Colloquium Early Prehistory

Renée Martveldt (Leiden University)

The Role of Bovidae in Pleistocene Hominin Subsistence from the Site of Schöningen, Germany

Josh London (Universität Tübingen)

A Stag-gering Proposal: Tracking UP Identity & Exchange Networks with Red Deer (Cervus elaphus) Maxillary Canine Ornaments

Nina Stahl (Universität Tübingen)

All the small things - The Robberg  Assemblage of Layer 4 from Iron Pig Rockshelter (Mpumalanga, South Africa)

Cheng Liu (Emory University)

How do people in non-industrial societies learn to make tools?

Margaux Jouines (Universität Tübingen)

Set in Stone? A Closer Look on (Pre)Historical Attributions of the Engravings of the Larchant Golf, France, via an Experimental Approach

Nico Magliozzi (Universität Tübingen)

Continuities and differences between two MSA industries from East Africa: The Sanzako and Kisele layers from Mumba Rockshelter, Tanzania

Vittorio Gallese
(Department of Medicine & Surgery – Unit of Neuroscience, University of Parma, Italy
 Italian Academy for Advanced studies, Columbia University, New York, USA)

The Artification of Habits: From Tools to Symbols

Ayanda Mabuza (Universität Tübingen)

Valentin Blanchard (Universität Tübingen)

Exploring the production sequence of Early Mesolithic armatures from an amateur excavation in Les Charmes, France

Vi Fratta (Universität Tübingen)

Dione Brown (Universität Tübingen)

The production and use of ostrich eggshell beads from the Later Stone Age occupation at Bushman Rock Shelter, Limpopo South Africa

Joshua Kumbani (University of Barcelona)

An Introduction to Music Archaeology of Southern Africa

Nicholas J. Conard (Universität Tübingen)

16 years of ROCEEH: Where we stand and where we're heading

Bar Efrati (Tel Aviv University)
On the Shoulders of Giants: Readymade Concepts and Techniques in the Palaeolithic as Means of Perception of Human-Tool Interactions

Marieluise Hahn (Universität Tübingen)

Kristin Cimmerer (Universität Tübingen)

Investigating bioclimatic dimensions of plant use diversity in the Zagros Mountains

Nora Pfeiffer (Universität Tübingen)

Viola C. Schmid (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Moving the Middle Stone Age during Marine Isotope Stage 5 into the spotlight – Preliminary results from Sibhudu Cave,

Bushman Rock Shelter, and Rose Cottage Cave (South Africa)

Reena Perschke (University of Leicester; Gerda Henkel Stiftung)

Heinrich Himmlers Forschungsauftrag zu paläolithischen „Fettvenus“-Figurinen

Elisa Luzi (Universität Tübingen)
Why study small mammals in Holocene sites? The case of the funerary cave of Biniadrís (Menorca, Spain)

Angel Blanco Lapaz (Universität Tübingen)
Yes, the River knows.
Freshwater Landscape Reconstruction from the Bronze Age Site of Borsodivánka (North-Eastern Hungary)

Peyton D. Carroll (University of Connecticut)
A Geochemical Approach to Understanding Human Mobility in Pleistocene Sicily

Alexandros Fotios Karakostis (Universität Tübingen)

Discovering ways to elucidate hominin daily life in the past: Previous research and future directions

Robin Andrews (Universität Tübingen)
Untangling the Transition - Site Formation and Chronology of the Grotte de la Verpillière I á Germolles 

Antoine Muller (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Computational approaches to reconstructing hominin toolmaking behaviours and skills throughout the Palaeolithic

Jesper Borre Pedersen (Aarhus Universitet)

From individual to culture in the Final Palaeolithic - questioning patterns and processes of dispersal, technological change and regional collapse in the Final Palaeolithic Hamburgian Culture

 Olga Palacios (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Predicting the past: Subsistence, organisation, and survival of early agropastoral communities

Rimtautas Dapschauskas (ROCEEH, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences & Humanities, Universität Tübingen)

Ritual as an engine of demographic expansion of Homo sapiens during the Middle Stone Age

Firas Jabbour (ROCEEH, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences & Humanities, Universität Tübingen)
Tracing Human Adaptation and Activities Through Lithic Study:

A Comparative Analysis of the Upper Paleolithic Settlements of Aghitu 3 Cave in Armenia

Marcel Bradtmöller (Universität Rostock)

Is it worth it? Five years of Feldberg “Steinacker ” Project - an Interim Balance

Jan-Olaf Reschke (ROCEEH, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences & Humanities Senckenberg Forschungsinstitute Frankfurt)

