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Partner 3: Eurasia-department of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) & the Free University Berlin, Germany

Professor Svend Hansen, dr.habil. (eurasien@dainst.de)

Key relevant qualifications

1. Director of the Eurasia department.

2. Honorary Professor in archaeology at the Free University in Berlin.

3. Leading authority within the research field ‘Cultural interaction: modes and channels of transmission’, appropriate to WP2. More than 20 years of experience with Bronze Age research in Europe and Eurasia, with particular research interests in cultural mobility and ritual depositions (hoards).

4. Two academic prizes: the Joachim Tiburtius Preis and the Eduard Anthes Preis.

5. Has published widely on the Bronze Age, in total 7 monographs and more than 50 articles.

 Department profile

The Eurasia-Department was founded in 1995 to extend archaeological research into the countries of the former Soviet-Union. At the moment (2007) 14 researchers are working in 26 field projects or research projects in 11 countries from Romania to China. Several projects can be linked with Forging Identities. The project CHIME is dedicated to Early Chinese Metallurgy. One excavation in Uzbekistan covers the second millennium BC. Another project is dedicated to the burial customs in the third millennium in the northern Pontic steppe region. The library is one of the largest in Germany. More than 62,000 volumes can be used by visitors from Russia, Uzbekistan, China and other countries. 

Selected publications

1. Hansen, S. 1994. Studien zu den Metalldeponierungen während der älteren Ur­nenfelderzeit zwischen Rhônetal und Karpatenbecken. Universitätsfor-schungen zur Prähistorischen Archäologie Bd. 21 (Bonn).

2. Hansen, S. 2005a. "Überausstattungen" in Gräbern und Horten der Frühbronzezeit. In: J. Müller (Hrsg.), Vom Endneolithikum zur Frühbronzezeit: Muster sozialen Wandels? (Tagung Bamberg 14.-16. Juni 2001) (Bonn), pp. 151-173.

3. Hansen, S. 2005b. Über bronzezeitliche Horte in Ungarn - Horte als soziale Praxis. In : B. Horejs u.a. (Hrsg.), Interpretationsraum Bronzezeit. Bernhard Hänsel von seinen Schülern gewidmet (Bonn 2005), pp. 211-230.