People
Felix Bittmann, Botanist (Palynology, Macro remains, Charcoal)
Current Position:
Executive Director, Head of the Department of Natural sciences
Affiliation:
Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research, Wilhelmshaven
Research interests:
Pollen analysis, archaeobotany, charcoal, Pleistocene, Holocene, environmental reconstruction
Research within CCEHN:
Identification of botanical macro remains (seeds, fruits, wood, charcoal) contributing to and supporting the projects I Palaeoclimate and palaeoenvironment of early humans and Neanderthals especially Landscape and environmental development during the Middle and Late Pleistocene, and II Archaeology of early humans and Neanderthals in the north and its sub-projects Early humans and Neanderthals in interglacial context and Early humans and Neanderthals in glacial context
Recently:
Charcoal record of the Einhornhöhle
Tilman Böckenförde, Archaeologist
Current Position:
Research Assistent, PhD Student
Affiliation:
Seminar für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Georgs-August Universität Göttingen
Research interests:
Stone artifacts, Lower Paleolithic, relation and adaptation of humans to paleoenvironment, raw material economy, mobility strategies, interested in archaeobotany
Research within CCEHN:
PhD Thesis: Paleoecology and human occupation of northern central Europe and adjacent areas between 50 to 12 ka B.C. (working title)
- Fieldwork at Friedrichsdorf-Seulberg
- Fieldwork at rock shelter sites Reinhäuser Forest (planned)
- Correlation of palaeoecological and archaeological data to quantify the influence of changing environmental conditions on Late Neanderthal and Upper Paleolithic humans.
Katharina Dulias, Biologist
Current Position:
Postdoc
Affiliation:
Institut für Geosysteme und Bioindikation, TU Braunschweig
Research interests:
Human evolution, population genetics, human-environment interactions: specifically, how
humans are shaping their environments, environmental reconstructions using sedaDNA, biodiversity and adaptability of organisms to environmental changes further: interested in DNA taphonomy and sedimentology; R and python programming
Research within CCEHN:
“Paleogenetics”
- DNA taphonomy in a burial site (Groß Fredenwalde)
- Cooperation with project partners at coring sites to look at interesting periods and provide genetic data
- Analysis of sediment samples from Einhornhöhle provided by Susanne Hummel
Deepak-Kumar Chinnaswamy
Current Position:
PhD
Affiliation:
Institut für Geosysteme und Bioindikation, TU Braunschweig
Research interests:
I am interested in understanding Pelioclimate dynamics specifically using climate model outputs. Specifically focusing on large-scale atmosphere and ocean dynamics. Currently, my interests are understanding abrupt events and teleconnections in the past. I have also worked on the current climate and climate change.
Research within CCEHN:
“Climate of last glacial cycle and Heinrich Events.”
- A broader view of European climate during the last glacial cycle.
- Special focuses on Heinrich events.
- To quantify the climate of Europe during the end of Neanderthals.
Gianpiero Di Maida, Archaeologist
Current Position:
PostDoc and scientific coordinator
Affiliation:
NLD, Hannover
Research interests:
Art and symbolism, behavioral modernity, Neanderthals and Middle Palaeolithic archaeology, lithic studies, theories in archaeology, digital methods of recording and documentation, Lateglacial archaeology, island archaeology and first peopling of the Mediterranean
Research within CCEHN:
Neanderthals north of the 49° parallel
- Review of the site of Lehringen (Verden, Lower Saxony), specifically regarding the human impact on the faunal remains (with Ivo Vereijen)
- Technological analysis of the lithic artefacts, re-evaluation, dating of the Ochtmissen site (Lüneburg, Lower Saxony)
- State-of-the-art-overview of the Early Middle Palaeolithic, Eemian and Late Palaeolithic of the Northern European area
Tobias Lauer, Laboratory head (Optical dating / sediment analyses)
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Terrestrial Sedimentology, Department of Geosciences
Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Universität Tübingen
Schnarrenbergstr. 94-96
72076 Tübingen
Germany
Research interests: Geochronology (Trapped charge dating); Geomorphology; Quaternary Sciences; Palaeoenvironmental research
Research within CCEHN:
Geochronology project (luminescence dating)
Antje Schwalb, Geologist
Current Position:
Professor for Geosystems and General Geology
Affiliation:
Technische Universität Braunschweig
Research interests:
– Relationship between landscape, climate and humans
– Identify climate patterns, extremes as well as rapid events and their effects on aquatic ecosystems using abiotic and biotic proxies from lake and estuarine sediments
– Assess human impact using lake sediments
– Focus on climate sensitive areas in the Americas, Central Europe, Tibet Plateau, Near East, Arabia, northern Africa
Research within CCEHN:
– Expression of mid- to late Pleistocene climate change in Northern Germany archived in sediments and aquatic bioindicators
– Relationship between climate and presence/absence of Neanderthals in Northern Germany
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Martin Theuerkauf
Current Position and affiliation:
Research assiciate/PostDoc (50%) at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Institute of Ecology
Research interests:
Palynology, Vegetation history
Research within CCEHN:
Developing quantitative approaches to reconstruct glacial and interglacial vegetetation
Marcel Weiß, Archeologist
Current Position:
Assistant Professor
Affiliation:
Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Research interests:
Human evolution, Neanderthals, stone artefacts, digital artefact analysis, Lower Paleolithic, Middle Paleolithic, Middle- to Upper Paleolithic transition, presence/ absence of humans in Central Europe and population dynamics, relation and adaptation of humans to paleoenvironment; further: interested in sedimentology, geomorphology, site-formation processes, dating methods, and use-wear analysis; R-programming and open science
Research within CCEHN:
“Archaeology of the Lowlands”
- fieldwork in Lichtenberg and the surrounding area
- fieldwork in Salzgitter-Lebenstedt
- fieldwork in Drelsdorf (Schleswig-Holstein)
- artefact analysis (Lichtenberg, Ochtmissen)