Hans-Peter Uerpmann
Hans-Peter Uerpmann (born October 31, 1941 in Hohenlimburg ) is a German archaeozoologist .
Hans-Peter Uerpmann studied veterinary medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1964 to 1968 and passed the state examination in veterinary medicine in 1969. In the same year he began studying prehistory and early history . In 1970 Uerpmann received his doctorate for veterinary medicine with the thesis “The animal bones finds from the talayot settlement of S'Illot (San Lorenzo, Mallorca)”. In 1970 he moved to the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , where he continued his studies in prehistory until 1972. In 1971 he also studied at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . Since 1972 Uerpmann was a scientific employee in the special research area 19 Tübingen Atlas of the Middle East of the German Research Foundation . He held this position until 1988. In 1976, he received his second doctorate in Freiburg, now for prehistory and in the minor subjects anthropology and medieval archeology , with the thesis "Problems of the Neolithization of the Mediterranean". Uerpmann completed his habilitation in Tübingen in 1981.
In 1983 he became a lecturer in Faunal Archeology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , the following year visiting professor at the University of Alaska . In 1989 he was employed as a research assistant at the Madrid department of the German Archaeological Institute . In 1990 he was appointed Professor of Archeobiology in the Department of Older Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology at the Institute for Prehistory and Early History and Archeology of the Middle Ages in Tübingen. Uerpmann's main area of work is the archeozoology of the Stone Age of the Middle East , domestication research , environmental influences on organisms, the development of the peasant economy and the methodology of archaeozoology. He is a member of the German Archaeological Institute.
Uerpmann led excavations in Jebel al-Buhais in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and in Hohle Fels and Geißenklösterle Germany, as well as in Zambujal , Portugal. He was excavation and prospecting manager on the Ramlah Peninsula (UAE), in the areas of Quriyat and Ras al-Hamra / Wattayah in the Sultanate of Oman and in the area around Petra and Sabra in Jordan . In the Behshar area in Iran and in the Kemer area in Turkey , he directed environmental history mapping. In the Dangstetten legionary camp he was the local excavation manager.
Uerpmann coined the term Proto-Neolithic .
Fonts
- The ancient distribution of ungulate mammals in the Middle East. Fauna and archaeological sites in Southwest Asia and Northeast Africa , Reichert, Wiesbaden 1987 (Supplements to the Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients . Series A, Naturwissenschaften, 27) ISBN 3-88226-395-4
- Zambujal. Part 4: The stone and leg artifacts from the excavations 1964 to 1973 (with Margarethe Uerpmann), Zabern, Mainz 2003 (Madrid contributions, vol. 5) ISBN 3-8053-2870-2
- The capital area of Northern Oman. Pt. 3: Stone age sites and their natural environment (with Margarethe Uerpmann), Reichert, Wiesbaden 2003 ISBN 3-89500-373-5
- Funeral monuments and human remains from Jebel al-Buhais (ed.), Kerns, Tübingen 2006 (Archeology of Jebel al-Buhais, Vol. 1) ISBN 3-935751-06-0
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| SURNAME | Uerpmann, Hans-Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German archaeozoologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hohenlimburg |