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Dr. Jingping An

Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology

Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 2-6, R. 37
Phone: +49 431 880-2338
Telefax: +49 431 880-7300
jingping.an@ufg.uni-kiel.de

My research interests include but are not limited to ancient agriculture, past human diets, and Chinese archaeology. With multiple research approaches in archaeobotany, my study focuses on revealing the potential interlinkage between population intensities, environmental conditions, social complexities, and agricultural patterns in Neolithic Northern China. My current research area of interest is widening from the east of the Eurasian continent to the west. Plant microfossil analysis is applied to archaeological artefacts to reveal plant diets, food preparation techniques, and eventually, the economic dynamics of Neolithic societies in Northern Germany. 

Keywords: Archaeobotany, Chinese archaeology, ancient agriculture, human diets, Neolithic

Photo: Tanja Reiser

Dr. Vesa Arponen

Institute of Philosophy | Environmental Philosophy and Ethics

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Leibnizstr. 3, R. 138
Phone: 0431- 8805472
Telefax: +49 431 880-5261
varponen@roots.uni-kiel.de

Dr. Silvia Balatti

Institute of Classics | Ancient History

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Leibnizstraße 8, R. 532
Phone: +49 431 880-3270
Telefax: +49 431 880-2286
balatti@email.uni-kiel.de

I am an historian mainly interested in the investigation of social and economic processes in ancient societies. I conduct interdisciplinary research on topics such as mountain pastoralism, imperial resource management, institutional landscapes, and conflict transformation. The main geographical focus of my research encompasses ancient Iran, Anatolia, and Sicily.

Keywords: Ancient Near Eastern history, Mediterranean history, 1st millennium BCE, social changes and transformations, local-global interactions, ancient empires

Prof. Dr. Hans-Rudolf Bork

Institute for Ecosystem Research | Ecosystem Research and Ecosystem Development

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Olshausenstraße 75, R. I /107
Phone: +49 431 880-3953
hrbork@ecology.uni-kiel.de

photo: Roman Meier

Prof. Dr. Claus von Carnap-Bornheim

Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology ||| Centre for Baltic and Sandinavian Archaeology

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Phone: +49 4621 813-401
Telefax: +49 4621 813-535
claus.carnap@landesmuseen.sh

As Director of the Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology, I focus my scientific work on the 1st century AD in Central, Northern and Eastern Europe. The interrelations between the Roman Empire and the Barbarian period are as much the focus of my interest as the development of social elites in Northern Europe. Another research focus is the archaeology of the Iron Age of former East Prussia. My activities in the field of science communication are closely linked to the UNESCO World Heritage sites Danewerk and Haithabu, with the large museums in Schleswig representing central mediation units.

Keywords: Archaeology of the 1st millennium AD in Central, Northern and Eastern Europe, science communication

photo: Kinka Tadsen © Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen

 

Dr. Pawel Cembrzynski

Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology

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Olshausenstraße 80h, R. EG. 007
Phone: +49 431 880-6572
Telefax: +49 431 880 5498
pcembrzynski@roots.uni-kiel.de

Dr. Erica Corradini

Institute of Geosciences | Geophysics

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Otto-Hahn-Platz 1, R. 411
Phone: +49 431 880-3901
Telefax: +49 431 880-4432
erica.corradini@ifg.uni-kiel.de

My work is situated between applied geophysics and geoarchaeology with a focus on landscapes reconstructions. With an interdisciplinary collaboration, I have conducted several geophysical investigations in Northern Germany and Denmark to create 3D models in which the movement of former hunter-gatherer groups was reconstructed. In addition, I conducted different geophysical campaigns abroad, focusing on the application of different methods: GPR, ERT, Seismics and Magnetics. My interest also spans historical times in a collaboration project dealing with the reconstruction of different building phases at the Casa del Citarista in Pompeii.  

Keywords: Archaeology, applied geophysics, archaeological prospection, Mesolithic landscape reconstructions

Prof. Dr. Margit Dahm

Institute of German Studies | German Philology/Early German Literature

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Leibnizstraße 8, R. 411
Phone: +49 431 880-2621
Telefax: +49 431 880-7302
dahm@germsem.uni-kiel.de

My main research field is German literature of the 12th to the 15th century. Thereby, I focus on the materiality and mediality of medieval manuscript culture, especially on the role of medieval scribes (DFG-project on subscriptions of medieval scribes in German vernacular manuscripts of the Middle Ages). Another main research topic is the investigation of urban topographies in narrative medieval texts (postdoctoral thesis). Here, I analyse written representations of cities in medieval epics, especially the depiction of urban space and architectures, and investigate their aesthetic impact and semantic contents.

Keywords: Urban topographies in medieval epics, materiality and mediality, medieval scribes

photo: studioline Kiel

Dr. Marta Dal Corso

Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology

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Exzellenzcluster "ROOTS", Olshausenstr. 80h, R. 02
Phone: +49 431 880-6580
Telefax: +49 431 880-5498
mdalcorso@ufg.uni-kiel.de

Marta Dal Corso is a postdoctoral researcher in archaeobotany specialised in phytolith analysis and palynology. She explores plant uses and cultivation in the past and the relationships between human activities and natural environments. Her education at the University of Padua (Italy) was followed by her PhD on the environment in Bronze Age Northern Italy at the Graduate School ‘Human Development in Landscapes’, Kiel University (Germany). In Kiel, she has been employed as an assistant to the chair of Environmental Archaeology and worked as a researcher in the CRC 1266 on Copper Age Eastern Europe and on the spread of millet in Europe. In 2021, she coordinated the 12th International Meeting for Phytolith Research at Kiel University and collaborates with the DEI-Amman to investigate environmental changes at Tall Zira’a (Jordan). Finally, she has focused on routine activities within ROOTS and within her forthcoming job in the ERC GEODAP in Padova (Italy).

Keywords: Archaeobotany, palaeoecology, prehistoric archaeology, palynology, pollen analysis, bioarchaeology, experimental archaeology, environmental archaeology, Bronze Age, vegetation

Yasmin Dannath

Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology

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Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 2-6, R. 30
Phone: +49 431 880-7407
Telefax: +49 431 880-7300
ydannath@ufg.uni-kiel.de

photo: Doris Kramer

PD Dr. Stefan Dreibrodt

Institute for Ecosystem Research | Ecosystem Research and Ecosystem Development

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Ökotechnikhalle, Olshausenstraße 100
Phone: +49 431 880-1502 (-5578)
Telefax: +49 431 880-4083
sdreibrodt@ecology.uni-kiel.de

Dr. Paul Regis Duffy

Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology

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Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 2-6, R. 145
Phone: +49 431 880-4073
Telefax: +49 431 880-7300
prduffy@ufg.uni-kiel.de

I am an anthropological archaeologist focused on why, where and when human social inequalities emerged. My research investigates community hierarchy formation, and combines settlement pattern analysis, archaeological GIS, and funerary studies to understand variation in the social makeup of middle-range societies in prehistoric Europe. My work has centred mostly on Neolithic and Bronze Age groups, with a geographical focus in Hungary and Southeastern Europe.

Keywords: Comparative archaeology, social inequality, spatial analysis, mortuary theory, Bronze Age, Hungary

Dr. Walter Dörfler

Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology

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Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 2-6, R. 35
Phone: +49 431 880-4059
Telefax: +49 431 880-7300
wdoerfler@ufg.uni-kiel.de

Dr. Michaela Ecker, (Emmy Noether-Programm)

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Büro: Koboldstraße 4, R. EG.014
Phone: +49 431 880-5959
Telefax: +49 431 880-7300
mecker@ufg.uni-kiel.de

My main research interest is the influence of long-term climatic and environmental changes on human cultural evolution. The geographical focus of my research is Europe, Southwestern Asia and Southern Africa, where I study Pleistocene and Holocene Palaeolithic/Stone Age sites. My interdisciplinary approach includes stable isotope techniques to reconstruct past environments. My current Emmy Noether Junior Research Group project is conducting fieldwork in the southern Kalahari to document the distribution of Middle Pleistocene archaeological sites in connection to local changes in hydrological conditions.

Keywords: Palaeolithic archaeology, stable isotope analysis, quaternary science, human evolution

Prof. Eileen Eckmeier

Institute for Ecosystem Research | Ecosystem Research and Ecosystem Development

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Olshausenstraße 75, R. I / 107
Phone: +49 431 880-6868
eeckmeier@ecology.uni-kiel.de

Prof. Dr. Alexandra Erfmeier

Institute for Ecosystem Research | Geobotany

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Olshausenstraße 75 Geb. I, R. I /308
Phone: +49 431 880-1010
Telefax: +49 431 880-4083
aerfmeier@ecology.uni-kiel.de

Prof. Dr. Berit Valentin Eriksen

Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology ||| Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology

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Phone: +49 4621 813-482
berit.eriksen@zbsa.eu

I am Scientific Director of the Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology in Schleswig. As a prehistorian, I specialise in the archaeology of Late Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers. My multidisciplinary research addresses the intricate relationship between past hunter-gatherer groups and their natural environment. Moreover, I am a specialist in advanced lithic studies with a particular focus on aspects of innovation, cognition, and technology throughout prehistory. I especially focus on the use of flint and stone in early metal using societies, e.g. interfaces of technologies pertaining to different raw materials and manufacturing processes in Bronze Age Scandinavia.

Keywords: Central and Northern Europe, Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Bronze Age, crafts apprenticeship, material culture studies, lithic technology

Dr. Ingo Feeser

Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology

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Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 2-6, R. 138
Phone: +49 431 880-3374
Telefax: +49 431 880-7300
ifeeser@ufg.uni-kiel.de


With a background in botanical and archaeological studies, my research emphasis lies on palaeoenvironmental reconstructions in the context of archaeological investigations. This involves multi-disciplinary approaches of on- and off-site geoarchives including sedimentological, pollen and non-pollen palynomorph analyses. Of particular interest is the development of high-quality chronologies using annually laminated lake sediments and cryptotephra analyses for age-depth modelling and archive synchronisation. My current research activities focus on the reconstruction of anthropogenic and natural dynamics at different spatial scales, i.e. from local to regional and supra-regional patterns, with high temporal resolution for the Neolithic and Bronze Age of northern Central Europe.

Keywords: Human-environment interaction, environmental archaeology, land-use history, palynology, non-pollen-palynomorphs, tephrochronology

Prof. Dr. Timo Felber

Institute of German Studies | German Philology / Early German Literature

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Leibnizstraße 8, R. 405
Phone: +49 431 880-3478
Telefax: +49 431 880-7302
felber@germsem.uni-kiel.de

My research focuses on the German-language literature of the Middle Ages in its social and cultural-historical context. In an interdisciplinary collaboration, I am currently investigating, firstly, anxiety as a cause and effect of exchange processes between society and the environment, and secondly, the ancient and medieval roots of the perception and appreciation of the garden as an instrument toward the achievement and enjoyment of a ‘good life’.

Keywords: Literary medieval studies, social and cultural history of literature, ecocriticism, anxiety culture

Prof. Dr. Stefan Feuser

Institute of Classics | Classical Archaeology

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Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 5, R. 5b
Phone: +49 431 880-1045
Telefax: +49 431 880-7309
feuser@klassarch.uni-kiel.de

photo: Jürgen Haacks, Pressestelle CAU

Dr. Pascal Flohr

Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology

ROOTS full member

Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 2-6, R. 156
Phone: 0431 880 - 3331
pflohr@roots.uni-kiel.de

Sen. Prof. Dr. Gerhard Fouquet

Institute of History

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Leibnizstraße 3, R. 230
Phone: +49 431 880-1070
Telefax: +49 431 880-1524
fouquet@email.uni-kiel.de

Dr. Katharina Fuchs

Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology

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Niemannsweg 11, R. 208, U25
Phone: +49 431 500-15163
k.fuchs@ikmb.uni-kiel.de

My research focus is on ancient human remains as a source of information about past life, specifically of health and disease as this field involves many aspects of life. In the Dietary ROOTS subcluster, this applies to aspects of nutrition, deficiencies, food consumption and subsistence reflected in the skeletal body. My greatest interest is in the early epochs of modern humans, such as the Neolithic and the Bronze Age, but the skeletons “on my desk” stem from different chronological periods across Europe.

Keywords: Human osteology, palaeopathology, bioarchaeology

Prof. Dr. Martin Furholt

Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology

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Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 2-6, R. 150
Phone: +49 431 880-3372
Telefax: +49 431 880-7300
martin.furholt@ufg.uni-kiel.de

My work concentrates on the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in Europe, and I am mainly interested in the political dimensions of social organization, structures of power, interaction and mobility in the anarchic and de-centralised societies of the prehistoric era, and what lessons such modes of self-organisation and decision-making hold for our own possibilities to survive current global crises. I currently conduct fieldwork in Slovakia and Serbia.

Keywords: European Neolithic, European Bronze Age, social organisation, politics

Dr. Ralph Großmann

Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology

ROOTS full member

Leibnizstraße 3, R. 138
Phone: +49 431 880-5472
Telefax: +49 431 880-5498
rgrossmann@roots.uni-kiel.de

In my research, I am particularly investigating and interested in social archaeological topics involving multiple proxies and empirical data. With an interdisciplinary approach, I conduct research on human-environment dynamics during the Neolithic and the Bronze Age, the emergence of social inequality, and demographic development during the Holocene. The main geographic focus of my research encompasses Central and Western Europe, primarily Central and Southern Germany.

Keywords: Social inequality, human-environment dynamics, demography, Neolithic, Bronze Age

Prof. Dr. Javier Gómez-Montero

Institute of Romance Studies

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Leibnizstraße 10, R. 103
Phone: +49 431 880-1526
Telefax: +49 431 880-1841
gomez.montero@romanistik.uni-kiel.de

My academic foci have been concerned with modern and contemporary poetry, Renaissance fiction, Cervantes’ works, the Way of St James (cultural anthropology), and the city in literature. Within the subcluster Urban ROOTS, I study cultural and social dynamics in urban pilgrimage sites of medieval and early modern Christianity (esp. Santiago de Compostela, Rome, Paris – Saint-Denis, and Jerusalem). The geographical areas of my research are Europe and Latin America.

Keywords: Literature, city, urbanity, Middle Ages, early modernity, Renaissance, Cervantes, modern poetry, contemporary poetry, Way of St James, pilgrimage, perception, agency, imaginary

Prof. Dr. Annette Haug, beurlaubt bis 31.10.2022

Institute of Classics | Classical Archaeology

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Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 5, R. 15
Phone: +49 431 880-2051
Telefax: +49 431 880-7309
ahaug@klassarch.uni-kiel.de

I situate my work at the intersection of the analysis of cities and images in antiquity. This includes studies on the processes of urbanisation and urban transformations as well as on urban agency and urban perception. With regard to images, I am interested in their semantic and aesthetic qualities which emerge in interrelation with their context. My most recent ERC Project ‘Decorative Principles in Late Republican and Early Imperial Italy’relates these two research approaches. The focus is on urban atmospheres and emotional spaces within the city. The geographical centre of my research is Greece and Italy, with a special focus on Pompeii.

