Biogeologie

PD Dr. Dorothée Drucker
Senior researcher / Lecturer

Hölderlinstr. 12
72074 Tübingen, Germany

S534
 +49 (0)7071 / 29-72487
dorothee.druckerspam prevention@ifu.uni-tuebingen.de
dorothee.druckerspam prevention@senckenberg.de 

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​​​​​​​Curriculum vitae

Since 2017Research Fellow at the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, Germany
2017Habilitation in Paleobiology and Natural Sciences Archaeology, University of Tübingen, Germany
2012 – 2017Fellow of the Margarete-von-Wrangell Habilitation program for women, University of Tübingen, Germany
2009 – 2012Research assistant at the Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Germany
2007 – 2009Postdoctoral Fellow of the Alexander-von Humboldt Foundation, Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Germany
2005 – 2006Posdoctoral Fellow of CNRS at ArScAn, University of Paris-Nanterre, France
2003 – 2004Postdoctoral Fellow of the Fyssen Foundation at the Canadian Wildlife Service, Saskatoon, Canada
2001 – 2003Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Evolution Sciences, University of Montpellier 2, France
1997 – 2001Ph.D in Biogeochemistry, University Paris 6, France
1995“DEA” in Archaeology (MS equivalent), Université Bordeaux 3, France
1994“Maîtrise” (B.S. equivalent) in Biology-Geology, University Paris 7, France

​​​​​​​Publications

2024

Soler, J., Rufí, I., Coromina, N., Solés, A., Drucker, D.G., Soler, N., 2024. The human remains of Final Gravettian age from the Reclau Viver and Mollet III caves (Serinyà, NE Iberian Peninsula). Journal of Human Evolution 197, 103603. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2024.103603  

Efe Yavuz, O., Oxilia, G., Silvestrini, S., Tassoni, L., Reiter, E., Drucker, D.G., Talamo, S., Fontana, F., Stefano Benazzi, S., Cosimo Posth, C., 2024. Interdisciplinary biomolecular analysis of the Epigravettian human remains from Riparo Tagliente in northern Italy. Communications Biology 7(1), 1-8.  https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06979-9

Drucker, D.G., Rivals, F., Nadal, J., Rufí, I., Soler, J., Soler, N., Maroto, J., 2024. Ecology of large ungulates in the northeastern Iberian Peninsula during the Upper Palaeolithic through stable isotopes and tooth wear analysis. Quaternary Environments and Humans

Drucker, D.G., Fontana, L., 2024. Environmental conditions in Massif Central during the Late Upper Palaeolithic using stable isotope tracking (13C, 15N) of bone collagen from large herbivores. Journal of Quaternary Science, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3617 

2023

Cucchi, T., Harbers, H., Neaux, D.,... Drucker, D.G., ..., Herrel, A.,  2023. 4500 years of morphological diversification in Western Europe wild boars (Sus scrofa) and the consequences of the Neolithic transition. Quaternary Science Reviews 309, 108100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108100

Posth, C., Yu, H., Ghalichi, A., Rougier, H.,... Drucker, D.G., ..., Krause, J.,  2023. Palaeogenomics of Upper Palaeolithic to Neolithic European hunter-gatherers. Nature 615, 117-126.   https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05726-0 

2022

Bergström, A., Stanton, D.W.G., Taron, U.T.,...Drucker, D.G., ....Krause, J., Dalén, L., Skoglund, P. 2022. Grey wolf genomic history reveals a dual ancestry of dogs. Nature 607, 313-320. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04824-9

Drucker, D.G., Bridault, A., Boethius, A. 2022. Post‑glacial human subsistence and settlement patterns: insights from bones. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 14,138. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-022-01600-8 

Drucker, D.G., 2022. Collagen Isotopic Ecology of the Mammoth Steppe. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences 50, 395-418. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-earth-100821-

2021

Rivals, F., Drucker, D.G., Starkovich, B.M., Russo, G., Leder, D., Terberger, T., Conard, N. 2021. Dental wear evidence for browsing and grazing dietary traits in the giant deer from the Late Pleistocene of Central Europe. Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte 30, 95-113. https://doi.org/10.51315/mgfu.2021.30005

Fellows Yates, J. ,Velsko, I.M., Aron, F., Posth, C., Hofman, C.A., Austin, R.M., Parker, C.E., Mann, A.E., Nägele, K., Weedman Arthur, K., Arthur, J.W., Bauer, C.C., Crevecoeur, I., Cupillard, C., Curtis, M.C., Dalén, L., Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, M., Díez Fernández-Lomana, J.C., Drucker, D.G., Escribano Ecrivá, E., Francken, M., Gibbon, V.E., Gonzalez Morales, M., Grande Mateu, A., Harvati, K., Henry, A.G., Humphrey, L., Menéndez, M., Mihailović, D., Peresani, M., Rodríguez Moroder, S., Roksnadic, M., Rougier, H., Sázelová, S., Stock, J.T., Straus, L.G., Svoboda, J., Teßman, B., Walker, M.J., Power, R.C., Lewis, C.M., Sankaranarayanan, K., Guschanski, K., Wrangham, R.,  Dewhirst, F.E., Salazar-Garcia, D.C, Krause, J., Herbig, A., Warinner, C. 2021. The evolution of changing ecology of the hominid oral microbiome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences doi.org118(20), e2021655118. 10.1073/pnas.2021655118 

Drucker, D.G., Naito, Y.I., Coromina, N., Rufí, I., Soler, N., Soler, J. 2021. Stable isotope evidence of human diet in Mediterranean context during the Last Glacial Maximum. Journal of Human Evolution 154, 102967. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2021.102967

Baumann, C., Pfrengle, S., Münzel, S.C., Molak, M., Feuerborn, T.R., Breidenstein, A., Reiter, E., Albrecht, G., Kind, C.-J., Verjux, C., Leduc, C., Conard, N.J., Drucker, D.G., Giemsch, L., Thalmann, O., Bocherens, H. Schuenemann, V.J. 2021. A refined proposal for the origin of dogs - The case study of Gnirshöhle, a Magdalenian cave site. Scientific Reports 11, 5137. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-83719-7 

Ma, J., Wanga, Y. Baryshnikov, G.F., Drucker, D.G., McGrath, K., Zhange, H., Bocherens, H., Hu, Y. 2021. The Mammuthus-Coelodonta Faunal Complex at its southeastern limit: a biogeochemical paleoecology investigation in Northeast Asia. Quaternary International 591, 93-106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.12.024 

2020

Polet, C., Drucker, D.G., Glas, C., Sabaux, C., Goffette, Q., Samsel, M., Jadin, I., Warmenbol, E., Villotte, S. 2020. Waulsort Caverne X: A new cave site with Early Mesolithic human remains in Belgium. Mesolithic Miscellany 28(2), 25-43. ISSN 0259-3548

Bridault, A., Binois-Roman A., Drucker, D.G., Pion G. 2020. Investigating the exploitation pattern of a newly established species, the case of the Late-Glacial roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) at La Fru (Savoie, France). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 12, 229. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-020-01168-1 

Wong, G.L., Starkovich, B.M., Drucker, D.G., Conard, J.C. 2020. New perspectives on human subsistence during the Magdalenian in the Swabian Jura, Germany. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 12, 217. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-020-01119-w

Drucker, D.G., Ducrocq, T., F., Baumann, C., Valentin, F. 2020. Environment and human subsistence in Northern France at the Late-Glacial to early Holocene transition. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 12(8), 194. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-020-01149-4

Baumann, C., Bocherens, H., Drucker, D.G., Conard, N.J., 2020. Fox dietary ecology as a tracer of human impact on Pleistocene ecosystems. PloSONE 15(7), e0235692. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235692

Rufí, I., Drucker, D.G., Bocherens, H., Lloveras, L., Madurell-Malapeira, J., Maroto, J., Soler, J., Soler, N. 2020. Revision of the occurrence of muskox (Ovibos moschatus Zimmermann 1780) from the Gravettian of Arbreda Cave (Serinyà, northeast of Iberian Peninsula): new insights for the study of Iberian cold-adapted faunas. Boreas 49, 858-872. https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12455 

Naito, Y.I., Meleg, I.N., Robu, M., Vlaicu, M., Drucker, D.G., Wißing, C., Hofreiter, M., Barlow, A., Bocherens, H. 2020. Heavy reliance on plants for Romanian cave bears evidenced by amino acid nitrogen isotope analysis. Scientific Reports 10(1), 6612. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-62990-0

Rivals, F., Drucker, D.G., Weber, M.-J., Audouze, F., Enloe, J.G. 2020. Dietary traits and habitats of the reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) during the Late Glacial. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 12(5), 98. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-020-01052-y 

Wong, G.L., Drucker, D.G., Starkovich, B.M., Conard, N.J. 2020. Latest Pleistocene paleoenvironmental reconstructions from the Swabian Jura, southwestern Germany: Evidence from Stable Isotope Analysis and Micromammal Remains. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 540, 109527. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106032 

Baumann, C., Starkovich, B.M., Drucker, D.G., Münzel, S.C., Conard, N.J., Bocherens, H. 2020. Dietary niche partitioning among Magdalenian canids in southwestern Germany and Switzerland. Quaternary Science Reviews 227, 106032. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106032 

Meadows, J. Lozovskaya, O., Bondetti, M., Drucker, D.G., Moiseyev, V. 2020. Human palaeodiet at Zamostje 2, Central Russia: results of radiocarbon and stable isotope analyses. Quaternary International541, 89-103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2019.07.017 

> 2020

Henry-Gambier, D., Rocher, P., Drucker, D., 2019. Étude et description de la sépulture de l’enfant de l’abri Labattut (vallon de Castelmerle, Sergeac, Dordogne, France). PALEO 30(1), 170-203.

Hofman‐Kamińska, E., Bocherens, H., Drucker, D.G., Fyfe, R.M., Gumiński, W., Makowiecki, D., Pacher, M., Piličiauskienė, G., Samojlik, T., Woodbridge, J., Kowalczyk, R., 2019. Adapt or die—Response of large herbivores to environmental changes in Europe during the Holocene. Global Change Biology 25(9), 2915-2930.

Arppe, L., Karhu, J.A., Vartanyan, S., Drucker, D., Etu-Sihvola, H., Bocherens, H. 2019. Thriving or surviving? The isotopic record of the Wrangel Island woolly mammoth population. Quaternary Science Reviews 222, 105884.

Gretzinger, J., Molak, M., Reiter, E., Pfrengle, S., Urban, C., Neukamm, J.  Blant, M., Conard, N.J., Cupillard, C., Dimitrijević, V., Drucker D.G., Hofman-Kamińska, E., Kowalczyk, R., Krajcarz, M.T., Krajcarz, M., Münzel, S.C., Peresani, M., Romandini, M., Rufí, I., Soler, J., Terlato, G., Krause, J., Bocherens, H., Schuenemann, V.J. 2019. Large-scale mitogenomic analysis of the phylogeography of the Late Pleistocene cave bear. Scientific Reports 9:10700.

Krajcarz, M.T., Krajcarz, M., Drucker, D.G., Bocherens, H. 2019. Prey-to-fox isotopic enrichment of 34S in bone collagen: Implications for palaeoecological studies. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 33, 1311-1317.

Bons, P.D., Bauer, C.C., Bocherens, H., de Riese, T., Drucker, D.G., Francken, M., Menéndez, L., Uhl, A., van Milligen, B.P., Wißing, C., 2019. Out of Africa by spontaneous migration waves. PloS ONE 14(4), e0201998.

Etu-Sihvola, H., Bocherens, H., Drucker, D.G., Junno, A., Mannermaa, K., Oinonen, M., Uusitalo, J., Arppe, L., 2019. The dIANA database – Resource for isotopic paleodietary research in the Baltic Sea area. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 24, 1003-1013.

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(1), 4433.

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 Sciences 10(2), 351-368. doi:10.1007/s12520-016-0356-6.

Naito, Y.I., Chikaraishi, Y., Drucker, D.G., Ohkouchi, N., Semal, P., Wißing, C., Bocherens, H., 2018. Reply to" Comment on" Ecological niche of Neanderthals from Spy Cave revealed by nitrogen isotopes of individual amino acids in collagen."[J. Hum. Evol. 93 (2016) 82-90]"[J. Hum. Evol. 117 (2018) 53-55]. Journal of Human Evolution 117, 56-60.

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.

Mathieson, I., Alpaslan Roodenberg, S., Szécsényi-Nagy, A., Rohland, N., Mallick, S., Broomandkhoshbacht, N., Cheronet, O., Fernandes, D., Ferry, M., Gamarra, B., Haak, W., Harney, E., Michel, M., Nägele, K., Novak, M., Olade, I., Oppenheimer, J., Patterson, N., Posth, C., Sirak, K., Stewardson, K., Vai, S., Alexandrov, S., Alt, K.W., Andreescu, R., Ash, A., Atanassova, N., Bacvarov, K., Bocherens, H., Bolus, M., Boroneant, A., Boyadzhiev, Y., Budnik, A., Burmaz, J., Chohadzhiev, S., Conard, N.J., Cottiaux, R., Cupillard, C., Drucker, D., Elenski, N., Francken, M., Galabova, B., Ganetovski, G., Gely, B., Hajdu, T., Harvati, K., Higham, T., Iliev, S., Janković, I., Karavanić, I., Kennett, D.J., Kozak, A., Krause-Kyora, B., Krauß, R., Labuda, D., Lari M., Lazar, C., Leppek, M., Leshtakov, K., Lo Vetro, D., Los, D., Malina, M., Martini, F., McSweeney, K., Mellar, H., Mende, B.G., Menđušić, M., Mirea, P., Moiseyev, V., Papathanasiou, A., Petrova, V., Simalcsik A., Sineo, L., Šlaus, M., Slavchev, V., Stanev, P., Szeniczey, T., Talamo, S., Thevenet, C., Valentin, F., Vassiliev, S., Veljanovska, F., Venelinova, S., Veselovskaya, E., Viola, B., Virag, C., Zaninović, J., Zäuner S., Stockhammer, P.W., Catalano, G., Caramelli, D., Zarina, G., Gaydarska, B., Lillie, M., Nikitin, A.G., Potekhina, I., Boric, D., Bonsall, C., Krause, J., Pinhasi, R., Reich, D., 2018. The Genomic History of Southeastern Europe. Nature 555: 197-210.

Naito, Y.I., Chikaraishi, Y., Drucker, D.G., Ohkouchi, N., Semal, P., Wißing, C., Bocherens, H., 2018. Reply to “Comment on “Ecological niche of Neanderthals from Spy Cave revealed by nitrogen isotopes of individual amino acids in collagen.” (Journal of Human Evolution 93: 82-90.). Journal of Human Evolution.117: 56-60.

Schnitzler, A., Granado, J., Putelat, O., Arbogast, R.-M., Drucker, D.G., Eberhard, A., Schmutz, A., Klaefiger, Y., Lang, G., Salzburger, W., Schibler, J., Schlumbaum, A., Bocherens, H., 2018. Genetic diversity, genetic structure and diet of ancient and contemporary red deer (Cervus elaphus L.) from north-eastern France. PLoS ONE 13(1): e0189278

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

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 7:17714

Gröcke, D.R., Sauer, P.E., Bridault, A., Drucker, D.G., Germonpré, M., Bocherens, H., 2017. Hydrogen isotopes in Late Quaternary mammal collagen from Europe. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 11, 12-16.

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.
 

Contributions to Books

Bocherens, H., Drucker, D.G. 2021. Isotopic insights on the ecological interactions between humans and woolly mammoths during the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic in Europe. In: Human-elephant interactions: from past to present, G.E. Konidaris, R. Barkai, V. Tourloukis, K. Harvati (eds.), Tübingen, Tübingen University Press, 249-262.

Bocherens, H., Drucker, D.G., Rivals, F. 2018. L’alimentation et l’environnement (micro-usure et isotopes). In: Catalogue de l’exposition “Mémoires de Mammouths”, Musée national de Préhistoire Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, pp. 35-39.
 

Edited Volumes

Reinhard, J., Huber, R., Drucker, D., Müller, W., 2019. Von Irrtümern, Übersehenem und moderner Analytik. Neue Erkenntnisse zu den spätglazialen Elchknochen von Zug-Gartenstadt, Tugium 35, 129-138.

Drucker, D.G., Furtwängler, A., Schünemann, V., Huber, R., Reinhard, J. 2018. Durchleuchtet und analysiert Ein Update zur Genetik, Isotopie und Radiografie des «letzten Zuger Mammuts», Zug, Tugium 34, 123-131.
 

