Publications

Journals peer reviewed

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

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.

Weiss, M,, Hein, M., Urban, B., Stahlschmidt, M.C., Heinrich, S., Hilbert, Y., Power, R.C., v. Suchodoletz, Terberg, 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.

Mackay, A, Armitage, S., Niespolo, E., Sharpe, W., Stahlschmidt, M.C. Blackwood, A., Boyd, K., Lagle, S., Kaplan, C.F., Low, M.A., Martisius, N., McNeil, P., Moffat, I., O’Driscoll, C.A., Rudd, R., Orton, J., Steele, T.E. (2022). Innovative technological and subsistence responses to marginal environments indicate complex cultural dynamics in southern Africa ~90 000 years ago. Nat Ecol Evol 6, 361–369.

Massilani, D., Morley, M.W., Mentzer, S.M., Aldeias, V., Vernot B., Miller, C.E., 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., Robert, R.G., Pääbo, S., Slon, V., Goldberg, P., Meyer, M. (2022). Microstratigraphic preservation of ancient faunal and hominin DNA in Pleistocene cave sediments. PNAS 119 (1) e2113666118.

Gelabert, P., Sawyer, S., Bergström, Margaryan, A., Collin, TC, Meshveliani, T., Belfer-Cohen, A., Lordkipanidze, D., Jakeli, N., Matskevich, Z., Bar-Oz, G., Fernandes, D.M., Cheronet, O., Özdoğan, K.T., Oberreiter, V., Feeney, R.N.M., Stahlschmidt, M.C., Skoglund, P., Pinhasi, R. (2021). Genome-scale sequencing and analysisof human, wolf, and bison DNAfrom 25,000-year-old sediment. Current Biology 31, 1–11.

Villagran, X.S., Hartmann, G., Stahlschmidt, M.C., Heinrich, S., Gluchy, M.F., Hatté, C., Lahave, C., Pérez, A., Ramos, M., Straioto, H., Santos, J., Guidon, N., Böeda, E. (2021). Formation Process of the Late Pleistocene Paleoamerican Site Toca da Janela da Barra do Antoniao – Piauí (Brazil). PaleoAmerica 7, 3, 260-279.

Stahlschmidt, M.C., Mallol, C., Miller, C.E. (2020). Fire as an Artifact –Advances in Combustion Structure Studies: Introduction to the Special Issue. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology 3, 4, 503-508.

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 evidence for human presence during MIS 11. Geomorphology, 354, 107016.

Stahlschmidt, M.C., Collins, T.C., Fernandes, D, Bar-Oz, G., Belfer-Cohen, A., Gao, Z., Jakeli, N., Matsekevich, Z., Meshveliani, T., Pritchard, J., McDermott, F., Pinhasi, R. (2019). Ancient Mammalian and Plant DNA from Late Quaternary Stalagmite Layers at Solkota Cave, Georgia. Scientific Reports 2019, 9, 6628.

Stahlschmidt, M.C., McClung de Tapia, E., Gutiérrez-Castorena, M. del C. (2019) Geoarchaeological investigation of the Street of the Dead at the Tlajinga district, Teotihuacan, Mexico. Ancient Mesoamerica 30, 1, 129-145.

Mackay, A., Cartwright, C.R., Heinrich, S., Low, M., Stahlschmidt, M.C., Steele, T. (2019). Excavations at Klipfonteinrand Reveal Local and Regional Patterns of Adaptation and Interaction Through MIS 2 in Southern Africa. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology 3, pages 362–397.

Ekshtain, R., Malinsky-Buller, A., Greenbaum. N., Mitki, N., Stahlschmidt, M.C., Shahack-Gross, R., Nir, N., Porat, N., Bar Yosef Mayer, D., Yeshurun, R., Been, E., Rakͪ, Y., Agha, N., Brailowsky, L., Krakovskya, M., Spivak, P., Ullman, M., Vered, A., Barzilai, O., Hovers, E. (2019). Persistent Neanderthal occupation of the open air site of ‘Ein Qashish, Israel. PLOS One 14(6): e0215668.

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 Paleolithic Open-Air Site of ‘Ein Qashish, Israel. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology 1, 1, 32-53.

Stahlschmidt, M.C., Miller, C.E., Kandel, A.W., Goldberg, P., Conard, N.J. (2017). Site formation processes and Late Natufian domestic spaces at Baaz Rockshelter, Syria: A micromorphological perspective. JAS reports 12, 499-514.

Been, E., Hovers, E., Ekshtain, R., Malinksi-Buller, A., Agha, N., Barash, A., Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E., Benazzi, S., Hublin, J.-J., Levin, L., Greenbaum, N., Mitki, N., Oxilia, G., Porat, N., Roskin, J., Soudack, M., Yeshurun, R., Shahack-Gross, R., Nadav, N., Stahlschmidt, M.C., Rak, Y., Barzilai, O. (2017). The first Neanderthal remains from an open-air Middle Palaeolithic site in the Levant. Scientific Reports 7:2958 doi:10.1038/s41598-017-03025-z

Steele, T.E., Mackay, A., Fitzsimmons, K., Igreja, M., Marwick, B., Orton J., Schwortz, S., Stahlschmidt, M.C (2016).. Varsche Rivier 003: A Middle and Later Stone Age Site with Still Bay and Howiesons Poort Assemblages in Southern Namaqualand, South Africa. PaleoAnthropology 2016, 100-163. doi:10.4207/PA.2016.ART101

Stahlschmidt, M.C., Miller, C.E., Ligouis, B., Hambach, U., Goldberg, P., Berna, B., Richter, D., Urban, B., Serangeli, J. & Conard, N.J. (2015). On the evidence for human use and control of fire at Schöningen. Journal of Human Evolution Vol. 89, 181-201.

Stahlschmidt, M.C., Miller, C.E., Ligouis, B., Goldberg, P., Urban, B., Berna, F., Conard, N.J. (2015). The depositional environments of Schöningen 13 II-4 and their archaeological implications. Journal of Human Evolution Vol. 89, 71-91.

Julien, M.A., Hardy, B., Stahlschmidt, M.C., Urban, B., Serangeli, J., Conard, N.J. (2015). Characterizing the Lower Paleolithic bone industry from Schöningen 12 II: a multi-proxy study. Journal of Human Evolution Vol. 89, 264-286.

Tolksdorf, J. F., Turner, F., Kaiser, K., Eckmeier, E., Stahlschmidt, M., Housley, R. A., Breest, K., Veil, St. (2013). Multiproxy Analyses of Stratigraphy and Palaeoenvironment of the Late Palaeolithic Grabow Floodplain Site, Northern Germany. Geoarchaeology 28, 1, 50-65.

Journals non-peer reviewed

Stahlschmidt, M.C., Miller, C.E. (2018). Schöninger Erde unter dem Mikroskop – Mikromorphologie. In Terberger, T., Böhner, U., Hillgruber, F., & Kotula, A. (Eds), 300 000 Jahren Spitzentechnik – Der altsteinzeitliche Fundplatz Schöningen und die frühsten Speere der Menschheit, p. 117-118.

Stahlschmidt, M.C. (2017). Review, Marion Dowd (Ed.), Underground archaeology: studies on human bones and artefacts from Ireland’s caves, 2016. Journal of Irish Archaeology Vol. 26, 204.

Miller, C.E., Stahlschmidt, M.C. (2014). Eine brennende Frage: Feuer und menschliche Evolution. Senckenberg – Natur – Forschung – Museum 144, 7/8, 286-287.

Serangeli, J., Bigga, G., Böhner, U., Julien, M.A., Lang, J. & Stahlschmidt, M. (2012). Ein Fenster ins Altpaläolithikum. Archäologie in Deutschland 4, 2012, 6-12.

Conard, N.J., Masri, M., Bretzke, K., Stahlschmidt, M. & Kandel, A.W. (2010). The 2008 TDASP Survey in the Damascus Province, Syria and the refinement of models of Paleolithic landuse. Chronique Archéologique en Syrie 4: 23-29.

Chapters and Books

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 “Updating Neanderthals” Romagnoli, F., Rivals, F., Benazzi, S., Academic Press, Elsevier, pages 227-249.

Stahlschmidt, M.C., Miller, C.E. (2022). Kapitel 10.5 Anthropogene Ablagerungen im Siedlungsbereich”, in “Lehrbuch für Geoarchäologie” C.E. Miller, C. Stolz (Eds), Springer, pages 197-203.

Stahlschmidt, M.C. (2014). Mikromorphologische Untersuchungen zur Fundplatzgenese an den Fundstellen Schöningen, Grabow und Blätterhöhle in Deutschland sowie der Fundstelle Varsche Rivier 003, Südafrika. Doctoral thesis University of Tübingen, TOBIAS-lib.

Conard, N.J., Bretzke, K., Deckers, K., Hillgruber, F.K., Kandel, A.W., Masri, M., Napierala, H., Riehl, S., Stahlschmidt, M. (2013). Natufian lifeways in the eastern foothills of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains, in: Bar-Yosef, O., Valla, F. (Eds.), Natufian Foragers in the Levant – Terminal Pleistocene Social Changes in Western Asia. International Monographs in Prehistory –Archaeological Series 19, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A., pages 1-16.