• since 01/2024 Scientific Associate at the Institute of Geological Sciences, Paleontology, FU Berlin (project position)
• 09/2022–12/2023 Scientific Associate at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology (Domestication and Anthropogenic Evolution Research Group), Jena (project position)
• 11/2021–08/2022 Visiting Associate Professor at the Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Japan (Gerda Henkel Stiftung fellowship)
• 05/2021–10/2021 Scholarship holder at the Institute of Geological Sciences, Paleontology, FU Berlin (DFG fellowship)
• 03/2018–04/2021 Visiting Associate Professor at the Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Japan (DFG fellowship)
• 04/2015–02/2018 Scientific Associate at the at the Institute of Geological Sciences, Paleontology, FU Berlin (project position)
• 09/2014–03/2015 Scientific Associate at the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), Berlin
• 06/2014 Defence of doctoral thesis ("Insights into late Quaternary vegetation and climate dynamics in Monsoon Asia obtained from numerical pollen-based reconstructions")
• 03/2014–08/2014 Freelance work for the Institute of Geological Sciences, Paleontology, FU Berlin (funded by a grant from the Research Committee and the Department of Earth Sciences of the FU Berlin for the promotion of young scientists)
• 11/2013–02/2014 Freelance work for the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), Berlin
• 07/2011–06/2014 Doctoral student at the Institute of Geological Sciences, Paleontology, FU Berlin (position funded by a DFG project)
• 11/2010–11/2013 Scientific Associate at the Institute of Geological Sciences, Paleontology, FU Berlin (project position)
• 09/2009–11/2010 Volunteer work at the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), Berlin
• 06/2007–12/2007 Thesis in palaeoenvironmental studies: “Tracking human impact on Lake Ellesmere (Te Waihora) using Pollen and Chironomidae (Diptera)” during a study term abroad at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
• 04/2007–06/2007 Intern in a Marsden Grant-funded research project at the Department of Geology, University of Auckland, New Zealand
• 03/2006–06/2006 Student Assistant at the Department of Geology, University of Auckland, New Zealand
• 10/2001–08/2009 Study of Geography (Diplom) at the Institute of Geography, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

Since 2014, I have assisted in the following courses taught by Prof. Dr. Pavel E. Tarasov at the Institute of Geological Sciences.

• Coring and Sampling of Peat Sediments for Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction (field course for Bachelor’s and Master’s students)
• Human–Environment Interactions (lecture and seminar for Master’s students)
• Applied Palynology (lecture and seminar for Master’s students)
• Micropaleontology and Biostratigraphy (seminar for Bachelor’s students)
• Introduction to Palynology and Archaeobotany (lecture and seminar for Master’s students)

I organised and led the course “Introduction to Geoarchaeological & Archaeobotanical Fieldwork” for over four years as part of the 3–4 week “International Field School on Rebun Island” on Rebun Island, northern Japan.

Organisers 2016–2017:
Hokkaido University and University of Alberta (Canada), within the framework of the BHAP research project

Organisers 2018–2019:
Hokkaido University, within the framework of the IRIS research project

Participants:
Students from Hokkaido University and the University of Alberta, as well as project-affiliated doctoral researchers

Main research focus

Christian Leipe’s research focuses on interactions between humans, environments and climate since the Last Glacial Maximum (ca. 25,000 years ago). As a palaeo(ethno)botanist and palaeoenvironmental researcher, he investigates how climate and environmental changes have shaped human agency and cultural trajectories, and how human activities have, in turn, transformed natural systems. While his work adopts a Eurasian perspective, his primary geographic focus is Asia.

His research integrates mainly palynology, archaeobotany and quantitative approaches to reconstruct past climate variability, environmental dynamics and human land-use practices, including agriculture and deforestation. He also examines anthropogenic landscape transformation from an archaeological perspective, using large-scale archaeological and archaeobotanical datasets from East Asia to analyse settlement patterns, population dynamics, migration processes, subsistence economies, crop dispersal and the development of early farming systems.

During a research stay at Nagoya University, Japan, he initiated and led pioneering work applying flow cytometry in Quaternary research. This work established a new method for the purification of biogenic microfossils (e.g. pollen, algae, diatoms and phytoliths) enabling advanced applications such as radiocarbon dating, stable isotope analysis and ancient DNA research.

