Philipp W. Stockhammer is Professor for Prehistoric Archaeology with a focus on the Eastern Mediterranean at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich and co-director of the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean, Jena. He studied prehistory and protohistory, classical archaeology, and ancient history at the Universities of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Brussels, and Tübingen. In 2008, he earned his PhD in Prehistoric Archaeology at Heidelberg University and worked until 2015 within the Heidelberg Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context.” In 2013, he received the venia legendi for prehistory at Basel University with his Habilitation, Material Entanglements—Appropriation of Foreign Pottery in the Eastern Mediterranean Late Bronze Age. In 2015, he received an ERC Starting Grant, and he is PI or Co-PI of several collaborative research projects on the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age in the southern Levant and southeastern Europe, and the Early Bronze Age in Central Europe. His research focuses on the transformative power of intercultural encounter, human-thing-entanglements, social practices and the integration of archaeological and scientific data. He is a junior fellow of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and a member of the Center for Advanced Studies at LMU Munich.
Affiliation as of June 2025: Professorship for Prehistoric Archaeology (focus on the Eastern Mediterranean region), Institute for Pre- and Early Historical Archaeology and Provincial Roman Archaeology, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich; Co-Director, Max-Planck–Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig; Honorary Professor in the Department of Heritage Studies, School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University.
Email: philipp.stockhammer@lmu.de; philipp_stockhammer@eva.mpg.de; philippstockhammer@yahoo.de
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