UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE

Hescor Project

Human response to environmental change in the north-eastern Carpathians and adjacent regions between 30 and 15 ka

DFG Projekt nummer: 554747946

In cooperation with Prof. Dr. Thorsten Uthmeier (Erlangen), Prof. Dr. Frank Lehmkuhl (Aachen), Dr. Christian Zeeden (Hannover), Prof. Dr. Mircea Anghelinu (Targoviste), Marc Händel (Vienna), Dr. Daniel Veres (Cluj) and Prof. Dr. Victor Chabai (Kiev)

The area between the north-eastern Carpathians and the Black Sea is unique in the Upper Palaeolithic record of Central and Eastern Europe for its density of sites covering the period of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), roughly 25 to 20 ka, while elsewhere, the evidence is strongly discontinuous, at best. Currently, it is the most likely refugium for hunter-gatherers during the LGM in Central Europe, a locus of cultural continuity, and a nucleus for subsequent expansions. The area stands out since 1) Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers there maintained the only continuously viable population throughout the LGM in Central Europe and 2) it provides geoscientific and archaeological archives with an unmatched opportunity to understand what environmental conditions and behavioural as well as material culture responses enabled their continuous presence and survival. In this project, an interdisciplinary team of researchers with complementary expertise on glacial environments and the Central European Upper Palaeolithic record will conduct an in-depth, high-resolution and diachronic analysis on regional ecological conditions, human and animal mobility and seasonality, social network dynamics, and tempo and mode of material culture change. By reconstructing a comprehensive picture of (i) the specific ecological situation between 30 and 15 ka (analyses of sediments, microfossils, wind proxies, soil formation type- and intensity, and permafrost phenomena) in connection with (ii) specific behavioural and material culture response patterns in terms of human mobility (analysis of lithic raw materials), technological responses and social networks (analysis of lithic and organic artefacts), and seasonality and prey patterns (analysis of faunal remains and isotopes) the project aims to understand exactly what (a) environmental conditions as well as (b) behaviour and elements of material culture enabled Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers to maintain the only continuously viable population throughout the LGM in Central Europe.

Chronology and chorology of Final Palaeolithic and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers at Blätterhöhle, North Rhine-Westphalia

DFG Project nummer: 559377849

In cooperation with Prof. Dr. Michael Baales (Olpe), Prof. Dr. Jörg Orschiedt (Halle)

The site of Blätterhöhle (Westphalia, Germany) is located in the north-eastern part of the Rhenish Massif. This region is characterised by limestone and dolomite deposits with numerous cavities. The Blätterhöhle, however, stands out because of its important stratigraphy of Late Glacial and Early Holocene occupations, including a rich record of Neolithic, Mesolithic and Final Palaeolithic human fossils. It is a key site for understanding the temporal succession and spatial relations of hunter-gatherer communities in the wider region through its location at (a) the junction of several traditional taxonomic units, both during the Final Palaeolithic and Mesolithic, and (b) the ecological transition from the southern uplands to the northern lowlands. The morphological and technological characteristics of the lithic assemblages documented at the site are at odds with traditional taxonomic units, such as the Ahrensburgian, Laborian or Federmesser Groups, leaving open questions as to their chronological and chorological position. In this project, we want to expand and intensify our investigations at Blätterhöhle for a better understanding of the Final Palaeolithic and Mesolithic settlement activities in North Rhine-Westphalia. In particular, we aim at (I) an improved stratigraphic resolution and coherence of the assemblages, (II) a better control over the chronological sequence, and (III) a better understanding of the chorology of the Final Palaeolithic and Mesolithic occupations and their specific environmental setting. To this end, we plan a controlled augmentation of the find material via an enlargement of the excavated area to enhance the available material, particularly from the Final Palaeolithic and Early Mesolithic layers 6b and 6c. At the same time, we will advance the age-determination and in-depth analysis of the lithic, osteoarchaeological, and environmental evidence by combining, micromophology, radiocarbon dating, OSL dating, and Bayesian age modelling, by conducting technological and morphological analysis of the lithic assemblages in combination with provenance analysis of lithic raw material, as well as by bringing together results of anthropological, zooarchaeological and isotope analyses. In so doing, we want to gain better control over the fine-stratigraphic resolution to improve the consistency of the assemblages and our knowledge of their chronological as well as chorological positions and thus deepen our understanding of the material culture development at the site and the wider region. 

LANU – Beiträge zur urgeschichtlichen Landschaftsnutzung im rheinischen Braunkohlerevier

In cooperation with Prof. Dr. Silviane Scharl

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Between East and West. Social Networks and Environmental Conditions before, during and after the Last Glacial Maximum in Volhynia (Western Ukraine)

DFG Project number: 392605832

In Cooperation with Prof. Dr. Victor Chabai (Kyiv)

The project aims at a better understanding of the development of large-scale social networks of Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers around the time of the severest population bottleneck since the arrival of Homo sapiens sapiens in Europe. Archaeological findings show the existence of long-distance communication networks during the early Gravettian (ca. 34-29.000 cal BP), reaching from the Atlantic up to the Don River. During the later Gravettian (ca. 29-24.000 cal BP) however, a continued climatic deterioration led to a marked population decline and a breakdown of those networks along with a pronounced regionalization of the remaining parts of the population. Beginning with the climatically cool but stable Last Glacial Maximum (ca. 24-19.000 cal BP) a consolidation of the European population and the renewed formation of long-distance networks started, which became intensified during the following time. The chronological and chorological details of this development remain unclear. The region of Volhynia in western Ukraine is a key-region for a better understanding of the processes in question. First, the region is located at the junction between two larger settlement areas in Western and Central Europe on the one hand and Eastern Europe on the other. Second, the numerous known open-air sites, dating to the period in question, often with excellent preservation of organic remains and ample loess stratigraphies, provide a promising archive for an interdisciplinary study with closely intertwined geo-scientific, archaeozoological, palynological and archaeological on-site analyses. Moreover, the known outcrops of lithic raw materials and fossil mollusc shells are particularly suited to gain insights into the changing network structures by comparisons with neighbouring regions.

