Volker Heyd
Dr Volker Heyd
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University studies and degrees
Studies in prehistoric and protohistoric archaeology, Near Eastern archaeology and geology at Saarbrücken, Marburg and Munich universities in Germany; fieldwork as undergraduate and graduate student in Germany, France, Spain (site of Fuente Alamo), Sri Lanka (site of Sigiriya) and Bulgaria (site of Drama).
Acceptance of doctoral dissertation and completion of the promotion procedure by the philosophical faculty of the Universität des Saarlandes at 1st of March, 1996. Mention: summa cum laude. Degree: Dr. Phil.
Academic positions & further working experience
Since 2007, reader in prehistoric archaeology.
Since 2005, visiting lecturer/professor in European prehistory for the Institut für Kunstgeschichte und Archäologien Europas, Prähistorische Archäologie at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg / Germany.
2003-07, lecturer in later European prehistory.
2001-03, Feodor-Lynen-Research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt -foundation and visiting lecturer at the Department of Archaeology, University of Bristol.
2000-04, visiting lecturer in European prehistory for the Institut für Archäometrie at the Technische Universität-Bergakademie Freiberg / Germany.
1995-2000, five years of fieldwork and research as project director at the Landesamt für Archäologie of the freestate of Saxony / Germany, managing 1995-96 the large-scale rescue excavations in the fore-field of the open-air lignite mine in the Arbeitsstelle Braunkohle in Zwenkau (county Leipziger Land), and from 1996-2000 research director of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft -project "Publikation des Gräberfeldes von Niederkaina, Lkr. Bautzen" in Dresden.
1988-92, four years of working experience as research assistant at the Institut für Vor- und Frühgeschichte und Vorderasiatische Archäologie of the Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken / Germany.
Special awards, honours & distinctions
2008-09, replacement professorship (W3) in prehistoric archaeology at the Institut für Kunstgeschichte und Archäologien Europas, Prähistorische Archäologie of the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.
2001-03, award of a Feodor-Lynen-Forschungsstipendium of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation for 22 months.
1998, award of the Dr. Eduard-Martin-Preis of the Universität des Saarlandes.
1992-95, award of a stipend for two years following the Saarländisches Landesgraduiertenförderungsgesetz.
Research Interests & Projects
My research has advanced in two main directions over the last five years. While I still see myself as a prehistoric archaeologist undertaking my own long-term fieldwork projects in France and Turkey (see below), and focusing current key prehistoric themes such as identity, ethnicity, ideology etc, I regularly incorporate scientific methods into my research. Here, the study of human and animal mobility and the application of 87Sr/86Sr and δ18O isotopes has particularly caught my attention up to the point that I am designing and successfully running my own isotope projects, often in cooperation with colleagues in Bristol and Germany (see below). Beside these I am always keen to promote other multi/cross-discipline approaches, for example making use of evidence from chemistry, physical anthropology, biology, ancientDNA etc for a better understanding of our own prehistoric records and materials.
For much of my career my archaeology has centred on the third millennium BC, a period for which I am still mostly credited. However, more recently my interests have extended much broader so that my publications and seminars now span from the seventh millennium BC Neolithisation of Europe to the Iron Age, and geographically from Central Europe to the wider Continent. One current focus is on the western part of the Eurasian steppe belt, from the Urals to Hungary, and the interaction of steppe populations with those of southeast and Central Europe from the fifth to the second millennium BC. Here, newly emerging socio-economic strategies like cattle pastoralism, transhumance and nomadism, and their effects on the livestyles of more sedentary societies, have got my attention. Stemming from my long-time interest in the Corded Ware complex, I have spent several months over the last three years at Helsinki University, where I am researching into the infiltration of Corded Ware people to southwest Finland, their material culture, subsistence strategies and interactions with local populations, interplay with a different environment and climate, and their contribution to the emergence of farming here. To promote this I have began to set up a network of scholars in Finland and the Baltic countries, initiating further research, and facilitating the cooperation with scientists there.
I have five authored books and ±50 authored/co-authored articles, in five different languages, on my publication list. I have given many invited seminar presentations in the last few years, including keynote papers and chairing conference sessions, and have often cooperated with the media for a wider public audience. Currently I am supervising five PhD students, both in Bristol and in Germany, and have led three PhD students to completion.
Current Fieldwork Projects
I am currently running two fieldwork projects. The one is an excavation project located in Eastern France and is looking into an Early Iron Age princely hillfort and its surrounding ritual, social and economic landscape. The other research project is a cooperated one and based in the European part of Turkey (also called Eastern Thrace or Turkish Thrace). It has investigated several sites by survey, prospection and excavation techniques in the Kirklareli and Istanbul provinces, mainly belonging to the Neolithic/Chalcolithic, Bronze Age and Classical periods.
• Tincry (can. Delme, Dep. Moselle, Lorraine, France): 'Un nouveau centre princier de pouvoir du Hallstatt final et Latène ancien en Lorraine' / A new princely centre of power of the Late Hallstatt and Early Latene periods in Lorraine
The village of Tincry in central Lorraine (eastern France) lends its name to a large 16 hectare fortification above the village on the plateau of the heights called ‘Le Haut du Mont’. This hillfort was identified as a prehistoric and early historic site already since the 19th century. However it was virtually no more than one of the c.200 hillforts known in Lorraine. This situation changed in the late 1990s, when archaeologists were made aware of one of the largest tumuli of eastern France, an immense artificial mound of nearly 100m in diameter and 8m high, only 2.5 km away from the hillfort. This combination of large hillfort and giant tumulus (and having in mind that the salt exploitation centre of the Seille-valley is only 18 km away) makes Tincry special and well comparable to a dozen of similar cases in western Germany, eastern France and Switzerland. They are all called ‘princely hillforts’ and date to the Early Iron Age, the late Hallstatt & early Latène periods, c.650–425 BC.
After initial fieldwork in 2001 & 2002, a multi-annual research programme was accepted and funding secured to explore the hillfort and its immediate and wider vicinity. Prospection and excavation campaigns from 2006 to 2009 have resulted in a much better understanding of this amazing site. Around, a social and ritual landscape has unfolded, composed of satellite settlement sites, some 400 ordinary tumuli in a radius of 20 km, as well as about 10 possible princely tumuli, all with diameters of more than 40m and earth volumes of more than 1000 cubic meters. We now also understand much better the economic and communicative network of the whole region in the early Iron Age.
With the project now entering its next three-year period, we hope to achieve further insights in its internal settlement organisation, its material culture, as well as its relations to the immediate and wider landscape around.
Preliminary publications are in preparation.
• I T A -project: 'Istanbul Tarihoncesi Arastirmalari' / Research in the prehistory of the Istanbul province
Current isotope projects:
I am coordinating, together with my colleague Alistair Pike, two funded isotope projects at the moment. Two other research initiatives on isotope applications to specific prehistoric questions are in the piloting phase. Both funded isotope projects are co-operated and have partners in Germany. Their objective is to investigate into pattern of mobility and diet of different prehistoric societies.
• The Saxony-Anhalt mobility project:
This is a long-term research project in cooperation with the Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany (H. Meller, V. Dresely, R. Schwarz). The aim of this joint research is to detect human mobility in Central German societies of the 3rd millennium BC by using stable isotope analysis. Our publications on the Eulau Corded Ware multiple burials stem from this cooperation. Further articles are submitted or in preparation.
• The Bristol-Berlin steppes project:
The Eurasian steppe belt is in the focus of this cooperated 5-year research project with the Freie Universitat Berlin and the there TOPOI research cluster (W. Schier, H. Parzinger, E. Kaiser). It seeks to identify mobility and dietal pattern among 3rd to 1st millennium BC populations of the steppes. Claudia Gerling MA is the PhD student of this project. Preliminary articles are in progress.
Besides, we are piloting two further isotope projects, the one with colleagues from Hungary, the other from Switzerland
• The 'Europe's First Nomads' project:
The Hungarian and Serbian branch of the western Yamnaya (first half of 3rd millennium BC) lies at the heart of this initiative in cooperation with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (E. Banffy, G. Kulcsar, K. Köhler). By investigating into their mobility and dietal pattern, and by comparing results with contemporary more sedentary societies of the Carpathian basin, we try to find evidence on the beginnings of the pastoral nomadic way of life and economy. First piloting results are very promising and two preliminary articles are in preparation for publication.
• The 'Swiss Transhumance' project:
For this cooperation with the IPNA Basel (J. Schibler, S. Jacomet), we had analysed several cattle jaws from the Arbon-Bleiche 3 site (c.3385-3375 BC) in order to get insights into prehistoric herding management and different catchment zones for feeding the animals throughout the year. Results were seen as a starting point for a wider research project testing the prehistoric practise of transhumance in this region in a two millennia perspective.
Publication List
A) Monographs/Books
• W. Coblenz & L.D. Nebelsick [unter Mitarbeit von V. Heyd] (1997), Das prähistorische Gräberfeld von Niederkaina bei Bautzen 2. Veröffentlichung des Landesamtes für Archäologie mit Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte 25 (Dresden: Landesamt für Archäologie; Stuttgart: Konrad Theiss Verlag) [216 p.].
• V. Heyd [unter Mitarbeit von L.D. Nebelsick] (1998), Das prähistorische Gräberfeld von Niederkaina bei Bautzen 3. Veröffentlichung des Landesamtes für Archäologie mit Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte 26 (Dresden: Landesamt für Archäologie; Stuttgart: Konrad Theiss Verlag) [232 p.]. ISBN 3-8062-1339-9
• V. Heyd (2000), Das prähistorische Gräberfeld von Niederkaina bei Bautzen 4. Veröffentlichung des Landesamtes für Archäologie mit Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte 29 (Dresden: Landesamt für Archäologie; Stuttgart: Konrad Theiss Verlag) [312 p.]. ISBN 3-8062-1445-X
• V. Heyd (2000), Die Spätkupferzeit in Süddeutschland – Untersuchungen zur Chronologie von der ausgehenden Mittelkupferzeit bis zum Beginn der Frühbronzezeit im süddeutschen Donaueinzugsgebiet und den benachbarten Regionen bei besonderer Berücksichtigung der keramischen Funde. Saarbrücker Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 73 (Bonn: Dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH) [2 vols: vol. 1: text, 485 p.; vol. 2: documentation & tables, 279 p.]. ISBN 3-7749-3048-1
• V. Heyd [unter Mitarbeit von T. Puttkammer] (2002), Das prähistorische Gräberfeld von Niederkaina bei Bautzen 6. Veröffentlichung des Landesamtes für Archäologie mit Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte 33 (Dresden: Landesamt für Archäologie) [359 p.]. ISBN 3-910008-44-5
• V. Heyd, L. Husty & L. Kreiner [mit einem Beitrag von H. Manhart] (2004), Siedlungen der Glockenbecherkultur in Süddeutschland und Mitteleuropa. Arbeiten zur Archäologie Süddeutschlands 17 (Büchenbach: Dr. Faustus) [222 p.]. ISBN 3-933474-27-2
New Book to come:
• V. Heyd & M. Bartelheim [eds.] (in press 2011), TRANSITIONS – Continuity and Discontinuity in European Prehistory. Proceedings of the two Full Day EAA-Sessions ‘Continuity – Discontinuity: Transition Periods in European Prehistory‘ at the 6th EAA-Meeting in Lisbon and the 7th EAA-Meeting Esslingen. Forschungen zur Archäometrie und Altertumswissenschaften 3 (Rahden/Westf.: Marie Leidorf) [c. 300 p.].
B) Articles in Journals (peer & editor reviewed; last 5 years and forthcoming)
• (2007) V. Heyd & R.J. Harrison, Sion, Aosta e le trasformazioni nell’Europa del terzo millennio a.C. In: S. Casini & A.E. Fossati (a cura), Le pietre degli dei. Statue-stele dell’età del Rame in Europa. Lo stato della ricerca. Atti del Congresso Internazionale Brescia, 16-18 settembre 2004. Notizie Archeologiche Bergomensi 12, 2004 (2007), 143-173.
