Dirk Meier (prehistoric)

Dirk Meier (born October 1, 1959 in Flensburg ) is a German prehistorian .

Dirk Meier graduated from the Auguste Viktoria School in Flensburg in 1980 . From 1981 to 1983 he studied prehistory, geology and ethnology at the University of Cologne and from 1983 to 1987 at the University of Kiel . There he received his doctorate in 1987/88 with magna cum laude on Slavic archeology. In 1986 he received a travel grant from the University of Poznan (Poland). Since 1988 he has headed the coastal archeology / landscape development work group at the West Coast Research and Technology Center of the University of Kiel in Büsum . In 1998 he completed his habilitation at the University of Kiel on geoarchaeological studies in the North Sea region. During this time he led excavations in the Schleswig-Holstein North Sea coast area, especially in Eiderstedt and Dithmarschen .

He also led the EU projects "Landscape and Cultural Heritage of the Wadden Sea" and "Pathways to Cultural Landscapes". From 2003 to 2009 he represented the chair for Prehistory and Early History and Medieval Archeology at the University of Giessen . His scientific focus includes geo-archeology, coastal archeology and historical environmental research as well as archeology and history of the early and high Middle Ages. He has also published articles in scientific journals and written several books.

Fonts

• Scharstorf. A Slavic castle in Ostholstein and its surroundings. Archaeological finds (= publications of the Collaborative Research Center 17. Archaeological Working Groups 15 = Offa books 70). Wachholtz, Neumünster 1990, ISBN 3-529-01170-3 .
• Landscape development and settlement history of the Eiderstedter and Dithmarscher coastal areas. Investigations of the AG Coastal Archeology of the FTZ West Coast (= university research on prehistoric archeology. Vol. 79). 2 parts (Part 1: The settlements. Part 2: The settlement area. ). Habelt, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-7749-3078-3 (also: Kiel, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 1997).
• Farmer, citizen, nobleman. City and country in the Middle Ages. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2003, ISBN 3-7995-0115-0 .
• Settling and living on the edge of the world. Between the Stone Age and the Middle Ages (= Archeology in Germany. Special 2003). Theiss , Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8062-1846-3 .
• Seafarers, traders and pirates in the Middle Ages. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2004, ISBN 3-7995-0142-8 (In English: Seafarers, Merchants and Pirates in the Middle Ages. Translated by Angus McGeoch. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge 2006, ISBN 1-8438-3237-2 ).
• Land Under! The history of the flood disasters. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2005, ISBN 3-7995-0158-4 .
• The North Sea coast. Story of a landscape. Boyens, Heide 2006, ISBN 3-8042-1182-8 (2nd edition, ibid 2007, ISBN 978-3-8042-1182-7 ).
• Schleswig-Holstein's coasts are changing. From the Ice Age to global warming (= Small Schleswig-Holstein Books. Vol. 58). Boyens, Heide 2007, ISBN 978-3-8042-1225-1 .
• Land in sight. Development of seafaring. (Development of seafaring on the North and Baltic Seas). Boyens, Heide 2009, ISBN 978-3-8042-1272-5 .
• Wadden Sea World Heritage Site. Cultural landscape without borders. Boyens, Heide 2010, ISBN 978-3-8042-1314-2 .
• Schleswig-Holstein in the early Middle Ages. Landscape - archeology - history. Boyens, Heide 2011, ISBN 978-3-8042-1341-8 .
• Forces of nature in the Wadden Sea World Heritage Site. Boyens, Heide 2012, ISBN 978-3-8042-1355-5 .
• Schleswig-Holstein in the High and Late Middle Ages. Land development - villages - cities. New edition. Boyens, Heide 2012, ISBN 978-3-8042-1366-1 .
• Sylt: a landscape story. Boyens 2018, ISBN 978-3804214828

Web links

• Website about coastal archeology by Dirk Meier
• Publications by Dirk Meier in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii