My research traces signals of diet, climate, mobility and ecological dynamics in terrestrial ecosystems using the stable isotopic approach.  I am curious in how ecosystem functioning appeared during the Late Pleistocene and try to understand the ecological role of key actors like megaherbivores, Neandertals and modern humans.

• Evolution of terrestrial ecosystems
• Ecology of the mammoth steppe
• Ecological niche partitioning
• Human-ecosystem interactions
• Late Pleistocene food webs

Bons, P.D., Bauer, C.C., Bocherens, H., de Riese, T., Drucker, D.G., Francken, M., Menendez, L., Uhl, A., van Milligen, B.P., Wißing, C., 2019. Out of Africa by spontaneous migration waves. PloS one 14, e0201998.

Wißing, C., Rougier, H., Baumann, C., Comeyne, A., Crevecoeur, I., Drucker, D.G., Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S., Germonpre, M., Gomez-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 the last Neandertals and first modern humans in Europe. Scientific Reports 9, 4433.

Naito, Y.I., Chikaraishi, Y., Drucker, D.G., Ohkouchi, N., Semal, P., Wißing, C., Bocherens, H. Reply to “Comment on “Ecological niche of Neanderthals from Spy Cave revealed by nitrogen isotopes of individual amino acids incollagen.” [J. Hum. Evol. 93 (2016) 82e90]” [J. Hum. Evol. 117 (2018) 53e55]. Journal of Human Evolution 117, 56-60, doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.09.00810.1016/j.jhevol.2016.01.00910.1016/j.jhevol.2017.05.006 (2018).

Posth, C., Wißing, C., Kitagawa, K., Pagani, L., van Holstein, L., Racimo, F., Wehrberger, K., Conard, N.J., Kind, K.J., Bocherens, H., Krause, J. Deeply divergent archaic mitochondrial genome provides lower time boundary for African gene flow into Neanderthals. Nature Communications 8, 16046 doi: 10.1038/ncomms16046 (2017).

Trautmann, B., Wißing, C., Bonilla, M.D.Z., Bis-Worch, C., Bocherens, H., 2017. Reconstruction of Socioeconomic Status in the Medieval (14th-15th century) Population of Grevenmacher (Luxembourg) based on Growth, Development and Diet. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, in press

Naito, Y.I., Germonpré, M., Chikaraishi, Y., Ohkouchi, N., Drucker, D.G., Hobson, K.A., Edwards, M.A., Wißing, C., Bocherens, H., 2016. Evidence for herbivorous cave bears (Ursus spelaeus) in Goyet Cave, Belgium: implications for palaeodietary reconstruction of fossil bears using amino acid δ15N approaches. Journal of Quaternary Science.

Rougier, H., Crevecoeur, I., Beauval, C., Posth, C., Flas, D., Wißing, C., Furtwängler, A., Germonpré, M., Gómez-Olivencia, A., Semal, P., van der Plicht, J., Bocherens, H., Krause, J., 2016. Neandertal cannibalism and Neandertal bones used as tools in Northern Europe. Scientific reports 6, 29005.

Naito, Y.I., Chikaraishi, Y., Drucker, D.G., Ohkouchi, N., Semal, P., Wißing, C., Bocherens, H., 2016. Ecological niche of Neanderthals from Spy Cave revealed by nitrogen isotopes of individual amino acids in collagen. Journal of Human Evolution 93, 82-90.

Posth, C., Renaud, G., Mittnik, A., Drucker, Dorothée G., Rougier, H., Cupillard, C., Valentin, F., Thevenet, C., Furtwängler, A., Wißing, C., Francken, M., Malina, M., Bolus, M., Lari, M., Gigli, E., Capecchi, G., Crevecoeur, I., Beauval, C., Flas, D., Germonpré, M., van der Plicht, J., Cottiaux, R., Gély, B., Ronchitelli, A., Wehrberger, K., Grigourescu, D., Svoboda, J., Semal, P., Caramelli, D., Bocherens, H., Harvati, K., Conard, Nicholas J., Haak, W., Powell, A., Krause, J., 2016. Pleistocene Mitochondrial Genomes Suggest a Single Major Dispersal of Non-Africans and a Late Glacial Population Turnover in Europe. Current Biology.

Wißing, C., Rougier, H., Crevecoeur, I., Germonpré, M., Naito, Y.I., Semal, P., Bocherens, H., 2016. Isotopic evidence for dietary ecology of late Neandertals in North-Western Europe. Quaternary International 411, 327-345.

Naito, Y.I., Bocherens, H., Chikaraishi, Y., Drucker, D.G., Wißing, C., Yoneda, M., Ohkouchi, N., 2015. An overview of methods used for the detection of aquatic resource consumption by humans: Compound-specific delta N-15 analysis of amino acids in archaeological materials. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.

Wißing, C., Matzerath, S., Turner, E., Bocherens, H., 2015. Paleoecological and climatic implications of stable isotope results from late Pleistocene bone collagen, Ziegeleigrube Coenen, Germany. Quaternary Research 84, 96-105.

Bocherens, H., Drucker, D., Wißing, C., 2014. Die Mammutsteppe. Isotopenuntersuchungen in einem vergangenen Ökosystem. Natur – Forschung – Museum 144 (7/8) 2014, 226–231.

Bocherens, H., Drucker, D., Germonpré, M., Láznicková-Galetová, M., Naito, Y., Wißing, C., Brůžek, J., Oliva, M., 2015. Reconstruction of the Gravettian food-web at Předmostí I using isotopic tracking of bone collagen. Quaternary International 359-360

Matzerath, S., Turner, E., Fischer, P., van der Plicht, J., Bocherens, H., Wißing, C., Kels, H., Interdisziplinäre Forschungen zu eiszeitlichen Großsäugern aus der Ziegeleigrube Coenen, Kreis Düren. Archäologie im Rheinland 2012, 67–69.

Wißing, C. (2012) Geoarchäologische Untersuchungen in Germolles. Strukturgeologische, paläontologische und mikromorphologische Untersuchungen des Fundstellenkomplexes der Verpillière Höhlen und deren Umfeld in Germolles, Commune de Mellecey, Sâone-et-Loire (71), Frankreich Magisterarbeit an der Universität Tübingen.

Bons, P., Wißing, C., (2009) Aspects of the local geological structure in connection with the palaeolithic cave sites in Germolles (Commune de Mellecey, France) in Floss, H. (2009). Rapport de fouille programmée. Lieu-dit: Les Grottes de La Verpillière I et II à Germolles. Commune: Mellecey, Saône-et-Loire (71).

Wißing, C., Miller, C. (2009) Analyse micromorphologique du Niveau GH 2 de la Verpillière II, Fouille 2008 in Floss, H. (2009). Rapport de fouille programmée. Lieu-dit: Les Grottes de La Verpillière I et II à Germolles. Commune: Mellecey, Saône-et-Loire (71).

Floss, H. 2005, unter Mitarbeit von Lingnau, M., Napierala, H., Pasianotto N., Wißing, C., Prospections systématiques aux alentours des sites paléolithiques de Rizerolles à Azé. In: G.A.M. (Hrsg.), 1954-2004, Résultats des dernières recherches archéologiques en Mâconnais, Mâcon, 16-21.