Johannes Müller (prehistoric)

Johannes Müller (born November 29, 1960 in Wolfhagen ) is a German prehistoric archaeologist .

Müller was born in 1986 at the University of Freiburg i. Br. With a topic on northern Scottish megalithic systems , 1990 also in Freiburg i. Br. Is doing his doctorate with a thesis on the Neolithization of the Adriatic region. In 1991/92 he received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute . He then worked as a research assistant at the Free University of Berlin , where he received his habilitation in 1998 with a topic on the Neolithic of the Middle Elbe-Saale region. From 2000 to 2004 he held the professorship for prehistoric and prehistoric archeology at the University of Bamberg . Since 2004 he has held the Chair for Prehistory and Director of the Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory at the University of Kiel . Müller is a member of the central management of the German Archaeological Institute and the Roman-Germanic Commission in Frankfurt.

Müller's main interests were and still are socio-archaeological issues, landscape archeology, primarily the Neolithic and the Bronze Age. The emergence of social differences in the Neolithic and the reconstruction of demographic developments are essential aspects of his research.

Field research was and is carried out by him in Central Europe, Southeastern Europe and in the northern Pontic region. Müller was spokesman for the excellence initiative "Graduate School: Human Development in Landscapes" and is now spokesman for the excellence cluster "ROOTS - Social, Environmental and Cultural Connectivity in Past Societies". Furthermore, he is the coordinator of the DFG priority program "Early Monumentality and Social Differentiation". a. Excavations for large stone graves and funnel-shaped settlements in northern Germany are carried out. One of his research areas is devoted to the late Neolithic in central and eastern Bosnia. As part of this project, he carried out excavations in the Visoko Basin (Central Bosnia ), including in Okolište . Other important excavations include the development of the cord ceramic settlement (Wattendorf- Motzenstein ) near Bamberg and an early Bronze Age fortified settlement (Bruszczezwo) in the Greater Poland Voivodeship . As a project manager, Müller is involved in field research and excavations in the Ukraine, with the Tripolje settlement Maidanetske being the focus of the investigations. As part of the DFG Collaborative Research Center "TransformationsDimensions: Human-Environment Relationships of Prehistoric and Archaic Societies", whose spokesperson is Müller, analyzes and excavations are carried out in various areas of Europe.

Publications (selection)

• Johannes Müller (Ed.): Okolište. Part: 1. Investigation of a late Neolithic settlement chamber in central Bosnia. Bonn 2013, ISBN 978-3-7749-3839-7
• Johannes Müller, Timo Seregély (ed.): End neolithic settlement structures in Upper Franconia: Wattendorf-Motzenstein: a ceramic settlement in the northern Franconian Jura. Part II, Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-7749-3553-2
• Johannes Müller (Hrsg.): Age and gender in prehistoric and early historical societies: Conference Bamberg 20. – 21. February 2004 . Bonn 2005, ISBN 3-7749-3364-2
• Johannes Müller: Sociochronological studies of the early and late Neolithic in the Middle Elbe-Saale area (4100-2700 BC): a socio-historical interpretation of prehistoric sources. (Habilitation thesis 1998) Rahden / Westf. 2001, ISBN 3-89646-503-1
• Johannes Müller, Reinhard Bernbeck (ed.): Prestige - prestige goods - social structures. Examples from the European and Near Eastern Neolithic. German Society for Prehistory and Early History , Archaeological Reports 6., Holos-Verlag, Bonn 1996

Web links

• Literature by and about Johannes Müller in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications on academia.edu
• CV and list of publications on the website of the University of Kiel