Historical Archaeology

Urban Archaeology, Footwear, Garbage Archaeology, waste management, Museology

Egyptology

Funerary and settlement archaeology in Ancient Egypt and the Levant The First Intermediate Period to New Kingdom (ca. 2176 ? 1450BC) in general Material culture studies Interpretation of distribution patterns of material culture Studies in culture contacts and interaction of ancient cultures, in particular Egypt and the Levant Transfer of knowledge Archaeology of identity Evaluation and interpretation of archaeological data derived from ceramics Contextual studies Re-evaluation of old excavation records and archaeological material

Protohistoric Archaeology

Archaeology, Protohistory, Anthropology, Social Sciencies, Humanities Iron Age, Iberian culture, Complex Societies, Western Mediterranean Domestic architecture, Settlement patterns, Social use of space, Household Archaeology Building techniques, Experimental Archaeology, Earthen Architecture Burial sites, Archaeology of Death, Funerary Rituals, Palaeodemography Museography

Prehistoric Archaeology

Archaeology, Prehistory, Anthropology, Social sciences, Humanities, Archaeometry, Geology, Paleoenvironment European Neolithic, specifically: the Settlement during the Neolithic in the Alps and the Bell Beaker Culture in Europe during the 3rd millenium BC, the European Chalcolithic: ceramics, copper, peopling history, settlement, spatial analysis, isotopes Pb, Sr Middle Palaeolithic, anthropology of Neandertal, occupations of territory, lithic technology, in Asia and in Europe Archaeological Excavation in the Eremita Cave in Piémont, Italy. Since 2012 ; international project.

Egyptology

Archaeology, cultural studies

Prehistoric archaeology, maritime prehistory, ancient globalisation, emergence of agriculture, human dispersals, archaeological theory, material culture, molecular genetics, ethics and relevance of archaeology

My main research focuses on the emergence of connectivity and trade in the early Indian Ocean, from the Bronze Age through to the historical era. I am interested in the circulation of material goods, technologies and ideas in this maritime arena, as well as the linked translocation of a range of biological species through human activities. My research draws upon a range of methods, in particular archaeology, but also molecular genetics, linguistics and palaeoenvironmental studies.

Egyptology

Settlement archaeology and Social relationships Material culture (including semiotic aspects of interpreting the archaeological evidence) Cultural identities (in particular Kushites in Egypt) Funerary culture and Mortuary architecture Cult of Osiris at Abydos

Classical Archaeology, Ancient Iconography, Ancient History, Cultural Anthropology, Gender Studies

Interdisciplinary approach of Classical culture, Images and anthropology of the Past, History of ludic culture as cultural fabric, History of medicine, magic and of the body, History of women and childhood

History of Archaeology, Prehistoric Art, Prehistory, Identity, Heritage

History of Archaeology - academic networks; internationalism; transnationalism; imperialism; colonialism Prehistoric rock art: post-palaeolithic; biographies; landscape Identity: gender, ethnicity; nationalism - all in combination with the above research interests. Heritage - public archaeology; ethics; tourism

Prehistory and Protohistory (worldwide)

Late Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, prehistoric hunter-gatherers, lithic technology

Art history, Heritage preservation

Islamic art and architecture, al-Andalus, exchange and transfer processes Islamic World/West (Iberian Peninsula, Ottoman Empire), monument preservation in the Islamic World, appropriation of Islamic aesthetics in the West (Middle Ages/19th century), Orientalism, Islamic art and the museum

GeosciencesGeomagnetismPaleomagnetismRock-magnetism

Geomagnetic field changes Paleointensity Environmental magnetism Archeomagnetism

African Archaeology

archaeology of the Sahel, global medieval archaeology, empires

Prehistory, human evolution, evolutionary diet, plant use before agriculture, coastlines

Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, evolutionary diet, ethnoarchaeology, dental calculus, coastal and maritime archaeology, scientific methods in archaeology

Palaeoanthropology, Human Evolution, Neanderthals, Palaeolithic Archaeology, Morphometry and 3D Visualization

Neanderthal evolution, modern human origins and the application of 3-D geometric morphometric methods to paleoanthropology, primate and human evolution, evolutionary theory, evolution of primate and human life-history, the relationship of morphological variability to population history and the environment, Paleolithic archaeology

Classical archaeology

Anthropology of images, concepts of the body, material culture studies, urban studies, theory

Scandinavian prehistory; historiography; feminist theory and gender

Scandinavian prehistory Historiography Feminist theory and gender

Prehistoric archaeology in southeastern Europe, in the Aegean und in western Anatolia

Neolithization Emergence of proto-urban centres Neolithic - Chalcolithic - Bronze Age Social systems in a changing environment

Prehistoric Archaeology

Stone Age hunter-gatherer Archaeology and Coastal Archaeology Middle Pleistocene / Middle Stone Age coastal adaptations Zooarchaeology of Marine Invertebrates Taphonomy of marine invertebrate assemblages Complex and trans-egalitarian hunter-gatherers Palaeoecology & Palaeoenvironmental reconstructions Culture Contact Archaeology (hunter-gatherer / pastoralists) Computer simulation in Archaeology Complex Adaptive Systems Emergent Properties in Social Systems

Archaeology and numismatics

Roman archaeology Antique numismatics Ancient history

Archaeology/Ur- und Frühgeschichte

Underwater Archaeology Material Studies Museology Preservation of cultural heritage