Projects (participation as PI or team member)

Ongoing

• High-resolution analyses of annually laminated sediments of Lake Shira to reconstruct Holocene environmental variability and its relation to natural climate drivers and human occupation in northern Inner Asia (DFG Research Grant)
• Groundcheck – Kulturerbe und Klimawandel (German Archaeological Institute)
• Bridging Eurasia (German Archaeological Institute Branch Office, Beijing and Institute of Geological Sciences, FU Berlin)

Completed

• Taiwan – a stopover or melting pot? The development and spread of agriculture in East and Southeast Asia as part of fundamental economic and social transformation (Gerda Henkel Foundation)
• The spread of agriculture into Far East Eurasia: Timing, pathways, and environmental feedbacks (DFG Research Grant)
• IRIS – International Research Network for Indigenous Studies and Cultural Diversity (Core-to-Core Program Grant der Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, JSPS)
• Baikal Archaeology Project: Individual life histories in long-term culture change – Holocene hunter-gatherers in Northern Eurasia (Partnership Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Government of Canada)
• Flow cytometric techniques in Quaternary research: Improving radiocarbon age determination and evaluating potentials of stable isotope and aDNA analyses based on high-purity fossil pollen samples (DFG Research Fellowship)
• Cultural History of PaleoAsia (Grant-in-Aid project from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan)
• DFG Research grant (Temporary position for principal investigator) LE 3508/1-1
  Project title: “Postglacial climate variability at the northern limit of the East Asian monsoon and its impact on environments and humans in the Hokkaido region, northern Japan”
• Jomon Culture on Hokkaido (German Archaeological Institute Berlin in cooperation with the Institute of Geological Sciences, FU Berlin)
• Baikal-Hokkaido Archaeology Project (Partnership Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Government of Canada)
• Himalaya: Modern and Past Climates (HIMPAC) (DFG Research Unit)
• NZ-Maar Project (Marsden Fund Standard Grant der Royal Society of New Zealand)

2026

• Tarasov, P.E.*, Kobe, F., Leipe, C., Shchetnikov, A.A., Bezrukova, E.V., Habermann, L.-H., Hoelzmann, P., Nykamp, M., Gliwa, J., Krikunova, A.I., Kostrova, S.S., Long, T., Wagner, M., 2026. Environmental and cultural transformations in the Lake Baikal Region reflect hemispheric-scale changes in temperature and atmospheric circulation over the past 8800 years. Global and Planetary Change 256, 105157.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2025.105157

2025

• Leipe, C.*, Sergusheva, E.A., Robbeets, M., Wertmann, P., Kradin, N.N., Wagner, M., Tarasov, P.E., 2025. Timing and cultural-environmental context of the spread of barley to and within northern East Asia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 67, 105372.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105372
• Leipe, C.*, Handfried, D., Long, T., Heinrich, I., Hoelzmann, P., Mingram, J., Tjallingii, R., Vrijmoed, J.C., Wagner, M., Tarasov, P.E., 2025. Microfacies analysis and varve-based chronology reveal a variable ¹⁴C reservoir effect in Lake Shira, northern Inner Asia, over the past 2500 years. Quaternary Science Advances 19, 100299.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qsa.2025.100299
• Schubert, A.*, Lauterbach, S., Leipe, C., Kobe, F., Brauer, A., Tarasov, P.E.*, 2025. Reflections of Late Neolithic–Early Bronze Age environments, land use and pile dwelling activities in a new palynological record from the varved sediments of Lake Mondsee, Austria. Quaternary Environments and Humans 3, 100076.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qeh.2025.100076
• Robbeets, M.*, Leipe, C.*, 2025. Climate change and the spread of the Transeurasian languages. Quaternary Environments and Humans 3, 100071.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qeh.2025.100071

