vollständige Literaturliste [pdf]

N. J. Conard, M. Bolus and S. C. Münzel 2012. Middle Paleolithic land use, spatial organization and settlement intensity in the Swabian Jura, southwestern Germany. Quaternary International. 247:  236-245. [pdf]

N. J. Conard 2011. The Demise of the Neanderthal Cultural Niche and the Beginning of the Upper Paleolithic in Southwestern Germany. In Neanderthal Lifeways, Subsistence and Technology: One Hundred fifty Years of Neanderthal Study. pp.223-240. [pdf]

N. J. Conard, E. Ghasidian 2011. The Rostamian cultural group and the taxonomy of the Iranian Upper Paleolithic. In Between Sand and Sea: The Archaeology and Human Ecology of Southwestern Asia. Edited by N. J. Conard, P. Drechsler and A. Morales. Kerns Verlag: Tübingen. pp. 33-52. [pdf]

Haidle, M. N. and N. J. Conard 2011. The Nature of Culture: Synthesis of an interdisciplinary symposium held in Tübingen, Germany 15-18 June 2011. Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte 20: 65-78. [pdf]

N. J. Conard and J. Wertheimer 2010. Die Venus aus dem Eis: Wie vor 40 000 Jahre unsere Kultur entstand. [link]

N. J. Conard and A. Delagnes (Editors) 2010. Settlement Dynamics of the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age. Vol. 3. [.pdf Conard et al. 2010 SD III] [pdf]

Nicholas J. Conard 2010. Cultural modernity: Concensus or conundrum. PNAS 117: 7621-7622. [pdf]

Nicholas J. Conard 2010. The current state of 'palaeohistory' in Germany. Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte. 19: 193-208. [pdf]

Nicholas J. Conard, Maria Malina, Susanne C. Münzel 2009. New flutes document the earliest musical tradition in southwestern Germany. Nature Vol. 460, 737-740. [pdf]

Nicholas J. Conard 2009. A female figurine from the basal Aurignacian of Hohle Fels Cave in southwestern Germany. Nature Vol. 459, 248-252. [pdf]

Katleen Deckers, Simone Riehl, Emma Jenkins, Arlene Rosen, Andrey Dodonov, Aleksandra N. Simakova, Nicholas J. Conard 2009. Vegetation development and human occupation in the Damascus region of southwestern Syria from the Late Pleistocene to Holocene. Veget Hist Archaeobot 18, 329–340. [pdf]

Paul Goldberg, Christopher E. Miller, Solveig Schiegl, Bertrand Ligouis, Francesco Berna, Nicholas J. Conard, Lyn Wadley 2009. Bedding, hearths, and site maintenance in the Middle Stone Age of Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Archaeol Anthropol Sci. [pdf]

Bruce L. Hardy, Michael Bolus, Nicholas J. Conard 2008. Hammer or crescent wrench? Stone-tool form and function in the Aurignacian of southwest Germany. Journal of Human Evolution 54, 648-662. [pdf]

Nicholas J. Conard 2008. A Critical View of the Evidence for a Southern African Origin of the Behavioural Modernity. South African Archaeological Society Goodwin Series 10, 175–179. [pdf]

Nicholas J. Conard, Michael Bolus 2008. Radiocarbon dating the late Middle Paleolithic and the Aurignacian of the Swabian Jura. Journal of Human Evolution 55, 886–897. [pdf]

Rhiannon E. Stevens, Roger Jacobi, Martin Street, Mietje Germonpré, Nicholas J. Conard, Susanne C. Münzel, Robert E.M. Hedges 2008. Nitrogen isotope analyses of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus), 45,000 BP to 9,000 BP: Palaeoenvironmental reconstructions. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 262: 32–45. [pdf]

Nicholas J. Conard, Maria Malina 2007. Die Ausgrabung 2007 im Hohle Fels bei Schelklingen, Alb-Donau-Kreis, und neue Einblicke in die Anfänge des Jungpaläolithikums. Archäologische Ausgrabungen in Baden-Württemberg 2007, 17-20. [pdf]

Andrey E. Dodonov, Andrew W. Kandel, Aleksandra N. Simakova,  Mohammed al-Masri and Nicholas J. Conard 2007. Geomorphology, Site Distribution, and Paleolithic Settlement Dynamics of the Ma’aloula Region, Damascus Province, Syria. Geoarchaeology Vol. 22, No. 6, 589–606. [pdf]

Conard, N. J. 2007. Cultural Evolution in Africa and Eurasia During the Middle and Late Pleistocene. In: W. Henke / I. Tattersall (eds.), Handbook of Paleoanthropology. Springer-Verlag: Berlin – Heidelberg – New York. [pdf}

Conard, N. J., E. Ghasidian, S. Heydari and M. Zeidee 2006. Report on the 2005 survey of the Tübingen-Iranian Stone Age Research Project in the provinces of Esfahan, Fars and Kohgiluyeh-Boyerahmad. Archaeological Reports 5: 9-34. [pdf]

Schiegl, S. and N. J. Conard 2006. The Middle Stone Age sediments at Sibudu: Results from FTIR spectroscopy and microscopic analyses. Special volume on Sibudu Cave, edited by L. Wadley. Southern Africa Humanities 18 (1): 149-172.

Conard, N. J. 2006. Unearthing religion. Review of Inside the Neolithic Mind: Conciousness, Cosmos and the Realm of the Gods. By David Lewis-Williams and David Pearce. Nature 439: 271. [pdf]

Conard, N. J., M. Bolus, P. Goldberg, S. C. Münzel 2006. The last Neanderthals and first modern humans in the Swabian Jura. In When Neanderthals and Modern Humans Met. Edited by N. J. Conard. Kerns Verlag: Tübingen. pp. 305-341. [pdf]

Conard, N. J. 2006. Changing Views of the Relationship between Neanderthals and Modern Humans. In When Neanderthals and Modern Humans Met. Edited by N. J. Conard. Kerns Verlag: Tübingen. pp. 5-20. [pdf]

Conard, N. J. 2006. Die letzten Neandertaler und die ersten modernen Menschen auf der Schwäbischen Alb. In Roots: Wurzel der Menschheit. Edited by G. Uelsberg. Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn. pp. 227-242.

Conard, N. J. and A. W. Kandel. 2006. The economics and settlement dynamics of the later Holocene inhabitants of near coastal environments in the West Coast National Park (South Africa). In Grundlegungen: Beiträge zur europäischen und afrikanischen Archäologie für Manfred K. H. Eggert. Edited by H.- P. Wotzka. Franke Verlag: Tübingen. pp. 329-355. 

Conard, N. J. and L. Moreau 2006. Current research in the Gravettian of the Swabian Jura. Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte 13: 29-59. [pdf]

Teyssandier, N., M. Bolus and N. J. Conard. 2006. The Early Aurignacian in central Europe and its place in a European perspective. In Toward a Definition of the Aurignacian. Edited by O. Bar-Yosef and J. Zilhao. Trabalhos de Arcqueologia 45. 241-256. [pdf]

Conard, N. J. and M. Bolus. 2006. The Swabian Aurignacian and its Place in European Prehistory. In Toward a Definition of the Aurignacian. Edited by O. Bar-Yosef and J. Zilhao. Trabalhos de Arcqueologia 45. 209-237. [pdf

Bolus, M. and N. J. Conard. 2006. Zur Zeitstellung von Geschosspitzen aus organischen Materialien im späten Mittelpaläolithikum und Aurignacien. Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt 36: 1-16. [pdf]

Conard, N. J. and M. Malina. 2006. Schmuck und vielleicht auch Musik am Vogelherd bei Niederstotzingen-Stetten ob Lontal, Kreis Heidenheim. Archäologische Ausgrabungen Baden-Württemberg 2005. pp. 21-25. [pdf]

