Prof. Dr. Thomas Litt

Forschungsschwerpunkte

Paläobotanik, Palynologie
Paläoökologie, Paläoklimaforschung,
Wechselbeziehung zwischen Geo- und Biosphäre,
Mensch-Umwelt-Interaktionen in ur- und frühgeschichtlicher Zeit,
Vegetationsgeschichte Europas und des Mittleren Ostens

t.litt@uni-bonn.de

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Thomas Litt studierte Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Geologie und Botanik an der Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg. Vor und nach der Promotion 1987 im Fach Quartärgeologie an der Universität Greifswald war er am Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte in Halle tätig. Von 1990 bis 1993 arbeitete er als Habilitationsstipendiat am Institut für Geologische Wissenschaften der Universität Halle sowie bis 1994 als wissenschaftlicher Oberassistent am Institut für Geophysik und Geologie der Universität Leipzig. 1993 erhielt er den Credner-Preis der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft. Nach Abschluss der Habilitation im Fach Allgemeine Geologie nahm er 1994 einen Ruf auf eine Professur für Paläobotanik an der Universität Bonn an.

Als Geowissenschaftler mit paläontologischem Schwerpunkt beschäftigt sich Litt mit Fragen der Wechselbeziehung zwischen Geosphäre und Biosphäre in der jüngeren Erdgeschichte. Hierbei nutzt er vor allem durch Bohrungen gewonnene Seesedimente als Archive für die Paläoökologie und Paläoklimatologie. In den letzten Jahren lag der Fokus seiner wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten auf der Untersuchung langer kontinentaler Sedimentfolgen aus tiefen Seen im Nahen und Mittleren Osten, welche die Vegetations- und Klimageschichte der letzten Jahrhunderttausende lückenlos erfassen. Er leitete ein multidisziplinäres wissenschaftliches Bohrprogramm in der Türkei (Lake Van Drilling Project PALEOVAN) mit Unterstützung des „International Continental Scientific Drilling Program“ (ICDP). An komplementären Forschungen im Toten Meer in Israel war er ebenfalls beteiligt (ICDP Dead Sea Deep Drilling Project). Diese Paläoklimaarchive wurden im Rahmen des Sonderforschungsbereichs 806 „Unser Weg nach Europa: Kultur-Umwelt Interaktion und menschliche Mobilität im späten Quartär“, dessen stellvertretender Sprecher Litt war, detailliert untersucht. 2015 erhielt er eine Lady Davis Fellowship verbunden mit einer mehrmonatigen Gastprofessur an der Hebräischen Universität von Jerusalem. Seit 2020 ist er ordentliches Mitglied der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste sowie seit 2023 Mitglied der DFG-Forschungsgruppe 5438 „Der urbane Einfluss auf dem Mongolischen Plateau: Verflechtungen von Stadtwesen, Wirtschaft und Umwelt“.

Aktuelle und laufende Projekte

Environmental Response on Climate Events in the Levant, Near East and SE Europe during the last 200,000 years based on Long continental Records
(Project B3, DFG Collaborative Research Centre 806 (SFB) “Our Way to Europe”)
Faunal assemblages and Biomes at the Anthropological Frontier around 50-40 ka BP
(Project E8, DFG Collaborative Research Centre 806 (SFB) “Our Way to Europe”)
Lake Van Drilling Project “PaleoVan”, a long continental record in eastern Turkey
(DFG – Priority Program (SPP) ICDP, LI 582/15-1-2, LI 582/20-1-2)
Flow cytometry method for purification of fossil pollen from Lake Van varved sediments for AMS radiocarbon dating – a new approach
(DFG Priority Program (SPP) ICDP, Pickarski/Litt)
Paleoclimate and paleoecology of the continental Eastern Mediterranean region - High- resolution pollen analysis from Lake Van during the Middle Pleistocene (MIS 8 to 10)
(DFG Priority Program (SPP) ICDP, Pickarski/Litt)
Paläoökologie und Paläoklimatologie innerhalb des Mongolischen Plateaus und ihr Einfluss auf die Urbanisierung (DFG-Forschungsgruppe 5438, Teilprojekt 8)

Ausgewählte Publikationen

Danladi, I.B., Akcer-Ön, S., Litt, T., Ön, Z.B., Wacker, L. (2023): Late Holocene climate reconstruction from the high-altitude Lake Gölcük sedimentary records, Isparta (SW Anatolia). Quaternary Research (https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2023.26)

Pickarski, N., Kwiecien, O., Litt, T. (2023): Volcanic impact on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems in the Eastern Mediterranean. Communications Earth & Environment 4:167 (https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00827-0)

Steinhoff, C., Pickarski, N., Litt, T., Hajdas, I., Welte, C., Wurst, P., Kühne, D., Dolf, A., Germer, M. and Kallmeyer, J. 2022. „NEW APPROACH TO SEPARATE AND DATE SMALL SPORES AND POLLEN FROM LAKE SEDIMENTS IN SEMI-ARID CLIMATES“. Radiocarbon. 64(5): 1191-1207.
https://doi.org/10.1017/rdc.2022.34

Miebach, A., Power, M.J., Besag, T.R., Netzel, T., Holombaroli, D. and Litt, T. 2022. „Changing fire regimes during the first olive cultivation in the Meditieranean Basin: New high-resolution evidence from the Sea of Galilee, Israel.“. Global and Planetary Change. 210 (2022): 103774.

Litt, T., Richter, J., Schäbitz, F. (eds.). 2021. The Journey of Modern Humans from Africa to Europe. Culture-Environmental Interaction and Mobility. Schweizerbart Stuttgart. ISBN: 978-3-510-65534-2.

Litt, T. 2021. „The southern Levant as migration corridor and barrier.“. In: The Journey of Modern Humans from Africa to Europe. Culture-Environmental Interaction and Mobility.. 63-71. Litt, T., Richter, J. & Schäbitz, F. (eds). Schweizerbart Stuttgart. ISBN: 978-3-510-65534-2.

Miebach, A., Stolzenberger, S., Hense, A. and Litt, T. 2021. „The palaeoenvironment of the southern Levant during the last interglacial-glacial cycle.“. In: The Journey of Modern Humans from Africa to Europe. Culture-Environmental Interaction and Mobility. 72-78. Litt, T., Richter, J., Schäbitz, F. (eds.). Schweizerbart Stuttgart.

Richter, J., Litt, T., Lehmkuhl, F., Hense, A., Hauck, T.C., Leder, D.F., Miebach, A., Parow-Souchon, H., Sauer, F., Schoenenberg, J., Al-Nahar, M. and Hussain, S.T. 2020. „Al-Ansab and the Dead Sea: Mid-MIS 3 archaeology and environment of the early Ahmarian population of the Levantine corridor“. PLOS ONE. 15(10): e0239968.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239968

Miebach, A., Stolzenberger, S., Wacker, L., Hense, A. and Litt, T. 2019. „A new Dead Sea pollen record reveals the last glacial paleoenvironment of the southern Levant“. Quaternary Science Reviews. 214: 98-116.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.04.033

Kappenberg, A., Lehndorff, E., Pickarski, N., Litt, T., Amelung, W. 2019. „Solar controls of fire history during the past 600, 000 years.“. Quaternary Science Reviews. 208: 97-104.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.02.008

Palmisano, A., Woodbridge, J., Roberts, C.N., Bevan, A., Fyfe, R., Shennan, S., Cheddadi, R., Greenberg, R., Kaniewski, D., Langgut, D., Leroy, S.A., Litt, T. and Miebach, A. 2019. „Holocene landscape dynamics and long-term population trends in the Levant“. The Holocene. 29(5): 708-727.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683619826642

Langgut, d., Cheddadi, R., Carrion, J.S., Cavanagh, M., Colombaroli, D., Eastwood, W.J., Greenberg, R., Litt, T., Mercuri, A.M., Miebach, A., Roberts, N., Woldring, H., Woodbridge, J. 2019. „The origin of olive domestication in the Mediterranean Basin: the fossil pollen evidence.“. The Holocene. 29: 902-922.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683619826654

Vossel, H., Roeser, P., Litt, T. and Reed, J.M. 2018. „Lake Kinneret (Israel): New insights into Holocene regional palaeoclimate variability based on high-resolution multi-proxy analysis“. The Holocene. 28(9): 1395-1410.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683618777071

Schiebel, V. and Litt, T. 2018. „Holocene vegetation history of the southern Levant based on a pollen record from Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee), Israel“. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. 27(4): 577-590.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-017-0658-3

Chen, C. and Litt, T. 2018. „Dead Sea pollen provides new insights into the paleoenvironment of the southern Levant during MIS 6–5“. Quaternary Science Reviews. 188: 15-27.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.03.029

Litt, T. and Ohlwein, C. 2017. „Pollen as Palaeoclimate Indicators in the Levant.“. In: Quaternary of the Levant. Environments, Climate Change, and Humans.. 337-345. Enzrel, Y., Bar-Yosef, O. (eds). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY.

