Michael Meyer

This article is about the prehistorian Michael Meyer. For the football player see Michael Meyer (football player, 1951) ; for other people see Michael Mayer and Michael Meier .

Michael Meyer, 2011

Michael Meyer (* 1959 in Trier ) is a German prehistorian .

Life

Michael Meyer studied Prehistory and Protohistory , Geography , European Ethnology and Classical Archeology at the Universities of Marburg , Heidelberg and at the Institute of Archeology London since 1978 . In Marburg he was in 1990 at Otto-Herman Frey with a thesis on " find site Pevestorf  19. A multi-period finds place in Lüchow-Dannenberg " doctorate . Meyer then worked as a research assistant at the "Institute for State Archaeological Research in Hesse" in Büdingen until 1994 . In 1994 he became a member of the Chair for Prehistory and Protohistory at the Humboldt University in Berlin . There he completed his habilitation in 2005 with a thesis on “ Mardorf 23, Ldkr. Marburg-Biedenkopf. Archaeological studies on the settlement of the German low mountain range in the centuries around the birth of Christ ”. He then became a private lecturer there . In addition, from March 2005 to 2007 Meyer was head of the “Archaeological Services” department at the Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and the State Archaeological Museum in Wünsdorf . Since 2008 he has held a professorship for prehistoric archeology at the Free University of Berlin .

For the Topoi Cluster of Excellence he was initially deputy spokesman for the Free University, after Friederike Fless moved to the German Archaeological Institute , he was spokesman for “Topoi” alongside the representative of the Humboldt University Gerd Graßhoff .

Michael Meyer during the excavation for the Harzhorn event , 2012

From 1993 to 2001 Meyer took part in the excavations of the Latène and Imperial Age settlement of Mardorf 23 as well as in the special excavation at the Middle Neolithic circular moat of Bochow ( Niedergörsdorf municipality ) and carried out soundings at the Late Latène Age settlement of Glienick . In addition, he is researching the Lübesse settlement and is in charge of the university excavation of the late Latène period settlement of Waltersdorf . Michael Meyer has been a member of the board of directors of the Archaeological Society in Berlin and Brandenburg since 2003 and became its chairman in 2010.

Meyer has been part of the Harzhorn research project to research the Harzhorn event since 2008 . The research team was formed after the first findings to coordinate the further procedure. He is leading the archaeological excavations by students from the Institute for Prehistoric Archeology at the Free University of Berlin, which previously took place as excavation campaigns lasting several weeks from 2009 to 2013.

Meyer's main areas of research are the archeology of the centuries around the turn of the ages, the early and late Neolithic of Central Europe and settlement archeology . He is a member of the German Archaeological Institute, the Roman-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute, the Commission for Research into Collections of Archaeological Finds and Documents from Northeast Central Europe and on the Advisory Board of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory .

Fonts

• Pevestorf 19. A multi-period site in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district. Isensee, Oldenburg 1993, ISBN 3-89442-163-0 (publications of the prehistoric collections of the Landesmuseum zu Hannover , volume 41).
• (Ed.): "... trans Albim fluvium". Research on pre-Roman, imperial and medieval archeology. Festschrift for Achim Leube on his 65th birthday. Leidorf, Rahden 2001, ISBN 3-89646-390-X ( International Archeology. Studia honoraria. Volume 10).
• with Johan Callmer , Ruth Struwe , Claudia Theune-Vogt (eds.): The beginnings of prehistoric and protohistoric archeology as an academic subject in a European comparison - The beginnings of academic pre- and protohistoric archeology in a European perspective. Leidorf, Rahden 2006, ISBN 3-89646-512-0 ( Berlin Archaeological Research. Volume 2).
• with Dirk Raetzel-Fabian: Neolithic trench works in Central Europe. 2006 online (PDF file; 1.6 MB).
• Migration and adaptation - a differentiated model to explain the Przeworsk finds from the Latène period in Germany. In: Old Thuringia. 38/2005, Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2006, ISSN  0065-6585 , pp. 203-212.

literature

• Achim Leube : Prehistory between the Empire and the reunified Germany. 100 years of prehistory and early history at the Berlin University Unter den Linden. Habelt, Bonn 2010. ISBN 978-3-7749-3629-4 , pp. 211-212.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Roman battlefield on the Harzhorn near Northeim ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Battlefield on the Harzhorn: 20 archeology students during summer excavation in hna.de from August 22, 2012

Web links

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

• Literature by and about Michael Meyer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Michael Meyer at the Institute for Prehistoric Archeology at the Free University of Berlin