Andrea Zeeb-Lanz

Andrea Zeeb-Lanz , née Zeeb, (born October 18, 1960 in Bad Bevensen ) is a German prehistorian .

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After completing her university entrance qualification, Andrea Zeeb began studying classical archeology , ancient history and prehistory and early history at the Free University of Berlin in 1980 . After her stay in Berlin from 1983 onwards, she moved to Heidelberg University in 1985 , where she continued her studies. During her studies, Zeeb-Lanz was also working in parallel to secure her livelihood. She interrupted her academic training in 1985 with a commercial training as a bank clerk at Stadtsparkasse Frankfurt am Main , which she successfully completed in 1987. This was followed by a resumption of university education in 1991 with the studies of pre- and early history , classical archeology, provincial Roman archeology at the University of Frankfurt . On May 27, 1991, she acquired her Magister Artium in Prehistory and Protohistory there under the supervision of Jens Lüning , who continued to support her scientifically as a doctoral supervisor from 1993 to 1995 on her doctoral scholarship, funded by the German National Academic Foundation . Andrea Zeeb-Lanz received her doctorate on June 25, 1997.

From August 1, 1991 to September 31, 1993, she was in charge of the excavation at several archaeological sites , for example in Hochstadt during the excavation of a Bronze Age settlement, in Ober-Eschbach when securing and working on a Roman villa rustica , and then in Nördlingen for the excavation in the case of ceramic , Middle Neolithic and Latène Age settlement remains , as well as excavations of a Hallstatt manor, a Roman cremation burial site, in Goldberg / Ries then the scientific exploration of Iron Age settlement traces.

From October 1st, 1997 she started as a research assistant at the State Office for Archeology Saxony in Dresden (area: inventory of individual finds), which she carried out until December 31st, 1997. On January 1, 1998, she was appointed advisor for monument inventory at the same office, a position that ended on June 30, 2001. From Dresden she moved her center of life on August 17, 2001 as a scientific employee (area: area officer) to the State Office for Monument Preservation Rhineland-Palatinate, Archaeological Monument Preservation in Speyer . After completing this work up to December 31, 2001, Zeeb-Lanz took on a new role on January 1, 2002 as a conservator and subject librarian at the successor institution General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (GDKE), (Department: Directorate State Archeology), Speyer branch opposite. On April 15, 2016, the archaeologist was commissioned with a research assignment at the GDKE , Regional Archeology Department, which lasted until 2019. She was largely responsible for the DFG research project Stone Age ritual site Herxheim .

Andrea Zeeb is married and has two children.

Publications (selection)

• The house findings of the early Neolithic settlement of Nördlingen-Baldingen in the Nördlinger Ries. Publishing house Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach 1994, ISBN 3-9803996-1-3 (master's thesis).
• The Goldberg Group in the early Neolithic of southwest Germany. A contribution to the ceramics of the shoulder band groups. Habelt, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-7749-2874-6 (dissertation).
• Exciting story (s) about the first arable farmers in the Palatinate. Lectures at the conference of the Palatinate Historical Society. The first arable farmers in the Palatinate in the Neolithic Age in Herxheim near Landau on October 26th and 27th, 2012 ( PDF: 3.1 MB at hist-verein-pfalz.de).
• with Andy Reymann : lion people and shamans. Magic in the prehistory. wbg Theiss, Darmstadt 2019, ISBN 978-3-8062-3989-8
• (Ed.): Crises - Cultural Change - Continuities. At the end of ribbon ceramics in Central Europe. Contributions from the international conference in Herxheim near Landau (Palatinate) from 14. – 17. 06. 2007. Verlag Marie Leidorf, Rahden / Westfalen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89646-440-8 .
• (Ed.): Ritualized Destruction in the Early Neolithic - The Exceptional Site of Herxheim (Palatinate, Germany) (= Research on Palatinate Archeology, Volume 8.1), Speyer 2016, ISBN 978-3-936113-09-9 .
• with Fabian Haack , Silja Bauer : Human sacrifice - Destruction rituals with cannibalism - Skull cult: The extraordinary ceramic band system from Herxheim in the southern Palatinate. ( [1] on projekt-herxheim.de)
• Cannibalism in Herxheim.  In: Biology in our time 44 (3), 2014, pp. 172–180 ( [2] on researchgate.net)
• The Celtic oppidum on the Donnersberg (Donnersbergkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate). The walls of the late Celtic city complex and new findings on the so-called slag wall. In: State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate, Department of Archaeological Preservation of Monuments (ed.): Archeology in Rhineland-Palatinate 2003. Zabern, Mainz 2004, ISBN 3-8053-3404-4 .

Web links

• CV on academia.edu
• Publications on academia.edu
• Photographs by Andrea Zeeb-Lanz [3] [4]