Conard, N. J. and M. Malina. 2006. Neue Ergebnisse zum Mittelpaläolithikum, zum Aurignacien und zu den letzten Neandertalern am Hohle Fels bei Schelklingen, Alb-Donau-Kreis. Archäologische Ausgrabungen Baden-Württemberg 2005. pp. 17-20. [pdf]

Conard, N. J., A. W. Kandel, and M. Masri. 2006. Results from the 2005 TDASP Survey in the Damascus Province, Syria. In Tübingen-Damascus Excavation and Survey Project 1999 – 2005. Edited by N. J. Conard. Kerns Verlag: Tübingen. pp. 337-349. [pdf]

Conard, N. J., H. Dietl, A. E. Dodonov, P. Drechsler, A. W. Kandel, and M. Masri. 2006. Results from the 2004 TDASP Survey. In Tübingen-Damascus Excavation and Survey Project 1999 – 2005. Edited by N. J. Conard. Kerns Verlag: Tübingen. pp. 325-335. [pdf]

Conard, N. J., A. W. Kandel, and M. Masri. 2006. The 2003 Ma’aloula Paleolithic Survey. In Tübingen-Damascus Excavation and Survey Project 1999 – 2005. Edited by N. J. Conard. Kerns Verlag: Tübingen. pp. 311-324. [pdf]

Conard, N. J., A. W. Kandel, A. E. Dodonov and A. Abdulrachman. 2006. The 2000 Ma’aloula Paleolithic Survey. In Tübingen-Damascus Excavation and Survey Project 1999 – 2005. Edited by N. J. Conard. Kerns Verlag: Tübingen. pp. 297-309. [pdf]

Conard, N. J., A. W. Kandel and A. Dyab. 2006. The 1999 Ma’aloula Paleolithic Survey. In Tübingen-Damascus Excavation and Survey Project 1999 – 2005. Edited by N. J. Conard. Kerns Verlag: Tübingen. pp. 291-295. [pdf]

Conard, N. J. and A. W. Kandel. 2006. The May 1999 Survey in the Damascus and Mediterranean Regions. In Tübingen-Damascus Excavation and Survey Project 1999 – 2005. Edited by N. J. Conard. Kerns Verlag: Tübingen. pp. 275-290. [pdf]

Conard, N. J., K. Bretzke, K. F. Hillgruber and M. Masri. 2006. The 2005 excavation at Kaus Kozah Cave. In Tübingen-Damascus Excavation and Survey Project 1999 – 2005. Edited by N. J. Conard. Kerns Verlag: Tübingen. pp. 195-205. [pdf]

Conard, N. J. and M. Masri. 2006. The 2004 excavation at Kaus Kozah Cave. In Tübingen-Damascus Excavation and Survey Project 1999 – 2005. Edited by N. J. Conard. Kerns Verlag: Tübingen. pp. 189-194. [pdf]

Conard, N. J., A. W. Kandel and M. Masri. 2006. The 2004 excavation at Baaz Rockshelter. In Tübingen-Damascus Excavation and Survey Project 1999 – 2005. Edited by N. J. Conard. Kerns Verlag: Tübingen. pp. 179-185. [pdf]

Conard, N. J., A. W. Kandel and A. Abdulrachman. 2006. The 2000 excavation at Baaz Rockshelter. In Tübingen-Damascus Excavation and Survey Project 1999 – 2005. Edited by N. J. Conard. Kerns Verlag: Tübingen. pp. 171-178. [pdf]

Conard, N. J., A. W. Kandel and A. Dyab. 2006. The 1999 excavation at Baaz Rockshelter. In Tübingen-Damascus Excavation and Survey Project 1999 – 2005. Edited by N. J. Conard. Kerns Verlag: Tübingen. pp. 161-169. [pdf]

