Harding, D. W. (Prof. (em.) Dr.)
Dennis Harding graduated from the University of Oxford, where he also gained his doctorate in archaeology under the supervision of Professor Christopher Hawkes. For thirty years he was Abercromby Professor of Archaeology in the University of Edinburgh, 1977-2007, serving terms as Dean of Arts and subsequently as Vice-Principal of the University. He had previously been Lecturer in Celtic Archaeology at the University of Durham, where he had taken up flying for archaeological air photography, principally operating in the Anglo-Scottish borders and in the Northern and Western Isles. His aerial survey was complemented by excavation, notably in the Western Isles, and the results of his research were included in his synthesis The Iron Age in Northern Britain (2004; second edition 2017).
Harris, Susanna (Dr.)
Dr. Susanna Harris is Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Glasgow. Her research focus lies on prehistoric Europe and the central Mediterranean with expertise in organic artefacts and representational art. She studies textiles, leather and basketry of the Neolithic to Bronze Age and the role of these materials in dress and identity investigated through people represented in stone, metal or ceramics.
Haug, Annette (Prof. dr.)
Institute of Classical Studies / Classical Archaeology, CAU Kiel (present). Studies of Classical Archaeology, Art History and Prehistory in Heidelberg and Paris, binational PhD 2003, Habilitation Leipzig 2009, LMU München Heisenberg Fellow. Since 2012, Professor of Classical Archaeology at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. PI of the ERC Consolidator Grant “Decorative Principles in Late Republican and Early Imperial Italy” 2016-2022. Former co-speaker and actual PI of the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS.
Hausmair, Barbara (Dr.)
Barbara Hausmair obtained her PhD in Pre- and Protohistorical Archaeology from the University Vienna and conducted research visits at the Universities of Reading and Cambridge. As research associate at the University of Vienna from 2008 to 2014, she was involved in various archaeological projects.
Heit, Ilia (Dr.)
Ilia Heit studied Prehistoric Archaeology, Geology, and Slavic Philology at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany and received his PhD in Near Eastern Archaeology at the Freie Universität Berlin. His current research focuses on Neolithic and Chalcolithic communities in Central Asia and South Caucasus as well as theories and methods of Soviet archaeology. He is author of Dem Wandel auf der Spur. Bauen und Wohnen in Monjukli Depe und Umgebung, Turkmenistan.
Heitz, Caroline (Dr.)
Caroline Heitz is a Senior Researcher and SNSF-Ambizione Grantee at the Institute of Archaeological Sciences and the Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research at the University of Bern. In her award-winning doctoral thesis, she combined research on mobility, entanglement, appropriation, and transformation in relation to Neolithic pottery from the UNESCO-World Heritage wetland sites around the Alps. She was also awarded a Postdoc-Mobility Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation and became a fellow at the Universities of Oxford and Kiel in 2021–2022. She is currently conducting research on social archaeology as well as climate change resilience and vulnerabilities of prehistoric waterfront communities.
Helwing, Barbara (Dr.)
Barbara Helwing is an archaeologist holding a PhD in Prehistoric and Near Eastern Archaeology from the University of Heidelberg. After stations in Ankara, Berlin, Lyon and Sydney, she is currently the director of the Museum of the Ancient Near East SMB PK in Berlin, Germany, and honorary professor at the Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Sydney, Australia. She has directed archaeological fieldwork in Iran, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Sri Lanka, and is currently engaged in excavating the late PPNB site Gürcü Tepe in Turkey. Among her significant publications are the edited volumes “Early Mining and Metallurgy on the western Central Iranian Plateau (2011, with A. Vatandoust and H. Parzinger) and “The Kura Projects” (2017, with T. Aliyev, B. Lyonnet, F. Guliyev, S. Hansen, and G. Mirtskhulava). Her research interests focus on the emergence of social inequality, and on the history of technology and innovations and their cultural impact, with a special perspective on the role of metallurgy therein.
