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Doctoral research student Ingmar Franz, M.A.

Doctoral research student

Ingmar Franz (Germany, 1979)

M.A. in Prehistoric Archaeology & Geography

PhD project Pottery Production as Proxy for the Emergence of Early Social Complexity in the Near Eastern and European Neolithic
Research interests Origins of Pottery, Ceramic Analysis, 3D-modelling, Chaîne Opératoire Approach, Archaeometry, Material Culture Studies, Landscape and Environmental Archaeology, Cognitive Archaeology, Neolithic and Chalcolithic in Europe and the Near East
Education

Since 01/2014
Member of the Graduate School “Human Development in Landscapes” at Kiel University.

03/2009 – 12/2013
PhD-student at the Institute for Prehistoric Archaeology at the Albrechts-Ludwigs-University Freiburg. Title of PhD-project: “Manufacture and use of final Neolithic pottery in Central Anatolia around 8 000 calBP” (Herstellung und Verwendung endneolithischer Keramik in Zentralanatolien um 8000 calBP).

01/2009
Magister Artium at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg. Title of thesis: “Early Chalcolithic cut- and prick-ornamented pottery from Çatalhöyük West” (Frühchalkolithische schnitt-stich-verzierte Keramik von Çatalhöyük West).

Work experience

Since 07/2006
Neolithic Tell site of Çatalhöyük/Turkey (multinational Çatalhöyük Research Project). Pottery Lab Director of the Çatalhöyük West Mound Project including collaborative and interdisciplinary projects with the faunal, palaeobotany, geoarchaeology, chipped stone and groundstone labs.

12/2013
3D-modelling workshop at the Institute for Prehistory and Early History at the Friedrich-Alexander-University in Erlangen-Nürnberg.

10/2012 – 02/2013
Directing the tutorial „Analysieren digitaler 3D-Artefaktmodelle“ (B.A. Modul Archäologische Praxis I) at Freiburg University. Goal: Conveyance of software-based analysis of data.

04/2012 – 07/2012
Directing the tutorial „Erstellen digitaler 3D-Artefaktmodelle“ (B.A. Modul Archäologische Praxis I) at Freiburg University. Goal: Conveyance of different 3D documentation techniques and software-based analysis of data.

04/2009 – 01/2012
Inventory of site localisation and site mapping for the regional site files (“Ortsakten”), reviewing of archaeological surveys using the ADAB-Database, and integrated LIDAR-scan data at the Office for Archaeological Heritage Preservation (Referat 26) at the Regierungspräsidium Freiburg.

2005 – 2009
Organization, design and supervision of archaeological exhibitions at the Science Market of Freiburg University in Freiburg downtown and the Science Days in the Europapark in Rust.

04/2002 – 06/2006
Finds processing (pottery, animal and human bones, glass, iron) at the section for Archaeology of the Roman Provinces at the Institute for Ancient History at Freiburg University.

08/2005
Late Roman fortress near Biesheim/France (Trinational research project Oedenburg of the section for Archaeology of the Roman Provinces at the Institute for Archaeological Sciences at Freiburg University).

06/2005
Rescue excavation of a roman road in the town center of Offenburg/Ortenau (Office for Archaeological Heritage Preservation (Referat 26) at the Regierungspräsidium Freiburg).

06-07/2004
Neolithic-Late Iron Age site Viereckschanze Mengen /Breisgau (Office for Archaeological Heritage Preservation (Referat 26) at the Regierungspräsidium Freiburg).

08-09/2003
Mesolithic camp site Ullafelsen /Austria (Institut für Hochgebirgsforschung at the Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck).

03-04/2003
Late Roman fortress near Biesheim/France (Trinationale research project Oedenburg of the section for Archaeology of the Roman Provinces at the Institute for Archaeological Sciences at Freiburg University).

09-10/2002
Late Roman fortress near Biesheim/France (Trinationale research project Oedenburg of the section for Archaeology of the Roman Provinces at the Institute for Archaeological Sciences at Freiburg University).

06/2002
Early Chalcolithic mining settlement near Cabrières/Southern France (french-german collaboration between Montpellier University and Freiburg University).