Teaching

WiSe 2004/2025 & SoSe 2025

  • Geow-B310: Ecosystem of the Earth and Climatology
  • Geow-M407-21: Conservation Paleoecology
  • Geow-M231-21: Seminar Geoecology
  • Geow-M403: Paleoecology of Terrestrial Ecosystems
  • Geow-B501: Paleobiology
  • Geow-M401-Ü2: Terrestrische Ökosysteme – Laborpraktikum
  • Geow-M103: Scientific presentation
  • ASHE-3g: Introduction to Zooarchaelogy
  • ASHE-7b: Stable Isotopes in Bioarchaeology
  • ASHE-7g: Diet and Subsistence in Prehistoric Context

Supervision

2024
  • Freya Riedel (Dept. of Geoscience, M.Sc. M.Sc. Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie - Zooarchäologie): “Times of Turmoil? Zooarchaeological and Isotopic Analysis of Five Roman-Germanic Equids from Heddesheim, GER”
2021
  • Raija Heikkilä (Dept. of Geoscience, M.Sc. Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie - Archäometrie): “Multi-isotope analysis of reindeer from trading sites in Finnish Lapland AD 1600-1900”
2020
  • Samuel Stern (Dept. of Geoscience, M.Sc. Geowissenchaften): “Paleoecological Reconstruction of Messel & Schöningen Fauna using stable Isotopes (δ13C, δ15N & δ15NGlu, δ15NPhe)”
2017
  • Sophia Haller von Hallerstein (Dept. of Geoscience, M.Sc. Naturwissenschaftliche - Paläoanthropologie): “Multi-isotopic paleo-diet reconstruction of hunter-gatherer in the Peruvian Puna”
2015
  • James Fellows Yates (Dept. of Geoscience, M.Sc. Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie – Archäo- & Paläogenetik): “Full mitochondrial genomes of upper Palaeolithic Central European Woolly Mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius)”
  • Jonathan Jürgensen (Dept. of Geoscience, M.Sc. Geowissenchaften): “Conservation Palaeobiology of and Endangered Species: The Saiga Antelope – A Palaeoecological Reconstruction”
  • Moritz Laufer (Dept. of Geoscience, B.Sc Geoökologie): “Reconstruction of the ecological niche of large ungulates in Europe with carbon stable isotopes during the Neolithic”
2014
  • Matthias Schneider (Dept. of Geoscience, M.Sc. Geowissenchaften): “The potential of δ13C, δ15N, δ34S to track the origin of modern Saiga antelopes and their information of modern- and paleoecology”

Research

Research focus

  • stable isotopes tracking of palaeoenvironment and palaeodiet
  • palaeoecology of large mammals during the Late Quaternary
  • subsistence of the past hunter-gatherer populations in Eurasia
  • impact of the Late Quaternary climatic changes on the evolution of terrestrial ecosystems
  • conservation (palaeo)biology of terrestrial mammals

Projects since 2019

  • From Ornaments to Ecosystems: Exploring Hominin-Mammoth Interactions in the Late Pleistocene of the Swabian Jura (Southern Germany) (co-PI)
  • The Palaeolithic of the Upper and Middle Segre Basin (Paleo-Segre) (PI Javier Mangado Llach – University of Barcelona); ia.ub.edu/en/xavier-mangado-llach/
  • MAMBA - Exploring Mammoth Bone Accumulations In Central Europe (co-PI)
  • EcoRef - Ecological response of large herbivores to the late Quaternary climatic changes in northeast Iberian Peninsula refugium (PI) ; https://gepris-extern.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/427557110?language=en
  • Large herbivores ecology and subsistence of humans in Paris Basin and its margins, Forschergruppe “Late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic in the Paris Basin and its surroundings. Settlements, societies and environments” (PI S.Griselin, L. Mevel - UMR 7041)  

Scientific activities

2021-2023        Coordinator of the Hilgendorf Lecture series

2016-2020        Co-coordinator of the Graduate program EVEREST, University of Tübingen

2014-2024        Member of the Examination Board of Geoecology, University of Tübingen

Since 2022       Review Editor for Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology

since 2019        Academic Editor of PLOS ONE

since 2008        Associate Editor of Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Springer

Public outreach