Katharina Fuchs
Biographic Data
| ID | 142759 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katharina Fuchs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katharina |
| FAMILY NAME | Fuchs |
| SIGNATURE | FUCHS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0570-9337 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Fully Bayesian Approach to Adult Skeletal Age Estimation
Neolithic Bodies in Vráble – 7000 year-old Headless Human Skeletons in an Enclosed LBK Settlement in South–West Slovakia
We present here the extraordinary find of an Early Neolithic mass deposition of headless human bodies at the LBK settlement site of Vráble-Veľké Lehemby. While various scientific analyses are under way, we present the archaeological context of this find and preliminary osteological and taphonomic observations. We discuss these in the light of a patterned and meaningful depositional complexity in Vráble, which embeds into a larger corpus of human …
Age-related disease or disease-related age? Perspectives for paleopathological research
OBJECTIVE: The interconnection of biological aging and disease throughout the life course profoundly affects almost every aspect of paleopathological research but is rarely explored. This paper presents a theoretical and practical framework for an informed research approach that explicitly acknowledges these complex interrelationships. METHODS: We discuss the existing concept of age-related disease and introduce the new concept of disease-related…
First German experience using augmented reality for neuroanatomy education in undergraduate medical students
Embracing complexity. Porous cranial lesions and their paleopathological significance in two population samples from Neolithic Northern Germany
OBJECTIVE: To assess phenotypic variation of porous cranial lesions and their co-occurrence with infections of the upper respiratory apparatus and endocranial lesions, to infer disease burden in two different Neolithic socio-economic groups. MATERIALS: Human skulls of at least 111 individuals from a collective grave at Sorsum (farmers) and 30 individual biurials at Ostorf (aquatic foragers) from northern Germany (c. 3300-2900 BCE). METHODS: A new…
Invisible death rites in the early Neolithic
Dans l'étude des pratiques funéraires, les objets funéraires sont traditionnellement considérés comme la principale forme de preuve. Cela n'est pas moins vrai pour le Néolithique ancien d'Europe centrale, où la culture matérielle des tombes a dominé les discussions sur tous les aspects de la mort, des inégalités de genre à la parenté, pendant des décennies. Les sépultures non meublées, souvent situées dans des contextes de peuplement et contenant…
Preserving earthen architecture
The uncertain death. Estimating mortality structure by random sampling
Imprecise data produced by commonly applied osteological age‐at‐death estimations profoundly affect all research on age‐dependent mortality in past societies. With uncertain death estimation (UCD), we propose a novel approach to estimating the mortality structure from imprecise data and present a corresponding R package for simple application. Through repeated random sampling of imprecise age‐at‐death ranges, UCD estimates the mortality structure…
Invisible death rites in the early Neolithic
Ce document a t gnr automatiquement le 16 dcembre 2025.Le texte seul est utilisable
Affinités biologiques et histoire des peuplements humains
La reconstruction des histoires de peuplements constitue une part grandissante des recherches bioanthropologiques. Si la discipline de la (paléo)génétique en est aujourd’hui la principale investigatrice, les études morphométriques retraçant l’origine d’individus archéologiques restent toujours utilisées. Différents sets de variations métriques relevés sur la boite crânienne peuvent constituer des indicateurs fiables pour reconstruire les affinité…
Preservice Teachers’ Online Self-Regulated Learning
