Thomas Stöllner

Thomas Stöllner (born March 27, 1967 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian prehistorian and mining archaeologist .

Life

From 1986 to 1995 Thomas Stöllner studied prehistory, anthropology , Christian archeology and geology at the universities of Salzburg , Regensburg , Vienna and Marburg . In Marburg he was with the work in 1995 , the Hallstatt and the beginning of Latènezeit the Inn-Salzach room at Otto-Herman Frey PhD . In the same year he became a scientific assistant at the Prehistory Seminar in Marburg and in this position led the Iron Age excavations on the Dürrnberg near Hallein until 2000 . During this time in 1997 he received the Salzburg State Prize for Scientific Work .

In 2000, Stöllner became head of the mining archeology department at the German Mining Museum in Bochum . From August to October of that year he was also a Visiting Research Fellow at Flinders University in Adelaide . With the thesis Studies on the prehistoric salt system in Central Europe , he was habilitated in Marburg in 2003 and subsequently appointed as a private lecturer . In 2004 he became a full member of the German Archaeological Institute and the Commission for General and Comparative Archeology .

The Ruhr University Bochum appointed him to the chair for prehistory and early history in 2006, where he has taught since then. In addition, Stöllner has been a member of the advisory group of the Center for Baltic and Scandinavian Archeology since 2009, advisory board of the Austrian Research Center Dürrnberg since 2010 , and of the Celtic Museum Hallein since 2013 . He did not accept an appointment to the Chair of Human Prehistory at the University of Vienna in 2011. In 2013 he was appointed head of the research department at the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum, as such a member of the board of directors, and in 2014 he was appointed to the advisory board of the Foundation for the Promotion of Archeology in the Rhenish Lignite District.

Researches

Stöllner's mining archaeological research is widely spread and does not focus solely on ore and salt extraction in the Alps during the Iron Age . His research also focused on salt production in the Iranian province of Zanjan , where he examined the Chehrabad salt mine operated under the Achaemenids and Sassanids as part of the International Chehrabad Saltmummy & Saltmine Exploration Project . Stöllner was also instrumental in researching the Early Bronze Age mining area in Sakdrissi , Georgia . Further research took him to the Central Asian steppe , to the Altai area , where research into the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age extraction of raw materials applied. He turned to the mining of pre-Columbian Peru in the Andes as well as to prehistoric iron extraction in Siegerland . His research was reflected in well over 150 articles and numerous monographs. In addition, Stöllner is involved in numerous publications as editor and scientific advisory board of the Archäologische Korrespondenzblatt .

Publications (selection)

The Ruhr-Universität Bochum offers an extensive bibliography of the more than 150 articles by Thomas Stöllner's writings:

• The Hallstatt period and the beginning of the Latène period in the Inn-Salzach region (= archeology in Salzburg. Volume 3 / II). Office of the Salzburg Provincial Government, Salzburg 1996.
• The prehistoric salt mining at Dürrnberg near Hallein I. Research history - research status - research concerns (= Dürrnberg research. Volume 1). Leidorf, Rahden 1999.
• The Hallstatt period and the beginning of the Latène period in the Inn-Salzach region. Evaluation (= archeology in Salzburg. Volume 3 / I). Office of the Salzburg Provincial Government, Salzburg 2002
• The prehistoric salt mining on the Dürrnberg / Hallein II. Findings and finds from the underground excavations between 1990-2000 (= Dürrnberg research. Volume 3/1). Leidorf, Rahden 2002.
• The prehistoric salt mining on the Dürrnberg / Hallein II. Findings and finds from the underground excavations between 1990-2000 (= Dürrnberg research. Volume 3/2). Leidorf, Rahden 2003.
• with Klaus Oeggl (Ed.): Bergauf Bergab. 10,000 years of mining in the Eastern Alps. Scientific supplement to the exhibition in the German Mining Museum Bochum from October 31, 2015 - April 24, 2016, in the vorarlberg museum Bregenz from June 11, 2016-26. October 2016 (= publication from the German Mining Museum Bochum. No. 206). Leidorf, Bochum 2015.

Web links

• Curriculum vitae on the Ruhr University Bochum website
• Curriculum vitae on the website of the German Mining Museum Bochum
• Curriculum vitae on the website of the Foundation for the Promotion of Archeology in the Rhenish Brown Coal District (PDF)

Remarks

1. ^ List of publications on the Ruhr University Bochum website.