Personal identification

Full name

Sara Rhodes

Citation names

• Rhodes, Sara
• S. E. Rhodes

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

C41A-E5EA-D62E

ORCID iD

0000-0001-7328-4663

Email addresses

• srhodes@ualg.pt (Professional)

Addresses

• ICArEHB, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, Pav. J25, 8000-139, Faro, Faro, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

• https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kBfxIi4AAAAJ&hl=en (Scholar)

Knowledge fields

• Humanities - History and Archaeology - Archaeology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English (Mother tongue)
German	Elementary (A2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Elementary (A2)	Upper intermediate (B2)
Portuguese	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)

	Degree	Classification
2014/10/01 - 2019/07/08 Concluded	Doctor rerum naturalium (Doktor (PhD)) Major in Natural Sciences Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Germany "Of Mice and (Neanderthal) Men: the small mammal record of the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Swabian Jura, Germany." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Magna cum laude
2012/09/01 - 2014/08/31 Concluded	Sara E Rhodes (Master) Major in Prehistoric Sciences University of Toronto Faculty of Arts and Science, Canada "Evidence for opportunistic fire use during the late Early Paleolithic at Cueva Negra del Estrecho del Rio Quipar, Murcia, Spain: a micromammal taphonomic approach" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Masters of Science
2006/09/01 - 2012/06/30 Concluded	Sara E Rhodes (Bachelor) Major in Anthropology University of Toronto Faculty of Arts and Science, Canada University of Toronto Department of Anthropology, Canada

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/07/01 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal
	Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal
2019/07/31 - Current	Visiting Researcher (Research)	University of Toronto, Archaeology Center, Canada
2020/07/01 - 2021/06/30	Postdoc (Research)	Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Fachbereich Biologie, Germany
	University of the Witwatersrand School of Geography Archaeology and Environmental Studies, South Africa (...)
2019/10/01 - 2020/10/31	Postdoc (Research)	Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Germany

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2020/07/01 - Current	New high-resolution paleoecological records of Wonderwerk Cave and Klasies River during the late Pleistocene and Holocene Later Stone Age 57436651 Post-doc Fellow Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Germany Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Fachbereich III Geowissenschaften, Germany	Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Concluded
2016/06 - Current	Wonderwerk Cave Research Project Wonderwerk Cave Project Researcher University of Toronto Department of Anthropology, Canada	Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Ongoing
2022 - 2027	FINNISTERRA - Population Trajectories and Cultural Dynamics of Late Neanderthals in Westernmost Eurasia. No. 101045506 Collaborator Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal	European Research Council Ongoing
2022/06 - 2025/12	La Grande Roche de Quinçay VI.C.191.070 Specialist Universiteit Leiden Faculteit der Archeologie, Netherlands	Gouvernement Français Ministère de l'Agriculture et de l'Alimentation Département de la Santé des Forêts Universiteit Leiden Faculteit der Archeologie Ongoing
2019/08/01 - 2025/07/31	The Micromammals of Jacovec Cavern: new insights on the paleoecological context and formation of the hominid-bearing deposits of Sterkfontein. TBA Integration into Research Grant Fellow University of the Witwatersrand Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research, South Africa	University of Witwatersrand - Center of Excellence in Paleosciences, GENUS Ongoing
2023 - 2024	SHARP - Testing hypotheses on the transition from Neanderthals to H. sapiens at the Paleolithic site of Sesselfelsgrotte ($96,021.00) National Geographic Society	National Geographic Society Ongoing
2020 - 2024	Human-environment interactions in the Southern African Later Stone Age 430-2020-000495 Researcher University of Toronto Department of Anthropology, Canada	Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Ongoing
2019/10/01 - 2020/12/31	The Magdalenian and Mesolithic occupations at Helga Abri, Swabian Jura, Germany Project Helga Abri Post-doc Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Fachbereich III Geowissenschaften, Germany	Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Concluded
2014/10/01 - 2019/03/31	Paleoenvironment of the Ach valley Middle and Upper Paleolithic 57048249 PhD Student Fellow	Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Concluded
2012/09/01 - 2014/09/30	Evidence for opportunistic fire use during the late Early Paleolithic at Cueva Negra del Estrecho del Rio Quipar, Murcia, Spain: a micromammal taphonomic approach Project Cueva Negra Master Student Fellow University of Toronto Department of Anthropology, Canada	Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2022 - 2026	Middle and Upper Paleolithic at Ilsenhöhle, near Ranis, Thuringia, Germany N/A Researcher Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften, Germany	Ongoing

