Urgeschichte und Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie

Research Grants and Fellowships

2018-2021 DFG, Excavations in the deep sounding of Sibudu. Director
2014 Contextualizing technological change in the MSA, Conference funding. PI
2014-2019 DFG, The Persion Gulf and the Out of Africa Hypothesis. Codirector
2014-2017 DFG, Excavations at the MSA Site of Sibudu. Director
2013-2025 DFG/SFB 1070, RessourcenKulturen. Lithic technology and raw material use at the transition from Middle to Upper Paleolithic. Co-director
2013-2015 DFG, Heat treatment in the MSA. Codirector
2011-2013 Lithic technology of the early Middle Stone Age in southern Africa, Director
2010-2014 Carl-Zeiss Stiftung, Grant for Structural Investment. Environmental Archaeology
2010-2014 DFG, Archäometallurgische und paläoanthropologische Untersuchungen des Gräberfeldes von Varna, Bulgarien, Co-director
2009-present DFG, Upper Paleolithic Technology in western Syria. Director
2009-2013 DFG,Excavations at the Middle Pleistocene site of Schöningen. Director
2009-2013 DFG, Untersuchungen zur Raumnutzung während des Jungpaläolithikums in der Nordlevante, Director
2008-present Wissenschaftsministerium Niedersachsen, Long-term project, Excavations at the Lower Paleolithic site of Schöningen. Co-supervision of excavations
2008-2027 Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Long-term project, The role of culture in early human Expansions. Co-director
2007-present Wissenschaftsministerium Baden-Württemberg, Excavations at Vogelherd. Director
2006-2010 State Exhibit of Baden-Würtemberg, Kulturen und Kunst der Eiszeit. Scientific director
2006-present German Archaeological Institute, Excavation grants for Iran and Syria, Director
2006-2010 DFG, Cave Bears and Humans in Southwestern Germany. Co-Director
2005-present Vogelherd Re-excavation Project. Funded by Kreis Heidenheim and the Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Baden-Württemberg, Director
2005 - 2008 DFG, Geoarchaeology and Hearths of Sibudu Cave, Director
2004-2007 European Commission Culture 2000, Archaeology of the Alps, Project Director
2004-2005 Fullbright, Land-use in Swabia, Participant
2004 VW Stiftung, Workshop Neanderthals and modern humans, Host
2003-2004 EU Leader Project, Vogelherd, Participant
2003-2006 DFG, Equid Dentition and Paleoenvironments, Co-director
2002-present UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Project Caves of the Swabian Jura, funded by the Alb-Donau-Kreis and the Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg
2000-2003 DFG, Neanderthal DNA, Director
1999-2003 DFG, Geochemistry of Prehistoric Hearths Project, Director
1998-2002 DFG, ESR Dating of Pleistocene Equid teeth, Co-director
1998-2003 DFG, Achtal Paleolithic Faunal Project, Co-director
1998- present DFG, Stone Age Prehistory of the Geelbek Dunes Project, Director
1997-present Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Geissenklösterle Project, Director
1996-2001 Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 275, Middle and Upper Paleolithic Project, Director
1996, 1997, 1998, 2002 DFG travel grants
1993-1995 Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship, Wallertheim and Metternich
1993, 1994 L.S.B. Leakey Foundation research grant, Wallertheim
1992 University of Connecticut Research Foundation grant, Wallertheim
1990-1991 Giza Plateau Mapping Project postdoctoral research fellowship
1988, 1990 Mellon West European research grant, Tönchesberg
1987-1990 Yale University fellowship
1988-1989 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) research grant, Tönchesberg
1988 Dutch-Italian Science Academy travel grant
1987 and 1988 Yale Hazard grant, Excavations at Tönchesberg
1987 Sigma Xi grant, Excavations at Tönchesberg
1987 Yale University Williams grant, Excavations at Tönchesberg
1985 Norwegian Science Foundation travel grant
1985-1986 University of Rochester Department of Physics research fellowship
1984 DAAD Cologne-Rochester Fellowship
1980-1983 University of Rochester alumni scholarship
1982 Institute of European Studies scholarship, Freiburg, German