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Hauke Jöns

Prof. Dr. rer. nat., Dipl.-Prähistoriker

Scientific director

Head of Department for Cultural Sciences
Tel.: +49 4421 915-112

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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6375-3945

Curriculum vitae

  • since 2010: Executive director at the NIhK Wilhelmshaven
  • since 2010: Adjunct professor for Archaeology, University of Rostock
  • since 2006: Deputy director of the institute and head of Department of Cultural Sciences at the NIhK Wilhelmshaven
  • 2002: Lectureship, University of Rostock
  • 2001: Habilitation, Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel. Thesis: “On the development of the pre- and protohistoric iron metallurgy in North Germany and South Scandinavia”
  • 2000 - 2006: Acting director of the Archaeological State Museum of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Head of the Department for Conservation and Management of Archaeological Heritage
  • 1997 - 2000: Research associate at the Institute of Pre- and Protohistory, Kiel University
  • 1995 - 1997: Research associate at the Archaeological State Museum of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
  • 1993: PhD Graduation, Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel. Thesis: “Excavations at Osterrönnfeld. A site of the Stone Bronze and Iron Age in the county of Rendsburg-Eckernförde”
  • 1990 - 1994: Research associate at the Institute of Pre- and Protohistory, Kiel University
  • 1988: Diploma, Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel
  • 1983 - 1988: Study of Pre- and Protohistory, Anthropology and Geology at Kiel University

Research priorities

  • Structures of communication and exchange in the first Millennium AD at the coastal zones of North Sea and Baltic Sea
  • Stone-age settlement of North Germany
  • Archaeometry of ceramics
  • Drowned prehistoric landscapes and settlements in the North Sea and Baltic Sea

Current research topics

 

  • Elsfleth-Hogenkamp,  Wesermarsch county – an economic center of the Roman Iron Age at the mouth of the river Hunte
  • Pottery making traditions in the Funnelbeaker Culture
  • The roman iron age and migration period graveyard Fallward, district of Cuxhaven
  • Trading Terps and Geest boundary harbours – medieval trade ports on the German North Sea coast
  • Early Medieval harbours between Wismar Bay and Bay of Danzig
  • Structure and organisation of the early medieval economy and society in the coastal area of East Frisia –the settlement area of Dunum, Wittmund county as a modell region
  • Settlement- and cultural history of the Wadden Sea area in Lower Saxony
  • Splashcos-Viewer in the framework of COST-Action Submerged Prehistoric Archaeology and Landscapes of the Continental Shelf

Memberships, honorary offices, awards

  • Member of the editorial board Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt, RGZM Mainz
  • Corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute
  • Member of the Archaeological Society of Mecklenburg and Vorpommern
  • Chairman of the Marschenrat zur Förderung der Forschung im Küstengebiet der Nordsee
  • Chairman of the Nordwestdeutsche Universitätsgesellschaft e.V.
  • Member of the scientific board of the Küstenmueum Wilhelmshaven
  • Member of the scientific board of the domestic animal park „Arche Warder“
  • Member of the scientific board of “the new museum of the Viking Age, Museum of Cultural History, Oslo
  • Member of the scientific board of the journal “Archäologie in Deutschland“
  • Member of the scientific committee of the Ostfriesische Landschaft
  • Member of the coordinating committee of the Sachsensymposium
  • Member of the commission  for underwater archaeology (KUWA) at the Association of State Archaeologists