Success, limits and failure of subsistence strategies in eastern Central Europe during the early Gravettian and the Last Glacial Maximum

DFG Project number: 424736737

In cooperation with PD Dr. Kerstin Pasda (Erlangen), PD Dr. Christoph Mayr (Erlangen), Dr. Thomas Einwögerer (Vienna)

The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, ca. 24,000-19,000 cal BP) was, in contrast to the common notion, a period of relative climatic stability and population reinvigoration. It was during the preceding period of the Late Gravettian (ca. 29,000-25,000 cal BP) that climatic conditions were the harshest of the entire Upper Palaeolithic and hunter-gatherer communities in northern latitudes were faced with considerable subsistence stress. The project focusses on a site cluster in Austria, Moravia and southern Poland. Although sparsely populated, this area did not experience a breakdown of its regional population in contrast to other areas north of 47°N during this climatic deterioration. The questions thus arise as to what made this region special and which adaptive strategies were developed by its inhabitants. In order to address these questions, we compare the environmental and archaeological situation of the LGM with the one of the Early Gravettian (ca. 33,000-29,000 cal BP), a period of cultural prosperity and comparatively favourable climatic conditions. We combine archaeological analysis (e.g., of lithic and organic tools), osteoarchaeological information, and sedimentological and paleoenvironmental data (geochemistry, stable isotopes, molluscs, etc.). 

An innovative aspect of this project is the close entanglement of archaeological and on-site paleoenvironmental analyses for one of the key regions of the LGM in Central Europe in a diachronic perspective. Special attention will be given to the following questions: What are the environmental differences between the early Gravettian and the LGM and how did changes in temperature and humidity affect vegetation and prey species? What are the specific adaptations of the LGM hunter-gatherers in comparison with those of the early Gravettian? 

This interdisciplinary approach will allow a deeper understanding of human population dynamics and adaptive strategies of hunter-gatherers.

Education

2012 Doctoral degree (Doctor philosophiae, equivalent to PhD), Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Cologne

2008 Magister Artium Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Cologne

Current position

Since 04/2020 Junior professor at the Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Cologne

Previous academic positions

04/2014-03/2020 Assistant professor at the Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology,, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

07/2013-03/2014 Postdoctoral researcher in the CRC 806 „Our Way to Europe“, Project E1 „Estimating population densities in the Late Upper Palaeolithic“

10/2011-06/2013 Research assistant in the CRC 806 „Our Way to Europe“, Project D1
“Analysis of Migration Processes due to Environmental Conditions between 40,000 and 14,000 a BP in the Rhine-Meuse Area”

Maier, A. (2015). The Central European Magdalenian. Regional diversity and internal variability. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series. New York: Springer.

Chabai, V., Maier, A. (2025). Barmaky: Epigravettian in Volhynia. The Cologne Prehistory Series, University of Cologne, Cologne.
http://doi.org/10.18716/kups/78608

Uthmeier, T., Maier, A. (2024). STONE AGE - Studying Technologies Of Non-analogous Environments And Glacial Ecosystems. Papers in honor of Jürgen Richter. UPA 396, Habelt, Bonn.

Mevel. L., Weber, M., Maier, A. (2021). En Mouvement / On the Move / In Bewegung. Mobilités des hommes, des objets et des idées pendant le Paléolithique supérieur européen. Mobility of people, objects and ideas during the European Upper Paleolithic. Mobilität von Menschen, Objekten und Ideen im europäischen Jungpaläolithikum. Actes de la séance commune de la Société préhistorique française et la Hugo Obermaier-Gesellschaft à Strasbourg (16–17 mai 2019). Séances de la Société préhistorique française 17 (Paris, Société préhistorique française).
http://www.prehistoire.org/offres/file_inline_src/515/515_P_50059_61c348a58447b_13.pdf

Richter, J., Uthmeier, T. Maier, A. (2021), Der Magdalénien-Fundplatz Bad Kösen-Lengefeld an der Saale. Die Funde aus dem nördlichen und südlichen Siedlungsbéreich. Veröffentlichungen des Landesamtes für Archäologie Sachsen Anhalt 82. Halle: Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt – Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle (Saale).

Maier, A., Mayr, C., Peresani, M. (2021). The Last Glacial Maximum in Europe – State of the Art in Geoscience and Archaeology. Quaternary International 581–582 https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/quaternary-international/vol/581/suppl/C

Preprint

2025

Kern, O. A., Maier, A. & Vercauteren, N. (2025): Landscape reconstructions for Europe during the late Last Glacial (60–20 ka BP): a pollen-based REVEALS approach. Earth System Science Data, 17, 5997–6023. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-5997-2025

Maier, A., Sauer, F., Orrin, J., Nguyen, T.M.H., Scholz, S., Mygdam, F., Juul, C., & Riede, F. (2025). Mesolithische Funde aus der Hollenkammer bei Lütersheim. Hessen.Archäologie 2024, 56-59.

Al Kassem, A., Maier, A., Richter, J., Batz, D.T., Hopper, K. & Ibrahim, I. (2025). Preliminary Results of Unveiling Stratified Natufian Sites within Looting Pits at Al Teibeh, Southern Syria. Paléorient 51, https://journals.openedition.org/paleorient/5349?lang=en 

Maier, A. (2025), Radiocarbon dating of Barmaky and the wider chronological context of the Mid Dnieper Epigravettian. In: Chabai, V., Maier, A. (Eds). Barmaky: Epigravettian in Volhynia. The Cologne Prehistory Series, University of Cologne, Cologne, 66-70. http://doi.org/10.18716/kups/7860866
 
Reiss, L., Pasda, K., Mayr, C. & Maier, A. (2025), Stable isotope analyses of the faunal assemblage. In: Chabai, V., Maier, A. (Eds). Barmaky: Epigravettian in Volhynia. The Cologne Prehistory Series, University of Cologne, Cologne, 130-138. http://doi.org/10.18716/kups/7860866
 
Chabai, V., Pasda, K., Dudnyk, D. & Maier, A. (2025), Site function of Barmaky: raw material transport and faunal exploitation. In: Chabai, V., Maier, A. (Eds). Barmaky: Epigravettian in Volhynia. The Cologne Prehistory Series, University of Cologne, Cologne, 313-323. http://doi.org/10.18716/kups/786086
 
Chabai, V., Maier, A. & Dudnyk, D. (2025). Eastern Europe after the Last Glacial Maximum and the origin of Epigravettian industries north of 50° latitude. In: Chabai, V., Maier, A. (Eds). Barmaky: Epigravettian in Volhynia. The Cologne Prehistory Series, University of Cologne, Cologne, 324-384. http://doi.org/10.18716/kups/7860866

