Assoz. Prof. Dr. Mareike Stahlschmidt, MA

Nelson, E, White, D, Wheeler, L, Meng, S, Szymanek, M, Strahl, J, Hein, M, Alexandrowicz, WP, Urban, B, Greeves, S, Stahlschmidt, M, Kahlke, R-D, Lauer, T, Tanner, DC & Penkman, KEH 2026, 'Quaternary aminostratigraphies for the eastern North European Plain', Open Research Europe, vol. 5, 396. https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.21815.1

Gallo, G, Aldeias, V & Stahlschmidt, M 2025, 'Revisiting the thermal alteration of buried bone', Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, vol. 63, 105080. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105080

Stahlschmidt, MC, Power, RC, Heinrich, S, Poggenpoel, C & Parkington, J 2025, 'A microcontextual investigation of Later Stone Age ash deposits and associated interment of human remains at Faraoskop Rock Shelter, South Africa', Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, vol. 17, no. 1, 23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-024-02131-0

Jetzinger, D, Gallistl, J, Kinnaird, T, Truntschnig, T, Kasemann, S, Schwaiger, A, Salisbury, RB, Doneus, M, Kucera, M, Stahlschmidt, M, Fera, M & Neubauer, W 2025, 'Sediment talks, or: what interdisciplinary archaeological prospection of the Kreuttal microregion’s sediment archive can tell us about the landscape history', ArcheoSciences, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 359-362. <https://shs.cairn.info/revue-archeosciences-2025-1-page-359?lang=en>

Oberreiter, V, Gelabert, P, Brück, F, Franz, S, Zelger, E, Szedlacsek, S, Cheronet, O, Cano, FT, Exler, F, Zagorc, B, Karavanić, I, Banda, M, Gasparyan, B, Straus, LG, Gonzalez Morales, MR, Kappelman, J, Stahlschmidt, M, Rattei, T, Kraemer, SM, Sawyer, S & Pinhasi, R 2024, 'Maximizing efficiency in sedimentary ancient DNA analysis: a novel extract pooling approach', Scientific Reports, vol. 14, no. 1, 19388. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-69741-5

Aldeias, V & Stahlschmidt, MC 2024, 'Sediment DNA can revolutionize archaeology-if it is used the right way', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 121, no. 26, e2317042121, pp. 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2317042121

Smith, GM, Ruebens, K, Zavala, EI, 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, SP, Weiss, M, Hublin, J-J & Welker, F 2024, 'The ecology, subsistence and diet of ~45,000-year-old Homo sapiens at Ilsenhöhle in Ranis, Germany', Nature Ecology & Evolution, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 564-577. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02303-6

Mylopotamitaki, D, Weiss, M, Fewlass, H, Zavala, EI, Rougier, H, Sümer, AP, Hajdinjak, M, Smith, GM, Ruebens, K, Sinet-Mathiot, V, Pederzani, S, Essel, E, Harking, FS, Xia, H, Hansen, J, Kirchner, A, Lauer, T, Stahlschmidt, M, Hein, M, Talamo, S, Wacker, L, Meller, H, Dietl, H, Orschiedt, J, Olsen, JV, Zeberg, H, Prüfer, K, Krause, J, Meyer, M, Welker, F, McPherron, SP, Schüler, T & Hublin, JJ 2024, 'Homo sapiens reached the higher latitudes of Europe by 45,000 years ago', Nature, vol. 626, no. 7998, pp. 341-346. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06923-7

Schmid, V, Wadley, L, Brandl, M, Guillemard, I, Rhodes, SE, Taipale, N, Witelson, DM, Börner, M, Cnuts, D, Hodgskiss, T, Murungi, M, Nigst, PR, Porraz, G, Puech, E, Rots, V, Stahlschmidt, M, Stelzer, S, Teyssandier, N, Tribolo, C, Val, A, van Schalkwyk, L & Archer, W 2024, 'Renwed Impetus for Stone Age Research in the Eeastern Free State (South Africa) Centred on Rose Cottage Cave', South African Archaeological Bulletin, vol. 79, no. 221, pp. 105-119.

Nir, N, Davidovich, U, Ullman, M, Schütt, B & Stahlschmidt, MC 2023, 'The environmental footprint of Holocene societies: a multi-temporal study of trails in the Judean Desert, Israel', Frontiers in Earth Science, vol. 11, 1148101. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2023.1148101

Gallo, G, Ushakov, SV, Navrotsky, A & Stahlschmidt, MC 2023, 'Impact of prolonged heating on the color and crystallinity of bone', Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, vol. 15, 143. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-023-01842-0

Stahlschmidt, MC, Mentzer, SM, Heinrich, S, Cooper, A, Grote, MN, McNeill, PJ, Wilder, JCB & Steele, TE 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, vol. 15, no. 8, 126. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-023-01806-4

Archer, W, Presnyakova, D, Heinrich, S & Stahlschmidt, MC 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

Colarossi, D, Fewlass, H, Stahlschmidt, MC, 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, vol. 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, vol. 215, 106312. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2022.106312

Weiss, M, Hein, M, Urban, B, Stahlschmidt, MC, Heinrich, S, Hilbert, YH, Power, RC, Suchodoletz, HV, Terberger, T, Böhner, U, Klimscha, F, Veil, S, Breest, K, Schmidt, J, Colarossi, D, Tucci, M, Frechen, M, Tanner, DC & 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, vol. 284, 107519. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107519

Mackay, A, Armitage, SJ, Niespolo, EM, Sharp, WD, Stahlschmidt, MC, Blackwood, AF, Boyd, KC, Chase, BM, Lagle, SE, Kaplan, CF, Low, MA, Martisius, NL, McNeill, PJ, Moffat, I, O'Driscoll, CA, Rudd, R, Orton, J & Steele, TE 2022, 'Environmental influences on human innovation and behavioural diversity in southern Africa 92-80 thousand years ago', Nature Ecology & Evolution, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 361-369. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01667-5

Massilani, D, Morley, MW, Mentzer, SM, Aldeias, V, Vernot, B, Miller, C, Stahlschmidt, M, Kozlikin, MB, Shunkov, MV, Derevianko, AP, Conard, NJ, Wurz, S, Henshilwood, CS, Vasquez, J, Essel, E, Nagel, S, Richter, J, Nickel, B, Roberts, RG, Pääbo, S, Slon, V, Goldberg, P & 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, vol. 119, no. 1, e2113666118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2113666118