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

 
  • not married

children

 
  • 2 (Mira 2012; Merle 2014)

OrcID

 
  • 0000-0002-9904-6548

ResearchID

 
  • N-5549-2015

education

school education

09/1983 – 08/1995
  • Polytechnic secondary school and high school in Wismar and Leipzig

civilian service

1996–1997
  • Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Wismar

university education

2008–2011
  • PhD Scholarship at the Graduate School ‘Human Development in Landscapes’ at the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Germany. Degree: Doctor of Philosophy (Dr. phi. CAU Kiel), June 21, 2011. Title of dissertation: ‘Neolithische Siedlungsstrukturen im südöstlichen Schleswig-Holstein. Dynamik in Landschaft und Besiedlung’ (Neolithic settlement structures in southeastern Schleswig-Holstein. Dynamics in landscape and population) . Supervisor Prof. Dr. Johannes Müller (Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, CAU Kiel), Prof. Dr. Rainer Duttmann (Lehrstuhl für Landschaftsökologie und Geoinformation, CAU Kiel), with 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 at the Free University of Berlin and Christian Albrechts University of Kiel. Degree: Master of Arts (M.A.), February 6, 2008. Title of master thesis: ‘Eine multivariate Analyse Aunjetitzer Fundkomplexe’ (A multivariate analysis of Aunjetitz artefact complexes). Supervisor Dr. Johannes Müller, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Müller (both Institute for Pre- and Protohistorical Archaeology, CAU Kiel), with distinction ‘Very good’ (1.0)

relevant work experience

employments

since 09/2018
  • Senior Researcher (Oberassistent) at the Prehistoric department of the Institute for Archaeological Sciences at the University Bern (http://www.iaw.unibe.ch)
08/2016 - 08/2018
02/2015–07/2016
  • Post-Doctoral Fellow for ‘Ancient Socio-Environmental Modelling’ at the Graduate School ‘Human Development in Landscapes’ at the CAU Kiel (http://www.gshdl.uni-kiel.de/)
08/2011–01/2015
  • Assistant Coordinator of the DFG Priority Programme SPP 1400 ‘Early Monumentality and Social Differentiation’ at the Institute for Prehistory and Early History of the CAU Kiel (http://www.monument.ufg.uni-kiel.de/)

teaching (last five years)

2019
  • 09-12/2019: Übung Von der Datenauswertung zur Publikation. Open Science und Reproducible Research in der Praxis, Uni Bern
    • 09-12/2019: Übung Computational Archaeology, Uni Bern
    • 09-12/2019: Übung Relative Chronologie I - Die Bronze- und Eisenzeit in der Schweiz, Uni Bern
    • 07-08/2019: Summer School Wetland Excavations in Serteya/Russia
    • 02-05/2019: Übung Paradigmenwechsel. Theoretische Grundlagen der Prähistorischen Archäologie, Uni Bern
    • 02-05/2019: Übung Statistical methods for archaeological data analysis I: Basic methods, Uni Bern
    • 02-05/2019: Übung Relative Chronologie II - Das Neolithikum in der Schweiz, Uni Bern
2018
  • 09-12/2018: Übung Relative Chronologie I - Die Bronze- und Eisenzeit in der Schweiz, Uni Bern
2017
  • 04-07/2017: Übung Lesenswert – Leittexte der Ur- und Frühgeschichte, CAU Kiel
  • 12/2017-02/2018: Übung Johanna-Mestorf Academy R-Courses, CAU Kiel
2016
  • 08-09/2016: Field School Wangels: Excavation of a megalithic tomb, CAU Kiel
2015
  • 07-08/2015: Field School Wangels: Excavation of a megalithic tomb, CAU Kiel
  • 04-07/2015: Übung Lesenswert II, Grundtexte der archäologischen Nachbardisziplinen, CAU Kiel

supervision (last five years)

