Hermann Ament

Hermann Ament (born February 2, 1936 in Montabaur ) is a German prehistorian .

After completing his doctorate at the University of Mainz in 1963, Ament completed a traineeship at the Roman-Germanic Central Museum in Mainz and received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute in 1964/65 . He then worked from 1965 to 1977 as a scientific consultant at the Roman-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute in Frankfurt / Main.

From 1977 to 1982 Ament was professor at the Institute for Prehistoric Archeology at the Free University of Berlin , from 1982 until his retirement in 2001 he was professor for prehistory at the University of Mainz. Until the winter semester 2013/14 he held individual courses at the universities of Frankfurt / M., Marburg and Würzburg.

His research area is the archeology of the Merovingian period.

Ament has been a member of the Catholic student associations Normannia-Greifswald zu Mainz and Staufia Frankfurt in KV since he was a student .

Publications

• The archaeological finds of the early Middle Ages from western Germany in the Museum for Pre- and Early History Berlin. Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-88609-559-9 .
• Early peoples of Europe: Thracians - Illyrians - Celts - Teutons - Etruscans - Italians - Greeks . Theis, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 978-3-8062-1758-2 .
• The early Middle Ages settlement and burial ground of Mertloch, Künzerhof (Mayen-Koblenz district) . Nuremberg 1993, ISBN 978-3-926982-32-2
• The Alemannic burial ground of Eschborn (Main-Taunus-Kreis) . State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse, Wiesbaden 1992.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hermann Ament in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page at the University of Mainz