Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser

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Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser (born June 25, 1965 in Bottrop ) is a German archaeologist .

Career

Gaudzinski-Windheuser has been studying prehistory , geology / palaeontology and physical anthropology in Kiel, Tübingen and Cologne since 1984 . In 1992 she was awarded a doctorate in prehistory and early history at the University of Cologne. rer. nat. PhD.

She began her career as a research assistant at the Roman-Germanic Central Museum in Mainz. Between 1996 and 2003 she worked repeatedly at the Institute for Evolution, Systematics and Ecology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and taught at the Universities of Cologne, Basel and Leiden . In 2003 she became a professor at the University of Mainz . In the same year she took over the management of the Archaeological Research Center and Museum for Human Behavioral Evolution Monrepos (at that time still research area Paleolithic) of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum at Monrepos Castle in Neuwied . In 2004 she gave the Rudolf Virchow Lecture .

Research priorities

Gaudzinski-Windheuser dedicates her work to the research and mediation of the development of human behavior of the Neanderthals in the Paleolithic . She particularly focuses on the evolution of early human subsistence strategies and their effects on social organization and landscape use. She is best known for her archaeozoological work on subsistence strategies in Paleolithic Europe and the Levant. These works demonstrate the range of different hunting, feeding and exploitation strategies of early humans. They show for the first time that hunting as a human behavior pattern can be traced back 1.4 million years ago.

Their work makes a contribution to the methodology of archeozoology and taphonomy.

Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser also works on the development of settlement behavior and social organization in early modern human societies.

Gaudzinski-Windheuser undertook field work on the 400,000-year-old Kärlich-Seeufer site , the 1.4 million-year-old 'Ubeidiya site in Israel and the Middle Paleolithic Eemzeitplatz Neumark-Nord 2.

In 2017, she published with others about alleged hominid processing traces and stone tools in the Untermaßfeld discovery field (age around 1 million years) and proved previously published reports to be false. Rather, scratches on the bones would be caused by predatory animal damage, rodents, root etching and possibly damage from improper predatory excavations. This is related to criticism of other dubious early Pleistocene finds from Vallparadis in Spain and La Vallonet in France, which should indicate an early hominid colonization.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Elisabeth S. Noack, Eduard Pop, Constantin Herbst, Arne Jacob and Lutz Kindler: Evidence for close-range hunting by last interglacial Neanderthals . Nature Ecology & Evolution, Nature Publishing Group, 2018.
  • with Wil Roebroeks : Multidisciplinary studies of the Middle Palaeolithic record from Neumark-Nord (Germany). Volume 1. Publications of the State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony-Anhalt 69, Halle 2014.
  • Patterns of spatial use of the late Upper Palaeolithic in Oelknitz (Thuringia) (= monographs of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum. RGZM. 105). Publishing house of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum, Mainz 2013, ISBN 978-3-88467-201-3 .
  • with Rivka Rabinovich, Lutz Kindler and Naama Goren-Inbar: Mammalian taphonomy. The assemblages of layers V-5 and V-6 (= The Acheulian site of Gesher Benot Ya'agov, Israel. Vol. 3). Springer, Dordrecht et al. 2012, ISBN 978-94-007-2158-6 .
  • as editor with Lutz Kindler: The evolution of hominin food resource exploitation in Pleistocene Europe. Recent studies in Zooarchaeology (= Quaternary International. Vol. 252, ISSN  1040-6182 ). Elsevier, Amsterdam et al. 2012.
  • as editor with Olaf Jöris, Martina Sensburg, Martin Street and Elaine Turner: Site-internal spatial organization of hunter-gatherer societies. Case studies from the European Palaeolithic and Mesolithic (= RGZM-Tagungen. 12). Publishing house of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum, Mainz 2011, ISBN 978-3-88467-190-0 .
  • as editor with Regina Höfer and Olaf Jöris: Very old - the archeology of the Ice Age, implemented by Otmar Alt. How colorful was the past really? An unusual juxtaposition of hunting archeology and contemporary art. Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Mainz 2007, ISBN 978-3-88467-107-8 .
  • as editor with Olaf Jöris: 600,000 years of human history in the center of Europe. Roman-Germanic Central Museum, Mainz 2006, ISBN 3-88467-103-0 .
  • Subsistence strategies of early Pleistocene hominids in Eurasia. Taphonomic observations of fauna at the sites of the 'Ubeidiya formation (Israel) (= Roman-Germanic Central Museum. Monographs. 61). Publishing house of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum and others, Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-88467-079-4 .
  • as editor: The role of early humans in the accumulation of European lower and middle palaeolithic bone assemblages. Results of a colloquium (= Roman-Germanic Central Museum. Monographs. 42). Publishing house of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum et al., Mainz et al. 1999, ISBN 3-88467-044-1 .
  • Kärlich lakeside. Investigations on an old Paleolithic site in the Neuwied Basin (Rhineland-Palatinate). In: Yearbook of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum Mainz. Vol. 43, 1998, pp. 3-239.
  • Wisent hunter in Wallertheim. On the taphonomy of a Middle Paleolithic field site in Rheinhessen. In: Yearbook of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum Mainz. Vol. 39, 1992, pp. 245-423, (Simultaneously: Köln, Universität, Dissertation, 1992).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Subsistence strategies of early Pleistocene hominids in Eurasia. Taphonomic observations of fauna at the sites of the 'Ubeidiya formation (Israel) (= Roman-Germanic Central Museum. Monographs. 61). Publishing house of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum et al., Mainz 2005.
  2. ^ S. Gaudzinski-Windheuser, Laura Niven: Hominid subsistence patterns during the Middle and Late Paleolithic in Northwestern Europe. In: Jean-Jacques Hublin , Michael P. Richards (Eds.): The Evolution of Hominin Diets. Integrating Approaches to the Study of Palaeolithic Subsistence. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht 2009, ISBN 978-1-4020-9698-3 , pp. 99-111.
  3. ^ S. Gaudzinski: Subsistence patterns of Early Pleistocene hominids in the Levant - Taphonomic evidence from the 'Ubeidiya Formation (Israel). In: Journal of Archaeological Science. Vol. 31, No. 1, 2004, ISSN  0305-4403 , pp. 65-75, doi: 10.1016 / S0305-4403 (03) 00100-6 .
  4. ↑ with Rivka Rabinovich, Lutz Kindler and Naama Goren-Inbar: Mammalian taphonomy. The assemblages of layers V-5 and V-6 (= The Acheulian site of Gesher Benot Ya'agov, Israel. Vol. 3). Springer, Dordrecht et al. 2012.
  5. ^ S. Gaudzinski-Windheuser, Lutz Kindler: Research perspectives for the study of Neandertal subsistence strategies based on the analysis of archaeozoological assemblages. In: Quaternary International. Vol. 247, 2012, pp. 59-68, doi: 10.1016 / j.quaint.2010.11.029 .
  6. ↑ S. Gaudzinski-Windheuser: Indication for social interaction during the Central European Late Upper Palaeolithic: Evidence from the Magdalenian site of Oelknitz, Structure 1 (Thuringia, Germany). In: S. Gaudzinski-Windheuser, Lutz Kindler (Ed.): The evolution of hominin food resource exploitation in Pleistocene Europe. Recent studies in Zooarchaeology (= Quaternary International. Vol. 252). Elsevier, Amsterdam et al. 2012, S, 165–174, doi: 10.1016 / j.quaint.2011.01.031 .
  7. ^ S. Gaudzinski, Felix Bittmann, Wolfgang Boenigk, Manfred Frechen, Thijs Van Kolfschoten: Palaeoecology and Archeology of the Kärlich-Seeufer Open-Air Site (Middle Pleistocene) in the Central Rhineland, Germany. In: Quaternary Research. Vol. 46, No. 3, 1996, ISSN  0033-5894 , pp. 319-334, doi: 10.1006 / qres.1996.0070 .
  8. ^ S. Gaudzinski: Early hominid subsistence in the Levant. Taphonomical studies at the Plio / Pleistocene 'Ubeidiya Formation (Israel): Evidence from layer II-24. In: Naama Goren-Inbar, John D. Speth (Ed.): Human Paleoecology in the Levantine Corridor. Oxbow Books, Oxford 2004, ISBN 1-84217-155-0 , pp. 75-87.
  9. ↑ as editor with Lutz Kindler: The evolution of hominin food resource exploitation in Pleistocene Europe. Recent studies in Zooarchaeology (= Quaternary International. Vol. 252, ISSN  1040-6182 ). Elsevier, Amsterdam et al. 2012.
  10. ↑ G. Landeck, J. Garcia Garriga, The oldest hominin butchery in European mid-latitudes at the Jaramillo site of Untermassfeld (Thuringia, Germany), Journal of Human Evolution, Volume 94, 2016, pp. 53-71. The authors were not involved in the official excavations. One of the finds described by the authors was stolen from the site in 2009 and was found in a package that was handed in anonymously to the Natural History Museum Schloss Bertholdsburg in 2014 and, according to the accompanying letter, allegedly came from excavations in GDR times.
  11. ↑ Wil Roebroeks , Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser, Michael Baales, Ralf-Dietrich Kahlke: Uneven Data Quality and the Earliest Occupation of Europe: The Case of Untermassfeld (Germany) , BioRxiv 2017, bioRxiv : 2017/10/31/211268 ( Preprint - Full text)
  12. ↑ Guido Kleinhubbert, Bone Hunter in the Photo Trap, Der Spiegel, 2017, No. 50, pp. 128–129.
personal data
SURNAME Gaudzinski-Windheuser, Sabine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistoric woman
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Bottrop