Joseph Maran

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Joseph Maran (2010)

Joseph Maran (born September 6, 1957 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German prehistorian .

Live and act

Maran received his doctorate in prehistory in 1985 at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg under Harald Hauptmann and subsequently worked on various research projects in Wiesbaden, Marburg and Heidelberg. From 1994 to 1996 he was curator of the prehistoric and early historical collection at the University of Bonn , where he also completed his habilitation. Since 1996 Maran has been Professor of Prehistory and Early History at the University of Heidelberg and head of the Institute for Prehistory and Early History and Near Eastern Archeology there . From 2005 to 2015 he was a member of the central management of the German Archaeological Institute and since 2016 he has been a member of the Roman-Germanic Commission. Since 2006 he has been a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . and since 2013 corresponding member abroad of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . In May 2011, Joseph Maran was elected First Director of the Athens Department of the German Archaeological Institute , but turned down the position in spring 2012. Joseph Maran has been Co-Director of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” at Heidelberg University since 2013.

Research priorities

Joseph Maran's main research interests include questions of the cultural interrelationships of the 2nd millennium BC. BC in the Eastern Mediterranean, the connection between architecture, ideology and social practice in early societies, as well as the effect of technological innovations on societies in Europe and the Middle East in the 4th and 3rd millennium BC. Chr. Maran has been leading the excavations at the Mycenaean palace center and UNESCO World Heritage Site of Tiryns ( Argolis , southern Greece) on behalf of the German Archaeological Institute and in collaboration with the Greek Antiquities Service . Other projects dealt with investigations into the ceramic production and distribution of Bronze Age settlements in Greece and the Aegean with the help of neutron activation analysis as well as the settlement history and landscape development in the Phlious plain ( Korinthia , southern Greece).

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Cultural change in mainland Greece and the Cyclades in the late 3rd millennium BC Studies on the cultural conditions in Southeast Europe and the central and eastern Mediterranean area in the late Copper and early Bronze Ages. University research on prehistoric archeology 53, Habelt, 1998
  • The end neolithic sites on the "Griesheimer Moor". A contribution to the settlement history of the Hessian Rhine plain. Find reports Hessen 29/30, 1994
  • The German excavations on the Pevkakia Magula in Thessaly III. The middle bronze age. Contributions to the prehistoric and early historical archeology of the Mediterranean cultural area 30 and 31, 1992
  • Kiapha Thiti. Results of excavations II, 2 (2nd millennium BC: ceramics and small finds) . Marburg Winckelmann Program, 1992

Published books

  • With Philipp W. Stockhammer : Materiality and Social Practice. Transformative Capacities of Intercultural Encounters. Papers of the Conference, Heidelberg, 25-27 March 2010. Oxbowbooks, Oxford 2012
  • With Carsten Juwig, Hermann Schwengel and Ulrich Thaler: Constructing Power. Architecture, Ideology and Social Practice. History, Research and Science 19, LIT-Verlag, 2006
  • with Rainer Maria Boehmer: LUX ORIENTIS. Archeology between Asia and Europe. Festschrift for Harald Hauptmann on his 65th birthday. International archeology. Studia Honoraria 12, 2001

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Joseph Maran. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed June 20, 2016 .
  2. ↑ http://www.oeaw.ac.at/m/maran-joseph/
  3. ^ Official announcement of the DAI ( Memento of September 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/d-historicities-heritage/d2.html
  5. ↑ http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/interdisciplinary-research-groups/mc8-appropriating-innovations/mc81-society-and-innovation.html
  6. ↑ https://www.dainst.org/projekt/-/project-display/14097
  7. ↑ http://www.ufg-va.uni-hd.de/forschung/forschungen_tiryns.html
  8. ↑ http://www.ufg-va.uni-hd.de/forschung/maran_keramik.html
  9. ↑ http://www.ufg-va.uni-hd.de/forschung/maran_besiedlungsgeschichte.html
  10. ↑ http://www.ufg-va.uni-hd.de/forschung/maran_phlious.html
personal data
SURNAME Maran, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main