Prehistory / Early History
Dr. Reinhard Bernbeck
Professor of Archaeology
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute for Near Eastern Archaeology
Fabeckstraße 23-25, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Anthropology of the Near East
- Archaeological theories
- Political dimension of archaeology (esp. Palestine, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan)
- Archaeology and colonialism
- Emergence of social inequality in Mesopotamia
- Neolithic (Middle East)
- Cultural anthropological issues
- Archaeology in places of the 20th century
Dr. Dominik Bonatz
Professor of Archaeology
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Near Eastern Archaeology
Fabeckstr. 23-25, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Archaeology of the Near East
- Archaeology of Indonesia
Dr. Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum
Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Fabeckstr. 23-25, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Ancient Near East
- Assyrians
- Babylonians
- Sumerians
- Akkadians
- Israel
- Syria
- Iraq
- Middle East
- Astronomy
- Astrology
- Science
- Early states
- School and education in pre-modern societies
- History of knowledge
- Oldest writing
- Decipherment
- Nimrud
- Nineveh
- Libraries
- Cuneiform
- Sumerian
- Akkadian
- Ancient Near East, Near East, Middle East: History and cultural history
- 4. - 1st millennium BC
- History of the influences of the Ancient Near East to the present day
- Ancient Near East and Europe: mythology
Dr. Elke Kaiser
Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology
Fabeckstraße 23-25, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Archaeology in West Eurasia
- Bronze Age
- Neolithic
- New Stone Age
- Eastern Europe
Dr. Michael Meyer
Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology
Fabeckstraße 23-25, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Archaeology of Central Europe
- Celts
- Teutons
- Iron Age
- Barbaricum
Dr. Silvia Polla
Professor of Computational Archaeology
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Classical Archaeology
Computational Archaeology
Fabeckstraße 23-25, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Computational archaeology
- Computational methods in archaeology
Dr. Frank Riedel
Professor of Paleontology
Department of Earth Sciences
Institute of Geological Sciences
Paleontology
Malteserstraße 74-100, 12249 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Climate and environmental change (including in ancient civilizations)
- Dynamics of ecosystems
- Regional focus: southern Africa, Caspian region, central Asia, Tibet and the Himalayas, China, eastern Siberia (Lake Baikal)
Dr. Wolfram Schier
Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology
Fabeckstraße 23-25, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Prehistoric archaeology (Neolithic, Bronze Age, and Iron Age), particularly in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe
- Settlement archaeology and economic archaeology
- Questions on archaeometry, bioarchaeology, archaeoastronomy
- Interdisciplinary approach to archaeological excavation methodology