Dissertation Title
Regional variability in the early Upper Palaeolithic of the Iberian Peninsula
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gerd-Christian Weniger
Abstract
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Education
Since 2010: Ph.D. student at Institute for Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Cologne.
2009: M.A. in Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Cologne. M.A. thesis: “Das steinzeitliche Fundmaterial der Volkringhauser Höhle im Hönnetal/Westfalen.”
2004 – 2009: University of Cologne: Prehistoric Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, English.
2001 – 2004: Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen: Prehistoric Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, English.
Fieldwork
November 2008: Archaeological field work at Cueva Morin/ Spain; Neanderthal Museum.
August 2005: Excavation at Alyst/ Bornholm (Maglemose site); Bornholms Museum.
September – October 2004: Excavation at Der Dahes/ Syria: “Archeoseismology and Paleoseismology for the Protection of Cultural Heritage and Archeological Sites in the Middle East”. (APAME project/ Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen).
September 2003: Excavation at Bornholm/ Denmark (Mesolithic site and site of the Viking Age); Bornholms Museum.
March – April 2003: Excavation at Güglingen/ Lkr. Heilbronn (Roman vicus); LDA Baden Württemberg.
September 2002: Excavation at Azé/ France (Gravettian site); Eberhard Karls University Tübingen/ PD Dr. H. Floss.
Publications
- Tafelmaier, Y., Pastoors, A., Weniger, G. (2017): Cultural contact over the Strait of Gibraltar during the Middle Palaeolithic? Evaluating the visibility of cultural exchange. Directory of Open Access Journals – In: Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia, Vol. 68(1), p: 33-47, DOI: doi.org/10.21630/maa.2017.68.16
- Tafelmaier, Y. (2015): Technological variability at the beginning of the Aurignacian in Northern Spain and its implications for the proto- and early Aurignacian distinction..
- Tafelmaier, Y. (In Prep): Inter-assemblage variability in Proto- and early Aurignacian sites - the question of split based organic points in Protoaurignacian contexts. Kerns Verlag, Stuttgart. . Early symbolic material culture and the evolution of behavioral modernity.