 2024

• Leipe, C.*, Kobe, F., Schubert, A., Endo, E., Yasui, M., Koshitsuka, H., Ono, M., Tarasov, P.E., Wagner, M., 2024. Human activities, early farming and natural environment in the north-western Kanto Plain (Central Japan) during the Final Jomon–Early Kofun period (990 cal BCE–330 cal CE) inferred from palynological and archaeobotanical records. Quaternary Environments and Humans 2, 100030.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qeh.2024.100030
• Krikunova, A.I.*, Kobe, F., Long, T., Leipe, C., Gliwa, J., Shchetnikov, A.A., Olschewski, P., Hoelzmann, P., Wagner, M., Bezrukova, E.V., Tarasov, P.E.*, 2024. Vegetation and fire history of the Lake Baikal Region since 32 ka BP reconstructed through microcharcoal and pollen analysis of lake sediment from Cis- and Trans-Baikal. Quaternary Science Reviews 340, 108867. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108867
• Chen, X.-Y.*, Xu, Y.-G., Tarasov, P.E., Leipe, C., Kim, J.-H., Yan, S., Park, M.-H., Chun, J.-H., Chen, C., He, P.-L., Blockley, S.P.E., 2024. Revisiting the Tianwen Yellow Pumice (TYP) Eruption of Changbaishan Volcano: Tephra Correlation, Eruption Timing and Its Climatostratigraphical Context. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 129, e2023JB028563. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JB028563
• Krikunova, A.I.*, Savelieva, L.A., Long, T., Leipe, C., Kobe, F., Kostromina, N.A., Vasilyeva, A.V., Tarasov, P.E.*, 2024. Postglacial vegetation and climate change in the Lake Onega region of eastern Fennoscandia derived from a radiocarbon-dated pollen record. Quaternary International 695, 31–44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2024.04.003

2023

• Leipe, C.*, Lu, J.-C., Chi, K.-A., 2023. Population dynamics in Taiwan from the Neolithic to early historic periods (5000–100 cal BP): Linking cultural developments and environmental change. Archaeological Research in Asia 36, 100482.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2023.100482
• Vodyasov, E.V.*, Amzarakov, P.B., Sadykov, T.R., Shirin, Y.V., Zaitceva, O.V., Leipe, C., Tarasov, P.E., 2023. Nine types of iron smelting furnaces in southern Siberia in the first millennium AD: A review of archaeological and chronological data. Archaeological Research in Asia 36, 100479. doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2023.100479
• Wertmann, P.*, Yibulayinmu, M., Wagner, M., Taylor, C., Müller, S., Xu, D., Elkina, I., Leipe, C., Deng, Y., Tarasov, P.E., 2023. The earliest directly dated saddle for horse-riding from a mid-1st millennium BCE female burial in Northwest China. Archaeological Research in Asia 35, 100451. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2023.100451
• Schubert, A.*, Lauterbach, S., Leipe, C., Brauer, A., Tarasov, P.E.*, 2023. Visible or not? Reflection of the 8.2 ka BP event and the Greenlandian–Northgrippian boundary in a new high-resolution pollen record from the varved sediments of Lake Mondsee, Austria. Quaternary Science Reviews 308, 108073.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108073
• Dal Martello, R.*, von Baeyer, M.*, Hudson, M., Bjorn, R.G., Leipe, C., Zach, B., Mir-Makhamad, B., Billings, T.N., Muñoz Fernández, I.M., Huber, B., Boxleitner, K., Lu, J.-C., Chi, K.-A., Liu, H.-L., Kistler, L., Spengler, R.N., 2023. The Domestication and Dispersal of Large-Fruiting Prunus spp.: A Metadata Analysis of Archaeobotanical Material. Agronomy 13(4), 1027.
  doi:10.3390/agronomy13041027
• Leipe, C.*, Lu, J.-C., Chi, K.-A., Lee, S.-M., Yang, H.-C., Wagner, M., 2023. Archaeobotanical evidence of plant cultivation from the Sanbaopi site in south-western Taiwan during the Late Neolithic and Metal Age. The Holocene 33(2), 131–146.
  https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836221131689

2022

• Krikunova, A.I.*, Kostromina, N.A., Savelieva, L.A., Tolstobrov, D.S., Petrov, A.Y., Long, T., Kobe, F., Leipe, C., Tarasov, P.E.*, 2022. Late- and postglacial vegetation and climate history of the central Kola Peninsula derived from a radiocarbon-dated pollen record of Lake Kamenistoe. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 603, 111191.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.111191
• Kobe, F., Leipe, C., Shchetnikov, A.A., Hoelzmann, P., Gliwa, J., Olschewski, P., Goslar, T., Wagner, M., Bezrukova, E.V., Tarasov, P.E.*, 2022. Not herbs and forbs alone: Pollen-based evidence for the presence of boreal trees and shrubs in Cis-Baikal (Eastern Siberia) derived from the Last Glacial Maximum sediment of Lake Ochaul. Journal of Quaternary Science 37(5), 868–883.
  doi:10.1002/jqs.3290
• Spate, M.*, Leipe, C., Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, G., 2022. Reviewing the palaeoenvironmental record to better understand long-term human-environment interaction in Inner Asia during the Late Holocene. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10.
  doi:10.3389/fevo.2022.939374
• Yamamoto, M.*, Wang, F., Irino, T., Yamada, K., Haraguchi, T., Nakamura, H., Gotanda, K., Yonenobu, H., Leipe, L., Chen, X.Y., Tarasov, P.E., 2022. Environmental evolution and fire history of Rebun Island (northern Japan) during the past 17,000 years based on biomarkers and pyrogenic compound records from Lake Kushu. Quaternary International 623, 8–18.
  DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2021.09.015
• Endo, E.*, Leipe, C., 2022. The onset, dispersal and crop preferences of early agriculture in the Japanese archipelago as derived from seed impressions in pottery. Quaternary International 623, 35–49.
  DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2021.11.027
• Sergusheva, E.A.*, Leipe, C., Klyuev, N.A., Batarshev, S.V., Garkovik, A.V., Dorofeeva, N.A., Kolomiets, S.A., Krutykh, E.B., Malkov, S.S., Moreva, O.L., Sleptsov, I.Y., Hosner, D., Wagner, W., Tarasov, P.E.*, 2022. Evidence of millet and millet agriculture in the Far East Region of Russia derived from archaeobotanical data and radiocarbon dating. Quaternary International 623, 50–67.
  DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2021.08.002
• Lyashchevskaya, M.S.*, Bazarova, V.B., Dorofeeva, N.A., Leipe, C.*, 2022. Late Pleistocene–Holocene environmental and cultural changes in Primorye, southern Russian Far East: A review. Quaternary International 623, 68–82.
  DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2022.02.010
• Leipe, C.*, Lu, J.-C., Chi, K.-A., Lee, S.-M., Yang, H.-C., Wagner, M., Tarasov, P.E., 2022. Evidence for cultivation and selection of azuki (Vigna angularis var. angularis) in prehistoric Taiwan sheds new light on its domestication history. Quaternary International 623, 83–93.
  DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2021.06.032
• Long, T.*, Chen, H., Leipe, C., Wagner, M., Tarasov, P.E., 2022. Modelling the chronology and dynamics of the spread of Asian rice from ca. 8000 BCE to 1000 CE. Quaternary International 623, 101–109.
  DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2021.11.016
• Kobe, F., Hoelzmann, P., Gliwa, J., Olschewski, P., Peskov, S.A., Shchetnikov, A.A., Danukalova, G.A., Osipova, E.M., Goslar, T., Leipe, C., Wagner, M., Bezrukova, E.V., Tarasov, P.E.*, 2022. Lateglacial–Holocene environments and human occupation in the Upper Lena region of Eastern Siberia derived from sedimentary and zooarchaeological data from Lake Ochaul. Quaternary International 623, 139–158.
  DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2021.09.019
• Bezrukova, E.V.*, Reshetova, S.A., Tetenkin, A.V., Tarasov, P.E., Leipe, C., 2022. The Early Neolithic–Middle Bronze Age environmental history of the Mamakan archaeological area, Eastern Siberia. Quaternary International 623, 159–168.
  DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2021.12.006
• Tarasov, P.E., Pankova, S.V.*, Long, T., Leipe, C., Kalinina, K.B., Panteleev, A.V., Brandt, L.Ø., Kyzlasov, I.L., Wagner, M.*, 2022. New results of radiocarbon dating and identification of plant and animal remains from the Oglakhty cemetery provide an insight into the life of the population of southern Siberia in the early 1st millennium CE. Quaternary International 623, 169–183.
  DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2021.12.004
• Tarasov, P.E.*, Savelieva, L.A.*, Kobe, F., Korotkevich, B.S., Long, T., Kostromina, N.A., Leipe, C., 2022. Lateglacial and Holocene changes in vegetation and human subsistence around Lake Zhizhitskoye, East European mid-latitudes, derived from radiocarbon-dated pollen and archaeological records. Quaternary International 623, 184–197.
  DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2021.06.027
• Wagner, M.*, Hallgren-Brekenkamp, M., Xu, D., Kang, X., Wertmann, P., James, C., Elkina, I., Hosner, D., Leipe, C., Tarasov, P.E., 2022. The invention of twill tapestry points to Central Asia: Archaeological record of multiple textile techniques used to make the woollen outfit of a ca. 3000-year-old horse rider from Turfan, China. Archaeological Research in Asia 29, 100344.
  DOI:10.1016/j.ara.2021.100344
• Ma, T., Tarasov, P.E., Huang, K., Leipe, C., Man, M., Zheng, Z.*, 2022. Intensified climate drying and cooling during the last glacial culmination (20.8–17.5 cal ka BP) in the south-eastern Asian monsoon domain inferred from a high-resolution pollen record. Quaternary Science Reviews 278, 107371. DOI:10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107371
• Leipe, C.*, Aquaro, A.*, Tarasov, P.E., 2022. Scanning electron microscopy for differentiating charred endocarps of Rhus/Toxicodendron species and tracking the use of the lacquer tree and Asian poison ivy in Japanese prehistory. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 41, 103335. DOI:10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103335

2021

• Tarasov, P.E.*, Leipe, C., Wagner, M., 2021. Environments during the spread of anatomically modern humans across Northern Asia 50–10 cal kyr BP: What do we know and what would we like to know? Quaternary International 596, 155–170.
  DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2020.10.030
• Kasai, Y., Leipe, C.*, Saito, M., Kitagawa, H., Lauterbach, S., Brauer, A., Tarasov, P.E., Goslar, T., Arai, F., Sakuma, S.*, 2021. Breakthrough in purification of fossil pollen for dating of sediments by a new large-particle on-chip sorter. Science Advances 7, eabe7327. 
  DOI:10.1126/sciadv.abe7327
• Junno, A.*, Dury, J.P.R., Leipe, C., Wagner, M., Tarasov, P.E., Hirasawa, Y., Jordan, P.D., Kato, H., 2021. Building a high-resolution chronology for Northern Hokkaido – A case study of the Late Holocene Hamanaka 2 site on Rebun Island, Hokkaido (Japan). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 36, 102867.
  DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.102867
• Leipe, C.*, Endo, E., Kuramochi, S., Wagner, M., Tarasov, P.E., 2021. Crop cultivation of Middle Yayoi culture communities (fourth century BCE–first century CE) in the Kanto region, eastern Japan, inferred from a radiocarbon-dated archaeobotanical record. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 30(3), 409–421. 
  DOI:10.1007/s00334-020-00791-1

2020

• Kobe, F., Bezrukova, E.V., Leipe, C., Shchetnikov, A.A., Goslar, T., Wagner, M., Kostrova, S.S., Tarasov, P.E.*, 2020. Holocene vegetation and climate history in Baikal Siberia reconstructed from pollen records and its implications for archaeology. Archaeological Research in Asia 23, 100209.
  DOI:10.1016/j.ara.2020.100209
• Leipe, C.*, Kuramochi, S., Wagner, M., Tarasov, P.E., 2020b. Ritual practices and social organisation of Middle Yayoi culture communities in the Kanto region, eastern Japan, derived from archaeological and botanical data from the Maenakanishi site. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 12, 134.
  DOI:10.1007/s12520-020-01098-y
• Leipe, C.*, Long, T., Wagner, M., Goslar, T., Tarasov, P.E., 2020a. The spread of rice to Japan: Insights from Bayesian analysis of direct radiocarbon dates and population dynamics in East Asia. Quaternary Science Reviews 244, 106507.
  DOI:10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106507
• Schubert, A., Lauterbach, S., Leipe, C., Scholz, V., Brauer, A., Tarasov, P.E.*, 2020. Anthropogenic and climate controls on vegetation changes between 1500 BCE and 500 CE, reconstructed from a high-resolution pollen record from varved sediments of Lake Mondsee, Austria. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 599, 109976.
  DOI:10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109976
• Taft, L.*, Wiechert, U., Albrecht, C., Leipe, C., Tsukamoto, S., Wilke, T., Zhang, H., Riedel, F., 2020. Intra-seasonal hydrological processes on the western Tibetan Plateau: Monsoonal and convective rainfall events at ~7.5 ka. Quaternary International 537, 9–23. 
  DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2020.01.027

