Professor at the Free University of Berlin, Near East Institute of Archaeology
Research themes
Glyptic, historical geography, evolution of the occupations and environments,
ceramology.
Within the
Archaeology Institute, leads the following projects: Tell
Schech Hamad excavations (Syria); pluridisciplinary projects:
Lower
Habur Archaeological Project (Syria).
Archaeological excavations
• 1964 : Ilica excavations (Turquy) led by Winfried Orthmann.
• 1968-1969 : Bogazköy excavations
(Turquy) led by Kurt Bittel & Peter Neve.
• 1972-1975 : Tell Kamid el-Loz excavations (Liban) led by
Rolf Hachmann
• 1973-1974 : Tell Mumbaqa excavations
(Syria) led by Winfried Orthmann
• 1982-1990 : Tell Ajaja excavations led by Asaad
Mahmoud.
• since 2003 : Archaeological prospections of Civril led by Asref Abay.
Direction of archaeological excavations
• 1975-1977 :
Archaeogical prospections
in Lower Khabur
(Syria)
• 1978 : Archaeogical prospections
in Incescu-Tal (Turquy)
• 1988 : Archaeogical prospections
in Tur Abdin (Turquy)
• depuis 1978 : Excavations of Tell Schlech Hamad (Syria)
• 1983-1993 : Interdisciplinary research project :
« Reconstruction of environnement in the Lower Khabur area (Syria) during the Holocene »
• 1985-1992 : Excavations of Tell Bderi (Syria)
• 1992-1996 : Syria-Germany cooperation project,
valorization of the Museum of Deir az-Zor exposition (Syria)
• Since 2000 with the German Institute,
emergency excavations on the late byzantine site of Tell
Dgherat (barrage on the Khabur, Syria)
codirected by Andreas Oettel
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