• Landschaftsarchäologie
• Pleistozäne Lebenweise und Subsistenzstrategien
• Umweltrekonstruktion
• Nutzung der Meeresressourcen
• Schmuckstücke

Seit 2008 Senior-Forscher/Projektarchäologe in der Forschungsstelle “The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans–ROCEEH” der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften an der Eberhard-Karls-Universität-Tübingen

2005 Dissertation (Quartärökologie), Fakultät der Geowissenschaften, Eberhard-Karls-Universität-Tübingen

2004-2007 wiss. Mitarbeiter, Institut für Ältere Urgeschichte und Quartärökologie, Eberhard-Karls-Universität-Tübingen

1996-2003 techn. Mitarbeiter, Institut für Ältere Urgeschichte und Quartärökologie, Eberhard-Karls-Universität-Tübingen

1986-1995 Projektgeologe (Dames & Moore), Los Angeles, Kalifornien

1984-1985 (Ozeanographie), Universität von Washington, Seattle

1983 B.A. (Geologie), Universität von Rochester, New York

2026

• Bergström, A., Furtwängler, A., Johnston, S., Rosengren, E., Breidenstein, A., Booth, T., McCabe, J.B., Peto, J., Williams, M., Kelly, M., Tait, F., Baumann, C., Radzeviciute, R., Barrington, C., Anastasiadou, K., Gilardet, A., Glocke, I., Sherman, M., Brativnyk, A., Herbig, A., Prüfer, K., Pfrengle, S., Gretzinger, J., Feuerborn, T.R., Reiter, E., Linderholm, A., Charlton, S., Racimo, F., Mikkola, L., Anderson-Whymark, H., Baird, D., Gotfredsen, A.B., Bocherens, H., Bridault, A., Brocke, R., Drucker, D.G., Fairbairn, A.S., Frantz, L., Gasparyan, B., Giemsch, L., Germonpré, M., Janssens, L., Kandel, A.W., Kjær, K., Lázničková-Galetová, M., Loponte, D., Magnell, O., Martin, L., Münzel, S.C., Mustafaoğlu, G., Måge, B., Perri, A., Pfenninger, F., Roblíčková, M., Roman-Binois, A., Sarıtaş, Ö., Schäppi, K., Sheridan, J.A:, Sjögren, K.-G., Storå, J., Vilien Sørensen, L., Tafelmaier, Y., Ter-Nedden, F., Thalmann, O., Larson, G., Schuenemann, V.J., Krause, J., & Skoglund, P. (2026). Genomic history of early dogs in Europe. Nature 651, 986-994. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10112-7
• Fotiadou, C.M., Borre Pedersen, J., Rougier, H., Roksandic, M., Spyrou, M.A., Nägele, K., Reiter, E., Bocherens, H., Kandel, A.W., Haidle, M.N., Streicher, T.P., Conard, N.J., Schilt, F., Godinho, R.M., Uthmeier, T., Doyon, L., Semal, P., Krause, J., Barbieri, A., Mihailović, D., Crevecoeur, I., & Posth, C. (2026) Archaeogenetic insights into the demographic history of Late Neanderthals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 123: e2520565123. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2520565123
• Kandel, A.W., Gasparyan, B., Adigyozalyan, A. & Haidle, M.N. (2026). Reverse Engineering of Sewing with Needle-and-Thread: An Interpretation of Complementary Technology at Aghitu-3 Cave, Armenia. In: Jöris, O., Dietrich, O., Risch, R. & Meller, H. (Eds.), A Stone Age History of Clothing / Zur Geschichte der Kleidung in der Steinzeit. Tagungen des Landesmuseums für Vorgeschichte Halle, Vol. 33. Heidelberg, Propylaeum, pp. 253-267. https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1678.c24357

