Indipendent Institute of Geosciences
Dr. Cajus G. Diedrich
cdiedri@gmx.net
Diedrich, C. 2016. The largest Late Pleistocene hyena population from the Srbsko Chlum-Komín Cave (Czech Republic) and its prey in a commuting and prey depot cave den of Central Europe. - Acta Zoologica, 97(2), (in press). DOI: 10.1111/azo.12152
Diedrich, C. 2015. Sophie’s Cave – a Late Pleistocene cave bear den. – 192 pp., Bentham/Elsevier - http://ebooks.benthamsciencepublisher.org/book/9781681080000/
Diedrich, C. 2015. Late Pleistocene spotted hyena den sites and specialized rhinoceros scavengers in the Thuringian Mountain Zechstein karst (Central Germany). - Quaternary Science Journal, 64(1), 29-45.
Diedrich, C. 2014. Holotype skulls, stratigraphy, bone taphonomy and excavation history in the Zoolithen Cave and new theory about Esper’s “great deluge”. - Quaternary Science Journal, 63(1), 78-98. http://quaternary-science.publiss.net/system/articles/pdfas/894/original_vol63-no1-a05.pdf?1404047827
Diedrich, C. 2014. Palaeopopulations of Late Pleistocene top predators in Europe: Ice Age spotted hyenas and steppe lions in battle and competition about prey. - Paleontology Journal, 2014, 1-34. http://www.hindawi.com/journals/paleontology/2014/106203/
Diedrich, C.2014. Seltene Freilandfunde der späteiszeitlichen Fleckenhyäne Crocuta crocuta spelaea (Goldfuss 1823) in Sachsen-Anhalt und Beitrag zu Horsttypen der letzten Hyänen im Jung-Pleistozän von Mitteldeutschland. - Zeitschrift für Mitteldeutsche Vorgeschichte, 94, 1-19. http://www.lda-lsa.de/landesamt_fuer_denkmalpflege_und_archaeologie/uebergreifende_fachdienste/bibliothek/publikationen/
Diedrich, C. 2013. Ice Age geomorphological Ahorn Valley and Ailsbach River terrace evolution and its importance for the cave use possibilities by cave bears, top predators (hyenas, wolves and lions) and humans (Late Magdalénians) in the Frankonia Karst – case studies in the Sophie’s Cave near Kirchahorn, Bavaria. - Quaternary Science Journal, 62(2), 162-174. http://issuu.com/geozon/docs/e-38-g-quaternary-science-journal-vol-62-no-2
Diedrich, C. 2013. Impact of the German Harz Mountain Weichselian ice-shield and valley glacier development onto Palaeolithics and megafauna disappearance. - Quaternary Science Reviews, 82, 167-198. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.08.013, http://www.journals.elsevier.com/quaternary-science-reviews/
Diedrich, C. 2013. Late Pleistocene Eemian hyena and steppe lion feeding strategies on their largest prey—Palaeoloxodon antiquus Falconer and Cautley 1845 at the straight-tusked elephant graveyard and Neanderthal site Neumark-Nord Lake 1, Central Germany. - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 6(3), 271-291.