2019

• Kobe, F., Bittner, M.K., Leipe, C., Hoelzmann, P., Long, T., Wagner, M., Zibulski, R., Tarasov, P.E.*, 2019. Lateglacial and early Holocene environments and human occupation in Brandenburg, eastern Germany. GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABILITY 12(2), 132–147. DOI:10.24057/2071-9388-2018-50
• Leipe, C.*, Kobe, F., Müller, S., 2019b. Testing the performance of sodium polytungstate and lithium heteropolytungstate as non-toxic dense media for pollen extraction from lake and peat sediment samples. Quaternary International 516, 207–214.
  DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2018.01.029
• Leipe, C.*, Long, T., Sergusheva, E.A., Wagner, M., Tarasov, P.E., 2019a. Discontinuous spread of millet agriculture in eastern Asia and prehistoric population dynamics. Science Advances 5, eaax6225.
  DOI:10.1126/sciadv.aax6225
• Schmidt, M.*, Leipe, C., Becker, F., Goslar, T., Hoelzmann, P., Mingram, J., Müller, S., Tjallingii, R., Wagner, M., Tarasov, P.E.*, 2019. A multi-proxy palaeolimnological record of the last 16,600 years from coastal Lake Kushu in northern Japan. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 514, 613–626.
  DOI:10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.11.010
• Tarasov, P.E.*, Demske, D., Leipe, C., Long, T., Müller, S., Hoelzmann, P., Wagner, M., 2019. An 8500-year palynological record of vegetation, climate change and human activity in the Bosten Lake region of Northwest China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 516, 166–178. DOI:10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.11.038
• Tarasov, P.E.*, Ilyashuk, B.P., Leipe, C., Müller, S., Plessen, B., Hoelzmann, P., Kostrova, S. S., Bezrukova, E.V., Meyer, H., 2019 Insight into the Last Glacial Maximum climate and environments of the Baikal region. Boreas 48(2), 488–506.
  DOI:10.1111/bor.12330
• Tarasov, P.E.*, Savelieva, L.A., Long, T., Leipe, C., 2019 Postglacial vegetation and climate history and traces of early human impact and agriculture in the present-day cool mixed forest zone of European Russia. Quaternary International 516, 21–41.
  DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2018.02.029

2018

• Leipe, C.*, Müller, S., Hille, K., Kato, H., Kobe, F., Schmidt, M., Seyffert, K., Spengler III, R., Wagner, M., Weber, A.W., Tarasov, P.E.*, 2018. Vegetation change and human impacts on Rebun Island (Northwest Pacific) over the last 6000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews 193, 129–144.
  DOI:10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.06.011
• Long, T.*, Leipe, C., Jin, G., Wagner, M., Guo, R., Schröder, O., Tarasov, P.E., 2018. The early history of wheat in China from ¹⁴C dating and Bayesian chronological modelling. Nature Plants 4, 272–279.
  DOI:10.1038/s41477-018-0141-x 

2017

• Leipe, C.*, Sergusheva, E.A., Müller, S., Spengler III, R.N., Goslar, T., Kato, H., Wagner, M., Weber, A.W., Tarasov, P.E., 2017. Barley (Hordeum vulgare) in the Okhotsk culture (5th–10th century AD) of northern Japan and the role of cultivated plants in hunter-gatherer economies. PLoS ONE 12(3), e0174397.
  DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0174397
• Long, T.*, Wagner, M., Demske, D., Leipe, C., Tarasov, P.E., 2017. Cannabis in Eurasia: origin of human use and Bronze Age trans-continental connections. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 26(2), 245–258.
  DOI:10.1007/s00334-016-0579-6
• Zhao, L., Ma, C.*, Leipe, C.,Long, T., Liu, K., Lu, H., Tang, L., Zhang, Y., Wagner, M., Tarasov, P.E.*, 2017. Holocene vegetation dynamics in response to climate change and human activities derived from pollen and charcoal records from southeastern China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 485, 644–660.
  DOI:10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.06.035

2016

• Abe, C., Leipe, C.*, Tarasov, P.E., Müller, S., Wagner, M., 2016. Spatio-temporal distribution of hunter–gatherer archaeological sites in the Hokkaido region (northern Japan): An overview. The Holocene 26(10), 1627–1645.
  DOI:10.1177/0959683616641745
• Demske, D., Tarasov, P.E.*, Leipe, C., Kotlia, B.S., Lalit, M.J., Long, T., 2016. Record of vegetation, climate change, human impact and retting of hemp in Garhwal Himalaya (India) during the past 4600 years. The Holocene 26(10), 1661–1675.
  DOI:10.1177/0959683616650267
• Hosner, D., Wagner, M.*, Tarasov, P.E., Chen, X., Leipe, C., 2016. Spatiotemporal distribution patterns of archaeological sites in China during the Neolithic and Bronze Age: An overview. The Holocene 26(10), 1576–1593.
  DOI:10.1177/0959683616641743
• Müller, S., Schmidt, M., Kossler, A., Leipe, C., Irino, T., Yamamoto, M., Yonenobu, H., Goslar, T., Kato, H., Wagner, M., Weber, A.W., Tarasov, P.E.*, 2016. Palaeobotanical records from Rebun Island and their potential for improving the chronological control and understanding human–environment interactions in the Hokkaido Region, Japan. The Holocene 26(10), 1646–1660.
  DOI:10.1177/0959683616641738
• Schmidt, M.*, Tarasov, P.E., Hoelzmann, P., Meyer, H., Leipe, C., 2016. Diatoms from Lake Kushu: A pilot study to test the potential of a Late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental archive from Rebun Island (Hokkaido Region, Japan). Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 122, 106–122.
  DOI:10.1016/j.jseaes.2016.03.005

