Jürgen Seeher

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Jürgen Seeher (born May 22, 1953 in Aachen ) is a German prehistorian .

From 1974 to 1983 Seeher studied prehistory , ethnology , folklore and Quaternary geology in Cologne, Frankfurt, Kiel and Berlin. In 1983 he received his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin with the thesis The ceramic from the Neolithic to the beginning of the Bronze Age from Demircihüyük and its position in Western Anatolia . From 1984 he was responsible for the evaluation and publication of the excavations in the predynastic settlement Maadi / Cairo . From 1989 to 2014 he was a consultant for early history and prehistory at the Istanbul Department of the German Archaeological Institute . After excavations in 1990–1991 in Demircihüyük-Sarıket in Turkey, he was the successor to Peter Neve from 1994 to 2005 in charge of the excavations in the Hittite capital Hattuša .

Seeher is a member of the German Orient Society and a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute. On February 20, 2015, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon for his services to German archaeological research in Turkey .

Publications

  • A Neolithic and Chalcolithic ceramics. B The early Bronze Age ceramics of the older phases (= Demircihüyük: The results of the excavations 1975–1978. Volume 3: The ceramics. Part 1). Von Zabern, Mainz 1987, ISBN 3-8053-0901-5 .
  • with Ibrahim Rizkana: Maadi I. The Pottery of the Predynastic Settlement (= Archaeological Publications. Volume 64). Von Zabern, Mainz 1987, ISBN 3-8053-0925-2 .
  • with Ibrahim Rizkana: Maadi II. The Lithic Industries of the Predynastic Settlement (= Archaeological Publications. Volume 65). Von Zabern, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0980-5 .
  • with Ibrahim Rizkana: Maadi III. The Non-Lithic Small Finds and the Structural Remains of the Predynastic Settlement (= Archaeological Publications. Volume 80). Von Zabern, Mainz 1989, ISBN 3-8053-1050-1 .
  • with Ibrahim Rizkana: Maadi IV. The Predynastic Cemeteries of Maadi and Wadi Digla (= Archaeological Publications. Volume 81). Von Zabern, Mainz 1990, ISBN 3-8053-1156-7 .
  • Hattusha leader. A day in the Hittite capital. 4th, revised edition. Ege Yayınları, Istanbul 2011, ISBN 978-605-5607-57-9 .
  • The Bronze Age necropolis of Demircihüyük-Sarıket (= Istanbul Research. Volume 44). Wasmuth, Tübingen 2000, ISBN 3-8030-1765-3 .
  • The adobe city walls of Hattuša. Reconstruction report. Ege Yayınları, Istanbul 2007, ISBN 978-975-8071-94-7 .
  • Gods carved in stone. The Hittite rock sanctuary of Yazılıkaya. Ege Yayınları, Istanbul 2011, ISBN 978-605-5607-53-1 .

For further publications see the web links.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Jürgen Seeher honored for his services to archeology in Turkey , DAI homepage from February 26, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Seeher, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen