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Nicholas J. Conard

Nicholas J. Conard

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Earth Science

D-Index
61
Citations
15131
World Ranking
1772
National Ranking
115

Overview

Nicholas J. Conard is affiliated with the University of Tübingen in Germany. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily within the social sciences and earth and planetary sciences, focusing extensively on anthropology, paleontology, and archaeology.

Their work covers significant topics such as Pleistocene-era hominins and archaeology, archaeology and ancient environmental studies, forensic anthropology and bioarchaeology, as well as evolution and paleontology studies. Additional research interests include geology and paleoclimatology, rock art studies, and wildlife ecology and conservation.

Conard has contributed to numerous publication venues, including:

  • Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte
  • Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
  • PLoS ONE
  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology

Frequent collaborators in their research include Britt M. Starkovich, Mohsen Zeidi, Benjamin Schürch, Susanne C. Münzel, and Christopher E. Miller.

Recent publications by Nicholas J. Conard include:

  • "Grey wolf genomic history reveals a dual ancestry of dogs," 2022, Nature
  • "Microstratigraphic preservation of ancient faunal and hominin DNA in Pleistocene cave sediments," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "A 300,000-year-old throwing stick from Schöningen, northern Germany, documents the evolution of human hunting," 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Fox dietary ecology as a tracer of human impact on Pleistocene ecosystems," 2020, PLoS ONE
  • "The role of foxes in the Palaeolithic economies of the Swabian Jura (Germany)," 2020, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

In addition to journal articles, Conard has contributed to book publications, including a title published by Kerns Verlag eBooks: The Rhine During the Middle Paleolithic: Boundary or Corridor? (2021).

Best Publications

  • The genetic history of Ice Age Europe

    Qiaomei Fu;Cosimo Posth;Cosimo Posth;Mateja Hajdinjak;Martin Petr

  • The timing and spatiotemporal patterning of Neanderthal disappearance

    Tom Higham;Katerina Douka;Rachel Wood;Christopher Bronk Ramsey

  • The genomic history of southeastern Europe

    Iain Mathieson;Songül Alpaslan-Roodenberg;Cosimo Posth;Cosimo Posth;Anna Szécsényi-Nagy

  • New flutes document the earliest musical tradition in southwestern Germany

    Nicholas J. Conard;Maria Malina;Susanne C. Münzel

  • Radiocarbon dating the appearance of modern humans and timing of cultural innovations in Europe: new results and new challenges.

    Nicholas J. Conard;Michael Bolus

  • Pleistocene Mitochondrial Genomes Suggest a Single Major Dispersal of Non-Africans and a Late Glacial Population Turnover in Europe

    Cosimo Posth;Gabriel Renaud;Alissa Mittnik;Alissa Mittnik;Dorothée G. Drucker

  • Τesting models for the beginnings of the Aurignacian and the advent of figurative art and music: the radiocarbon chronology of Geißenklösterle.

    Thomas F. G. Higham;Laura Basell;Roger Jacobi;Roger Jacobi;Rachel Wood;Rachel Wood

  • A female figurine from the basal Aurignacian of Hohle Fels Cave in southwestern Germany

    Nicholas J. Conard

  • Bedding, hearths, and site maintenance in the Middle Stone Age of Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Paul Goldberg;Paul Goldberg;Christopher E. Miller;Solveig Schiegl;Bertrand Ligouis

  • Emergence of Agriculture in the Foothills of the Zagros Mountains of Iran

    Simone Riehl;Mohsen Zeidi;Nicholas John Conard

  • Palaeolithic ivory sculptures from southwestern Germany and the origins of figurative art.

    Nicholas J. Conard

  • Deeply divergent archaic mitochondrial genome provides lower time boundary for African gene flow into Neanderthals

    Cosimo Posth;Christoph Wißing;Keiko Kitagawa;Keiko Kitagawa;Luca Pagani;Luca Pagani

  • Palaeogenomics of Upper Palaeolithic to Neolithic European hunter-gatherers

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  • Lack of phylogeography in European mammals before the last glaciation.

    Michael Hofreiter;David Serre;Nadin Rohland;Gernot Rabeder

  • Tools Underfoot: Human Trampling as an Agent of Lithic Artifact Edge Modification

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  • Dense Forests, cold Steppes and the palaeolithic Settlement of Northern Europe

    Wil Roebroeks;Nicholas J. Conard;Thijs van Kolfschoten;R. W. Dennell

  • Unexpectedly recent dates for human remains from Vogelherd

    Nicholas J. Conard;Pieter M. Grootes;Fred H. Smith

  • Settlement dynamics of the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age

    Nicholas John Conard

  • When Neanderthals and modern humans met

    Nicholas John Conard

  • Isotopic evidence for dietary ecology of cave lion (Panthera spelaea) in North-Western Europe: Prey choice, competition and implications for extinction

    Hervé Bocherens;Dorothée G. Drucker;Dominique Bonjean;Anne Bridault

  • Ancient DNA Analyses Reveal High Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Diversity and Parallel Morphological Evolution of Late Pleistocene Cave Bears

    Michael Hofreiter;Cristian Capelli;Matthias Krings;Lisette Waits

  • Lithic reduction and hominid behavior in the Middle Paleolithic of the Rhineland

    Nicholas J. Conard;Daniel S. Adler

  • Mousterian large-mammal remains from Kobeh cave : Behavioral implications for Neanderthals and early modern humans. Commentaries. Author's reply

    C. W. Marean;Soo Yeun Kim;R. J. Blumenschine;N. J. Conard

Frequent Co-Authors

Hervé Bocherens
Hervé Bocherens University of Tübingen
Dorothée G. Drucker
Dorothée G. Drucker University of Tübingen
Johannes Krause
Johannes Krause Max Planck Society
Paul Goldberg
Paul Goldberg Boston University
Katerina Harvati
Katerina Harvati University of Tübingen
Wolfgang Haak
Wolfgang Haak Max Planck Society
David Reich
David Reich Harvard Medical School
Florent Rivals
Florent Rivals Rovira i Virgili University
Swapan Mallick
Swapan Mallick Harvard Medical School
Johannes van der Plicht
Johannes van der Plicht University of Groningen

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