Prof. Dr. Albert Hafner
Albert Hafner holds a full professorship in Prehistoric Archaeology and is member of the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR) at the University of Bern, Switzerland. His research interests include Holocene human-environment relationships, social developments and elites, burial rites, underwater archaeology and alpine archaeology. Main ongoing research projects funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the European Research Council are related to lake-side settlements in the Alpine Space and the Balkans.
Books by Albert Hafner
Burgäschisee 5000-3000 v. Chr.
Siedlungsdynamik und Mobilität, Landnutzung und Subsistenz
Edited by Albert Hafner & Marco Hostettler | 2022
Seeufersiedlungen mit Feuchtbodenerhaltung sind für die Erforschung des Neolithikums des Alpenvorlandes von herausragender Bedeutung. Die ausserordentlich gute Erhaltung der Siedlungsschichten lässt weitgehende Einblicke in die Lebensweise der prähistorischen Menschen zu. Das Hinterland der grossen Seen…
Settling Waterscapes in Europe
The Archaeology of Neolithic & Bronze Age Pile-Dwellings
Edited by Albert Hafner, Ekaterina Dolbunova, Andrey Mazurkevich, Elena Pranckenaite & Martin Hinz | 2022
Pile dwellings have been explored over a vast region for a number of decades now. This has led to the development of different ways, methods, and even schools of under-water and peat-bog excavation practices and…
