Susanne Sievers

Susanne Sievers (born February 27, 1951 in Aschaffenburg ) is a German prehistoric archaeologist .

Life

From 1971 Susanne Sievers studied Prehistory and Early History , Classical Archeology , Art History , Geology , Medieval History and Folklore at the universities in Würzburg , Göttingen , Hamburg and Marburg . In 1978 she was in Marburg with the work The Central European Hallstatt Daggers. A contribution to the addition of weapons in the later Hallstatt period is doing his doctorate . Sievers then worked on the DFG- Heuneburg project at the University of Tübingen (processing the small finds from the Heuneburg ). In 1981/82 she received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute . In 1982 she became an employee of the Roman-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute in Frankfurt am Main , initially as a consultant for the Iron Age . As a result, she oversaw the excavations of the Celtic oppidum in Manching and Alesia as well as cataloging the weapons finds in Manching, Staré Hradisko , Alesia and Osuna . From 1994 until her retirement in 2016 she was Second Director of the Roman-Germanic Commission. Between 1996 and 1999 she was in charge of the excavations in Manching. She has been an honorary professor at the University of Frankfurt since 2007 .

Sievers has been a corresponding member of the philosophical-historical class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 2011 . She was a member of the scientific advisory board of Mont Beuvray , in the committee for the award of the Kurt Bittel Prize for South German Antiquity and sits on the board of the Archaeological Society in Hesse .

The Central European Hallstatt Daggers . CH Beck, Munich 1982, ISBN 3406080707 .
The small finds of the Heuneburg. The finds from the excavations from 1950–1979 . Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1984, ISBN 3805307705 .
Manching. The Celtic city. Theiss, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8062-1765-3 .
with S. Möllers, W. Schlüter (ed.): Celtic influences in northern Central Europe during the middle and younger pre-Roman Iron Age. Files from the international colloquium in Osnabrück from March 29 to April 1, 2006 (= colloquia on prehistory 9). Habelt, Bonn 2007, ISBN 978-3-7749-3501-3
The weapons from the oppidum of Manching (= excavations in Manching 17) Wiesbaden 2010.
with Otto Helmut Urban , Peter C. Ramsl (Ed.): Lexicon for Celtic Archeology. (= Communications of the Prehistoric Commission Volume 73). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7001-6765-5 .