DOI:10.1007/s12520-013-0150-7Diedrich, C. 2013. Late Pleistocene leopards across Europe - most northern European population, highest elevated records in the Alps, complete skeletons in the Dinarids and comparison to the Ice Age cave art. - Quaternary Science Reviews, 76, 167-193. DOI:10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.05.009, http://www.journals.elsevier.com/quaternary-science-reviews/
Diedrich, C.2013. Extinctions of Late Ice Age Cave Bears as a Result of Climate/Habitat Change and Large Carnivore Lion/Hyena/Wolf Predation Stress in Europe. - ISRN Zoology, 2013, 1-25. http://www.hindawi.com/journals/isrn/2013/138319/
Diedrich, C.2013. Evolution, Horste, Taphonomie und Prädatoren der Rübeländer Höhlenbären, Harz (Norddeutschland). - Mitteilungen des Verbandes der deutschen Höhlen- und Karstforscher, 59(1), 4-29. http://www.vdhk.de/der-verband/publikationen/mitteilungen-2013.html
Diedrich, C. 2013. Recycling of badger/fox burrows in Late Pleistocene loess by hyenas at the den site Bad Wildungen-Biedensteg (NW, Germany): woolly rhinoceros killers and scavengers in a mammoth steppe environment of europe. - Journal of Geological Research, 2013, 1-31. http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jgr/2013/190795/
Diedrich, C., Rathgeber, T. 2012. Late Pleistocene steppe lion Panthera leo spelaea (Goldfuss, 1810) skeleton remains of the Upper Rhine valley (SW Germany) and contribution to their sexual dimorphism, taphonomy and habitus. - Historical Biology, 24 (1), 1-28. DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2010.549943 http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ghbi20/current
Rothschild, B.M. Diedrich, C. 2012. Comparison of pathologies in the extinct Pleistocene Eurasian steppe lion Pantherea leo spelaea (Goldfuss, 1810) to those in the modern lion, Panthera leo – Results of fights with hyenas, bears and lions and other ecological stress. - International Journal of Paleopathology, 2(4), 187-198. DOI: 0.1016/j.ijpp.2012.09.004, http://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-paleopathology/
Diedrich, C. 2012. Late Pleistocene Crocuta crocuta spelaea (Goldfuss, 1823) clans as prezewalski horse hunters and woolly rhinoceros scavengers at the open air commuting den and contemporary Neanderthal camp site Westeregeln (central Germany) - Journal of Archaeological Science, 39 (6), 1749-1767. DOI:10.1016/j.jas.2012.01.013, http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-archaeological-science/
White, P., Diedrich, C. 2012. Taphonomy story of a modern African elephant Loxodonta africana carcass on a lakeshore in Zambia (Africa). - Quaternary International, 276/277, 287-296. DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2012.07.025, http://www.journals.elsevier.com/quaternary-international/
Diedrich, C. 2012. Cave bear killers and scavengers from the last ice age of central Europe: Feeding specializations in response to the absence of mammoth steppe fauna from mountainous regions. - Quaternary International, 255, 59-78. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2011.06.048, http://www.journals.elsevier.com/quaternary-international/
Diedrich, C. 2012. The Late Pleistocene Crocuta crocuta spelaea (Goldfuss, 1823) population from the Emscher River terrace hyena open air den Bottrop and other sites in NW-Germany – woolly rhinoceros scavengers and their bone accumulations along rivers in lowland mammoth steppe environments. - Quaternary International 276-277, 93-119. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2011.07.046, http://www.journals.elsevier.com/quaternary-international/
Diedrich, C. 2012. Europe’s first Upper Pleistocene Crocuta crocuta spelaea (Goldfuss, 1823) skeleton from the Koneprusy Caves - a hyena cave prey depot site in the Bohemian Karst (Czech Republic) – Late Pleistocene woolly rhinoceros scavengers. - Historical Biology, 24(1), 63-89, London. DOI:10.1080/08912963.2011.552718 http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ghbi20/current
Diedrich, C. 2012. The Ice Age spotted Crocuta crocuta spelaea (Goldfuss, 1823) population, their excrements and prey from the Late Pleistocene hyena den Sloup Cave in the Moravian Karst; Czech Republic. - Historical Biology, 24 (2), 161-185. DOI:10.1080/08912963.2011.591491, http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ghbi20/current
Diedrich, C. 2011. Late Pleistocene Panthera leo spelaea (Goldfuss, 1810) skeletons from the Czech Republic (central Europe); their pathological cranial features and injuries resulting from intraspecific fights, conflicts with hyenas, and attacks on cave bears. - Bulletin of Geosciences, 86(4), 817-840. http://www.geology.cz/bulletin/contents/art1263
Diedrich, C. 2011. Late Pleistocene steppe lion Panthera leo spelaea (Goldfuss, 1810) footprints and bone remains from open air sites in northern Germany – evidence of hyena-lion antagonism in Europe. - Quaternary Science Reviews, 30 (2011) 1883-1906. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.03.006, http://www.journals.elsevier.com/quaternary-science-reviews/
