H Bocherens

Biographic Data

ID	8257
NAME	H Bocherens
GIVEN NAMES	H
FAMILY NAME	Bocherens
SIGNATURE	BOCHERENS H
AFFILIATIONS	Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment
ORCID	0000-0002-0494-0126
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	113
TOTAL CITATIONS	1947
AUTHOR COUNT	113
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1991
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2026
H-INDEX	25

Dental Microwear Texture Analysis of the Bornean Orangutans ( Pongo pygmaeus ) From the Selenka Collection
Open AccessSophie G Habinger, Gildas Merceron et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Biological…2026
Multifaceted analysis reveals diet and kinship of Late Pleistocene ‘Tumat Puppies’
Open AccessAnne Kathrine Wiborg Runge, Jonas Niemann et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2025
Distinguishing early domesticates from their wild progenitors presents a significant obstacle for understanding human-mediated effects in the past. The origin of dogs is particularly controversial because potential early dog remains often lack corroborating evidence that can provide secure links between proposed dog remains and human activity. The Tumat Puppies, two permafrost-preserved Late Pleistocene canids, have been hypothesized to have been…
Dietary preferences and collagen to collagen prey-predator trophic discrimination factors ( Δ 13 C, Δ 15 N) in late Pleistocene cave hyena
Open AccessMagdalena Krajcarz, C Baumann et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2025
The spotted hyena ( Crocuta crocuta ) was an important large carnivore of Pleistocene ecosystems in Africa and Eurasia. Like its modern relatives, this obligate carnivore was adapted to crush and digest bones of its prey and absorb organic matter from bones more efficiently than any other carnivore. This difference in the nutrient resource use between hyenas and most other carnivores led to differences in the isotope flux and variation in the car…
The Effect of Plant Food Treatment on Stable Isotopes and Their Relevance for Archaeological Studies
Open AccessC Baumann, Cynthia Larbey et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Method…2024Cited by: 1References: 1
Plants are a crucial part of the human diet, serving as a primary source of micronutrients, fiber, and carbohydrates, providing readily available energy. Beyond the consumption of cooked and raw edible plants, early humans also developed methods for plant processing for delayed consumption, to de-toxify/improve bioavailability, and perhaps for flavor. In later prehistory delayed consumption includes preservation processes for storage. The process…
Isotopic insights into the Early Acheulean (1.95 Ma–1.66 Ma) high-elevation paleoenvironments at Melka Kunture (Upper Awash Valley, Ethiopia)
Open AccessGiuseppe Briatico, H Bocherens et al.ARTICLEArchaeological and Anthropological…2023
In this paper, we present stable carbon and oxygen isotope analyses of fauna tooth enamel from Garba IVD (1.95 Ma) and Gombore IB (1.66 Ma), two Early Acheulean sites of Melka Kunture (Upper Awash, Ethiopia), and discuss faunal taxonomy and fossil pollen. Our aim is to infer the diet and habitat of the fossil fauna, as well as the environment of both sites, in order to provide a broader paleoecological reconstruction. During the Pleistocene, the …
Isotopic Ecology in Modern and Holocene Populations of Pampas Deer ( Ozotoceros bezoarticus ) from Eastern Central Argentina. Implications for Conservation Biology and Ecological Models of Hunter-gath…
Renaud Scheifler, Mariano L Merino et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Archaeology2023
The Pampas deer (Ozotoceros bezoarticus) is an endangered ungulate from South American. The following paper presents the first investigation on the isotopic ecology (δ13Ccollagen; δ15Ncollagen) of modern populations of Pampas deer. The information obtained is compared with new δ13C and δ15N data of Pampas deer bones recovered from archaeological sites in the Central Pampean Dunefields (Inland Pampa phytogeographic area) and with previously publis…
Diet and habitat of the late Middle Pleistocene mammals from the Casal de’ Pazzi site (Rome, Italy) using stable carbon and oxygen isotope ratios
Open AccessGiuseppe Briatico, Patrizia Gioia et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2023Cited by: 3References: 12
New Insights Into Late Pleistocene Cave Hyena Chronology and Population History—the Case of Perspektywiczna Cave, Poland
Open AccessM T Krajcarz, M Baca et al.ARTICLERadiocarbon2023Cited by: 1References: 65
The paper focuses on the Pleistocene deposits in Perspektywiczna Cave, southern Poland, related to cave hyena ( Crocuta crocuta ). We used direct radiocarbon dating of hyena fossils supported by genetic and stable isotope analyses to infer the paleobiology of this population. Radiocarbon dating of 19 hyena remains suggests long inhabitation of the region during early MIS 3, around 50–34 ky cal BP. The youngest among our dates, 34,355–33,725 cal B…
Diet and ecological interactions in the Middle and Late Pleistocene
Open AccessF Rivals, H Bocherens et al.CHAPTERUpdating the Neanderthals2022
Methodological advances in Neanderthal identification, phylogeny, chronology, mobility, climate, and diet
Open AccessH Bocherens, K Jaouen et al.CHAPTERUpdating the Neanderthals2022
Examining surface water δ18O and δ2H values in the western Central Andes
Open AccessEmily B P Milton, Nathan D Stansell et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2022Cited by: 1References: 12
Reconstructing Neanderthal diet
Open AccessK Hardy, H Bocherens et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2022Cited by: 7References: 262
Some comments on “Friend or Foe? Large canid remains from Pavlovian sites and their archaeozoological context”, a paper by Wilczyński et al. (2020)
Open AccessMietje Germonpré, Martina Lázničková-Galetová et al.ARTICLEJournal of Anthropological…2021
Mothering the Orphaned Pup
Open AccessMietje Germonpré, Martine Van Den Broeck et al.ARTICLEHuman Ecology2021
The Mammuthus-Coelodonta Faunal Complex at its southeastern limit
Open AccessJiao Ma, Yuan Wang et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2021
Environmental Implications and Chalcolithic Ornamental Use of Marine Barnacle Shells Present in the Tholos of ‘La Pastora’ (Valencina de la Concepción, Sevilla, Spain)
Fernando Muñiz Guinea, Luis Miguel Cáceres Puro et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Archaeology2021References: 6
The study of a set of marine arthropod shells from an archaeological excavation carried out in 1991–1992 in the tholos of La Pastora (Cooper Age Mega-site of Valencina-Castilleja, S Spain), has highlighted the environmental implications and ornamental use as beads not cited so far for this purpose. It is the barnacle species Chthamalus montagui Southward, 1976 Southward, A. J. 1976. “On the Taxonomic Status and Distribution of Chthamalus stellatu…
Mobility and origin of camels in the Roman Empire through serial stable carbon and oxygen isotope variations in tooth enamel
Open AccessSophie G Habinger, Bea De Cupere et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2020
The dIana database – Resource for isotopic paleodietary research in the Baltic Sea area
Open AccessHeli Etu-Sihvola, H Bocherens et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2019Cited by: 5References: 43
Paleodietary research is a complex field, which requires large sets of background information. Owing to increasing interest and activity in the field, a substantial amount of archaeological isotope baseline data exist for Northern Europe, consisting mainly of animal bone collagen δ13C, δ15N, and δ34S values. However, the data are scattered into dozens of publications written in multiple languages and less-accessible formats, making the data labor…
Multi-isotopic diet analysis of south-eastern Iberian megalithic populations
Open AccessM Díaz‐zorita Bonilla, Marta Díaz-Zorita Bonilla et al.ARTICLEArchaeological and Anthropological…2019Cited by: 20References: 46
Collagen stable isotopes provide insights into the end of the mammoth steppe in the central East European plains during the Epigravettian
Open AccessD G Drucker, R E Stevens et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2018
Higher δ 15 N values in bone collagen of mammoth ( Mammuthus primigenius ) compared with coeval large herbivores is a classic trait of the mammoth steppe. An exception applies to the Epigravettian site of Mezhyrich (ca. 18–17.4 ka cal BP) in the central East European plains, where mammoth bones have δ 15 N values equivalent to or in a lower range than those of horse specimens ( Equus sp.). We expanded our preliminary dataset to a larger sampling …
The genomic history of southeastern Europe
Open AccessIain Mathieson, Songül Alpaslan-Roodenberg et al.ARTICLENature2018
Feeding a third millennium BC mega-site
Open AccessJess Beck, M Díaz‐zorita Bonilla et al.ARTICLEJournal of Anthropological…2018Cited by: 14References: 51
Isotopic evidence for mobility at large-scale human aggregations in Copper Age Iberia
Open AccessM Díaz‐zorita Bonilla, Marta Díaz-Zorita Bonilla et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2018Cited by: 12References: 22
Settlements incorporating large-scale human aggregations are a well-documented but poorly understood phenomenon across late prehistoric Europe. The authors’ research examines the origins and trajectory of such aggregations through isotope analysis of human skeletal remains from the mega-site of Marroquíes in Jaén, Spain. The results indicate that eight per cent of 115 sampled individuals are of non-local origin. These individuals received mortuar…
Deeply divergent archaic mitochondrial genome provides lower time boundary for African gene flow into Neanderthals
Open AccessCosimo Posth, Christoph Wißing et al.ARTICLENature Communications2017
Ancient DNA is revealing new insights into the genetic relationship between Pleistocene hominins and modern humans. Nuclear DNA indicated Neanderthals as a sister group of Denisovans after diverging from modern humans. However, the closer affinity of the Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) to modern humans than Denisovans has recently been suggested as the result of gene flow from an African source into Neanderthals before 100,000 years ago. He…
Chronologie du site moustérien de type Quina des Pradelles (Marillac-le-Franc, Charente, France)
Open AccessMarine Frouin, Christelle Lahaye et al.ARTICLEPaléo2017
Cet article présente une synthèse des données chronologiques du site des Pradelles (Marillac-le-Franc, Charente, France). Le gisement se caractérise dans son locus est par un remplissage de près de quatre mètres d’épaisseur ayant livré des dépôts de la fin du Paléolithique moyen dans lesquels une industrie moustérienne de type Quina est associée à une faune abondante largement dominée par le renne. Durant les fouilles conduites par B. Maureille e…