Detailed information
Ass.-Prof. Dr. Mareike Stahlschmidt, MA
T: +43-1-4277-54735
Consultation hours: During the semester Wednesday 1pm to 2pm or by appointment (email)
In the semester break only by appointment (email). Virtual meetings on request.
Summer term 2024
060105 VU Studying human behaviours through soils and sediments - an introduction to Geoarchaeology
300046 VO Fundplatzgenese
300135 EX Exkursionen zur Fundplatzgenese
Winter term 2023
060053 VO Bio- und Geoarchäologie
300162 UE Debates in Evolutionary Anthropology
Summer term 2023
300183 UE Debates in Evolutionary Anthropology
Smith, G. M., Ruebens, K., Zavala, E. I., Sinet-Mathiot, V., Fewlass, H., Pederzani, S., Jaouen, K., Mylopotamitaki, D., Britton, K., Rougier, H., Stahlschmidt, M., Meyer, M., Meller, H., Dietl, H., Orschiedt, J., Krause, J., Schüler, T., McPherron, S. P., Weiss, M., ... Welker, F. (2024). The ecology, subsistence and diet of ~45,000-year-old Homo sapiens at Ilsenhöhle in Ranis, Germany. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 8(3), 564-577. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02303-6
Mylopotamitaki, D., Weiss, M., Fewlass, H., Zavala, E. I., Rougier, H., Sümer, A. P., Hajdinjak, M., Smith, G. M., Ruebens, K., Sinet-Mathiot, V., Pederzani, S., Essel, E., Harking, F. S., Xia, H., Hansen, J., Kirchner, A., Lauer, T., Stahlschmidt, M., Hein, M., ... Hublin, J. J. (2024). Homo sapiens reached the higher latitudes of Europe by 45,000 years ago. Nature, 626(7998), 341-346. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06923-7
Nir, N., Davidovich, U., Ullman, M., Schütt, B., & Stahlschmidt, M. C. (2023). The environmental footprint of Holocene societies: a multi-temporal study of trails in the Judean Desert, Israel. Frontiers in Earth Science, 11, [1148101]. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2023.1148101
Gallo, G., Ushakov, S. V., Navrotsky, A., & Stahlschmidt, M. C. (2023). Impact of prolonged heating on the color and crystallinity of bone. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 15, [143]. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-023-01842-0
Stahlschmidt, M. C., Mentzer, S. M., Heinrich, S., Cooper, A., Grote, M. N., McNeill, P. J., Wilder, J. C. B., & Steele, T. E. (2023). Impact of a recent wildfire on tortoises at Cape Point, South Africa, and implications for the interpretation of heated bones in the archaeological record. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 15(8), [126]. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-023-01806-4
Archer, W., Presnyakova, D., Heinrich, S., & Stahlschmidt, M. C. (2023). A Predictive Model for the Non-Destructive Assessment of Stone Age Silcrete Heat Treatment Strategies. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-023-00141-3
Steele, T. E., Mackay, A., Blackwood, A., Lagle, S. E., Martisius, N. L., McNeill, P. J., Orton, J., & Stahlschmidt, M. C. (2023). Varsche Rivier 003, South Africa. In A. Beyin, D. K. Wright, J. Wilkins, & D. I. Olszewski (Eds.), Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20290-2_114
Colarossi, D., Fewlass, H., Stahlschmidt, M. C., Presnyakova, D., Matembo, J., Hein, M., Talamo, S., & Archer, W. (2022). A targeted drilling and dating campaign to identify Stone Age archaeological sites before excavation in west coast southern Africa. Quaternary Geochronology, 71, [101314]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2022.101314
Nir, N., Stahlschmidt, M., Busch, R., Lüthgens, C., Schütt, B., & Hardt, J. (2022). Footpaths: Pedogenic and geomorphological long-term effects of human trampling. CATENA, 215, [106312]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2022.106312
Weiss, M., Hein, M., Urban, B., Stahlschmidt, M. C., Heinrich, S., Hilbert, Y. H., Power, R. C., Suchodoletz, H. V., Terberger, T., Böhner, U., Klimscha, F., Veil, S., Breest, K., Schmidt, J., Colarossi, D., Tucci, M., Frechen, M., Tanner, D. C., & Lauer, T. (2022). Neanderthals in changing environments from MIS 5 to early MIS 4 in northern Central Europe – Integrating archaeological, (chrono)stratigraphic and paleoenvironmental evidence at the site of Lichtenberg. Quaternary Science Reviews, 284, [107519]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107519