(1) Background: Teaching in today’s schools asks teachers to foster self-regulated learning and digital competences in children and young people. In order to do so, teachers first need to acquire and use these competences themselves. (2) Methods: Based on a mixed-methods approach, the study investigates self-regulated learning in online courses of N = 129 preservice teachers at a German university. (3) Results and conclusions: Perceiving their di…
Eingegangene Bücher
Towards a definition of Ancient Rare Diseases (ARD)
OBJECTIVE: This study discusses the challenges and possibilities of establishing a definition for Ancient Rare Diseases (ARD) in a probable case of Legg-Calvé-Perthes Disease (LCPD) from the Bronze Age cemetery Kudachurt 14, situated in the Northern Caucasus. MATERIALS: We investigated the skeletal remains of a male aged 35-45 years at death. For comparison we examined other males buried at Kudachurt 14 (n = 24) and reviewed 22 LCPD cases from th…
High-Precision Bayesian Chronological Modeling on a Calibration Plateau
We combine the results of a radiocarbon ( 14 C) dating program with archaeogenetic, osteological and sparse stratigraphic data, to construct a Bayesian chronological model for a multi-generational sequence situated entirely on a plateau in the 14 C calibration curve. Calibrated dates of individual human bones from the Late Neolithic gallery grave at Niedertiefenbach, Hesse, Germany, span the entire calibration plateau in the late 4th millennium (…
Infectious diseases and Neolithic transformations
It is a common assumption that – compared with the Mesolithic – the adoption of Neolithic lifeways was accompanied by a higher risk of infection and the development of epidemic diseases. Such a hypothesis seems plausible when considering singular archaeological parameters like increasing population density and palaeopathological indicators of poor health. However, evidence for the far-reaching consequences of epidemics has not yet been examined. …
Students' achievement emotions in university courses - does the teaching approach matter
Students’ achievement emotions have an impact on learning and academic success. Therefore research on learning and teaching in higher education should not only focus on cognitive outcomes but on students’ emotions, as well. The aim of our quasi-experimental study was to analyze students’ achievement emotions based on the control-value approach in different instructional settings. An intervention was carried out with two teachers and 217 students …
Niedertiefenbach. Ein Galeriegrab der spätneolithischen Wartberggruppe südwestlich von Niedertiefenbach (Landkreis Limburg-Weilburg, Hessen)
Das Galeriegrab von Niedertiefenbach stellt einen besonderen Befund der späten Wartberggruppe im Neolithikum der Deutschen Mittelgebirgsschwelle dar; nur hier findet sich ein in zehn Straten geborgenes Bestattungskollektiv von mindestens 177 Individuen. Eine umfangreiche Serie von Radiokarbondatierungen belegt ein wesentlich höheres Alter des Grabes als bisher publiziert und erlaubt die Modellierung einer Bestattungssequenz zwischen 3.350 und 2.9…
Titelseiten
Musical progress towards therapeutic change
By sharing and shaping a common focus through music, music therapy clients in mental health care involve themselves in a therapeutic process which is not necessarily bound to verbal language. Supplementing previous research showing that even clients with a low therapy motivation can benefit from music therapy, this study concentrates on how a therapy focus can develop in a client population that is often hard to reach by verbal approaches. Based …
Verfassungsmäßigkeit und Umsetzbarkeit von Modellen für eine selbstverwaltete Justiz in Deutschland
Gegenstand der Arbeit ist ein Thema, das bereits seit mehr als sechs Jahrzehnten in stets wiederkehrenden Abständen Anlass zu Diskussionen bietet und nicht nur große theoretische, sondern auch erhebliche praktische Bedeutung aufweist.
High-Precision Bayesian Chronological Modeling on a Calibration Plateau
We combine the results of a radiocarbon ( 14 C) dating program with archaeogenetic, osteological and sparse stratigraphic data, to construct a Bayesian chronological model for a multi-generational sequence situated entirely on a plateau in the 14 C calibration curve. Calibrated dates of individual human bones from the Late Neolithic gallery grave at Niedertiefenbach, Hesse, Germany, span the entire calibration plateau in the late 4th millennium (…
Students' achievement emotions in university courses - does the teaching approach matter
Students’ achievement emotions have an impact on learning and academic success. Therefore research on learning and teaching in higher education should not only focus on cognitive outcomes but on students’ emotions, as well. The aim of our quasi-experimental study was to analyze students’ achievement emotions based on the control-value approach in different instructional settings. An intervention was carried out with two teachers and 217 students …
Invisible death rites in the early Neolithic
Dans l'étude des pratiques funéraires, les objets funéraires sont traditionnellement considérés comme la principale forme de preuve. Cela n'est pas moins vrai pour le Néolithique ancien d'Europe centrale, où la culture matérielle des tombes a dominé les discussions sur tous les aspects de la mort, des inégalités de genre à la parenté, pendant des décennies. Les sépultures non meublées, souvent situées dans des contextes de peuplement et contenant…
Infectious diseases and Neolithic transformations
It is a common assumption that – compared with the Mesolithic – the adoption of Neolithic lifeways was accompanied by a higher risk of infection and the development of epidemic diseases. Such a hypothesis seems plausible when considering singular archaeological parameters like increasing population density and palaeopathological indicators of poor health. However, evidence for the far-reaching consequences of epidemics has not yet been examined. …
Musical progress towards therapeutic change
By sharing and shaping a common focus through music, music therapy clients in mental health care involve themselves in a therapeutic process which is not necessarily bound to verbal language. Supplementing previous research showing that even clients with a low therapy motivation can benefit from music therapy, this study concentrates on how a therapy focus can develop in a client population that is often hard to reach by verbal approaches. Based …
Verfassungsmäßigkeit und Umsetzbarkeit von Modellen für eine selbstverwaltete Justiz in Deutschland
Gegenstand der Arbeit ist ein Thema, das bereits seit mehr als sechs Jahrzehnten in stets wiederkehrenden Abständen Anlass zu Diskussionen bietet und nicht nur große theoretische, sondern auch erhebliche praktische Bedeutung aufweist.
Musical progress towards therapeutic change
By sharing and shaping a common focus through music, music therapy clients in mental health care involve themselves in a therapeutic process which is not necessarily bound to verbal language. Supplementing previous research showing that even clients with a low therapy motivation can benefit from music therapy, this study concentrates on how a therapy focus can develop in a client population that is often hard to reach by verbal approaches. Based …
Niedertiefenbach. Ein Galeriegrab der spätneolithischen Wartberggruppe südwestlich von Niedertiefenbach (Landkreis Limburg-Weilburg, Hessen)
Das Galeriegrab von Niedertiefenbach stellt einen besonderen Befund der späten Wartberggruppe im Neolithikum der Deutschen Mittelgebirgsschwelle dar; nur hier findet sich ein in zehn Straten geborgenes Bestattungskollektiv von mindestens 177 Individuen. Eine umfangreiche Serie von Radiokarbondatierungen belegt ein wesentlich höheres Alter des Grabes als bisher publiziert und erlaubt die Modellierung einer Bestattungssequenz zwischen 3.350 und 2.9…
Titelseiten
Infectious diseases and Neolithic transformations
It is a common assumption that – compared with the Mesolithic – the adoption of Neolithic lifeways was accompanied by a higher risk of infection and the development of epidemic diseases. Such a hypothesis seems plausible when considering singular archaeological parameters like increasing population density and palaeopathological indicators of poor health. However, evidence for the far-reaching consequences of epidemics has not yet been examined. …
Students' achievement emotions in university courses - does the teaching approach matter
Students’ achievement emotions have an impact on learning and academic success. Therefore research on learning and teaching in higher education should not only focus on cognitive outcomes but on students’ emotions, as well. The aim of our quasi-experimental study was to analyze students’ achievement emotions based on the control-value approach in different instructional settings. An intervention was carried out with two teachers and 217 students …
High-Precision Bayesian Chronological Modeling on a Calibration Plateau
