Ulrich Veit

Ulrich Veit (born January 4, 1960 in Esslingen am Neckar ) is a German prehistorian .

Ulrich Veit studied prehistory, geology , anthropology and ethnology at the universities of Tübingen , Zurich and Münster . In Münster he received his doctorate in 1989 with the thesis Siedlungsbestattungen in the Central European Neolithic and then researched until 1992 with a postdoctoral fellowship from the German Research Foundation at the University of Münster and in Cambridge in England on the subject of megalithic graves, collective burial custom and archaeological cultures in the northern and western European Neolithic . In this context, Veit also took part in excavations by the Madrid Department of the German Archaeological Institute in Vale Rodrigo (near Évora ) in 1992 and 1994 . In 1993 he first became a research assistant at the Institute for Prehistory and Early History and Archeology of the Middle Ages at the University of Tübingen. There he completed his habilitation in 1999 on the topic of Early Social Orders in Central and Northern Europe: Studies on Social Archeology of the Neolithic and the Pre-Roman Metal Age . From 2005 to 2009 he represented the Tübingen Prehistory and Protohistory Professorship, since 2006 as an adjunct professor. In 2010 Veit was visiting professor at the Free University of Berlin . Since 2011 he has been teaching as a professor of prehistory at the historical seminar of the University of Leipzig .

Veit is particularly concerned with grave and social archeology, settlement archeology of the Bronze and Iron Ages , the history of science and knowledge as well as with the theories of archeology, especially prehistoric archeology. He is a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute. Since 2010 he has been publishing the traditional ethnographic-archaeological journal in conjunction with the working group Theories in Archeology .

Fonts

• Studies on the problem of settlement burial in the European Neolithic. Waxmann, Münster and New York 1996, ISBN 3-89325-385-8 (Tübingen writings on prehistoric and early historical archeology, volume 1)
• Editor: Traces and Messages. Interpretations of material culture. Waxmann, Münster-New York-Munich and Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8309-1229-3 (Tübingen writings on prehistoric and early historical archeology, Volume 4)
• Publisher: Kelten & Co. Find stories around the Achalm. Oertel and Spörer, Reutlingen 2004, ISBN 3-88627-281-8

Web links

• Presentation on the website of the University of Leipzig