Martin Hinz

Senior researcher

Institute for Archaeological Sciences IAS

Dept. of Prehistoric Archaeology

University of Bern

Mittelstrasse 43

CH-3012 Bern

Personal information

date of birth

 
  • 12.05.1977

place of birth

 
  • Wismar

nationality

 
  • Germany

marital status

 
  • married

children

 
  • 2 (Mira 2012; Merle 2015)

OrcID

 
  • 0000-0002-9904-6548

ResearchID

 
  • N-5549-2015

education

school education

09/1983 – 08/1995
  • primary, polytechnic secondary school and high school in Wismar and Leipzig

civilian service

1996–1997
  • Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Wismar

university education

2008–2011
  • PhD Scholarship, Graduate School ‘Human Development in Landscapes’, CAU Kiel, Germany. Degree: Dr. phil., June 21, 2011. Thesis ‘Neolithische Siedlungsstrukturen im südöstlichen Schleswig-Holstein’. Supervisor Prof. Dr. J. Müller, Prof. Dr. R. Duttmann. Distinction ‘magna cum laude’ (0,8)
1998–2008
  • Studies in Pre- and Early History, Classical Archaeology, Medieval and Modern History, Computer Science and European Ethnology, FU Berlin and CAU Kiel. Degree: M.A., February 6, 2008. Thesis ‘Eine multivariate Analyse Aunjetitzer Fundkomplexe’. Supervisor Prof. Dr. J. Müller, Prof. Dr. U. Müller. Distinction ‘Very good’ (1.0)

relevant work experience

employments

since 09/2018
  • Senior Researcher (Oberassistent), Prehistoric department of the Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University Bern
08/2016–08/2018
  • Post-Doctoral Fellow in Project F1 of the CRC 1266 ‘Transformation Dimensions’, CAU Kiel
02/2015–07/2016
  • Post-Doctoral Fellow for ‘Ancient Socio-Environmental Modelling’, Graduate School ‘Human Development in Landscapes’, CAU Kiel
08/2011–01/2015
  • Assistant Coordinator of the DFG Priority Programme SPP 1400 ‘Early Monumentality and Social Differentiation’, Institute for Prehistory and Early History of the CAU Kiel

project PI

starting 2025
ESTER - ESTimation of the prehistoric population of Eurasia based on a large number of Records (ERC-2024-COG 101171036)
2020-2024
  • XRONOS – Open Access Database for absolute chronological archaeological information (SNF IZCOZ0_198153)
2020-2023
  • Disclose the Archaeology of Wetland Neolithic (DAWN, CIS Seed Funding Grant 2020)

fellowships and grants

2024
  • ERC Consolidator Grant, EUR 1’981’430, Project ‘ESTER’
2023
  • Bern University Research Foundation Grant, CHF 10’492, Project ‘EXPLO Total Station’
  • Scientific Exchanges Grant, SNSF, CHF 9’100, Project ‘Digital Archaeology Bern 2023’
2021
  • Bern University Research Foundation Grant, CHF 4’600, Project ‘DAWN’
  • SNF COST Grant, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), CHF 319’930, Project ‘XRONOS’
2020
  • Projects Research Preparation Grant, funded by the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation Switzerland (SERI), CHF 5’000, Project ‘DAWN’
  • Project Grant, funded by the Fund for the Promotion of Young Researchers, University of Bern, CHF 1’950, Project SISA 2020
2019
  • Scientific Exchanges Grant, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), CHF 9’100, Project ‘Digital Archaeology Bern 2019’
  • Teach inspired! Grant, funded by the Collegium Decanale, University of Bern, CHF 2’100, Project ‘Theorien in der Archäologie bewegt’ Workshop
2008–2011
  • Ph.D. Fellowship, Funded by German Excellence Initiative, Graduate School ‘Human Development in Landscapes’, CAU Kiel (http://www.gshdl.uni-kiel.de/), Fully funded fellowship

teaching (last five years)

2023
  • Fall: 1 Proseminar, 1 Übung, 1 Kolloquium, 1 Seminar
  • Spring: Swiss International Summer School for Alpine Archaeology, 1 Proseminar, 1 Kolloquium, 1 Seminar
2022
  • Fall: 1 Proseminar, 1 Übung, 1 Kolloquium, 1 Seminar
  • Spring: 1 Proseminar, 1 Kolloquium, 1 Übung
2021
  • Fall: Swiss International Summer School for Alpine Archaeology, 1 Übung, 1 Kolloquium, 2 Übungen
  • Spring: 1 Seminar, 1 Kolloquium, 2 Übungen, 1 Proseminar
2020
  • Fall: 2 Übungen, 1 Kolloquium
  • Spring: 1 Proseminar, 3 Übungen, , 1 Kolloquium
2019
  • Fall: 3 Übungen, Summer School Wetland Excavations in Serteya/Russia
  • Spring: 3 Übungen

supervision (last five years)

2023
  • Manuel Fuhrer, BA, Korngrössenanalyse und Magerungseffekt bei pXRF-Analysen experimentell hergestellter Keramik; Yuli Maisak, BA, Schnurkeramikkulturen in Nordbelarus und Nordwestrussland
2022
  • Anna Khoury, BA, Das neolithische Material von Auvernier-Les Graviers; Corina Gottardi, PhD, Mobilität, Entwicklungen und Verflechtungen am Ende des 4. Jahrtausends v. Chr (Working Title); Michael Wagner, BA, Unterlunkhofen – Pitten Manifestierte soziale Differenzierung im Grabbau
2020
  • Hallvard Bruvoll, PhD, Fractal Analysis as Method for studying Social Hierarchy in Prehistoric Settlement Plans
2019
  • Jan-Erik Schlicht, MA, Emergenz sozialer Räume: Diachrone Untersuchungen von Rohmaterialverteilungsmustern im Spätneolithikum und in der Kupferzeit in Süd- und Zentralportugal

editorial board memberships

Since 2021
  • Journal ‘The Neolithic of Central and Eastern Europe’ (NCEE), Editorial Board
Since 2020
Since 2019
Since 2013

activity in scientific associations

Since 2020
  • Founding member and Secretary of the ‘CAA National Chapter Switzerland’ & Founding member and Convener of the ‘CAA SIG Scientific Scripting Languages in Archaeology’
Since 2019
  • Founding member of the ‘Swiss TAG’
Since 2016
  • Founding member of the ‘Initiative for Statistical Analysis in Archaeology Kiel (ISAAK)’

conference organization

1.-3.02.2023
19.-20.01.2021
4.-6.02.2019
16.–20.06.2015

excavations

2023
  • Lin 3, Albania (Neolithic wetland settlement) (06-07/2023)
2022
  • Lin 3, Albania (Neolithic wetland settlement) (08-09/2022)
2019
  • Serteya, Russia (Neolithic wetland settlement) (07-08/2019)
2014–2016
  • Oldenburg/Wangels LA 69 (megalithic passage tomb) (07-08/2014, 07-08/2015, 08-09/2016)
2007–2009
  • Bad Oldesloe/Wolkenwehe LA 154 (Neolithic wetland settlement) (08/2007, 09-10/2008, 07-09/2009)

publications (last five years, peer reviewed publications italic)

2023
  • Albouy, B., Paquin, S., Hinz, M., Wren, C. D., & Burke, A. (2023). The Last of Them: Investigating the Palaeogeography of the Last Neanderthals in Europe (Marine Isotopic Stage 3). In Themes in Contemporary Archaeology (pp. 27–45). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34336-0_2
  • Paquin, S., Albouy, B., Hinz, M., & Burke, A. (2023). Going New Places: Dispersal and Establishment of the Aurignacian Technocomplex in Europe During the Marine Isotopic Stage 3 (MIS 3). In Themes in Contemporary Archaeology (pp. 47–59). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34336-0_3
  • Affolter, J., Wehren, H., Heitz, C., Stapfer, R., Emmenegger, L., Hinz, M., Thierrin-Michael, G., & Hafner, A. (2023). Linking Neolithic lakeshore settlements through raw material of siliceous artefacts. Journal of Lithic Studies, 10(1), 33 p. https://doi.org/10.2218/jls.4446
  • Brunner, M., Rutishauser, S., Hinz, M., Hübner, C., Laabs, J., & Medaric, I. (2023). Geophysikalische Untersuchungen der prähistorischen Grabhügel Abschlag/Mörderhübeli in Neuenegg. Jahrbuch Des Archäologischen Dienstes Des Kantons Bern, 2023, 174–182. https://doi.org/10.48350/186321
  • Dixon, E. J., Taylor, W., Hinz, M., & Hafner, A. (2023). Glacial Archaeology Goes Viral. Journal of Glacial Archaeology, 6, 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1558/jga.25722
2022
  • Deza-Araujo, M., Morales-Molino, C., Conedera, M., Henne, P.D., Krebs, P., Hinz, M., Heitz, C., Hafner, A., Tinner, W. (2022). A new indicator approach to reconstruct agricultural land use in Europe from sedimentary pollen assemblages. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 599, 111051. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.111051.
  • Hinz, M., & Heitz, C. (2022). Unsupervised Classification of Neolithic Pottery From the Northern Alpine Space Using t-SNE and HDBSCAN. Open Archaeology, 8(1), 1183–1217. https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2022-0274
  • Affolter, J., Emmenegger, L., Hafner, A., Heitz, C., Hinz, M., Stapfer, R., & Wehren, H. (2022). From flint provenance to mobility studies: New raw material determinations from Late Neolithic wetland sites at Lake Biel and Lake Constance. Quaternary International. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2021.05.027
2021
  • Taylor, W. T. T., Dixon, E. J., Hafner, A., & Hinz, M. (2021). New Directions in a Warming World. Journal of Glacial Archaeology, 5, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1558/jga.20547
  • Affolter, J., Emmenegger, L., Hafner, A., Heitz, C., Hinz, M., Stapfer, R., & Wehren, H. (2021). From flint provenance to mobility studies: New raw material determinations from Late Neolithic wetland sites at Lake Biel and Lake Constance. Quaternary International. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2021.05.027
  • Weinelt, M., Kneisel, J., Schirrmacher, J., Hinz, M., & Ribeiro, A. (2021). Potential responses and resilience of Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age societies to mid-to Late Holocene climate change on the southern Iberian Peninsula. Environmental Research Letters, 16(5), 055007. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abd8a8
  • Heitz, C., Laabs, J., Hinz, M., & Hafner, A. (2021). Collapse and Resilience in Prehistoric Archaeology: Questioning Concepts and Causalities in Models of Climate-Induced Societal Transformations (pp. 127–199). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81103-7_5
  • Hinz, M. (2021). Megaliths, causewayed enclosures and social space in North Central Europe. In V. Ard, E. Mens, & M. Gandelin (Eds.), Mégalithismes et monumentalismes funéraires : passé, présent, futur (pp. 277–318). Sidestone Press.
  • Heitz, C., Hinz, M., Laabs, J., & Hafner, A. (2021). Mobility as resilience capacity in northern Alpine Neolithic settlement communities. Archaeological Review from Cambridge, 36(1), 75–106. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.79042
2020
  • Schirrmacher, J., Kneisel, J., Knitter, D., Hamer, W., Hinz, M, Schneider, R.R, Weinelt, M. (2020). Spatial patterns of temperature, precipitation, and settlement dynamics on the Iberian Peninsula during the Chalcolithic and the Bronze Age. Quaternary Science Reviews, 233, 2020, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106220
  • Brunner, M., von Felten, J., Hinz, M., & Hafner, A. (2020). Central European Early Bronze Age chronology revisited: A Bayesian examination of large-scale radiocarbon dating. PLOS ONE, 15(12), e0243719. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243719
  • Hinz, M. (2020). Sensitivity of Radiocarbon Sum Calibration. Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology, 3(1), 238–252. https://doi.org/10.5334/jcaa.53
  • Hafner, A., Hinz, M., Mazurkevich, A. N., Dolbunova, E. V., & Pranckenaite, E. (2020). Introduction: Neolithic and Bronze Age pile dwellings in Europe. In A. Hafner, E. Dolbunova, A. Mazurkevich, E. Pranckenaite, & M. Hinz (Eds.), Settling waterscapes in Europe. The archaeology of Neolithic and Bronze Age pile-dwellings. (Vol. 1, pp. 1–6). Propylaeum. https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.714
  • Hafner, A., Dolbunova, E., Mazurkevich, A., Pranckenaite, E., & Hinz, M. (Eds.). (2020). Settling waterscapes in Europe. The archaeology of Neolithic and Bronze Age pile-dwellings. (Vol. 1). Propylaeum.
2019
  • M. Hinz, J. Müller, M. Wunderlich. (2019). The monumentalisation of European landscapes. In Müller, Johannes, M. Hinz, & Wunderlich, Maria (Eds.), Megaliths – Societies – Landscapes (pp. 21–23). Bonn: Habelt.
  • Müller, J, Hinz, M., Wunderlich, Maria. (2019). Megaliths – Societies – Landscapes. Bonn: Habelt.
  • M. Wunderlich, J. Müller, & M. Hinz. (2019). Diversified monuments: A chronological framework of the creation of monumental landscapes in prehistoric Europe. In Müller, Johannes, M. Hinz, & Wunderlich, Maria (Eds.), Megaliths – Societies – Landscapes (pp. 25–29). Bonn: Habelt.
  • Stapfer, R., Heitz, C., Hinz, M., Hafner, A. (2019). Interdisciplinary examinations carried out on heterogeneous coarse ceramics from Neolithic lakeside settlements in the Northern Alpine Foreland (3900–3500 BCE): Analysis strategy and preliminary results from a test series using pXRF. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 25, 217–238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.03.018
  • Schmid, C., Seidensticker, D., Hinz, M. (2019). c14bazAAR: An R package for downloading and preparing C14 dates from different source databases. Journal of Open Source Software. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.01914
  • Feeser, I., Dörfler, W., Kneisel, J., Hinz, M., & Dreibrodt, S. (2019). Human impact and population dynamics in the Neolithic and Bronze Age: Multi-proxy evidence from north-western Central Europe. The Holocene. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683619857223
  • Arponen, V. P. J., Dörfler, W., Feeser, I., Grimm, S., Groß, D., Hinz, M., Knitter, D., Müller-Scheeßel, N., Ott, K., & Ribeiro, A. (2019). Environmental determinism and archaeology. Understanding and evaluating determinism in research design. Archaeological Dialogues, 26(01), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1380203819000059
  • Hinz, M., Schirrmacher, J., Kneisel, J., Rinne, C., & Weinelt, M. (2019). The Chalcolithic–Bronze Age transition in southern Iberia under the influence of the 4.2 kyr event? A correlation of climatological and demographic proxies. Journal of Neolithic Archaeology, 21, 1–26. https://doi.org/10.12766/jna.2019.1

