Dr. rer. nat. Tobias Lauer

Di Maida, G., Winsemann, J.,Hoffmann,  M., Lauer, T., Böhner, U. & Terberger, T., 2025. Out in the cold? A review of Early Middle Palaeolithic settlements in northern Central Europe, age data and geological preconditions for site formation and preservation, Bores, https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.70032 

Key, A., Clark, J., Lauer, T. et al., 2025. Hominin glacial-stage occupation 712,000 to 424,000 years ago at Fordwich Pit, Old Park (Canterbury, UK), Nature Ecology and Evolution, www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02829-x

T. Karampaglidis, T., Fenn, K., Gasparyan, B., Braucher, R., Lauer, T., et al., 2025. Paleolithic hominin occupations and Quaternary geomorphological evolution in the NE Ararat Depression (Armenia), Quaternary Science Reviews, DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109532  

Fitzsimmons, K.E., Fischer, M.L., Smith, T., Lauer, T., Nowatzki, M., Mishra, K., Murray-Wallace, C.V., 2025. Long‐term hydrologic connectivity on the Australian dryland margins: Evidence from the Willandra Lakes World Heritage Area over the last 60 ka; Journal of Quaternary Science, https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3717

Bridgland, D., Lauer, T., Stokes, M., 2025. Evolution of fluvial systems in Eurasia at different time scales. Geomorphology, 470. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2024.109540

Zvara, E. et al. (with Lauer, T.). 2025. Biochemostratigraphy of the Eger floodplain (Southern Germany) – detection and quantification of heavy metal contamination and paleoenvironmental conditions: the basic dataset. Data in Brief. 10.1016/j.dib.2025.111501

Buchanan, G., Preusser, F., Fitzsimmons, K., Lauer, T., 2025. Investigating the characteristics of yellow stimulated luminescence from potassium feldspar. Radiation Measurements, 2025
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1350448725000502?via%3Dihub

Rahimzadeh, N., , Hein, M., Urban, B., Weiss, M., Tanner, D., Khosravichenar, Tsukamoto, S., Lauer, T., 2024. Dating the Neanderthal environment: Detailed luminescence chronology of a palaeochannel sediment core at the Palaeolithic site of Lichtenberg in the
Lower Saxony, northern Germany. Geochronology 83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2024.101564

Buller, A,M. et al. (with Tobias Lauer), 2024. The environmental and cultural background for the reoccupation of the Armenian Highlands after the Last Glacial Maximum: The contribution of Kalavan 6. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 56; 1045540.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X24001688?via%3Dihub

Aquino, A., Scardia, G., Prud’homme, C., Dava, A.K., Lezzerini, M., Engström Johansson, A., Marquer, L.,Sfaraliev, N., Lauer, T., Fitzsimmons, K.E., 2024. Variability in geochemical weathering indices in loess over the last full glacial cycle at Karamaidan, central Asia (Tajikistan)., Front. Earth Sci, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2024.1347910

Mylopotamitaki, D., Weiss, M., Fewlass, H.*, Zavala, E.I.*, Rougier, H., Sümer, A.P., Hajdinjak, M., Smith, G.M., Ruebens, K., Sinet-Mathiot, V., Pederzani, S., Essel, E., Harking, F.S., Xia, H., Hansen, J., Kirchner, A., Lauer, T., Stahlschmidt, M., Hein, M., Talamo, S., Wacker, L., Meller, H., Dietl, H., Orschiedt, J., Olsen, J.V., Zeberg, H., Prüfer, K., Krause, J., Meyer, M., Welker, F., McPherron, S.P., Schüler, T., Hublin, J.-J., 2024. Homo sapiens reached the higher latitudes of Europe by 45,000 years ago. Nature. https://doi.org/ 10.1038/s41586-023-06923-7

Pederzani, S., Britton, K., Trost, M., Fewlass, H., Bourgon, N., McCormack, J., Jaouen, K., Dietl, H., Döhle, H.-J., Kirchner, A., Lauer, T., Le Corre, M., McPherron, S.P., Meller, H., Mylopotamitaki, D., Orschiedt, J., Rougier, H., Ruebens, K., Schüler, T., Sinet-Mathiot, V., Smith, G., Talamo, S., Tütken, T., Welker, F., Zavala, E.I., Weiss, M., Hublin, J.-J. Stable isotopes show Homo sapiens dispersed into cold steppes ~45,000 years ago at Ilsenhöhle in Ranis, Germany. Nat. Ecol. Evol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023- 02318-z

