Assoz. Prof. Dr. Mareike Stahlschmidt, MA

I am a microarchaeologist researching the sedimentary archaeological and paleoanthropological record. My main research themes are the evolution of fire use, the depositional context of sites and the formation history of sedaDNA.
I studied Prehistory, Palaeoanthropology and Soil Science at Hamburg and Tübingen University and completed my doctoral studies at Tübingen University in 2014 at the Institute for Archaeological Sciences. Afterwards, I first held a 2-year IRC post-doctoral fellowship at University College Dublin and continued on as a post-doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. I joined the Vienna Department of Evolutionary Anthropology in 2022.
Find more information on my working group here https://microarchaeology.univie.ac.at/