Diedrich, C. 2011. The Late Pleistocene spotted hyena Crocuta crocuta spelaea (Goldfuss, 1823) population with its type specimens from the Zoolithen Cave at Gailenreuth (Bavaria, South Germany): a hyena cub raising den of specialized cave bear scavengers in boreal forest environments of Central Europe. - Historical Biology, 23 (4), 335-367. DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2011.552719, http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ghbi20/current
Diedrich, C. 2011. Periodical use of the Balve Cave (NW Germany) as a Late Pleistocene Crocuta crocuta spelaea (Goldfuss 1823) den: Hyena occupations and bone accumulations vs. human Middle Palaeolithic activity. - Quaternary International, 233, 171-184. DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2010.02.027, http://www.journals.elsevier.com/quaternary-international/
Diedrich, C. 2011. A clan of hyenas, Crocuta crocuta spelaea (Goldfuss, 1823), from the Rösenbeck Cave hyena den (Germany) and contribution to cranial shape variability. - Biological Journal of the Linnean Society London, 103, 191-220. DOI:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01632, http://www.journals.elsevier.com/quaternary-international/
Diedrich, C. 2011. The largest European lion Panthera leo spelaea (Goldfuss) population from the Zoolithen Cave, Germany – specialized cave bear predators of Europe. - Historical Biology, 23 (2-3), 271-311. DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2010.546529, http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ghbi20/current
Diedrich, C. 2011. The Crocuta crocuta spelaea (Goldfuss, 1823) population and its prey from the Late Pleistocene Teufelskammer Cave hyena den besides the famous Palaeolithic Neanderthal Cave (NRW, NW Germany). - Historical Biology, 23 (2-3), 237-270. DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2010.530348., http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ghbi20/current
Diedrich, C. 2010. Ichnological and ethological studies in one of Europe's famous bear den in the Ursilor Cave (Carpathians, Romania). - Ichnos, 18 (1), 9-26. DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2010.02.004, http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/gich20/current
Diedrich, C. 2010. A diseased Panthera leo spelaea (Goldfuss, 1810) lioness from a forest elephant graveyard in the Late Pleistocene (Eemian) interglacial lake at Neumark-Nord, central Germany. - Historical Biology, 23 (2-3), 195-217. DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2010.507814., http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ghbi20/current
Diedrich, C. 2010. Specialized horse killers in Europe – foetal horse remains in the Late Pleistocene Srbsko Chlum-Komín Cave hyena den in the Bohemian Karst (Czech Republic) and actualistic comparisons to modern African spotted hyenas as zebra hunters. - Quaternary International, 220 (1-2), 174-187. DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2010.01.023, http://www.journals.elsevier.com/quaternary-international/
Diedrich, C. 2009. Late Pleistocene Hystrix (Acanthion) brachyura Linnaeus, 1758 from the Fuchsluken cave at the Rote Berg near Saalfeld (Thuringia, Germany) - a porcupine and hyena den and contribution to their palaeobiogeography. - The Open Palaeontological Journal, 2008 (1), 33-41. http://benthamscience.com/open/journal/render-fulltext.php?articleID=TOPALOJ-2-1
Diedrich, C. 2009. Upper Pleistocene Panthera leo spelaea (Goldfuss, 1810) remains from the Bilstein Caves (Sauerland Karst) and contribution to the steppe lion taphonomy, palaeobiology and sexual dimorphism. - Annales de Paléontologie, 95 (2009) 117-138. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/07533969
Diedrich, C. 2009. Steppe lion remains imported by Ice Age spotted hyenas into the Late Pleistocene Perick Caves hyena den in Northern Germany. - Quaternary Research, 71 (3): 361-374. DOI:10.1016/j.yqres.2008.12.006, http://www.journals.elsevier.com/quaternary-research/
Diedrich, C. 2008. Eingeschleppte und benagte Knochenreste von Coelodonta antiquitatis (Blumenbach, 1807) aus dem oberpleistozänen Fleckenhyänenhorst Perick-Höhlen im Nordsauerland (NW Deutschland) und Beitrag zur Taphonomie von Wollnashornknochen in Westfalen. - Mitteilungen der Höhlen und Karstforscher, 2008 (4), 100-117. http://www.vdhk.de/der-verband/publikationen/mitteilungen-2013.html
Diedrich, C. 2008. The rediscovered holotypes of the Upper Pleistocene spotted hyena Crocuta crocuta spelaea (Goldfuss, 1823) and the steppe lion Panthera leo spelaea (Goldfuss 1810) and taphonomic discussion to the Zoolithen Cave hyena den at Geilenreuth (Bavaria, South-Germany). - Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society London, 154, 822-831. DOI:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00425.x, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291096-3642
Diedrich, C. 2008. Die letzen Vielfraße Gulo gulo (Linné 1758) aus den Perick- und Rösenbecker Höhlen im Sauerländer Karst: - Mitteilungen des Verbandes der deutschen Höhlen- und Karstforscher, 54 (2), 36-44. http://www.vdhk.de/der-verband/publikationen/mitteilungen-2013.html
Diedrich, C. 2007. Upper Pleistocene Panthera leo spelaea (Goldfuss 1810) skeleton remains from Praha-Podbaba and the contribution to other lion finds from loess and river terrace sites in Central Bohemia (Czech Republic). - Bulletin of Geosciences, 82 (2): 99-117, Prague.
Diedrich, C. 2007. The fairy tale about the "cave lions" Panthera leo spelaea (Goldfuss 1810) of Europe - Late Ice Age spotted hyenas and Ice Age steppe lions in conflict - lion killers and scavengers around Prague (Central Bohemia). - Scripta Facultatis Scientiarum Universitatis Masarykianae, Geology, 35 (2005): 107-112.
Diedrich, C. 2007. Bone crackers and carcass accumulators in Central Bohemia - Late Pleistocene hyenas and their cave den and prey depot types. - Scripta Facultatis Scientiarum Universitatis Masarykianae, Geology, Geology, 35 (2005): 91-96.
Diedrich, C. 2007. Crocuta crocuta spelaea (Goldfuss 1823) remains from the Upper Pleistocene hyaena Teufelskammer Cave den site near Hochdahl in the Neander valley (NRW, NW Germany). - Cranium, 24 (2): 39-44, Amsterdam.
Diedrich, C. 2007. The Upper Pleistocene Crocuta crocuta spelaea (Goldfuss 1823) population and its prey from the gypsum karst den site Westeregeln near Magdeburg (Middle Germany). - Abhandlungen und Berichte für Naturkunde, 30: 57-83, Magdeburg.
Diedrich, C. 2006. Freeland remains and den caves of the cave bear Ursus spelaeus Rosenmüller 1794 from the Upper Pleistocene of Bohemia (Czech Republic). - Scientific Annals, School of Geology Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Special volume 98: 187-192, Thessaloniki.
Diedrich, C. 2006. Ice age spotted hyenas ?hunting or only scavenging on a cave bear Ursus spelaeus Rosenmüller at the Ice Age spotted hyena freeland den and prey deposit site Bad Wildungen-Biedensteg (Hessia, Germany). - Scientific Annals, School of Geology Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Special volume 98: 193-199, Thessaloniki.
Diedrich, C. 2006. By ice age spotted hyenas protracted, cracked, nibbled and chewed skeleton remains of Coelodonta antiquitatis (Blumenbach 1807) from the Lower Weichselian (Upper Pleistocene) open air prey deposit site Bad Wildungen-Biedensteg (Hessia, NW Germany). - Journal of Taphonomy, 4 (4): 173-205, Teruel.
Diedrich, C. 2006. The Crocuta crocuta spelaea (Goldfuss 1823) population from the early Upper Pleistocene hyena open air prey deposit site Biedensteg near Bad Wildungen (Hess, NW Germany) and the contribution to their phylogenetic position, coprolites and prey. - Cranium, 23 (2): 39-53, Amsterdam.
Diedrich, C. Žák, K. 2006. Prey deposits and den sites of the Upper Pleistocene hyena Crocuta crocuta spelaea (Goldfuss 1823) in horizontal and vertical caves of the Bohemian Karst (Czech Republic). - Bulletin of Geosciences, 81 (4): 237-276, Prague.
Diedrich, C. 2006. Die oberpleistozäne Population von Ursus spelaeus Rosenmüller 1794 aus dem eiszeitlichen Fleckenhyänenhorst Perick-Höhlen von Hemer (Sauerland, NW Deutschland). - Philippia 12 (4): 275-346, Kassel.
Diedrich, C. 2005. Eiszeithyänen – Bisonknochen in der Kühlkammer. - National Geographic Deutschland, 2005 (Mai): 9, Hamburg.
Diedrich, C. 2005. Tod im Schlammloch – Wollnashorn mit Rippenbruch. - Fossilien, 2005 (3): 156-162, Korb.
Diedrich, C. 2005. Cracking and nibbling marks as indicators for the Upper Pleistocene spotted hyaena as a scavenger of cave bear (Ursus spelaeus Rosenmüller 1794) carcasses in the Perick Caves den of Northwest Germany. - Abhandlungen der Naturhistorischen Gesellschaft Nürnberg, 45: 73-90, Nürnberg.
Diedrich, C. 2005. Freeland remains of the cave bear Ursus spelaeus Rosenmüller 1794 from the Upper Pleistocene of Northwest Germany. - Bulletin de la Société Histoire Naturelle Toulouse, 141 (1): 19-23, Toulouse.
Diedrich, C. 2005. Reste von Mammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach 1799) aus den oberpleistozänen Weserkiesen bei Petershagen (Norddeutschland). - Philippia, 12 (1): 85-91, Kassel.
Diedrich, C. 2005. Eine oberpleistozäne Population von Crocuta crocuta spelaea (Goldfuss 1823) aus dem eiszeitlichen Fleckenhyänenhorst Perick-Höhlen von Hemer (Sauerland, NW Deutschland) und ihr Kannibalismus. - Philippia, 12 (2): 93-115, Kassel.
Diedrich, C. 2005. Von eiszeitlichen Fleckenhyänen eingeschleppte Reste des Steppenwisents Bison priscus Bojanus 1827 aus dem oberpleistozänen Fleckenhyänenhorst des Perick-Höhlensystems (NW Deutschland). - Philippia, 12 (1): 21-30, Kassel.
Diedrich, C. 2005. Von oberpleistozänen Fleckenhyänen gesammelte, versteckte, verbissene, zerknackte Knochen und Geweihe des Riesenhirsches Megaloceros giganteus (Blumenbach 1799) aus den Perick-Höhlen im Nordsauerland (NW Deutschland). - Philippia, 12 (1): 31-46, Kassel.
Diedrich, C. 2005. Benagte und zerknackte Knochen des eiszeitlichen Pferdes Equus ferus przewalskii Poljakoff 1881 aus einem oberpleistozänen Fleckenhyänenhorst des Nordsauerlandes und westfälischen Freilandfundstellen. - Philippia, 12 (1): 47-62, Kassel.
Diedrich, C. 2005. Von eiszeitlichen Fleckenhyänen benagte Mammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach 1799)-Knochen und -Knabbersticks aus dem oberpleistozänen Perick-Höhlenhorst (Sauerland) und Beitrag zur Taphonomie von Mammutkadavern. - Philippia, 12 (1): 63-84, Kassel.
Diedrich, C. 2004. Freilandfunde des oberpleistozänen Höhlenlöwen Panthera leo spelaea Goldfuss 1810 in Westfalen (Norddeutschland). - Philippia, 11 (3): 219-226, Kassel.
Diedrich, C. 2004. Ein bemerkenswerter Schädel von Crocuta crocuta spelaea (Goldfuss 1823) aus der Heinrichshöhle des Sauerlandes (NW Deutschland). - Mitteilungen des Verbandes der deutschen Höhlen- und Karstforscher, 50 (1): 24-27, München.
Diedrich, C. 2004. Oberpleistozäne Fleckenhyänenreste (Crocuta crocuta spelaea (Goldfuss 1823)) aus Flussterrassenablagerungen in der Münsterländer Bucht (NW Deutschland). – Philippia, 11 (3): 227-234, Kassel.
Diedrich, C. 2004. Ein pleistozäner Schädelfund des Moschusochsen Ovibos moschatus Zimmermann 1780 aus den Weserkiesen bei Minden (Norddeutschland). - Philippia, 11 (3): 195-200, Kassel.
Diedrich, C. 2004. Seltene Freilandfunde des Höhlenbären Ursus spelaeus Rosenmüller 1794 aus den oberpleistozänen Emscher- und Weserkiesen (Norddeutschland). - Philippia, 11 (3): 201-209, Kassel.
Diedrich, C. 2004. Ein Schädelfund und von Hyänen angenagter Oberschenkelknochen des Wollnashorns Coelodonta antiquitatis Blumenbach 1807 aus den pleistozänen Weserkiesen bei Minden (Norddeutschland). - Philippia, 11 (3): 211-217, Kassel.
Diedrich, C. & Döppes, D. 2004. Oberpleistozäne Vielfraßreste (Gulo gulo Linné 1758) aus dem Perick-Höhlensystem im Sauerland (NW Deutschland). - Philippia, 11 (4): 335-342, Kassel.