Exzellenzcluster - HUMAN ORIGINS

David Boysen

Postdoctoral Researcher

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Universität Tübingen
Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS

Burgsteige 11
D-72074 Tübingen

R. 109
07071-2977111
david.boysenspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de

 

Research

“Within the Cluster, my role applies to two areas: I am responsible for the fieldwork conducted in Kosovo by the Cluster. This includes leading fieldwork, training of students and collecting the archaeological data. Additionally, data storage and security, logistics and quality control of the research data are my responsibility. Aside the fieldwork, I am also analyzing the collected data and assemblages, whereas my main focus lies on lithic technologies, geoinformatics and digital analytical methods.”

Curriculum vitae

Since 04/2026
Postdoctoral Researcher

Human Origins Cluster of Excellence, University of Tübingen

01/2023-03/2026
Doctoral Researcher

Palaeolithic Archaeology | Faculty of Science | Department of geosciences Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology | University of Tübingen | Germany 

PhD project funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 513984209

Dissertation “Constrained variation in reduction sequences of late Middle Palaeolithic handaxe production. Technological organisation and socioeconomic implications at Charbonnières (Saône-et-Loire, France) »

 

2021-2024
Excavation Director and Teacher

Charbonnières, France

 

2020-2022
Archaeological Data Analyst

ArchaeoBW GmbH

2019
Master

Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

“Chronologisches & Geographisches Auftreten von Faustkeilen. Technologie & Funktion vs. Kultur & Tradition”
 

2017-2022
Research Assistant

ERC Starting Grant StoneCult, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. Supervisor: Claudio Tennie

2017
Bachelor

Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

„Eine formenkundliche und technologische Aufarbeitung der Sammlung Georges Lamercerie“
 

2017
Research Assistant

SFB1070 RessourcenKulturen, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. Supervisor: Janina Diekmann

2016
Research Assistant

SFB1070 RessourcenKulturen, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. Supervisors: Jörg Widmaier; Markus Siegeris

Scientific work

Publications (selected)

Boysen, D. and H. Floss (2025). Le cas de Charbonnières dans le Mâconnais - production de bifaces en série? Journées régionales de l'archéologie de Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Dijon, Ministére de la culture - Direction régionale des affaires culturelles de Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.

Snyder, W. D., et al. (2024). Trade-Offs in Standardizing Raw Materials: Experimental Control in Live Knapping Studies. Advances in Archaeological Practice 12(4): 390-415.

Boysen, D., et al. (2024). Bifaces! Nouvelles perspectives à partir du Mâconnais et du Beaujolais. The Rhine during The Middle Palaeolithic: Boundary or corridor? Colloquium May 15-16, 2017, Sélestat. H. Koehler and N. J. Conard. Tübingen, Kerns.

Boysen, D., et al. (2023, 2022, 2021). Rapport de fouille programmée de la zone à bifaces du paléolithique moyen de Clessé (Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté) Official excavation report for the Service Régional de l’Archéologie (SRA) de Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (available on request).

Boysen, D., et al. (2022). Charbonnières - a center of biface production in southern Burgundy. Hommes, terroir et territoires - Le Paléolithique en Bourgogne méridionale. H. Floss. Rahden, VML: 329-341.
 

Conferences

Boysen et al. 2025 : Set in stone: Lithic technology and production sequences – a traceable marker for individuals in late middle palaeolithic societies? Kiel Conference - Scales of Social, Environmental & Cultural Change in Past Societies. Kiel (24.03.-29.03.2025). 

Boysen & Lech 2024 : Looking for common ground: Multi-site application of consistent methodology in bifacial technology (case study: eastern France and southern Germany). 17th Skam Lithic Workshop, New Perspectives in Lithic Studies. Krzemionki (24.04.-26.04.2024).

Boysen & Floss 2023: Clessé (Saône-et-Loire) le cas de Charbonnières dans le Mâconnais - production de bifaces en séries ? Recherches actuelles sur l’atelier de taille du paléolithique moyen récent. Journées régionales de l’archéologie, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Dijon (30.11.2023 - 01.12.2023).

Boysen & Floss 2022: New investigations on the MtA in Eastern France- the open-air site of Charbonnières (Saône-et-Loire) Annual conference of the Hugo-Obermaier-Gesellschaft, Berlin (19.04.-24.04.2022).
 

Links

Academia

 ResearchGate