Raiko Krauss

Raiko Krauß at the University of Tübingen

Raiko Krauß (* 1973 in Berlin-Friedrichshain ) is a German prehistoric archaeologist .

Life

In 1992 Krauss passed the Abitur at the Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Gymnasium in Berlin-Friedrichshain. As a schoolboy he worked from 1988 to 1990 as part of vacation internships at the Antikensammlung of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and was involved in excavations at the Museum of Prehistory in Potsdam.

After doing community service in the emergency room of a Berlin hospital, Krauss began studying prehistory and early history and classical archeology at the Humboldt University in Berlin in the 1994 summer semester . There he also attended courses in Classical Philology, Ancient History and Philosophy as well as lectures in Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at the Free University of Berlin . From 1999–2000 he was employed as a student assistant at the Hermann von Helmholtz Center for Cultural Technology for the supervision of the teaching collection of the Chair for Prehistory and Protohistory and worked on excavation projects in Germany, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Romania and Turkey. In 2000 he completed his studies at the Humboldt University with a master's thesis on the Copper Age settlement of Djakovo in the Struma valley (Bulgaria).

In 2004, Krauss received his doctorate from Bernhard Hänsel and Hermann Parzinger at the Free University of Berlin with a dissertation on the subject of "The prehistoric settlement on the lower reaches of the Jantra". 2002–2004 he received a doctoral scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation . He then worked at the Saxon State Office for Archeology at short notice in 2004. For his dissertation he was awarded the German Archaeological Institute's travel grant and spent a year traveling the countries of the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions.

From 2005 to 2008 Krauss was a research assistant at the Eurasia Department of the German Archaeological Institute and from 2007 to 2008 also assistant at the Institute for Prehistoric Archeology at the Free University of Berlin . Since the winter semester 2008/09 he has been teaching and researching at the Institute for Prehistory and Early History and Archeology of the Middle Ages at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . In 2014 he was able to do a thesis on the “Dynamics of Neolithization in Southeast Europe. The beginning of agriculture, cattle breeding and sedentary lifestyle "habilitate and received the Venia Legendi for the subject of prehistory and early history. Krauß has been a Heisenberg fellow of the German Research Foundation since 2017 and an adjunct professor at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen since November 2018.

Krauss's archaeological activities focus on the epochs from the Mesolithic to the Bronze Age in Central and Southeastern Europe. Important research projects dealt with the early Neolithic settlement of Ovčarovo-Gorata (Bulgaria), the Copper to Early Bronze Age site of Foeni-Gaz (Romania) and the Copper Age burial ground of Varna (Bulgaria). For the supposedly early Neolithic figure ensemble from Belica (Serbia), he was able to prove that some of the finds were made in a modern way and thus partially confirm a forgery allegation made by Serbian colleagues. In cooperation with the Museum des Banat in Timišoara, he has been leading the excavations on the multi-phase prehistoric settlement Bucova Pusta IV (Romania) since 2010 and various excavations on Mesolithic-Early Neolithic sites in Baden-Württemberg together with the State Office for Monument Conservation. His teaching and research activities also focus on musical archeology and megalithics in North Africa.

Krauß is Vice President of the German-Bulgarian Society and a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute . In 2015 he received the plaque of honor from the municipality of Dudeștii Vechi (Romania).

Fonts

So far Raiko Krauss has published five monographs and over 80 scientific articles on archaeological and research-historical topics.

• Ovčarovo-Gorata. An early Neolithic settlement in northeastern Bulgaria. Archeology in Eurasia 29, Habelt, Bonn 2014, ISBN 978-3-7749-3914-1
• The prehistoric settlement on the lower reaches of the Jantra against the background of the cultural history of northern Bulgaria. Prehistoric Archeology in Southeast Europe 20, Verlag Marie Leidorf, Rahden 2006, ISBN 3-89646-591-0
• with Harald Floss (Ed.): Southeast Europe before Neolithisation. Proceedings of the International Workshop within the Collaborative Research Centers SFB 1070 “Resource Cultures”, Schloss Hohentübingen, 9th of May 2014, Verlag der Universität Tübingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-946552-01-7
• with Martin Bartelheim, Barbara Horejs (eds.): From Baden to Troia. Use of resources, metallurgy and knowledge transfer. An anniversary publication for Ernst Pernicka Verlag Marie Leidorf, Rahden 2016, ISBN 978-3-86757-010-7
• (Ed.), Beginnings - New Research in the Appearance of the Neolithic between Northwest Anatolia and the Carpathian Basin. People - cultures - traditions. Studies from the research clusters of the German Archaeological Institute 1, Verlag Marie Leidorf, Rahden 2011, ISBN 978-3-86757-381-8