• (2007) V. Heyd, Families, Prestige Goods, Warriors and Complex Societies: Beaker Groups of the 3rd Millennium cal BC along the Upper and Middle Danube. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 73, 2007, 321-370.
• (2007) R.J. Harrison & V. Heyd, The Transformation of Europe in the Third Millennium BC: The Example of ‘Le Petit Chasseur I+III’ (Sion, Valais, Switzerland). Praehistorische Zeitschrift 82/2, 2007, 129-214.
• (2008) W. Haak, G. Brandt, H.N. de Jong, C. Meyer, R. Ganslmeier, C. Hawkesworth, V. Heyd, A.W.G. Pike, H. Meller & K.W. Alt, Ancient DNA, Strontium isotopes, and osteological analyses shed light on social and kinship organization of the Later Stone Age. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS; Washington) 47, vol. 105 (25. November), 2008, 18226-18231 (plus 27 pages of Supporting Information).
• (2010) V. Heyd, Ş. Aydıngün & E. Güldoğan (with contributions by M. Brami, M. Karauçak, H. Öniz, M. Rummer, C. Skowranek & Ç. Yalçiner), Geophysical applications for ITA 2008: the example of the Selimpaşa Höyük. 25. Arkeometri Sonuçları Toplantısı (XXXI. Uluslararası Kazı, Arastırma ve Arkeometri Sempozyumu, Denizli, 25-29 Mayis 2009, Ankara: T.C. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı), 553-570.
• (2010) Ş. Aydıngün, E. Güldoğan, V. Heyd & H. Öniz, 2008 Yılı İstanbul Tarih Öncesi Çağlar Yüzey Araştırması. 27 Arastırma Sonuçları Toplantısı. Cilt 3 (XXXI. Uluslararası Kazı, Arastırma ve Arkeometri Sempozyumu, Denizli, 25-29 Mayis 2009, Ankara: T.C. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı yayınlan), 273-288.
• (2011) M. Brami & V. Heyd, The origins of Europe’s first farmers: the role of Hacılar and Western Anatolia, fifty years on. Praehistorische Zeitschrift (Berlin) 86/2, 2011, 165-206.
• (2011) Ş. Aydıngün, E. Güldoğan, V. Heyd, H. Öniz & U. Yüğrük Planken, Küçükçekmece Göl Havzası İlk Dönem Kazı Çalışmalan (2009 yılı). 2008 Yılı İstanbul Tarih Öncesi Çağlar Yüzey Araştırması. 32 Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı. Cilt 3 (XXXII. Uluslararası Kazı, Arastırma ve Arkeometri Sempozyumu, Istanbul, 24-28 Mayis 2010, Ankara: T.C. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı yayınlan), 46-57.
Forthcoming
• H.N. de Jong, G.L. Foster, V. Heyd, C.D. Coath, C.J. Hawkesworth, H. Meller, T. Weber & A.W.G. Pike, LA-MC-IPCMS 87Sr/86Sr analysis of sub-1000ppm Calcium Apatite through oxide reduction. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (Washington) 76, 2012.
• C. Gerling, E. Banffy, J. Dani, K. Köhler, G. Kulcsár, A. Pike, V. Szeverényi & V. Heyd, Yamnaya Migration and Transhumance in the Carpathian Basin. Antiquity 86, 2012
C) Articles in edited monographs/books (peer and editor reviewed, last 5 years and forthcoming)
• (2007) V. Heyd, When the West meets the East: The Eastern Periphery of the Bell Beaker Phenomenon and its Relation with the Aegean Early Bronze Age. In: Between the Aegean and Baltic Seas: Prehistory across Borders. Proceedings of the International Conference ‘Bronze and Early Iron Age Interconnections and Contemporary Developments between the Aegean and the Region of the Balkan Peninsula, Central and Northern Europe’, University of Zagreb/Croatia, 10-14 April 2005, ed. by I. Galanaki, I. Galanakis, H. Tomas & R. Laffineur. Aegaeum 27 (Liège: Université), 91-107.
