Selected Publications

Quantum Leaps in Human Biocultural Evolution and the Relationship to Cranial Capacity (2023)

Life 2023, 13, 1030

Australopithecus afarensis Reconstruction and Evolution of the Early Hominin Feeding Apparatus (2022)

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Vol. 289 Issue 1977

The Venus from Willendorf (2022)

ScientificReports 12, 2926 No. 21 (out of 21840) in ranking of most downloaded papers in Scientific Reports 2022

See a short scientific video (in English)

See a popular contribution in Austrian ORF2 “Kulturmontag” (in German)

A Middle Pleistocene Homo from Nesher Ramla, Israel (2021)

Science 372, 1424-1428

See a short introductory video

Before the massive modern human dispersal into Eurasia A 55,000-year-old cranium from Manot, Israel (2020)

Quaternary International 551:29-39

The earliest modern humans out of Africa. (2018)

Science 359 456-459

Zygomatic Root Position in Recent and Fossil Hominids (2017)

Anat Rec 300, 160-170

The Qesem Cave hominin material – A morphometric analysis. (2016)

Quaternary Int 398, 159-174

Levantine cranium from Manot Cave (Israel) foreshadows the first European modern humans. (2015)

Nature 520 216-219

Virtual Anthropology (2015)

Yearbook of Physical Anthropology (2015) 156 22-42

Another link between archaeology and anthropology – Virtual Anthropology (2013)

DAACH 1, 3-11

Early dispersal of modern humans in Europe and implications for Neanderthal behaviour. (2011)

Nature 479, 525-528

Virtual anthropology meets biomechanics. (2011)

J Biomech 44, 1429-1432

Virtual Anthropology – A guide to a new interdisciplinary field (Englisch) 2011

Textbook published in Springer Verlag

The feeding biomechanics and dietary ecology of Australopithecus africanus (2009)

PNAS 106, 2124-2129

Early modern human diversity suggests subdivided population structure and a complex out-of-Africa scenario (2009)

PNAS 106

A reconstruction of the Vienna skull of Hadropithecus stenognathus (2008)

PNAS 105

External Geometry of Mladec Neurocrania compared with anatomically modern humans and Neanderthals (2006) 453-471

Early Pliocene Hominid Tooth from Galili, Somali Region, Ethiopia (2004)

Coll. Antropol. 28, 65-76

Glasnost for Paleoanthropology (2001)

AnatRec 265 193-201

Endocranial Capacity in an Early Hominid Cranium from Sterkfontein, South Africa (1998)

Science 280, 1730

Body height depends on month of birth (1998)

Nature 391 754-755