Jonas Beran

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Peter Jonas Beran (born November 24, 1959 in Magdeburg ) is a German prehistoric scientist .

Life

Beran has been active in archaeological research since 1974; he completed his studies in prehistory in Halle in 1986 with a thesis on individual grave culture / corded ceramics in the north of Saxony-Anhalt. Until 1991 he was a research assistant at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg with Joachim Preuss . As part of a revision of the Salzmünder culture (thus PhD in 1992), he worked up extensive old excavations from Salzmünde, Wallendorf, Oberwerschen, Müelte. This led to a reassessment of the young and older Late Neolithic in Central Germany (Schöninger and Schiepziger Group, Michelsberg, Baalberge, Salzmünde, Walternienburg) with special consideration of the settlement ceramics and the distribution of stone ax types.

For decades, Beran was involved in the voluntary preservation of monuments in the Magdeburg area and in the 1980s worked regularly in the Lower Lusatian lignite archeology. 1991–1993 he was excavation manager at the State Monuments Office in Halle. In 1994 he moved to the state of Brandenburg, first as excavation manager at the State Monuments Office, and since 1996 with the specialist company Archäologie Manufaktur in Wustermark. He now has the longest uninterrupted excavation leader practice among all archaeologists working in Central and Eastern Germany (including the late Paleolithic moor site Wustermark, the villages of Kausche and Horno in the Lower Lusatian lignite district, Potsdam City Palace). For a long time in a minority position, he continued to be committed to the maintenance of traditional approaches to continental European archeology in the form of typochronological-chorological material studies with the aim of historical and ethnic interpretations.

Fonts

Monographs

  • Finds of the individual grave culture in the Magdeburg district. (Neolithic Studies IV). Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg. Knowledge Articles 1990/6 (L 21).
  • Investigations on the position of the Salzmünder culture in the early Neolithic of the Saale region (Wilkau-Haßlau 1993).
  • H.-J. Beier, J. Beran (Ed.), Selecta Praehistorica. Festschrift for Joachim Preuß (Wilkau-Haßlau 1995).
  • Edited by: J. Preuß (Ed.), The Neolithic in Central Europe, Vol. 2. Information on individual archaeological cultures and regional groups (Wilkau-Haßlau 1999).

Article (selection)

  • Lancet-shaped double axes of the younger Middle Neolithic in the Saale region. In: Alt-Thüringen 25, 1990, pp. 7-29.
  • Thoughts on the social role of prehistoric archeology. In: S. Wolfram, U. Sommer (Ed.), Power of the Past - Who Makes Past. Wilkau-Haßlau 1993, pp. 75-80.
  • Theses on the origin and spread of the cord ceramic culture. In: P. Siemen (ed.), Early Corded Ware Culture. The A-Horizon - fiction or fact? Esbjerg Museum, Arkaeologiske Rapporter nr. 2, 1997, pp. 31–42.
  • On Social Psychology and Professional Self-Assessment of the Last East German Generation of Archaeologists. European Journal of Archeology 4, 1997, pp. 39-44.
  • The Michelsberg Fund Groups in Central Germany. In: The Michelsberg culture and its peripheral areas. Material booklets for archeology in Baden-Württemberg 43, Stuttgart 1998 pp. 73–83.
  • End neolithic battle axes from Lithuania. In: Terra Praehistorica. Festschr. for K.-D. 70th birthday hunter. New Ausgr. u. Finds in Thuringia Sonderbd. Langenweißbach 2007, pp. 269-283.
  • Investigations into the late and end Neolithic settlement structure in Niederlausitz. Excavations in the Jänschwalde open-cast lignite mine. In: W. Dörfler / J. Müller (Ed.), Environment - Economy - Settlements in the Third Millennium BC in Central Europe and Southern Scandinavia. Offa books 84, Neumünster 2008, pp. 183-209.
  • Funnel beaker culture and residual groups from the Danube region. Population dynamics between the north German lowlands and the low mountain range in the light of new palaeogenetic studies. In: Varia neolithica V. Mobility, Migration and Communication in Europe during the Neolithic and the Bronze Age, Langenweißbach 2009, pp. 73–87.
  • B. Gramsch, J. Beran, Late Stone Age finds from Wustermark, site 22, Havelland district. In: Publ. brandenb. Landesarchäologie 41/42, 2007/2008 (2010) pp. 95–142.
  • Cultures and regional groups in Central and Eastern Germany from the 5th to the 1st millennium BC Chr. In: Th. Doppler, B. Ramminger, D. Schimmelpfennig (eds.), Borders and border areas? Examples from the Neolithic and Bronze Age. Focus Neolithic. Reports of the Neolithic Group, Vol. 2, Loogh 2011, pp. 155–174.
  • J. Beran, G. Wetzel, The Neolithic settlement of the Michelsberg culture Wustermark 21, Havelland district. In: Publ. brandenb. Landesarchäologie 46, Wünsdorf 2012 (2014) pp. 37–141.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A. Davidovic, Practices of Archaeological Knowledge Production. A cultural anthropological science research. Ancient Studies of the Middle East 13 (Münster 2009). Pp. 51, 131-137, 161-165, 182f., 196, with polemics against J. Beran and others.
personal data
SURNAME Beran, Jonas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beran, Peter Jonas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg