Vita

ACADEMICAL CAREER

2002-2010
PhD studies in archaelogy at the universities of Oslo (N) and Gothenburg (S)

2000-2001
MA studies in archaeology at the university of Oslo (N)

1998-1999
Studies in archaeology , GIS and anthropology at the university of Gothenburg (S)

1992-1997
Studies in religion, law and history at the university of Lund (S)

SCHOLARSHIP

2000-2001
Exchange grant from the university Gothenburg (S) for the master studies in archaeology at the university of Oslo (N)

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

2015 - 2016
Post Doc at the Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main working on the DFG - Project “Untersuchungen zu den Siedlungsstrukturen und zur Chronologie der spätbronzezeitlichen Befestigung von Corneşti-Iarcuri im rumänischen Banat“

Januar 2015
Assistant series editor at the european Association of archaeologists, working on the book series "Themes in contemporary Archaeology"

September 2014-Oktober 2015
Post Doc at the university of Gothenburg (S), working on political economy in Bronze Age Europe and Bayesian modelling of 14C dates from Százhalombatta-Földvár (H)

Juni-September 2014
Archaeologist at the Cotswold Archaeology (UK), working on the excavations in Devon and Somerset,

Juni-September 2013
Field director at the Roman-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute, working on the excavations of a burial mound in Hapria (RU)

Oktober 2012
Researcher at the University of Gothenburg (S) working on the GIS analysis of the excavations in Százhalombatta-Földvár (H)

2011-2012
Member of the scientific Staff at the German Archaeological Institute in the Eurasia department, working on the social and political organisation of Early Bronze Age Únětice societies in eastern Central Germany.

Juli-September 2010
Assistant field director at the university of Aarhus (DK) responsible for the documentation and GIS analysis of the excavations in Százhalombatta-Földvár (HU)

2009
Assistant field director at the Matrica Muzeum (HU) responsible for the documentation and GIS analysis of the excavations in Százhalombatta-Földvár (HU)

2002-2006
Assistant field director at the university of Gothenburg (S) resposible for the documentation of the excavations in Százhalombatta-Földvar (HU)

2001
Assistant to the professor Kristian Kristiansen at the university of Gothenburg (S), working in the project Emergence of European Communities funding by the 5th European framework program

1999
Archaeologist at the university of Gothenburg (S), working on a survey of the Bronze Age sites in the Benta Valley (HU)

Archaeologist at the museum of Bohuslän, working on the excavations in Tanum (S)

Archaeologist at der university of Gothenburg (S), working on the excavations in Százhalombatta (HU)


Publications

Monographs


2010
Makt och samhälle: politisk ekonomi under bronsåldern i Karpaterbäckenet. Gotarc series B, Gothenburg archaeological theses no. 54. Göteborg.

Articles

In print
(with J. Kalmbach, S. Hansen, H. Ciugudean) Geophysical investigation and settlement structure of the Teleac hillfort In: R. Németh - B. Rezi (eds.), Bronze Age connectivity in the Carpathian Basin

Teleac: defence and trade in a Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age hillfort in Transylvania. In: Fortifications: the Rise and Fall of Defended Sites in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age of South-East Europe (provisional title). B. Heeb, A. Szentmiklosi, R. Krause (eds.). Berlin. (1-15).

(With Nessel, B.) Transporteure - Überlegungen zu Natur und Organisation von Nah- und Ferntransporten. In: Transporte, Transportwege und Transportstrukturen. B. Nessel, D. Neumann, M. Bartelheim (eds.). Tübingen.

2017
(with H. Ciugudean, S. Hansen, G. Bălan, R. Burlacu-Timofte, G. Rustoiu) Structura și demografia așezǎrii de la Teleac: o fortificatie din transilvania de la Sfärșitulö epocii bronzului - ȉnceputul epocii fierului, Apulum 54, 2017,167-201

Settlements, political economy and social organisation: a study from the Únětice Circumharz Region. In: S. Bergerbrant - A. Wessmann (eds.), New perspectives on the Bronze Age, Oxford 2017, 187-201.

(With H. Ciugudean, S. Hansen, G. Bălan, G. Rustoiu, R. Burlacu-Timofte, B. Ciută, J. Kalmbach) Oarda. In: O. Ţentea – V. Lungu – F. Matei-Popescu (eds.), Cronica Cercetărilor Arheologice din România, campania 2016, a LI-a Sesiune națională de rapoarte arheologice MUZEUL NAȚIONAL DE ISTORIE A ROMÂNIEI, București 24–27 Mai 2017, București 2017, 235.

