Dipl.-Prähist. Rüdiger Kelm

born 29. 08. 1968

Studies in Archaeology, Geography, Botany, Public Law and Pedagogy in Kiel, Freiburg, Bremen and Lund/Sweden (1988 - 1995).

He is specialized in Roman Iron Age Archaeology in Northern Germany, Early Medieval/Viking Age Archaeology in Northern Europe, Ceramic Technology and Analysis and Landscape Reconstruction, Landscape Development and Pedagogic Programs in Archaeology. He was employed by the Historisches Museum Bremerhaven (1995 - 1997) and as Project Leader for the Archaeological-Ecological Centre Albersdorf (since 1997).

Projects

Archaeology in the City of Bremerhaven (1988 - 1997); Mölleholmen - a late Viking Age island settlement in Southern Scania, Sweden (1992 - 1994); Bremen-Rekum - a Roman Iron Age settlement in Bremen, Northern Germany (since 1996); Albersdorf - the reconstruction of a neolithic cultural landscape in Northern Germany (since 1997).

Selected Publications from recent years

Frühe Kontakte - Die Niederlande und das östliche Wesermündungsgebiet in Frühgeschichte und Mittelalter (Early Contacts - The Netherlands and the Eastern Area of the estuary of the river Weser in Prehistory and Medieval Ages).
Jahrbuch der Wittheit zu Bremen 1995/96. Bremen 1997, 27 - 36.

Eine byzantinische Amphorenscherbe aus Haithabu (A Byzantine Amphora Sherd from Hedeby).
Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt 27, 1997, 185 - 188.

Mölleholmen - Eine slawische Inselsiedlung des 11. Jahrhunderts in Schonen, Südschweden (Mölleholmen - A Slavonic settlement from the 11th century in Southern Scania, Sweden).
University of Lund, Institute of Archaeology, Report Series No. 74. Lund 2000.

(Ed.) Vom Pfostenloch zum Steinzeithaus. Archäologische Forschung und Rekonstruktion jungsteinzeitlicher Haus- und Siedlungsbefunde im nordwestlichen Mitteleuropa. Heide 2000.
(From the Post Hole to the Stone Age House. Archaeological Research and Reconstruction of Neolithic House- and Settlement-Structures in Northwestern Central Europe)

Eisenzeitliche Fundplätze im Stadtgebiet von Bremerhaven
(Iron Age Sites in the City Area of Bremerhaven).
Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte 69, 2000, 149 - 166.

Zurück zur Kulturlandschaft der Jungsteinzeit in Norddeutschland
(Back to the Neolithic Landscape in Northern Germany).
In: B. Gerken u. M. Görner (Eds.), Natur- und Kulturlandschaft 4. Höxter/Jena 2001, 56 - 63.