Evolutionary Paleobiology, hard tissue paleohistology

Life History Evolution Evolutionary Ecology Evolutionary Physiology Islands and other Resource-limited Environments Trends and Rules in Evolution Evolution of Brain and Nervous System

Historical Archaeology

Globalization Migration Diaspora Urbanity Consumption

Archaeozoology, Environmental archaeology

Palaeozoology, fauna history (fish and sea mammals), archaeo-ichthyology, archaeogenetics, digital archaeozoology (data management)

Historical archaeology

Material culture, theory and methods, history of research

Early prehistory

Late Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Mesolithic-Neolithic transition, palaeodiet, shell middens, excavation, Star Carr

Mediterranean Bronze Age, Early Modern Iberian Colonialism, Gender Archaeology

Archaeology, Prehistory of the Argaric Bronze Age, Historical Archaeology Gender and Archaeology Funerary Behaviour and Identity

Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology

Landscape Archaeology, Bronze Ages, Iron Age, Prehistoric Archaeology, Trade and Exchange, Social Models, System Approaches, Transfer of Ideas and Concepts, Excavation Methods, GIS, Remote Sensing, Archaeological Science, Material Studies

Archaeology, prehistory, typological studies, material culture studies, theoretical archaeology and craft studies;Archaeometallurgy, metallographic and elemental scientific methods, isotope studies (lead and tin), metal trade, provenance studies; Historic and prehistoric craftGoldsmithingExperimental archaeology (here Bronze Age casting and forging techniques), viking age crafts

Prehistoric metals, X-ray fluorescence analyses, scanning electron microscopy, metallography -mass spectrometry for lead (and tin) isotope measurements, surface analysis, craft technique, history of craft (craft knowledge), mobility of people, material culture and ideas in prehistory and history

archaeochemistry

ancient diet and health, organic residue analysis, migrations, isotope analysis

Roman history, Roman political culture, Roman rituals, perfomances and spectacles, Classical reception

Roman triumphs, Roman funerals and communal grief, Roman defeats, Roman memory sanctions, Roman calendars, Roman memorials, Agrippina the Elder

Computational Archaeology (Archaeoinformatics, Digital Archaeology), Aegean Bronze Age Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Digital Humanities

Archaeology of cities and settlements, landscape archaeology, spatial analysis, 3D modelling, urban networks, Geographic Information Systems, computer simulation

Archaeology (archaeobotany)

Prehistoric agriculture Origins and spread of agriculture Agricultural technology North-African Prehistory Hunter/gatherer subsistence Food Ethnoarchaeology

Christian archaeology, patristics, Ephesus, Eastern and Southern Europe

Christian archaeology, early Christianity in Ephesus Patristics Late antiquity/early Christian monuments in Eastern and Southern Europe Late antiquity/early Christian textiles from Egypt

Egyptology

Egyptian philology and material culture Concepts of man and nature The junction of Egyptology and the natural sciences Intellectual history of Ancient Egypt (incl. interactions with Greece) The botany and pharmacobotany of Egypt and the Greco-Roman world Metrology Mummification

Classical Archaeology, The Levant, Field archaeology

Urban archaeology from the Hellenistic to the early Medieval period Ancient iconography (portraiture and sculpture) Fieldwork archaeology - theory and methods

Ancient and Medieval Worlds

Specialist of archaeology and history of Egypt from the 7th c. BC to the 3rd c. AD Particularly interested in the foreign (ie Greek and Roman) presence in Egypt, its expressions and consequences

Economic archaeology, settlement archaeology

Prehistory

Palaeolithic, use-wear, residues, stone tools, tool use, hafting, human evolution

Humans and their Environments: Evolutions, Interactions

Evolution of techniques, pre- and protohistory of southern Levant, ethnoarchaeology, ceramic technology

The Old Testament and the environment of the Bible, ancient Near Eastern iconography and the religious history of Palestine/Israel, feminist exegesis and hermeneutics

Ancient Oriental art The iconography of Palestine/Israel Gender and biblical studies

Classical Archaeology

Greek Archaeology Archaeology of Cult Funerary culture Topographic Studies Iconography

Physical Anthropology, Bioarchaeology, Human Osteology, European Prehistory

Prehistoric Balkans, Neolithisation, Fertility, Paleoobsteric, Paleopediatry, Prehistoric Cooperative Breeding, Ancient births, mothers and babies. My research in the field of prehistoric bioarchaeology combines standard anthropological methods and the application of state-of-the art techniques through the wide network of scientific collaboration. Bioarchaeology investigates human past, however I am motivated to transform it as a discipline which will employ the huge potential of ancient skeletal heritage in the study of biological phenomena relevant to modern people – e.g. the study of fertility and foetal development. Ancient skeletal remains await on this new horizon as a vast unread library and as valuable biological heritage of ancient humans. If we change the way we perceive and study our biological heritage, and shift the focus of study from reconstructing the past to resolving current biological issues, our research may lead to new knowledge of utmost significance for present humanity.

Near Eastern archaeology

Use of urban structures and spaces Technological development Culture of remembrance

Humans and their Environments: Evolutions, Interactions

Study of ancient personal ornaments Characterisation of prehistoric societies, in particular their social organisation, exchange systems and ethno-cultural units, through the study of personal ornaments found in burials and settlement sites Ethnoarchaeological research on personal ornaments Creation of modern, fossil, experimental and ethnographic reference collections for the study of prehistoric personal ornaments, taphonomic and technological analyses, microscopy, macrophotography, GIS, multivariate statistical analyses, creation of databases

Realia studies

Iconography and interpretation of images Historical study of images Gender history Study of dress