Prof. Dr. Joseph Maran - Vita

Born 6 September 1957 in Frankfurt on Main

Full Professor of Prehistory and Early History,
University of Heidelberg, Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory and Near Eastern Archaeology

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University degrees and positions

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Awards and Honors

• Trude Dothan Lecturer in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, fellowship 2004 (Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem)
• Member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, since 2006
• W. Kendrick Pritchett Lecturer of the University of California in Berkeley, November 2012
• Corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, since 2013
• Honorary research advisor of the Archaeological Society of Athens, since 2014
• Foreign Member of the Academy of Athens, since 2017
• Visiting Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, March 2019

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Funded Projects (selected)

• Excavations at Tiryns (German Archaeological Institute, 1994-)
• Untersuchungen zur Keramikproduktion und –distribution mykenischer Keramik mit Hilfe der Neutronenaktivierungsanalyse (with Hans Mommsen; German Ministry of Education and Research, 1994-1997)
• Architekturbefunde und Stratigraphie der Phase Späthelladisch (SH) III B und der beginnenden Phase SH III C in der Unterburg von Tiryns (German Research Council, 1995-99)
• Settlement History and Landscape Evolution in the Basin of Phlious (Korinthia, Southern Greece) (with Günther Wagner and Andreas Lang; German Ministry of Education and Research, 1998-2002)
• Signs of Supremacy. Archaeology and Sociology of Power (with Hermann Schwengel; Altertumswissenschaftliches Kolleg Heidelberg, State of Baden-Württemberg, 2004-05)
• Raumbilder und Bildräume. Mykenische Paläste als performativer Raum, First Project Phase (with Alkestis Papadimitriou and Ulrich Thaler; Research Cluster “Political Space”, German Archaeological Institute, 2006-2009)
• Excavations in the Western Lower Town of Tiryns (Institute for Aegean Prehistory [Philadelphia], 2006-2010)
• Materiality and Practice: Cultural Entanglements of 2^nd millennium BC East Mediterranean Societies (with Markus Hilgert, Peter Miglus and Diamantis Panagiotopoulos, Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”, 2008-2010)
• Raumbilder und Bildräume. Mykenische Paläste als performativer Raum, Second Project Phase (with Alkestis Papadimitriou and Ulrich Thaler; Research Cluster “Political Space”, German Archaeological Institute, 2010-2015)
• Hypothesis-testing of Earthquake Ruined Argolid Constructions and Landscape with Engineering Seismology (HERACLES): Archäoseismologische Untersuchungen in Tiryns und Midea“ (with Hans-G. Hinzen; Thyssen and Henkel Foundation; 2012-2014)
• Elite Consumption in the Palace of Tiryns: Research on undecorated Mycenaean Pottery and the Social Significance of Pottery in a Political Center of the 13th and 12th cents. BCE (Thyssen Foundation; 2010-2012)
• Negotiating Change – Cultural and Social Transformations in the Late 2nd Millennium BCE East Mediterranean: Case Studies from Tiryns, Greece, and Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel (with Aren Maeir; German-Israeli Foundation; 2011-2013)
• Appropriating Innovations: Entangled Knowledge in Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Eurasia (with Peter Miglus and P. Stockhammer, Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”, 2013-2015)
• Excavations in the Northwestern Lower Town of Tiryns (German Research Foundation, 2014-2018)
• Interculturality and Migration in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age of the Southern Levant (with Philipp Stockhammer; Pilot Project, FRONTIER-program, University of Heidelberg, 2013-2016)
• Tiryns – Das «mykenische Versailles»: Bauhistorische Untersuchung der Unterburgmauer von Tiryns (Thyssen Foundation, 2018-2020)

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Membership in Advisory Boards and Steering Committees

• Central Directorate of the German Archaeological Institute (2005-2015)
• Member of the Römisch-Germanische Kommission (since 2016)
• Advisory Board of the Zentrum Archäologie und Altertumswissenschaften, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (2007-2012)
• Head of the Advisory Board of the Centre „Oriental and East Mediterranean Archaeology (OREA)” (2013-2016)
• Steering Committee of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” (2008-2009).
• Co-editor of the Periodical “Gnomon” (since 2011)
• Co-editor of the Series “Transcultural Research - Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context (2012-2017)
• Advisory Board of the Periodical “Archäologischer Anzeiger” (2006-2014)
• Advisory Board of the Periodical „Abenteuer Archäologie“ (2004-2007)
• Advisory Board of the Periodical “Antike Welt” (since 2008)
• Advisory Board of the Periodical “Origini” (since 2010)
• Advisory Board of the Periodical “Opuscula” (since 2013)