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Dennis Sandgathe
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Latest papers
Use it or lose it: A model-based assessment of the hypothesis that European Neanderthals relied on wildfires to create their campfires.
Open research Europe · 2025
New methods on the block: Taxonomic identification of archaeological bones in resin-embedded sediments through paleoproteomics.
PNAS nexus · 2025
Reconstructing Late Pleistocene paleoclimate at the scale of human behavior: an example from the Neandertal occupation of La Ferrassie (France).
Scientific reports · 2021
7 publications.
Use it or lose it: A model-based assessment of the hypothesis that European Neanderthals relied on wildfires to create their campfires.
Arinyo I Prats A, Sandgathe D, Riede F, Collard M
New methods on the block: Taxonomic identification of archaeological bones in resin-embedded sediments through paleoproteomics.
Fagernäs Z, Troché G, Goldberg P, Hublin JJ, McPherron SP, Murphree WC, Olsen JV, Sandgathe D, Sirakov N, Soressi M, Tsanova T, Turq A, Wierer M, Welker F, Aldeias V
Reconstructing Late Pleistocene paleoclimate at the scale of human behavior: an example from the Neandertal occupation of La Ferrassie (France).
Pederzani S, Aldeias V, Dibble HL, Goldberg P, Hublin JJ, Madelaine S, McPherron SP, Sandgathe D, Steele TE, Turq A, Britton K
Issues of theory and method in the analysis of Paleolithic mortuary behavior: A view from Shanidar Cave.
Pomeroy E, Hunt CO, Reynolds T, Abdulmutalb D, Asouti E, Bennett P, Bosch M, Burke A, Farr L, Foley R, French C, Frumkin A, Goldberg P, Hill E, Kabukcu C, Lahr MM, Lane R, Marean C, Maureille B, Mutri G, Miller CE, Mustafa KA, Nymark A, Pettitt P, Sala N, Sandgathe D, Stringer C, Tilby E, Barker G
Harold L. Dibble (1951-2018).
Sandgathe D, McPherron S, Goldberg P, Aldeias V
Climate-mediated shifts in Neandertal subsistence behaviors at Pech de l'Azé IV and Roc de Marsal (Dordogne Valley, France).
Hodgkins J, Marean CW, Turq A, Sandgathe D, McPherron SJ, Dibble H
The age of three Middle Palaeolithic sites: Single-grain optically stimulated luminescence chronologies for Pech de l'Azé I, II and IV in France.
Jacobs Z, Jankowski NR, Dibble HL, Goldberg P, McPherron SJ, Sandgathe D, Soressi M
Frequent collaborators
- Mark Collard and Dennis Sandgathe: 1 shared paper
- Dennis Sandgathe and Ariane Burke: 1 shared paper
- Department of Archaeology
- Archaeology
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