Prof. dr. Reinhard Bernbeck
Reinhard Bernbeck is Professor i.R. of Western Asian archaeology at the Freie Universität Berlin and professor emeritus of Anthropology at Binghamton University. His interests include the prehistory of Iran, archaeological manifestations of repression, exploitation and suffering, and ideological dimensions of archaeological practice. He has carried out fieldwork in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Turkey, and Turkmenistan. He has also investigated several prisoner-of-war and forced labor camps from the 20th century in Germany.
He is the author of Materielle Spuren des nationalsozialistischen Terrors (2017), co-editor (with Randall H. McGuire) of Ideologies in Archaeology (2011), Subjects and Narratives in Archaeology (with Ruth van Dyke, 2015), Between Memory Sites and Memory Networks (with Kerstin Hofmann and Ulrike Sommer, 2017), and Containers of Change (with Olivier Nieuwenhuyse and Koen Berghuijs, 2023).
Books by Reinhard Bernbeck
Containers of Change
Ancient Container Technologies from Eastern to Western Asia
Edited by Olivier P. Nieuwenhuyse†, Reinhard Bernbeck & Koen Berghuijs | 2023
Across Western Asia, the astonishing increase in the availability of durable ceramic containers in the seventh millennium BCE had significant societal repercussions – so much so that vital social, economic, and symbolic activities became dependent…
Coming to Terms with the Future
Concepts of Resilience for the Study of Early Iranian Societies
Edited by Reinhard Bernbeck, Gisela Eberhardt & Susan Pollock | 2023
The collection of essays in this book focuses on the highlands of Iran in pre-modern times, reaching from the Paleolithic to the medieval period. What holds the diverse contributions together is an issue that is…
Looking Closely
Excavations at Monjukli Depe, Turkmenistan, 2010 – 2014
Edited by Susan Pollock, Reinhard Bernbeck & Birgül Öğüt | 2019
Soviet archaeological research in southern Turkmenistan revealed a series of small Late Neolithic and Aeneolithic villages strung along the streams that emerge from the Kopet Dag and water the narrow foothill zone separating the mountains…
Village Life at Prehistoric Monjukli Depe, Turkmenistan
Microarchaeological, Archaeobiological, and Artifact Studies
Edited by Susan Pollock, Reinhard Bernbeck & Ilia Heit | Forthcoming
Archaeological research on early villages has repeatedly shown that despite their small size these settlements were anything but simple. Excavations at the Late Neolithic and early Aeneolithic village of Monjukli Depe in the Kopet Dag…
