Dr. Judith Beier
Function: Research Associate
Universität Tübingen
Institut für Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie, Abt. Paläoanthropologie
Rümelinstr. 23
D-72070 Tübingen
Room 519, Hauptgebäude, 2. OG
+49-(0)7071-29-74607
judith.beier[at]uni-tuebingen.de
Consulting hours:
by arrangement
Education
2021
Doctorate Archaeological Sciences and Human Evolution
University of Tübingen
2013
M.Sc. Archaeological Sciences/Paleoanthropology
University of Tübingen
2010
B.A. Pre- and Protohistory and Paleoanthropology
University of Tübingen
Academic Positions
2021 - Present
Research associate
Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen
2020 - Present
Project coordinator, Division II - Research
Research and Excellence Strategy, 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
Publications
Peer-reviewed
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. 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. 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).
Posth, C., Nakatsuka, N., Lazaridis, I., Skoglund, P., Mallick, S., Lamnidis, T.C., Rohland, N., Nägele, K., Adamski, N., Bertolini, E., Broomandkhoshbacht, N., Cooper, A., Culleton, B.J., Ferraz, T., Ferry, M., Furtwängler, A., Haak, W., Harkins, K., Harper, T.K., Hünemeier, T., Lawson, A.M., Llamas, B., Michel, M., Nelson, E., Oppenheimer, J., Patterson, N., Schiffels, S., Sedig, J., Stewardson, K., Talamo, S., Wang, C.-C., Hublin, J.-J., Hubbe, M., Harvati, K., Nuevo Delaunay, A., Beier, J., Francken, M., Kaulicke, P., Reyes-Centeno, H., Rademaker, K., Trask, W.R., Robinson, M., Gutierrez, S.M., Prufer, K.M., Salazar-García, D.C., Chim, E.N., Müller Plumm Gomes, L., Alves, M.L., Liryo, A., Inglez, M., Oliveira, R.E., Bernardo, D.V., Barioni, A., Wesolowski, V., Scheifler, N.A., Rivera, M.A., Plens, C.R., Messineo, P.G., Figuti, L., Corach, D., Scabuzzo, C., Eggers, S., DeBlasis, P., Reindel, M., Méndez, C., Politis, G., Tomasto-Cagigao, E., Kennett, D.J., Strauss, A., Fehren-Schmitz, L., Krause, J., Reich, D., Reconstructing the Deep Population History of Central and South America. Cell 175, 1185–1197 (2018). doi:10.1016/j.cell.2018.10.027
Other Publications
Beier, J., (2020), Data for Publication "Prevalence of Cranial Trauma in Eurasian Upper Paleolithic Humans" [Data set]. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3979485
Beier, J., Harvati, K., (2018) Same but different: The prevalence of head injuries in Ice Age humans. Behind the Paper, Nature Research Ecology & Evolution Community [Blog post, 23. Dezember 2018]. https://natureecoevocommunity.nature.com/users/203628-judith-beier/posts/42517-same-but-different-the-prevalence-of-head-injuries-in-ice-age-humans
Mori, T., Beier, J., de Matos, D., Mentzer, S.M., (2017) Seventh Annual Meeting of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution. Evolutionary Anthropology 2018/27, 3-4. https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21564