Needham, Stuart (Dr.)
Stuart Needham, formerly curator of the European Bronze Age at The British Museum, is now an independent researcher and Honorary Research Fellow of Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales. Amongst his recent publications are Encompassing the sea: ‘Maritories’ and Bronze Age maritime interactions (in Bronze Age Connections: Cultural Contact in Prehistoric Europe, Oxbow), Claimed by the Sea: Salcombe, Langdon Bay and other marine finds of the Bronze Age (Council for British Archaeology, Research Report 173), The lost cultures of the halberd-bearers (in Celtic from the West 3, Oxbow).
Nezafati, Nima (Prof. Dr.)
Nima Nezafati studied geology and mineralogy at the University of Shahid Beheshti and the Research Institute for Earth Sciences in Tehran, as well as mineralogy at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg. He received his doctorate from the Faculty of Geosciences at the University of Tübingen on the Deh Hossein ore deposit. He has been Deputy Head of the Archaeometallurgy Research Department at the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum since the end of 2020, while he has been appointed as Honorary Professor at Ruhr University Bochum since 2023.
Nicolas, Clément (Dr.)
Clément Nicolas is a postdoctoral researcher at the laboratory UMR 8215 Trajectoires (Nanterre, France). His researches focus on the first metalworking societies during the IIIrd and the IInd millennia BCE in Europe.
Nicolis, Franco (Dr.)
Franco Nicolis studied Ancient History and Prehistory at the University of Bologna. His PhD thesis at the University of Pisa was focused on the Bell Beaker phenomenon in Nortern Italy. Since 1991 he is working as archaeologist at the Archaeological Heritage Office of the Autonomous Province of Trento, Italy.
Nieuwenhuyse, Olivier P. (Dr.)
Olivier Nieuwenhuyse (1966-2020) was an archaeologist and expert in the field of Western Asian prehistoric ceramics. At the time of his untimely death, he was a Humboldt Fellow at the Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie (Freie Universität Berlin). He was the author of numerous articles on Late Neolithic ceramics and (co-)editor of Climate and Cultural Change in Prehistoric Europe and the Near East (2016), Painting Pots, Painting People (2017) and Relentlessly Plain (2018). Olivier conducted fieldwork in Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, and, most recently, Iraqi Kurdistan.
Nikulka, Frank (Prof. dr.)
Frank Nikulka is currently Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Hamburg. His main research interests include the Bronze and Iron Ages of Europe, as well as the Slavic period, the economic and social implications of metallurgy, variability in burial rituals and cultural contacts throughout Iron Age Europe.
Nishiaki, Yoshihiro (Prof dr.)
Yoshihiro Nishiaki, born in 1961, received his BA and MA from the University of Tokyo, and Ph.D. from University College London. He has been a full professor of prehistoric archaeology at the University of Tokyo since 2006 and Director of the University of Tokyo Museum since 2020. His major research interest is concerned with the prehistory of West and Central Asia, particularly the origins and development of farming socio-economy and the replacement of Neanderthals by anatomically modern humans in those regions.
Needham, Stuart (Dr.)
Stuart Needham, formerly curator of the European Bronze Age at The British Museum, is now an independent researcher and Honorary Research Fellow of Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales. Amongst his recent publications are Encompassing the sea: ‘Maritories’ and Bronze Age maritime interactions (in Bronze Age Connections: Cultural Contact in Prehistoric Europe, Oxbow), Claimed by the Sea: Salcombe, Langdon Bay and other marine finds of the Bronze Age (Council for British Archaeology, Research Report 173), The lost cultures of the halberd-bearers (in Celtic from the West 3, Oxbow).
Nezafati, Nima (Prof. Dr.)
Nima Nezafati studied geology and mineralogy at the University of Shahid Beheshti and the Research Institute for Earth Sciences in Tehran, as well as mineralogy at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg. He received his doctorate from the Faculty of Geosciences at the University of Tübingen on the Deh Hossein ore deposit. He has been Deputy Head of the Archaeometallurgy Research Department at the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum since the end of 2020, while he has been appointed as Honorary Professor at Ruhr University Bochum since 2023.
Nicolas, Clément (Dr.)
Clément Nicolas is a postdoctoral researcher at the laboratory UMR 8215 Trajectoires (Nanterre, France). His researches focus on the first metalworking societies during the IIIrd and the IInd millennia BCE in Europe.
Nicolis, Franco (Dr.)
Franco Nicolis studied Ancient History and Prehistory at the University of Bologna. His PhD thesis at the University of Pisa was focused on the Bell Beaker phenomenon in Nortern Italy. Since 1991 he is working as archaeologist at the Archaeological Heritage Office of the Autonomous Province of Trento, Italy.
Nieuwenhuyse, Olivier P. (Dr.)
Olivier Nieuwenhuyse (1966-2020) was an archaeologist and expert in the field of Western Asian prehistoric ceramics. At the time of his untimely death, he was a Humboldt Fellow at the Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie (Freie Universität Berlin). He was the author of numerous articles on Late Neolithic ceramics and (co-)editor of Climate and Cultural Change in Prehistoric Europe and the Near East (2016), Painting Pots, Painting People (2017) and Relentlessly Plain (2018). Olivier conducted fieldwork in Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, and, most recently, Iraqi Kurdistan.
Nikulka, Frank (Prof. dr.)
Frank Nikulka is currently Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Hamburg. His main research interests include the Bronze and Iron Ages of Europe, as well as the Slavic period, the economic and social implications of metallurgy, variability in burial rituals and cultural contacts throughout Iron Age Europe.
Nishiaki, Yoshihiro (Prof dr.)
Yoshihiro Nishiaki, born in 1961, received his BA and MA from the University of Tokyo, and Ph.D. from University College London. He has been a full professor of prehistoric archaeology at the University of Tokyo since 2006 and Director of the University of Tokyo Museum since 2020. His major research interest is concerned with the prehistory of West and Central Asia, particularly the origins and development of farming socio-economy and the replacement of Neanderthals by anatomically modern humans in those regions.