Pickarski, N. and Litt, T. 2017. „A new high-resolution pollen sequence at Lake Van, Turkey: insights into penultimate interglacial–glacial climate change on vegetation history“. Climate of the Past. 13(6): 689-710.
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-689-2017

Randlett, M., Bechtel, A., van der Meer, M.T.J., Peterse, F., Litt, T., Pickarski, N., Kwiecien, O., Stockhecke, M., Wehrli, B. and Schubert, C.J. 2017. „Biomarkers in Lake Van sediments reveal dry conditions in eastern Anatolia during 110.000-10.000 years B.P.“. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 18(2): 571-583.
https://doi.org/10.1002/2016gc006621

Miebach, A., Chen, C., Schwab, M.J., Stein, M. and Litt, T. 2017. „Vegetation and climate during the Last Glacial high stand (ca. 28–22 ka BP) of the Sea of Galilee, northern Israel“. Quaternary Science Reviews. 156: 47-56.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.11.013

Roeser, P., Franz, S.O. and Litt, T. 2016. „Aragonite and calcite preservation in sediments from Lake Iznik related to bottom lake oxygenation and water column depth“. Sedimentology. 63(7): 2253-2277.
https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12306

Miebach, A., Niestrath, P., Roeser, P. and Litt, T. 2016. „Impacts of climate and humans on the vegetation in northwestern Turkey: palynological insights from Lake Iznik since the Last Glacial“. Climate of the Past. 12(2): 575-593.
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-575-2016

Stockhecke, M., Timmermann, A., Kipfer, R., Haug, G.H., Kwiecien, O., Friedrich, T., Menviel, L., Litt, T., Pickarski, N. and Anselmetti, F.S. 2016. „Millennial to orbital-scale variations of drought intensity in the Eastern Mediterranean“. Quaternary Science Reviews. 133: 77-95.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.12.016

Wagner, S., Litt, T., Sánchez-Goñi, M. and Petit, R.J. 2015. „History of Larix decidua Mill. (European larch) since 130 ka“. Quaternary Science Reviews. 124: 224-247.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.07.002

Neugebauer, I., Brauer, A., Schwab, M.J., Dulski, P., Frank, U., Hadzhiivanova, E., Kitagawa, H., Litt, T., Schiebel, V., Taha, N. and Waldmann, N.D. 2015. „Evidences for centennial dry periods at 3300 and 2800 cal. yr BP from micro-facies analyses of the Dead Sea sediments“. The Holocene. 25(8): 1358-1371.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615584208

Pickarski, N., Kwiecien, O., Langgut, D. and Litt, T. 2015. „Abrupt climate and vegetation variability in eastern Anatolia during the last glacial“. Climate of the Past. 11(11): 1491-1505.
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-11-1491-2015

Pickarski, N., Kwiecien, O., Djamali, M. and Litt, T. 2015. „Vegetation and environmental changes during the last interglacial in eastern Anatolia (Turkey): a new high-resolution pollen record from Lake Van“. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 435: 145-158.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.06.015

Lehndorf, E., Wolf, M., Litt. T., Brauer, A., Amelung, W. 2015. „15,000 years of black carbon deposition - A post-glacial fire record from mar lake sediments (Germany)“. Quaternary Science Reviews. 110: 15-22.

