Laura Sophia Limmer
Function: PhD student and research assistant
Address: Universität Tübingen
Institut für Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie, Abt. Paläoanthropologie
Rümelinstr. 23
D-72070 Tübingen
Office: Room 519, Hauptgebäude, 2. OG
Tel.: +49-(0)7071-29-74067
E-Mail: laura-sophia.limmer@uni-tuebingen.de
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Laura Sophia Limmer earned a bachelor’s degree in prehistoric and protohistoric archaeology from the University of Würzburg and specialized in Paleoanthropology in the Archaeological Science master’s program at the University of Tübingen. In February 2018, she started as a doctoral candidate and research assistant in the DFG project “Diet and Physiological Stresses in Paleolithic non-adults” under the supervision of Dr. Sireen El Zaatari.
After her Master thesis on dental macrowear and age determination in Neanderthals, Laura Sophia Limmer continues her research in the field of dental anthropology. In her doctoral dissertation, she is now focusing on the reconstruction of development and physiological stresses in sub adult individuals from the Paleolithic. Combining dental enamel growth disruptions and dietary microwear, her research aims to record physiological stress manifestations in relation to diet in order to explore its implications on hominin life history patterns and behavior.
Research interests: diet and subsistence, health and pathologies, dental anthropology, deciduous teeth, hominin childhood and development, weaning, paleoecology, physiological stress, life history
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Academic Background
Since Feb 2018
Doctoral candidate at the University of Tübingen
supervised by Dr. Sireen El –Zaatari and Prof. Katerina Harvati
2015 - 2017
MSc. in Archaeological Sciences with a specialization in Paleoanthropology at the University of Tübingen
(“Reconsidering dental wear as a tool to estimate age in Neanderthals – an exploratory study of sub adult dentitions aged with virtual histology”)
Jan - Oct 2017
Student research assistant in Paleoanthropology at the University of Tübingen
2011 - 2015
B.A.in Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology at the University of Würzburg supervised by Prof. Dr. Heidi Peter-Röcher
(“Vom Kannibalen zum Künstler – Forschungen zum Neanderthaler am Beispiel Krapina, Kroatien “)
Fieldwork and Museum Experience
May 2019
Visiting researcher at the Musée national de Préhistoire in Les Eyzies, France for data collection and analysis of Neanderthal and Upper Paleolithic modern human fossils
Aug 2017
Forensics Workshop “The Human Skeleton in Forensic Anthropology and Medicine” at John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) University of Hawaii with Dr. Robert Mann supported by a PROMOS stipend from the German Academic Exchange Service
Aug - Sep 2016
Excavations in an open-cast mine at the Paleolithic site of Schöningen, Germany
Aug - Sep 2015
Internship at the archaeological open-air museum „Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen “, Germany
Aug 2013
Excavations of a bronze age hill-top settlement at the site of “Bullenheimer Berg”, Germany
Sep - Oct 2012
Excavations of a bronze age hill-top settlement at the site of “Bullenheimer Berg”, Germany
Teaching Experience
Since Oct 2019
Teaching Practical Osteology courses for students of Paleoanthropology at the University of Tübingen