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

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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

Awards & Grants

2024
Promotion of Junior Researchers at the University of Tübingen

Seed funding to set up independent research project and develop third-party funding application (11,889 €)

2024
Conference Travel Grant

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD; 1,262 €) 

2022
PhD Thesis Award in Prehistoric Archaeology of the International Institute of Prehistoric Research of Cantabria (IIIPC)

University of Cantabria, Santander (9,000 €)

2022
Wolfgang Strutz Doctoral Award of the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research

Frankfurt/Main (5,000 €)

2017
Student Poster Prize

7th Annual Meeting of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution (ESHE) Leiden (1,500 €)

2014
Evolution Award 2014 for interdisciplinary M.Sc. theses

Evolution and Ecology-Board Tübingen and Volkswagen Foundation (2,000 €)

Publications

Selected Publications

Beier, J., Santon, M., Rathmann, H., Estimating trauma prevalence from incomplete human skeletal remains, Scientific Reports 14 (2024), 27713. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-76231-1

Rathmann, H., Vizzari, M.T., Beier, J., Bailey, S.E., Ghirotto, S., Harvati, K., Human population dynamics in Upper Paleolithic Europe inferred from fossil dental phenotypes, Science Advances 10 (2024), eadn8129. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adn8129

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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