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Department of Human Evolution
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
phone: +49 (341) 3550 - 350
fax: +49 (0341) 3550 - 399
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Geoffrey Michael Smith
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Department of Human Evolution
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
Germany
phone: 0049 (0) 341 3550 371
fax: 0049 (0) 341 3550 399
e-mail: geoffrey_smith@[>>> Please remove the brackets! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Research Interests
Geoff Smith is a Palaeolithic zooarchaeologist interested in the evolution of hominin subsistence behaviour. His research focus is on the analysis of animal remains from Palaeolithic sites to investigate taphonomy, site formation and hominin behaviour. He has studied material from sites throughout Europe and from various time slices including some of the earliest sites in Europe (Boxgrove, UK) along with key Neanderthal localities (La Cotte de St Brelade, UK; Neumark-Nord 2, Germany).
He joined the Department of Human Evolution in September 2017 to investigate human subsistence behaviour across the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Europe. Primarily this will be through a new, up to date analysis of faunal material from the sites of Bacho Kiro (Bulgaria) and Ranis (Germany). His work will analyse and contextualise faunal data from both old collections and new excavations to present a comprehensive history of site formation, assemblage taphonomy and human subsistence behaviour. Results from these new analyses will then be synthesised to investigate human subsistence behaviour at the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition at a broader European scale.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
| 2004-2010 | PhD Palaeolithic Zooarchaeology, University College London, UK Dissertation: A contextual approach to the study of faunal remains from Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites in Britain. Supervisors: Dr Louise Martin and Mark Roberts (University College London). Examiners: Prof. Clive Gamble (University of Southampton); Prof. Thijs van Kolfschoten (University of Leiden). |
| 2002-2003 | MSc Human Palaeoecology (distinction) University College London, UK |
| 1999-2002 | BSc Archaeology (upper second class honours) University College London, UK |
Academic Positions
| Sept 2017-ongoing | Post-Doctoral researcher (Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA), Leipzig, Germany) Post-Doctoral researcher recording, analysing and interpreting the faunal assemblages from the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic sites of Ranis (Germany) and Bacho Kiro (Bulgaria). |
| March 2016-Aug 2017 | DAAD Post-Doctoral Researchers International Mobility Experience fellow Project: Key transitions in hominin subsistence behaviour: A zooarchaeological comparison of subsistence behaviour in the Eurasian Lower/Middle Palaeolithic and African Early/Middle Stone Age Collaborators: Dr Teresa Steele (UC Davis); Prof. Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser (University of Mainz). |
| Oct 2015-Feb 2016 | Parental leave |
| June 2015-ongoing | Visiting professor (Lanzhou University, China) |
| Feb 2012-Feb 2015 | Post-Doctoral researcher (MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre) Project: Neumark Nord 2 (Germany): Exploring an Eemian Interglacial Landscape. PI: Prof. Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser (MONREPOS) & Prof. Wil Roebroeks (University of Leiden) |
Awards and Funding
| 2015 | DAAD PRIME 18-month postdoctoral fellowship € 80,000 |
| 2014 | University of Nevada Scholarship for Society for American Archaeology Conference USA. $1,600 |
| 2014 | DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Conference Award to present in Greece €1,000 |
| 2013 | The Prehistoric Society Research Fund (UK) for fieldwork at Oosthoven (Belgium) £400 |
| 2013 | Society of Antiquaries (London) Funding for fieldwork at Oosthoven (Belgium) £2,700 |
| 2011 | Quaternary Research Fund (Quaternary Research Association) for La Cotte de St Brelade £500 |
Professional Involvement
2017-2019 | Elected Regular Board Member: European Society for Study of Human Evolution (ESHE) |
- Reviewer for
- Journal of Human Evolution
- Journal of Archaeological Science
- Quaternary International
- Quartär
- British Archaeological Reports
- Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (Springer)
- Environmental Archaeology: the Journal of Human Palaeoecology
- Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (PIA)
- Environmental Science and Paleobiology (Springer)
- Member of
- the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution (ESHE)
- the International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ)
Publications
In preparation
| Smith, G. M. ( | |
| Smith, G. M., García-Moreno, A., Kindler, L., Pop, E., Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S., & Roebroeks, W. (in preparation). Neanderthal behaviour in the Eemian lakeland of Neumark. |
2021
Hajdinjak, M., Mafessoni, F., Skov, L., Vernot, B., Hübner, A., Fu, Q., Essel, E., Nagel, S., Nickel, B., Richter, J., Moldovan, O. T., Constantin, S., Endarova, E., Zahariev, N., Spasov, R., Welker, F., Smith, G. M., Sinet-Mathiot, V., Paskulin, L., Fewlass, H., Talamo, S., Rezek, Z., Sirakova, S., Sirakov, N., McPherron, S. P., Tsanova, T., Hublin, J.-J., Peter, B., Meyer, M., Skoglund, P., Kelso, J., & Pääbo, S. (2021). Initial Upper Palaeolithic humans in Europe had recent Neanderthal ancestry. Nature,592, 253-257.  Open Access DOI BibTeX Endnote |
2020
| Fewlass, H., Talamo, S., Wacker, L., Kromer, B., Tuna, T., Fagault, Y., Bard, E., McPherron, S. P., Aldeias, V., Maria, R., Martisius, N. L., Paskulin, L., Rezek, Z., Sinet-Mathiot, V., Sirakova, S., Smith, G. M., Spasov, R., Welker, F., Sirakov, N., Tsanova, T., & Hublin, J.-J. (2020). A¹⁴C chronology for the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition at Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria. Nature Ecology & Evolution,4, 794-801. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| García-Moreno, A., Hutson, J. M., Smith, G. M., Kindler, L., Turner, E., Villaluenga, A., & Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S. ( DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Hublin, J.-J., Sirakov, N., Aldeias, V., Bailey, S., Bard, E., Delvigne, V., Endarova, E., Fagault, Y., Fewlass, H., Hajdinjak, M., Kromer, B., Krumov, I., Marreiros, J., Martisius, N. L., Paskulin, L., Sinet-Mathiot, V., Meyer, M., Pääbo, S., Popov, V., Rezek, Z., Sirakova, S., Skinner, M. M., Smith, G. M., Spasov, R., Talamo, S., Tuna, T., Wacker, L., Welker, F., Wilcke, A., Zahariev, N., McPherron, S. P., & Tsanova, T. (2020). Initial Upper Palaeolithic Homo sapiens from Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria. Nature,581(7808), 299-302. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Kindler, L., Smith, G. M., García-Moreno, A., Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S., Pop, E., & Roebroeks, W. (2020). The last interglacial (Eemian) lakeland of Neumark-Nord (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany): Sequencing Neanderthal occupations, assessing subsistence opportunities and prey selection based on estimations of ungulate carrying capacities, biomass production and energy values. In A. García-Moreno, J. M. Hutson, G. M. Smith, L. Kindler, E. Turner, A. Villaluenga, & S. Gaudzinski-Windheuser (Open Access DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Roebroeks, W., García-Moreno, A., Hutson, J. M., Smith, G. M., Kindler, L., Turner, E., Villaluenga, A., & Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S. (2020). Human behavioural adaptations to interglacial lakeshore environments: An introduction. In A. García-Moreno, J. M. Hutson, G. M. Smith, L. Kindler, E. Turner, A. Villaluenga, & S. Gaudzinski-Windheuser (Open Access DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Ruebens, K., Smith, G. M., Dogandžić, T., & Steele, T. E. (2020). Connecting Middle Palaeolithic datasets: The interplay of zooarchaeological and lithic data for unravelling Neanderthal behaviour. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology,3, 97-107. Open Access DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Smith, G. M., Noack, E. S., Behrens, N. M., Ruebens, K., Street, M., Iovita, R., & Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S. (2020). When lithics hit bones: Evaluating the potential of a multifaceted experimental protocol to illuminate Middle Palaeolithic weapon technology. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology,3, 126-156. Open Access DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Smith, G. M., Spasov, R., Sinet-Mathiot, V., Welker, F., Meyer, M., Vernot, B., McPherron, S. P., Sirakov, N., Tsanova, T., & Hublin, J.-J. (2020). Subsistence behaviour during the Initial Upper Palaeolithic of Bacho Kiro (Bulgaria): Integrating zooarchaeological and biomolecular datasets. In 26th EAA Virtual Annual Meeting – Abstract Book (pp. 41). BibTeX Endnote |
2019
| Sinet-Mathiot, V., Smith, G. M., Romandini, M., Wilcke, A., Peresani, M., Hublin, J.-J., & Welker, F. (2019). Combining ZooMS and zooarchaeology to study Late Pleistocene hominin behaviour at Fumane (Italy). Scientific Reports,9: 12350. Open Access DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Sinet-Mathiot, V., Smith, G. M., Romandini, M., Wilcke, A., Peresani, M., Hublin, J.-J., & Welker, F. (2019). The challenge of bone fragmentation: Combining ZooMS and Zooarchaeology toassess hominin subsistence behaviour at Fumane (Italy). In ICAZ Archaeozoology, Genetics, Proteomics & Morphometrics Working Group (8, pp. 18). BibTeX Endnote | |
| Sinet-Mathiot, V., Smith, G. M., Romandini, M., Wilcke, A., Peresani, M., Hublin, J.-J., & Welker, F. (2019). Using ZooMS to assess hominin subsistence behaviour during the Middle to the Upper Palaeolithic transition at Fumane (Italy). In Proceedings of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (PESHE) (8, pp. 177). BibTeX Endnote | |
| Smith, G. M., Ruebens, K., Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S., & Steele, T. E. (2019). Subsistence strategies throughout the African Middle Pleistocene: Faunal evidence for behavioral change and continuity across the Earlier to Middle Stone Age transition. Journal of Human Evolution,127, 1-20. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
2018
| Fewlass, H., Talamo, S., Wacker, L., Kromer, B., Tuna, T., Fagault, Y., Bard, E., Aldeias, V., Isidoro Da Silva Maria, R., Martisius, N. L., McPherron, S. P., Paskulin, L., Rezek, Z., Sinet-Mathiot, V., Sirakov, N., Sirakova, S., Smith, G. M., Spasov, R., Tsanova, T., Welker, F., & Hublin, J.-J. (2018). New high-resolution 14C chronology for Bacho Kiro cave, Bulgaria spanning the Middle to UpperPalaeolithic transition. In Proceedings of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (PESHE) (7, pp. 64). BibTeX Endnote |
2017
| Welker, F., Smith, G. M., Hutson, J. M., Kindler, L., Garcia-Moreno, A., Villaluenga, A., Turner, E., & Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S. (2017). Middle Pleistocene protein sequences from the rhinoceros genus Stephanorhinus and the phylogeny of extant and extinct Middle/Late Pleistocene Rhinocerotidae. PeerJ,5: e3033. Open Access DOI BibTeX Endnote |
2016
| García-Moreno, A., Smith, G. M., Kindler, L., Pop, E., Roebroeks, W., Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S., & Klinkenberg, V. (2016). Evaluating the incidence of hydrological processes during site formation through orientation analysis. A case study of the middle Palaeolithic Lakeland site of Neumark-Nord 2 (Germany). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports,6(Supplement C), 82-93. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Pop, E., Kuijper, W., Hees, E. v., Smith, G., García-Moreno, A., Kindler, L., Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S., & Roebroeks, W. (2016). Fires at Neumark-Nord 2, Germany: An analysis of fire proxies from a Last Interglacial Middle Palaeolithic basin site. Journal of Field Archaeology,41(5), 603-617. Open Access DOI BibTeX Endnote |
2015
| Perri, A. R., Smith, G. M., & Bosch, M. (2015). Comment on “How do you kill 86 mammoths? Taphonomic investigations of mammoth megasites” by Pat Shipman. Quaternary International,368, 112-115. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Smith, G. M. (2015). Neanderthal megafaunal exploitation in Western Europe and its dietary implications: A contextual reassessment of La Cotte de St Brelade (Jersey). Journal of Human Evolution,78, 181-201. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
2014
| Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S., Kindler, L., Pop, E., Roebroeks, W., & Smith, G. (2014). The Eemian Interglacial lake-landscape at Neumark-Nord (Germany) and its potential for our knowledge of hominin subsistence strategies. Quaternary International,331, 31-38. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Kindler, L., Smith, G., & Wagner, M. (2014). Introduction to faunal analysis at Neumark-Nord 2. In S. Gaudzinski-Windheuser, & W. Roebroeks ( BibTeX Endnote | |
| Scott, B., Bates, M., Bates, R., Conneller, C., Pope, M., Shaw, A., & Smith, G. (2014). A new view from La Cotte de St Brelade, Jersey. Antiquity,88(339), 13-29. Open Access DOI BibTeX Endnote |
2013
| Dinnis, R., Davies, J. S., Boulton, J. M., Reynolds, N., Schouten, R., Smith, G. M., Souter, E. M., & Chamberlain, A. T. (2013). Archaeological test excavations at two caves in Bishopston Valley, Gower, South Wales, UK. Cave and Karst Science,40(1), 17-21. BibTeX Endnote | |
| Smith, G. M. (2013). Taphonomic resolution and hominin subsistence behaviour in the Lower Palaeolithic: differing data scales and interpretive frameworks at Boxgrove and Swanscombe (UK). Journal of Archaeological Science,40(10), 3754-3767. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
2012
| Pope, M., Scott, B., Shaw, A., Bates, M., Conneller, C., Smith, G. M., Wragg-Sykes, R., Ruebens, K., Cole, J., & Underhill, D. (2012). Quaternary environments and archaeology of Jersey: A new multidisciplinary project looking at the early prehistoric occupation of the English Channel region. In K. Ruebens, I. Romanowska, & R. Bynoe ( BibTeX Endnote | |
| Smith, G. M. (2012). Hominin-carnivore interaction at the Lower Palaeolithic site of Boxgrove, UK. Journal of Taphonomy,10(3-4), 373-394. Open Access BibTeX Endnote | |
| Smith, G. M. (2012). Middle Palaeolithic subsistence: The role of hominins at Lynford, Norfolk, UK. Quaternary International,252, 68-81. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
| Smith, G. M. (2012). The Palaeolithic poor relation? Taphonomic approaches to archaeofaunas and their implication for the study of European Lower Palaeolithic subsistence. In K. Seetah, & B. Gravina ( BibTeX Endnote |
2003
| Smith, G. M. (2003). Damage inflicted on animal bone by wooden projectiles: Experimental results and archaeological implications. Journal of Taphonomy,1(2), 3-12. BibTeX Endnote |
Conference Presentations
| March 29th -April 2nd 2017 | Session convenor SAA 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada |
| September 2014 | 55th UISPP Congress, Burgos, Spain |
Invited presentations
| Smith, G.M., Noack, E., Schlosser, N., Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S., Iovita, R. 2017. When lithics hit bones: Evaluating the potential of a multifaceted experimental protocol to illuminate Middle Palaeolithic weapon technology. 82nd SAA Meeting, Vancouver. | |
| Smith, G.M. 2016. Mammoth on the Menu: Neanderthal subsistence and adaptation on the Northern European Plain. Palaeolithic Archaeology Seminar, University of Lanzhou, China. | |
| Smith, G.M. 2016. Mammoth on the Menu: Neanderthal subsistence and adaptation on the Northern European Plain. Evolutionary Anthropology Colloquium, UC Davis, Spring 2016. | |
| Smith, G.M. 2015. Re-evaluating the evidence for systematic exploitation of mammoth during the European Middle Palaeolithic. Session in honour of Gary Haynes, Society for American Archaeology Conference, San Francisco (USA). | |
| Smith, G.M. 2012. New data from old bones: a new project reinvestigating the Neanderthal site of La Cotte de St Brelade, Jersey. PalQuat Series, University of Oxford (UK). | |
| Smith, G.M. 2012. Bones in Context: Hominin behaviour as a site formation agent in the British Palaeolithic. Archaeological Science Seminar, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (Germany). | |
| Smith, G.M. 2010. Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Meat-Procurement Behaviour: New Answers from Old Bones. Research Seminar, University of Leiden (The Netherlands). |
Podium Presentations
| Noack, E., Smith, G.M., Schlösser, N-M., Iovita, R., 2015. New evidence of Early Mesolithic hunting injuries on animal bones from northern Germany. MESO Conference, Belgrade.. | |
| Kindler, L., Smith, G.M., García-Moreno, A., Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S., Roebroeks, 2015. The Eemian Zoo of Neumark-Nord 2 (Germany): Neanderthal adaptations to interglacial environments on the European Plain. 5th Annual European Society for the study of Human Evolution Conference, London. | |
| García-Moreno, A., Smith, G.M., Kindler, L., Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S., Roebroeks, W. 2015. Modelling the spatiality of seasonality. Integrating seasonal data into the spatial analysis of Neumark-Nord 2/2B (Germany). 5th Annual European Society for the study of Human Evolution Conference, London. | |
| García-Moreno, A., Smith, G.M., Kindler, L., Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S. 2014. Analysing site formation processes through the application of GIS: a case study from the Middle Palaeolithic site of Neumark-Nord 2 (Germany). 4th Annual European Society for the study of Human Evolution Conference, Italy. | |
| Smith, G.M., García-Moreno, A., Pop, E., Kindler, L., Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S., Roebroeks, W. 2014. The Middle Palaeolithic site of Neumark Nord 2: Neanderthal adaptation and behaviour within an Eemian lakeland environment. UISPP Congress, Spain. | |
| Smith, G.M. 2014. Neanderthal-mammoth interactions: Re-evaluating evidence for repeated “Mammoth Drives” at La Cotte de St Brelade (Jersey). UISPP Congress, Spain and 6th International Conference on Mammoths and their Relatives, Greece. | |
| Abrams, G., Auguste, P., Bello, S., Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S., Germonpré, M., Kindler, L., Kitagawa, K., Krönneck, P., Münzel, S., Parfitt, S., Smith, G.M., van Kolfschoten, T. 2014. The exploitation of faunal resources in N-W Europe. Conference on Multidisciplinary approaches to the Middle Palaeolithic, Belgium. | |
| Smith, G.M. 2013. La Cotte de St Brelade (Jersey): Re-evaluating Neanderthal subsistence behaviour and landscape use. 3rd Annual European Society for the study of Human Evolution Conference, Austria. | |
| Smith, G.M. 2012. Mammoths among handaxes: Neanderthal-megafauna interaction at the late Middle Palaeolithic site of Lynford, UK. 2nd Annual European Society for the study of Human Evolution Conference, France. | |
| Roebroeks, W., Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S., Kindler, L., Pop, E., Smith, G.M. 2012. Neandertals in the last Interglacial lake area of Neumark Nord. 2nd Annual European Society for the study of Human Evolution Conference, France. | |
| Kindler, L., Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S., Smith, G.M. 2012 Actualistic experiments in Pleistocene zooarchaeology: Sequencing biostratinomic processes involved in the formation of faunal assemblages. 2nd ICAZ Taphonomy Working Group, Spain. | |
| Smith, G.M., Kindler, L., Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S., Roebroeks, W. 2012. Taphonomy and site formation processes in the Eemian lakeland of Neumark-Nord. 2nd ICAZ Taphonomy Working Group, Spain. | |
| Smith, G.M. 2012. Static data and active agents: Palaeolithic landscape use and meat procurement behaviour in Britain and north-west Europe. Hugo-Obermaier Meeting Toulouse, France. |