Reiss, L., Pasda, K., Mayr, C., Ludwig, P., Stiller, L., Chabai, V. & Maier, A. (2025), Food web reconstruction of Barmaky, the oldest post-LGM hunter-gatherer site in north-western Ukraine. Boreas. https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.70018

Burke, A., Grove, M., Maier, A., Wren, C., Drapeau, M., Poisot, T., Moine,O., Boisard, S., & Bruxelles, L. (2025). The archaeology of climate change: a blueprint for integrating environmental and cultural systems. Nature Communications 16, 5289. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-60450-9 

Pasda, K., Mayr, C., Pfeifer, S.J., Reiss, L., Einwögerer, T., Händel, M., Buchinger, N., Schwab, W., Maier, A. (2025), Age Apparel—Changing Prey Patterns Towards the Last Glacial Maximum and the Role of Reindeer Fur for Clothing at Kammern-Grubgraben. J Paleo Arch 8, 15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-025-00216-3

Scerri, E.M.L., Blinkhorn, J., Groucutt, H.S., Stewart, M., Candy, I., Allué, E., Burguet-Cora, A., Currás, A., Carleton, W.C., Lindauer, S., Spengler, R., Boxleitner, K., Asciak, G., Colucci, M., Gauci, R., Hatton, A., Kutowsky, J., Maier, A., Mata-González, M., Mifsud, N., Niang, K., Rpberts, P., de Griogio, J., Xerri, R., & Vella, N.C. (2025). Hunter-gatherer sea voyages extended to remotest Mediterranean islands. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08780-y

Schmidt, I., Gehlen, B., Winkler, K., Arrizabalaga, A., Arts, N., Bicho, N., Crombé, P., Valentin Eriksen, B., Kapustka, K., Grimm, S. B., Langlais, M., Mevel, L., Naudinot, N., Nerudová, Z., Niekus, M., Peresani, M., Riede, F., Sauer, F., Schön, W., Sobkowiak-Tabaka, I., Vandendriessche, H., Weber, M.-J., Zander, A., Zimmermann, A. & Maier, A. (2025). Large scale and regional demographic responses to climatic changes in Europe during the Final Palaeolithic. PLoS ONE 20(4): e0310942. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0310942

2024

Pfeifer, J. P., Pasda, K., Händel, M., Maier, A. & Einwögerer, T. (2024).  The osseous industry of the LGM site Kammern-Grubgraben (Lower Austria), excavations 1985–1994, and its position within the European Late Upper Palaeolithic. Quartär 2023, 23-46. https://doi.org/10.7485/qu.2023.70.108127

Heuschen, W., Baales, M., Maier, A. & Orschiedt, J. (2024). Let‘s go West: Fortsetzung der Ausgrabungen auf dem Vorplatz der Blätterhöhle. Stadt Hagen, Reg.Bez. Arnsberg. Archäologie in Westfalen-Lippe 2023, 37-40.

Kassem, A. A., Hopper, K., Ibraheem, I. M., Hajj, H. el, Maier, A., Ali, A. A., & Richter, J. (2024). Assessment of the impact of the Syrian conflict on archaeological sites in the Daraa region. Levant, 56(3), 425–446. https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2024.2420409

Weiß, M. & Maier, A. (2024). Als die Menschheit Freiheit gegen Struktur tauschte. Zeitschrift für archäologische Aufklärung 1, 197-205. https://doi.org/10.14361/zfaa-2024-010118

Uthmeier, T., Maier, A. (2024). Preface. Jürgen Richter and the Stone Age – A short academic biography. In: Uthmeier, T., Maier, A. (Hrsg.). STONE AGE - Studying Technologies Of Non-analogous Environments And Glacial Ecosystems. Papers in honor of Jürgen Richter. UPA 396, Habelt, Bonn, XI-XVIII

Maier, A., Sauer, F. (2024). Analysing “roughly coinciding boundaries” of cultural and natural phenomena. In: Uthmeier, T., Maier, A. (Hrsg.). STONE AGE - Studying Technologies Of Non-analogous Environments And Glacial Ecosystems. Papers in honor of Jürgen Richter. UPA 396, Habelt, Bonn, 569-577.

Reiss, L., Mayr, C., Pasda, K., Joachimski, M., Einwögerer, T., Händel, M. & Maier, A. (2024). Seasonal climate variations during Marine Isotope Stages 3 and 2 inferred from high-resolution oxygen isotope ratios in horse tooth enamel from Lower Austria. Journal of Quaternary Science, 2024, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3613

Chabai, V., Dudnyk, D., Pasda, K., Brandl, M. & Maier, A. (2024). Investigations at the Epigravettian site of Barmaky in Volhynia, north-west Ukraine: analyses and taxonomic reflections. Quartär 69, 105–144. https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/qu/article/view/102375

Siemssen, T. & Maier, A. (2024). Rivers run and people may meander. Water body oriented land use decisions in the Neuwied Basin during the Late Upper Palaeolithic and Late Palaeolithic. Quartär 69, 163–177. https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/qu/article/view/102377

2023

Maier, A., Tharandt, L., Linsel, F., Krakov, V. & Ludwig, P. (2023). Where the Grass is Greener — Large-Scale Phenological Patterns and Their Explanatory Potential for the Distribution of Paleolithic Hunter-Gatherers in Europe. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory (2023). https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10816-023-09628-3.pdf.

Díaz-Rodríguez, M., Kellberg Nielsen, T., Maier, A., Riede, F. (2023). An Annotated Compilation of Chronometric Dates for the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic Transition (45-30 ka BP) in Northern Iberia (Spain). Journal of Open Archaeology Data 11(10), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.5334/joad.113

Boemke, B., Maier, A., Schmidt, I., Römer, W. & Lehmkuhl, F. (2023). Testing the representativity of Palaeolithic site distribution: The role of sampling bias in the European Upper and Final Palaeolithic record. Quaternary Science Reviews 316, 108220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108220

Maier, A. (2023). Steinartefakte als Leitformen. In: T. Uthmeier & D. Mischka (Hrsg.), Steinzeit in Bayern (Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft), 81-84.

Maier, A. (2023). Skalierungsverfahren in der Urgeschichte. In: T. Uthmeier & D. Mischka (Hrsg.), Steinzeit in Bayern (Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft), 110-114.

Maier, A. (2023). Paläodemographie. In: T. Uthmeier & D. Mischka (Hrsg.), Steinzeit in Bayern (Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft), 115-122.

Maier, A. & Adaileh, A. (2023). Mittleres Jungpaläolithikum – Das Gravettien. In: T. Uthmeier & D. Mischka (Hrsg.), Steinzeit in Bayern (Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft), 505-527.

Reiss, L., Mayr, C., Pasda, K., Einwögerer, T., Händel, M., Lücke, A., Maier, A., Wissel, H. (2023). Changing food webs before and during the Last Glacial Maximum based on stable isotopes of animal bone collagen from Lower Austria. Journal of Quaternary Science, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3552

Maier, A., John, R., Linsel, F., Roth, G., Antl-Weiser, W., Bauer, L., Buchinger, N., Cavak, L., Hoffmann, H., Puschmann, J., Schemmel, M., Schmid, V., Simon, U., and Thomas, R. (2023). Analyzing Trends in Material Culture Evolution–a Case Study of Gravettian Points from Lower Austria and Moravia. Journal of Palaeolithic Archaeology, 6, 15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-023-00145-z.

Einwögerer, T., Schmidt, I. & Maier, A. (2023). Fast wären wir ausgestorben!. Archäologie in Deutschland 2023, 2, 36–37.

2022

Maier, A., Schmidt, I., & Zimmermann, A. (2022). A large-scale view on ‘small-scale societies’. In: T. Widlok & M. D. Cruz (Eds.), Scale Matters. The Quality of Quantity in Human Culture and Sociality (pp.) 263, 111. https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6099-9/scale-matters/

Maier, A., Sauer, F., & Bergsvik, K. A. (2022). Transport Patterns as Heuristic Testing Variables for the Social Coherence of Taxonomic Units at Different Spatial Scales. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, 5(1), 8. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-022-00120-0

Barbieri, A., Maier, A., Lauer, T., Mischka, C., Hattermann, M., and Uthmeier, Th. (2022). Post-LGM environments and foragers on the move: New data from the lower Altmühl Valley (Franconian Jura, SE Germany). Journal of Human Evolution 173, 103267. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103267

Reiss, L., Stüwe, C., Einwögerer, T., Händel, M., Maier, A., Meng, S., Pasda, K., Simon, U., Zolitschka, B., and Mayr, C. (2022). Evaluation of geochemical proxies and radiocarbon data from a loess record of the Upper Palaeolithic site Kammern-Grubgraben, Lower Austria. E&G Quaternary Sci. J., 71, 23–43, https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-71-23-2022.

Maier, A., Ludwig, P., Zimmermann, A. & Schmidt, I. (2022). The sunny side of the Ice Age: Solar insolation as a potential long-term pacemaker for demographic developments in Europe between 43 and 15 ka ago. PaleoAnthropology 2022:1, 35–51 https://paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.php/paleo/article/view/100/82

John, R., Kopecky-Herrmanns, Maier, A., Obst, R.., Riedesel, S., Röll, B., Röll, D., Yogeshwar, P. (2022). Zwischen Marktbreit und Obernbreit – Interdisziplinäre Steinzeitforschungen an der Spitze des Maindreiecks. Das archäologische Jahr in Bayern 2021, 186-188.

2021

Mevel. L., Weber, M., Maier, A. (2021). On the move – then as now. En mouvement – hier comme aujourd’hui. In Bewegung – damals wie heute. In: Mevel. L., Weber, M., Maier, A. (Hrsg.). En Mouvement / On the Move / In Bewegung. Mobilités des hommes, des objets et des idées pendant le Paléolithique supérieur européen. Mobility of people, objects and ideas during the European Upper Paleolithic. Mobilität von Menschen, Objekten und Ideen im europäischen Jungpaläolithikum. Actes de la séance commune de la Société préhistorique française et la Hugo Obermaier-Gesellschaft à Strasbourg (16 - 17 mai 2019). Séances de la Société préhistorique française 17 (Paris, Société préhistorique française), 7-10.
http://www.prehistoire.org/offres/file_inline_src/515/515_P_50059_61c25047c64eb_1.pdf

Richter, J., Maier, A. (2021). Die Befunde im nördlichen, zentralen und südlichen Teil des Fundplatzes Bad Kösen-Lengefeld – ein Überblick. In: Richter, J., Uthmeier, T. Maier, A. (Hrsg.), Der Magdalénien-Fundplatz Bad Kösen-Lengefeld an der Saale. Veröffentlichungen des Landesamtes für Archäologie Sachsen Anhalt 82 (S. 45-49). Halle: Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt – Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle (Saale).

Adaileh, A., Decker, H. M., Uthmeier, T., Maier A. (2021). Ein Blick auf die Steinartefakte und andere Fundstücke aus den Aufsammlungen von D. Mania und V. Toepfer im Lichte der Grabungsfunde. In: Richter, J., Uthmeier, T. Maier, A. (Hrsg.), Der Magdalénien-Fundplatz Bad Kösen-Lengefeld an der Saale. Veröffentlichungen des Landesamtes für Archäologie Sachsen Anhalt 82 (S. 173-180). Halle: Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt – Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle (Saale).

Maier, A. (2021). Am westlichen Rand des östlichen Magdalénien – Die Stellung des Fundplatzes Bad Kösen-Lengefeld im späten Jungpaläolithikum Mitteleuropas. In: Richter, J., Uthmeier, T. Maier, A. (Hrsg.), Der Magdalénien-Fundplatz Bad Kösen-Lengefeld an der Saale. Veröffentlichungen des Landesamtes für Archäologie Sachsen Anhalt 82 (S. 209-223). Halle: Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt – Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle (Saale).

Scharl, S., Amelung, W., Bömke, B., Gerlach, R., Lauer, F., Lehmkuhl, F., Lehndorff, E., Maier, A., Schmidt, I., Szyja, S., Zimmermann, A. (2021). Population dynamics, mobility and human-environment interaction from the Palaeolithic to the Neolithic – a view from central Europe to the world. In: Litt, T., Richter, J., Schäbitz, F. (Eds.), The Journey of Modern Humans from Africa to Europe. Culture-Environmental Interaction and Mobility (p. 153–203) Schweizerbart, Stuttgart.

Shao, Y., Hense, A., Klein, K., Ludwig, P., Maier, A., Richter, J., Schmidt, I., Wegener, C., Weniger, G.-c., Zimmermann, A. (2021). Modelling Human Dispersal in Space and Time. In: Litt, T., Richter, J., Schäbitz, F. (Eds.), The Journey of Modern Humans from Africa to Europe. Culture-Environmental Interaction and Mobility (p. 269–312) Schweizerbart, Stuttgart.

Uthmeier, Th., Richter, J., Maier, A. (2021). We tend to tent – reflections on a group of features at the Magdalenian site of Bad Kösen-Lengefeld, Saxony-Anhalt. In: S. Gaudzinski-Windheuser and O. Jöris (Eds.), The Beef behind all Possible Pasts. The Tandem-Festschrift in Honour of Elaine Turner and Martin Street. Monographien des RGZM 157, Mainz.
DOI: 10.11588/propylaeum.868.c1132
https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeum/reader/download/868/868-30-96307-1-10-20211203.pdf

Meng, S., Vasyliev, P., Khoptynets, I., Tkach, V., Maier, A. (2021). On the present habitats and ecology of Vertigo pseudosubstriata Ložek, 1954 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Vertiginidea) in Central Asia and its distribution history in Central and Eastern Europe. J. Quaternary Sci. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3328

Kaiser, O., Maier, A. (2021). Wie die Rentiere aus Bayern verschwanden. Bayerische Archäologie 2021 (2), 26–29.

Maier, A., Mayr, C., Peresani, M. (2021). The Last Glacial Maximum in Europe – State of the Art in Geoscience and Archaeology. Quaternary International 581–582, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2021.02.036

Schmidt, I., Hilpert, J., Kretschmer, I., Peters, R., Broich, M., Schiesberg, S., Vogels, O., Wendt, K. P., Zimmermann, A., Maier, A. (2021). Approaching Prehistoric Demography: Proxies, Scales and Scope of the Cologne Protocol in European contexts. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 376, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0714

Maier, A., Stojakowits, P., Mayr, C., Pfeifer, S., Preusser, F., Zolitschka, B., Anghelinu, M., Bobak, D., Duprat-Oualid, F., Einwögerer, T., Hambach, U., Händel, M., Kaminská, L., Kämpf, L., Łanczont, M., Lehmkuhl, F., Ludwig, P., Magyari, E., Mroczek, P., Nemergut, A., Nerudová, Z., Niţă, L., Polanská, M., Połtowicz-Bobak, M., Rius, D., Römer, W., Simon, U., Škrdla, P., Úivári, G., Veres, D. (2021). Cultural evolution and environmental change in Central Europe between 40.000 and 15.000 years ago. Quaternary International 581–582, 225–240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.09.049

2020

Händel, M., Simon, U., Maier, A., Brandl, M., Groza-Săcaciu, S. M., Timar-Gabor, A., Einwögerer, T. (2020). Kammern-Grubgraben revisited – First results from renewed investigations at a well-known LGM site in East Austria. Quaternary International. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.06.012

Maier, A., Stupak, D., Vasyliev, P., Khoptynets, I., Tkach, V., Chabai, V. (2020). On the technological and typological integrity of assemblages from north-western Ukraine between 35 and 30 kyr cal BP. Археологія 2020/3, 8–23. https://doi.org/10.15407/archaeologyua2020.03.008

Maier, A., (2020). On the morphology, chronology, and phylogeny of triangular lithic insets between 20 and 14 calBP in Western and Central Europe. Anthropologie LVIII/2-3, 167–190.

Krahl, A., Maier, A. (2020). Neue Erkenntnisse zur Ausdehnung der spätpaläolithischen Besiedelung am Martinsberg in Andernach, Rheinland-Pfalz. Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt 50, 145–159.

Maier, A. (2020). Zu Gruppenidentitäten im Paläolithikum. Blickpunkt Archäologie 1/2020, 9–16.

Maier, A., Liebermann, C., Pfeifer, S. (2020). Beyond the Alps and Tatra Mountains — the 20–14 ka Repopulation of the Northern Mid-latitudes as Inferred from Palimpsests Deciphered with Keys from Western and Central Europe. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-019-00045-1.

2019

Riede, F., Araujo, A. G. M., Barton, M. C., Bergsvik, K. A., Groucutt, H. S., Hussain, S. T., Fernandez-Lopez de Pablo, J., Maier, A., Marwick, B., Pyne, L., Ranhorn, K., Reynolds, N., Riel-Salvatore, J., Sauer, F., Serwatka, K., Zander, A. (2019). Cultural taxonomies in the Paleolithic — Old questions, novel perspectives. Evolutionary Anthropology. DOI: 10.1002/evan.21819

Pedersen, J., Maier, A., Riede, F. (2019). A punctuated model for the colonisation of the late glacial margins of northern Europe by Hamburgian hunter-gatherers. Quartär 65, 85–104.

Maier, A. (2019). Das Magdalénien im Elsass, in Südwestdeutschland und in der Schweiz im überregionalen Kontext. In: H. Floss (Hrsg.), Das Magdalénien im Südwesten Deutschlands, Im Elsass und in der Schweiz. Eine internationale Fachtagung zum 100-jährigen Grabungsjubiläum in der Kleinen Scheuer im Rosenstein (p. 297–322). Tübingen: Kerns.

2018

Grote, K., Pastoors, A., Binnie, S.A., Blumenröther, J., Hallmann, C., Hoffmeister, D., Hoppert, M., Lehmann, J., Lenssen-Erz, T., Maier, A., Siegesmund, S., Terberger T. & Uthmeier, T. (2018). Engravings in the upper rock shelter of Abri Allerberg (Lower Saxony). Evaluation authenticity of possible Late Glacial or early Holocene rock art in northern Germany. In: A. Pastoors & H. Floss (Hrsg.), Palaeolithic rock and cave art in Central Europe? Proceedings of the XIXe International Rock Art Conference “Symbols in the landscape. Rock art and its context” in Cáceres, 2015 (S. 75–106). Rahden/Westf.: Marie Leidorf.