(With H. Ciugudean, S. Hansen, G. Bălan, G. Rustoiu, R. Burlacu-Timofte, B. Ciută, J. Kalmbach. Teleac. In: O. Ţentea – V. Lungu – F. Matei-Popescu (eds.), Cronica Cercetărilor Arheologice din România, campania 2016, a LI-a Sesiune națională de rapoarte arheologice MUZEUL NAȚIONAL DE ISTORIE A ROMÂNIEI, București 24–27 Mai 2017, București 2017, 144-146.

2015
Subsistence economy, settlements and political organisation: the early Bronze Age in Central Germany and the Carpathian Basin compared. In: Forging identities. The mobility of culture in Bronze Age Europe. Report from a Marie Curie project 2009-2012 with concluding conference at Aarhus University, Moesgaard 2012. Volume 1. P. Suchowska-Ducke, S. Scott Reiter, H. Vandkilde (eds.). BAR International Series. (263-271).

(With Earle T., Ling J., Stos-Gale Z. und Melheim, L.) The political economy and metal trade in Bronze Age Europe: understanding regional variability in terms of comparative advantages and articulations. European journal of archaeology, 18(4). (633-657).

(With Ling J.) Rock art and metal trade. Adoranten 2014. (23-43).

2014
A critical view on the use of salt in the political economy of Únětice societies in the Circumharz Region in eastern Germany. In: Carpathian heartlands. Studies on the prehistory and history of Transylvania in European contexts, dedicated to Horia Ciugudean on his 60th birthday. N. Boroffka, G. Rustoiu, R. Ota (Eds.), Apulum 51. (161-176).

2013
Society and power: political economy in Bronze Age tell-building communities. In: Enclosed space - open society. Contact and exchange in the context of Bronze Age defensive settlements in Central Europe. M. Jaeger, K. Fischl, J. Czebreszuk (eds.), Studia nad Pradziejami Europy Srodkowej/Studien zur Archäologie in Ostmitteleuropa. (347-364).

2010
(With Artursson M., Bech J.-M., Earle T., Fuköh D., Kolb M., Kristiansen K., Ling J., Mühlenbock C., Prescott C., Sevara C., Tusa S. und Vicze M.) Settlement structure and organisation. In: Organizing Bronze Age societies. The Mediterranean, Central Europe, & Scandinavia compared. T. Earle, K. Kristiansen (eds.). New York. (87-121).

2005
Tells and the tell-building tradition in the Carpathian Basin during the Middle Bronze Age. In: Mellan sten och järn. J. Goldhahn (ed.), Gotarc series C, Arkeologiska skrifter. Göteborg. (745-753).


Conference contributions

2016

International colloquium "Bronze Age connectivity in the Carpathian Basin"
13th - 15th October 2016, Târgu Mureș, Romania

“Geophysical investigation and settlement structure of the Teleac hillfort” Poster by Dr. Claes Uhnér, Johannes Kalmbach

1st International LOEWE-Conference
7th - 9th December 2016, Frankfurt

"Settlement structure and defence in Teleac: A Late Bronze Age – Early Iron Age hillfort in Transylvania", Lecture by Dr. Claés Uhnér
"The Fortified Settlement of Teleac in the Light of new Research", Poster by Franz Becker and Dr. Claés Uhnér

2017
Colloquium Freunde der Archäologie in Europa e.V.
11th May 2017, Frankfurt

Settlement structure, exchange and defence at Teleac - a Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age hillfort in Transylvania. Lecture by C. Uhnér

Colloquium at the Institut für Altertumwissenschaft
14th Juni 2017, Mainz

Settlement structure, exchange and defence at Teleac - a Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age hillfort in Transylvania. Lecture by C. Uhnér

International Symposium "Local consumption and assimilation of foreign goods in the European Bronze Age"
4th -7th October 2017, Targu Jui, Romania

Casting cakes as trade goods – does form matter?. Lecture by C. Uhnér and B. Nessel

2nd International LOEWE-Conference: Bronze Age fortresses in Europe
9. - 13. Oktober, Alba Lulia , Romania

Teleac in a local context. Lecture by C. Uhnér