We combine the results of a radiocarbon ( 14 C) dating program with archaeogenetic, osteological and sparse stratigraphic data, to construct a Bayesian chronological model for a multi-generational sequence situated entirely on a plateau in the 14 C calibration curve. Calibrated dates of individual human bones from the Late Neolithic gallery grave at Niedertiefenbach, Hesse, Germany, span the entire calibration plateau in the late 4th millennium (…
Eingegangene Bücher
Towards a definition of Ancient Rare Diseases (ARD)
OBJECTIVE: This study discusses the challenges and possibilities of establishing a definition for Ancient Rare Diseases (ARD) in a probable case of Legg-Calvé-Perthes Disease (LCPD) from the Bronze Age cemetery Kudachurt 14, situated in the Northern Caucasus. MATERIALS: We investigated the skeletal remains of a male aged 35-45 years at death. For comparison we examined other males buried at Kudachurt 14 (n = 24) and reviewed 22 LCPD cases from th…
Preservice Teachers’ Online Self-Regulated Learning
(1) Background: Teaching in today’s schools asks teachers to foster self-regulated learning and digital competences in children and young people. In order to do so, teachers first need to acquire and use these competences themselves. (2) Methods: Based on a mixed-methods approach, the study investigates self-regulated learning in online courses of N = 129 preservice teachers at a German university. (3) Results and conclusions: Perceiving their di…
Preserving earthen architecture
The uncertain death. Estimating mortality structure by random sampling
Imprecise data produced by commonly applied osteological age‐at‐death estimations profoundly affect all research on age‐dependent mortality in past societies. With uncertain death estimation (UCD), we propose a novel approach to estimating the mortality structure from imprecise data and present a corresponding R package for simple application. Through repeated random sampling of imprecise age‐at‐death ranges, UCD estimates the mortality structure…
Invisible death rites in the early Neolithic
Ce document a t gnr automatiquement le 16 dcembre 2025.Le texte seul est utilisable
Affinités biologiques et histoire des peuplements humains
La reconstruction des histoires de peuplements constitue une part grandissante des recherches bioanthropologiques. Si la discipline de la (paléo)génétique en est aujourd’hui la principale investigatrice, les études morphométriques retraçant l’origine d’individus archéologiques restent toujours utilisées. Différents sets de variations métriques relevés sur la boite crânienne peuvent constituer des indicateurs fiables pour reconstruire les affinité…
First German experience using augmented reality for neuroanatomy education in undergraduate medical students
Embracing complexity. Porous cranial lesions and their paleopathological significance in two population samples from Neolithic Northern Germany
OBJECTIVE: To assess phenotypic variation of porous cranial lesions and their co-occurrence with infections of the upper respiratory apparatus and endocranial lesions, to infer disease burden in two different Neolithic socio-economic groups. MATERIALS: Human skulls of at least 111 individuals from a collective grave at Sorsum (farmers) and 30 individual biurials at Ostorf (aquatic foragers) from northern Germany (c. 3300-2900 BCE). METHODS: A new…
Invisible death rites in the early Neolithic
Dans l'étude des pratiques funéraires, les objets funéraires sont traditionnellement considérés comme la principale forme de preuve. Cela n'est pas moins vrai pour le Néolithique ancien d'Europe centrale, où la culture matérielle des tombes a dominé les discussions sur tous les aspects de la mort, des inégalités de genre à la parenté, pendant des décennies. Les sépultures non meublées, souvent situées dans des contextes de peuplement et contenant…
A Fully Bayesian Approach to Adult Skeletal Age Estimation
Neolithic Bodies in Vráble – 7000 year-old Headless Human Skeletons in an Enclosed LBK Settlement in South–West Slovakia
We present here the extraordinary find of an Early Neolithic mass deposition of headless human bodies at the LBK settlement site of Vráble-Veľké Lehemby. While various scientific analyses are under way, we present the archaeological context of this find and preliminary osteological and taphonomic observations. We discuss these in the light of a patterned and meaningful depositional complexity in Vráble, which embeds into a larger corpus of human …
Age-related disease or disease-related age? Perspectives for paleopathological research
OBJECTIVE: The interconnection of biological aging and disease throughout the life course profoundly affects almost every aspect of paleopathological research but is rarely explored. This paper presents a theoretical and practical framework for an informed research approach that explicitly acknowledges these complex interrelationships. METHODS: We discuss the existing concept of age-related disease and introduce the new concept of disease-related…
Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (6 works) · History (5 works) · Paleopathology and ancient diseases (5 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (5 works) · Population (5 works) · Demography (4 works) · Human settlement (4 works)