Other

	Designation	Funders
2019/09/01 - Current	Northern Cape Archaeology and Ecology Project (NCAEP) N/A Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal	Ongoing
2023/01/01 - 2027/12	DISPERSALS - Dispersals, resilience, and innovation in Late Pleistocene SE Africa 101052761 Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal	European Research Council Ongoing

Publications

Book chapter	S. E. Rhodes. "A few unlucky mice: the microvertebrate remains from Tomb VII and the Royal Tomb of the Royal Palace of Qatna, Syria.". In Patterns Beyond Decay. Microarchaeological Studies in the Royal Tomb and Tomb VII in Qatna, edited by N. Reifarth; Ch. Pümpin. Wiesbaden, Germany: Harrossowitz, 2024. In press
Conference abstract	Barbieri, Alvise; Schilt, Flora; Pasda, Kerstin; Mayr, C.; Godinho, Ricardo Miguel; Posth, Cosimo; Preusser, F.; et al. "Exceptionally Rich Late Neanderthal Occupation of Sesselfelsgrotte in the Franconian Jura: Different Behaviour or Different Preservation?". Paper presented in XXI INQUA Congress: Time for change, Rome, 2023. Published
Conference poster	S. E. Rhodes; B.M. Starkovich; N.J. Conard. "The taphonomy of small mammals at Geißenklösterle Cave in the Ach Valley of southwestern Germany during the Middle and Upper Paleolithic". Paper presented in European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE) 7th Annual Meeting, 2017. J. Zastrow; S. E. Rhodes; N.J. Conard. "A small mammal assemblage from Hohle Fels, Ach valley: preliminary indications of the paleoenvironment during the Middle Paleolithic.". Paper presented in European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE) 7th Annual Meeting, 2017. S. E. Rhodes; R. Ziegler; B.M. Starkovich; N.J. Conard. "The paleoclimatic and archaeological implications of the micromammalian assemblages from Geißenklösterle Cave in southwestern Germany". Paper presented in European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE) 6th Annual Meeting, 2016.
Journal article	Bader, G.; Val, A.; Gevers, E.; Rhodes, S.E.; Stahl, N.; Woodburn, ; Will, M.. "Behind the waterfall - Interdisciplinary results from Holley Shelter and their implications for understanding behavioral patterns at the end of the Middle Stone Age in southern Africa". Quaternary Science Reviews (2024): Accepted Goldberg, Paul; Rhodes, Sara E.; Chazan, Michael. "Geological and Archeological Insight into Site Formation Processes and Acheulean Occupation at Wonderwerk Cave, Northern Cape Province, South Africa". Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology 6 1 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41982-023-00157-9. Published • 10.1007/s41982-023-00157-9 Baca, Mateusz; Popovic, Danijela; Agadzhanyan, Alexander K.; Baca, Katarzyna; Conard, Nicholas J.; Fewlass, Helen; Filek, Thomas; et al. "Ancient DNA of narrow-headed vole reveal common features of the Late Pleistocene population dynamics in cold-adapted small mammals". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 290 1993 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.2238. Published • 10.1098/rspb.2022.2238 López-García, Juan Manuel; Blain, Hugues-Alexandre; Rhodes, Sara E.; Blanco-Lapaz, Ángel. "Microvertebrate studies in archaeological contexts: Middle Paleolithic to early Holocene past environments". Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 14 10 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12520-022-01664-6. Published • 10.1007/s12520-022-01664-6 "Ancient DNA reveal interstadials as a main driver of common vole (Microtus arvalis) population dynamics during the Last Glacial period". Molecular Ecology (2022): Under revision Elisa Luzi; Àngel Blanco-Lapaz; Sara E. Rhodes; Nicholas J. Conard. "Paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental reconstructions based on the small vertebrates from the Middle Paleolithic of Hohle Fels Cave, SW Germany". Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 14 6 (2022): https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs12520-022-01568-5. 