Partner 4: Institute of Pre- and Protohistorical Archaeology at the University of Kiel, Germany

Professor Johannes Müller, dr.habil. (johannes.mueller@ufg.uni-kiel.de)

 

Key relevant qualifications

  1. Director of the Kiel institute and professor in prehistoric archaeology.

  2. Leading authority within the research field ‘Economic and political foundations of interaction’, appropriate to WP1. Subthemes: Social change in Únětician Early Bronze Age societies (DFG-project); development of power structures in the central European Bronze Age (DFG-project); processes of interaction, innovation and the changing economic system of the Bronze Age in Europe (DFG-project:). Fieldwork: Bruszczewo – a central fortified settlement in the Wartha region of Poland (DFG-project; Polish-German foundation) (with Prof.Czebrezsuk, partner 9).

  3. A wide range of international publications about societies of the European Bronze Age.

 

Role and contributions of staff

Benjamin Ducke M. A.: archaeoinformatics

Dr. Walter Dörfler: palynological evidence in collaboration with partners 11 &13

Dr. Helmut Kroll: archaeobotanical evidence in collaboration with partners 11 &13

 

Department profile

The Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology in Kiel has a long tradition in economic and settlement archaeology. It has four departments with ten permanently employed researchers, c. 38 PhD students, 14 administrative staff, and c. 500 students. The staff includes both archaeologists and scientists who have access to facilities for palaeoenvironmental analysis as well as for archaeological analysis of social processes. Social archaeology forms the main component of the prehistoric research: Enquiries into the economic and political foundations of interaction are conducted through fieldwork and analytical research revealing the historical background to innovation and change. Excavations of Late Neolithic and Bronze Age sites in Germany and other countries are currently at the core of research.

The institute has different laboratories and is closely associated with Schloss Gottorf Museum which encompasses among other things a large department for conservation. The Institute is the most successful within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities in obtaining external funds (c. 1.1M euros per year). Its cross-disciplinary research environment offers a unique combination of both natural sciences and humanities. The institute is a member of both the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and mathematics as well as the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. 

 

Selected publications

1. J. Czebresuk/J. Müller 2005, A Polish-German research project into a Bronze Age fortified settlement at Bruszczewo in Wielkopolska. Archaeologia Polona 43, 2005, 175-200.

2. J. Müller 1999. Radiokarbonchronologie - Keramiktechnologie - Osteologie - Anthropologie - Raumanalysen. Beiträge zum Neolithikum und zur Frühbronzezeit im Mittel-Elbe-Saale-Gebiet. Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission 80, 1999, 25-211.

3. J. Müller 2006. Soziale Grenzen und die Frage räumlicher Identitätsgruppen in der Prähistorie. In: S. Burmeister/N. Müller-Scheessel (eds.), Soziale Gruppen - kulturelle Grenzen. Die Interpretation sozialer Grenzen in der Prähistorischen Archäologie (Münster 2006) 101-17.




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