2025

• Baumann, B., Kandel, A.W. & Hussain, S.T. (2025). Evidence for the catalytic role of humans in the assembly and evolution of European Late Pleistocene scavenger guilds. Quaternary Science Reviews 349: 109148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.109148
• Beekman, C. S., Kandel, A.W., Barceló, J.A., Kiddey, R., Kienon-Kaboré, H.T., Ragsdale, C.S., Koffi, K.S., Touré, G.A., Mameli, L., Altschul, J.H., Lee, C., & Thiaw, I. (2025). A collaborative synthetic view of migration in archaeology: Addressing challenges for policymakers. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 78: 101667. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101667
• Dapschauskas, R. & Kandel, A.W. (2025). Derivatives of ritual: Investigating the origins of Paleolithic art from the perspective of an evolutionary-psychological archaeology. In: Haidle M.H., Conard, N.J., Wolf, S. & Porr, M. (Eds.) Images, gestures, voices, lives: What can we learn from Paleolithic art? An international Senckenberg conference. Heidelberg University Publishing, ROCEEH Communications, Vol. 2, pp. 147-180. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.1453.c21860
• Hallett, E.Y., Leonardi, M., Cerasoni, J.N., Will, M., Beyer, R., Krapp, M., Kandel, A.W., Manica, A. & Scerri, E.M.L. (2025). Major expansion in the human niche preceded out of Africa dispersal. Nature 644: 115-121. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09154-0
• Jarl, J., Gasparyan, B., Kandel, A.W., Smith, A. & Bruch, A.A. (2025). A high-resolution paleoenvironmental record based on phytoliths from the Armenian Highlands: The Upper Paleolithic of Aghitu-3 Cave, southern Armenia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 64: 105148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105148
• Skourtanioti, E., Jia, X., Tavartkiladze, N., Bitadze, L., Shengelia, R., Tushabramishvili, N., Aslanishvili, V., Gasparyan, B., Kandel, A.W., Naumann, D., Neumann, G.U. Bianco, R.A., Mötsch, A., Prüfer, K., Lamnidis, T.C., Traverso, L., Ghalichi, A., Ellingvåg, S., Stockhammer, P.W., Krause, J., Ringbauer, H. (2025). The Genetic History of the Southern Caucasus from the Bronze Age to the Early Middle Ages: 5000 years of genetic continuity despite high mobility. Cell 188:1-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.07.013

2024

• Antonosyan, M. Roberts, P. Aspaturyan, N., Mkrtchyan, S., Lucas, M., Boxleitner, K., Jabbour, F., Hovhannisyan, A., Cieślik, A., Sahakyan, L., Avagyan, A., Spengler, R., Kandel, A.W., Petraglia, M., Boivin, N., Yepiskoposyan, L., Amano, N. (2024). Multiproxy evidence for environmental stability in the Lesser Caucasus during the Late Pleistocene. Quaternary Science Reviews 330: 108559. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108559
• Rey-Rodríguez, I., Gamarra, B., Arnaud, J., Golavanov, S., Kandel, A.W., Gasparyan, B., Wilkinson, K.N., Adler, D.S. & Weissbrod, L. (2024). Climatic variability in the Armenian Highlands as the backdrop to hominin population dynamics 50–25 ka. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 648: 112285. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112285

2023

• Kandel, A.W. & Conard, N.J. (2023). Geelbek Dunes, South Africa. In: Beyin, A., Wright, D.K., Wilkins, J., Olszewski, D.I. (eds). Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa. Springer, Cham, Vol. II, pp. 1481-1498. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-20290-2_95
• Kandel, A.W. & Conard, N.J. (2023). Anyskop Blowout, South Africa. In: Beyin, A., Wright, D.K., Wilkins, J., Olszewski, D.I. (eds) Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa. Springer, Cham, Vol. II, pp. 1255-1267. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-20290-2_81
• Kandel, A.W., Haidle, M.N., Hochschild, V., Sommer, C. & Kanaeva, Z. (2023). The Aggregation of ROAD Data in the ARIADNE Pipeline: pitfalls and successes. Internet Archaeology 64. https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.64.9
• Kandel, A.W., Sommer, S., Kanaeva, Z., Bolus, M., Bruch, A.A., Groth, C., Haidle, M.N., Hertler, C., Heß, J., Malina M., Märker, M., Hochschild, V., Mosbrugger, V., Schrenk, F. & Conard, N.J. (2023). The ROCEEH Out of Africa Database (ROAD): A large-scale research database serves as an indispensable tool for human evolutionary studies. PLoS ONE 18(8): e0289513. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0289513
• Kelly, R.L., Mackie, M.E. & Kandel, A.W. (2023). Rapid increase in production of symbolic artifacts after 45,000 years ago is not a consequence of taphonomic loss. Journal of Archaeological Science 160: 105885. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2023.105885

2022

• Bader, G., Schmid, V., & Kandel, A.W. (2022). The Middle Stone Age of South Africa. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Retrieved 28 Sep. 2022 from https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.013.251
• Dapschauskas, R., Göden, M., Sommer, C. & Kandel, A.W. (2022). The emergence of habitual ochre use in Africa and its significance for the development of ritual behavior during the Stone Age. Journal of World Prehistory 35: 233-319. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-022-09170-2
• Friesem, D.E., Shimelmitz, R., Schumacher, M.L., Miller, C.E. & Kandel, A.W. (2022). A micro-geoarchaeological view on stratigraphy and site formation processes in the Middle, Upper and Epi-Paleolithic layers of Sefunim Cave, Mt. Carmel, Israel. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 14, 222. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-022-01686-0
• Kandel, A.W., M.H. Haidle & C. Sommer (Eds.) (2022). Human Origins – Digital Future: An International Conference about the Future of Archaeological and Paleoanthropological Databases, 91 pp. ROCEEH Perspectives 1, Heidelberg, Propylaeum, https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.882
• Kandel, A.W. (2022). Invited comment on the article “Scaling of Hunter-Gatherer Camp Size and Human Sociality” by Lobo, J., Whitelaw, T., Bettencourt, L.M.A., Wiessner, P., Smith, M.E. & Ortman, S. Current Anthropology 63: 68-94. https://doi.org/10.1086/719234
• Slon, V., Clark, J.L., Friesem, D.E., Orbach, M., Porat, N., Meyer, M., Kandel, A.W. & Shimelmitz, R. (2022). Extended longevity of DNA preservation in Levantine Paleolithic sediments, Sefunim Cave, Israel. Scientific Reports 12: 14528. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-17399-2
• Sommer, C., Kandel, A.W. & Hochschild, V. (2022). The use of prehistoric ‘big data’ for mapping early human cultural networks. Journal of Maps 18: 674-685. https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2022.2118628
• ter Schure, A.T.M., Bruch, A.A., Kandel, A.W., Gasparyan, B., Bussmann, R.W., Brysting, A.K., de Boer, H.J. & Boessenkool., S. (2022). SedaDNA metabarcoding as a tool for assessing prehistoric plant use at the Upper Paleolithic cave site Aghitu-3, Armenia. Journal of Human Evolution 103258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103258

2021

• Bertacchi, A., Gasparyan, B., Gruwier, B., Rivals, F. & Kandel, A.W. (2021): Upper Paleolithic Animal Exploitation in the Armenian Highlands: The Zooarchaeology of Aghitu-3 Cave. Quaternary International 587-588: 400-414. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2020.04.029.
• Bolus, M., Bruch, A., Haidle, M., Hertler, C., Heß, J., Kanaeva, Z., Kandel, A., Malina, M. & Sommer, C. (2021): Explore the history of humanity with the new ROAD Summary Data Sheet. Archäologische Informationen 43, 413-414.
• Braun, D. Faith, J.T. Douglass, M. Davies, B., Power, M., Aldeias, V., Conard, N.J., Cutts, R., DeSantis, L. Dupont, L., Esteban, I., Kandel, A.W., Levin, N., Luyt, J., Parkington, J.E., Pickering, R., Quick, L., Sealy, J. & Stynder, D. (2021 online): Ecosystem Engineering in the Quaternary of the West Coast of South Africa. Evolutionary Anthropology. DOI: 10.1002/evan.21886.

