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Martin Georg Segschneider

Dr. rer nat., Dipl.-Prähistoriker 

 

 

Senior researcher

Head of unit Coastal and Maritime Archaeology

Tel.: +49 4421 915-116

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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1225-9824

 
Curriculum vitae
since 09/2015Head of unit Coastal and Maritime Archaeology at NIhK
2008 - 2015Head of department North in combination with underwater archeology of the North Sea and Baltic Sea coast at Archaeological State Office Schleswig-Holstein, Schleswig
2006 - 2008Head of department for Inventarisation at the Archaeological State Office Schleswig-Holstein, Schleswig
2004 - 2005Head of department for protohistorical settlements at State Office for Monument Protection Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schwerin
2004PhD graduate at the faculty for Maths and Natural Sciences, Kiel University. Thesis: Die Marschen der Insel Föhr und der Wiedingharde, Kreis Nordfriesland - eine siedlungsarchäologische Studie
2002 - 2004Scientific associate at the State Office for Monument Protection Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schwerin. Coordination of large-scale project "Archaeological excavations along the motorway A 20"
1995 -1996Scientific Associate Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at Archaeological State Office Schleswig-Holstein, Schleswig. Coordination of the project "Archaeological Inventarisation of the marshes at the island of Föhr".
1994Diploma, Kiel University
1989 - 1994Study of Pre- and Protohistory, Botany and Zoology at Kiel University
1988 - 1989Study of Biology at Marburg University

 

Research priorities
Systems of communication and distribution in the first millennium AD in the coastal areas of the North Sea and Baltic Sea
Settlement history of the North Frisian Islands and Heligoland, Island Archaeology
Coastal trade, landing-sites and navigation along the southern North Sea coast from Stone-Age to medieval times
Non-destructive methods in settlement research
Underwater-archaeological investigations of submersed settlements and shipwrecks

 

Current research topics
• Trading terps and Geest boundary harbours - medieval trade ports on the German North Sea coast
The Settlement and Cultural History of the Wadden Sea area of Lower Saxony
SPLASHCOS-Viewer by COST-Action Submerged Prehistoric Archaeology and Landscapes of the Continental Shelf

 

Memberships, honorary offices
Corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute
Member of the International Sachsensymposion
Member of the Archaeolocical Commission for Lower Saxony e.V.
Manager of the Marschenrat zur Förderung der Forschung im Küstengebiet der Nordsee e.V.