2015

• Leipe, C.*, Nakagawa, T., Gotanda, K., Müller, S., Tarasov, P.E., 2015. Late Quaternary vegetation and climate dynamics at the northern limit of the East Asian Summer Monsoon and its regional and global-scale controls. Quaternary Science Reviews 116, 57–71.
  DOI:10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.03.012

2014

• Leipe, C.*, Demske, D., Tarasov, P.E., Wünnemann, B., Riedel, F., HIMPAC Project Members, 2014b. Potential of pollen and non-pollen palynomorph records from Tso Moriri (Trans-Himalaya, NW India) for reconstructing Holocene limnology and human–environmental interactions. Quaternary International 348, 113–129.
  DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2014.02.026
• Leipe, C.*, Demske, D., Tarasov, P.E., HIMPAC Project Members, 2014a. A Holocene pollen record from the northwestern Himalayan lake Tso Moriri: Implications for palaeoclimatic and archaeological research. Quaternary International 348, 93–112.
  DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2013.05.005
• Riedel, F.*, Henderson, A.G., Heußner, K.-U., Kaufmann, G., Kossler, A., Leipe, C., Shemang, E., Taft, L., 2014. Dynamics of a Kalahari long-lived mega-lake system: hydromorphological and limnological changes in the Makgadikgadi Basin (Botswana) during the terminal 50ka. Hydrobiologia 739(1), 25–53.
  DOI:10.1007/s10750-013-1647-x
• Taft, L.*, Mischke, S., Wiechert, U., Leipe, C., Rajabov, I., Riedel, F., 2014. Oxygen and carbon isotope ratios in Radix (Gastropoda) shells indicate changes of glacial meltwater flux and temperature since 4,200 cal yr BP at Lake Karakul, eastern Pamirs (Tajikistan). Journal of Paleolimnology 52(1–2), 27–41.
  DOI:10.1007/s10933-014-9776-4 

2013

• Leipe, C.*, Kito, N., Sakaguchi, Y., Tarasov, P.E., 2013. Vegetation and climate history of northern Japan inferred from the 5500-year pollen record from the Oshima Peninsula, SW Hokkaido. Quaternary International 290–291, 151–163.
  DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2012.07.014
• Tarasov, P.E.*, Andreev, A.A., Anderson, P.M., Lozhkin, A.V., Leipe, C., Haltia, E., Nowaczyk, N.R., Wennrich, V., Brigham-Grette, J., Melles, M., 2013. A pollen-based biome reconstruction over the last 3.562 million years in the Far East Russian Arctic – new insights into climate-vegetation relationships at the regional scale. Climate of the Past 9(6), 2759–2775.
  DOI:10.5194/cp-9-2759-2013
• Tarasov, P.E.*, Müller, S., Zech, M., Andreeva, D., Diekmann, B., Leipe, C., 2013. Last glacial vegetation reconstructions in the extreme-continental eastern Asia: Potentials of pollen and n-alkane biomarker analyses. Quaternary International 290–291, 253–263.
  DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2012.04.007
• Wagner, M.*, Tarasov, P., Hosner, D., Fleck, A., Ehrich, R., Chen, X., Leipe, C., 2013. Mapping of the spatial and temporal distribution of archaeological sites of northern China during the Neolithic and Bronze Age. Quaternary International 290–291, 344–357.
  DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2012.06.039

Journal special issue

• Leipe, C., Long, T., Wertmann, P., Wagner, M. (Eds.) 2022. Holocene Environments, Human Subsistence and Adaptation in Northern and Eastern Eurasia. Quaternary International 623, pp. 197. (Web-Link)

Editorial:

• Leipe, C.*, Long, T., Wertmann, P., Wagner, M., 2022c. Holocene Environments, Human Subsistence and Adaptation in Northern and Eastern Eurasia. Quaternary International 623, 1–7. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2022.04.001

Other publications (non-peer-reviewed)

• Wagner, M., Tarasov, P.E., Leipe, C., 2021. Nacheiszeitliches Leben im Norden Japans [Life in postglacial northern Japan]. Archäologie in Deutschland 5, 14–19 (in German).
• Pankova, S.V., Long, T., Leipe, C., Tarasov, P.E., Wagner, M. 2020. Die Menschen von Oglachty in Südsibirien: Welchen Platz hatten sie in der Geschichte Eurasiens im frühen ersten Jahrtausend n. Chr.? [The people of Oglakhty in South Siberia: What place did they have in the history of Eurasia in the early first millennium AD?]. In: e-research reports of the German Archaeological Institute 2020, Fascicle 1. Berlin, pp. 65–71 (in German) (Web-link).
• Wagner, M., Leipe, C., Long, T., Sergusheva, E.A., Tarasov, P.E., 2020. Hirse – Wann das erste Getreide im nördlichen Ostasien domestiziert und verbreitet wurde [Millet – When the first cereals were domesticated and spread across northern East Asia]. In: e-research reports of the German Archaeological Institute 2020, Fascicle 1. Berlin, pp. 65–71 (in German) (Web-link).
• Wagner, M., Leipe, C., Abe, C., Tarasov, P.E., 2019. Archäologie in der Region Hokkaido: Klimawandel und Besiedlungsgeschichte [Archaeology in the Hokkaido region: Climate change and settlement history]. In: e-research reports of the German Archaeological Institute 2019, Fascicle 1. Berlin, pp. 151–157 (in German) (Web-link).
• Wagner, M., Leipe, C., Long, T., Jin, G., Guo, R., Schröder, O., Tarasov, P.E., 2018. Neue Fakten zur Ankunft des Weizens in China [New facts on the arrival of wheat in China]. In: e-research reports of the German Archaeological Institute 2018, Fascicle 1. Berlin, pp. 24–29 (in German) (Web-link).
• Leipe, C., Sergusheva, E.A., Müller, S., Spengler, III R.N., Goslar, T., Kato, H., Wagner, M., Weber, A.W., Tarasov, P.E., 2017. The spread of barley (Hordeum vulgare) into northern Japan and its role in the hunter-gatherer economy of the Hokkaido Okhotsk culture (5^th–10^th century AD). In: Kradin, N.N. und Sitdikov, A.G. (Eds.), Between East and West: The Movement of Cultures, Technologies and Empires. Dalnauka, Vladivostok, pp. 174–180.
• Müller, S., Leipe, C., Tarasov, P.E., Wagner, M., 2016. Archäologie in der Region Hokkaido: Naturumwelt der holozänen Jäger und Sammler [Archaeology in the Hokkaido Region: Natural environment of Holocene hunter-gatherers]. In: e-research reports of the German Archaeological Institute 2016, Fascicle 3. Berlin, pp. 110–116 (in German) (Web-link).
• Wagner, M. and colleagues, 2015. Unterrichtsmaterialien zur Ostasiatischen Archäologie [Chinese archaeology teaching material for school students]. In: e-research reports of the German Archaeological Institute 2015, Fascicle 3. Berlin, pp. 29–33 (in German) (Web-link).
• Beijing Branch Office of the Eurasia Department, German Archaeological Institute, 2014. Unterrichtsmaterialien zur ostasiatischen Archäologie – Die Seidenstraßen [Chinese archaeology teaching material for school students – The Silk Roads], Volume 1. German Archaeological Institute, Berlin, 36 pp. (in German) (Web-link).
• Beijing Branch Office of the Eurasia Department, German Archaeological Institute, 2014. Unterrichtsmaterialien zur ostasiatischen Archäologie – Chinas große Mauern [Chinese archaeology teaching material for school students – China’s Great Walls], Volume 2. German Archaeological Institute, Berlin, 28 pp. (in German) (Web-link).

Dissertation

 Leipe, C., 2014. Insights into late Quaternary vegetation and climate dynamics in Monsoon Asia obtained from numerical pollen-based reconstructions. Dissertation, Institute of Geological Sciences, Free University Berlin, 191 pp. (in English with German abstract) (DOI:10.17169/refubium-10831, Web-link)