Archer, W., Presnyakova, D., Aldeias, V., Colarossi, D., Hutten, L., Lauer, T., Porraz, G., Rossouw, L., Shaw, M. (2023) Late Acheulean occupations at Montagu Cave and the pattern of Middle Pleistocene behavioral change in Western Cape, southern Africa. Journal of Human Evolution, 103435.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103435

Sherriff, J.E., Petrosyan, A., Rogall, D., Nora, D., Frahm, E., Lauer, T., Karambaglidis, T., Knul, M.V., Vettese, D., Arakelyan, D., Gur-Arieh, S., Vidal-Matutano, P., Morales, J., Fewlass, H., Blockley, S.P.E., Timms, R., Adigyozalyan, A., Haydosyan, H., Glauberman, P., Gasparyan, B., Malinsky-Buller, A. (2023) Palaeoenvironmental and chronological context of hominin occupations of the Armenian Highlands during MIS 3: Evidence from Ararat-1 cave. Quaternary Science Advances, 100122

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qsa.2023.100122

Tinapp, C., Selzer, J., Döhlert-Albani, N., Fischer, B., Heinrich, S., Herbig, C., Kreienbrink, F., Lauer, T., Schneider, B., Stäuble, H. (2023) Late Weichselian–Holocene valley development of the Elbe valley near Dresden – linking sedimentation, soil formation and archaeology. Quatrernary Science Journal (E&G) 72/1, 95-111.

https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-72-95-2023

Barbieri, A., Maier, A., Lauer, T., Mischeka, C., Hattermann, M., Uthmeier, T., 2022. Post-LGM environments and foragers on the move: New data from the lower Altmühl Valley (Franconian Jura, SE Germany). Journal of Human Evolution, 173.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103267

Winsemann, J., Hartmann, T., Lang, J., Fälber, R., Lauer, T., 2022. Depositional architecture and aggradation rates of sand-rich, supercritical alluvial fans: control by autogenic processes or high-frequency climatic oscillations? Sedimentary Geology 440.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2022.106238

Kirchner, A., Karaschewski, J., Schulte, P., Wunderlich, T., Lauer, T., 2022.Latest Pleistocene and Holocene Floodplain Evolution in Central Europe—Insights from the Upper Unstrut Catchment (NW-Thuringia/Germany). Geosciences 12(8):28.
ttps://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences12080310

Key, A., Lauer, T., Skinner, M.M., Pope, M., Bridgland, D.R., Noble, L., Proffitt, T. (2022). On the earliest Acheulean in Britain: first dates and in-situ artefacts from the MIS 15 site of Fordwich (Kent, UK). Royal Society Open Science 9, 211904.
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.211904

Weiss, M., Hein, M., Urban, B., Stahlschmidt, M.C., Heinrich, M., Hilbert, Y.H., Power, R.C., Suchodoletz, H., Terberger, T., Böhner, U., Klimscha, F., Veil, S., Breest, K., Schmidt, J., Colarossi, D., Tucci, M., Frechen, M., Tanner, D.C., Lauer, T. (2022). Neanderthals in changing environments from MIS 5 to early MIS 4 in northern Central Europe – Integrating archaeological, (chrono)stratigraphic and paleoenvironmental evidence at the site of Lichtenberg. Quaternary Science Reviews 284, 107519.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107519

Murari, M.K., Kreutzer, S., Frouin, M., Friedrich, J., Lauer, T., Klasen, N., Schmidt, C., Tsukamoto, S., Richter, D., Mercier, N. & Fuchs, M. (2021). Infrared Radiofluorescence (IR-RF): An inter-lab comparison. Geochronometria.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/geochr-2021-0007

Pederzani, S. C., Britton, K., Aldeias, V., Bourgon, N., Fewlass, H., Lauer, T., McPherron, S. P., Rezek, Z., Sirakov, N., Smith, G. M., Spasov, R., Tran, N.-H., Tsanova, T., & Hublin, J.-J. (2021). Subarctic climate for the earliest Homo sapiens in Europe. Science Advances, 7(39): abi4642.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abi4642