Keywords: Urban transformation, urban agency, urban perception, ornamental and pictorial concepts, decorative principles, late republican and early imperial Italy

Dr. Johanna Hilpert

Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology

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Olshausenstraße 80 a, R. EG.008
Phone: +49 431 880 - 6707
Telefax: +49 431 880 - 5498
jhilpert@roots.uni-kiel.de

Prof. Dr. Eva Holtgrewe-Stukenbrock

Botanical Institute and Botanical Gardens

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Am Botanischen Garten 9, R. 505
Phone: +49 431 880-6368
Telefax: +49 431 880-6369
estukenbrock@bot.uni-kiel.de

My research is focused on the origin and evolution of plant pathogens. We study populations of plant pathogens on wild and domesticated plant species in the Middle East. Our research, based on analyses of DNA sequence data from different pathogens of cereal crops, has shown that domestication and crop cultivation have been important drivers for the emergence and spread of plant pathogens. In ROOTS, we collaborate with the aDNAlaboratory and archaeobotanists to identify plant pathogens on ancient plant material and to characterise the genetic architecture of plant resistance genes in early domesticated species.

Keywords: Plant diseases, domestication, evolution, ancient DNA, genome analyses

PD Dr. Tim Kerig

Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology

ROOTS full member

Exzellenzcluster ROOTS, Olshausenstr. 80h, R. EG.05
Phone: +49 431 880-6583
Telefax: +49 431 880-5498
tkerig@roots.uni-kiel.de

I am a prehistorian, working mostly on the European Neolithic but also on Kurdistan. In a diachronic perspective, I am particularly interested in economic and social practices and their evolutionary mechanisms. My group and I are currently working on the evolution of social inequalities. I am also interested in far-reaching exchange networks and their social and economic implications. I often collaborate with sociologists and economists but also with colleagues from statistics and computer science, as well as earth and life sciences. My work is theory-led, methodologically critical and empirical.

Keywords: European archaeology, quantitative archaeology, history, theory and method of archaeology, evolutionary and critical approach, Handlungstheorie

Prof. Dr. Lorenz Kienle

Institute of Materials Science | Synthesis and Real Structure

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Kaiserstraße 2, R. A-233
Phone: +49 431 880-6196
Telefax: +49 431 880-6290
lk@tf.uni-kiel.de

Lorenz Kienle is Professor for Synthesis and Real Structure at the Department of Engineering of Kiel University, Germany. He is the head of the Center for Transmission Electron Microscopy at the Department of Engineering. His research focuses on the synthesis of novel bulk- and nanomaterials by chemical approaches and thin film deposition techniques as well as their characterisation by state of the art nanoanalytical methods, including transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction and others. Since 2015, he has been working on the nanoscale characterisation of artefacts as principle investigator of the Graduate School ‘Human Development in Landscapes’ and the Excellence Cluster ROOTS.

Prof. Dr. Wiebke Kirleis

Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology

ROOTS full member

Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 2-6, R. 36
Phone: +49 431 880-3173
Telefax: +49 431 880-7300
wiebke.kirleis@ufg.uni-kiel.de

photo: Agentur purpur

Prof. Dr. Hilmar Klinkott

Institute of Classics | Ancient History

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Leibnizstraße 8, R. 528
Phone: +49 431 880-2277
Telefax: +49 431 880-2286
hklinkott@email.uni-kiel.de

Dr. Jutta Kneisel

Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology

ROOTS full member

Exzellenzcluster ROOTS, Leibnizstr. 3, R. 143
Phone: +49 431 880-5925
Telefax: +49 431 880-5498
jutta.kneisel@ufg.uni-kiel.de

PD Philipp Kobusch

Institute of Classics | Classical Archaeology

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Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 5, R. 13
Phone: +49 431 880-2050
Telefax: +49 431 880-7309
kobusch@klassarch.uni-kiel.de

A main focus of my work is the study of human agency in ancient societies and its association with specific spaces (housing, sanctuaries, necropolises) as one of the driving factors for shaping the built environment. Of particular interest is the way in which different cultural roots were dealt with in special contact zones of the Mediterranean (Iberian Peninsula, Cyprus, etc.) and the significant processes of exchange and change in this context. These questions are currently being pursued by means of an exemplary study of residential buildings in Roman times on the Iberian Peninsula. It is also the basis for the investigation of an archaic to Hellenistic sanctuary of Apollo on Cyprus (Frangissa, cooperation project with Dr. M. Recke, University of Frankfurt).

Keywords: Ancient living spaces, ancient sacred spaces, action and perception of human agents, Roman western provinces, especially the Iberian Peninsula, Greece and Asia Minor, Cyprus

Prof. Dr. Reinhard Koch

Institute of Computer Science | Multimedia Information Processing Group

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Hermann-Rodewald-Straße 3, R. 301 (HRS 3)
Phone: +49 431 880-4484
Telefax: +49 431 880-4845
rk@informatik.uni-kiel.de

Prof. Dr. Ben Krause-Kyora

Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology

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Niemannsweg 11, R. 106
Phone: +49 431 500-15142
Telefax: +49 431 500-15168
b.krause-kyora@ikmb.uni-kiel.de

Prof. Dr. Patric-Alexander Kreuz

Institute of Classics | Classical Archaeology

ROOTS full member

Johanna-Mestorf-Str. 5, R. 5
Phone: +49 431 880 + 1072
Telefax: +49 431 880-7309
kreuz@klassarch.uni-kiel.de

As a Classical Archaeologist by education (with a minor in Archaeology of the Roman Provinces), I have developed a special interest in the archaeology of Classical Antiquity beyond its core areas and renowned centres like Rome or Athens. Especially the contact zones of the northern Black Sea region and the Hellenistic-Roman Near East (Syria, Jordan) keep fascinating me and influence my research agenda. Focusing on architecture and urbanism, I seek to approach regional urban cultures and lifestyles in these regions and their long-term dynamics.

Keywords: Classical antiquity, urban archaeology, ancient architecture and urbanism, Hellenistic-Roman Near East, northern Black Sea region in antiquity

Prof. Dr. Lutz Käppel

Institute of Classics | Greek Literature

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Leibnizstraße 8, R. 525
Phone: +49 431 880-2237
Telefax: +49 431 880-2286
luka@email.uni-kiel.de

Dr. Eileen Kücükkaraca

Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology

ROOTS full member

Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 2-6, R. 5
Phone: +49 431 880-3175
Telefax: +49 431 880-7300
ekaraca@roots.uni-kiel.de

Dr. Till Kühl

Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology

ROOTS full member

Olshausenstraße 80b, R. EG. 004
Phone: +49 431 880-6714
Telefax: +49 431 880-5498
tkuehl@roots.uni-kiel.de

PD Dr. Claas Lattmann

Institute of Classics | Greek Literature

ROOTS full member

Leibnizstraße 8, R. 514
Phone: +49 431 880-2661
Telefax: +49 431 880-2286
clattmann@email.uni-kiel.de

Dr. Bente Majchczack

Institute of Geosciences | Geophysics

ROOTS full member

Olshausenstraße 80a, R. EG. 05
Phone: +49 431 880-6705
Telefax: +49 431 880-5498
bmajchczack@roots.uni-kiel.de

My research is focused on the settlement dynamics and socio-environmental relations in the North Sea area during the first millennium AD and the Middle Ages. I conduct landscape archaeology with a bundle of geophysical prospection, remote sensing and archaeological methods. I am particularly interested in settlement and cultivation, adaptations within and the abandonment of the coastal areas, interactions with the sea in terms of coastal protection as well as communication and trade connections. My main work area is the German Wadden Sea area and in particular the islands and “Halligen” of North Frisia.

Keywords: Landscape archaeology, coastal communities, geophysics, Early to Late Middle Ages, trade

Prof. Dr. Cheryl Makarewicz

Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology

ROOTS full member

Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 2-6, R. 11
Phone: +49 431 880-3376
Telefax: +49 431 880-7300
c.makarewicz@ufg.uni-kiel.de

Dr. John Meadows

Leibniz Laboratory for Radiometric Dating and Isotope Research

ROOTS full member

Max-Eyth-Straße 11-13, R. 11
Phone: +49 431 880-7385
Telefax: +49 431 880-7400
jmeadows@leibniz.uni-kiel.de

I am an environmental archaeologist specialising in the use of radiocarbon and dietary stable isotopes. I work for the ZBSA (Zentrum für Baltische und Skandinavische Archäologie) but my office is in the Leibniz Laboratory for AMS Dating and Stable Isotope Research, Kiel University. As a member of the sub-cluster Dietary ROOTS, I contribute to research on the chronology, economy, health and population genomics of hunter-gatherers and early farmers in Northeastern Europe, and to the interpretation of isotopic proxies for human behaviour.

Keywords: Radiocarbon, stable isotopes, Bayesian chronological modelling, hunter-gatherer-fisher, palaeodiet

photo: Robert Hofmann

Clemens Mohr

ROOTS full member

Otto-Hahn-Platz 1, R. 6
Phone: +49 431 880-3984
Telefax: +49 431 880-4432
clemens.mohr@ifg.uni-kiel.de

Prof. Dr. Johannes Müller

Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology

ROOTS full member

Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 2-6, R. 23
Phone: +49 431 880-3391
Telefax: +49 431 880-7300
johannes.mueller@ufg.uni-kiel.de

photo: Sara Jagiolla

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Müller

Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology | Pre- and Protohistory

ROOTS full member

Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 2-6, R. 22
Phone: +49 431 880-3655
Telefax: +49 431 880-7300
umueller@ufg.uni-kiel.de

My research in the cluster concentrates on the Middle Ages (500-1500 CE). Urbanisation in Central and Northern Europe is an essential topic, as well as work on castles with a focus on questions of cultural theory. In addition to the Middle Ages, I specialise in the archaeology of modernity (especially the 20th century) and contemporary archaeology (e.g. protest). What is most challenging in all these epochs are the dense and parallel traditions of the different historical materials.

Keywords: Medieval archaeology, urbanisation, castle, contemporary archaeology, theory

Dr. Nils Müller-Scheeßel

Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology

ROOTS full member

Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 2-6, R. 5
Phone: +49 431 880-2067
Telefax: +49 431 880-7300
nils.mueller-scheessel@ufg.uni-kiel.de

I am interested in the many means and meanings of the disposal of the dead, be it Neolithic, Bronze Age or Iron Age practices in Central or Southeast Europe, in landscape archaeology, the possibilities of remote sensing, as well as quantitative methods. As a scientific editor, I am a decisive advocator of Golden Open Access and always look for new forms and workflows of digital publishing.