Conard, N. J. 2005. An overview of the patterns of behavioral change in Africa and Eurasia during the Middle and Late Pleistocene. In From Tools to Symbols: From Early Hominids to Modern Humans. Edited by. Francesco d’Errico and Lucinda Blackwell. Witwatersrand University Press: Johannesburg. pp. 294-332. [pdf]

Kandel, A. W. and N. J. Conard. 2005. Production sequences of ostrich eggshell beads and settlement dynamics in the Geelbek Dunes of the Western Cape, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science 32: 1711-1721. [pdf]

Dietl, H., A. W. Kandel, A.W. and N. J. Conard. 2005. Middle Stone Age settlement and land use at the open-air sites of Geelbek and Anyskop, South Africa. Journal of African Archaeology 3 (2): 233-244. [pdf]

Conard, N. J. 2005. Auringacian art in Swabia and the beginnings of figurative representation in Europe. In Pitture paleolithiche nelle Prealpe Venete: Grotta di Fumane e Riparo Dalmeri. Edited by Alberto Broglio and Giampaolo Dalmeri. Memorie del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona Series 2. Sezione Scienze dell’Uomo 9: 82-88.

Conard, N. J. and M. Malina. 2005. Die Ausgrabungen 2004 in den frühen jungpaläolithischen Schichten des Hohle Fels bei Schelklingen, Alb-Donau-Kreis. Archäologische Ausgrabungen in Baden-Württemberg 2004. pp. 17-21.

Conard, N. J. 2005. Sind sich Neandertaler und moderne Menschen auf der Schwäbischen Alb begegnet? In Vom Neandertaler zum modernen Menschen. Edited by N. J. Conard, S. Kölbl and W. Schürle. Thorbecke Verlag: Ostfildern. pp. 131-152.

Adler, D. S. and N. J. Conard. 2005. Tracking hominins during the last interglacial complex in the Rhineland. In The Hominid Individual in Context: Archaeological Investigations of Lower and Middle Paleolithic Landscapes, Locales and Artefacts. Edited by C. Gamble and M. Porr. Routledge: London.

Münzel, S. C. and N. J. Conard. 2004. Cave Bear Hunting in Hohle Fels Cave in the Ach Valley of the Swabian Jura. Revue de Palébiologie 23: 24-35. [pdf]

Avery, G., A. W. Kandel, R. G. Klein, N. J. Conard and K. Cruz-Uribe. 2004. Tortoise as food and taphonomic elements in paleolandscapes. In Petits Animaux et Sociétés humaines du Complément alimentaire aux Ressources utilitaires. XXIVèmes Recontres Internationales d’Archéologie et Histoire d’Antibes. Edited by J.-P. Brugal and J. Desse. Éditions APDCA: Antibes. pp. 147-161. [pdf]

Conard, N. J., M. Malina, S. C. Münzel and F.Seeberger. 2004. Eine Mammuthelfenbeinflöte aus dem Aurignacien des Geißenklösterle: Neue Belege für eine musikalische Tradtion im Frühen Jungpaläolithikum auf der Schwäbischen Alb. Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt 34: 447-462. [pdf]

Conard, N. J., P.M. Grootes and F. H. Smith. 2004. Unexpectedly recent dates for human remains from Vogelherd. Nature 430: 198-201. [pdf]

Conard, N. J. 2004. Altsteinzeitliche Ausgrabungen in den Höhlen der Schwäbischen Alb und die Anfänge der Kunst und Musik. Festvortrag Archäologie-Preis Baden-Württemberg 2002. Archäologische Informationen aus Baden-Württemberg 48:30-48.

