Early Monumentality and Social Differentiation

Scientific Career

1993-1998

Habilitation, Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Prähistorische Archäologie

1986-1990

PhD. Albrecht-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte (Superviser: Prof. Dr. Ch. Strahm)

1980-1986

Studies at Albrecht-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and Edinburgh University: Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology (M.A.: July 1986)

Professional Career

Since 2004

C4-Professor, Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Director of the Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte

2004

Director of the Institut für Archäologie, Bauforschung und Denkmalpflege, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg.

2000-2004

C3-Professor, Institut für Vor- und Frühgeschichtliche Archäologie, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg.

1999

Substitute Professor for Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology Albrecht-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.

1998

Substitute Professor for IT in the Humanities at the Universität zu Köln.

1993-1999

Assistent Professor, Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Freie Universität Berlin.

Projects

Since 2008

Coordinator of the Proirity Program (SPP 1400)

Since 2007

Initiator und Coordinator of the Graduate School “Human Development in Landscapes” (Excellence Initiative of the DFG)

Since 2005

Landscape Archaeology in the wetland areas in Schöleswig-Holstein (with Excavations in Schleswig-Holstein).

Since 2002

Reconstructions of Late Neolithic Settlement Processes in Central Bosnia (with Dr. K. Rassmann)

Since 2001

Late Neolithic Settlement Systems in   Central Europe (with Excavations in Franconia), partly financed by the Oberfrankenstiftung.

Since 1999

Predictive maps, Dynamics of Settlement and Landscape in Prehistory (with fieldwork in Brandenburg), Thyssen-Stftung, with Dr. J. Kunow)

Since 1999

Bruszczewo - Reconstruction of a Early Bronze Age Settlement Site with Wetland Preservation in a Micro Regiona in Greater Poland (DFG, Stiftung für Deutsch-Polnische Zusammenarbeit)