Paläoanthropologie

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.beierspam prevention@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

Links

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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).

 

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