Modelling early hominin subsistence strategies - Using agent based modelling to study the past

Frank Sirocko (Universität Mainz)

The climate and environment of MIS2/3 (13.000-60.000 BP) in central Europe:
a synthesis based on annually laminated Eifel maar sediments

Nicholas J. Conard (Universität Tübingen)

Trackways from Schöningen and glimpses into the lake shore environments
of the Reindorf Interglacial complex 300,000 years ago

Anna Florin (University of Cambridge)

The role of plant foods in the evolution and dispersal of early humans:
A perspective from across the Wallace Line

Megan Saunders (Universität Tübingen)

Counting Fragments: A New Holistic Approach to Quantifying Bones for Analysis

Freya Riedel (Universität Tübingen)

Osteological and isotopic analysis of Roman-Germanic Equids from Heddesheim (GER)

Marco Nicoli (Universität Tübingen)

Agriculture in Transition: An Archaeobotanical Study of Bronze Age Sites in the Southern Levant

Alexis Russell (Universität Tübingen)

Archaeobotanical Remains of the Early Bronze Age at Bassetki

Eden Hill (Max-Planck-Institut für Geoanthropologie)

Using ZooMS and Palaeoproteomics to Investigate the Evolution of Dairy Pastoralism in Eurasia

Ron Shimelmitz (Universität Haifa)

Mount Carmel Middle Paleolithic through the new excavations at Tabun, Skhul and Sefunim

Henny Piezonka (Universität zu Kiel)

Of taiga forts and reindeer houses: New archaeological and ethnoarchaeological
perspectives on hunter-fisher societies in Siberia

Manuel Will (Universität Tübingen)

Into the Open - introducing a new archaeological research project in the Jojosi dongas, South Africa

Thibaut Devièse (Aix-Marseille Université, CEREGE)

Investigating the co-occurrence of Neanderthals & Modern Humans in Europe using
advanced radiocarbon and genomic methodologies

Xiangmei Kong (Universität Tübingen)

The Variability of Bifacial Technology in the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa

Martyna Lech (Universität Krakau)

Middle Paleolithic in Hohle Fels - An attempt to understand Neanderthal settlement in Swabian Jura

Svenja Schray (Universität Tübingen)

The lithic assemblages of the Aurignacian of Geißenklösterle Cave

Benjamin Schürch (Universität Tübingen)

Reassessing the cultural stratigraphy of Vogelherd Cave

Tanner Kovach (University of Connecticut)

Solak 1 and the Upper Paleolithic of the Southern Caucasus and Armenian Highlands

Chris Baumann (Universität Tübingen)

A view through raven’s eyes:
Earliest evidence for hunter-gatherer impacts on raven diet and ecology in the Gravettian (Pavlovian) of Southern Moravia

Patrick Schmidt (Universität Tübingen)

The role of experimental reference collections in understanding Stone Age birch tar making

Nicholas Conard (Universität Tübingen)

Research at Mumba Rock Shelter near the shore of Lake Eyasi, Tanzania

Christian Tryon (University of Conneticut)

Archaeological approaches to Late Pleistocene human diversity

in eastern Africa and the Mediterranean basin

Mohammed Babiker (Universität Tübingen)

Plant exploitation in Post-Medieval Nubia: New Archaeobotanical Insights from Old Dongola

(16th-19th Centuries AD)

Andreas Maier (Universität zu Köln)

Analyzing lithic tools – on the deadlock of traditional approaches and ways to overcome it

Garth Francis (Parkade Studio, South Africa)

Embracing emotion. Honouring heritage: A discussion on architectures role in a city of neglect

Svenja Schray (Universität Tübingen)

Chronostratigraphy and Archaeological Context of the Aurignacian Deposits of Geißenklösterle Cave

Valentina García Huidobro (Universität Tübingen)

Diet and Subsistence of Hunter Gatherers in Cerro Benítez, Chilean Patagonia: a zooarchaeological perspective

Luca Michaelis (Universität Tübingen)

Going Holistic - Comparing ZooMS Generated Taxonomic Data with the Zooarchaeological Record at Geißenklösterle Cave (Swabian Jura, Germany

Yueshu Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

The study of lithic assemblages and site formation process of the Donggutuo site - A case study of layer 6A2

Flavia Venditti

Microartifacts disclose Middle Pleistocene lifeways at Schöningen 13 II-3

Glenn Penny

(UCLA)
What objects do: Reflections on German Archeological and Ethnological Museums

Claudine Cohen

(École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)

Gender in Prehistory. Women's Roles through Palaeolithic Art

Benjamin Schürch

Raw material analysis by infrared spectroscopy: first results and implications from Vogelherd Cave

Jacopo Niccolò Cerasoni

(Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History)

Éva David
The latest advances in the osseous mobiliary art from the prehistory

Fei Yang

Reanalysing the Mousterian faunal assemblage from the Swabian Jura by ZooMS.

