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Ad Astra per aquam (to the stars, through water): the Kansas Aqueduct Project as a sociotechnical imaginary in the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene Review, 20530196241300525 (2024)
Unveiling ancient Jerusalem’s pastoral dynamics (7th to 2nd centuries BCE) with multi-isotope analysis. Scientific Reports 14 (1), 27278 (2024)
Nord- und Zentraljapan, Ostasien: spätholozäne Vegetation, Feuerdynamik und Übergang zur Landwirtschaft ; die Arbeiten der Jahre 2021, 2022 und 2023. e-Forschungsberichte des des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts 2024 (1), 1–10 (§), pp. 102 - 112 (2024), 11 pp.
The Cotton Road: the history of an exchange commodity in Central Asia. Inner Asia 26 (2), 02602002, pp. 193 - 230 (2024)
Cropping systems and ecological groups of soil animals jointly affect the transfer of root-derived carbon and mineral nitrogen into the soil food web. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 200, 109646 (2025)
Assessing the effect of model specification and prior sensitivity on Bayesian tests of temporal signal. PLOS Computational Biology 20 (11), e1012371 (2024)
Climate seasonality and predictability during the Middle Stone Age and implications for technological diversification in early Homo sapiens. Research Square, 5289878/v1 (2024)
Early Sri Lankan coastal site tracks technological change and estuarine resource exploitation over the last ca. 25,000 years. Scientific Reports 14 (1), 26693 (2024)