| Name | Datum | Gutachter | Thema |
| Carolin Röding | 04.03.2022 | Harvati, Gunz | Hominin fossil remains from the Middle-Late Pleistocene Mediterranean: virtual anthroplogical case studies of fragementary cranial and dental remains |
| Elivra Martin | 11.04.2022 | Floss, Conard | Überleben am Rande der bewohnbaren Welt. Die Ernährung der Hominiden während der OIS 3 im nördlichen Europa |
| Li Li | 27.06.2022 | Tennie, Conard | An Experimental Approach to Reconstruct the "Invisible" Knapping Variables from the Early Pleistocene Archaeological Record |
| Jacopo Niccolò Cerasoni | 12.07.2022 | Miller, Conard | Hominin Behaviour and Palaeoenvironments of Pleistocene West Africa |
| Abay Namen | 19.07.2022 | Iovita, Conard | Raw Material Choices in the Palaeolithic of the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor of Kazakhstan |
| Aristeidis Varis | 19.07.2022 | Iovita, Miller, Goldberg | The effect of formation processes in Palaeolithic settlement patterns: insights from south Kazakhstan and the Swabian Jura, Germany |
| Tommaso Mori | 20.09.2022 | Harvati, Moggi-Cecchi | Homo erectus s.l. life history and geometric morphometrics analyses of contested specimens |
| Flora Cecilia Schilt | 28.10.2022 | Junginger, Conard, Miller | Geoarchaeological investigations of Late Pleistocene environments in Austria and northern Malawi |
| Diana Marcazzan | 04.11.2022 | Conard, Miller, Goldberg | Fire and beyond: a geoarchaeological analysis of the anthropogenic features from Fumane Cave (NE Italy) and Hohle Fels (SW Germany) |
| Matthias Blessing | 04.11.2022 | Conard, Bolus, Tryon | Technological complexity as an indicator of behavioural modernity - A case study on Middle Palaeolithic birch tar production and South African microlithic technology |
| Shaddai Heidgen | 16.11.2022 | Junginger, Conard | Early Holocene local environments, fire regimes, and land use signals inferred from multi-proxy palaeoecological records at two microregions of Southwestern Germany |
