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Michael Geschwinde and Petra Lönne on a guided tour on the Harzhorn in 2013.

Michael Geschwinde (* 1959 ) is a German prehistoric archaeologist .

Career

Board members of the Archaeological Commission for Lower Saxony , right Michael Geschwinde

Geschwinde studied prehistory and early history , Near Eastern archeology and anthropology at the University of Göttingen , where he obtained his Magister Artium on the subject of prehistoric sacrificial sites in the Ith caves . From 1986 he worked at museums in Detmold, Hanover and Hildesheim. Geschwinde has been the district archaeologist at the Braunschweig base of the Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation since 1993 . In 1999 he was born with the work The Barrows on the Great Heath near Ripdorf in the Uelzen district. Archaeological observations to the burial customs of the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age in the Lueneburg Heath at the University of Göttingen PhD . His professional focus lies in the Neolithic , for example earthworks , and in the early Middle Ages . He is a member of the “Illegal Archeology” commission in the Association of State Archaeologists of Germany. and for a number of years deputy chairman of the Archaeological Commission for Lower Saxony .

During excavations on the Wurmberg in 1999 and 2000, Geschwinde and his co-excavation manager Martin Oppermann were able to prove that the Celtic cult complex that is popularly believed to be there was only the remains of an old forester's house from the 19th century. He became known nationwide primarily for his research into the Harzhorn event . Together with the Northeim district archaeologist Petra Lönne , he leads the prospecting work on the Germanic-Roman battlefield and also coordinates the other work.

Fonts (selection)

  • Early and Barrow Bronze Age in southern Germany (= Göttingen type tables on the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. 2). 2nd, improved edition. Type tables working group, Göttingen 1983, DNB 870000187 .
  • Caves in the Ith. Prehistoric sacrificial sites in the mountainous region of southern Lower Saxony (= publications of the Prehistoric Collections of the State Museum in Hanover. 33). Lax, Hildesheim 1988, ISBN 3-7848-1233-3 .
  • with Stefan Flindt: A house from the Stone Age. Archaeological discoveries in the footsteps of early arable farmers in southern Lower Saxony (= guide to the prehistory and early history of Lower Saxony. 19 = archaeological writings of the district of Osterode am Harz. 1). Isensee, Oldenburg 1997, ISBN 3-89598-398-5 .
  • with Lutz Grunwald, Bernd Rasink, Bernward Rother, Wolf D. Steinmetz, Andreas Wallbrecht and Wilhelm Heine: Pipeline archeology between Harz and Heide (= guide to the prehistory and early history of Lower Saxony. 20 = publications by the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum. 85). Isensee, Oldenburg 1997, ISBN 3-89598-458-2 .
  • The barrows on the Great Heath near Ripdorf in the Uelzen district. Archaeological observations on the burial customs of the late Neolithic and the Bronze Age in the Lüneburg Heath (= Göttingen writings on prehistory and early history. 27). Wachholtz, Neumünster 2000, ISBN 3-529-01527-X (At the same time: Göttingen, Universität, Dissertation, 1996).
  • with Dirk Raetzel-Fabian: EWBSL. A case study on the early Neolithic earthworks on the northern edge of the low mountain range (= contributions to archeology in Lower Saxony. 14). Leidorf, Rahden 2009, ISBN 978-3-89646-934-2 .
  • In presidio urbis. The fortifications of the Königspfalz (= Werla 3 = Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum zu Mainz , RGZM), Mainz, 2017

Web links

Commons : Michael Geschwinde  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Andreas Friedrich: The caves in the Ith. Cult places of man-eaters. Ernst Andreas Friedrich: If stones could talk. From the history of Lower Saxony. (Part 1). Landbuch-Verlag, Hannover 1989, ISBN 3-7842-0397-3 , pp. 23-25, here p. 24.
  2. ↑ Dr. Michael Geschwinde (1959) (PDF; 1.2 MB) on ostfriesenelandschaft.de
  3. ^ Members of the Illegal Archeology Commission on landesarchaeologen.de
personal data
SURNAME Hurry up, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistoric archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1959