• Burning, dumping, and site use during the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic at Hohle Fels Cave, SW Germany 

      Marcazzan, Diana; Miller, Christopher; Conard, Nicholas J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Dumped deposits are a valuable source of information for inferring past behaviour. They provide insights into site maintenance, social organization and settlement dynamics. Hohle Fels Cave in SW Germany offers a unique ...
    • Early anthropogenic use of hematite on Aurignacian ivory personal ornaments from Hohle Fels and Vogelherd caves, Germany 

      Velliky, Elizabeth; Schmidt, Patrick; Ludovic, Bellot-Gurlet; Sibylle, Wolf; Conard, Nicholas J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The Aurignacian (ca. 43–35 ka) of southwestern Germany is well known for yielding some of the oldest artifacts related to symbolic behaviors, including examples of figurative art, musical instruments, and personal ornaments. ...
    • Microstratigraphic preservation of ancient faunal and hominin DNA in Pleistocene cave sediments 

      Massilani, Diyendo; Morley, Mike W.; Mentzer, Susan M.; Aldeias, Vera; Vernot, Benjamin; Miller, Christopher; Stahlschmidt, Mareike; Kozlikin, Maxim B.; Shunkov, Michael V.; Derevianko, Anatoly P.; Conard, Nicholas J.; Wurz, Sarah Jacoba Deborah; Henshilwood, Christopher Stuart; Vasquez, Javi; Essel, Elena; Nagel, Sarah; Richter, Julia; Nickel, Birgit; Roberts, Richard G.; Paabo, Svante; Slon, Viviane; Meyer, Matthias; Goldberg, Paul (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Ancient DNA recovered from Pleistocene sediments represents a rich resource for the study of past hominin and environmental diversity. However, little is known about how DNA is preserved in sediments and the extent to which ...