published software

R packages

 
  • M. Hinz/C. Schmid/D. Knitter/C. Tietze (2018). oxcAAR: Interface to ‘OxCal’ Radiocarbon Calibration. R package version 1.0.0. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=oxcAAR
  • N. Mueller-Scheessel/M. Hinz/C. Schmid/C. Rinne/D. Knitter/W. Hamer/D. Seidensticker/F. Faupel/C. Tietze/N. Grunert (2017). mortAAR: Analysis of Archaeological Mortality Data. R package version 1.0.0. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=mortAAR
  • C. Schmid/D. Seidensticker/D. Knitter/M. Hinz/D. Matzig/W. Hamer/K. Schmütz (2018). c14bazAAR: Download and Prepare C14 Dates from Different Source Databases. R package version 1.0.2. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=c14bazAAR

online resources

data bases

 

online applications

 

software

 

online teaching material

 

competences

fields of expertise

 
  • archaeology of the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age
  • quantitative methods and statistics
  • theories of Archaeology
  • megaliths
  • 14C Data
  • demographic analyses
  • agent-based simulations
  • predictive Modeling/Mapping
  • spatial statistics/simulations
  • software development for archaeological applications

languages

 
  • German: mother tongue
  • English: Oral and in writing very good knowledge
  • Russian: Oral and writing basic knowledge
  • Latin: advanced Latin certificate

driving licence

 
  • german driving licence A, B, BE, C1, C1E, CE, L

archaeoinformatics

 
  • IT Basics: Data Security; Content Management; Hardware
  • Systems: Windows; Unix/Linux; MacOS
  • Standard applications: Office software: Microsoft Office, OpenOffice; graphics software: Adobe Photoshop, Gimp; DTP software: Adobe InDesign, Scribus, QuarkXpress
  • Archaeology-specific applications: GIS: Grass, QGIS, ArcMap, MapInfo, SAGA; statistics software: R, SPSS, (Win-)BASP; 3D scene reconstruction, structure from motion; 14C calibration programs; stratigraphy programs
  • Programming languages: PHP; Java; C & C++; HTML; JavaScript; Active Server Pages; Ruby (on Rails); XML
  • Databases: Microsoft Access; MySQL; PostgreSQL; SQlite
  • System development: database design; network technology; structured analysis

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