Hein, M., Urban, B., Tanner, D. C., Buness, A. H., Tucci, M., Hoelzmann, P., Dietel, S., Kaniecki, M., Schultz, J., Kasper, T., Suchodoletz, H., Schwalb, A., Weiss, M., & Lauer, T. (2021). Eemian landscape response to climatic shifts and evidence for northerly Neanderthal occupation at a palaeolake margin in Northern Germany (advance online). Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, esp.5219.
https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5219

Cordier, S., Kalicki, T., Lauer, T., Rixhon, G., & van Balen, R. (2021). Twenty-five years of FLAG activity: Concepts, foci, trends in research. Geomorphology, 373: 107443.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2020.107443

Malinsky-Buller, A., Glauberman, P., Ollivier, V., Lauer, T., Timms, R., Frahm, E., Brittingham, A., Triller, B., Kindler, L., Knul, M. V., Krakovsky, M., Joannin, S., Hren, M. T., Bellier, O., Clark, A. A., Blockley, S. P. E., Arakelyan, D., Marreiros, J., Paixaco, E., Calandra, I., Ghukasyan, R., Nora, D., Nir, N., Adigyozalyan, A., Haydosyan, H., & Gasparyan, B. (2021). Short-term occupations at high elevation during the Middle Paleolithic at Kalavan 2 (Republic of Armenia). PLoS One, 16: e0245700. 
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245700

Murari, M. K., Kreutzer, S., King, G., Frouin, M., Tsukamoto, S., Schmidt, C., Lauer, T., Klasen, N., Richter, D., Friedrich, J., Mercier, N., & Fuchs, M. (2021). Infrared radiofluorescence (IR-RF) dating: A review. Quaternary Geochronology, 64: 101155.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2021.101155

Lauer, T., Weiss, M., Bernhardt, W., Heinrich, S., Rappsilber, I., Stahlschmidt, M. C., von Suchodoletz, H., & Wansa, S. (2020). The Middle Pleistocene fluvial sequence at Uichteritz, central Germany: Chronological framework, paleoenvironmental history and early human presence during MIS 11. Geomorphology, 354: 107016.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2019.107016

Faust, D., Kreutzer, S., Trigui, Y., Pachtmann, M., Mettig, G., Bouaziz, M., Recio Espejo, J. M., Diaz del Olmo, F., Schmidt, C., Lauer, T., Rezek, Z., Fülling, A., & Meszner, S. (2020). New findings of Middle Stone Age lithic artifacts from the Matmata loess region in southern Tunisia. E&G Quaternary Science Journal, 69(1), 55-58. 
https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-69-55-2020

Flašarová, K., Strouhalová, B., Šefrna, L., Verrecchia, E., Lauer, T., Juřičková, L., Kolařík, P., & Ložek, V. (2020). Multiproxy evidence of middle and Late Pleistocene environmental changes in the loess-paleosol sequence of Bůhzdař (Czech Republic). Quaternary International, 552, 4-14.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2019.10.004

Hein, M., Weiss, M., Otcherednoy, A., & Lauer, T. (2020). Luminescence chronology of the key-Middle Paleolithic site Khotylevo I (Western Russia) - Implications for the timing of occupation, site formation and landscape evolution. Quaternary Science Advances, 2: 100008.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qsa.2020.100008

Moroni, A., Boschian, G., Crezzini, J., Montanari-Canini, G., Marciani, G., Capecchi, G., Arrighi, S., Aureli, D., Berto, C., Freguglia, M., Araujo, A., Scaramucci, S., Hublin, J.-J., Lauer, T., Benazzi, S., Parenti, F., Bonato, M., Ricci, S., Talamo, S., Segre, A. G., Boschin, F., & Spagnolo, V. (2019). Late Neandertals in central Italy. High-resolution chronicles from Grotta dei Santi (Monte Argentario - Tuscany). Quaternary Science Reviews, 217, 130-151. 
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.11.021

von Suchodoletz, H., Tinapp, C., Lauer, T., Glaser, B., Stäuble, H., Kühn, P., & Zielhofer, C. (2019). Distribution of Chernozems and Phaeozems in Central Germany during the Neolithic period. Quaternary International, 511, 166-184.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.10.041