Hofreiter, M., D. Serre, N. Rohland, G. Rabeder, D. Nagel, N. J. Conard, S. Münzel and S. Pääbo. 2004. Lack of phylogeography in European mammals before the last glaciation. Proceedings of the National Academie of Science 101 (35): 12963-12968. [pdf]

Münzel, S. C. and N. J. Conard. 2004. Change and continuity in subsistence during the Middle and Upper Paleolithic in the Ach Valley of Swabia (South-west Germany). International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 14: 225-243. [pdf]

Conard, N.J., M. Soressi, J.E. Parkington, S. Wurz and R. Yates. 2004. Developing a Unified Lithic Taxonomy based on Patterns of Core Reduction. South African Archaeological Bulletin 59: 13-17. [pdf]

Conard, N. J. 2003. Handaxes on the Landscape and the Recontruction of Paleolithic Setlement Patterns. In: Erkenntnisjäger – Kultur und Umwelt des frühen Menschen. Festschrift für Dietrich Mania, Veröffentlichungen des Landesamt für Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt 57. Halle. pp. 123-144.

Conard, N. J., L. Niven, K, Mueller, and A. Stuart. 2003. The Chronostratigraphy of the Upper Paleolithic Deposits at Vogelherd. Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte 12: 73-86. [pdf]

Conard, N. J. 2003. Paleolithic ivory sculptures from southwestern Germany and the origins of figurative art. Nature 426: 830-832. [pdf]

Kandel, A.W. and N. J. Conard. 2003. Scavenging and Processing of Whale Meat and Blubber by Later Stone Age People of the Geelbek Dunes, Western Cape Province, South Africa. South African Archaeological Bulletin 58: 91-93. [pdf]

Conard, N. J., G. Dippon and P. Goldberg. 2003. Chronostratigraphy and Archaeological Context of the Aurignacian Deposits at Geißenklösterle. In: The Chronology of the Aurignacian and the Transistion Technocomplexes. Dating, Stratigraphies and Cultural Implications. Ed. by J. Zilhao and F. d’Errico. Trabalos de Arqueologia 33, Instituto Portugues de Arqueologia. Lisbon. pp. 165.-176. [pdf]

Conard, N. J. and M. Malina. 2003. Abschließende Ausgrabungen im Geißenklösterle bei Blaubeuren, Alb-Donau-Kreis. Archäologische Ausgrabungen in Baden-Württemberg 2002. pp. 17-21.

Conard, N. J., K. Langguth and H.-P. Uerpmann. 2003. Neue Aurignacien-Fundschichten im Hohle Fels bei Schelklingen, Alb-Donau-Kreis. Archäologische Ausgrabungen in Baden-Württemberg 2002. pp. 21-27.

Adler, D. S., T. J. Prindiville and N. J. Conard. 2003. Patterns of Spatial Organization and Land Use during the Eemian Interglacial in the Rhineland: New Data from Wallertheim, Germany. Eurasian Prehistory 1(2): 25­78.

Conard, N. J. 2003. Eiszeitlicher Schmuck auf der Schwäbischen Alb. In: Eiszeitschmuck: Status und Schönheit. Edited by. S. Kölbl and N. J. Conard. Museumsheft 6. Urgeschichtliches Museum Blaubeuren. pp. 15-49.

Schiegl, S., P. Goldberg, H.-U. Pfretzschner and N. J. Conard. 2003. Paleolithic Burnt Bone Horizons from the Swabian Jura: Distunguishing between in situ Fireplaces and Dumping Areas. Geoarchaeology 18 (5): 531-565. [pdf]

Conard, N. J. and M. Bolus. 2003. Radiocarbon Dating the Appearance of Modern Humans and Timing of Cultural Innovations in Europe: New Results and new Challenges. Journal of Human Evolution 44: 333-373. [pdf]

Conard, N. J. (Editor) 2006. When Neanderthals and Modern Humans Met. Kerns Verlag: Tübingen. 501 pages with a forward by the editor. [link]

Conard, N. J. (Editor) 2006). Tübingen-Damascus Excavation and Survey Project 1999 – 2005. Kerns Verlag: Tübingen. 349 pages with a forward by the editor and summaries in Arabic. [link]

Owen, L. R. 2005. Distorting the Past: Gender and the Division of Labor in the European Upper Paleolthic. Kerns Verlag: Tübingen. 235 pages with a foreward by the series editor. [link]