2019
  • Jan-Erik Schlicht, MA, Zentralität und Emerging Causality am Beispiel der iberischen kupferzeitlichen ‘Megasites’ (working title)
2018
  • Merle Oelbüttel, BA, Kupfer- und Bronzezeitliche Landschaftsentwicklung auf der südlichen iberischen Halbinsel anhand von Pollendaten
  • Clemens Schmid, MA, Ein computerbasiertes Cultural Evolution Modell zur Ausbreitungsdynamik europäisch-bronzezeitlicher Bestattungssitten
2017
  • Benjamin Drogat, BA, Spuren ritueller Handlungen beim Bau trichterbecherzeitlicher Megalithgräber am Beispiel Wangels LA 69
  • Bastian Wolthoff, BA, Eine multivariate Statistik zur Untersuchung der Keramikverzierung in der frühneolithischen Siedlung von Vráble, SW-Slowakei
  • Moiken Elisabeth Hinrichs, BA, Eine struktur-räumliche Analyse der Einzelgrabkultur in südwest Jütland
2015
  • Tanja Schreiber, BA, Vorbronzezeitlichen Eliten? Eine Untersuchung der schnurkeramischen, glockenbecherzeitlichen und aunjetitzzeitlichen Bestattungen des Mittelelbe-Saale-Gebietes
    • Jenny Schmid, BA, Bleckendorf und Lüdelsen 3: Mischinventare im 3. vorchristlichen Jahrtausend und ihre kulturelle Bedeutung

project participation

Since 2014
  • Leading developer and data manager of ‘RADON-B – Radiocarbondates online (version 2014): Database for European 14C dates for the Bronze and Early Iron Age’ (http://radon-b.ufg.uni-kiel.de)
Since 2014
  • Member of the SNSF project “Mobilities, Entanglements and Transformations in Neolithic Societies on the Swiss Plateau (3900-3500 BC)”.
  • Consultant and responsible for web-based programming and data management as well as statistical analysis and modelling
Since 2012
  • Leading developer and data manager of ‘RADON - Radiocarbon dates online 2014: Central European and Scandinavian database of 14C dates for the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age’ (http://radon.ufg.uni-kiel.de)
Since 2009
  • Member of the DFG project ‘Eythra, Lkr. Leipzig: a linear and stichband ceramic settlement and its key function for understanding the Early Neolithic development in Central Germany’ (SM 299/2-3; VE 117/5-3)
  • Consultant and responsible for web-based programming and data management

editorial Board of journals

Since 2013
Since 2019

activity in scientific associations

Since 2019
Since 2016
Since 2007
  • Member of the board of the ‘Arbeitsgemeinschaft Theorien in der Archäologie e.V. (AG TidA)’ (German TAG), (http://www.agtida.de/)

conference organization

4.-6.02.2019
16.–20.06.2015

excavations

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)

ten selected publications

 
Published works from publication organs with scientific quality assurance (peer review) are highlighted
2019
  • Müller, J, Hinz, M., Wunderlich, Maria. (2019). Megaliths – Societies – Landscapes. 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
  • 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
2018
  • M. Hinz, From Hunting to Herding? Aspects of the Social and Animal Landscape during the Southern Scandinavian Neolithic. In: A. Haug/L. Käppel/J. Müller, Past Landscapes. The Dynamics of Interaction between Society, Landscape, and Culture (Sidestone Press, Leiden 2018). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2538016
2017
  • V. Rohde Krossa/M. Moros/G. Leduc/M. Hinz/T. Blanz/R. Schneider, Regional climate change and the onset of farming in northern Germany and southern Scandinavia. The Holocene 27(10), 1589–1599. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683617702223
  • S. Dreibrodt/M. Furholt/R. Hofmann/M. Hinz/I. Cheben, P-ed-XRF-geochemical signatures of a 7300 year old Linear Band Pottery house ditch fill at Vráble-Ve’lké Lehemby, Slovakia - House inhabitation and post-depositional processes. Quaternary International 438, Part B, 131-143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.03.054
2016
  • M. Hinz/W. Kirleis, Stability in a changing world: insights from settlement intensity patterns and archaeobotany. In: L. Laporte/C. Scarre (Hrsg.), The Megalithic Architectures of Europe (Oxford 2016) 507–215. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1186102
2015
  • J. Müller/M. Hinz/M. Ullrich, Bell Beakers – chronology, innovation and memory: a multivariate approach. In: M. P. Prieto Martinez/L. Salanova (Hrsg.), The bell beaker transition in Europe: mobility and local evolution during the 3rd Millennium Bc (Oxford 2015) 57–68. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1185599