Dr. Judith Beier
Function: Post-Doctoral Researcher
University of Tübingen
DFG Center for Advanced Studies “Words, Bones, Genes, Tools”
Rümelinstr. 23
72070 Tübingen
Consulting hours:
by arrangement
Room 603c
+49-(0)7071-29-76095
judith.beier@uni-tuebingen.de
About
Judith Beier is a postdoctoral researcher at the DFG Center for Advanced Studies “Words, Bones, Genes, Tools: Tracking Linguistic, Cultural and Biological Trajectories of the Human Past”. Her research interests are:
- Bioarchaeology, biological anthropology, paleoanthropology
- Late Pleistocene to early Holocene hunter-gatherer lifestyles and behaviors
- Trauma, injury, violence, mortality
Academic and Professional Trajectory
2023 - 2025
Research Fellow
DFG Center for Advanced Studies “Words, Bones, Genes, Tools: Tracking Linguistic, Cultural and Biological Trajectories of the Human Past”, University of Tübingen
2022 - 2023
Visiting Researcher
International Institute of Prehistoric Research of Cantabria, University of Cantabria, Santander
2021 - 2022
Scientific coordinator
Paleoanthropology section, University of Tübingen
2021
Doctorate Archaeological Sciences and Human Evolution
University of Tübingen
2020 - 2022
Project coordinator
Research and Excellence Strategy, Division II – Research, University of Tübingen
2019
Research associate
ERC-funded project “Human Evolution at the CrossRoads”, University of Tübingen
2016 - 2019
Research associate
DFG-funded project “Paleolithic injury patterns: investigating different trauma frequencies in Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans”, University of Tübingen
2014 - 2016
Research associate
Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen
2013
M.Sc. Archaeological Sciences/Paleoanthropology
University of Tübingen
2010
B.A. Pre- and Protohistory and Paleoanthropology
University of Tübingen
Prizes / Awards
2022
PhD Thesis Award in Prehistoric Archaeology of the International Institute of Prehistoric Research of Cantabria (IIIPC), University of Cantabria, Santander
2022
Wolfgang Strutz Doctoral Award of the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research, Frankfurt/Main
2017
Student Poster Prize, 7th Annual Meeting of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution (ESHE), Leiden
Leiden
2014
Evolution Award 2014 for interdisciplinary M.Sc. theses, 1st place, of the Evolution and Ecology-Board Tübingen and Volkswagen Foundation
Publications
Selected Publications
Beier, J., (2021), Analyses of cranial trauma in Neanderthal and modern human fossil remains, Dissertation, Universität Tübingen. http://hdl.handle.net/10900/119049
Beier J., Anthes N., Wahl J., Harvati K., Prevalence of Cranial Trauma in Eurasian Upper Paleolithic Humans, American Journal of Physical Anthropology 174 (2021), 268-284. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24163
Beier J., Anthes N., Wahl J., Harvati K., Similar cranial trauma prevalence among Neanderthals and Upper Palaeolithic modern humans. Nature 563 (2018), 686-690. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0696-8
Francken, M., Beier, J., Reyes-Centeno, H., Harvati, K., Rademaker, K. (2018). The human skeletal remains from the Cuncaicha rock shelter, Peru, in: Harvati, K., Jäger, G., Reyes-Centeno, H. (eds.), New Perspectives on the Peopling of the Americas. Words, Bones, Genes, Tools: DFG Center for Advanced Studies Series Vol. 1, Kerns Verlag: Tübingen (ISBN: 978-3-935751-28-5).