Wiśniewski, A., Lauer, T., Chłoń, M., Pyżewicz, K., Weiss, M., Badura, J., Kalicki, T., & Zarzecka-Szubińska, K. (2019). Looking for provisioning places of shaped tools of the late Neanderthals: Astudy of a Micoquian open-air site, Pietraszyn 49a (southwestern Poland) = À la recherche des lieux d’approvisionnement en outils des derniers néandertaliens: étude d’un site micoquien de plein air, Pietraszyn 49a (Sud-Ouest de la Pologne). Comptes Rendus Palevol, 18(3), 367-389.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crpv.2019.01.003

Lang, J., Lauer, T., & Winsemann, J. (2018). New age constraints for the Saalian glaciation in northern central Europe: Implications for the extent of ice sheets and related proglacial lake systems. Quaternary Science Reviews, 180, 240-259.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.11.029

Lauer, T., & Weiss, M. (2018). Timing of the Saalian- and Elsterian glacial cycles and the implications for Middle – Pleistocene hominin presence in central Europe. Scientific Reports, 8: 5111.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-23541-w

Vlaminck, S., Kehl, M., Rolf, C., Franz, S. O., Lauer, T., Lehndorff, E., Frechen, M., & Khormali, F. (2018). Late Pleistocene dust dynamics and pedogenesis in Southern Eurasia – Detailed insights from the loess profile Toshan (NE Iran). Quaternary Science Reviews, 180, 75-95.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.11.010 

Weiss, M., Lauer, T., Wimmer, R., & Pop, C. (2018). The variability of the Keilmesser-Concept: A case study from central Germany. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, 1(3), 202-246.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41982-018-0013-y

Zielhofer, C., Wellbrock, K., al-Souliman, A. S., von Grafenstein, M., Schneider, B., Fitzsimmons, K., Stele, A., Lauer, T., von Suchodoletz, H., Grottker, M., & Gebel, H. G. K. (2018). Climate forcing and shifts in water management on the Northwest Arabian Peninsula (mid-Holocene Rasif wetlands, Saudi Arabia). Quaternary International, 473, Part A, 120-140.

Lauer, T., Frechen, M., & Fischer, P. (2017). Luminescence dating of the Lower Middle Terrace site at Brühl, southern Lower Rhine Embayment – a first dating approach. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften, 168(1), 105-114.
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1127/zdgg/2017/0109

Lauer, T., Frechen, M., Vlaminck, S., Kehl, M., Lehndorff, E., Shahriari, A., & Khormali, F. (2017). Luminescence-chronology of the loess palaeosol sequence Toshan, Northern Iran: A highly resolved climate archive for the last glacial-interglacial cycle. Quaternary International, 429(Part B), 3-12.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.03.045

Lauer, T., Vlaminck, S., Frechen, M., Rolf, C., Kehl, M., Sharifi, J., Lehndorff, E., & Khormali, F. (2017). The Agh Band loess-palaeosol sequence – A terrestrial archive for climatic shifts during the last and penultimate glacial–interglacial cycles in a semiarid region in northern Iran. Quaternary International, 429(Part B), 13-30.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2016.01.062

Tsukamoto, S., Kondo, R., Lauer, T., & Jain, M. (2017). Pulsed IRSL: A stable and fast bleaching luminescence signal from feldspar for dating Quaternary sediments. Quaternary Geochronology, 41, 26-36.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2017.05.004 

Vliet-Lanoë, B. V., Lauer, T., Meurisse-Fort, M., Gosselin, G., & Frechen, M. (2017). Late Holocene coastal dune activity along the Dover Strait, Northern France: Insights into Middle Ages and Little Ice Age coastal dynamics constrained by optically stimulated luminescence dating. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften = German Journal of Geology, 168(1), 53-66. 
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1127/zdgg/2016/0043

Wang, X., Wei, H., Khormali, F., Taheri, M., Kehl, M., Frechen, M., Lauer, T., & Chen, F. (2017). Grain-size distribution of Pleistocene loess deposits in northern Iran and its palaeoclimatic implications. Quaternary International, 429(Part B), 41-51.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2016.01.058

Zielhofer, C., Fletcher, W. J., Mischke, S., De Batist, M., Campbell, J. F. E., Joannin, S., Tjallingii, R., El Hamouti, N., Junginger, A., Stele, A., Bussmann, J., Schneider, B., Lauer, T., Spitzer, K., Strupler, M., Brachert, T., & Mikdad, A. (2017). Atlantic forcing of Western Mediterranean winter rain minima during the last 12,000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews, 157, 29-51.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.11.037

Vlaminck, S., Kehl, M., Lauer, T., Shahriari, A., Sharifi, J., Eckmeier, E., Lehndorff, E., Khormali, F., & Frechen, M. (2016). Loess-soil sequence at Toshan (Northern Iran): Insights into late Pleistocene climate change. Quaternary International, 399, 122-135.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.04.028

Lauer, T. (2015). Radioluminescence (RL). In W. J. Rink, & J. W. Thompson (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Scientific Dating Methods (pp. 685-685). New York [u.a.]: Springer.

Kreutzer, S., Lauer, T., Meszner, S., Krbetschek, M., Faust, D., & Fuchs, M. (2014). Chronology of the Quaternary profile Zeuchfeld in Saxony-Anhalt / Germany: A preliminary luminescence dating study. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, Supplementary Issues, 58(1), 5-26.
DOI: https://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/zfg_suppl/detail/58/81990/Chronology_of_the_Quaternary_profile_Zeuchfeld_in_?af=crossref

Lauer, T., Von Suchodoletz, H., Vollmann, H., Meszner, S., Frechen, M., Tinapp, C., Goldmann, L., Müller, S., & Zielhofer, C. (2014). Landscape aridification in Central Germany during the late Weichselian Pleniglacial – results from the Zauschwitz loess site in western Saxony. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, Supplementary Issues, 58(1), 27-50.
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1127/0372-8854/2013/S-00163

Cordier, S., Harmand, D., Lauer, T., Voinchet, P., Bahain, J.-J., & Frechen, M. (2012). Geochronological reconstruction of the Pleistocene evolution of the Sarre valley (France and Germany) using OSL and ESR dating techniques. Geomorphology, 165–166, 91-106.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.12.038

Cordier, S., Lauer, T., Harmand, D., Frechen, M., & Brkojewitch, G. (2012). Fluvial response to climatic and anthropogenic forcing in the Moselle drainage basin (NE France) during historical periods: evidence from OSL dating. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 37(11), 1167-1175.
https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.3236

Lauer, T., Krbetschek, M., Mauz, B., & Frechen, M. (2012). Yellow stimulated luminescence from potassium feldspar: Observations on its suitability for dating. Radiation Measurements, 47(10), 974-980.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radmeas.2012.08.002

Lauer, T., Frechen, M., Klostermann, J., Krbetschek, M., Schollmayer, G., & Tsukamoto, S. (2011). Luminescence dating of Last Glacial and Early Holocene fluvial deposits from the Lower Rhine: Methodological aspects and chronological framework. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften, 162(1), 47-61.
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1127/1860-1804/2011/0162-0047

Lauer, T., Krbetschek, M., Frechen, M., Tsukamoto, S., Hoselmann, C., & Weidenfeller, M. (2011). Geoarchaeological studies on Roman time harbour sediments in Cologne: comparison of different OSL dating techniques. Geochronometria, 38(4), 341-349.
DOI: https://www.sciendo.com/article/10.2478/s13386-011-0020-y

Lauer, T., Krbetschek, M., Frechen, M., Tsukamoto, S., Hoselmann, C., & Weidenfeller, M. (2011). Infrared radiofluorescence (IR-RF) dating of middle pleistocene fluvial archives of the Heidelberg Basin (Southwest Germany). Geochronometria, 38(1), 23-33.
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/s13386-011-0006-9

Lüthgens, C., Böse, M., Lauer, T., Krbetschek, M., Strahl, J., & Wenske, D. (2011). Timing of the last interglacial in Northern Europe derived from Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating of a terrestrial Saalian–Eemian–Weichselian sedimentary sequence in NE-Germany. Quaternary International, 241(1–2), 79-96.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2010.06.026

Lauer, T., Frechen, M., Hoselmann, C., & Tsukamoto, S. (2010). Fluvial aggradation phases in the Upper Rhine Graben: New insights by quartz OSL dating. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association,121(2), 154-161.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2009.10.006