Conard, N. J. (Editor) 2004. Settlement Dynamics of the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age. Vol. 2. Kerns Verlag: Tübingen. 541 pages with foreward by the series editor. [link]

Conard, N. J. (Editor) 2001. Settlement Dynamics of the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age. Vol. 1. Kerns Verlag: Tübingen. 640 pages with foreward by the series editor. [link]

Steguweit, L. 2003. Gebrauchsspuren an Artefakten der Hominidenfundstelle Bilzingsleben (Thüringen). Tübingen Arbeiten zur Urgeschichte Vol. 2. Maria Leidorf Verlag: Rahden. 218 pages with foreward by the series editors. [link]

Floss, H. and T. Terberger. 2002. Die Steinartefakte des Magdalénien von Andernach (Mittelrhein): Die Grabungen 1979-1983. Tübingen Arbeiten zur Urgeschichte Vol. 1. Maria Leidorf Verlag: Rahden. 260 pages with foreward by the series editors. [link]

Owen, L. R. 2000. Dictionaire de la Prehistoire /Dictionary of Prehistoric Archaeology. Archaeologica Venatoria 16. MoVince Verlag: Tübingen. 539 pages with foreward by the series editor.

Owen, L. R. and M. Porr (Eds) 1999. Ethno-Analogy and the Reconstruction of Prehistoric Artefact Use and Production. Urgeschichtliche Materialhefte 14. MoVince Verlag: Tübingen. 284 pages with foreward by the series editor.

Orschiedt, J. 1999. Manipulationen an menschlichen Skelettresten: Taphanomische Prozesse, Sekundärbestattungen oder Anthropophagie? Urgeschichtliche Materialheft 13. MoVince Verlag: Tübingen. 500 pages with foreward by the series editor.

Kölbl, S., N. J. Conard, M. N. Haidle, P. Kieselbach, M. Malina, L. Moreau 2005. Einzeitkunst „Eindeutig männlich“. Begleitheft zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung im Urgeschichtlichen Museum Blaubeuren 25 July, 2005 – 8 January 2006. 8 pages.

Kölbl, S. and N. J. Conard (Eds) 2003. Eiszeitschmuck: Status und Schönheit. Begleitbuch zur gleichnamigen Austellung im Urgeschichtlichen Museum Blaubeuren 18. April - 2. November 2003. Museumsheft 6. 128 pages with foreward by the series editors.

Kölbl, S. and N. J. Conard (Eds) 2001. Höhlenbärenspuren. Begleitheft zur gleichnamigen Austellung im Urgeschichtlichen Museum Blaubeuren 1. April - 4. November 2001. Museumsheft 5. 46 pages.

Conard, N. J. and H. Floss. 2001. Neue Eiszeit-Kunstwerke von der Schäbische Alb. Begleitheft zur gleichnamigen Austellung im Museum Schloss Hohentübingen. 16. Februar - 1. Juli 2001. Museumsheft 4, 38 pages.

Conard, N. J., S. Kölbl and W. Schürle (Eds.) 2005. Vom Neandertaler zum modernen Menschen. Thorbecke Verlag: Ostfildern. 208 pages with a foreword by the editors.

Schürle, W. and N. J. Conard (Eds.) 2005. Zwei Weltalter. Eiszeitkunst und die Bildwelt Willi Baumeisters. Galerie 40tausend Jahre Kunst, Urgeschichtliches Museum Blaubeuren. Hatje Catz Verlag: Ostfildern.

Conard, N. J. (Ed.) 2004. Woher kommt der Mensch? Attempto Verlag: Tübingen.

Müller-Beck, H., N. J. Conard, and W. Schürle (Eds.) 2001. Anfänge der Kunst: Eiszeitkunst im Süddeutschen-Schweizerischen Jura. Theiss Verlag: Stuttgart. 143 pages with a forward by the editors.