Daniel Lau

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Daniel Lau, 2019

Daniel Lau (* 1978 in Greven ) (temporarily Daniel Hockmann ) is a German prehistorian and Near Eastern archaeologist . Since 2019 he has been working as a municipal archaeologist for the Schaumburg landscape based in Bückeburg .

Career

Daniel Lau comes from the Westphalian Münsterland . After graduating from the Hannah-Arendt-Gymnasium in Lengerich (Westphalia) in 1998, he studied from 1999 onwards with a major in Near Eastern Archeology and the minor subjects ethnology as well as Prehistory and Protohistory at the University of Münster , where he received his master's degree in Mesopotamian archeology in 2004 Work on the excavations in Savi Höyük in southeast Turkey. In 2010 he did his doctorate at the University of Münster with a reworking of grave and crypt finds from the second half of the 3rd to the middle of the 2nd millennium. v. In Aššur on the basis of German excavations in the years 1903 to 1914.

Daniel Lau at the Museum Hameln at the opening of the exhibition 10 Years of Municipal Archeology in the Schaumburg Landscape , 2019

As part of research projects by the German Archaeological Institute , Lau took part in excavations in Jordan , Turkey and Azerbaijan . From 2006 he worked at Osnabrück City and District Archeology, initially as an excavation assistant and from 2009 to 2017 as a scientific excavation manager. From 2013 he held a position as a lecturer , especially for the subject of Near Eastern Archeology, at the universities of Berlin , Münster and Osnabrück and continues to do this today (2019) at the University of Hamburg . In mid-2019 he became the local archaeologist of the Schaumburg landscape as the successor to Jens Berthold , who had switched to the LVR office for monument preservation in the Rhineland . Lau is responsible for the preservation of monuments in the districts of Nienburg and Schaumburg as well as in the cities of Bückeburg, Hameln , Nienburg / Weser and Stadthagen . His area of ​​work extends along the Weser over 100 km in length and up to 30 km in width. He looks after almost 6000 archaeological sites on about 2000 km². He is supported in this area by five honorary officers for archeology.

His main research interests include Stone Age research , ancient human-animal relationships, social archeology, and jewelry and ceramics studies. He is chairman of the association "Society for Stone Age Research in the City and District of Osnabrück ".

Writings and contributions (selection)

  • Graves and tombs in Assur I. From the second half of the 3rd to the middle of the 2nd millennium BC Chr. In: Scientific publications of the German Orient Society. 129, Wiesbaden, 2010 (dissertation).
  • Animals of the Bible , LWL-Museum für Naturkunde, Münster, 2010.
  • Preliminary report on the archaeological excavations at the fortified church in Ankum 2009. In: News from Lower Saxony's prehistory . 79, 2010, pp. 121-133.
  • A knight's seat from the Salier period in Bissendorf, Gde. Bissendorf, Ldkr. Osnabrück. In: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte 83, 2014, pp. 115-131 ( journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de PDF).
  • with Gisela Woltermann: An unusual amber finger ring from the Salier period from Bissendorf (district of Osnabrück) - insights into long-distance trading contacts in the High Middle Ages. In: Archaeological correspondence sheet . 44/3, 2014, pp. 429-442
  • The animal in the Neolithic region using the example of the Göbekli Tepe site. In: Jessica Ullrich (Ed.): Animals and Space. Animal studies. 6, 2014, pp. 17-27.
  • with Nicole Grunert, Jens Schubert, Julia Pygoch, Dennis Bradke: The material culture of the Osnabrück rural nobility in the 11th century, using the example of the finds from Bissendorf, Osnabrück district. In: Journal of Archeology of the Middle Ages. 43, 2015, pp. 127–158.
  • with Andre Gamerschlag The right of animals to be noticed. The Potential of Human-Animal Studies in West Asian Classical Studies. In: Forum Critical Archeology. 4, 2015, pp. 21-41.
  • The “vulture stele” as a Luhmannian medum to legitimize the royal claim to rule. In: Materiality of Writing in Early Mesopotamia. 2016, pp. 241-253.
  • with Jens Schubert: The early Middle Ages in Ankum and the surrounding area. In: Heimat-Hefte for village and parish Ankum. 2017.
  • Excavations on Grosse Rosenstrasse in Osnabrück: A rediscovered medieval stone work. In: Osnabrücker Mitteilungen. 122, 2017, pp. 71-87.
  • Animals at War: The Mesopotamian Region. In: Jessica Ullrich / Mieke Roscher (ed.): Animals in War. Animal studies. 12, Berlin, 2017, pp. 21–33.
  • Animalization and Dehumanization Practices in the Urban Societies of Ancient West Asia. In: Journal for Critical Animal Studies. 1, 2018, pp. 37-59.
  • In search of lost graves. Megalithic graves in the Osnabrück district. In: Frank Nikulka , Daniela Hofmann, Robert Schumann (eds.): People - Things - Places. Current research by the Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archeology at the University of Hamburg. Hamburg, 2018, pp. 33–40.
Editorships
  • Journal of Critical Animal Studies
  • with Dirk Wicke and Kai Kaniuth: Transition times - Ancient oriental studies for Reinhard Dittmann on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Marru 1. Münster 2018

Web links

Commons : Daniel Lau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Notes on Contributors (PDF) at De Gruyter.
  2. ↑ Completed master's thesis at the University of Münster.
  3. ↑ Tombs and tombs from Assyria from the second half of the 3rd to the middle of the 2nd millennium BC Chr. (PDF) Verlag CH Beck.
  4. ↑ Daniel Lau succeeds Jens Berthold. In: The Rake . June 7, 2019 ( dieharke.de ).
  5. ^ Association at the Society for Stone Age Research in the city and district of Osnabrück .
  6. ↑ List of publications Daniel Lau, as of 2019
personal data
SURNAME Lau, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hockmann, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistoric and Near Eastern archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Greven