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Doctoral research student Sebastian Schultrich, M.A.

Doctoral research student

Sebastian Schultrich (Germany, 1990)

M.A. in Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology

PhD project
Maritime networks: Formation, development and significance of Neolithic networks in areas adjacent to the North Sea

The European Neolithic is characterized by diverse archaeological complexes which influence and supersede each other within a constantly changing environment. The most massive environmental changes happened in the North Sea area. For more than a century of archaeological investigations it is renown that contacts across the North Sea exited, but in the last decades many studies has been carried out which – when evaluated synoptically – testify that cultural contact has been present in massively changing intensities. Recent natural science moreover shows that similar complex natural processes took place in distant regions which provoked comparable cultural developments. These studies thus reinforced discussions about potential interconnection of large-scale cultural phenomena.

The PhD project attempts to explain the mechanisms behind social processes in the entire Neolithic period (c. 4000 – 2000 BC) in the North Sea region. Several cultural large-scale phenomena occur on both the continent and the British Islands approximately at the same time (e.g. adoption of the Neolithic lifestyle, early Neolithic long barrows and pottery styles, Late Neolithic Bell Beakers and associated finds, etc.). To this day, a synoptic evaluation of all so far known attributes indicating contact in the North Sea area is lacking. This means that neither a diachronological nor a super-regional examination has been done concentrating on the Neolithic period in this specific region. Such a synoptic evaluation is planned to be fulfilled within this PhD project. Focusing on cultural relations of the Cimbrian Peninsula and the British Islands, all relevant finds and contexts will be compiled that indicate or clearly demonstrate that prehistoric communication happened across the North Sea – that the sea didn’t function as a border but rather favoured cultural relations under certain circumstances.

Research interests European Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, Adaptation and Innovation, Semiotics, Mobility, cultural Identity
Education

since April 2018
Member of the Graduate School “Human Development in Landscapes” at Kiel University

2014-2017
M.A. in in Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology at Kiel University

2011 - 2014
B.A. in in Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology at Kiel University

Work experience

2017
Scientist in CRC 1266 – Scales of Transformation, subproject C1: Late Mesolithic and Neolithic Transformations on the Northern and Central European Plain.

2015 - 2016
Scientific assistant of Dr. Christian Horn in the GSHDL project: Material culture/ Bronze Age.

2013 - 2014
Student assistant of Dr. Christian Horn in the GSHDL project: Material culture/ Bronze Age.

Fieldwork

2018
Geomagnetic survey on Late Neolithic/Copper Age site Monte da Contenda, Alentejo region, Portugal

Geomagnetic survey at UNESCO heritage site Boyne Valley in Ireland.

2017
Geomagnetic surveys on Neolithic sites in Westre and Oldenburg (attached to the CRC 1266, subproject C1).

Excavation Neolithic (PPNA) settlement in Sharara, southern Jordan.

Excavation Neolithic settlement in Brodersby-Schönhagen (attached to the CRC 1266, subproject C1).

Survey, geomagnetic survey, gpr and geoelectric on Neolithic settlements in southwestern Slovakia (attached to the CRC 1266, subproject C2).

2016
Excavation Neolithic settlement in Vrable, Slowakia (attached to the CRC 1266, subproject C2).

Geomagnetic survey on Chalcolithic Tel (Tel Tsaf) in Israel.

2015
Geomagnetic survey of Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Bronze Age settlements in Bordjos, Nove Becej, Serbia.

2014
Excavation Neolithic settlement in Vrable, Slowakia.

Geomagnetic survey of Neolithic settlements in Vrable, Slowakia.

Geomagnetic survey at the Neolithic causewayed enclosure at Sarup, Denmark.

Geomagnetic survey of Neolithic settlements in Dennewitz, Brandenburg, Germany.

2013
Excavation of a megalithic tomb in Wangels, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Geomagnetic survey at the Limes, Bavaria, Germany.

2012
Excavation of a megalithic tomb in Wangels, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Survey on Neolithic sites in Altmark and Olbetal, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Selected publications

2018
Schultrich 2018: S. Schultrich, Flint and Bronze in Late Neolithic Schleswig-Holstein: Distribution, contexts and meanings. In: Journal of Neolithic Archaeology 20, 2018, (https://doi.org/10.12766/jna.2018.2)

Schultrich 2018: S. Schultrich, Das Jungneolithikum in Schleswig-Holstein. W. Kirleis/ J. Müller (eds.), Scales of Transformations in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies, vol. 1. Sidestone Press (Leiden 2018).

expected in 2018
In prep.: Late Neolithic Deposition Practices in Schleswig-Holstein. Sidestone press.

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