Megan Saunders

Identifying and Contextualizing “Unidentifiable” Bone Fragments from the Swabian Jura Cave Sites.

Maddy McCartin

New Zooarchaeological Investigations at Petersfels (Brudertal, SW-Germany)

Sibylle Wolf

Hohle Fels "chisels" of the Swabian Aurignacian – new insights with experimental archaeology

Co-Autoren sind K. Kitagawa, R. Walter, A. Fatz und N.J. Conard

Prof. Nicholas J. Conard

Excavations at HohleFels and a reassessment of the cultural variability during the late Middle Paleolithic

Diana Marcazzan

Are there differences in the way Middle and Upper Paleolithic hominins used fire at Hohle Fels, Ach Valley Germany?

Melanie-Larisa Ostermann

Vulpes vulpes or Vulpes lagopus? – A morphometric differentiation based on loose canines in the archaeological context

Laura Centi

Nesher Ramla bulb retouchers and their role as mobile toolkit components

Heike Würschem und Harald Floss

Return to an eponym site: The 2021 Excavation at the Grotte Effondrée in Châtelperron

Saskia Pfrengle

A refined proposal for the origin of dogs: the case study of Gnirshöhle, a Magdalenian cave site

Prof. Nicholas J. Conard

Early results from the TISARP excavation in the Paleolithic deposits at Qadi Barmshour Cave, Shiraz, Iran

Carli Peters

Late Quaternary megafauna in Australia: Species identifications using peptide mass fingerprinting

Frances Gill, Francesco Valletta

Frances Gill: Wild Sonic Debitage

Francesco Valletta: Isolating individual variability in lithic manufacturing - Preliminary 3D-based data from Hohle-Fels Gravettian refitted sequences

Hans-Peter Uerpmann

80 Jahre Hans-Peter Uerpmann

Giulia Marciani, Andrew Sorensen (Marciani: University of Bologna, Sorensen: Leiden University)

Marciani: High-resolution Late Mousterian and Uluzzian lithic assemblages in Italy

Sorensen: You can’t start a fire without a spark: New findings concerning Aurignacian fire-making technology

Ria Litzenberg

The meaning of art in the Swabian Aurignacian - outline of a doctoral project

Firas Jabbour

Comprehensive view of the stone artifacts of Aghitu-3 Cave, Armenia

Jonathan Scott Reeves (Max Planck Institut Leipzig)

Investigating the Early Stone Age through Primate Behavior

Francesco Valletta (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Local Learning Communities During the Terminal Palaeolithic in the Southern Levant: A Quantitative Approach Based on Lithic Technology

Michaela Ecker (Universität Kiel)

New insights into the early Middle Stone Age in interior South Africa

Shaddai Heidgen (Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment (SHEP) Department for Geosciences-Micropaleontology)

Palaeobotanical and Palaeo-fire Records in the Ammer River Valley

Mathias Blessing, Aurore Va

When the stars align

Irene Esteban (ERAAUB, University of Barcelona, ESI, University of the Witwatersrand)

Unraveling aspects of the South African prehistory through phytoliths and FTIR

Jessica Schiller, Siah Beattie

Schiller: Mehr als nur einfache Schaber: Zwei (Mittel-)Paläolithische Sammlungen aus Bissy-sur-Fley, La Clausure

Beattie: Middle Palaeolithic Avian Fauna from Hohle Fels, Germany, and Neanderthal Lifeways

Kerttu Majander (Max-Planck-Institute, University of Zürich)

Prehistoric Population Genetics from Western Russia to North-Eastern Fennoscandia

Judit del Río, Arianna Weingarten (del Río: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; Weingarten: Universität Tübingen)

del Río: Mapping the soils of Schöningen. An approach through archaeological micromorphology and environmental magnetism

Weingarten: The role of genes at Schöningen: Using aDNA and ZooMS to explore human evolution

Elvira Martin

Surviving at the edge of the inhabitable world or The diet of the hominids during OIS 3 in Northern Europe

Corinna Rößner/Gabriele Russo

Rößner: Waterlogged and charred plantremains from Oymaağaç Höyük (= Hittite Nerik),  Northern Anatolia

