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Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser (born 25 June 1965) is a German archaeologist. She is a professor at the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz and Director of the Monrepos Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for human behavioural Evolution of the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum at Monrepos Castle in Neuwied, Germany.

Education and career

Gaudzinski-Windheuser studied Pre- and Protohistorical Archaeology, Geology/Palaeontology and Physical Anthropology at several universities in Germany. She received her Doctorate 1992 at Cologne University, Germany and began her academic career as a researcher with the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum. Between 1996 and 2003 she repeatedly was a visiting researcher at the Institute for Evolution, Systematics and Ecology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and taught at the University of Cologne (Germany), Basel (Switzerland) and Leiden (The Netherlands). In 2003 she was appointed full Professor at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz. In the same year she became Director of the Monrepos Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for the Evolution of Human Behaviour what was then the Forschungsbereich Altsteinzeit.

Scientific work

Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser dedicates her research to the understanding of the evolution of hominin behaviour in the Palaeolithic. Her work is focusing on the evolution of subsistence strategies and their effects on social organisation and landuse. She is best known for her zooarchaeological work on Pleistocene subsistence strategies in Europe and the Levant Her work demonstrated for the first time the variety of prey exploitation strategies during the Pleistocene and that hominin hunting as a behavioural pattern can be traced back to 1,4 Mio years ago.

Her research makes important contributions to zooarchaeological methodology, taphonomy and archaeological site formation processes.

Furthermore Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser worked on the evolution of settlement behaviour and social interaction in early anatomical modern human societies

She has undertaken fieldwork at the 400.000 year old German site of Kärlich-Seeufer, the 1,4 Mio. year old Israeli site of ‘Ubeidiya and the Middle Palaeolithic Eemian Interglacial site of Neumark-Nord 2.

Selected publications

Books

• Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S., 2013. Raumnutzungsmuster des späten Jungpaläolithikums in Oelknitz (Thüringen). Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums Mainz, RGZM, Mainz.
• Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S., Kindler, L., 2012. The evolution of hominin food resource exploitation in Pleistocene Europe: Recent studies in Zooarchaeology. Quaternary International 252, 1-202.
• Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S., Jöris, O., Sensburg, M., Street, M., Turner, E., (Eds.) 2011. Site-internal Spatial Organization of Hunter-Gatherer Societies: case studies from the European Palaeolithic and Mesolithic. Verlag des RGZM, Mainz.
• Rabinovich, R., Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S., Kindler, L., Goren-Inbar, N., 2011. The Acheulian site of Gesher Benot Ya'aqov. Mammalian Taphonomy. The assemblages of Layers V-5 and V-6. Springer, Dordrecht.
• Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S., Höfer, R., Jöris, O., 2007. GANZ ALT. Wie bunt war die Vergangenheit wirklich? Die Archäologie des Eiszeitalters umgesetzt von Otmar Alt. Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, Mainz.
• Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S., Jöris, O., 2006. 600.000 Jahre Menschheitsgeschichte in der Mitte Europas. Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, Mainz.
• Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S., 2005. Subsistenzstrategien frühpleistozäner Hominiden in Eurasien. Taphonomische Faunenbetrachtungen der Fundstellen der 'Ubeidiya Formation (Israel). Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums Mainz 61, Habelt, Mainz & Bonn.
• Gaudzinski, S., Turner, E., 1999. The role of early humans in the accumulation of European Lower, and Middle Palaeolithic bone assemblages. Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums Mainz. Habelt, Mainz & Bonn.
• Gaudzinski, S., 1998. Kärlich-Seeufer. Untersuchungen zu einer altpaläolithischen Fundstelle im Neuwieder Becken (Rheinland-Pfalz). Jahrbuch des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums Mainz 43, 3-239.
• Gaudzinski, S., 1995. Wisentjäger in Wallertheim. Zur Taphonomie einer mittelpaläolithischen Freilandfundstelle in Rheinhessen. Jahrbuch des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums 39, 245-423.