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 architecture in Tonga : implications for the development of Polynesian chiefdoms
Clark, Geoffrey R.
2024
Small populations of Palaeolithic humans in Cyprus hunted endemic megafauna to extinction
Bradshaw, Corey J.A.
2024
Demographic models predict end-Pleistocene arrival and rapid expansion of pre-agropastoralist humans in Cyprus
Bradshaw, Corey J.A.
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
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
