CRC 806 - Project Affiliation:

Project C1
Continuity or Discontinuity? Patterns of Land Use and Climatic Changes in the Late Pleistocene of the Iberian Peninsula

Project Z3
Integrated Research Training Group (IRTG)

Scientific Interests:

• Upper Palaeolithic
• Rock and Mobile Art
• Neanderthals
• Social Systems & Burials
• Megalithic Monuments

Ph.D. Research Topic:

Rock Art and Mobile Art as Cultural Marker in the Solutrean and Magdalenian of the Iberian Peninsula (work title)

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gerd-Christian Weniger, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Richter

Education:

Since July 2014: Ph.D. student at Institute for Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Cologne.

2012-2014: Trainee (Volontariat) for Exhibition Design at Neanderthal Museum, Mettmann.

2010-2012: M.A. in Prehistoric Archaeology, Hamburg University

M.A. thesis: Die Verteilung von Ocker in den mesolithischen Gräbern Europas (The distribution of ochre in the mesolithic burials of Europe)

2006-2010: Ruhr-University Bochum, Prehistoric Archaeology, Classical Archaeology and Korean Studies

B.A. thesis: Schamanismus als Erklärungsmodell jungpaläolithischer (Höhlen)Kunst? (Shamanism as explanatory model of Upper Palaeolithic (Cave)Art?)

Publications:

• Bolin/Weniger/de Andrés-Herrero, From Big to Small Scale: Analysing Palaeolithic Rock Art Site Distribution on the Iberian Peninsula and its Link to Environmental Constraints. In: O. Rivero Vilá/A. Ruiz-Redondo (Ed.), El Arte de las Sociedades Prehistóricas. V Encuentro Internacional de Doctorandos y Postdoctorandos. Abstract Book (Santander 2016) 117ff
• Auffermann/Bolin, Schamanen - Jäger und Heiler Sibiriens. In: E. Wamers (Ed.), Bärenkult und Schamanenzauber. Rituale früher Jäger. Katalog zur Sonderausstellung 05. Dezember 2015 bis 28. März 2016 (Frankfurt 2015)
• Bolin/Weniger, Rock Art and Mobile Art as Cultural Marker in the Solutrean and Magdalenian of the Iberian Peninsula (Poster). In: H. Collado Giraldo, J.J. García Arranz (Ed.), Symbols in the Landscape: Rock Art and its Context. Book of Abstracts. ARKEOS 37. 2015
• Bolin, Der Neanderthaler und sein Museum. Fossilien 2 (2015)
• Alcaraz-Castaño et al., Regreso a la Cueva de Los Casares (Guadaljara). Un nuevo proyecto de investigación para el yacimiento del Seno A. ARPI. Arqueología y Prehistoria del Interior Peninsular. 2. 2015

Conferences / Talks:

• UISPP (Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques) XVIIIe Congrès, "Late Glacial Rapid Climate Change and Human Response in the Western Mediterranean." Presentation of a talk by Weniger, G.-Ch., Andrés-Herrero, M. de, Bolin, V., Kehl, M., Otto, T., Potì, A., Tafelmaier, Y., Paris, June 4-9th 2018
• ESHE (European Society for the study of Human Evolution) 8th Annual meeting "The archaeological contet of early rock art in Cueva Ardales (Spain)." Presentation of a talk by Weniger, G.-Ch., Cantalejo, P., Mar Espejo, M. del, Bolin, V., Fernández-Sánchez, Kellberg-Nielsen, T., Moreno-Márquez, A., Otto, T., Ramos-Munoz, J., Faro (Portugal), September 13th - September 15th 2018
• The Solutrean. 3rd International Conference "Testing the Distribution of Animal Species in Solutrean Rock Art Sites in Iberia and its Relationship to Palaeoenvironmental Modelling." Faro (Portugal), Octobre 12th - Octobre 14th 2017, Presentation of a talk.
• Encontro de Zooarqueologia Ibérica EZI2017 - 5a Reuniao Científica de Arqueomalacologia da Península Ibérica - 5RCAPI "Shells in the Ardales Cave and Sima de las Palomas de Teba, Málaga (General project of investigation 2015-2016). First results of Hunter-Gatherer Societies associated with Upper Palaeolithic Technology. Presentation of a talk by Cantillo, J.J., Weniger, G.-Ch., Ramos, J., Cantalejo, P., Mar Espejo, M. del, Bolin, V., Tafelmaier, Y., Cabello, L., Fernández, D., Vijande, E., Barrena, A., Otto, T., Almisas, S., Domínguez-Bella, Salvador, Moreno, A., Pastoors, A., Faro (Portugal), April 28-29 2017.
• El Arte de las Sociedades Prehistóricas (ASP) - V Encuentro Internacional de Doctorandos y Postdoctorandos "From Big to Small Scale: Analysing Palaeolithic Rock Art Site Distribution on the Iberian Peninsula and its Link to Environmental Constraints", Santander (Spain), November 9th - November 12th 2016, Presentation of a talk
• LWL-Museum für Archäologie "Die Tierwelt der Eiszeit – Mammut, Pferd und Co. in der Höhlenkunst", Herne, June 16th 2016, Lecture about Palaeolithic Art and Dissertation Project
• 58th Annual Meeting of Hugo Obermaier Society "Late Middle and Early Upper Paleolithic between the Alps and the Black Sea", Budapest, March 29th - April 2nd 2016, Presentation of a poster
• XIX International Rock Art Conference IFRAO 2015 "Symbols in the landscape: Rock Art and its Context", Cáceres, August 31st - September 4th 2015, Presentation of a poster
• 57^th Annual Meeting of Hugo Obermaier Society "Symbolic communication and modern culture", Heidenheim, April 7–11th 2015, Presentation of a poster
• Urwelt Museum, "Bilder im Dunkeln - Höhlenkunst der Eiszeit", Bayreuth, May 6th 2015, Inaugural address at exhibition opening

Field Work / Research Assignments:

• November 2017: Excavation manager in Ardales Cave, Andalucia (Spain)
• September 2017: Excavation manager in Ardales Cave, Andalucia (Spain)
• November 2016: Excavation manager in Ardales Cave, Andalucia (Spain)
• September 2016: Excavation manager in Ardales Cave, Andalucia (Spain)
• November 2015: Excavation manager in Ardales Cave, Andalucia (Spain)
• September 2015: Excavation manager in Ardales Cave, Andalucia (Spain)
• January 2015: Field Trip to Ardales Cave and Sima de Las Palomas Rockshelter, Andalucia (Spain)
• September 2014: Excavation in Los Casares Cave, Guadalajara Province (Spain)
• September 2011: Excavation manager of a neolithic enclosure and a medieval pit house in Nienburg an der Weser (Niedersachsen)
• September 2007: Excavation of 13th century castle Burg Hörde (Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen)

Links:

HTTPS://www.uni-koeln.de/

HTTPS://www.neanderthal.de/