Selected publications

Forthcoming
Biehl et al. (forthcoming): Biehl, P.F., Boogard, A., Byrnes, J., Franz, I., Orton, D., Ostaptchouk, S., Rogasch, J. and Rosenstock, E.: Rethinking the Neolithic-Chalcolithic transition in Central Anatolia: Preliminary Excavation Report of the Çatalhöyük West Mound. In: Antiquity.

In press
Franz, I. (in press): “An 8000-year-old potter’s legacy – Investigation of a potter’s activity area on the West Mound of Çatalhöyük/Turkey” In: Cruells, W.; Mateiciucova, I.; Nieuwenhuyse, O. (ed.) Proceedings of the international workshop „Painting pots – painting people“ in Brno-Rejviz/Czech Republic.

In press
Franz, I. / Pyzel, J. (in press): The potter’s riddle at Çatalhöyük – An attempt to connect the Late Neolithic and the Early Chalcolithic pottery assemblages from Çatalhöyük/Turkey. In: Biehl, P.F., Rosenstock, E. (eds.): “Times of Change: The Turn from the 7th to the 6th Millennium BC in the Near East and Southeast Europe”. Proceedings of the International Workshop from 24th –26th November 2011 in Berlin. In: Cambridge University Press.

2012
Franz, I. (2012): Trench 5-7 pottery archive report. In: Çatalhöyük 2012 Archive Report, p. 262-271. catalhoyuk.com/downloads/Archive_Report_2012.pdf (August 2013).

2012
Biehl et al. (2012): Biehl, P.F.; Franz, I.; Ostaptchouk, S.; Orton, D.; Rogasch, J.; Rosenstock, E.: One Community and Two Tells: The Phenomenon of Relocating Tell Settlements at the Turn of the 7th and the 6th Millennia in Central Anatolia. In: Hofmann et al. (Hrsg.): Tells: Social and Environmental Space. Proceedings of the International Workshop “Socio-Environmental Dynamics over the Last 12,000 Years: The Creation of Landscapes II (14th –18th March 2011)” in Kiel. Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie Band 207, 53-65, Bonn 2012.

2011
Franz, I. (2011): West Mound Pottery, Trench 5-7. In: Çatalhöyük 2011 Archive Report, p.79-90. catalhoyuk.com/downloads/Archive_Report_2011.pdf (August 2013)

2010
Franz, I. (2010): Pottery from Trench 5-7. In: Çatalhöyük 2010 Archive Report, p. 77-90. catalhoyuk.com/downloads/Archive_Report_2010.pdf (August 2013).

2012
Franz, I. / Ostaptchouk, S. (2012): Illuminating the pottery production process at Çatalhöyük West Mound (Turkey) around 8000 cal. BP. In: Ramminger/Stilborg (Hrsg.) (2012): Naturwissenschaftliche Analysen vor- und frühgeschichtlicher Keramik II – Methoden, Anwendungsbereiche, Auswertungsmöglichkeiten. Universitätsforschungen zur Prähistorischen Archäologie Band 216, 97-129, Bonn 2012.

2009
Franz, I. (2009a): Frühchalkolithische schnitt-stich-verzierte Keramik von Çatalhöyük West. Unpubl. Magisterarbeit at the Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg 2009.

2009
Franz, I. (2009b): Trench 5 pottery. In: Çatalhöyük 2009 Archive Report, p. 42-49. catalhoyuk.com/downloads/Archive_Report_2009.pdf (August 2013).

2008
Franz, I. (2008): Trench 5-7 pottery. In: Çatalhöyük 2008 Archive Report, p. 97-100. http://www.catalhoyuk.com/downloads/Archive_Report_2008.pdf (August 2013).

2007
Franz, I. (2007): West Trenches 5 & 7 – Pottery. In: Çatalhöyük 2007 Archive Report, p. 129-131. catalhoyuk.com/downloads/Archive_Report_2007.pdf (August 2013).

Memberships

Çatalhöyük Research Project: catalhoyuk.com

European Association of Archaeologists: e-a-a.org

AG Computeranwendungen und Quantitative Methoden in der Archäologie e.V.: ag-caa.de

Gesellschaft für Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie und Archaeometrie e.V.: archaeometrie.de

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