Blumenröther, J., Bosinski, G., Gebelein, D., Irlinger, W., Lenssen-Erz, T., Maier, A., Niggemann, S., Pastoors, A., Sommer, C.S., Steguweit, L., Uthmeier T. & Winterstein, G. (2018). The Mäanderhöhle – Palaeolithic Cave Art in Bavaria? In: A. Pastoors & H. Floss (Hrsg.), Palaeolithic rock and cave art in Central Europe? Proceedings of the XIXe International Rock Art Conference “Symbols in the landscape. Rock art and its context” in Cáceres, 2015 (S. 123–136).  Rahden/Westf.: Marie Leidorf.

Maier, A. & Leder, D. (2018). Rietberg – Die spätglaziale Wiederbesiedlung Westfalens. In: J. Richter (Hrsg.): 111 Jahre Prähistorische Archäologie in Köln. Kölner Studien zur Prähistorischen Archäologie 9 (S. 111–121). Rahden/Westf. Marie-Leidorf.

2017

Maier, A. (2017). Population and settlement dynamics from the Gravettian to the Magdalenian. Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte 26, 83–101.

Uthmeier, T., Richter, J., Maier, A., Orrin, J., Albert, T., Meindl, P. & Puskar, A. (2017). Bad Kösen-Lengefeld, Burgenlandkreis – Pferdejagd im Saaletal vor 15 000 Jahren. In: H. Meller & T. Puttkammer (Hrsg.), Klimagewalten. Treibende Kraft der Evolution. Begleitband zur Sonderausstellung im Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle (Saale) 30. November 2017 bis 21. Mai 2018 (S. 314–317). Stuttgart: Theiss.

Maier, A. & Zimmermann, A. (2017). Populations headed south? The Gravettian from a palaeodemographic point of view. Antiquity 91, 573–588.

Maier, A. (2017). Expansion or communication? The phenomenon of the Magdalenian à navettes from a Central European point of view. In: C. Bourdier, L. Chehmana, R. Malgarini & M. Poltowicz-Bobak (Hrsg.), L’essor du Magdalénien. Aspects culturels, symboliques et techniques des faciès à Navettes et à Lussac-Angles. Séance de la Société préhistorique française – 17–19 octobre 2013 – Besançon (S. 175–186). Paris: SPF.

2016

Neugebauer-Maresch, Ch., Einwögerer, T., Richter, J., Maier, A. & Hussain, S.T. (2016). Kammern-Grubgraben. Neue Erkenntnisse zu den Grabungen 1985−1994. Archaeologia Austriaca 100, 225–254.

Maier, A., Lehmkuhl, F., Ludwig, P., Melles, M., Schmidt, I., Shao, Y., Zeeden, Ch. & Zimmermann, A. (2016). Demographic estimates of hunter-gatherers during the Last Glacial Maximum in Europe against the background of palaeoenvironmental data. Quaternary International 425, 49–61.

Kretschmer, I., Maier, A. & Schmidt, I. (2016). Probleme und mögliche Lösungen bei der Schätzung von Bevölkerungsdichten im Paläolithikum. In: T. Kerig, K. Nowak & G. Roth (Hrsg.), Alles was zählt… Festschrift für Andreas Zimmermann. Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie 285 (S. 47–58). Bonn: Habelt.

Schmidt, I., Maier, A. & Kretschmer, I. (2016). Ist da draußen jemand? Zur Bevölkerungsdichte der letzten Eiszeit. Archäologie in Deutschland 2016, 3, 32–33.

2014

Holzkämper, J., Maier, A. & Koch, I. (2014). Ergebnisse einer Suche nach Aurignacien- und Magdalénien-Fundstellen in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt 44, 293–306.

Holzkämper, J., Kretschmer, I., Maier, A., Baales, M., von Berg, A., Bos, J.A.A., Bradtmöller, M., Edinborough, K., Flohr, S., Giemsch, L., Grimm, S.B., Hilpert, J., Kalis, A.J., Kerig, T., Langley, M.C., Leesch, D., Meurers-Balke, J., Mevel, L., Orschiedt, J., Otte, M., Pastoors, A., Pettitt, P., Rensink, E., Richter, J., Riede, F., Schmidt, I., Schmitz, R.W., Shennan, S., Street, M., Tafelmaier, Y., Weber, M.-J., Wendt, K.P., Weniger, G.-Ch. & Zimmermann, A. (2014). The Upper-Late Palaeolithic Transition in Western Central Europe. Typology, Technology, Environment and Demography. Report on the workshop held in Rösrath, 21^st – 24^th June 2012. Archäologische Informationen 36, 161–186.

Schlummer, M., Dikau, R., Eickmeier, M., Fischer, P., Gerlach, R., Hoffmann, Th., Holzkämper, J., Kalis, J.A., Kretschmer, I., Lauer, F., Maier, A., Meesenburg, J., Meurers-Balke, J., Münch, U., Pätzold, S., Steininger, F., Stobbe, A. & Zimmermann, A. (2014). From point to area: Upscaling approaches for Late Quaternary archaeological and environmental data. Earth Science Reviews 131, 22–48.

2013

Holzkämper, J. & Maier, A. (2013). Die älteste Besiedlung der Westfälischen Bucht am Ende der Weichseleiszeit. In: M. Baales, H.-O. Pollmann & B. Stapel (Hrsg.), Westfalen in der Alt- und Mittelsteinzeit (S. 115–117). Münster: LWL.

Meurers-Balke, J.,  Maier, A.,  Kalis, A.J. &. Richter, J. (2013). Die Funde von Rietberg und die allerødzeitliche Landschaft im Kreis Gütersloh. In: M. Baales, H.-O. Pollmann & B. Stapel (Hrsg.), Westfalen in der Alt- und Mittelsteinzeit (S. 131–135). Münster: LWL.

Holzkämper, J., Maier, A. & Richter, J. (2013). „Dark Ages“ illuminated – Rietberg and related assemblages possibly reducing the hiatus between the Upper and Late Palaeolithic. Quartär 60, 115–136.

2012

Maier, A. (2012). Regional groups and social interaction during the Central European Magdalenian. Notae Praehistoricae 32, 121–132.

Holzkämper, J. & A. Maier (2012). Neue Ergebnisse zur jungpaläolithischen Besiedlung Nordrhein-Westfalens. Archäologie im Rheinland 2011, 58–60.

