Dr. rer. nat. Tobias Lauer
Laboratory head (Optical dating / sediment analyses)
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Geo- und Umweltforschungszentrum (GUZ) Universität Tübingen Schnarrenbergstr. 94-96 Deutschland | Room 2I40, GUZ
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+49-(0)7071-29-73420 tobias.lauer @ifg.uni-tuebingen.de | Sprechzeiten: Nach Vereinbarung |
Research Interests:
I am the laboratory head of the dating and sediment analyses laboratory at the GUZ (Geo- and Environmental Center) at Tübingen University (Terrestrial Sedimentology). My focus is on geochronology (specifically luminescence dating), quaternary, palaeolithic and palaeoenvironmental research.
In a DFG funded project, starting in 2023, we will investigate the characteristics and potential of a yellow stimulated feldspar luminescence signal with the aim to date Quaternary sediments.
Affiliations
- German Quaternary Association
- Quaternary Subcommission of the German Stratigraphic Commission
- German Society of Geosciences
- Deutscher Arbeitskreis für Geomorphologie
- Secretary: Fluvial Archives Group (FLAG)
Reviews
- Quaternary Science Reviews
- Quaternary Geochronology
- Catena
- Geomorphology
- Geochronometria
- Quaternary Science Journal
- Austrian Journal of Earthsciences
- Radiation Measurements
- Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie
- Journal of Human Evolution
- Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
- Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology
- Journal of Mountain Science
- Reviewer for the Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NKFIH)
Education
Since March 2022 | Lab leader, Terrestrial Sedimentology Geo- and Environmental Center (GUZ) - Universität Tübingen |
2015 - 2022 | Postdoctoral Researcher Since 2016: Head of the MPI EVA Luminescence- and Infrared-Radiofluorescence dating laboratory. Chronological, geomorphological, sedimentological and palaeoenvironmental studies on archaeological/ quaternary sites with focus on central- and eastern Europe; Methodological work in optical dating; Research on the timing of Middle-Pleistocene glacial-interglacial cycles; Main-supervisor of a PhD-student. Lectures within the Leipzig-school of Human Origins. Lectureships at Gießen and Leipzig Universities May 2019-July 2019: Research stipend at the Université du Québec à Montréal |
2013-2015 | Postdoctoral Researcher |
2010-2013 | Researcher/ Postdoctoral Researcher Lectures in physical geography, supervising of students/ BA theses, research in the field of quaternary sciences, geochronology, palaeoenvironmental studies/geomorphology and sedimentology |
2008-2011 | PhD thesis |
2001-2007 | Studies of Geography (main subject), Geology and Political Sciences at the Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen (Germany); |
2003-2004 | Erasmus |
Publikationen
2022
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
2021
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
2020
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
2019
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
2018
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.
2017
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
2016
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
2015
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.
2014
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
2012
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
2011
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
2010
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