{"id":235,"date":"2024-04-17T12:54:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T11:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/coexist\/?page_id=235"},"modified":"2024-04-18T15:55:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T14:55:07","slug":"karen-ruebens","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/coexist\/karen-ruebens\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Ruebens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 21.0pt;background: white;vertical-align: baseline;margin: 3.75pt 0cm 3.75pt 0cm\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: black\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-431 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/coexist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/331\/2024\/04\/DSC_0195-1-scaled-e1713452036262-271x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/coexist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/331\/2024\/04\/DSC_0195-1-scaled-e1713452036262-271x300.jpg 271w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/coexist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/331\/2024\/04\/DSC_0195-1-scaled-e1713452036262-924x1024.jpg 924w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/coexist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/331\/2024\/04\/DSC_0195-1-scaled-e1713452036262-768x851.jpg 768w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/coexist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/331\/2024\/04\/DSC_0195-1-scaled-e1713452036262-1387x1536.jpg 1387w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/coexist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/331\/2024\/04\/DSC_0195-1-scaled-e1713452036262.jpg 1540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/>Karen Ruebens is a Research Fellow in Archaeological Proteomics at the University of Reading. Her research interests are focused on unravelling Neanderthal behaviour through wider-scale comparative lithic and faunal analyses, including large-scale applications of Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS). From 2024-2029 she is Principal Investigator on the ERC\/UKRI Starting Grant COEXIST. The project investigates the coexistence of Neanderthals and early <i>Homo sapiens<\/i> in central and southeast Europe by applying state-of-the-art methods from archaeological science, proteomics and genetics to large quantities of bone fragments.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 21.0pt;background: white;vertical-align: baseline;margin: 3.75pt 0cm 3.75pt 0cm\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: black\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 21.0pt;background: white;vertical-align: baseline;margin: 3.75pt 0cm 3.75pt 0cm\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: black\">From 2022-2024 Karen ran the ZooMS lab at the Chaire de Paleoanthropologie at the Coll\u00e8ge de France (Paris) where she analysed bone fragments from key late Middle and early Upper Palaeolithic sites in Western Europe, including Ranis and Schmaehingen (Lincombian-Ranisian-Jerzmanowician), Cassenade, Le Moustier, Saint-C\u00e9saire, Ormesson and Ch\u00e2telperron (Ch\u00e2telperronian).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 21.0pt;background: white;vertical-align: baseline;margin: 3.75pt 0cm 3.75pt 0cm\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: black\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: black\">Karen received her PhD from the University of Southampton (UK) in 2013 and has also worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Germany, first at the MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre for Human Behavioural Evolution (Neuwied, funded by the DAAD) and then at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig, funded by the Marie Sk\u0142odowska-Curie Career Restart scheme).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 21.0pt;background: white;vertical-align: baseline;margin: 3.75pt 0cm 3.75pt 0cm\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: black\"><br \/>\nKaren is one of the editors of gold open access journal <a href=\"https:\/\/ub31.uni-tuebingen.de\/ojs\/index.php\/paleo\/index\">PaleoAnthropology<\/a>, which is jointly run by the PaleoAnthropology Society and the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution (ESHE).<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><strong>OUTREACH\/MEDIA<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">Interview about Ranis for Belgian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eoswetenschap.eu\/geschiedenis\/moderne-mens-en-neanderthaler-leefden-lang-samen-het-hart-van-europa\">EOS magazine <\/a>(2024, in Flemish).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">Interview for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fondation-cdf.fr\/2024\/02\/15\/des-fragments-dos-redessinent-la-vie-de-nos-ancetres\/\">Fondation College de France<\/a> (2024, in French)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">Early humans reached northwest Europe 45,000 years ago, new research shows, <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/early-humans-reached-northwest-europe-45-000-years-ago-new-research-shows-222236\">The Conversation<\/a>, 2024.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">Using fragmented bone to reconstruct the lifeways of <em>Homo sapiens<\/em> in northwest Europe more than 45,000 years ago. <a href=\"https:\/\/communities.springernature.com\/posts\/using-fragmented-bone-to-reconstruct-the-lifeways-of-homo-sapiens-in-northwest-europe-more-than-45-000-years-ago?channel_id=behind-the-paper\">Behind the Paper<\/a>, Springer Nature Research Communities, 2024.