Holzkämper, J. & A. Maier (2012). Neue Erkenntnisse zur Besiedlung Westfalens am Ende des späten Jungpaläolithikums. Archäologie in Westfalen-Lippe 2011, 25–28.

Meurers-Balke, J., A, Maier & A.J. Kalis (2012). Das spätpaläolithische Fundgebiet Rietberg und die allerødzeitliche Landschaft. Archäologie in Westfalen-Lippe 2011, 191–196.

Maier, A. & J. Richter (2012). Ausgrabungen am spätpaläolithischen Fundplatz Rietberg. In: J. Richter (Hrsg.), Rietberg und Salzkotten-Thüle – Anfang und Ende der Federmessergruppen in Westfalen. Kölner Studien zur Prähistorischen Archäologie 2 (S. 19–26). Rahden/Westf.: Marie Leidorf.

Maier, A. (2012). Die Lesefunde aus Rietberg. In: J. Richter (Hrsg.), Rietberg und Salzkotten-Thüle – Anfang und Ende der Federmessergruppen in Westfalen (Kölner Studien zur Prähistorischen Archäologie 2 (S. 27–44). Rahden/Westf.: Marie Leidorf.

Maier, A. (2012). Die Fundkonzentration von Rietberg 1. In: J. Richter (Hrsg.), Rietberg und Salzkotten-Thüle – Anfang und Ende der Federmessergruppen in Westfalen (Kölner Studien zur Prähistorischen Archäologie 2 (S. 45–87). Rahden/Westf.: Marie Leidorf.

Maier, A. (2012).  Rietberg im Kontext. In: J. Richter (Hrsg.), Rietberg und Salzkotten-Thüle – Anfang und Ende der Federmessergruppen in Westfalen (Kölner Studien zur Prähistorischen Archäologie 2 (S. 143–169). Rahden/Westf.: Marie Leidorf.

Maier, A. & B. Schmidt (2012). Die Flusseichenfunde von Rietberg. In: J. Richter (Hrsg.), Rietberg und Salzkotten-Thüle – Anfang und Ende der Federmessergruppen in Westfalen (Kölner Studien zur Prähistorischen Archäologie 2 (S. 171–174). Rahden/Westf.: Marie Leidorf.

Meurers-Balke, J., A. Maier, A.J. Kalis & J.A.A. Bos (2012). Archäobotanische Untersuchungen zum   spätpaläolithischen Fundplatz Rietberg. In: J. Richter (Hrsg.), Rietberg und Salzkotten-Thüle – Anfang und Ende der Federmessergruppen in Westfalen (Kölner Studien zur Prähistorischen Archäologie 2 (S. 175–206). Rahden/Westf.: Marie Leidorf.

Maier, A. (2012). The stone artefacts from the 2004 survey on Boni Island: Technology and typology. In: H.-P. Wotzka (Hrsg.), Proceedings of the Third International Conference on the Archaeology of the Fourth Nile Cataract, University of Cologne, 13–14 July 2006. Africa Praehistorica 22 (S. 107–115). Köln: Heinrich-Barth-Institut.

2011

Sano, K., A. Maier & S. Heidenreich (2011). Bois Laiterie revisited: functional, morphological and technological analysis of a Late Glacial hunting camp in north-western Europe. Journal of Archaeological Science 38, 1468–1484.

Maier, A. (2008). Der spätpaläolithische Fundplatz Rietberg. Archäologie in Ostwestfalen 11, 23–41.

Maier, A. (2008). Rietberg, Eichen erzählen – Geschichte aus dem Wald. Archäologie in Ostwestfalen 11, 42–46.

Maier, A. (2008). Rietberg – Blühende Vorzeit. Archäologie in Ostwestfalen 11, 47–53.

Maier, A. (2006). Kabazi II, Level II/7D: Planning the days after a successful Hunt. In: V. Chabai, J. Richter & Th. Uthmeier (Hrsg.), Kabazi II: The 70.000 Years since the Last Interglacial (S. 101–110). Simferopol-Cologne: Shlyakh.

Maier, A. (2006). Kabazi II, Level III/2A: Side-scrapers and bifacial tools – differences within multifunctional artefacts. In: V. Chabai, J. Richter & Th. Uthmeier (Hrsg.), Kabazi II: The 70.000 Years since the Last Interglacial (S. 279–284). Simferopol-Cologne: Shlyakh.

Kretschmer, I. & A. Maier (2006). Two butchering stations on Kabazi Mountain – An example of the technological range of Neanderthal tool strategy during the Western Crimean Mousterian. In: V. Chabai, J. Richter & Th. Uthmeier (Hrsg.), Kabazi II: The 70.000 Years since the Last Interglacial (S. 197–208). Simferopol-Cologne: Shlyakh.

Maier, A. (2022). Rezension zu: Stolz, Chr. & Miller, Chr. E. (Hrsg.)(2022). Geoarchäologie. Archäologische Informationen, 45, 237-240.

Neruda, P. & Maier, A. (2022). Report on the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society. Anthropologie LXII, 191-192. https:/ I doi.org.l0.26720/anthro.22.03.07.2

Maier, A. (2020). Rezension zu: Tafelmaier, Y., Bataille, G., Sch­mid, V., Taller, A., & Will, M. (2020). Methoden zur Analyse von Steinartefakten. Eine Über­sicht. Archäologische Informationen 43, Early View. https://www.dguf.de/fileadmin/AI/ArchInf-EV_Maier.pdf

Maier, A. (2016). Rezension zu: Marcel Bradtmöller (2014), Höhlenlager des Gravettien. Muster jungpaläolithischer Höhlennutzung am Beispiel des Gravettien Nordspaniens. Archäologische Informationen 39, 314–317

Supplementary Data to

Chabai, V., Dudnyk, D., Pasda, K., Brandl, M. & Maier, A. (2024). Investigations at the Epigravettian site of Barmaky in Volhynia, north-west Ukraine: analyses and taxonomic reflections. Quartär 69, 105–144. https://heidata.uni-heidelberg.de/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.11588/data/Z6B1KV

Siemssen, T. & Maier, A. (2024). Rivers run and people may meander. Water body oriented land use decisions in the Neuwied Basin during the Late Upper Palaeolithic and Late Palaeolithic. Quartär 69, 163–177.https://heidata.uni-heidelberg.de/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.11588/data/ZUJRXV

