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Associated doctoral student Stefanie Schaefer, M.A.

Associated doctoral student

Stefanie Schaefer (Germany, 1991)

M.A. in Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology
PhD project
Bronze Age Transformations in North Central Europe: Scales of Transformation
This PhD-Project is part of the SFB 1266-Project: “Scales of Transformation - Human-environmental Interaction in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies” and is focused on Transformations in the Bronze Age in North Central Europe (project D3).

It is necessary to investigate changes or turning points as well as collapse in certain transects, which can be social, economic and ideological. The aim of this project is both to identify and compare local processes of change and transformation, and to evaluate possible regional and supra-regional triggers. Changes of settlement activities around 1600 BC as well as transformation in material culture and funeral rituals around 1200 BC are particularly placed in the focus of research.

Transects in Schleswig-Holstein around the Belauer See and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania around the Woseriner See are test areas, which are selected with regard to both accessible environmental and archaeological archives.
Research interests Bronze Age, Textile ceramic, Textiles, cave archaeology
Education

Since 2016
Research Assistent in the DFG-project SFB 1266: Scales of Transformation

2013 - 2016
Postgraduate Master-studies in Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology at Kiel University

2010 - 2013
Undergraduate Bachelor-studies in Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology/ European Ethnology at Würzburg University
Work experience

2014 - 2016
Student Assistent at Graduate School „Human Development in Landscapes“, Kiel University

2012
Student Assistent at the department European Ethnology, Würzburg University (Project: „Unterfranken in der Nachkriegszeit – Zeitzeugenprojekt“)

2010 - 2015
Participation in various excavations in Germany (Bullenheimer Berg; Zisterzienser-Kloster Walkenried; Lichtensteinhöhle; Einhornhöhle) and Poland (Bruszczewo)
Selected publications

Forthcoming
S. Schaefer, Prehistoric inhumations in caves in Central Europe. In: O. Nakoinz/J. Kneisel/M. Hinz/G. De Mulder, Turning Points and Change in Bronze Age (2400 – 800 BC). Modes of change – inhumation versus cremation in Bronze Age burial rites. International Open Workshop Socio-Environmental Dynamics over the last 12,000 Years: The Creation of Landscapes IV, Kiel (in print).

Forthcoming
J. Kneisel/S. Schaefer, Webgewichte – Textilabdrücke in der Bronzezeit Mitteleuropas. In: S. Sabatini/S. Bergerbrandt (eds.), Textile production in Europe and the Mediterranean. Textile Conference Göteborg 12-13 march (in print).

2016
S. Schaefer, Textile impressions on ceramics from the late Neolithic to the early Iron Age in Central Europe. In: A. Ulanowska/M. Siennicka, Tradition and Innovation in Textile Technology in Bronze Age Europe and the Mediterranean. 22df Annual Meeting of the EAA, 31st August – 4th September 2016 Vilnius (in prep).

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