Christian Reepmeyer, PhD
Stellvertretender Direktor
Kommission für Archäologie Außereuropäischer Kulturen
Dürenstraße 35-37
53173 Bonn-Bad Godesberg
+49228 99771225
Christian.Reepmeyer@dainst.de
Prehistoric Archaeology
My main field of expertise is the study of prehistoric movement, mobility and exchange from the empirical analysis of igneous rocks with geochemical techniques (EDXA, SEM, XRF (hand-held and lab-based), LA-ICP-MS). The geochemical data is combined with exchange and evolutionary ecology theory to understand prehistoric social interaction. My research impact has been in the application of scientific techniques to characterise ancient stone tools from Asia and the Pacific, which provide tangible evidence for prehistoric social and economic movements, often over thousands of kilometres of marine terrain.
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Publikationen
Early aboriginal pottery production and offshore island occupation on Jiigurru (Lizard Island group), Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
Ulm, Sean
2024
Automated analysis of pottery by QEM-EDS : a case study from Mansiri, Sulawesi
Leclerc, Mathieu
2023
Terminal Pleistocene emergence of maritime interaction networks across Wallacea and near Oceania
O'Connor, Sue
2022
Virtual sea-drifting experiments between the island of Cyprus and the surrounding mainland in the Early Prehistoric Eastern Mediterranean
Kyriakidis, Phaedon
2022
High-resolution lidar analysis of the Fisi Tea defensive earthwork at Lapaha, Kingdom of Tonga
Parton, Phillip
2022
X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Picrolite Raw Material on Cyprus
Moutsiou, Theodora
2022
Geospatial analysis of fortification locations on the island of Tongatapu, Tonga
Reepmeyer, Christian
2022
Communities of practice in a maritime world : shared shell technology and obsidian exchange in the Lesser Sunda Islands, Wallacea
O'Connor, Sue
2021
Modelling the Pleistocene colonisation of Eastern Mediterranean islandscapes
Moutsiou, Theodora
2021
Modelling prehistoric social interaction in the south-western Pacific : a view from the obsidian sources in northern Vanuatu
Reepmeyer, Christian
2021
The stone adze and obsidian assemblage from the Talasiu site, Kingdom of Tonga
Reepmeyer, Christian
2021
Shell adzes, exotic obsidian, and inter-island voyaging in the Early and Middle Holocene of Wallacea
Shipton, Ceri Ben Kersey
2020
Mortuary practices of the first Polynesians : formative ethnogenesis in the Kingdom of Tonga
Valentin, Frédérique
2020
Royal funerals, ritual stones and participatory networks in the maritime Tongan state
Clark, Geoffrey R.
2020
Pofatu, a curated and open-access database for geochemical sourcing of archaeological materials
Hermann, Aymeric
2020
Changing use of Lizard Island over the past 4000 years and implications for understanding Indigenous offshore island use on the Great Barrier Reef
Lambrides, Ariana B.J.
2020
Metal-Age maritime culture at Jareng Bori rockshelter, Pantar Island, eastern Indonesia
Hawkins, Stuart
2020
Early human settlement of Sahul was not an accident
Bird, Michael I.
2019
Kisar, a small island participant in an extensive obsidian network in the Wallacean Archipelago
Reepmeyer, Christian
2019
Language continuity despite population replacement in Remote Oceania
Posth, Cosimo
2018
Projekte
Tabellarischer Lebenslauf
2021 – 2022
Special Scientist – SaRoCy – Early Holocene Sea Routes to Cyprus and MIGRATE, Archaeological Research Unit, University of Cyprus
2020 – 2020
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
2019 – 2021
Senior Lecturer, College of Arts, Society and Education, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia
2015 – 2018
Lecturer, College of Arts, Society and Education, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia
2013 – 2015
Australian Research Council - Discovery Early Career Research Award, Archaeology and Natural History, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
2010 – 2013
Postdoctoral Fellow, Archaeology and Natural History, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