Reiss, L., Stüwe, C., Einwögerer, T., Händel, M., Maier, A., Meng, S., Pasda, K., Si-mon, U., Zolitschka, B. & Mayr, C. (2022) Grain size, organic and inorganic geo-chemistry, and stable isotopes of loess profile KG-5753, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.943236

Reiss, L., Stüwe, C., Einwögerer, T., Händel, M., Maier, A., Meng, S., Pasda, K., Si-mon, U., Zolitschka, B. & Mayr, C. (2022) X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyses of lo-ess profile KG-5753, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.942914

Reiss, L., Stüwe, C., Einwögerer, T., Händel, M., Maier, A., Meng, S., Pasda, K., Si-mon, U., Zolitschka, B. & Mayr, C. (2022) Grain size, organic and inorganic geo-chemistry, and stable isotopes of loess profile KG-5756 and KG-5757, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.943244

Reiss, L., Stüwe, C., Einwögerer, T., Händel, M., Maier, A., Meng, S., Pasda, K., Si-mon, U., Zolitschka, B. & Mayr, C. (2022) X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyses of lo-ess profiles KG-5756 and KG-5757, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.942926

John, R., Linsel, F. & Maier, A. (2023). PyREnArA (Python-R-Enviroment-for-Artefact-Analysis) Zenodo, https://zenodo.org/record/7778071

Maier, A., & Zimmermann, A. (2016). CRC806-E1 LGM-Sites Database V-20150313, CRC806-Database, http://dx.doi.org/10.5880/SFB806.12.

Maier, A., & Zimmermann, A. (2016). CRC806-E1 Gravettian-Sites Database V-20160219, CRC806-Database, http://dx.doi.org/10.5880/SFB806.18

N. Buchinger, Th. Einwögerer, M. Händel, V. Kaudela, A. Maier, C. Mayr, K. Pasda, L. Reiss, U. Simon, T. Stauber, M. Brandl, S. Pfeifer, C. Stüwe, B. Zolitschka, Success, limits and failure of subsistence strategies in eastern Central Europe during the early Gravettian and the Last Glacial Maximum – objectives and first results. Online Jahrestagung der Hugo-Obermaier-Gesellschaft (Brno), 6.-8. 04. 2021.

A. Maier, I. Kretschmer, Regionalisation and Demography in the Central European Magdalenian. Jahrestagung der Hugo-Obermaier-Gesellschaft in Wien, 2.-6. 04. 2013.

A. Maier, The Central European Magdalenian. Regional Diversity and Internal Variability. ESHE – 2. Jahrestreffen in Bordeaux, 21.-22. 09. 2012.

Supervised Bachelor-Theses

ongoing

• Evren Soysuz, Der Zentralbefund von Bad Kösen-Lengefeld – Überlegungen zu möglichen baulichen Konstruktionen

2024

• Lara Roth, Objects with intent? Examining the ontological turn in Archaeology and its impact on the nature of Palaeolithic Research (20.11.2024)
• Levin Cavak, Bresgespark Nord – Spätpaläolithische Siedlungsmuster in der Niersaue bei Mönchengladbach-Rheyd (27.05.2024)
• Marlon Transfeld, Bresgespark Süd –Spätpaläolithische Siedlungsmuster in der Niersaue bei Mönchengladbach-Rheydt (27.05.2024

2022

• Helen Hoffman, The Sangoan in western Africa? A taxonomic case study of Bété I, Côte d’Ivoire (07.07.2022)
• Tjaark Siemssen, Rivers Run and People May Meander. Water body oriented land use decisions during the Late Upper Palaeolithic and Late Palaeolithic in the Neuwied Basin (31.05.2022)
• Tabea Amalia Schischka, Die Fazies „à navettes“ und „à Lussac-Angles“ im Mittleren Magdalénien Frankreichs – eine stilistische Analyse der künstlerischen Darstellungen (26.04.2022)
• Daniel Riemenschneider, Die Iserlohner Martinshöhle, eine technologische Analyse des lithischen Fundinventars (22.03.2022)

2021

• Florian Gumboldt, Die Rückenspitzen aus der Martinshöhle in Iserlohn, Märkischer Kreis (03.05.2021)

Supervised Master-Theses

ongoing

• Florian Gumboldt, Strontiumisotopenanalysen und Uran-Thorium-Datierungen an Faunenresten von Neandertalerfundstellen in Mittel- und Süddeutschland (ongoing)

2024

• Tom Noack, 3D-Rekonstruktion und Analyse der Stratigraphie auf dem Vorplatz der Blätterhöhle, Stadt Hagen, Westfalen (13.06.2024)

2022

• Robin John, Die Funde des Oberflächenfundplatzes „Im Struth“ (Marktbreit, Bayern) – Technologie, Typologie und räumliche Verteilung (07.11.2022)
• Anna Krahl, Die Funde der Grabung Andernach Roonstraße im Kontext der spätpaläolithischen Konzentrationen Andernach Martinsberg 2 und 3 (07.11.2022)

Supervision of PhD-theses

First supervisor

• Veronika Kaudela, Use-wear analysis on the lithic collections of the Upper Palaeolithic sites Bistricioara-Lutărie III and Bistricioara-La Mal, Romania
• Anna Krahl, Chronology and chorology of late Pleistocene hunter-gatherer groups in the Lower Rhine region ─ From the key region of lignite open cast mines to the regional scale
• Robin John, Nur die Spitze des Eisberges? Anwendung neuer Methoden zur tieferen Erforschung der Evolution lithischer Projektile
• Norbert Buchinger, Die Silexartefakte der Fundstelle Kammern Grubgraben – Eine Einordnung in die Industrien des Letzten Glazialen Maximums

Second supervisor

• Stephan Henn, An agent-based simulation of demography, social networks and mobility of Kalahari hunter-gatherers
• Franziska Schmid, Studien zum Neolithikum im Süden der Niederrheinischen Lössbörden
• Thore Hübert, Studien zur Lithik am Göbekli Tepe, Südostanatolien
• Julia Blumenröther, Das Mesolithikum im österreichischen Donaukorridor

External supervisor

• Jesper Borre Pedersen, Cumulative PhD dissertation on the Final Palaeolithic in Demark, Aarhus University, Denmark