Detlef Jantzen

Detlef Jantzen (born October 27, 1960 ) is a German archaeologist and state archaeologist . He is head of the archeology department at the State Office for Culture and Monument Preservation , Archeology and Monument Preservation, Archeology Department, in Schwerin .

Career

Jantzen studied prehistory and early history , middle and modern history as well as art history at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . In 1994 he took over the management of the prospecting for the planned federal motorway 20 for the State Office for Land Monument Preservation Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and then the project management of the excavations on its route. In the meantime he was responsible for archaeological activities on the natural gas route Dargun - Stralsund . In 1996 he became head of the Waren branch of the State Office for Land Monument Preservation and the Central Mecklenburg District Department . In 2003 he became the department head for modern soil monuments and headed the department group for prehistoric soil monuments. In the following year he received his doctorate at the University of Kiel with a dissertation on the subject of sources for metal processing in the Nordic region of the Bronze Age . In 2007 he became head of the archeology department at the State Office for Culture and Monument Preservation. In 2011 he was appointed the first state archaeologist in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Since 2010, Jantzen has been leading research on the Bronze Age battlefield in the Tollensetal together with Thomas Terberger . In addition to the Bronze Age in Northern Europe, his main research interests include settlement archeology in Northern Germany and Scandinavia, experimental archeology and the processing of archeology during the National Socialist era.

Works

• Detlef Jantzen and Josef Riederer : Sources for metal processing in the Nordic region of the Bronze Age. Steiner, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-515-09192-3 .
• Detlef Jantzen, Jörg Orschiedt , Jürgen Piek, Thomas Terberger (eds.): Death in the Tollensetal. Research on the legacies of a Bronze Age violent conflict in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Part 1: The research up to 2011 (= contributions to prehistory and early history of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Volume 50), Schwerin (State Office for Culture and Monument Preservation Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania) 2014, ISBN 978 -3-935770-43-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Detlef Jantzen in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Detlef Jantzen at the State Office for Culture and Monument Preservation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State curator and state archaeologist appointed. archaeologie-online.de, August 5, 2011, accessed on May 8, 2016.
2. ^ The Bronze Age “battlefield” in the Tollensetal (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania) in the Neues Museum Berlin State Office for Culture and Monument Preservation, accessed on May 8, 2016.