• (2008) M. Schreiner, V. Heyd & E. Pernicka, Archäometallurgie in der Slowakei – Erze und Metall (Archeometalurgie na Slovensku – rudy a kovy). In: Stříbrná Jihlava 2007. Studie k dějinám hornictví a důlních prací. Příspěvky z konference Stříbrná Jihlava 4.-7. 10. 2007 v Jihlavě. Věnováno Pavlu Rousovi k 60. narozeninám. Archeologické výzkumy na Vysočině - supplementum 1 (Brno: Archaia & Jihlava: Muzeum Vysočiny), 172-187.
• (2009) L. Salanova & V. Heyd, Du collectif à l’individu, de la région à l'Europe: le 3e millénaire avant J.-C. entre le Bassin parisien et la vallée rhénane. In: Relations interrégionales au Néolithique entre Bassin parisien et Bassin rhénan. Actes du 26e colloque interrégional sur le Néolithique (Internéo) Luxembourg, 8 et 9 novembre 2003, sous la direction de F. Le Brun-Ricalens, F. Valotteau & A. Hauzeur. Archaeologia Mosellana 7, 2007 (Luxembourg: MNAH), 469-493.
• (2010) H.N. de Jong, G.L. Foster, V. Heyd & A.W.G. Pike, Further Sr isotopic studies on the Eulau multiple graves using laser ablation ICP-MS. In: Anthropologie, Isotopie und DNA – biographische Annäherung an namenlose vorgeschichtliche Skelette? 2. Mitteldeutscher Archäologentag vom 08. bis 10. Oktober 2009 in Halle (Saale), hrsg. von H. Meller & K.W. Alt. Tagungen des Landesmuseums für Vorgeschichte Halle 4 (Halle: Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt), 125-131.
• (2011) V. Heyd, Yamnaya Groups and Tumuli west of the Black Sea. In: Ancestral Landscapes: Burial mounds in the Copper and Bronze Ages (Central and Eastern Europe – Balkans – Adriatic – Aegean, 4th-2nd millennium BC). International Conference, Udine/Italy, May 15th-18th 2008, ed. by S. Müller-Celka & E. Borgna. Travaux de la Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée 61 (Lyon: Archéorient), 529-549.
Forthcoming
• V. Heyd, Growth and expansion: social, economic and ideological structures in the European Chalcolithic. In: Is there a British Chalcolithic?: people, place and polity in the later 3rd millennium. Proceedings of the British Chalcolithic conference, April 2008 in Bournemouth, ed. by M.J. Allen, J. Gardiner & A. Sheridan. Prehistoric Society Research Paper 4. (London & Oxford: The Prehistoric Society & Oxbow Books).
• V. Heyd, Der Zeitalter der Ideologien: Interaktion, Expansion & Wettbewerb im prähistorischen Europa des 4. und 3. Jahrtausend v. Chr. In: Die Ausbreitung des Indogermanischen: Thesen aus Sprachwissenschaft, Archäologie und Genetik, hrsg. von H. Hettrich. Vorträge der Arbeitstagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft (Société des Études Indo-Européennes / Society for Indo-European Studies), Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, 24. bis 26. September 2009 (Wiesbaden: Dr Ludwig Reichert).
• V. Heyd, Europe at 2500 to 2200 BC: Between Expiring Ideologies and Emerging Complexity. In: The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age, ed. by A. Harding & H. Fokkens (Oxford: University Press).
• V. Heyd & K. Walker, 38. The First Metalwork and Expressions of Social Power. In: The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe, ed. by C. Fowler, J. Harding & D. Hofmann (Oxford: University Press).
• V. Heyd & C. Skowranek (mit Unterstutzung von M. Brami, H. Usborne & K. Walker), Geophysikalische Prospektion mit Fluxgate-Gradiometer. In: M. Özdoğan & H. Parzinger, Die fruhbronzezeitliche Siedlung von Kanlıgeçit bei Kırklareli. Studien im Thrakien-Marmara-Raum. Archäologie in Eurasien 27 (Berlin: DAI & Von Zabern).
• M. Schreiner, V. Heyd & E. Pernicka, Kupferzeitliches Metall in der Westslowakei. In: Zborník V. Furmánkovi k 70 / Festschrift V. Furmanek. Hrsg. von R. Kujovský & V. Mitáš. Archaeologica Slovaca Monographiae – Communicationes (2011).
D) Reviews, other miscellaneous articles & reports (excerpt)
• (2006) with B. Koscher, Tincry (can. Delme, Dép. Moselle, Lorraine, France): A new centre of power for the Late Hallstatt period in Lorraine. Report and scientific program for a research project / Tincry (can. Delme, Dép. Moselle, Lorraine, France): Un nouveau centre de pouvoir du Hallstatt final en Lorraine. Rapport et programme scientifique pour un projet de recherche. English, Français & Deutsch (Bristol), 42 p. (incl. 11 figures).
• (2008) with M. Özdoğan, E. Özdoğan & H. Schwarzberg, Türkiye’de 2006 Yilinda Yapilan araştırma ve kazilar (Archaeological surface survey and excavations in Turkey, 2006): Kırklareli yüzey araştırmaları (Kırklareli surface survey). Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi Arkeoloji Dergisi (TÜBA-AR) 10, 2008, 111-113.
• (2008) with B. Koscher, Tincry (can. Delme, Dép. Moselle, Lorraine, France): A new centre of power for the Late Hallstatt period in Lorraine. Summer Campaign 2007. Final Report / Tincry (can. Delme, Dép. Moselle, Lorraine, France): Un nouveau centre de pouvoir du Hallstatt final en Lorraine. Campagne de l’été 2007. Rapport final. English & Français (Bristol), 20 p. (incl. 11 figures).
• (2008) with J. Wicke, F. Bertemes, K. Brown, T. Brown, R.J. Harrison & K. Robson-Brown, Verwandtschafts- und Residenzstrukturen in der Spätkupferzeit Süddeutschlands: Ein deutsch-britisches Netzwerkprojekt / Kinship and Residence Patterns in the Late Copper Age of Southern Germany: A German-British network project. Final Report of the project funded by the Fritz-von-Thyssen-Stiftung Cologne/Germany. English (Halle, Manchester & Bristol), 27 p.
• (2008) Chalcolithic across the Channel. British Archaeology, July August 2008, 24.
• (2009) with B. Koscher, Tincry (can. Delme, Dép. Moselle, Lorraine, France): A new centre of power for the Late Hallstatt period in Lorraine. Spring & Summer Campaign 2008. Final Report & Plans for 2009 / Tincry (can. Delme, Dép. Moselle, Lorraine, France): Un nouveau centre de pouvoir du Hallstatt final en Lorraine. Campagne du printemps et de l’été 2008. Rapport final & Prévisions 2009. English & Français (Bristol), 48 p. (25 p. text & 23 figures).
• (2010) with B. Koscher, Tincry (can. Delme, Dép. Moselle, Lorraine, France): A new centre of power for the Late Hallstatt period in Lorraine. Summer Campaign 2009. Final Report / Tincry (can. Delme, Dép. Moselle, Lorraine, France): Un nouveau centre de pouvoir du Hallstatt final en Lorraine. Campagne de l’été 2009. Rapport final. English & Français (Bristol), 48 p. (115 p.; 29 figures).
• (2010) Interview Heyd: Ein einzigartiger Fall. In: H. Meller, A. Muhl & K. Heckenhahn, Tatort Eulau: Ein 4500 Jahre altes Verbrechen wird aufgeklärt (Stuttgart & Mainz: Theiss & ZDF), 118-119.
• (2011) La ceramica cordata e vaso campaniforme: un continente in divenire. In: Le grandi vie delle civiltà. Catalogo della mostra in Trento, Castello del Buonconsiglio (1 Iuglio - 13 Novembre 2011) e München, Archäologische Staatssammlung (16. Dezember 2011 - 27. März 2012), a cura di F. Marzatico, R. Gebhard & P. Gleirscher (Trento: Provincia Autonoma di Trento, 2011), 110-112.
Invited Seminar Presentations (last 5 years)
• Hans Seger’s Excavations in Jordansmühl/Jordanów and the present State of Research on the Early Copper Age Jordanów Culture. — Lengyel-Polgár Conference, Polish and Hungarian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Kraków, 6-9 March 2006.
• Das neue Bild der Mobilität in der Prähistorischen Archäologie. — Öffentlicher Vortrag am Archäologischen Museum der Stadt Frankfurt/Main, 21. Juni 2006.
• Between the Ural and the Danube: Yamnaya on the Move. — The Archaeology and Science of Human and Animal Mobility in the Neolithic, Annual Meeting of the ‘Neolithic Studies Group’, British Museum Lecture Theatre, British Museum, London, 6 November 2006.
• Troja – Kanligecit – Dubene: 'World-System-Theories’ und das frühbronzezeitliche Europa. — Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters der Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, 17. November 2006.
• Bleckendorf et Yamnaya: une evaluation archéologique, anthropologique et isotopique. — Peuplements et environnements du Néolithique à nos jours – Hommage à André Langaney. XXVIIIème Colloque du Groupement des Anthropologistes de Langue Française (GALF), Genève, les 31 mai et 1-2 juin 2007.
• (with A. Pike) Der derzeitige Stand der Forschung zum Glockenbecher-Phänomen in Europa. — Öffentlicher Abendvortrag am Institut für Prähistorische und naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie, Universität Basel, 29. Oktober 2007.
• Frühbronzezeitliche Komplexität in Südosteuropa. — Cluster 2-workshop des DAI, Berlin, 27. November 2007.
• Chalcolithisation of North-Western Europe? A Perspective from the Continent... — Is there a British Chalcolithic: people, place and polity in the later 3rd millennium, Conference of the Prehistoric Society, Bournemouth University, 18-20 April 2008.
• Early Bronze Age Complexity in Southeastern Europe — Meeting of the ‘Bronze Age Studies Group’, Menorca (Spain), 5 May 2008.
• Yamnaya Groups and Tumuli West of the Pontus. — Ancestral Landscapes: Burial Mounds in the Copper and Bronze Ages (Central and Eastern Europe – Balkans – Adriatic – Aegean, 4th-2nd millennium BC), International Conference, Udine (Italy), 15-17 May 2008.
• Between the Aegean and the Atlantic: at the Dawn of European Bronze Age. — Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford, 28 October 2008.
• (with U. Leuzinger & A. Pedrotti) Relazioni tra l’Italia settentrionale, l’area transalpina ed i Balcani occidentali durante l’Eneolitico. — L’età del rame in Italia, XLIII riunione scientifica dell’istituto Italiano di preistoria e protostoria, Bologna, 26 -29 novembre 2008.
• Hotspots of Transmission: Selimpaşa, Kanlıgeçit, Gŭlŭbovo, Assara and the Lifting of Complexity in Early Bronze Age Southeast Europe — Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth (ASA), Bristol, 6-9 April 2009 (www.theasa.org/ conferences/asa09) & 13th Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology (SOMA), Konya/Turkey, 23-24 April 2009.
• Prehistoric Survey of İstanbul (ITA Project) in 2008 & Results of ITA Project’s Geophysics Applications in the 2008 Season — 31. Uluslar arasi kazi, araştirma ve arkeometri sempozyumu (31th Symposium on Excavations, Surveys and Archaeometry), Pamukkale University Denizli / Turkey, 25-29 May 2009.
• Das Zeitalter der Ideologien: Interaktion, Expansion & Wettbewerb im prähistorischen Europa des 4. und 3. Jahrtausend v. Chr." (key-note paper archaeology). — Die Ausbreitung des Indogermanischen: Thesen aus Sprachwissenschaft, Archäologie und Genetik. Arbeitstagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft (Société des Études Indo-Européennes / Society for Indo-European Studies), Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, 24. bis 26. September 2009.
• Culture versus Nature. Approaches in later prehistoric archaeology for subsistence strategies in 6500 years of changing environment. — Palaeoclimate Seminar Day, University of Bristol, 18 November 2009.
• (with A. Pike) The 4th and 3rd millennia BC in Europe: Mobility and Isotopes. — Migrations in Prehistory and Early History: Stable Isotopes and Population Genetics – New Answers to Old Questions?, Freie-Universität Berlin, 25. März 2010.
• Das 4. und 3. Jahrtausend v.Chr. in Europa: Mobilität und Isotope. — Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte der Universität Wien, 21. April 2010.
• Between the Urals, the Aegean and the Atlantic: Europe at the Dawn of the Bronze Age. — School of Geography, Archaeology & Palaeoecology, Department of Archaeology & Paleoecology, Queen’s University Belfast, 11 May 2010.
• Four Public Lectures on Europe in the Third Millennium BC:
1) A wind from the East: The Corded Ware / Single Grave / Battle Axe cultural complex (c. 2850-2000 cal BC)
2) A storm from the West: The Bell Beaker Phenomenon (c. 2700/2500-2000 cal BC)
3) A glimpse of the warm South: The Emergence of the Early Bronze Age in Europe (from c. 26/2500 cal BC)
4) Everything You Always Wanted to Know About... Mobility and Isotopes* (* But Were Afraid to Ask)
— Department of Archaeology & Institute of Cultural Studies, University of Helsinki, 17, 19, 25 & 26 May 2010.
• Tincry – Le Haut du Mont: Un nouveau centre de pouvoir du Hallstatt final et Latène ancien en Lorraine. — Conférence publique invitée par la Communauté de Communes du Saulnois, Delme/France, 9 July 2010.
• Transition to the Bronze Age: a discussion of the presentations. — Session: Transition to the Bronze Age: interregional interaction and socio-cultural change at the beginning of the third millennium BC in the Carpathian Basin and surrounding regions (organized by V. Szeverényi, V. Heyd & G. Kulcsár), 16th Annual meeting of the EAA in The Hague, 2 September 2010.
• From Europe down to the Region, from cord-impressed to comb-stamped beakers: the Corded Wares and Makó/Kosihy-Čaka substrate at the start of the Bell Beaker East Group. — Session: Beakers in Transition (organized by H. Fokkens & F. Nicolis), 16th Annual meeting of the EAA in The Hague, 4 September 2010.
• More than good food and free drinks: Tincry (France) and the architecture of power in Early Iron Age temperate Europe. — Bristol Archaeology & Anthropology Research Seminars (BAARS), Autumn Term 2010, 13 October 2010.
• Das 4. und 3. Jahrtausend in Europa: Moblität und Isotope. — Institut für Ur- und Frügheschichte, Universität Kiel, 10. Januar 2011.
• Discussant of the Session Day 2 (9h-13h30) – 7th of May: Methods of chronological reconstruction in relation to environmental and social evolution. — Bell Beaker International Conference: From Atlantic to Ural, Poio (Pontevedra, Galicia, España), 5-9 May 2011.
• Bell Beaker Phenomenon reaching the Aegean? — Bell Beaker International Conference: From Atlantic to Ural, Poio (Pontevedra, Galicia, España), 5-9 May 2011.
• Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age interactions in Eurasia. — Eurasian Interactions, 4000 – 1500 BC, The Prehistoric Society Europa Day -conference 2011, Durham University, Saturday 14 May 2011.
• The Role of Corded Ware / Battle Axe Societies in the Neolithisation of Finland and the Eastern Baltic Zone: Hypotheses & Models - Reality & Speculation. — The Adoption of Farming in Finland and Neighbouring Areas. Seminar at the University of Helsinki, Finland, Friday 11 November 2011.
• When South meets North? - Corded Ware in Finland (with T. Alenius, P. Halinen, M. Lavento, K. Mannermaa, T. Mökkönen, H. Nordquist, M. Oinonen & S. Vanhanen; all Helsinki) & Corded Ware Culture in Saxony-Anhalt in the Light of Strontium Isotopes (with H.N. de Jong & A. Pike; both Bristol) — Corded Days in Kraków - Schnurkeramik Symposium, Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Pan, oddzial w Krakowie, Kraków, Poland, 31 November to 3 December 2011.