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Post doctoral fellow Birte Ahrens, Magister

Post doctoral fellow

Birte Ahrens (Germany)

Magister in Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology

PhD thesis Landscape-archaeological research in the Upper Orkhon- Valley, Central Mongolia
Research interests Archaeology and history of Mongolia and central Asia, religious studies, pastoralism, landscape-archaeology, land-use history, GIS
Education

Since 2010
Ph.D. Studies at Institute of Pre - and Protohistoric Archaeology, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jan Bemmann Examination Fields: Archaeology, Central-Asia, Landscape-Archaeology, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Pastoralism

2015/2016
Certificate “Promotion Plus”. Qualification program for doctoral researchers of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

2010
Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for Research Studies in Mongolia (five months)

2002-2009
Studies of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology, Ancient History and Comparitive Religious Studies at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, University degree: Magister Artium Title of Magister-Thesis: Der eisenzeitliche Moorfundplatz Unterlübbe, Westfalen Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jan Bemmann (Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology) Examination Fields: Archaeology, Europe, Religious Studies, Iron Age

Work experience

Since 2017
Research associate at the Graduate School “Human Development in Landscapes” at the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel

2015-2017
Research Administrator at Science Support Center of German Sport University Cologne

2014-2015
Research Assistant at Science Support Center of German Sport University Cologne

2011-2014
Research Assistant, Project „Hinterland of Karakorum“, Institute of Pre - and Protohistoric Archaeology, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

2010-2011
Research Assistant, BMBF-Project „Geoarchäologie in der Steppe“, Institute of Pre - and Protohistoric Archaeology, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

2008-2009
Student Assistant, BMBF-Project „Geoarchäologie in der Steppe“, Institute of Pre - and Protohistoric Archaeology, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

2005-2008
Student Assistant, Library of the Institute of Pre - and Protohistoric Archaeology, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

2005
Student Assistant, Excavations of the Institute of Pre - and Protohistoric Archaeology, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn in Karakorum, Mongolia

Selected publications

2016
B. Ahrens, First results of a landscape-archaeological study in the upper Orkhon valley, Central Mongolia. In: Ancient cultures of the northern area of China, Mongolia and baikalian Siberia, Reports VII International Scientific Conference Krasnoyarsk, October 3–7 2016 Part 2 (Krasnoyarsk 2016) 305-313.

2016
B. Ahrens/ G. Nomguunsüren/ H. Piezonka et al., Das mittelalterliche Höhlengrab von Cagaan Chad, Mongolei. Eine Kriegerbestattung am nördlichen Rand der Wüste Gobi. Zeitschrift für Archäologie des Mittelalters 43, 2016, 59-126.

2015
J. Bemmann/Th. O. Höllmann/B. Ahrens/Th. Kaiser/Sh. Müller, A stone quarry in the hinterland of Karakorum, Mongolia, with evidence of Chinese stonemasons. The Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology 6/2011, 2015, 101-136.

2015
B. Ahrens/H. Piezonka/G. Nomguunsuren, Buried with his bow and arrows: The exceptional cave burial of a 14th century warrior at Tsagaan Khad mountain, Mongolia. In: Ancient cultures of the northern area of China, Mongolia and baikalian Siberia, Part three: Historical period (Hohhot 2015), 683-692.

2014
B. Ahrens, Der eisenzeitliche Moorfundplatz Unterlübbe, Westfalen. In: B. Herring/E. Treude/M. Zelle (Hrsg.), Römer und Germanen in Ostwestfalen-Lippe. Untersuchungen zu kulturhistorischen Entwicklungen von der Mittellaténezeit bis zur jüngeren Römischen Kaiserzeit, Band 2 (Oldenburg 2014), 9-111.

2012
E. Pohl/L. Mönkhbayar/B. Ahrens/K. Frank/S. Linzen/A. Osinska/T. Schüler/M. Schneider, Production Sites in Karakorum and Its Environment. A New Archaeological Project in the Orkhon Valley, Mongolia. The Silk Road, 10, 2012, 49-65.

2011
J. Bemmann/B. Ahrens/C. Grützner/R. Klinger/N. Klitzsch/F. Lehmann/S. Linzen/L. Munkhbayar/G. Nomguunsuren/M. Oczipka/H. Piezonka/ B. Schütt/S. Solongo, Geoarchaeology in the Steppe: First results of the multidisciplinary Mongolian-German survey project in the Orkhon valley, Central Mongolia. Archeologijn Sudlal 30, Fasc. 5 , 2011, 69-97.

Memberships

Deutsch-Mongolische Gesellschaft e.V.

Society for East Asian Archaeology (SEAA)

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