Elke Lindemeyer

Elke Lindemeyer (born July 30, 1956 in Halberstadt ; † April 4, 1996 ) was a German archaeologist from the Near East .

From 1977 Elke Lindemeyer studied prehistory and early history at the Humboldt University in Berlin . She specialized early on in Near Eastern archeology. In her diploma thesis she devoted herself to the burial rites of the Near East from the 10th to the 6th millennium BC. In 1982 she became a research assistant at the Central Institute for Ancient History and Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , where she also dealt primarily with Near Eastern archeology. At the academy, Lindemeyer received his doctorate in 1989 with the work Investigations into the history of the settlement of Syria from the 8th to the end of the 3rd millennium BC . In the turmoil of the turning point, the planned publication of the dissertation in two volumes was not realized. After the fall of the Wall she had the opportunity to take part in excavations in Abu Hagaira, Syria , from 1990 onwards . In addition, she worked with Lutz Martin on the small finds from Uruk , which are in the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin. From 1994 until her death she was employed at the Chair for Prehistory and Protohistory at Humboldt University. She died of cancer at the age of 40.

Fonts

• Studies on the history of the settlement of Syria from the 8th to the end of the 3rd millennium BC Dissertation, Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Berlin 1989.
• with Lutz Martin : Uruk. Small finds. 3: Small finds in the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin. von Zabern, Mainz 1993, ISBN 3-8053-1546-5 ( excavations in Uruk-Warka , volume 9).

literature

• Ruth Struwe : Elke Lindemeyer (1956–1996). In: Archäologisches Nachrichtenblatt 2 (1997), p. 102.