Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

Honorarprofessor, Abteilung für Archäologie des Mittelalters

Other Affiliations: University of Reading, Department of Archaeology

About

I am an archaeologist, and passionate about the past and what it means to the present and to our own identities. Because I felt increasingly hamstrung by the burden of bureaucracy in my university job, I took early retirement in 2007 so that I could do my own thing. My interests have shifted over the decades, from scientific analyses of bronze artefacts, to the study of Iron Age settlement patterns, to burial rites, immigration and identity in early Anglo-Saxon England. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, I returned to work 'out east' where I had briefly worked as a student on Scythian barrows, and I rediscovered my interest in nomads (of the past) and my love of Russian culture (of the present). I am now focusing on historical nomads in the Caucasus and in Central Asia. Being a German working in Russia, I naturally continue my interest in the relationship between archaeology, politics, ideology and society. And because I was beginning to miss teaching, I have allowed myself to be roped in to contributing to the Medieval Archaeology programme at Tübingen. 

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