2020

• Altschul, J.H., Kintigh, K.W., Aldenderfer, M., Alonzi, E., Armit, I., Barceló, J.A., Beekman, C.S., Bickle, P., Bird, D.W., Ingram, S.E., Isayev, E., Kandel, A.W., Kiddey, R., Kienon-Kaboré, H.T., Niccolucci, F., Ragsdale, C.S., Scaffidi, B.K. & Ortman, S.G. (2020): Opinion: To understand how migrations affect human securities, look to the past. PNAS Aug 2020, 202015146. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2015146117
• Bertacchi, A., Gasparyan, B., Gruwier, B., Rivals, F. & Kandel, A.W. (2020): Upper Paleolithic animal exploitation in the Armenian Highlands: The zooarchaeology of Aghitu-3 cave. Quaternary International (online). DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2020.04.029
• Gasparyan, B., Adler, D.S., Wilkinson, K.N., Nahapetyan, S., Egeland, C.P., Glauberman, P.J., Malinsky-Buller, A., Arakelyan, D., Arimura, M., Dan, R., Frahm, E., Haydosyan, H., Azizbekyan, H., Petrosyan, A. & Kandel, A.W. (2020): Study of the Stone Age in the Republic of Armenia (Part 1 – Lower Paleolithic). ARAMAZD: Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies 10 (1-2): 1-60.
• Haidle, M. N., Bolus, M., Bruch, A. A., Hertler, C., Hochschild, V., Kanaeva, Z., Sommer, C. & Kandel, A. W. (2020): Human Origins—Digital Future, an international conference about the future of archeological and paleoanthropological databases. Evolutionary Anthropology. DOI: 10.1002/evan.21870
• Loog, L., Thalmann, O., Sinding, M.-H.S., Schuenemann, V.J., Perri, A., Germonpré, M., Bocherens, H., Witt, K.E., Samaniego Castruita, J.A., Velasco, M.S., Lundstrøm, I.K.C., Wales, N., Sonet, G., Frantz, L., Schroeder, H., Budd, J., Jimenez, E.-L., Fedorov, S., Gasparyan, B., Kandel, A.W., Lázničková-Galetová, M., Napierala, H., Uerpmann, H.-P., Nikolskiy, P.A., Pavlova, E.Y., Pitulko, V.V., Herzig, K.-H., Malhi, R.S., Willerslev, E., Hansen, A.J., Dobney, K., Gilbert, M.T.P., Krause, J., Larson, G., Eriksson, A., & Manica, A. (2020): Modern wolves trace their ancestry to a late Pleistocene expansion from Beringia. Molecular Ecology 29, 1596-1610. DOI: 10.1111/mec.15329
• Varis, A., Limmer, L.S., Röding, C. & Kandel, A.W. (2020). Tenth Annual Meeting of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution. Evolutionary Anthropology 29: 286-288. https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21872

2019

• Frahm, E., Gasparyan, B. & Kandel, A.W. (2019): Upper Palaeolithic Settlement and Mobility in the Armenian Highlands: Agent-Based Modeling, Obsidian Sourcing, and Lithic Analysis at Aghitu-3 Cave. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology 2, 418-465. DOI: 10.1007/s41982-019-00025-5
• Ioannidou, M., Falcucci, A., Röding, C. & Kandel, A.W. (2019): Eighth Annual Meeting of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution.    Evolutionary Anthropology 28, 52-54. DOI: 10.1002/evan.21770
• Will, M., Kandel, A.W. & Conard, N.J. (2019): Midden or molehill: the role of coastal adaptations in human evolution and dispersal. Journal of World Prehistory 32, 33-72. DOI: 10.1007/s10963-018-09127-4

2018

• Kandel, A.W., Bretzke, B. & Conard, N.J. (2018): Epipaleolithic shell beads from Damascus Province, Syria. Quaternary International 464 A, 126-140. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2017.07.021
• Shimelmitz, R., Friesem, D., Clark, J.L., Groman-Yaroslavski, I., Weissbrod, L., Porat, N. & Kandel, A.W. (2018): Sefunim Cave. The Upper Paleolithic and Epipaleolithic of Sefunim Cave, Israel. Quaternary International 464 A, 106-125. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2017.05.039
• Taller, A., Gasparyan, B. & Kandel, A.W. (2018): Living on the edge: The earliest modern human settlement of the Armenian Highlands in Aghitu-3 Cave. In: Nishiaki, Y. & Akazawa, T. (eds.), The Middle and Upper Paleolithic Archeology of the Levant and Beyond. Springer, Singapore, pp. 119-131. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-6826-3
• Wolf, S., Dapschauskas, R., Velliky, B, Floss, H., Kandel, A.W. & Conard, N.J. (2018): The use of ochre and painting during the Upper Paleolithic of the Swabian Jura in the context of the development of ochre use in Africa and Europe. Open Archaeology 4, 185-205. DOI: 10.1515/opar-2018-0012

2017

• Bretzke, B., Kandel, A.W. & Conard, N.J. (2017): The Middle Paleolithic sequence of Wadi Mushkuna Rockshelter and its implications for hominin settlement dynamics in western Syria. Quaternary International 435A, 106-114. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2016.01.035
• Kandel, A.W., Gasparyan, B., Allué, E., Bigga, G., Bruch, A.A., Cullen, V.L., Frahm, E., Ghukasyan, R., Gruwier, B., Jabbour, F., Miller, C.E., Taller, A., Vardazaryan, V., Vasilyan, D. & Weissbrod, L. (2017): The earliest evidence for Upper Paleolithic occupation in the Armenian Highlands at Aghitu-3 Cave. Journal of Human Evolution 110, 37-68. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.05.010
• Karakostis, A.F., Velliky, B. & Kandel, A.W. (2017): Sixth Annual Meeting of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution. Evolutionary Anthropology 26, 7-8.
• Napierala, H., Kandel, A.W. & Conard, N.J. (2017): Small game and the shifting subsistence patterns from the Upper Paleolithic to the Natufian at Baaz Rockshelter, Syria. In: M. Maskour, M. Beech (eds.) Archaeozoology of the Near East IX. Proceedings of the ninth international Symposium on the Archaeozoology of southwestern Asia and adjacent areas, Al Ain, U.A.E., Sept. 2008. Oxbow, Oxford, pp. 2-9.

2016

• Kandel, A.W., Bolus, M., Bretzke, K., Bruch, A.A., Haidle, M.N., Hertler, C. & Märker, M. (2016): Increasing Behavioral Flexibility? An Integrative Macro-Scale Approach to Understanding the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 23, 623-668. DOI 10.1007/s10816-015-9254-y
• Uhl, A., Mentzer, S.M. & Kandel, A.W. (2016): Fifth Annual Meeting of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution. Evolutionary Anthropology 25, 41-42.
• Will, M., Kandel, A.W., Kyriacou, K. & Conard, N.J. (2016): An evolutionary perspective on coastal adaptations by modern humans during the Middle Stone Age of Africa. Quaternary International 404B, 68-86. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.10.021

2015

• Kyriacou, K., Parkington, J.E., Will, M., Kandel, A.W. & Conard, N.J. (2015): Middle and Later Stone Age shellfish exploitation strategies and coastal foraging at Hoedjiespunt and Lynch Point, Saldanha Bay, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science 57, 197-206.
• Reyes-Centeno, H., Mentzer, S.M. & Kandel, A.W. (2015): Fourth Annual Meeting of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution. Evolutionary Anthropology 24, 1-2.
• Will, M., Kandel, A.W. & Conard, N.J. (2015): Coastal adaptations and settlement systems on the Cape and Horn of Africa during the Middle Stone Age. In: N.J. Conard, A. Delagnes (eds.) Settlement Dynamics of the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age, Vol. IV. Tübingen: Kerns Verlag, pp. 61-89.

2014

• Bruch, A.A.,  Kandel, A.W. & Lordkipanidze, D. (2014): The role of the Southern Caucasus on early human evolution and expansion - refuge, hub or source area? Antiquity 088, 339.
• Gasparyan, B., Kandel, A.W. & Montoya, C. (2014): Living the high life: The Upper Paleolithic settlement of the Armenian Highlands. In: B. Gasparyan, A. Arimura (eds.) Stone Age of Armenia. Guide-book to the Stone Age Archaeology in the Republic of Armenia. Kanazawa University, Japan, pp. 107-131.
• Kandel, A.W., Gasparyan, B., Nahepetyan, S., Taller, A. & Weissbrod, L. (2014): The Upper Paleolithic Settlement of the Armenian Highlands. In: Otte, M., Le Brun-Ricalens, F. (eds.) Modes de contacts et de déplacements au Paléolithique eurasiatique, Actes du colloque international de la commission 8 (Paléolithique supérieur) de l'UISPP, Université de Liège, 28-31 mai 2012. Liège: Université de Liège 140, pp. 39-60.
• Kandel, A.W., Mentzer, S.M., Noback, M.L. & Reyes-Centeno, H. (2014): Third annual meeting of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution. Evolutionary Anthropology 23, 45-46. DOI: 10.1002/evan.21407

2013

• Clark, J.L. & Kandel, A.W. (2013): The evolutionary implications of variation in human hunting strategies and diet breadth during the Middle Stone Age of southern Africa. Current Anthropology 54(S8): S269-S287. DOI:10.1086/673386
• Kandel, A.W. & Conard, N.J. (2013): Stone Age Economics and Landuse in the Geelbek Dunes. In: A. Jerardino, A. Malan & D. Braun (eds.) The Archaeology of the West Coast of South Africa. British Archaeological Reviews International Series 2526, Cambridge Monographs in Africa Archaeology 84, pp. 24-49. Oxford: Archaeopress.
• Kandel, A.W., Noback, M.L. & Slizewski, A. (2013): Second Annual Meeting of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution. Evolutionary Anthropology 22, 157-158.
• Will, M., Parkington, J.E., Kandel, A.W. & Conard, N.J. (2013): Coastal adaptations and the MSA lithic assemblages from Hoedjiespunt 1 in the Western Cape, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution 64, 518-537.

2012

• Kandel, A.W., Bauer, C.C., Noback, M.L. & Singh, N. (2012): First Annual Meeting of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution. Evolutionary Anthropology 21, 167-168.
• Kandel, A.W. & Conard, N.J. (2012): Settlement patterns during the Earlier and Middle Stone Age around Langebaan Lagoon, Western Cape (South Africa). Quaternary International 270, 15-29. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2011.06.038.
• Kandel, A.W., Gasparyan, B., Bruch, A.A., Weissbrod, L. & Zardaryan, D. (2012): Introducing Aghitu-3, the First Upper Paleolithic Cave Site in Armenia. ARAMAZD: Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies 6(2), 7-23.
• Thomas, D.B., Chinsamy A., Conard, N.J. & Kandel, A.W. (2012): Chemical investigation of mineralisation categories used to assess taphonomy. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 361-362, 104-110.

2011

• Bretzke, K., Kandel, A.W. & Conard, N.J. (2011): Deducing landuse patterns from archaeological survey data. Chronique Archéologique en Syrie 5, 11-18.

2010

• Conard, N.J., Masri, M., Bretzke, K., Napierala, H. & Kandel, A.W. (2010): Modeling Middle Paleolithic land use in the Damascus Province, Syria. In: N.J. Conard & A. Delagnes (eds.) Settlement Dynamics of the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age, Vol. III, pp. 123-144. Tübingen: Kerns Verlag.
• Haidle, M.N., Bolus, M., Bruch, A.A., Hertler, C., Kandel, A.W., Märker, M., Conard, N.J., Hochschild, V., Schrenk, F. & Mosbrugger, V. (2010): The role of culture in early expansions of humans–A new research center. Quaternary International 223-224, 429–430.
• Kandel, A.W., Conard, N.J. & Masri, M. (2010): The Settlement of Southwestern Syria: Results from the Tübingen Damascus Excavation and Survey Project (1999-2008). In: A. Abdulrahman (ed.) The History and Antiquities of al-Golan: International Conference. Damascus: Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums 57-70.

2008

• Conard, N.J., Walker, S.J. & Kandel, A.W. (2008): How heating and cooling and wetting and drying can destroy dense faunal elements and lead to differential preservation. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 266, 236-245.
• Fuchs, M., Kandel, A.W., Conard, N.J., Walker, S.J. & Felix-Henningsen, P. (2008): Geoarchaeological and chronostratigraphical investigations of open-air sites in the Geelbek Dunes, South Africa. Geoarchaeology 23, 425-449.

2007

• Dodonov, A.E, Kandel, A.W., Simakova, A.N., Masri, M. & Conard, N.J. (2007): Geoarchaeological characteristics of open-air Paleolithic sites in the Ma’aloula region, Damascus Province, Syria. Geoarchaeology 22, 589-606.
• Kandel, A.W. (2007): Comparative Studies in Landscape Archaeology. (Abstract of Dissertation.) Archäologisches Nachrichtenblatt 12, 63-64.

2006

• Conard, N.J. & Kandel, A.W. (2006): The economics and settlement dynamics of the later Holocene inhabitants of near coastal environments in the West Coast National Park (South Africa). In: H.-P. Wotzka (ed.) Grundlegungen. Beiträge zur europäischen und afrikanischen Archäologie für Manfred K.H. Eggert, pp. 329-356. Tübingen: Francke.
• Conard, N.J., Dietl, H., Dodonov, A.E., Drechsler, P., Kandel, A.W. & Masri, M. (2006): Results from the 2004 TDASP Survey. In: N.J. Conard (ed.) Tübingen-Damascus Excavation and Survey Project: 1999-2005. Tübingen: Kerns Verlag, pp. 325-336.
• Kandel, A.W., Walker, S.J. & Conard, N.J. (2006): Near-coastal settlement dynamics at the Anyskop Blowout, an archaeological locality at Langebaanweg, South Africa. (Abstract for Langebaanweg 2006 Symposium.) African Natural History 2, 186-187.

2005

• Dietl, H., Kandel, A.W. & Conard, N.J. (2005): Middle Stone Age settlement and land use at the open-air sites of Geelbek and Anyskop, South Africa. Journal of African Archaeology 3(2), 233-244.
• Kandel, A.W. (2005): Comparative Studies in Landscape Archaeology. Doctoral thesis: University of Tübingen.
• Kandel, A.W. & Conard, N.J. (2005): Production sequences of ostrich eggshell beads and settlement dynamics in the Geelbek Dunes of the Western Cape, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science 32, 1711-1721.

2004

• Avery, G., Kandel, A.W., Klein, R.G., Conard, N.J. & Cruz-Uribe, K. (2004): Tortoises as food and taphonomic elements in palaeo "landscapes". In: J.-P. Brugal & J. Desse (eds.) Petits Animaux et Sociétés Humaines. Du Complément Alimentaire aux Ressources Utilitaires: XXIVe rencontres internationales d’archéologie et d’histoire d’Antibes. Antibes: Editions APDCA, pp. 147-161.
• Kandel, A.W. (2004): Modification of ostrich eggs by carnivores and its bearing on the interpretation of archaeological and paleontological finds. Journal of Archaeological Science 31, 377-391.

2003

• Kandel, A.W. & Conard, N.J. (2003): Scavenging and processing of whale meat and blubber by Later Stone Age people of the Geelbek Dunes, Western Cape. South African Archaeological Bulletin 58, 91-93.
• Kandel, A.W., Felix-Henningsen, P. & Conard, N.J. (2003): An overview of the spatial archaeology of the Geelbek Dunes, Western Cape, South Africa. In: G. Fuleky (ed.) Papers of the 1st International Conference on Soils and Archaeology, Szazhalombatta, Hungary, 30 May - 3 June 2001. Oxford: BAR International Series 1163, pp. 37-44.