Heidi Peter-Röcher

Heidi Peter-Röcher (* 1960 ) is a German prehistorian .

Life

From 1981 to 1990 she studied Prehistory and Early History , Geology and Anthropology at the University of Berlin (1990: Master's degree ). After receiving her doctorate in 1993 with the title of her doctoral thesis, “Cannibalism in prehistoric research” , she was managing director of the Society for Archaeological Monument Preservation from 1993 to 2000. V. Berlin. From 1999 to 2001 she was chairwoman of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory and subsequently a member of the board and advisory board. From 2000 to 2005 she was a research assistant at the Institute for Prehistoric Archeology at the Free University of Berlin.

From 2000 to 2004 she took part in excavations in a Late Bronze / Early Iron Age settlement in Dolgelin . In 2005 and 2006 she was a lecturer at the Free University of Berlin , where she also received a habilitation scholarship. After her habilitation in 2007 at the Department of History and Cultural Studies at the Free University of Berlin with the title of the habilitation thesis “Violence and War in Prehistoric Europe” , she taught from 2007 to 2008 as a private lecturer at the Free University of Berlin. In 2007 she was a lecturer at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg (substitute professor).

From 2007 to 2008 she was a lecturer at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg (substitute professor) and since 2008 she has taught as a professor at the Chair of Prehistoric Archeology at the University of Würzburg . Her main research interests are Neolithic and Iron Age in Central Europe , cultural-scientific issues, social archeology , burial rites , religious archeology , archeology and anthropology .

Fonts (selection)

• Cannibalism in prehistoric research. Studies on a paradigmatic interpretation and its foundations . Bonn 1994, ISBN 3-7749-2646-8 .
• as editor with Cornelia Becker, Marie-Luise Dunkelmann, Carola Metzner-Nebelsick , Manfred Roeder and Biba Teržan: Chronos. Contributions to prehistoric archeology between North and Southeast Europe. Festschrift for Bernhard Hänsel . Espelkamp 1997, ISBN 3-89646-381-0 .
• The ogre myth. A look into the cannibals' cooking pots . Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-42062-1 .
• Violence and War in Prehistoric Europe. Contributions to conflict research on the basis of archaeological, anthropological and ethnological sources . Bonn 2007, ISBN 3-7749-3504-1 .

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Heidi Peter-Röcher
• Literature by and about Heidi Peter-Röcher in the catalog of the German National Library