HoMeCo Publications

Lüdecke, T., Leichliter, J.N., Stratford, D., Sigman, D.M., Vonhof, H., Haug, G.H., Bamford, M.K., Martínez-García, A. (2025)

Australopithecus at Sterkfontein did not consume substantial mammalian meat

Science, Vol 387, Issue 6731, 309-314. https://www.science.org/stoken/author-tokens/ST-2368/full

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Bourgon, N., Lüdecke T, Leichliter, J.N., Bauman, C., Brömme, S., Vink M., Bacon, A., McCormack, Nguyen,T., M., H., A., T., Antoine, P., Ponche, J., Duringer P., Demeter, F., Boualaphane, S., Luangkhoth, T., Dufour, E., Hublin, J., Jaouen, K., Tütken, T., Martinez-Garcia, A., Roberts P.

Multi-isotope investigation of mammal tooth enamel links trophic partitioning to extirpation potential in Pleistocene Southeast Asia

Science Advances (2025) accepted

Meijers, M. J. M., Mikes, T., Rojay, B., Çubukçu, B. E., Aydar, E., Lüdecke, T. and Mulch, A. (2025)

Climate change drove Late Miocene to Pliocene rise and fall of C₄vegetation at the crossroads of Africa and Eurasia (Anatolia, Türkiye)

Preprint, Climate of the Past, cp-2024-08

Ferreira da Silva, M.J., Tralma, P., Colmonero-Costeira, I., Cravo-Mota, M., Farassi, R., Hammond, P., Lewis-Bevan, L., Bamford, M. K., Biro, D., Lüdecke, T., Mathe, J., Bobe, R., Capelli, C., Carvalho S. & Martínez F. I. (2025)

Sex-mediated Gene Flow in Grayfoot Chacma Baboons (Papio ursinus griseipes) in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique

International Journal of Primatology 46, 705–736. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-025-00494-2

Biro, D., Muschinski, J., Hammond P., Bobe, R., Bamford, M. K., Capelli, C., d’Oliveira Coelho, J., Farassi, R., Lüdecke, T., Martinez, F. I., Mathe, J., Ferreira Silva M. J., Carvalho, S. (2025)

West Side Story: Regional Inter-Troop Variation in Baboon Bark-Stripping at Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 187, Issue 1:
https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.70057

Meijers, M. j. M., Brocard, G. Y., Cosca, M. A., Lüdecke, T., Teyssier, C., Whitney, D. L., Mulch A. (2025)

Rapid late Miocene surface uplift of the Central Anatolian Plateau margin

Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 497, Pages 29-41
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2018.05.040

Wang, X., Bocksberger, G., ..., Lüdecke, T., ..., Boesch ,C., Oelze, V.M. (2024)

Strontium isoscape of sub-Saharan Africa allows tracing origins of victims of the transatlantic slave trade

Nature Communications, 5, 10891. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-55256-0

Comans, C.M., Smart, S.M., Kast, E.R., Lu, Y., Lüdecke, T., Leichliter, J.N., Sigman, D.M., Ikejiri, T., and Martínez-García, A. (2024)

Enameloid-bound δ¹⁵N reveals large trophic separation among Late Cretaceous sharks in the northern Gulf of Mexico.

Geobiology, v. 22, p. e12585, doi:10.1111/gbi.12585.

Moretti, S., Duprey, N.N., Foreman, A.D., Arns, A., Brömme, S., Jung, J., Ai, X.E., Auderset, A., Bieler, A.L., Eck, C., Farmer, J., Hinnenberg, B., Lacerra, M., Leichliter, J., Lüdecke, T., Oleynik, S., Rubach, F., Schmitt, M., Vink, M., Wald, T., Yehudai,M., Sigman, D.M., Martínez-García, A. (2024)

Analytical improvements and assessment of long-term performance of the oxidation-denitrifier method.

Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 15;38(1):e9650. doi: 10.1002/rcm.9650. PMID: 38073197.

*Leichliter, J. and *Lüdecke, T., Foreman, A., Bourgon, N., Duprey, N., Vonhof, H., Souksavatdy, V., Bacon, A.-M., Sigman, D., Tütken, T., Martinez-Garcia, A. (2023)

Tooth enamel nitrogen isotope composition records trophic position: a tool for reconstructing food webs

Communications Biology 6, 373. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04744-y
*shared first authors

Kubat, J., Nava, A., Bondioli, L., Bondioli, L., Dean, C., Zanolli, C., Bourgon, N., Bacon, A., Demeter, F., Peripoli, B., Albert, R., Lüdecke, T., Hertler, C., Mahoney, P., Kullmer, O., Schrenk, F., Müller W. (2023)

Dietary strategies of Pleistocene Pongo sp. and Homo erectus on Java (Indonesia).

