Alexander Binsteiner

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Alexander Binsteiner (born May 1, 1956 in Wasserburg am Inn ) is a German geoarchaeologist .

Life

In his diploma thesis on the chert deposit of Baiersdorf in the Kelheim district , Lower Bavaria, he gained his first experience in the mining archeology of prehistoric mines.

In the service of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (BLfD) he was then for many years local excavation manager in the flint mine of Arnhofen near Abensberg in Lower Bavaria . He concluded these first excavation campaigns in Arnhofen with several publications.

Konrad Spindler appointed Binsteiner in 1993 as chief geologist in the Eismann project at the University of Innsbruck .

Between 1999 and 2001 Binsteiner examined the " Feuersteinstrasse between Bavaria and Bohemia", the oldest trade route in Europe, for the BLfD Landshut .

From 2003 to 2007 he carried out a geoarchaeological survey for radiolarite deposits in the Kleinwalsertal on behalf of the Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory of the University of Innsbruck. He discovered a mesolithic radiolarite mining on the "Feuerstein" in the Gemsteltal, which is considered to be the oldest and highest situated flint mine in Europe.

His best-known projects are also the case of Ötzi , the fall of the Mondsee culture , the Venus von Willendorf and the exploration of the Stone Age in the greater Linz area with the nearby Danube-Enns Paleolithic , which contains sites of Homo erectus , the Neanderthals and the early Homo sapiens .

Then he dealt with the Neolithic river trade on the Danube and the expansion of the end-Neolithic Cham culture to Upper and Lower Austria.

Binsteiner, who wrote numerous essays and monographs on Stone Age topics, was also the curator of several Stone Age exhibitions, including “Riddles of the Stone Age between the Danube and the Alps”, which was shown in Linz and Regensburg in 2011.

He was also a lecturer for "European Silex Deposits" at the Universities of Innsbruck and Vienna.

Today he lives and works as a freelance geoarchaeologist and author in the Bohemian Highlands near the border with Lower Austria.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Neolithic mining on Jura chornstones from Baiersdorf in the southern Franconian Jura. In: Archaeological correspondence sheet . Vol. 19, No. 4, 1989, pp. 331-337.
  • The Neolithic flint mine of Arnhofen, Ldkr.Kelheim. A mining on Jura chimneys in the southern Franconian Alb. In: Bavarian history sheets . 55, 1990, pp. 1-56.
  • with Robert Darga: Stone Age in Chiemgau. Pfeil, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-89937-012-0 (booklet accompanying the exhibition in the natural history and mammoth museum in Siegsdorf).
  • The deposits and mining of Bavarian Jura chimneys as well as their distribution in the Neolithic of Central and Eastern Europe. In: Yearbook Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz. Vol. 52, No. 1, 2005, ISSN  0076-2741 , pp. 43-155, doi: 10.11588 / jrgzm.2005.1.18860 .
  • Hub Linz - Stone Age trade on the Danube (= Linz archaeological research. 37). Nordico - Museum of the City of Linz, Linz 2006, ISBN 3-85484-436-0 .
  • with Erwin M. Ruprechtsberger : Mondsee Culture and Analysis of Silex Artifacts from See am Mondsee (= Linzer archaeological research. Special issues. 35). Magistrate of the state capital Linz, Linz 2006, ISBN 3-85484-583-9 .
  • The Ötzi case. Robbery on Similaun. Documentation (= Linz archaeological research. Special issues. 38). Magistrate of the State Capital Linz, Linz 2007, ISBN 978-3-85484-586-3 .
  • with Erwin M. Ruprechtsberger: Neolithic Silex artifacts and ceramics in the Linz area and in Upper Austria (= Linz archaeological research. Special issues. 41). Nordico - Museum of the City of Linz, Linz 2008, ISBN 978-3-85484-589-8 .
  • with Erwin M. Ruprechtsberger: Late Paleolithic in the Linz area. The flint analysis by Perg-Weinzierl (Helmut Ardelt Collection) (= Linzer archaeological research. Special issues. 43). Nordico - Museum of the City of Linz, Linz 2009, ISBN 978-3-85484-591-X .
  • with Erwin M. Ruprechtsberger: From the Old Stone Age to the New Stone Age. The Berglitzl near Gusen in the field of tension of research (= studies on the cultural history of Upper Austria. 29). Upper Austrian State Museum Linz, Linz 2010, ISBN 978-3-85474-246-3 .
  • Riddle of the Stone Age between the Danube and the Alps (= Linz archaeological research. 41). Magistrate of the state capital Linz, among others, Linz 2011, ISBN 978-3-85484-440-2 .
  • with Erwin M. Ruprechtsberger: The Danube-Enns Palaeolithic. With research overviews on Lower and Upper Austria (= Linz archaeological research. Special issues. 45). Magistrate of the state capital Linz, among others, Linz 2011, ISBN 978-3-85484-593-6 .
  • The Paleolithic artifacts from the Lehberg, Haidershofen community. A new site of the Danube-Enns-Palaeolithic in Upper and Lower Austria (= Linz archaeological research. Special issues. 47). Magistrate of the State Capital Linz, Linz 2012, ISBN 978-3-85484-595-9 .
  • with Erwin M. Ruprechtsberger: New Stone Age finds in the Lower Mühlviertel. The Meiche Collection in Engerwitzdorf (= Linz archaeological research. Special issues. 48). Magistrate of the State Capital Linz, Linz 2013, ISBN 978-3-85484-596-6 .
  • with Erwin M. Ruprechtsberger: 10 years Stone Age project in Linz (= Linz archaeological research. Special issues. 50). City of Linz Magistrate, Linz 2014, ISBN 978-3-85484-598-0 .
  • with Ondřej Chvojka and Erwin M. Ruprechtsberger: Between Upper Austria and South Bohemia. Stone Age in the Mühlviertel. = Mezi horním rakouskem a Jižními Čechami. Doba kamenná v mühlviertelu (= Linz archaeological research. 45). Magistrate of the state capital, Linz 2014, ISBN 978-3-85484-442-6 .
  • New Stone Age chert imports from Bavaria in Upper Austria (= Linz archaeological research. Special issues. 53). Magistrate of the State Capital Linz, Linz 2015, ISBN 978-3-85484-601-7 .
  • with Erwin M. Ruprechtsberger: Stone Age on the Enns. The “Temper” and “Mitterhuber” collections in Haidershofen (= Linz archaeological research. 47). City of Linz Magistrate, Linz 2016, ISBN 978-3-85484-445-7 .
  • Homo sapiens on new paths. Stories from the Stone Age between Neanderthals and Ötzi. Bogner, Berg 2017, ISBN 978-3-947035-03-8 .
  • People, stones and story (s). Bogner, Berg 2018, ISBN 978-3-947035-06-9 .
  • New traces in the Stone Age. Bogner, Berg 2018, ISBN 978-3-947035-21-2 .
  • Stone Age Trilogy. Bogner, Berg 2018, ISBN 978-3-947035-22-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roland H. Knauer: Sharp knives from the pit . Die Zeit, edition 7/2002 of February 7, 2002.
  2. ^ Rüdiger Braun: On Ötzi's trail across the Alps . Der Stern, issue 43/2006 of October 31, 2006.
  3. ^ Matthias Schulz: Pompeii of the Stone Age . Der Spiegel, October 6, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Binsteiner, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geoarchaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Wasserburg am Inn