Clemens Eibner

Clemens Eibner (born May 29, 1941 in Vienna ) is an Austrian prehistoric archaeologist .

Life

After studying prehistory and early history and paleontology at the University of Vienna (Austria), he received his doctorate in 1966 on burial and burial customs of the early urn field culture in southern Germany and Austria . He did his habilitation on the late urnfield burial ground of St. Andrä in front of the Hagenthale . In 1974 he led the excavation of the ring wall on the Buchberg near Berg in Attergau . From 1982 on he was professor at the Department of Prehistory and Protohistory at Heidelberg University , where he retired in 2008. His areas of expertise are the Bronze Age and Urnfield Age, mining archeology and experimental archeology .

Research priorities

• Mining archaeological research in the Alps
• Living and cultural area Stillfried / March, Lower Austria
• Research on prehistory in the Paltental / Austria (with Hubert Presslinger)

Fonts

• Burial and burial customs of the early urn field culture in southern Germany and Austria. Vienna 1966 (Vienna, University, dissertation, 1966, typewritten).
• The late urnfield burial ground of St. Andrä vd Hgt., PB Tulln, Lower Austria. Informational value and information limits of cremations for a historical interpretation (= Archaeologia Austriaca. Supplement. 12). Deuticke, Vienna 1974, ISBN 3-7005-4404-9 .
• with Hubert Presslinger: Mining archeology in Paltental (Styria). Mining, smelting and settlement activities in the Bronze Age. In: Gerd Weisgerber , Gert Goldenberg (ed.): Alpenkupfer. = Rame delle Alpi (= The cut . Supplement. 17 = Publications from the German Mining Museum Bochum. 122). Association of Friends of Art and Culture in Mining eV, Bochum 2004, ISBN 3-937203-05-2 , pp. 63–74.

Web links

• Literature by and about Clemens Eibner in the catalog of the German National Library