Russo: In the land of unicorns: Zooarchaeological investigation of Einhornhöhle in the Southern Harz, Germany

Camille Bourdier

LSA rock art, cultural dynamics, and climate in Matobo (Zimbabwe). The MATOBART program

Robin Andrews

Integrated osseous tool analysis - The Osseous Industry of the Grotte de la Verpillière

Alba Motes Rodrigo

The Method of Local Restriction: Looking for signs of cumulative culture in great apes

Benjamin Schürch

Molluscs of the Genus Glycymeris from Vogelherd Cave near Niederstotzingen (Lonetal, Southwestern Germany)

Guillaume Porraz (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

300cm² in Provence at the end of the Gravettian

Claudio Tennie

What we have done since arriving in Tübingen

Katja Douze (University of Geneva)

Towards an understanding of human occupation in West Africa during the Pleistocene

Svenja Schray/Julia Zastrow im Rahmen der Dr. Daniel Schuhmann Stiftung

Schray: The Palaeolithic occupation of Teux-Blancs cave (Saint-Denis-de-Vaux, Saône-et-Loire, France) - New results regarding the Magdalenian of Eastern France

Zastrow: Microfauna from Ha Makotoko. A Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the Phuthiatsana Basin, Lesotho, during the Pleistocene/Holocene transition

Ivo Verheijen (Schöningen Projekt Palaön/Senckenberg HEP)

The Schöningen carnivore fauna and its relevance to hominin subsistence

Dr. Andrew W. Kandel

An Overview of ROCEEH and the ROAD database - Key Concepts and Project Goals

Bárbara Rodríguez Álvarez (Schöningen Projekt Palaön/Senckenberg HEP)

Schöningen: low density sites and human occupations: A technological and behavioral approach to the exploitation and use of the landscape

Jordi Serangeli (Schöningen Projekt Palaön/Senckenberg HEP)

Der Fundplatz Schöningen. Forschungsstand und Perspektiven

Chris Miller

Identifying fire in the Paleolithic record

Svenja Schray / Samantha Brown

Schray: The Palaeolithic occupation of Grotte des Teux-Blancs (Com. Saint-Denis-de-Vaux, Dep. Saône-et-Loire, France) / Brown: The search for new hominin remains at Denisova Cave using ZooMS

Sibylle Wolf

New insight in personal ornaments of Vogelherd Cave near Niederstotzingen (southwestern Germany) and their context

Pathrick Schmidt und Matthias Blessing

Birch tar as the Atlantis of prehistoric archaeology: new insights into its potential as a proxy for Neanderthal behaviour

Aurore Val

Human exploitation of nocturnal felines at Diepkloof Rock Shelter, South Africa, provides further evidence for symbolic behaviours during the Middle Stone Age.

Manuel Will

Diachronic changes in the Howiesons Poort of Sibudu and southern Africa

Armando Falcucci

A pre-Heinrich Event 3 assemblage at Fumane Cave, Northeast Italy

Radu Iovita

Finding caves from space and on the ground: new methods and preliminary results of the PALAEOSILKROAD project

Gregor D. Bader

Lions Cavern.The oldest mine in the world? New results from ongoing research in Eswatini

Heike Würschem

The Archaeology of the Eastern Châtelperronian. Preliminary results of an ongoing doctoral thesis

Nicholas J Conard

A Throwing Stick from Schöningen: Middle Pleistocene Lifeways in Northern Europe

David R. Braun (University of Cape Town)

Technological Origins: perspectives from East Africa

Phil Glauberman (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University)

Middle Paleolithic technological organization and land use in Armenia, regional technological trends, and implications for hominin population dynamics

Andreas Pastoors (FAU Erlangen/ Nürnberg)

Episoden aus dem Leben eiszeitlicher Wildbeuter im Südwesten Frankreichs

Jonathan Reeves (ERC STONECULT/ Tübingen)

Digital Stone Age Visiting Cards: Quantitative Approaches to Early Pleistocene Hominin Land Use

Frido Welker (University of Copenhagen)

Proteins from the Past: Human evolution through the lens of ancient proteins

Alexandros-Fotios Karakostis (Universität Tübingen)

New Horizons for the Reconstruction of Physical Activity in the Past

Svenja Arlt, Ria Litzenberg, Mario Mata-Gonzalez (Daniel Schumann-Stiftung Absolvent*innen Universität Tübingen)

Simon Fröhle, Stefan Wettengl, Harald Floss (Universität Tübingen)

