Jörg Orschiedt

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Jörg Orschiedt (born April 23, 1963 in Essen ) is a German prehistorian and specialist book author .

Life

Orschiedt studied prehistory and early history and anthropology at the University of Mainz and the University of Tübingen . In Tübingen he obtained his Magister Artium with a thesis on band ceramic settlement burials in Baden-Württemberg . He received his doctorate in Tübingen in 1996 with a thesis on manipulation of human skeletal remains from the Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic. Taphonomic processes, secondary burials or anthropophagy .

From 1995 to 1998 he was a research assistant at the Neanderthal Museum Mettmann. There he participated in the construction of the new permanent exhibition as well as in the construction of the media library and the paleoanthropological collection of casts. 1998–1999 he had a teaching position at the Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory at the University of Cologne . In 1999 he received a research grant from the German Research Foundation on burials and burial customs in the Middle Paleolithic and early Upper Paleolithic . From October 1999 to October 2005 he was a research assistant at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Hamburg , Pre- and Protohistoric Archeology. Habilitation and venia legendi were at the University of Hamburg in 2006.

From November 2005 to September 2009 he was an archaeologist at the Historisches Centrum Hagen . From October 1, 2009 to December 31, 2010, he was a substitute professor for the retired Sabine Rieckhoff at the Chair for Prehistory and Protohistory at the University of Leipzig and in the 2011 summer semester at the Institute for Prehistoric Archeology at the Free University of Berlin. Since summer 2010 he has been leading the DFG project to research the leaf cavity in Hagen, which is located at the Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory at the University of Cologne .

Publications (selection)

  • with Michael Baales , Ralf Blank [Hrsg.]: Archeology in Hagen. A historical landscape is explored . Essen 2010, ISBN 3-8375-0423-9
  • with B. Auffermann: The Neanderthals. On the way to modern people . Theiss 2006, ISBN 3-8062-2016-6 .
  • with G.-C. Less (Ed.), Neanderthals and Modern Humans - Discussing the Transition. Central and Eastern Europe from 50,000 - 30,000 BP Scientific writings 2. Neanderthal Museum 2000.
  • Manipulation of human skeletal remains. Taphonomic processes, secondary burials or anthropophagy . Prehistoric material booklets 13, Tübingen 1998.
  • Family meeting. German Neanderthals 1856–1999 . Neanderthal Museum 1999, ISBN 3-9805-8395-3
  • Infectious diseases. In: Alfred Czarnetzki (Hrsg.): Mute witnesses of their suffering. Diseases and Treatment Before the Medical Revolution. Attempto Verlag, Tübingen 1996, ISBN 3-89308-258-1 , pp. 65-89.
  • Dental disease. In: Alfred Czarnetzki (Hrsg.): Mute witnesses of their suffering. Diseases and Treatment Before the Medical Revolution. Attempto Verlag, Tübingen 1996, ISBN 3-89308-258-1 , pp. 111-137.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. mesolithikum-uni-koeln.com Retrieved on February 16, 2012