Prof. Dr. Lynn E. Fisher

Lynn E. Fisher is Professor for Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Illinois Springfield. A primary focus of her research is on social change and technology in early Stone Age farming societies in southern Germany. Her archaeological fieldwork in southern Germany has been funded by the Fulbright Foundation and the National Science Foundation. In autumn 2021, she joined Kiel University as a Mercator fellow invited by the Collaborative Research Centre 1266 “Scales of Transformation”. During her stay in Kiel she collaborated intensively with Berit V. Eriksen to plan and organise an international workshop on “Quarries and mines in social context. Connecting patterns of change in Neolithic cultural landscapes”. The proceedings is forthcoming/published with Sidestone Press.