Ein neues Großprojekt - Zur Erfassung des Freilandpaläolithikums in Baden-Württemberg

Viola C. Schmid, Michel Rasse, Laurent Lespez, Chantal Tribolo, Brice Lebrun, Alice Leplongeon, Katja Douze, Maria Lorenzo Martinez, Eric Huysecom

News from the West – technological insights into the West African MSA during MIS 3 from Toumboura III

Alex Mackay (Universitiy of wollongong/ Austrlia)

Recent research on the Doring River, South Africa: Implication of the late Pleistocene archeological record

Javier Sánchez Martínez (CEPAP Barcelona)

Between great plains: New interdisciplinary archaeological investigations of the palaeolakes and caves in the Gobi-Altai, Mongolia

Claes Andersson (Chalmers University of Technology Göteborg)

The social protocell hypothesis - are we the outcome of a cultural Evolutionary Transition in Individuality?

Bejamin Schürch (Tübingen)

Der Fundstellemkomplex Wipplingen-Sonderbuch

Lukas Horch (Tübingen)

Datierung von Gravierungen in Südfrankreich und Nordspanien - Eine Neubetrachtung der Parietalkunst

Susanne Münzel, Berrin Cep (Tübingen)

Viviane Bolin (Neanderthal Museum)

Rock Art as Cultural Marker in the Solutrean and the Magdalenian on the Iberian Peninsula

Alba Motes-Rodriguez (Tübingen)

Digging to extract underground foodstuff by chimpanzees: contextual variation, techniques and laterality

Matthias Blessing (Tübingen)

Lost in sand? Das Mesolithikum der Oberlausitz am Fallbeispiel der Freilandfundstelle Reichwalde 6/4

Guido Bataille (Tübingen)

Aktuelle Untersuchungen zum Aurignacien des Hohle Fels (Schwäbische Alb)

Nicholas Conard (Tübingen)

Die aktuelle Ausgrabung am Ghar-e Boof und der Anfang des Jungpaläolithikums in Iran sprechen

Héloïse Koehler (Sélestat)

The Middle Paleolithic site of Mutzig (Alsace) in its regional archeological context

Joao Marreiros (RGZM Monrepos)

The laboratory for Traceology and Controlled Experiments (TraCEr), MONREPOS-RGZM: rethinking experimental design, variable control and use-wear quantification'

Patrick Cuthbertson (Tübingen)

Lower-Middle Pleistocene Hominin Occupation in Central Asia: A Landscape-Based Approach Assessing Probable Amenability, Accessibility, and Entry-Point

Vedrana Kristofic

Eastern Croatia – zooarchaeological research potential: the role of hunting in Neolithic herding societies

Elisa Bandini (Tübingen)

Testing the individual learning capabilities of extant chimpanzees; implications for the study of early hominin cognition and material culture

Viola Schmid (Tübingen)

Giving substance to shadows - the serrates layers of Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Einführung Ältere Urgeschichte

Stephan M. Heidenreich (LDA Esslingen)

Diversität, Variabilität, Flexibilität – Die spätpleistozäne Besiedlung Beringias

Ewa Dutkiewicz (Tübingen)

Punkte, Linien und Kerben - Ergebnisse und Ausblicke zu den Markierungen des Schwäbischen Aurignaciens

Andreas Maier (Erlangen/ Nürnberg)

Populations- und Besiedlungsdynamik zwischen Gravettien und Magdalénien

Patrick Schmidt (Tübingen)

Recent trends in the archaeology of stone heat treatment: new archaeometric techniques, comparative studies, new interpretations

Gregor D. Bader (Tübingen)

It´s all about shape. Point morphology and diagnostic features of the final MSA at Umbeli Belli, KwaZulu-Natal

Susanne Münzel (Tübingen)

Das Projekt 'Molly' und seine Relevanz für die Urgeschichtsforschung

Robin Dennell (University of Exeter, UK)

Homo sapiens outside Africa: the history of an invasive species

(Hilgendorf Lecture)

Radu Iovita (New York/Tübingen)

The Stone Age Silk Road and its meaning for human evolution

Leah Umbagai (Dambimangari Aboriginal Corporation), Kim Doohan (Macquarine University/Universit of Western Australia), Martin Porr (Universität Tübingen/University of Western Australia)

Yoodooddoom: A place of memory and learning. A case study from the Kimberley, Northwest Australia

Julien Monnay (EDYTEM/ Grenoble)

Grotte aux Points & Deux Ouvertures: "Little sisters" of the Chauvet Cave. Current state of archaeological research along the Ardèche river Gorges.