Tobias Scholz
Tobias Scholz (* around 1982 ) is a German prehistoric archaeologist .
Life
Tobias Scholz graduated from the secondary school in Delligsen in 1998 and completed his training as a materials tester at the Institute for Materials Science and Technology at Clausthal University of Technology until 2001 .
In 2004 he obtained his university entrance qualification at the grammar school in Alfeld . After his community service at the University Hospital Göttingen , he began studying prehistory at the Georg-August University in Göttingen in 2005 . In the minor subjects he studied historical anthropology with a focus on skeleton and corpse fire analyzes as well as historical environmental history with a focus on population development and archeometry . He completed his studies in 2013 with a master's thesis on a sod wall house in Tinnumburg on Sylt .
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Between 2007 and 2013 Tobias Scholz worked as a student assistant and in 2014 as a research assistant at the seminar for prehistory and early history at the Georg-August University in Göttingen. Since 2014 he has been working as a research assistant at the same institution . He is preparing a doctorate on the Hildesheim - Bavenstedt settlement in the 3rd to 5th centuries AD, which is supervised by Karl-Heinz Willroth . His research focuses on landscape and settlement archeology from the Roman Empire to the High Middle Ages , technology transfer and migration movements in the first millennium after Christ, geographic information systems , statistical processes and geophysical prospecting within archeology . Scholz has been giving lectures on archaeological topics on a regular basis since 2016.
Research projects
- 2018: Düsselburg
- 2019: Wellie earthworks
- 2020: Settlement research and landscape development in the vicinity of the old Saxon burial ground of Liebenau ( Saxon-Carolingian settlement of Liebenau )
Publications (selection)
- with Tobias Gärtner: Excavation on the desert of Moseborn near Holzerode, district of Göttingen - To investigate a high-medieval development landscape in southern Lower Saxony. In: Göttinger Jahrbuch 57 , 2009, pp. 195–213.
- The Moseborn desert near Holzerode, district of Göttingen - archaeological investigations in a high medieval settlement. In: News from Lower Saxony's Urgeschichte 79, 2010, pp. 135–153.
- Final report of the 2012 excavations at Wölpe Castle. In: Jens Berthold (Ed.): Concepts and reports of communal archeology, Schaumburger Landschaft 54, Göttingen, 2012.
- Burned down 1500 years ago - investigations into the findings and inventory of a migrant-era sod wall house on the island of Sylt, North Friesland. In: Archäologische Nachrichten aus Schleswig-Holstein - Communications from the Archäologische Gesellschaft Schleswig-Holstein 19, 2013, pp. 62–65.
- Final report of the 2013 excavations at Wölpe Castle. In: Jens Berthold (Hrsg.): Concepts and reports of the communal archeology Schaumburger Landschaft 66, Göttingen, 2014.
- Soil-scientific investigations and P-analysis for the proof of settlement traces of the Roman imperial period in the industrial area Lemke. In: Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Landscape Architecture (ed.): Report on Research and Transfer , 2015, pp. 24–25.
- Construction sacrifice, grave goods or both? - A drinking vessel from Lemke seems too old for its place of discovery. In: Archaeological Commission for Lower Saxony (Ed.): Archeology in Lower Saxony Vol. 18, 2015, pp. 113–116.
- A sod wall house from the migration period near Tinnum on Sylt. in: Ulrich Müller; Claus von Carnap-Bornheim (Hrsg.): Settlement archeology of the North Frisian Islands. New episode 89, 2015, 135–297.
- with Jens Berthold, Erich Block, Kristina Nowak-Klimscha, Frank Wedekind: Burg Wölpe - The archaeological investigations on the castle hill in Erichshagen-Wölpe between 2011 and 2015. , Schriften der Kommunalarchäologie Schaumburger Landschaft 2, Nienburg, 2016.
- Final report on the special excavation at the site for the reconstruction of a mine house in Liebenau. In: Jens Berthold (Hrsg.): Concepts and reports of the communal archeology Schaumburger Landschaft 91, Göttingen, 2017.
- Final report of the excavations in the Lemke industrial area. In: Jens Berthold (Ed.): Concepts and reports of communal archeology, Schaumburger Landschaft 67, Göttingen
- Final report of the archaeological-geophysical prospecting "Auf dem Heidberge". In: Jens Berthold (Hrsg.): Concepts and reports of the communal archeology Schaumburger landscape. , Göttingen
Web links
- Profile, curriculum vitae and publications at the seminar for prehistory and early history at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
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SURNAME | Scholz, Tobias |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German prehistoric archaeologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | around 1982 |