Dr. Olaf Jöris
Stv. Kompetenzbereichsleiter »Pleistozäne und Frühholozäne Archäologie« & wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Forschungsprofil
- Palaeolithic Archaeology
- Evolution of Human Behaviour
- Archaeological Field Methods & Documentation
- Geoarchaeology
- Lithic Technology
- Archaeozoology
- Palaeoclimate & Palaeoenvironmental Change
- Neanderthals
- Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Boundary
- Evolution of Spatial Behaviour
- GIS
- Chronology
- Radiocarbon Dating and Calibration
Werdegang
Since 2004
Lecturer in Prehistoric Archaeology; Institut für Vor- und Frühgeschichte; Johannes Gutenberg-Univ. (JoGU) Mainz (D)Since 2003
Senior researcher, MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre and Museum, Neuwied (D). MONREPOS is part of the RGZM, Mainz (D)2001-04-24
Awarded title “Dr. phil.” by the University of Köln (D)1995–1997
Ph.D. thesis, Der spätmittelpaläolithische Fundplatz Buhlen (Grabungen 1966-69). Stratigraphie, Steinartefakte und Fauna des Oberen Fundplatzes.” [Prof. Dr. G. Bosinski]; Univ. Köln (D)1988–1994
M.A. (Pre- and Protohistory / Geology and Palaeontology / Ethnography); Univ. Köln (D)
Stipendien
1997–2000
Research fellow, Forschungsbereich Altsteinzeit of the RGZM, Neuwied (D)1994–1996
Research fellow, Forschungsbereich Altsteinzeit of the RGZM, Neuwied (D), funded by the Hessisches Landesamt für Archäologische Denkmalpflege / State Agency for Archaeology Hesse, Wiesbaden (D)
Auszeichnungen
2005–2013
“most-cited article” in the “Journal of Human Evolution”2005–2013
“top-cited article” in the “Journal of Human Evolution”2002
4th Tübinger Förderpreis für Ältere Urgeschichte und Quartärökologie
Kontakt
56567 Neuwied
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Publikationen
Monographs & peer-reviewed edited volumes (selected)
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. RGZM-Tagungen 12 (RGZM: Mainz).
Adler, D.S., Jöris, O. (eds.) 2008: Setting the record straight: Toward a systematic chronological under-standing of the Middle to Upper Paleolithic boundary in Eurasia. J. Hum. Evol. 55(5).
Jöris, O., 2008: Der altpaläolithische Fundplatz Dmanisi (Georgien, Kaukasus). Monographien RGZM 74 (RGZM: Mainz & Bonn).
Jöris, O., 2001: Der spätmittelpaläolithische Fundplatz Buhlen (Grabungen 1966-69). Universitätsforsch. Prähist. Archäol. 73 (Habelt: Bonn).
Peer-reviewed book chapters & articles (selected)
Street, M., Jöris, O., Turner, E., 2012: Magdalenian settlement in the German Rhineland - An update. Quat. Int. 272/273, 231–250. (3 citations* according to Google scholar 2013-02-01)
Jöris, O., Street, M., Terberger, Th., Weninger, B., 2011: Radiocarbon Dating the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition. In: S. Condemi & G.-Chr. Weniger (eds.), Continuity and Discontinuity in the Peopling of Europe. Vertebrate Paleobiol. and Paleoanthropol. (Springer: Dordrecht), 239–298. (3 cit.*)
Jöris, O., Street, M., 2008: At the end of the 14C time scale - the Middle to Upper Paleolithic record of Western Eurasia. J. Hum. Evol. 55(5), 782–802. (40 cit.*; J. Hum. Evol. top-cited article)
Weninger, B., Jöris, O., 2008: A 14C age calibration curve for the last 60ka: the Greenland-Hulu U/Th timescale and its impact on understanding the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in Western Eurasia. J. Hum. Evol. 55(5), 772–781. (124 cit.*; J. Hum. Evol. most-cited article)
Street, M., Gelhausen, F., Grimm, S., Moseler, F., Niven, L., Sensburg, M., Turner, E., Wenzel, St., Jöris, O., 2006: L’occupation de bassin de Neuwied (Rhénanie centrale, Allemagne) par les Magdaléniens et les groupes à Federmesser (aziliens). Bull. Soc. Préhist. Franc. 103, 753–780. (14 cit.*)
Jöris, O., Álvarez-Fernández; E., Weninger, B., 2003: Radiocarbon Evidence of the Middle to Upper Palaeo-lithic Transition on the Iberian Peninsula. Trabajos de Prehistoria 60, 15–38. (57 cit.*)
Baales, M., Jöris, O., Street, M., Bittmann, F., Weninger, B., Wiethold, J., 2002: Impact of the Late Glacial Eruption of the Laacher See-Volcano, Central Rhineland, Germany. Quat. Res. 58, 273–288. (47 cit.*)
Gabunia, L., Vekua, A., Lordkipanidze, D., Swisher III, C.C., Ferring, R., Justus, A., Nioradze, M., Tvalchrelidze, M., Antón, S.C., Bosinski, G., Jöris, O., de Lumley, M.-A., Maisuradze, G., Mouskhelishvili, A., 2000: Earliest Pleistocene Hominid Cranial Remains from Dmanisi, Republic of Georgia: Taxonomy, Geological Setting and Age. Science 288, 1019–1025. (405 cit.*)