Keywords: Burial practices, landscape archaeology, quantitative archaeology, digital publishing

 

appl. Prof. Dr. Oliver Nakoinz

Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology

ROOTS full member

Johanna Mestorf Akademie - Leibnizstraße 3, R. 140
Phone: +49 431 880-5465
Telefax: +49 431 880-5498
oliver.nakoinz@ufg.uni-kiel.de

Prof. Almut Nebel

Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology

ROOTS full member

Niemannsweg 11, R. 2.OG-R.01
Phone: +49 431 500-15155
Telefax: +49 431 500-15168
a.nebel@mucosa.de

Prof. Dr. Norbert Nübler

Institute of Slavic Studies

ROOTS full member

Leibnizstraße 10, R. 332
Phone: +49 431 880-2178
Telefax: +49 431 880-1602
nuebler@slav.uni-kiel.de

Dr. René Ohlrau

Scientific Coordinator and Public Outreach

Leibnizstraße 3, R. 118
Phone: +49 431 880-5871
rohlrau@roots.uni-kiel.de

Office hours:
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René replaces Dr. Andrea Ricci during his parental leave. Please contact René for your questions regarding event planning and coordination.


I am an archaeologist trained in European prehistory, settlement archaeology, and geophysical prospection. My geographical focus lies on Southeastern and Eastern European archaeology and a global approach to early agglomeration processes. Currently, I am developing middle range theories in order to detect social levelling mechanisms in the archaeological record. In additional research, I work on Ukrainian Trypillia ‘mega-site’ palaeodemography and the emergence of pristine urbanism.

Keywords: Settlement archaeology, social archaeology, early urbanism, geophysical prospection, household archaeology, scaling, palaeodemography, Trypillia

Prof. Dr. Konrad Ott

Institute of Philosophy | Environmental Philosophy and Ethics

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Leibnizstraße 4, R. 15
Phone: +49 431 880-2822
Telefax: +49 431 880-2828
ott@philsem.uni-kiel.de

Prof. Dr. Konrad Ott is a member of the philosophical department at Kiel University. His research focuses on environmental philosophy and ethics. In 1990, Konrad Ott wrote a PhD thesis about the discursive logic of history as it originated in the 19th century. Since then, epistemology of history has been a field of interest. In ROOTS, Konrad Ott is a PI in the Reflective Turn Forum which deals with conceptual and theoretical topics within archaic history and archaeology. Konrad Ott is also a member of the Hazards subcluster.

Specific current topics of research are a) origins of the Anthropocene, b) archaic economic life, c) ancient gardening, d) past-present connectivities, and e) adaptation to climatic change.

Prof. Dr. Ilka Parchmann

Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education | Didactics in Chemistry Section

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Olshausenstraße 62, R. 210
Phone: +49 431 880-3494
Telefax: +49 431 880-5352
parchmann@leibniz-ipn.de

Prof. Dr. John Peterson

Institute for Scandinavian and Frisian Studies and General Linguistics | Linguistics and Phonetics

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Leibnizstraße 10, R. 425
Phone: +49 431 880-2414
jpeterson@isfas.uni-kiel.de

My research focuses on the languages of South Asia, from all major language families and isolates. In my work,I employ methods from different fields of linguistics – including language typology, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and language contact, as well as data from my own fieldwork in language description – to delve into the prehistory of the subcontinent. As social contact between speakers of different languages usually leavestraces in these languages, an examination of the distribution of different structural traits throughout the languages of this region can often provide us with detailed information both on earlier settlement patterns of the region as well as these groups’ societies.

Prof. Dr. Henny Piezonka

Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology

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Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 2-6, R. 140 b
Phone: +49 431 880-1621
Telefax: + 49 431 880-7300
hpiezonka@ufg.uni-kiel.de

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Rabbel

Institute of Geosciences | Geophysics

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Otto-Hahn-Platz 1, R. 316
Phone: +49 431 880-3916
Telefax: +49 431 880-4432
wolfgang.rabbel@ifg.uni-kiel.de

Prof. Dr. Matthias Renz

Department of Computer Science | Archaeoinformatics - Data Science

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Christian-Albrechts-Platz 4, R. 708 (CAP 4)
Phone: +49 431 880-7272
mr@informatik.uni-kiel.de

My main research is in the field of Data Science with a special focus on big data, data mining, artificial intelligence and knowledge discovery. My research environment is highly interdisciplinary with a particular focus in applications from archaeology as well as geo-, climate, and marine science. The main objective of my research is to develop scalable methods for the discovery of patterns and knowledge from raw data sources with a particular interest in spatial and spatio-temporal data.

Dr. Andrea Ricci

Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology

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Leibnizstraße 3, R. 118
Phone: +49 431 880-5871
Telefax: +49 431 880-5498
aricci@roots.uni-kiel.de

I situate my work at the intersection of digital humanities, landscape archaeology, and the archaeology of Southwestern Asia. With an interdisciplinary approach, I conduct advanced scholarship on Holocene human-environmental dynamics, the process of Neolithization, and the emergence of the first forms of social and economic complexity. The main geographical focus of my research agenda comprises the Zagros Mountains of southwestern Iran, the southern Caucasus, and Northern Mesopotamia.

