• Projects
• Current Doctorate Theses
• Completed Doctorate Theses
• Completed Master’s Theses
• Publications
• Leibniz Graduate School RITaK
• Centre for Mediterranean Studies

Foci of activity

Materiality and Technology

• Beginnings and development of metallurgy and issues of provenance in Anatolia
  
• All that Glitters is not Gold: Research on early Bronze Age royal tombs of Alacahöyük
  
• Studies on Gold Objects from the Royal Tombs of Ur
  
• Gold in Georgia
  
• Polychromy of Hellenistic Sculptures and Terracottas
  

Ritual and Cult

• Economic exchange networks in Phoenicia
  

Raw Materials: Exploitation – Economic Context – Social Construction

• Prehistoric salt mining on the Dürrnberg/Hallein, Austria
  
• The Salt Men of Zanjan
  
• The western Slovak Ore Mountains - strategies for the use of a secondary economic area during the Bronze Age
  
• The Region of Mitterberg: Large-Scale Production of Copper in the Eastern Alps during the Bronze Age
  
• Salt, Copper, Gold: Early Mining in the Caucasus
  
• Copper and Tin from the Central Asian Steppe
  
• Early Iron in the Eastern Rhenish Slate Mountains: the Siegerland
  
• The Iglesiente - Archaeological-historical investigations of the montane-landscape in the southwest of Sardinia from the early Iron Age to late antiquity
  

Settlements and Landscapes

• Making landscape. An archaeological landscape project and field school at Sant’Antioco, Sardinia
  
• Aerial Archaeology in Westphalia
  
• Aerial Archaeology in Xanten – Vetera Castra
  
• Prospections and Settlement Archaeology in Westphalia
  

Transculturalism and Exchange

• Embodied Knowledge, Practice and Materiality – A Theoretical Approach to Eastern Mediterranean Networks
  
• Aegean Design in Oriental Palaces – Knowledge and Materiality in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Second Millennium B.C.
  
• Historical-Archaeological and Scientific Studies on Lead Production in the Roman Empire: Corpus Massarum Plumbearum Romanarum
  

Urban Areas

• The Forum Temple and the Comitium of Paestum
  
• The Eastern Harbour of Selinunt. Functional Areas of an Ancient Harbour Zone
  

Joint Research Projects and Centres

• Leibniz-Graduate School RITaK
  
• Centre for Mediterranean Studies
  

Completed Projects

• Micro-Identities of Bithynia during the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial Times: Archaeological Survey in Nicaea (Iznik/Turkey)
  
• Survey in the Chora of Miletus
  

Former Projects

• The Northwest Quarter of Jerash (Jordan)