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/neanderthalseminars.wixsite.com\/home\">Activity pack for 3-6 year olds<\/a> about <span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\">Neanderthal hunting\u00a0<\/span>in collaboration with illustrator Dr Anna Goldfield.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a4Psb-Zor6M&amp;list=PLTaUo_dwsARh1ji1EsQdE887ugy8zburU&amp;index=1\">YouTube channel<\/a> with videos of the talks of the online seminar series on\u00a0 Multidisciplinary approaches to Neanderthal hunting, including my own presentation on \u201cNeanderthal hunting strategies: a review of lithic and faunal lines of evidence\u201d (2021).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><strong>PUBLICATIONS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">In press\u00a0 <strong>Ruebens, K.<\/strong>, Discamps, E., Smith, G.M., Hublin, J-J., Integrating ZooMS and zooarchaeology to assess the Ch\u00e2telperronian and Carnivore Occupations at Cassenade (Dordogne, France). <em>PaleoAnthropology<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">In press\u00a0 Discamps, E., Smith, G.M., Hublin, J-J.,<strong> Ruebens, K.<\/strong> Can ZooMS help assess species abundance in highly fragmented bone assemblages? Integrating morphological and proteomic identifications for the calculation of an adjusted ZooMS-eNISP? <em>PaleoAnthropology<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">In press Raymond, P., <strong>Ruebens, K<\/strong>., Bray, F., Castel, J-C., Morin, E., le Brun-Ricalens, F., Rolando, C., Bordes, J-G., Hublin, J-J. Investigating species composition in the Early Aurignacian of Le Piage (France) through collagen fingerprinting (ZooMS) of screen-recovered small bone fragments. <em>PaleoAnthropology<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">In press Angevin, R., Herkert, K., Lejay, M., W\u00fcrschem, H., Soulier, M-C., Vernet, G., Baillet, M., D\u00e9robert, X., Devie, T., Devi\u00e8se, T., Floss, H., Heikkila, R., Hublin, J-J., Lacoste, E., Palma-Lopes, S., Picq, P., <strong>Ruebens, K.<\/strong>, Tartar, E. Ch\u00e2telperron: a new research program on a key-site of the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition in Central France. In: Floss, H. and Roussel, M. (Eds.) <em>Entre les lignes &#8211; Perspectives diachroniques et pal\u00e9og\u00e9ographiques sur le d\u00e9but du Pal\u00e9olithique sup\u00e9rieur (Ch\u00e2telperronien et Aurignacien) en Europe occidentale et centrale.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">2024 \u00a0Le Meillour, L., Sinet-Mathiot, V., \u00c1smundsd\u00f3ttir, R.D., Hansen, J., Mylopotamitaki, D., Troch\u00e9, G., Xia, H., Herrera Bethencourt, J., <strong>Ruebens, K<\/strong>., Smith, G.M., Fagern\u00e4s, Z., Welker, F. Increasing sustainability in palaeoproteomics by optimizing digestion times for large-scale archaeological bone analyses. <em>iScience. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.isci.2024.109432.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">2024\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mylopotamitaki, D., Fewlass, H., Zavala, E.I., Rougier, H., S\u00fcmer, A., Hajdinjak, M., Smith, G.M., <strong>Ruebens, K<\/strong>., Sinet-Mathiot, V., Xia, H., Hansen, J., Harking, F., Olsen, J.V., Kirchner, A., Lauer, T., Stahlschmidt, M., Talamo, S., Meller, H., Dietl, H., Orschiedt, J., McPherron, S., Krause, J,,\u00a0 Meyer, M., Welker, F., Sch\u00fcler, T., Weiss, M., Hublin, J-J. <em>Homo sapiens<\/em> reached the higher latitudes of Europe by 45,000 years ago. <em>Nature<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">2024\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Smith, G.M., <strong>Ruebens, K<\/strong>., Zavala, E.I., Sinet-Mathiot, V., Fewlass, H., Pederzani, S., Jaouen, K., Mylopotamitaki, D., Britton, K., Rougier, H., Stahlschmidt, M., Meyer, M., Meller, H., Orschiedt, J., Dietl., Krause, J., Sch\u00fcler, T., McPherron, S., Weiss, M., Hublin, J-J., Welker, F., The ecology, subsistence and diet of ~45,000-year-old <em>Homo Sapiens<\/em> at Ilsenhohle in Ranis, Germany. <em>Nature Ecology Evolution.<\/em> https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41559-023-02303-6.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">2024\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pederzani, S., Britton, K., Trost, M., Fewlass, H., Bourgon, N., McCormack, J., Jaouen, K., Dietl, H., D\u00f6hle, H-J., Kirchner, A., Lauer, T., Le Corre, M., McPherron, S.P., Meller, H., Mylopotamitaki, D., Orschiedt, J., Rougier, H., <strong>Ruebens, K.<\/strong>, Sch\u00fcler, T., Sinet-Mathiot, V., Smith, G.M. Talamo, S., T\u00fctken, T., Welker, F., Zavala, E., Weiss, M., Hublin, J-J. Early <em>Homo sapiens<\/em> dispersed into cold steppes in central Europe. <em>Nature Ecology Evolution.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">2023\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Ruebens, K.<\/strong>, Smith, G.M., Fewlass, H., Sinet-Mathiot, V., Hublin, J-J., Welker. F. Neanderthal subsistence, taphonomy and chronology at Salzgitter-Lebenstedt (Germany): a multifaceted analysis of morphologically unidentifiable bone. <em>Journal of Quaternary Science <\/em>38. DOI: 10.1002\/jqs.3499<em>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Ruebens, K.,<\/strong> Sinet-Mathiot, V., Talamo, S., Smith, G.M., Welker, F., Hublin, J-J., McPherron, S.P. The late Middle Palaeolithic occupation of Abri du Maras (layer 1, Neronian, southeast France): integrating lithic analyses, ZooMS and radiocarbon dating to reconstruct Neanderthal hunting behaviour. <em>Journal of Palaeolithic Archaeology 5, 4.