Frank Falkenstein

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Frank Falkenstein (* 1964 in Duisburg ) is a German prehistorian .

Life

Falkenstein studied prehistory and early history, Near Eastern archeology and ancient history at the Free University of Berlin and graduated in 1991 with a master's degree. During his studies, he took part in several campaigns in what was then Yugoslavia and carried out a survey project on the Titeler Plateau. A DAAD scholarship enabled him in 1989 to study at the University of Novi Sad for a year . With the results of the survey he obtained his doctorate in 1995. After working for the preservation of monuments in the state of Brandenburg, he was a university assistant at the Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg from 1996 to 2003 . After completing his habilitation in 2002, he was a university lecturer at this institute from 2003 to 2006. In 2006 he first became a representative and then holder of the professorship for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archeology at the Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg . In 2007 he accepted the chair for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archeology at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg .

His main research interests include the Middle and Late Bronze Age in Central Europe, the Early Bronze Age in the Carpathian region , landscape archeology, human-environment relationships, social archeology and religious forms of expression.

Fonts (selection)

  • The history of the settlement of the Titeler Plateau (= Feudvar. Excavations and research in a microregion at the confluence of the Danube and Tisza rivers. 2 = Prehistoric archeology in Southeastern Europe. 14). Oetker / Voges, Kiel 1998, ISBN 3-9804322-4-6 (also: Berlin, Freie Universität, dissertation, 1995).
  • News about the gold hat from Schifferstadt. In: Archeology in Germany . 6, 2006, p. 53.
  • as editor: Hohler Stein, Rothensteine ​​and Jungfernhöhle. Archaeological research on the prehistoric use of natural holy places on the Northern Franconian Alb. Institute for Classical Studies - Chair for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archeology - University of Würzburg, Würzburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-89014-327-9 .

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personal data
SURNAME Falkenstein, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg