Brigitte Lohrke-Farhatyar

Brigitte Lohrke-Farhatyar (born August 6, 1969 - June 24, 2008 ) was a German prehistoric scientist .

Brigitte Lohrke-Farhatyar took part in an excavation for the first time in 1987 as a schoolgirl. In 1988, she put her High School in Carlsbad and began 1989 with the study of prehistory and of anthropology and ethnology at the University of Freiburg . In 1991/92 she made a six-month journey from Morocco to Israel , and in 1991 she took part in an excavation in Alleshausen ( Offwiesen ) led by Helmut Schlichtherle . From 1992 to 1994 Lohrke was a tutor at the seminar in Freiburg, in 1994 she was in South Korea for a month , a year later in Pakistan for six weeks . At Heiko Steuer she completed her master's thesis Children and Young People in the Merovingian Period - Investigations into the burial custom of children and young people on the grave fields of Neresheim and Kösingen, Ostalbkreis . From 1995 to 1999 Lohrke was an anthropologist involved in Neolithic excavations in Ambrona , and since 1997 she has been responsible for the analysis of the anthropological remains of the La Peña de la Abuela burial mound and a pit grave of La Lámpara . A doctoral scholarship from the state graduate support made it possible for her to work on the dissertation children in the Merovingian period , the doctorate took place again in 1999 with Heiko Steuer.

2000 Lohrke had the excavation line and project management of exhibition excavation for Middle Neolithic in singing at the State Garden Show held. Then she was concerned with the processing of the finds from the excavation of Offwiesen. From 2001 to 2004 she was involved in the research project “Grab und Mensch. Archaeo-anthropological investigations into burials of the End Neolithic, the Early and Middle Bronze Ages in Bavaria and Bohemia ”at the University of Bamberg . In 2001 she also headed the teaching excavation of the Bamberg professorship in the end-Neolithic settlement of Voitmannsdorf . In 2007 Lohrke traveled to Iran and Afghanistan .

Lohrke-Farhatyar, who was married to an Afghan and has two children, did her best to research funerary customs, especially research into child burials. As an anthropologist, she was responsible for the anthropological evaluations of various excavations. Your list of publications includes around 30 entries, including articles for the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde or renowned periodicals such as the Madrider Mitteilungen , Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg , the Archäologische Nachrichtenblatt , The Archaeological Year in Bavaria and the Journal for Archeology of the Middle Ages .

Fonts

• Brigitte Lohrke, Babette Wiedmann, Kurt W. Alt: The stool grave of La Lámpara (Ambrona, Soria). Anthropological determination . In: Madrider Mitteilungen 41 - 2000, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut / Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2000. ISBN 3-8053-2677-7 . Pp. 36-39.

• Children in the Merovingian period. Graves of girls and boys in the Alemannia , Leidorf, Rahden 2004 (Freiburg contributions to the archeology and history of the first millennium, Vol. 9) ISBN 3-89646-769-7

Web links

• Biography and list of publications (PDF file; 128 kB)