Nat Ecol Evol 7, 279–289 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01947-0

Bobe, R., Aldeias, V., Alemseged, Z., Anemone, R. L., Archer, W., Aumaître, G., Bamford, M. K., Biro, D., Bourlès, D. L., Doyle Boyd, M., Braun, D. R., Capelli, C., d’Oliveira Coelho, J., Habermann, J. M., Head, J. J., Keddadouche, K., Kupczik, K., Lebatard, A.-E., Lüdecke, T., Macôa, A., Martínez, F. I., Mathe, J., Mendes, C., Paulo, L. M., Pinto, M., Presnyakova, D., Püschel, T. A., Regala, F. T., Sier, M., Ferreira da Silva, M. J., Stalmans, M., Carvalho, S. (2023)

The first Miocene fossils from coastal woodlands in the southern East African Rift.

iScience 26(9), 107644. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.107644

*Lüdecke, T. and *Leichliter, J.N., Aldeias, V., Bamford, M.K., Biro, D., Braun, D.R., Capelli, C., Cybulski, J.D., Duprey, N.N., Ferreira da Silva, M.J., Foreman, A.D., Habermann, J.M., Haug, G.H., Martínez, F.I., Mathe, J., Mulch, A., Sigman, D.M., Vonhof, H., Bobe, R., Carvalho, S., Martínez-García, A. (2022)

Carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen stable isotopes in modern tooth enamel: A case study from Gorongosa National Park, central Mozambique

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution,10:958032.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.958032
*shared first authors

Kast, E.R., Griffiths, M.L., Kim, S.L., Rao, Z.C., Shimada, K., Becker, M.A., Maisch, H.M., Eagle, R.A., Clarke, C.A., Neumann, A.N., Karnes, M.E., Lüdecke, T., Leichliter, J.N., Martinez-Garcia, A., Akhtar, A.A., Wang, X.T., Haug, G.H., Sigman, D.M. (2022)

Cenozoic megatooth sharks occupied extremely high trophic positions

Science Advances, 8(25), eabl6529. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abl6529

Jaouen, K., Villalba-Mouco, V., Smith, G.M., Trost, M., Leichliter, J., Lüdecke, T., Méjean, P., Mandrou, S., Chmeleff, J., Guiserix, D., Bourgon, N., Blasco, F., Cardoso, J.M., Duquenoy, C., Moubtahij, Z., Salazar-García, D., Richards, M., Tütken, T., Hublin, J.-J., Utrilla, P., Montes, L. (2022)

A Neandertal dietary conundrum: new insights provided by tooth enamel Zn isotopes from Gabasa, Spain

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(43), e2109315119.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2109315119

Martinez-Garcia, A., Jung, J., Ai, X.E., Sigman, D.M., Auderset, A., Duprey, N.N., Foreman, A., Fripiat, F., Leichliter, J., Lüdecke, T., Moretti, S., Wald, T. (2022)

Laboratory assessment of the impact of chemical oxidation, mineral dissolution, and heating on the nitrogen isotopic composition of fossil-bound organic matter

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 23, e2022GC010396.
https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GC010396

Caves Rugenstein, J.K., Methner, K., Kukla, T., Mulch, A., Lüdecke, T., Fiebig, J., Meltzer, A., Wegmann, K., Zeitler, P., Chamberlain, C.P. (2022)

Clumped isotope constraints on warming and precipitation seasonality in Mongolia following Altai uplift

American Journal of Sciences, 322, 28-54. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2475/01.2022.02

Santander, C., Molinaro, L., Mutti, G., Martínez, F.I., Mathe, J., Ferreira da Silva, M.J., Caldon, M., Oteo‑Garcia, G., Aldeias, V., Archer, W., Bamford, M., Biro, D., Bobe, R., Braun, D.R., Hammond, P., Lüdecke, T., Pinto, M.J., Paulo, L.M., Stalmans, M., Regala, F.T., Bertolini, F., Moltke, I., Raveane, A., Pagani, L., Carvalho, S., Capelli, C. (2022)

Genomic variation in baboons from central Mozambique unveils complex evolutionary relationships with other Papio species

BMC Ecology and Evolution, 22:44. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-022-01999-7

Leichliter, J.N., Lüdecke, T., Foreman, A.D., Duprey, N.N., Winkler, D.E., Kast, E.R., Vonhof, H., Sigman, D.M., Haug, G.H., Clauss, M., Tütken, T.; Martínez-García (2021)

Nitrogen isotopes in tooth enamel record diet and trophic level enrichment: Results from a controlled feeding experiment

Chemical Geology, 563, 120047. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2020.120047

Habermann, J.M., Alberti, M., Aldeias, V., Alemseged, Z., Archer, W., Bamford, M., Biro, D., Braun, D.R., Capelli, C., Cunha, E., Ferreira da Silva, M., Lüdecke, T., Madiquida, H., Martinez, F., Mathe, J., Negash, E., Paulo, L.M., Pinto, M., Stalmans, M., Tatá, F., Wynn, J., Bobe, R., Carvalho, S. (2019)

Gorongosa by the sea: First Miocene fossil sites from the Urema Rift, central Mozambique, and their coastal paleoenvironmental and paleoecological contexts

Paleogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology,514, 723-738.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.09.032

Martinez, F.I., Capelli, C., Ferreira da Silva, M.J., Aldeias, V., Alemseged, Z., Archer, W., Bamford, M., Biro, D., Bobe, R., Braun, D., Habermann, J.M., Lüdecke, T., Madiquida, H., Mathe, J., Negash, E., Paulo, L.M., Pinto, M., Stalmans, M., Tatá, F., Carvalho, S.A. (2019)

A missing piece of the Papio puzzle: Gorongosa baboon phenostructure and intrageneric relationships

Journal of Human Evolution 130, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.01.007

Ernst, M., Thiemeyer, H., Lüdecke, T. (2019)

Stable isotope signatures of radiocarbon dated pedogenic carbonate from Tell Chuera (NE Syria) reveal fluctuating paleoenvironmental patterns in the Pleistocene Levant

Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, 62, Suppl. 1, 059-084.
https://doi.org/10.1127/zfg_suppl/2019/0553

Lüdecke, T., Kullmer, O., Wacker, U., Sandrock, O., Fiebig, J., Schrenk, F., Mulch, A. (2018)

Dietary Versatility of Early Pleistocene Hominins

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115, 723-738.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1809439115

Meijers, M.J.M., Brocard, G.Y., Cosca, M.A., Lüdecke, T., Teyssier, C., Whitney, D.L., Mulch, A. (2018)

Rapid Late Miocene Surface Uplift of the Central Anatolian Plateau Margin

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 497, 29-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2018.05.040

Lüdecke, T., Mulch, A., Kullmer, O., Sandrock, O., Thiemeyer, Fiebig, J., Schrenk, F. (2016)

Stable isotope dietary reconstructions of herbivore enamel reveal heterogeneous savanna ecosystems in the Plio-Pleistocene Malawi Rift

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 459, 170–181.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.07.010

Lüdecke, T., Schrenk, F., Thiemeyer, H., Kullmer, O., Bromage, T.G., Sandrock, O., Fiebig, J., Mulch, A. (2016)

Persistent C₃ vegetation accompanied Plio-Pleistocene hominin evolution in the Malawi Rift (Chiwondo Beds, Karonga Basin, East African Rift System)

Journal of Human Evolution, 90, 163-175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.10.014

Fiebig, J., Hofmann, S., Löffler, N., Lüdecke, T., Methner, K., Wacker, U. (2015)

Slight pressure imbalances can affect accuracy and precision of dual inlet-based clumped isotope analysis

Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies, 52, 12-28.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10256016.2015.1010531

Lüdecke, T., Thiemeyer, H. (2013)

Palaeoenvironmental Characteristics of the Plio-Pleistocene Chiwondo and Chitimwe Beds (N-Malawi)

In: Runge, J. Palaeoecology of Africa Vol. 32: An International Yearbook of Landscape Evolution and Palaeoenvironments, 143-161.

Lüdecke, T., Mikes, T., Rojay, B., Cosca, M.A., Mulch, A. (2013)

Stable isotope-based reconstruction of Oligo-Miocene paleoenvironment and paleohydrology of Central Anatolian lake basins (Turkey)

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 22, 793-819. http://dx.doi.org/10.3906/yer-1207-11