Mackay, A., Armitage, S. J., Niespolo, E. M., Sharp, W. D., Stahlschmidt, M. C., Blackwood, A. F., Boyd, K. C., Chase, B. M., Lagle, S. E., Kaplan, C. F., Low, M. A., Martisius, N. L., McNeill, P. J., Moffat, I., O'Driscoll, C. A., Rudd, R., Orton, J., & Steele, T. E. (2022). Environmental influences on human innovation and behavioural diversity in southern Africa 92-80 thousand years ago. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 6(4), 361-369. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01667-5
Massilani, D., Morley, M. W., Mentzer, S. M., Aldeias, V., Vernot, B., Miller, C., Stahlschmidt, M., Kozlikin, M. B., Shunkov, M. V., Derevianko, A. P., Conard, N. J., Wurz, S., Henshilwood, C. S., Vasquez, J., Essel, E., Nagel, S., Richter, J., Nickel, B., Roberts, R. G., ... Meyer, M. (2022). Microstratigraphic preservation of ancient faunal and hominin DNA in Pleistocene cave sediments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(1), [e2113666118]. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2113666118
Allué, E., Mallol, C., Aldeias, V., Burguet-Coca, A., Cabanes, D., Carrancho, Á., Connolly, R., Leierer, L., Mentzer, S., Miller, C., Sandgathe, D., Stahlschmidt, M., Théry-Parisot, I., & Vaquero, M. (2022). Fire among Neanderthals. In F. Romagnoli (Ed.), Updating Neanderthals: Understanding Behavioural Complexity in the Late Middle Palaeolithic (pp. 227-249). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-821428-2.00014-7
Stahlschmidt, M., & Miller, C. E. (2022). Anthropogene Ablagerungen im Siedlungsbereich. In Lehrbuch für Geoarchäologie Springer.
Villagran, X. S., Hartmann, G. A., Stahlschmidt, M., Heinrich, S., Gluchy, M. F., Hatté, C., Lahaye, C., Griggo, C., Pérez, A., de Melo Ramos, M. P., Straioto, H., Santos, J., Trindade, R. I. F., Strauss, A., Guidon, N., & Böeda, E. (2021). Formation Processes of the Late Pleistocene Site Toca da Janela da Barra do Antonião–Piauí (Brazil). PaleoAmerica, 7(3), 260-279. https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2021.1931744
Lauer, T., Weiss, M., Bernhardt, W., Heinrich, S., Rappsilber, I., Stahlschmidt, M. C., von Suchodoletz, H., & Wansa, S. (2020). The Middle Pleistocene fluvial sequence at Uichteritz, central Germany: Chronological framework, paleoenvironmental history and early human presence during MIS 11. Geomorphology, 354, [107016]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2019.107016
Stahlschmidt, M., Mallol, C., & Miller, C. E. (2020). Fire as an Artifact—Advances in Paleolithic Combustion Structure Studies: Introduction to the Special Issue. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, (3), 606-611. [3].
Stahlschmidt, M. C., McClung De Tapia, E., & Gutiérrez-Castorena, M. D. C. (2019). A GEOARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION of the STREET of the DEAD at the TLAJINGA DISTRICT, TEOTIHUACAN, MEXICO. Ancient Mesoamerica, 30(1), 129-145. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956536118000238
Mackay, A., Cartwright, C. R., Heinrich, S., Low, M. A., Stahlschmidt, M., & Steele, T. E. (2019). Excavations at Klipfonteinrand Reveal Local and Regional Patterns of Adaptation and Interaction Through MIS 2 in Southern Africa. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, (3), 362-397. [3].
Stahlschmidt, M. C., Nir, N., Greenbaum, N., Zilberman, T., Barzilai, O., Ekshtain, R., Malinsky-Buller, A., Hovers, E., & Shahack-Gross, R. (2018). Geoarchaeological Investigation of Site Formation and Depositional Environments at the Middle Palaeolithic Open-Air Site of ‘Ein Qashish, Israel. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-018-0005-y
Department of Evolutionary Anthropology
Djerassiplatz 1 (UBB)
1030 Wien
Room: 5.007
T: +43-1-4277-54735