Reinhard Bernbeck

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Reinhard Bernbeck (born June 7, 1958 in Friedberg ) is a German archaeologist from the Middle East . Since 2009 he has been a professor at the Institute for Near Eastern Archeology at the Free University of Berlin . His main research interests include the Neolithic Middle East, the archeology of Iran, imperialism, social inequality in early complex societies and the political dimension in today's archeology.

Life

Studies and academic teaching

As a teenager, Bernbeck lived in Afghanistan for a few years . After graduating from high school , he spent a year in Iran . He later studied at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and received a Diplôme d'études universitaires générales (DEUG) in art history and archeology there in 1980 . He then continued his studies at the Free University of Berlin, where in 1987 he received a Magister Artium in Near Eastern Antiquities, Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Ethnology . From 1988 to 1989 he completed a year of study at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor as part of a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service . In 1991 he received his doctorate in Near Eastern Antiquity at the Free University of Berlin. Bernbeck then worked at the university from 1992 to 1996 as a research associate at the Department of Near Eastern Antiquity. He also attended the Department of Anthropology at Binghamton University as a Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation from 1995 to 1996 and was a lecturer at Ithaca College in the spring of 1996 . From 1996 to 1998 he was Assistant Professor in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archeology at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania . In 1997 he completed his habilitation in Near Eastern antiquity at the Free University of Berlin. Since January 1999 he has been Professor of Anthropology at Binghamton University. He has been on leave in this position since May 2009. Since 2009 he has been Professor of Near Eastern Archeology at the Free University of Berlin.

Archaeological field research

Bernbeck first took part in excavations during his studies in France. In 1979, he was a member of the excavations in Étiolles under the direction of Yvette Taborin and in Cuiry-lès-Chaudardes under the direction of Jean-Paul Demoule . The experience gained in France had a formative effect on Bernbeck's archaeological theory and the interpretation of his finds. From 1981 to 1983 and again from 1986 to 1987 he took part in excavations under the direction of Hartmut Kühne in Tell Schech Hamad . In 1989 he participated in a survey carried out by the University of Michigan Museum Great Lakes Division on the south shore of Lake Superior in Michigan . In 1993 he participated in excavations in the late Chalcolithic settlement Hacınebi in Turkey under the direction of Gil Stein .

Bernbeck himself was one of the directors of the excavations in Abu Snesleh, Jordan, and of the survey in the vicinity. In the following years he worked regularly with Susan Pollock and led various excavations with her, for example from 1996 to 1998 in Kazane and from 1998 to 2001 in Fıstıklı Höyük , both in south-east Turkey. In 2003 he led excavations in Toll-e Bashi in the Iranian province of Fars together with Susan Pollock and Kamyar Abdi . In 2005 he led excavations there again with Hassan Fazeli Nashli and Susan Pollock, this time in Rahmatabad. Since 2010 Susan Pollock has been digging with him in Monjukli Depe , southern Turkmenistan .

Publications (selection)

  • The Neolithic pottery from Qale Rostam, Bakhtiyari area (Iran). Classification, production analysis and dating potential (= ancient studies. 9–10). 2 volumes (text part. Catalog). Schäuble, Rheinfelden et al. 1989, ISBN 3-87718-679-3 (vol. 1), ISBN 3-87718-680-7 (vol. 2).
  • Steppe as a cultural landscape. The 'Ağīğ area of ​​Eastern Syria from the Neolithic to the Islamic period (= Berlin contributions to the Middle East. Excavations. 1). Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-496-02511-5 .
  • The dissolution of the domestic mode of production. The example of Mesopotamia (= Berlin contributions to the Near East. 14). Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-496-02525-5 (also: Berlin, Free University, dissertation, 1991).
  • as editor with Christina Förch and Robin Schneider: International Refugee Documentation Network. A Resource Handbook. Edition Parabolis, Berlin 1994 ff. (Loose-leaf edition).
  • as editor with Karin Bartl and Marlies Heinz : Between Euphrates and Indus. Current Research Problems in Near Eastern Archeology. Georg Olms, Hildesheim et al. 1995, ISBN 3-487-10043-6 .
  • as editor with Johannes Müller : Prestige - prestige goods - social structures. Examples from the European and Near Eastern Neolithic (= Archaeological Reports. 6). Holos, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-86097-140-9 , ( online ).
  • Theories in Archeology (= UTB . 1964). Francke, Tübingen et al. 1997, ISBN 3-8252-1964-X .
  • as editor with Hartmut Kühne and Karin Bartl: Fluchtpunkt Uruk. Archaeological unit from methodological diversity. Writings for Hans Jörg Nissen (= International Archeology. Studia honoraria. 6). Marie Leidorf, Rahden 1999, ISBN 3-89646-386-1 .
  • as editor with Susan Pollock: Archaeologies of the Middle East. Critical Perspectives (= Blackwell Studies in Global Archeology. 4). Blackwell, Malden MA et al. 2005, ISBN 0-631-23000-9 .
  • with Maria Theresia Starzmann and Susan Pollock: Imperial Inspections: Archeology, War and Violence. In: Archaeologies. Vol. 4, No. 3, 2008, ISSN  1555-8622 , pp. 353-355, doi : 10.1007 / s11759-008-9088-2 .
  • as editor with Randall H. McGuire : Ideologies in Archeology. University of Arizona Press, Tucson AZ 2011, ISBN 978-0-8165-2673-4 .
  • as editor with Ruth M. Van Dyke : Subjects and Narratives in Archeology. University Press of Colorado, Boulder CO 2015, ISBN 978-1-60732-387-7 .
  • Material traces of the National Socialist terror. An archeology of contemporary history . Transcript, Bielefeld 2017, ISBN 978-3-8376-3967-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e Why archeology is so topical , August 25, 2009, campus.leben - the online magazine