Nicholas Conard

Nicholas J. Conard, (born July 23, 1961 in Cincinnati) is an American and naturalized German citizen who works as an archaeologist and prehistorian.

He mainly works on sites from the Middle to Late Pleistocene of Germany and South Africa, but has also directed and co-directed fieldwork taking place in Iran, the United Arab Emirates, and Syria.

[2] Some of his most important scientific contributions have come as the project leader of a team working on an archaeological examination of the Hohle Fels cave in the Swabian Jura area, a low mountain range in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, bounded by the Danube in the southeast and the upper Neckar in the northwest.

[4] Conard is leader of the research project at Schöningen, a 300,000 year-old site where prehistoric humans made and used wooden spears and throwing sticks, hunted horses, butchered straight-tusked elephants, and processed bear pelts.

[5][6][7] Sibudu Cave is a prehistoric rock shelter and an important archaeological site from the Middle Stone Age in South Africa, dating between 77,000 and 38,000 years ago.