & BÖHME, M. (1997): Wolfsbarsch-Funde (Perciformes, Moronidae) aus den obereozänen Süßwasserdiatomiten von Kuclin in Böhmen nebst kritischer Anmerkungen zur taxonomischen Stellung von “Perca” lepidota aus den Süßwasser-Kalken von Öhningen (Baden).- Paläontologische Zeitschrift 71 (1/2): 117-128; Stuttgart.
BÖHME, M. (1996): Revision der oligozänen und untermiozänen Vertreter der Gattung Palaeoleuciscus (Teleostei, Cyprinidae) Mitteleuropas.- Unveröff. Dissertation, Universität Leipzig: 109 S., 43 Abb., 7 Tab., 9 Taf.; Leipzig.
BLUMENSTENGEL, H. & BÖHME, M. & WELLE, J. (1996): Das Zechstein des Mansfelder Landes und das Tertiär von Amsdorf.- Terra Nostra, Schriften der Alfred Wegener Stiftung 1996 (5), (Exkursionsführer anläßlich der 66. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, 22.-28.9.1996): 109-126; Leipzig.
WALTHER, H. & BÖHME, M. & DUCKHEIM, W. & JAESCHKE, A. & WELLE, J. (1996): Tertiäre Fossillagerstätten in den Braunkohletagebauen um Leipzig.- Terra Nostra, Schriften der Alfred Wegener Stiftung 1996 (5), (Exkursionsführer anläßlich der 66. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, 22.-28.9.1996): 3-60; Leipzig.
BÖHME, M. (1995): Eine Weichschildkröte (Trionychidae) aus dem Untermiozän vom Dietrichsberg bei Vacha (Rhön).- Mauritania (Altenburg) 15 (3): 357-366; Altenburg.
SCHNEIDER, J. & BÖHME, M. (1995): Stellungnahme – Zur Publikationsweise von H.-V. Karl oder ein bemerkenswerter Fall wissenschaftlichen Plagiats.- Mauritania (Altenburg) 15 (1995) 3: 367-368; Altenburg.
BÖHME, M. & ANTONOW, M. (1994): Entelodon deguilheimi REPELIN, 1918 (Mammalia, Entelodontidae), ein bedeutender Säugetierfund aus dem Tagebau Espenhain.- Veröffentlichungen Naturkundemuseum Leipzig, Heft 12: 23-26; Leipzig.
BÖHME, M. (1993): Eine Untermiozäne Fischfauna (Teleostei, Cyprinidae) vom Dietrichsberg bei Vacha/Rhön.- Freiberger Forschungshefte, Reihe C, Heft 450: 116-150; Leipzig, Stuttgart.
Using the ‘comprehensive organism concept’, a holistic understanding of evolutionary processes is possible. Therein, the whole life of an organism – from fertilization to dead – is understood as a process of development on which selection can act through evolution. Heterochronies – changes in the developmental timing of characters – are hypothesized to have fundamental impact on shaping an adult structure. In mutual dependence with those, spatial reorganizations take place during development, so called heterotopies. Both mechanisms, together with allometric change, enable the evolution of new morphotypes.
With the help of standardized developmental characters, I study the patterns of embryonic timing in a variety of land vertebrate species, including turtles, snakes, lizards, and diverse mammalian groups. Given the recent advances in molecular systematics, a comprehensive (falcifiable) phylogenetic framework is provided, which I use to trace evolutionary developmental changes and discuss those in the context of morphological diversification. Besides organogenesis, also patterns of skeletogenesis and some genetic aspects of development and evolution are observed.
On a histological scale, development of particular organs is studied – a classic comparative embryological approach – in order to detect homologies, to uncover patterns of recapitulation, and to trace spatial developmental changes that lead to adult morphology. For adult anatomy, similar to my embryological studies, I concentrate on the craniocervical system of amniotes and some fish. One focus lies on the morphology of the musculature and other soft tissues, their anatomical diversity, phylogenetic distribution, and functional integration. Another focus lies on the interrelationship of head and neck morphology.
since 2016 Curator of the Palaeontological Collections, Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen / Germany
2015 Postdoc, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin/Germany, labs of Prof. Dr. Nadia Fröbisch and Prof. Dr. Johannes Müller
2013-2014 Postdoc, Paläontologisches Institut und Museum, Universität Zürich / Switzerland, lab of Prof. Dr. Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra
2012-2013 Postdoc, Fachbereich Geowissenschaften, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen / Germany, lab of Prof. Dr. Walter G. Joyce
2011 Postdoc, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe / Japan, lab of Prof. Dr. Shigeru Kuratani
2010-2011 Postdoc, Paläontologisches Institut und Museum, Universität Zürich / Switzerland, lab of Prof. Dr. Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra
Education:
2017/18 Habilitation (Paleobiology) (~Ass.Prof. equivalent), Fachbereich Geowissenschaften, Universität Tübingen / Germany, lab of Prof. Dr. Madelaine Böhme
2007-2010 PhD-studies, Paläontologisches Institut und Museum, Universität Zürich / Switzerland, lab of Prof. Dr. Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra
2006-2007 Diploma (~MSc equivalent), Institut für Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie mit Phyletischem Museum, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena / Germany, lab of Prof. Dr. Martin S. Fischer
2001-2006 Studies in Biology (major: Zoology) and Prehistory, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena/Germany