Stefan R. Hauser

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Stefan R. Hauser (* 1962 ) is a German archaeologist from the Middle East .

From 1982 to 1988, Stefan R. Hauser studied Classical and Christian Archeology , Near Eastern Antiquities , Ancient Near Eastern Studies , Art History and Prehistory and Early History at the Universities of Bonn and Berlin . 1988 followed the Magister Artium in classical archeology ; the master's thesis on late antique and early Byzantine silver spoons was then published. In the following years Hauser specialized in the Middle East and received his doctorate in 1994 in the Middle East with Hans J. Nissen with the thesis Chronological and historical-political investigations on the eastern azīra in pre-Islamic times . In 1995 he was a lecturer at the University of Münster , then in 1997/98 assistant at the Institute for Oriental Archeology and Art in Halle. In 2001 he was Visiting Associate Professor at Columbia University in New York. In 2004 he was a substitute professor for Dietrich Sürenhagen at the University of Konstanz . In 2008 he completed his habilitation at the University of Halle with the thesis Status and Ritual. Death and Social Structure in Neo-Assyrian Assyria . For several years at the University of Halle, Hauser was a sub-project leader in the Collaborative Research Center “Difference and Integration: Interactions between nomadic and sedentary forms of life”. Hauser has been teaching as professor for archeology of the ancient Mediterranean cultures and their relations to the Middle East-Egyptian world at the University of Konstanz since 2009 . Hauser is involved in archaeological research in Spasinou Charax and its surroundings in what is now Iraq .

His publications deal with a variety of topics from the social structure in the Neo-Assyrian period to the production of luxury goods in the late ancient Greco-Roman Mediterranean region. His work focuses on the archeology and history of the post-cuneiform cultures of the Middle East (especially the Arsacids and early Sassanids ) as well as the history of research. Hauser is a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute .

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  • Late antique and early Byzantine silver spoons. Comments on the production of luxury goods in the 5th to 7th centuries (= yearbook for antiquity and Christianity . Supplementary volume 19). Aschendorff, Münster 1992, ISBN 3-402-08538-0 .
  • Status, death and ritual. City and social structure of Assur in the Neo-Assyrian period (= treatises of the German Orient Society. Vol. 26). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-447-06252-7 .

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