Dr. Caroline Heitz

Senior Researcher SNSF Ambizione Fellow

Prähistorische Archäologie

E-Mail
caroline.heitz@unibe.ch
Office
008
Postal Address
Mittelstrasse 43
3012 Bern
Consultation Hour
by arrangement

Research Interest

Prehistoric Archaeology; Social Archaeology; Wetland Archaeology, Climate Archaeology
Resilience & Vulnerability; Mobility & Migration; Interconnections & Transformations;
Theory & Epistemology in Archaeology; Integration of Scientific, Qualitative & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology
Neolithic, Bronze Age

Projects

2025–2028: Horizon Europe Past To Future (P2F): Towards Fully Paleo-Informed Future Climate Projections
2023-2027: SNSF-Ambizione Career Development Project: Climate Change Resilience and Vulnerabilities of Bronze Age Waterfront Communities (2200-800 BC).
2020–2022: SNSF-Postdoc.Mobility Project Time and Temporality in Archaeology. Approaching Rhythms and Reasons for Societal (Trans)formations in Prehistoric Central Europe (TimeArch), http://p3.snf.ch/project-194326
2021: Theorizing Resilience and Vulnerability in Ancient Studies http://resilience2020.archaeological.science/
2019–2021: SNF Project Quantifying human impacts to tease apart cultural and climatic drivers of Holocene vegetation change (QuantHum), PI: M Conedera, W. Tinner, A. Hafner, http://p3.snf.ch/project-169371
2014–2018: SNF Project Mobilities, Entanglements and Transformations in Neolithic Societies of the Swiss Plateau (3900-3500 BC), PI: A. Hafner, V. Serneels, http://p3.snf.ch/project-15620

 

Short CV

2025–2028: Co-Management of „WS 4 –WP 20: Climate impact on past societies” in the scope of the Horizon Europe project Past To Future (P2F): Towards Fully Paleo-Informed Future Climate Projections
2023-2027: SNF-Ambizione Fellow und Senior Researcher at the Institute of Archaeological Sciences / Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR), University of Bern Climate Change Resilience and Vulnerabilities of Bronze Age Waterfront Communities (2200-800 BC)
2022–2022: SNF-Postdoc.Mobility-Research Fellow und Associated Researcher at SFB 1266 "TransformationsDimensionen", Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
2020–2021: SNF-Postdoc.Mobility-Research Fellow und Associated Researcher, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford
2019–2020: SNF-Postdoc Fellow at the Institute of Archaeological Sciences / Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR), University of Bern
2019: Research Associate for the publication of the volume Seedorf-Lobsigesee (BE), Institute of Archaeological Sciences, Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Bern
2019: UniBE Initiator Grant, University of Bern
2019: Seed Money Grant of the Faculty of Philosophy and History, University of Bern
2019: Faculty Prize for the best dissertation, awarded by the Faculty of Philosophy and History, University of Bern
2018: PhD in Archaeology at the University of Bern with Prof. Dr. A. Hafner, Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Bern and Prof. Dr. M.  Furholt, Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, University of Oslo
2018: PhD thesis: Keramik jenseits von Kulturen. Ein praxeologischer Zugang zu Verflechtungen und Transformationen im nördlichen Alpenvorland (3950–3800 v.Chr.)
2018: Harvest Money Grant of the Faculty of Philosophy and History, University of Bern
2014–2018: Assistant and SNF doctoral student at the Institute of Archaeological Sciences, Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Bern
2011–2014: Assistant and doctoral candidate at the Department of Classical Studies, Prehistory and Early History and Provincial Roman Archaeology, University of Basel
2011–2012: Research assistant at the Archaeological Service of the Canton of Bern
2010: Lic.phil./MA in Prehistory and Early History and Provincial Roman Archaeology, Natural History Archaeology, Ethnology as well as Eastern European History at the University of Basel; licentiate thesis: Abseits der grossen Seen. Die jungneolithischen Moorsiedlungen von Seedorf‐Lobsigesee (BE). Funde und Befunde der Sondiergrabungen von 2005 und 2007
2008:  Project leader for the site Bachthalen during the emergency excavation of the Roman vicus of Vindonissa, Vision Mitte, Canton of Aargau

 

Committee work

Since 2019: Editorial board Open Series in Prehistoric Archaeology (OSPA)
Since 2019: Advisory board Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Theorien in der Archäologie (Ag TidA)
Since 2019: Founding member Swiss Theoretical Archaeology Group (SwissTAG)
2018–2019: Scientific Committee, 25th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) in Bern, 4.–8. September 2019           

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