Dr. Corina Knipper

Corina Knipper studied prehistory and early history, geology, paleoanthropology, and media and communication sciences at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and Eberhard Karls University Tübingen from 1996 to 2002. In 2009, she received her doctorate from the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen. Her research interests lie in the application of isotope analyses of bones and teeth to reconstruct diet and mobility in the past.

Corina Knipper joined CEZA in 2014 as a research associate. The internationally recognized scientist is responsible for the content of the field of bioarchaeology. She has been a member of the extended management of CEZA gGmbH since 2022.

Academic and professional background

Since 2014

Research Associate at CEZA

2008-2013

Research Associate at the Institute of Anthropology of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

2003-2009

PhD studies at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen: „The spatial organization of early Neolithic (Linearbandkeramik) animal husbandry: Archaeological and scientific investigations“

2000/2001

Study abroad at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

1996-2002

Studies of Pre and Early History, Geology, Palaeontology, as well as Media and Communication Sciences at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Master thesis: „Strontium isotope analysis: A scientific method to investigate mobility in pre and early history“

Awards

Scholarships for M.A. and PhD studies by the German National Merit Foundation

Main area of research

Applications of isotope analyses (strontium, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon) to investigate human and animal diet and mobility in pre and early history

Memberships and honorary activities

Member of the European Association of Archaeologists
Editorial advisor for Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt
peer-reviews for scientific journals (among others: PNAS, Scientific Reports, PLOS ONE, Journal of Archaeological Science, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Archaeometry, American Journal of Physical Anthropology).

News

Academic and professional background

Awards

Main area of research

Memberships and honorary activities

Publications

Nicklisch, N. et al.: Dental pulp calcifications in prehistoric and historical skeletal remains

Blank, M. et al.: Mobility patterns in inland southwestern Sweden during the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age

Blank, M. et al.: Neolithic Mobility in western Sweden: interpretations of strontium isotope ratios of the megalithic population in Falbygden

Knipper, C. et al.: Diet and subsistence in Bronze Age pastoral communities from the southern Russian steppes and the North Caucasus

Knipper, C. et al.: Coalescing traditions—Coalescing people: Community formation in Pannonia after the decline of the Roman Empire

Knipper, C. et al.: Reconstructing Bronze Age diets and farming strategies at the Early Bronze Age sites of La Bastida and Gatas (southeast Iberia) using stable isotope analysis

Alt, K. W. et al.: A massacre of early Neolithic farmers in the high Pyrenees at Els Trocs

Nicklisch, N. et al.: A Roman-age dental filling made of a hard tissue compound?

Mittnik, A. et al.: Kinship-based social inequality in Bronze Age Europe

Wang, C.-C. et al.: Ancient human genome-wide data from a 3000-year interval in the Caucasus corresponds with eco-geographic regions

Knipper, C., et al.: Zur Herkunft des elitären Toten von Gammertingen. Ergebnisse der Strontium- und Sauerstoff-Isotopenanalysen

Vida, T. et al.: Mobility and population transformation in the Carpatian Basin between the 5th and the 7th centuries

Winger, D. et al.: Mobility in the Longobard period: isotope evidence from cemeteries in the Czech Republic

Szécsényi-Nagy, A. et al.: An unusual community in death – Mortuary practices of the Balaton-Lasinja culture in the light of bioarchaeological analyses

Blank, M. et al.: Isotope values of the bioavailable strontium in inland southwestern Sweden. A baseline for mobility studies.

Krzewińska, M. et al.: Genomic and strontium isotope variation reveal immigration patterns in a Viking Age town

Knipper, C. et al.: Isotopic analyses of cattle teeth

Gerling, C. et al.: Editorial: Casting a glance over the mountain – multi-proxy approaches to the understanding of vertical mobility

Meyer, Chr. et al.: Early Neolithic executions indicated by clustered cranial trauma in the mass grave of Halberstadt

Wang, C.-C. et al.: The genetic prehistory of the Greater Caucasus

Münster, A. et al.: 4000 years of human dietary evolution in central Germany, from the first farmers to the first elites

Knipper, C. et al.: A knot in a network: Residential mobility at the Iron Age proto-urban centre of Basel-Gasfabrik (Switzerland) revealed by isotope analyses

Brönnimann, D. et al.: The lay of land: Strontium and oxygen isotope variability in the dietary catchment of the Late Iron Age proto-urban settlement of Basel-Gasfabrik

Knipper, C.: Strontium isotope analysis of human and animal remains from Çavi Tarlası, southeast Turkey

Blank, M. et al.: New Perspectives on the Late Neolithic of south western Sweden. An interdisciplinary investigation of the Gallery Grave Falköping stad 5

Massy, K. et al.: Patterns of Transformation from the Final Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age: A Case Study from the Lech Valley South of Augsburg

Knipper, C. et al.: Female exogamy and gene pool diversification at the transition from the Final Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age in central Europe

Knipper, C. et al.: Economic strategies at Bronze Age and Early Iron Age upland sites in the North Caucasus: Archaeological and stable isotope investigations

Knipper, C. et al.: Ein karolingisches Steinplattengrab in der heutigen Hildesheimer Domgruft: Anthropologische Untersuchung und Isotopenanalysen an den darin überlieferten Skelettresten

Gerling, C. et al.: High-resolution isotopic evidence of specialized cattle herding in the European Neolithic

Doppler, Th. et al.: Landscape opening and herding strategies: Carbon isotope analyses of herbivore bone collagen from the Neolithic and Bronze Age lakeshore site of Zurich-Mozartstrasse, Switzerland

