Immo Heske

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Immo Heske during the excavation of the Hünenburg near Watenstedt , 2019

Immo Heske (* 1969 ) is a German prehistoric archaeologist .

Career

Immo Heske studied at the Universities of Göttingen and Hanover . In 1999 he obtained his master's degree from the University of Göttingen, where he received his doctorate in 2004 with a thesis on the Hünenburg near Watenstedt . From 2004 to 2006 he was a research trainee in the Prehistory and Protohistory Department of the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum in Wolfenbüttel , where he curated an exhibition on the history of the museum during the Nazi era . Since 2006 he has been working at the Department of Prehistory and Protohistory at the University of Göttingen.

Heske's research focuses on settlement archeology in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages , landfills in the Nordic Bronze Age , the prehistory of Northeast Europe and the history of research.

Since 1998 Immo Heske has been involved in excavations to research the Hünenburg near Watenstedt almost every year, initially as a student and later as excavation manager. In the vicinity of the Hünenburg he also examined other sites, such as the cemetery of Gevensleben , the circular moat of Watenstedt and the cemetery of Beierstedt . He conducts further research in Brandenburg in the area surrounding the royal grave of Seddin . In 2017 he became curator of the teaching collection of the seminar for prehistory and early history at the University of Göttingen. The activity includes teaching tasks and the implementation of educational excavations as well as exhibitions.

Memberships

Publications (selection)

  • The Hünenburg near Watenstedt, Ldkr. Helmstedt (Lower Saxony). Preliminary report on the prospecting excavations in 1998–2000 , in: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte 73, 2003, pp. 15–27.
  • “Staged Germanism” - the archaeological museum “Haus der Vorzeit” in Braunschweig from 1937 to 1944. In: Archäologisches Nachrichtenblatt 10, 2005, pp. 482–491.
  • The Hünenburg near Watenstedt, Ldkr. Helmstedt. A prehistoric fortification and its surroundings. in the series: Göttingen Writings on Pre- and Early History , Volume 29, Neumünster, 2006
  • Fragments of an attack or what's left of the war. In: Archeology in Lower Saxony 9, 2006, pp. 160–162.
  • The Bronze Age and Early Iron Age finds of the former Prussia collection - for inventory and scientific evaluation. In: Archäologisches Nachrichtenblatt 13, 2008, pp. 312–319.
  • The Hünenburg outer settlement near Watenstedt, Ldkr. Helmstedt. Finds and findings from the excavations from 2005 to 2010. With contributions by Silke Grefen-Peters on the osteological analysis of the finds. In: Göttingen Writings on Pre- and Early History , Volume 34, Neumünster / Hamburg 2016.

Web links

Commons : Immo Heske  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Karl-Heinz Willroth , Immo Heske: Bronze Age rulers on the Harz and their sphere of influence in: Georgia Augusta. Knowledge for the Region No. 10, April 2017, p. 99 (pdf)
  2. ↑ Ralph-Herbert Meyer: The Troy of the North in Der Loewe from August 28, 2018
  3. ↑ Immo Heske new curator of the Göttingen teaching collection at the Archaeological Commission for Lower Saxony from 2018
personal data
SURNAME Heske, Immo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistoric archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1969