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 Christian Horn, Former Postdoctoral Fellows

Former Postdoctoral Fellows

Christian Horn (Germany, 1978)

M.A. in Pre- & Protohistory

PhD project Studien zu den europäischen Stabdolchen
Post-doc project Materiality of Violence
Research interests Material Culture Studies, Biography of Objects, Use Wear Analysis, Human-Object-Relation, Functionality/Non-Functionality, Theories in Archaeology, Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis, Ritual, Weaponry, Warfare, Violence, Chalcolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age
Post PhD Position Post-doctoral fellow, Johanna Mestorf Academy, Kiel University
Education

2007 - 2011
Doctoral fellow in the Rosa-Luxemburg Foundation

2006 - 2011
Doctoral student, Ruhr-University Bochum/Free University Berlin

2006
Graduate (Magister Artium) thesis, Ruhr-University Bochum

1998 - 2006
Study of Pre- and Protohistory (Classical Archaeology, Medieval History) at the Ruhr-University Bochum

Work experience

2011 - 2012
Post-doctoral fellow in the EU-FP 7 “Marie-Curie-Actions” ITN-Project “Forging Identities” at the University of Gothenburg

2006 - 2008
Freelance archaeologist (excavations, digitalisation, pre-press, exhibition design)

2003 - 2007
Co-editor of the Bochumer Stadt- und Studentenzzeitung (BSZ)

2002 - 2007
Employee of the Heritage Protection Administration Dortmund (excavations, digitalisation, pre-press, exhibition design)

2000 & 2005
Employee of the Provincial-Roman Department in the Heritage Protection Administration of the LWL (excavations)

1998 - 2003
Employee of the Heritage Protection Administration Duisburg (excavations)

Selected publications

Forthcoming
Horn, C. (in prep.). Few and far between. Early halberds in Europe. Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Römische Abteilung.

2014
Horn, C. 2014. Studien zu den europäischen Stabdolchen. Bonn: Dr. Rudolf Habelt Verlag.

2014
Horn, C. 2014, Harm’s Way. An Approach to Change and Continuity in Prehistoric Combat. Current Swedish Archaeology 21, 93-116.

2013
Horn, C.: Auf Messers Schneide - Gedanken zum Einfluss vorgeschichtlicher Gefechte auf soziale und technologische Veränderung und Stabilität. Mitteilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft Wien 143, 73-96.

2013
Horn, C. 2013. Weapons, fighters and combat: spears and swords in Early Bronze Age Scandinavia. Danish Journal of Archaeology, 1-25 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21662282.2013.838832

2013
Horn, C. 2013. Violence and Virility. In: S. Bergerbrant and S. Sabatini (eds.), Counterpoint. Essays in Archaeology and Heritage Studies in Honour of Professor Kristian Kristiansen. Oxford, Archaeopress, 235-241.

2013
Horn, C. 2013. Ein alt-gefundener Stabdolch aus der Umgebung von Stolpe (Kr. Plön) am Stolper Sees. Das Altertum 58 (2), 81-98.

2012
Brandherm, D. and Horn, C.: 2012. Die Zwei in der Drei, oder: Ein Zwilling kommt selten allein, in Lasch, H. and Ramminger, Br., eds. Hunde – Menschen – Artefakte. Gedenkschrift für Gretel Callesen (Gallay). Internationale Archäologie, Studia honoraria 32. (Rahden 2012), 99-141.

2012
Horn, Christian: Die rituelle Zerstörung von Stabdolchen. Archäologische Informationen 34/1, 49-63.

2011
Horn, Christian, 2011. Deliberate Destruction of Halberds, in Mödlinger, Marianne and Uckelmann, Marion, eds. Warfare in Bronze Age Europe. Manufacture and use of weaponry. Oxford: Oxbow Press 2011, 53-65.

2010
O’Conner, Brendan and Cowie, Trevor and Horn, Christian, 2010. Une trouvaille oubliee de l’ancien duche de Normandie et sa redécouverte. Association pour la promotion des recherches sur l’age du bronze Bulletin 7, 4-5.

2009
O’Conner, Brendan, Cowie, Trevor, Horn, Christian, and Sebire, H.: A famous general’s forgotten find. The provenance of the halberd from the Poltalloch Collection rediscovered. Kilmartin House Museum Newsletter 17, 2.

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