Web links

• Homepage of Krauss at the University of Tübingen
• Literature by Krauss at Academia.edu
• Literature by Krauss on Research Gate

Remarks

1. ↑ Compare Achim Leube : Raiko Krauß, geb. 1973 . In: The same: 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. 224f.
2. ↑ Cf. Holger Grönwald, Gerson H. Leube, Raiko Krauss: The study collection of the chair for prehistory and early history at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In: Archäologisches Nachrichtenblatt Vol. 6, 3/2001, pp. 258–267.
3. ↑ Published as: Raiko Krauss: The prehistoric settlement near the village of Djakovo, Kr. Kjustendil (Bulgaria). A contribution to the Eneolithic in the Struma valley . In: Prehistoric Journal 76, 2001, pp. 129–170.
4. ↑ Published as: Raiko Krauß: The prehistoric settlement on the lower reaches of the Jantra against the background of the cultural history of Northern Bulgaria . (= Prehistoric Archeology in Southeast Europe 20). Publishing house Marie Leidorf, Rahden 2006, ISBN 3-89646-591-0 .
5. ↑ Raiko Krauss: Ovc ̆ arovo-Gorata. An early Neolithic settlement in northeastern Bulgaria. Habelt, Bonn 2014, ISBN 978-3-7749-3914-1 .
6. ↑ Raiko Krauss, Dan Ciobotaru: Dates on the end of the Baden ceramic style and the beginning of the Early Bronze Age from Foeni-Gaz in the Romanian Banat. With contributions on the absolute dating and the Bronze Age animal bones by B. Weninger and G. El Susi. In: Praehistorische Zeitschrift 88, 2013, pp. 38–113.
7. ↑ Raiko Krauss, Vladimir Slavčev: Who do the clay faces in the cemetery of Varna I represent? In: Thomas Link, Dirk Schimmelpfennig (ed.): Taphonomic research (not only) on the Neolithic . Focus Neolithic. Reports of the Neolithic Group 3 (Kerpen-Loogh 2012) pp. 237–256 and Raiko Krauss, Verena Leusch, Steve Gäuner: On the earliest metallurgy in Europe - investigations of the copper age burial ground of Varna . In: Bulgaria Yearbook 2012, pp. 64–82 as well as Raiko Krauss, Steve Gäuner, Ernst Pernicka: Statistical and Anthropological Analysis of the Varna Necropolis . In: Harald Meller, Roberto Risch, Ernst Pernicka (eds.): Metals of Power - Early Gold and Silver. 6th Central German Archaeological Day from October 17 to 19, 2013 in Halle (Saale) . Conferences of the State Museum of Prehistory Hall 11 / II (Hall 2014) pp. 371–387.
8. ↑ See http://www.ufg.uni-tuebingen.de/juengere-urgeschichte/forschungsprojekte/abgeschlossen-forschungsprojekte/belica.html
9. ^ Dragana Antonovic, Slaviša Peric, O neolitskoj autenticnosti nalaza iz Belice . In: Starinar 62, 2012, pp. 257–268.
10. ↑ Cf. 15. Sânnicolau Mare, jud. Timiș: Punct: Bucova Pusta IV . In: D. Mihai / R. Iosipescu / R. Șerban (ed.): Cronica Cercetărilor Arheologice din România 2015. Campania 2014 (Bucureşti 2015) pp. 41–43 and 44. Sânnicolau Mare, jud. Timiş. Point: Bucova Pusta IV . In: I. Opriş / ZK Pinter / FM Popescu (eds.): Cronica Cercetărilor Arheologice din România 2015. Campania 2015 (Bucureşti 2016) pp. 78–79.
11. ↑ http://www.ufg.uni-tuebingen.de/juengere-urgeschichte/mitarbeiter/nach-funktion/krauss-raiko-pd-dr/lehrverzeichnis.html
12. ↑ Raiko Krauss: How old are the North African megaliths? In: H.-J. Beier et al. (Ed.): Neolithic monuments and Neolithic societies. Varia neolithica VI. Contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe 56 (Langenweißbach 2009) pp. 153–159 and Raiko Krauss: The early history megalithic tombs of Tunisia . In: Journal for Archeology of Non-European Cultures 2, 2007, pp. 163–181.