Langgut, D., Finkelstein, I., Litt, T., Harald Neumann, F. and Stein, M. 2015. „Vegetation and Climate Changes during the Bronze and Iron Ages (∼3600–600 BCE) in the Southern Levant Based on Palynological Records“. Radiocarbon. 57(2): 217-235.
https://doi.org/10.2458/azu_rc.57.18555

Litt, T. and Anselmetti, F.S. 2014. „Lake Van deep drilling project PALEOVAN“. Quaternary Science Reviews. 104: 1-7.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.09.026

Litt, T., Pickarski, N., Heumann, G., Stockhecke, M. and Tzedakis, P.C. 2014. „A 600,000 year long continental pollen record from Lake Van, eastern Anatolia (Turkey)“. Quaternary Science Reviews. 104: 30-41.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.03.017

Stockhecke, M., Kwiecien, O., Vigliotti, L., Anselmetti, F.S., Beer, J., Çağatay, M.N., Channell, J.E., Kipfer, R., Lachner, J., Litt, T., Pickarski, N. and Sturm, M. 2014. „Chronostratigraphy of the 600,000 year old continental record of Lake Van (Turkey)“. Quaternary Science Reviews. 104: 8-17.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.04.008

Kwiecien, O., Stockhecke, M., Pickarski, N., Heumann, G., Litt, T., Sturm, M., Anselmetti, F., Kipfer, R. and Haug, G.H. 2014. „Dynamics of the last four glacial terminations recorded in Lake Van, Turkey“. Quaternary Science Reviews. 104: 42-52.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.07.001

Randlett, M., Coolen, M.J., Stockhecke, M., Pickarski, N., Litt, T., Balkema, C., Kwiecien, O., Tomonaga, Y., Wehrli, B. and Schubert, C.J. 2014. „Alkenone distribution in Lake Van sediment over the last 270 ka: influence of temperature and haptophyte species composition“. Quaternary Science Reviews. 104: 53-62.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.07.009

LANGGUT, D., FINKELSTEIN, I. and LITT, T. 2013. „Climate and the Late Bronze Collapse: New Evidence from the Southern Levant“. Tel Aviv. 40(2): 149-175.
https://doi.org/10.1179/033443513x13753505864205

Litt, T., Anselmetti, F.S., Baumgarten, H., Beer, J., Cagatay, N., Cukur, D., Damci, E., Glombitza, C., Haug, G., Heumann, G., Kallmeyer, J., Kipfer, R., Krastel, S., Kwiecien, O., Meydan, F., Örcen, S., Pickarski, N., Randlett, M.-E., Schmincke, H.-U., Schubert, C.J., Sturm, M., Sumita, M., Stockhecke, M., Tomonaga, Y., Vigliotti, L., Wonik, T., and the PALEOVAN Scientific Team 2012. „500, 000 Years of Environmental History in Eastern Anatolia: The PALEOVAN Drilling Project.“. Scientific Drilling. 14: 18-29.

Simonis, D., Hense, A. and Litt, T. 2012. „Reconstruction of late Glacial and Early Holocene near surface temperature anomalies in Europe and their statistical interpretation“. Quaternary International. 274: 233-250.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.02.050

Viehberg, F.A., Ülgen, U.B., Damcı, E., Franz, S.O., Ön, S.A., Roeser, P.A., Çağatay, M.N., Litt, T. and Melles, M. 2012. „Seasonal hydrochemical changes and spatial sedimentological variations in Lake Iznik (NW Turkey)“. Quaternary International. 274: 102-111.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.05.038

Roeser, P.A., Franz, S.O., Litt, T., Ülgen, U.B., Hilgers, A., Wulf, S., Wennrich, V., Akçer Ön, S., Viehberg, F.A., Çağatay, M.N. and Melles, M. 2012. „Lithostratigraphic and geochronological framework for the paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the last ∼36 ka cal BP from a sediment record from Lake Iznik (NW Turkey)“. Quaternary International. 274: 73-87.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.06.006

Huguet, C., Fietz, S., Moraleda, N., Litt, T., Heumann, G., Stockhecke, M., Anselmetti, F.S. and Sturm, M. 2012. „A seasonal cycle of terrestrial inputs in Lake Van, Turkey“. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 19(8): 3628-3635.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-012-0948-3

McCormick, M., Büntgen, U., Cane, M.A., Cook, E.R., Harper, K., Huybers, P., Litt, T., Manning, S.W., Mayewski, P.A., More, A.F.M., Nicolussi, K. and Tegel, W. 2012. „Climate Change during and after the Roman Empire: Reconstructing the Past from Scientific and Historical Evidence“. Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 43(2): 169-220.

Litt, T., Ohlwein, C., Neumann, F.H., Hense, A. and Stein, M. 2012. „Holocene climate variability in the Levant from the Dead Sea pollen record“. Quaternary Science Reviews. 49: 95-105.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.06.012

Garreta, V., Miller, P.A., Guiot, J., Hély, C., Brewer, S., Sykes, M.T. and Litt, T. 2010. „A method for climate and vegetation reconstruction through the inversion of a dynamic vegetation model“. Climate Dynamics. 35(2-3): 371-389.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-009-0629-1

LITT, T., SCHÖLZEL, C., KÜHL, N. and BRAUER, A. 2009. „Vegetation and climate history in the Westeifel Volcanic Field (Germany) during the past 11 000 years based on annually laminated lacustrine maar sediments“. Boreas. 38(4): 679-690.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3885.2009.00096.x

Liepelt, S., Cheddadi, R., de Beaulieu, J., Fady, B., Gömöry, D., Hussendörfer, E., Konnert, M., Litt, T., Longauer, R., Terhürne-Berson, R. and Ziegenhagen, B. 2009. „Postglacial range expansion and its genetic imprints in Abies alba (Mill.) — A synthesis from palaeobotanic and genetic data“. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 153(1-2): 139-149.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2008.07.007

Walker, M., Johnsen, S., Rasmussen, S.O., Popp, T., Steffensen, J., Gibbard, P., Hoek, W., Lowe, J., Andrews, J., Björck, S., Cwynar, L.C., Hughen, K., Kershaw, P., Kromer, B., Litt, T., Lowe, D.J., Nakagawa, T., Newnham, R. and Schwander, J. 2009. „Formal definition and dating of the GSSP (Global Stratotype Section and Point) for the base of the Holocene using the Greenland NGRIP ice core, and selected auxiliary records“. Journal of Quaternary Science. 24(1): 3-17.
https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.1227

TOLLEFSRUD, M.M., KISSLING, R., GUGERLI, F., JOHNSEN, Ø., SKRØPPA, T., CHEDDADI, R., VAN DER KNAAP, W.O., LATAŁOWA, M., TERHÜRNE-BERSON, R., LITT, T., GEBUREK, T., BROCHMANN, C. and SPERISEN, C. 2008. „Genetic consequences of glacial survival and postglacial colonization in Norway spruce: combined analysis of mitochondrial DNA and fossil pollen“. Molecular Ecology. 17(18): 4134-4150.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294x.2008.03893.x

Litt, T., Schmincke, H.-U., Frechen, M., Schlüchter, C. 2008. „Quaternary“. In: The Geology of Central Europe.. 1287-1340. Mc Cann, T. (Ed.). Geol. Soc. London.

Litt, T. and Gibbard, P.L. 2008. „A proposed Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Upper (Late) Pleistocene Subseries (Quaternary System/Period).“. In: The concise geologic time scale. 260-263. Ogg, James G. and Ogg, Gabi and Gradstein, F. M. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York. ISBN: 9780521898492.

Kühl, N., Gebhardt, C., Kaspar, F., Hense, A. and Litt, T. 2008. „Reconstruction of Quaternary temperature fields and model-data comparison“. PAGES news. 16(2): 8-9.
https://doi.org/10.22498/pages.16.2.8

Kühl, N., Litt, T., Schölzel, C. and Hense, A. 2007. „Eemian and Early Weichselian temperature and precipitation variability in northern Germany“. Quaternary Science Reviews. 26(25-28): 3311-3317.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.10.004

Gebhardt, C., Kühl, N., Hense, A. and Litt, T. 2008. „Reconstruction of Quaternary temperature fields by dynamically consistent smoothing“. Climate Dynamics. 30(4): 421-437.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-007-0299-9

Neumann, F., Schölzel, C., Litt, T., Hense, A. and Stein, M. 2007. „Holocene vegetation and climate history of the northern Golan heights (Near East)“. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. 16(4): 329-346.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-006-0046-x

Kühl, N. & Litt, T. 2007. „Quantitative Time Series Reconstructions of Holsteinian and Eemian Temperatures Using Botanical Data.“. In: The climate of past interglacials. 239-254. Sirocko, F., Claussen, M., Sanchez Goñi, M.F., Litt, T. (Eds.). Elsevier, Amsterdam.

Magri, D., Vendramin, G.G., Comps, B., Dupanloup, I., Geburek, T., Gömöry, D., Latałowa, M., Litt, T., Paule, L., Roure, J., Tantau, I., Van Der Knaap, W.O., Petit, R., De Beaulieu, J.-L. 2006. „Combined analyses of fossil and genetic data in the European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.)“. New Phytologist. 171: 199-221.

Cheddadi, R., Vendramin, G.G., Litt, T., François, L., Kageyama, M., Lorentz, S., Laurent, J., de Beaulieu, J., Sadori, L., Jost, A. and Lunt, D. 2006. „Imprints of glacial refugia in the modern genetic diversity of Pinus sylvestris“. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 15(3): 271-282.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2006.00226.x

Kaspar, F. 2005. „A model-data comparison of European temperatures in the Eemian interglacial“. Geophysical Research Letters. 32(11):
https://doi.org/10.1029/2005gl022456

Terhürne-Berson, R., Litt, T. and Cheddadi, R. 2004. „The spread of Abies throughout Europe since the last glacial period: combined macrofossil and pollen data“. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. 13(4): 257-268.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-004-0049-4

SCHWAB, M. 2004. „Holocene palaeoecology of the Golan Heights (Near East): investigation of lacustrine sediments from Birkat Ram crater lake“. Quaternary Science Reviews. 23(16-17): 1723-1731.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2004.05.001

Kühl, N. & Litt, T. 2003. „Quantitative time series reconstruction of Eemian temperature at three European sites using pollen data.“. Vegetation history and Archaeobotany. 12: 205-214.

Kühl. N., Litt, T., Schölzel, C. and Hense, A. 2003. „Environmental response to climate and volcanic events in central Europe during the Weichselian Lateglacial“. Quaternary Science Reviews. 22: 7-32.

Kühl, N., Gebhardt, C., Litt, T. and Hense, A. 2002. „Probability Density Functions as Botanical-Climatological Transfer Functions for Climate Reconstruction“. Quaternary Research. 58(3): 381-392.
https://doi.org/10.1006/qres.2002.2380

Heumann, G. and Litt, T. 2002. „Stratigraphy and paleoecology of the Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene in the open-cast mine Hambach (Lower Rhine Basin)“. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences - Geologie en Mijnbouw. 81(2): 193-199.
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0016774600022435

Brauer, A., Litt, T., Negendank, J.F.W. and Zolitschka, B. 2001. „Lateglacial varve chronology and biostratigraphy of lakes Holzmaar and Meerfelder Maar, Germany“. Boreas. 30(1): 83-88.
https://doi.org/10.1080/030094801300062365

Litt, T., Brauer, A., Goslar, T., Merkt, J., Bałaga, K., Müller, H., Ralska-Jasiewiczowa, M., Stebich, M. and Negendank, J.F. 2001. „Correlation and synchronisation of Lateglacial continental sequences in northern central Europe based on annually laminated lacustrine sediments“. Quaternary Science Reviews. 20(11): 1233-1249.
https://doi.org/10.1016/s0277-3791(00)00149-9

Litt, T. and Stebich, M. 1999. „Bio- and chronostratigraphy of the lateglacial in the Eifel region, Germany“. Quaternary International. 61(1): 5-16.
https://doi.org/10.1016/s1040-6182(99)00013-0

Brauer, A., Endres, C., Günter, C., Litt, T., Stebich, M. and Negendank, J.F. 1999. „High resolution sediment and vegetation responses to Younger Dryas climate change in varved lake sediments from Meerfelder Maar, Germany“. Quaternary Science Reviews. 18(3): 321-329.
https://doi.org/10.1016/s0277-3791(98)00084-5

Aalbersberg, G. and Litt, T. 1998. „Multiproxy climate reconstructions for the Eemian and Early Weichselian“. Journal of Quaternary Science. 13(5): 367-390.

Litt, T., Junge, F.W. and Böttger, T. 1996. „Climate during the Eemian in north-central Europe ? a critical review of the palaeobotanical and stable isotope data from central Germany“. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. 5(3): 247-256.
https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00217502