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">2021 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Smith, G.M., Spasov, R., Martisius, N.L., Sinet-Mathiot, V., Rezek, Z., Aldeias, V., <strong>Ruebens, K.<\/strong>, Pederzani, S., McPherron, S., Sirakova, S., Sirakov, N., Tsanova, T., Hublin, J-J., Subsistence behaviour during the Initial Upper Palaeolithic in Europe: site use, dietary practice and carnivore exploitation at Bacho Kiro Cave (Bulgaria). <em>Journal of Human Evolution<\/em> 161, 103074.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">2020\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Smith, G.M., Noack, E, S., Behrens, N, M., <strong>Ruebens, K.,<\/strong> Street, M., Iovita, R., Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S., When lithics hit bones: evaluating the potential of a multifaceted experimental protocol to illuminate Middle Palaeolithic weapon technology. <em>Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology<\/em>, 3(2): 126-156<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">2020<em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><strong>Ruebens, K.,<\/strong> Smith, G.M., Dogand\u017ei\u0107, T., Steele. T.E., Connecting Middle Palaeolithic datasets: the interplay of zooarchaeological and lithic data for unravelling Neanderthal behaviour. <em>Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology<\/em>, 3(2): 97-107.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">2019\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Smith, G.M., <strong>Ruebens, K.,<\/strong> Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S., Steele, T.E. Subsistence strategies throughout the African Middle Pleistocene: Faunal evidence for behavioral change and continuity across the Earlier to Middle Stone Age transition. <em>Journal of Human Evolution<\/em>, 127, pp.1-20.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">2016\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Ruebens, K.,<\/strong> Wragg Sykes, R.M. 2016. Spatio-temporal variation in Late Middle Palaeolithic Neanderthal behaviour: British bout coup\u00e9 handaxes as a case study. <em>Quaternary International<\/em> 411A, 305-326.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">2015\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Ruebens, K.,<\/strong> McPherron, S.P., Hublin, J-J., 2015. On the local Mousterian origin of the Ch\u00e2telperronian: integrating typo-technological, chronostratigraphic and contextual data. <em>Journal of Human Evolution<\/em> 86, 55-91.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">2014\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Ruebens, K.<\/strong> 2014. Late Middle Palaeolithic bifacial technologies across northwest Europe: typo-technological variability and trends. <em>Quaternary International<\/em> 350, 130-146.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Ruebens, K.<\/strong> 2013. Regional behaviour among late Neanderthal groups in Western Europe: a comparative study of Late Middle Palaeolithic bifacial tools. <em>Journal of Human Evolution<\/em> 6 (4), 341-362.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">2012\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pope, M., Bates, M., Cole, J., Conneller, C., <strong>Ruebens, K.,<\/strong> Scott, B., Shaw, A., Smith, G.M., Underhill, D., Wragg-Sykes, R. Quaternary Environments and Archaeology of Jersey: A new multidisciplinary project looking at the early prehistoric occupation of the English Channel Region. In: Ruebens, K., Romanowska, I., Bynoe, R. (Eds.) <em>Unravelling the Palaeolithic<\/em>, <em>BAR International Series 24000<\/em>, pp.27-38.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">2011\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Ruebens, K.<\/strong> and Van Peer, P. 2011. A Middle Palaeolithic site with small bifaces at Oosthoven \u2013 Heiende (Northern Belgium). In: Toussaint, M., Di Modica, K., and Pirson, S. (Eds.) <em>Le Pal\u00e9olithique moyen en Belgique. M\u00e9langes Marguerite Ulrix-Closset. ERAUL 128, <\/em>pp. 353-359.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">2011\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Ruebens, K.<\/strong> and Di Modica, K. 2011. Les Productions bifaciales du Pal\u00e9olithique moyen sur le territoire belge: pr\u00e9sentation d\u2019industries entre deux mondes. In: Toussaint, M., Di Modica, K., and Pirson, S. (Eds.) <em>Le Pal\u00e9olithique moyen en Belgique. M\u00e9langes Marguerite Ulrix-Closset. ERAUL 128, Bulletin des Chercheurs de la Wallonie Hors-s\u00e9rie No 4<\/em>, pp. 239-260.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">2007\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Ruebens, K.<\/strong> 2007. Bifacial Elements in Continental Northwestern Europe during the Last Glacial Cycle (MIS5d-3): The Relationship between Mousterian, Micoquian and &#8216;Mixed&#8217; Assemblages<em>. Papers from the Institute of Archaeology <\/em>18, 84-100.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">2007\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Ruebens, K.<\/strong> 2007. A Typological Dilemma: Micoquian Elements in Continental Northwestern Europe during the Last Glacial Cycle (MIS5d-3<em>). Journal of the Lithics Studies Society<\/em> 27, 58-73.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">2006\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Ruebens, K.<\/strong> 2006. 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