Brönnimann, D. et al.: Vivre et mourir sur le site de la Tène de Bâle-Gasfabrik (Suisse) – l’étude interdisciplinaire de structures d’habitat choisies et de deux nécropoles donne un aperçu de la société à la fin de l’âge du Fer

Knipper, C. et al.: Isotopenanalysen zur Rekonstruktion von Mobilität und Ernährungsweise der Bestatteten der hallstattzeitlichen Nekropole von Mauenheim

Meyer, Chr. et al.: Die menschlichen Skelettfunde vom Glauberg. Anthropologische und bioarchäometrische Untersuchungen der Bestattungen aus Kegelstumpfgruben und „Fürstengrabhügeln“

Knipper, C. et al.: What’s on the menu in a Celtic town? Dietary reconstruction for human remains from settlement features and two cemeteries at Basel-Gasfabrik, Switzerland

Siebert, A. et al.: Wandel der Ernährungsweise in Mitteldeutschland zwischen 5500 und 1600 v. Chr.

Knipper, C.: In aller Munde: Nahrung in der Ur- und Frühgeschichte

Knipper, C.: Elite im Tod – Elite im Leben: das süße Dasein der sozialen Oberschicht.

Knipper, C. et al.: A distinct section of the Early Bronze Age society? Stable isotope investigations of burials in settlement pits and multiple inhumations of the Únětice Culture in Central Germany

Knipper, C.: Strontium- und Sauerstoff-Isotopenanalysen

Bogaard, A. et al.: The Bandkeramik settlement of Vaihingen an der Enz

Nicklisch, N. et al.: Die 47 Soldaten aus dem Massengrab

Stockhammer, P.W et al.: ewriting the Central European Early Bronze Age chronology

Meyer, C. et al.: Zur Bioarchäologie des Neolithikums

Mörseburg, A. et al.: Same old in Middle Neolithic diets?

Knipper, C. et al.: Outstanding in life – outstanding in death

Stockhammer, P.W. et al.: Kontinuität und Wandel vom Endneolithikum zur frühen Bronzezeit in der Region Augsburg

Knipper, C. et al.: Pferdestärken bewegen den Menschen

Knipper, C.: Isotopenanalysen

Knipper C. et al.: Strontium and oxygen isotope analyses of the double burial of Bonn-Oberkassel

Knipper, C. et al.: Über den Tellerrand geschaut:

Alt, K.W. et al.: Lombards on the move? – An integrative study of the Migration period cemetery at Szólád

Brandt, G. et al.: Settlement burials at the Karsdorf LBK site, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany – biological ties and residential mobility

Alt, K.W. et al.: Jechtingen. Anthropologie eines mittelneolithischen Gräberfeldes

Scheeres, M. et al.: “Celtic migrations” – Fact or fiction? Strontium and oxygen isotope analysis of the Czech cemeteries of Radovesice and Kutná Hora in Bohemia

Alt, K.W. et al.: Empfehlungen für die Probenentnahme in der forensischen Anthropologie. Untersuchung von DNA und Stabilisotopen

Knipper, C. et al.: Analyses génétiques et isotopiques appliquées à la population du Mormont

Blöck, L. et al.: Interdisciplinary and tri-national research into a Late La Tène settlement landscape

Peters, D. et al.: Schmelztiegel Balaton? Zum Verhältnis „langobardischer“ Einwandergruppen und (vor-)langobardenzeitlicher romanischer Bevölkerung am Balaton – Szólád und Keszthely-Fenékpuszta zwischen Archäologie und Isotopie

Knipper, C. et al.: Social differentiation and land use at an Early Iron Age “princely seat”: Bioarchaeological investigations at the Glauberg (Germany)

Koch, J. K. et al.: Mobilität

Rissanen, H. et al.: „Wenn Kinder sterben…“ Säuglinge und Kleinkinder aus dem latènezeitlichen Fundplatz Basel-Gasfabrik (Kanton Basel-Stadt, Schweiz)

Meyer, Chr. et al.: Eine komplexe Mehrfachbestattung der Salzmünder Kultur

Fisher, L. et al.: Linking Quarry and Settlement on the Swabian Alb (Southern Germany)

Scheeres, M. et al.: Evidence for “Celtic migrations”? Strontium isotope analysis at the late Iron Age (LT B) cemeteries of Nebringen (Germany) and Monte Bibele (Italy)

Meyer, Chr. et al.: Eine Neunfachbestattung gibt Rätsel auf

Schunke, T. et al.: Der Graben als Grab – die Umbettung einer Kollektivbestattung

Alt, K.W. et al.: Earliest evidence of social endogamy in a 9,000-year-old population from Basta, Jordan

Knipper, C. et al.: Dietary reconstruction in Migration Period central Germany: A carbon and nitrogen isotope study

Hauschild, M. et al.: Nebringen, Münsingen und Monte Bibele – Zum archäologischen und bioarchäometrischen Nachweis von Mobilität im 4./3. Jahrhundert v. Chr.

Meyer, Chr. et al.: Irreguläre Bestattungen in der Eisenzeit? Bioarchäologische Ansätze zur Deutung am Beispiel der menschlichen Skelettfunde vom Glauberg

Schunke, T. et al.: Bestattet im Graben – die Umbettung eines Kollektivgrabes der Bernburger Kultur

Knipper, C. et al.: Strontium-Isotopenanalysen an Zähnen und Knochen