Schaefer-Di Maida, Stefanie (Dr)
Stefanie Schaefer-Di Maida is a postdoctral researcher in the field of Bronze Age Archaeology. Her main topics of research are Bronze and Iron Age in Europe, material culture, burial rites, ceramic typology & technology (e. g. textile impressions) and economic theory in archaeology.
Scharl, Silviane (Prof. dr.)
Silviane Scharl is Professor for Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Cologne. One focus of her research is on the central European Neolithic, where she has published extensively on networks of innovation and on human mobility (see e.g. Human mobility and the spread of innovations – case studies from Neolithic Central and Southeast Europe. Open Archaeology 9/1, 2023). She has also written an introductory volume on the Neolithic in central Europe (Jungsteinzeit – Wie die Menschen sesshaft wurden, 2021). In her current project, she explores the Late Neolithic in the Rhineland in western Germany.
Schats, Rachel (Dr.)
Rachel Schats is gepromoveerd op het onderzoek naar de fysieke consequenties van de middeleeuwse ontwikkelingen aan de hand van verschillende rurale en urbane skeletcollecties. Op het moment is zij werkzaam aan Universiteit Leiden als docent waar ze verantwoordelijk is voor het osteoarcheologische onderwijs in de bachelor en master.
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Rachel Schats studied archaeology with a specialisation in osteoarchaeology at Leiden University and University College London after which she was appointed as a research and teaching assistant for the Laboratory of Human Osteoarchaeology in Leiden. Her PhD (defended November 2016) aimed at gaining a better understanding of the physical consequences of medieval developments, such as urbanisation and commercialisation, by comparing rural and urban skeletal populations.
Schlanger, Nathan (Prof. Dr.)
Nathan Schlanger is professor of archaeology at the Ecole nationale des chartes, Paris. His research interests include prehistoric archaeology, material culture studies, archaeological heritage management, and the history and politics of archaeology.
Schmidt, Laura C. (Dr.)
Laura Schmidt has studied Classics at the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She defended her PhD thesis under the title “From Lesbos to Athens: Sappho’s Place in the Symposium and Greek Learning” in 2020. She has been member of the Graduate School ‘Human Development in Landscapes’ (2016-2020). She worked on Plato’s concept of optics at the CRC 1266 “Scales of Transformation” at Kiel (2020) and participated in the interdisciplinary project “Gardens, Human Senses and Eudaimonia” of the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS at Kiel (2021). She is currently researching the “thin Anthropocene” in classical antiquity as a member of the ROOTS Cluster of Excellence.
Schneeweiß, Jens (Dr.)
Jens Schneeweiß (Dr. phil., Humboldt University Berlin, 2004) is a scientist at the Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology at Kiel University and the LEIZA (Leibniz Centre for Archaeology), Department of Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology in Schleswig, Germany. He is deputy speaker of the sub-cluster ROOTS of Conflict of the Cluster of Excellence “ROOTS – Social, Environmental, and Cultural Connectivity in Past Societies” in Kiel. As an associate professor of prehistory and early history, he teaches at the Georg August University in Göttingen, Germany.
Schülke, Almut (Prof. Dr.)
Almut Schülke is professor of Nordic Archaeology at the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo. Her research comprises studies on landscape archaeology, human-environment interaction and social space, mobility, ritual and mortuary practices. Her works on the social dimension of mortuary practices include studies on christianization and grave finds (Southwest Germany) and on megalithic tombs in Neolithic Zealand (Denmark), the latter with focus on different modes of burying the dead as well as the social relations between humans and their surroundings as embedded in megalithic tombs, and on Mesolithic burial and mortuary practices in Norway in a Northern European perspective.
Schaefer-Di Maida, Stefanie (Dr)
Stefanie Schaefer-Di Maida is a postdoctral researcher in the field of Bronze Age Archaeology. Her main topics of research are Bronze and Iron Age in Europe, material culture, burial rites, ceramic typology & technology (e. g. textile impressions) and economic theory in archaeology.
Scharl, Silviane (Prof. dr.)
Silviane Scharl is Professor for Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Cologne. One focus of her research is on the central European Neolithic, where she has published extensively on networks of innovation and on human mobility (see e.g. Human mobility and the spread of innovations – case studies from Neolithic Central and Southeast Europe. Open Archaeology 9/1, 2023). She has also written an introductory volume on the Neolithic in central Europe (Jungsteinzeit – Wie die Menschen sesshaft wurden, 2021). In her current project, she explores the Late Neolithic in the Rhineland in western Germany.
Schats, Rachel (Dr.)
Rachel Schats is gepromoveerd op het onderzoek naar de fysieke consequenties van de middeleeuwse ontwikkelingen aan de hand van verschillende rurale en urbane skeletcollecties. Op het moment is zij werkzaam aan Universiteit Leiden als docent waar ze verantwoordelijk is voor het osteoarcheologische onderwijs in de bachelor en master.
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Rachel Schats studied archaeology with a specialisation in osteoarchaeology at Leiden University and University College London after which she was appointed as a research and teaching assistant for the Laboratory of Human Osteoarchaeology in Leiden. Her PhD (defended November 2016) aimed at gaining a better understanding of the physical consequences of medieval developments, such as urbanisation and commercialisation, by comparing rural and urban skeletal populations.
Schlanger, Nathan (Prof. Dr.)
Nathan Schlanger is professor of archaeology at the Ecole nationale des chartes, Paris. His research interests include prehistoric archaeology, material culture studies, archaeological heritage management, and the history and politics of archaeology.
Schmidt, Laura C. (Dr.)
Laura Schmidt has studied Classics at the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She defended her PhD thesis under the title “From Lesbos to Athens: Sappho’s Place in the Symposium and Greek Learning” in 2020. She has been member of the Graduate School ‘Human Development in Landscapes’ (2016-2020). She worked on Plato’s concept of optics at the CRC 1266 “Scales of Transformation” at Kiel (2020) and participated in the interdisciplinary project “Gardens, Human Senses and Eudaimonia” of the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS at Kiel (2021). She is currently researching the “thin Anthropocene” in classical antiquity as a member of the ROOTS Cluster of Excellence.
Schneeweiß, Jens (Dr.)
Jens Schneeweiß (Dr. phil., Humboldt University Berlin, 2004) is a scientist at the Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology at Kiel University and the LEIZA (Leibniz Centre for Archaeology), Department of Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology in Schleswig, Germany. He is deputy speaker of the sub-cluster ROOTS of Conflict of the Cluster of Excellence “ROOTS – Social, Environmental, and Cultural Connectivity in Past Societies” in Kiel. As an associate professor of prehistory and early history, he teaches at the Georg August University in Göttingen, Germany.
Schülke, Almut (Prof. Dr.)
Almut Schülke is professor of Nordic Archaeology at the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo. Her research comprises studies on landscape archaeology, human-environment interaction and social space, mobility, ritual and mortuary practices. Her works on the social dimension of mortuary practices include studies on christianization and grave finds (Southwest Germany) and on megalithic tombs in Neolithic Zealand (Denmark), the latter with focus on different modes of burying the dead as well as the social relations between humans and their surroundings as embedded in megalithic tombs, and on Mesolithic burial and mortuary practices in Norway in a Northern European perspective.