10.1007/s12520-022-01568-5 Rhodes, S.E.; Goldberg, Paul; Ecker, Michaela; Horwitz, Liora Kolska; Elisabetta Boaretto; Chazan, M.. "Exploring the Later Stone Age at a micro-scale: New high-resolution excavations at Wonderwerk Cave". Quaternary International 614 (2022): 126-145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2021.10.004. 10.1016/j.quaint.2021.10.004 Rhodes, S.E.; Conard, Nicholas J. "A quantitative paleoclimatic reconstruction of the non-analogue environment of oxygen isotope stage 3: new data from small mammal records of southwestern Germany". Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 13 12 (2021): https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-021-01363-8. 10.1007/s12520-021-01363-8 Rhodes, Sara E.; Starkovich, Britt M.; Conard, Nicholas J.. "Did climate determine Late Pleistocene settlement dynamics in the Ach Valley, SW Germany?". PLOS ONE 14 5 (2019): e0215172. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215172. Published • 10.1371/journal.pone.0215172 Rhodes, S.E.. "A Synthesis of the Paleoecology of the Ach Valley during the Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition". Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte 28 (2019): 51-104. mgfuopenaccess.org. Open access • Published Rhodes, Sara E.; Ziegler, Reinhard; Starkovich, Britt M.; Conard, Nicholas J.. "Small mammal taxonomy, taphonomy, and the paleoenvironmental record during the Middle and Upper Paleolithic at Geißenklösterle Cave (Ach Valley, southwestern Germany)". Quaternary Science Reviews 185 (2018): 199-221. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.12.008. Published • 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.12.008 Chazan, Michael; Horwitz, Liora Kolska; Ecker, Michaela; Koopowitz, Candice; Rhodes, Sara E.; Morris, David; Berna, Francesco. "Renewed excavations at Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa". Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews 26 6 (2017): 258-260. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/evan.21558. Published • 10.1002/evan.21558 Rhodes, S.E.; Walker, M.J.; López-Jiménez, A.; López-Martínez, M.; Haber-Uriarte, M.; Fernández-Jalvo, Y.; Chazan, M.. "Fire in the Early Palaeolithic: Evidence from burnt small mammal bones at Cueva Negra del Estrecho del Río Quípar, Murcia, Spain". Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 9 (2016): 427-436. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.08.006. Published • 10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.08.006 Walker, M.J.; Anesin, D.; Angelucci, D.E.; Avilés-Fernández, A.; Berna, F.; Buitrago-López, A.T.; Fernández-Jalvo, Y.; et al. "Combustion at the late Early Pleistocene site of Cueva Negra del Estrecho del Río Quípar (Murcia, Spain)". Antiquity 90 351 (2016): 571-589. http://dx.doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.91. Published • 10.15184/aqy.2016.91 M.J. Walker; D. Anesin; D.E. Angelucci; A. Avilés-Fernández; F. Berna; A.T. Buitrago-López; J.S. Carrión; et al. "A View from a Cave: Cueva Negra del Estrecho del Río Quípar (Caravaca de la Cruz, Murcia, Southeastern Spain). Reflections on Fire, Technological Diversity, Environmental Exploitation, and Paleoanthropological Approaches". Human Evolution 31 1-2 (2016): 1-67. Published
Thesis / Dissertation	S. E. Rhodes. "Of Mice and (Neanderthal) Men: the small mammal record of the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Swabian Jura, Germany". PhD, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, 2019. https://publikationen.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10900/93219/Rhodes-2019-Thesis-final-version_clean%20%281%29.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y. S. E. Rhodes. "Evidence for opportunistic fire use during the late Early Paleolithic at Cueva Negra del Estrecho del Rio Quipar, Murcia, Spain: a micromammal taphonomic approach". Master, University of Toronto Department of Anthropology, 2014.