Harding, D. W. (Prof. (em.) Dr.)
Dennis Harding graduated from the University of Oxford, where he also gained his doctorate in archaeology under the supervision of Professor Christopher Hawkes. For thirty years he was Abercromby Professor of Archaeology in the University of Edinburgh, 1977-2007, serving terms as Dean of Arts and subsequently as Vice-Principal of the University. He had previously been Lecturer in Celtic Archaeology at the University of Durham, where he had taken up flying for archaeological air photography, principally operating in the Anglo-Scottish borders and in the Northern and Western Isles. His aerial survey was complemented by excavation, notably in the Western Isles, and the results of his research were included in his synthesis The Iron Age in Northern Britain (2004; second edition 2017).
Harris, Susanna (Dr.)
Dr. Susanna Harris is Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Glasgow. Her research focus lies on prehistoric Europe and the central Mediterranean with expertise in organic artefacts and representational art. She studies textiles, leather and basketry of the Neolithic to Bronze Age and the role of these materials in dress and identity investigated through people represented in stone, metal or ceramics.
Haug, Annette (Prof. dr.)
Institute of Classical Studies / Classical Archaeology, CAU Kiel (present). Studies of Classical Archaeology, Art History and Prehistory in Heidelberg and Paris, binational PhD 2003, Habilitation Leipzig 2009, LMU München Heisenberg Fellow. Since 2012, Professor of Classical Archaeology at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. PI of the ERC Consolidator Grant “Decorative Principles in Late Republican and Early Imperial Italy” 2016-2022. Former co-speaker and actual PI of the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS.
Hausmair, Barbara (Dr.)
Barbara Hausmair obtained her PhD in Pre- and Protohistorical Archaeology from the University Vienna and conducted research visits at the Universities of Reading and Cambridge. As research associate at the University of Vienna from 2008 to 2014, she was involved in various archaeological projects.
Heit, Ilia (Dr.)
Ilia Heit studied Prehistoric Archaeology, Geology, and Slavic Philology at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany and received his PhD in Near Eastern Archaeology at the Freie Universität Berlin. His current research focuses on Neolithic and Chalcolithic communities in Central Asia and South Caucasus as well as theories and methods of Soviet archaeology. He is author of Dem Wandel auf der Spur. Bauen und Wohnen in Monjukli Depe und Umgebung, Turkmenistan.
Heitz, Caroline (Dr.)
Caroline Heitz is a Senior Researcher and SNSF-Ambizione Grantee at the Institute of Archaeological Sciences and the Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research at the University of Bern. In her award-winning doctoral thesis, she combined research on mobility, entanglement, appropriation, and transformation in relation to Neolithic pottery from the UNESCO-World Heritage wetland sites around the Alps. She was also awarded a Postdoc-Mobility Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation and became a fellow at the Universities of Oxford and Kiel in 2021–2022. She is currently conducting research on social archaeology as well as climate change resilience and vulnerabilities of prehistoric waterfront communities.
Helwing, Barbara (Dr.)
Barbara Helwing is an archaeologist holding a PhD in Prehistoric and Near Eastern Archaeology from the University of Heidelberg. After stations in Ankara, Berlin, Lyon and Sydney, she is currently the director of the Museum of the Ancient Near East SMB PK in Berlin, Germany, and honorary professor at the Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Sydney, Australia. She has directed archaeological fieldwork in Iran, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Sri Lanka, and is currently engaged in excavating the late PPNB site Gürcü Tepe in Turkey. Among her significant publications are the edited volumes “Early Mining and Metallurgy on the western Central Iranian Plateau (2011, with A. Vatandoust and H. Parzinger) and “The Kura Projects” (2017, with T. Aliyev, B. Lyonnet, F. Guliyev, S. Hansen, and G. Mirtskhulava). Her research interests focus on the emergence of social inequality, and on the history of technology and innovations and their cultural impact, with a special perspective on the role of metallurgy therein.