Frauke Kenkel

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Frauke Kenkel (* 1978 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Career

Frauke Kenkel studied classical archeology, archeology of the Roman provinces and ethnology at the University of Cologne and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 2006, she completed her master's thesis in investigations into Cypriot red slip goods and their derivatives in Pednelissos (southern Pisidia) . With the dissertation investigations into the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine ceramics of the Tall Zirā'a in the Wādī al-'Arab (Northern Jordan). Commercial objects and everyday objects of a rural settlement in the area influenced by the Decapolis cities , Kenkel received his doctorate in Classical Archeology in 2012 at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Cologne (reviewers: Henner von Hesberg and Thomas Fischer ).

Kenkel worked on excavations in and around Cologne and as a research assistant at the Biblical-Archaeological Institute in Wuppertal and the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Cologne. She was also active in projects in Turkey and Mexico (Yucatan) and worked for a number of years on excavations in northern Jordan in the Tall Zira'a hills .

From October 2013 to September 2016 Kenkel was director of the German Evangelical Institute for Classical Studies in the Holy Land in Amman .

Publications

  • Investigations into the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine ceramics of the Tall Zirā'a in Wādī al-'Arab (Northern Jordan) - commercial objects and everyday objects of a rural settlement in the sphere of influence of the Decapolis cities (also phil. Diss. University of Cologne 2012) Verlag Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln , Cologne 2012.
  • with Stefanie Hoss: Hellenistic to Umayyad Period (Strata 8–3). Ceramic, Glass and Metal Finds Tall Zira'a (4) (Tall Zira a. The Gadara Region Project (2001-2011). Final Report Volume 6). Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2020, ISBN 978-3-579-08295-0 .

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ^ Catalog of the German National Library , accessed on April 24, 2020
  2. ↑ LISA science portal of the Gerda Henkel Foundation: Interviews from September 17, 2015 The Threat of Antiquity - Archeology in the Middle East. Interview with Frauke Kenkel about her archaeological work in Jordan , accessed on April 24, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Kenkel, Frauke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau