Ruth Struwe

Ruth Struwe (* 27. January 1946 in Melbourne as Ruth Rose ) is a German prehistorian .

Ruth Struwe studied Prehistory and Protohistory at the Humboldt University in Berlin , where she has been a member of the department or chair of Prehistory and Protohistory since 1973. Struwe received his doctorate in 1974 with a thesis on the subject of investigations into the older section of the prehistory of Australia based on an analysis of the stone industries of Australia and three find complexes from New Guinea and Indonesia , reviewer was Heinz Grünert . In 1985 Struwe became a regular scientific aspirant. In June 1989 the doctorate B took place with an investigation on the subject of the formation of the present-day man and his culture. An interdisciplinary question primarily from an archaeological point of view , experts were Joachim Herrmann , Bernhard Gramsch and again Grünert. In 1989 she became a research assistant at the Department of Prehistory and Protohistory, and since 1991 she has been a research assistant at the Chair of Prehistory and Protohistory. Until the beginning of 2008, Struwe taught as a private lecturer at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Ruth Struwe's research interests are broad. Her research focuses on the Incarnation and the Paleolithic , ethno-archeology in communities with hunting and gathering, Australian prehistory and the interest-based research history of the subject around 1900. She studied abroad in 1971 and 1996 to Australia and Southeast Asia and in 1986/87 to Eastern Europe . Together with Johan Callmer, she was the responsible editor and co-editor of the ethnographic-archaeological journal , which was based at the institute.

Fonts

• Investigations on the older section of the prehistory of Australia based on an analysis of the stone industries of Australia and three find complexes from New Guinea and Indonesia , Berlin 1974
• The development of the present man and his culture. An interdisciplinary question primarily from an archaeological point of view (2 volumes), Berlin 1989

literature

• Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 591.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ruth Struwe in the catalog of the German National Library