publications
2025

Article: Large scale and regional demographic responses to climatic changes

Schmidt, I., Gehlen. B., Winkler, K., Arrizabalaga, A., Arts, N., et al.
Large scale and regional demographic responses to climatic changes in Europe during the Final Palaeolithic
In: PLOS ONE 20(4): e0310942.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0310942

Chapter: The Heath and the Sea

Hussain, S.T.
The Heath and the Sea. A Speculative Palaeohistory of Multispecies Life in Northern Jutland, ca 13,300–12,800 Years Ago.
In: A Place for the Heathlands (eds. by M. Løvschal & K. Grønneberg), Jutland Archaeological Society,
https://heathland.place/the-heath-and-the-sea

Article: Late Pleistocene scavenger guilds

Baumann, C., Kandel A.W., Hussain S.T.
Evidence for the catalytic role of humans in the assembly and evolution of European Late Pleistocene scavenger guilds.
Quaternary Science Reviews 349, 109148 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.109148
2024

Article: What is animal prehistory?

Hussain, S.T.
What is animal prehistory?
Animal History 1, 1-20 (2024).
https://doi.org/10.1525/ah.2024.101

Article: Reconstruction of human dispersal

Shao, Y., Wegener, C., Klein, K. et al.
Reconstruction of human dispersal during Aurignacian on pan-European scale.
Nature Communications 15, 7406 (2024).
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51349-y

Article: Early warning signals

Trauth, M.H., Asrat, A., Fischer, M.L. et al.
Early warning signals of the termination of the African Humid Period(s).
Nature Communications 15, 3697 (2024).
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47921-1

Article: Feral ecologies of the human deep past

Hussain, S.T.
Feral ecologies of the human deep past: multispecies archaeology and palaeo-synanthropy.
Journal of the Royal Anthropololgical Institute 30(4), 1062-1084 (2024).
https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.14152

Conference: 65th Annual Meeting of the Hugo-Obermaier Society

Schmidt, I., Anvari, J., Hilpert, J. et al.
HESCOR - A new interdisciplinary project for investigating coupled Human & Earth System processes.
Poster presented at the: 65th Annual Meeting of the Hugo-Obermaier Society, Weimar (2024).
http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.24150.87360

Article: The human side of biodiversity:

Hussain, S.T., Baumann C.
The human side of biodiversity: coevolution of the human niche, palaeo-synanthropy and ecosystem complexity in the deep human past.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 37920230021 (2024).
http://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0021
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