Keywords: Landscape Archaeology; Digital archaeology; Southwestern Asia; Neolithic; Social Complexity; Mobility

Dr. Christoph Rinne

Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology

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Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 2-6, R. 136a
Phone: +49 431 880-3378
Telefax: +49 431 880-7300
crinne@ufg.uni-kiel.de

photo: Sara Jagiolla

Dr. Magdalena Bunbury (née Schmid)

Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology

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Olshausenstraße 80a, R. EG.016
Phone: +49 431 880 6710
Telefax: +49 431 880-5498
m.schmid@ufg.uni-kiel.de

Laura Schmidt

Institute of Classics | Greek Literature

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Leibnizstraße 8, R. 514
Phone: +49 431 880-2661
Telefax: +49 431 880-2286
lschmidt@email.uni-kiel.de

In my work, I connect ancient Greek philology with a philosophical perspective. I examine the ideas of ancient Greek writers on the tradition of knowledge as a typical human characteristic which enables humankind to surpass and control nature and natural hazards. Although the term Anthropocene is alien to them, it can be compared to their ideas about human nature. I concentrate on literature of the classical Greek era and geographically on the Greek-speaking world.

Keywords: Ancient philology, Greece, antiquity, knowledge tradition, Anthropocene

Dr. Ulrich Schmölcke

Institute of Zoology and Museum | Zoology and Functional Morphology of Vertebrates

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Phone: 04621 813 352
Ulrich.schmoelcke@zbsa.eu

Zentrum für Baltische und Skandinavische Archäologie, Schloss Gottorf

Dr. Jens Schneeweiß

Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology ||| Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology

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Olhausenstraße 80h, R. EG.17
jschneeweiss@roots.uni-kiel.de

As an archaeologist, I have combined active fieldwork with scientific analysis and evaluation in my research activities from the very beginning. Through my professional career, I have various research focuses. Most important are the research foci on settlement research and rural archaeology in early history and the Middle Ages, which I have been working on for two decades in Germany and abroad, and my research on the Bronze Age and the Iron Age in Siberia, with which I started my academic career. I have always been particularly interested in cross-border issues, both in a geographical and a disciplinary sense. My academic education includes both humanities and natural sciences. I therefore consider archaeological research originally interdisciplinary.

Keywords: Archaeology of North-Eastern Europe and Siberia, conflict resolution strategies in pre-industrial societies,  mobility, sedentariness and perception of space,  methodology of settlement and landscape archaeology with a focus on the 1st millennium AD,  pottery analysis,  “Zeitgeist” and cultural transfer,  physical and statistical dating methods, chronology and time; archaeological taphonomy and reconstruction of subsistence economy, genesis of cultural strata

Prof. Dr. Ralph Schneider

Institute of Geosciences | Marine Climate Research

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Ludewig-Meyn-Straße 10, R. LMS10 - R.13
Phone: +49 431 880-1457
Telefax: +49 431 880-1912
ralph.schneider@ifg.uni-kiel.de

Hauke Schneider

Institute of Classics | Greek Literature

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Phone: +49 431 880-2661
Telefax: +49 431 880-2286
hschneider@email.uni-kiel.de

Prof. Dr. Andreas Schwab

Institute of Classics | Greek Literature

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Leibnizstraße 8, R. 416
Phone: +49 431 880-2275
Telefax: +49 431 880-2286
aschwab@email.uni-kiel.de

Prof. Dr. Lorenz Schwark

Institute of Geosciences | Geochemistry

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Ludewig-Meyn-Straße 10, R. 111
Phone: +49 431 880-2850
Telefax: +49 431 880-4376
lorenz.schwark@ifg.uni-kiel.de

Prof. Dr. Gerald Schwedler

Institute of History | Economic and Social History

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Leibnizstraße 8, R. 115
Phone: +49 431 880-2283
Telefax: +49 431 880-1524
gschwedler@histosem.uni-kiel.de

Dr. Katrin Schöps

Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education | Didactics in Chemistry Section

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Olshausenstraße 62, R. 235
Phone: +49 431 880-5912
Telefax: +49 431 880-6512
schoeps@leibniz-ipn.de

photo: Andreas Klinge

Dr. Ulrich Schürmann

Institute of Materials Science | Synthesis and Real Structure

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Kaiserstraße 2, R. A-234
Phone: +49 431 880-6179
Telefax: +49 431 880-6290
usc@tf.uni-kiel.de

As a coordinator for the TEM Center at the Faculty of Engineering, Kiel University, I am responsible for our Transmission Electron Microscopes. By means of these microscopes, we can analyse the structure, morphology and chemical composition of a wide variety of materials down to the nano scale. With this technique, we try to determine the composition of archaeological artefacts and thus their origin and purpose.

Keywords: Materials science, material analysis, electron microscopy, nano science

Dr. Lisa Shindo

Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology

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Olshausenstraße 80c, R. EG.01
Phone: +49 431 880 6748
Telefax: +49 431 880-5498
lshindo@roots.uni-kiel.de

My research focuses on the relationship between humans and forests in the western Mediterranean over the long term. I study the wood heritage and old forest stands, both in the mountains and on the plains, in order to determine the history of human occupation, the circulation of wood between forests and urban sites, and the human impact on the environment. For this purpose, I use dendrochronology, history, archaeology and palaeo-environmental sciences in an interdisciplinary approach.

Keywords: Alps, dendrochronology, wood heritage, silvicultural practices, forests, chronology, trade, human impact

photo: Anthony Rety

Dr. Nicole Taylor

Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology

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Sonderforschungsbereich 1266, Leibnizstr. 3, R. 136
Phone: +49 431 880-5926
Telefax: +49 431 880-5498
ntaylor@sfb1266.uni-kiel.de

Prof. Dr. Andreas Tholey

Institute for Experimental Medicine

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Institut für Experimentelle Medizin, AG Systematische Proteomforschung, Niemannsweg 11, Haus 1, R. 118
Phone: +49 431 500 30300
Telefax: +49 431 500 30308
a.tholey@iem.uni-kiel.de

Dr. Martin Thorwart

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Otto-Hahn-Platz 1, R. 315
Phone: +49 431 880-3591
Telefax: +49 431 880-4432
martin.thorwart@ifg.uni-kiel.de

Dr. Chiara Thumiger

Institute of Classics | Greek Literature

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Olshausenstraße 80h, R. EG.03
cthumiger@roots.uni-kiel.de

Chiara Thumiger is a classicist and a science historian. In particular, her current interests focus on ancient medicine and mental health, patient history, history of psychiatry, (ancient) disability studies, and the history of the body. She has also worked on other areas of ancient literatures and culture (Greek tragedy, ancient animals, ancient emotions). Her present research project within ROOTS, Ancient Guts, focuses on a key, but comparatively underrated aspect of ancient medicine and anatomy: the gastric area of the body and the process of food ingestion and assimilation. The aim is to explore medical traditions as well as other cultural products to scrutinise ancient and modern understandings of the human body and their social variables.

Keywords: Graeco-Roman medicine, history of psychiatry, Greek and Latin literature, history of emotions, ancient disability

Dr. Guillermo Torres

Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology

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Olshausenstraße 80a, R. EG.008
Phone: +49 431 500-15163
g.torres@ikmb.uni-kiel.de

Kiel University
Rosalind-Franklin-Straße 12
24105 Kiel, Germany

Prof. Dr. Ingmar Unkel

Institute for Ecosystem Research | Environmental History and Environmental Archives

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Olshausenstraße 75, R. I /130
Phone: +49 431 880-5241
Telefax: +49 431 880-4083
iunkel@ecology.uni-kiel.de

  • Human-climate interaction, with special focus on the development during the last 10,000 years and with a regional focus on the Eastern Mediterranean and South America

  • Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction as a basis for modeling future climate development

  •  Environmental reconstruction based on sedimentary analyses, radiocarbon dating and faunal assemblages

  • Carbon cycle and hydrological cycle, groundwater renewal

Dr. Mara-Julia Weber

Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology

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Phone: +49 4621 813-349
mara.weber@landesmuseen.sh

Zentrum für Baltische und Skandinavische Archäologie, Schloss Gottorf

photo: Ulrich Simon

PD Dr. Mara Weinelt

Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology

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Leibnizstraße 3, R. 108
Phone: +49 431 880-1639
Telefax: +49 431 880-5498
mweinelt@roots.uni-kiel.de

Dr. Søren Wichmann

Institute of Slavic Studies

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Olshausenstraße 80h, R. EG.06
Phone: +49 431 880-6571
Telefax: +49 431 880-5498
swichmann@roots.uni-kiel.de

My work focuses on how languages emerge, change, and interact, and how these processes relate to external factors like human agency and ecology. I usually draw upon quantitative methods, and, when observations are not available, computer simulations. Often, I find myself at the intersection of linguistics, archaeology, and genetics. Early in my career, I specialised in Mesoamerican studies, but have since then conducted studies pertaining to many other areas of the world. 

Keywords: Language dynamics, historical linguistics, linguistic typology

Dr. Maria Wunderlich

Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology

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Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 2-6, R. 24
Phone: +49 431 880-3798
Telefax: +49 431 880-7300
m.wunderlich@ufg.uni-kiel.de

My research is centred around comparative approaches and social archaeology with a focus on the intersection between archaeology and socio-cultural anthropology. Working in Northeastern India as well as Central Europe, I am interested in the dynamics involved in the socio-political organisation of societies, and forms of non-hierarchical social organisation. I am focusing on the research of Neolithic communities, as well as ethnoarchaeological approaches with an emphasis on human-environmental dynamics and settlement structures and organisation. Deriving from my PhD studies, I am also engaged in the research of the social implications and forms of megalithic monuments, both in recent and in prehistoric contexts. 

Keywords: Ethnoarchaeology, Neolithic, social archaeology, Northeast India, Central Europe, social organisation, kinship

PD Dr. Gabriel Zeilinger

Institute of History | Economic and Social History

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Leibnizstraße 8, R. 204
Phone: +49 431 880-3797
Telefax: +49 431 880-1524
zeilinger@histosem.uni-kiel.de

My general field of work is the economic, social and environmental History of medieval and early modern Europe, with a particular emphasis on pre-modern urbanisation. Within the framework of ROOTS, my research focus is mainly concerned with the urban courtyards of extramural monasteries and nobles as interfaces between the urban and the rural spheres.

Prof. Dr. Christiane Zimmermann

Institute of New Testament Studies and Judaism

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Leibnizstraße 4, R. 112
Phone: +49 431 880-3277
c.zimmermann@email.uni-kiel.de

My research is concerned with tracing the spread of earliest Christianity with a regional focus using archaeological, epigraphic and other textual sources. Above all, the evaluation of the epigraphic evidence, which is being digitally collected (Inscriptiones Christianae Graecae database), represents a new approach. I concentrate on emerging Christianity in urban centres, but also in rural regions. My main geographical focus is on Corinth and the Peloponnese.

Keywords: Christian archaeology, inscriptions, Greece, Corinth, Peloponnese

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