Prof. Dr. Daniela Hofmann
Daniela Hofmann is Professor of Archaeology at Bergen University, where she teaches and researches mainly on the Neolithic of Europe. Her current interests include migration, kinship, ritual, social inequality and resistance to it, as well as social contacts and change (see the forthcoming co-authored volume Negotiating migrations. The archaeology and politics of mobility, 2024, and the co-edited outreach publication Migration narratives in archaeology, 2023). In her projects, she tries to combine theoretical considerations with a variety of methods, including bioarchaeological information, in an effort to write narratives that take into account different perspectives. She hopes that knowing about diversity in the past could help us create a fairer society today, but has doubts on whether this is actually working.
Books by Daniela Hofmann
Migration Narratives in Archaeology
Edited by Daniela Hofmann, Catherine J. Frieman & Astrid J. Nyland | 2023
Migration is not just a recent, crisis-driven phenomenon, but a fundamental part of human life – and has always been so. This booklet is aimed at everyone who is interested in human migration in the…
Arkeologiske fortellinger om migrasjon
Edited by Daniela Hofmann, Catherine J. Frieman & Astrid J. Nyland | 2023
Denne boken er rettet mot alle som er interessert i menneskers migrasjon i fortiden. Men migrasjon er ikke et nytt, krise-drevet fenomen. Det er og har alltid vært en fundamental del av livet. I boken…
The Baltic in the Bronze Age
Regional patterns, interactions and boundaries
Edited by Daniela Hofmann, Frank Nikulka, Robert Schumann | 2022
The Bronze Age is a time of increasing interaction with large-scale connections that cover vast parts of Europe. Some parts and regions of the Bronze Age are very well explored and for some very strong…
Magical, mundane or marginal?
Deposition practices in the Early Neolithic Linearbandkeramik culture
Edited by Daniela Hofmann | 2020
This volume takes its starting point from the increasingly frequent discovery of deliberately placed deposits on Early Neolithic Linearbandkeramik sites. This includes the placement of complete and still usable tools in the ground, as well…
Contacts, boundaries and innovation in the fifth millennium
Exploring developed Neolithic societies in central Europe and beyond
Edited by Ralf Gleser & Daniela Hofmann | 2019
The fifth millennium is characterized by far-flung contacts and a veritable flood of innovations. While its beginning is still strongly reminiscent of a broadly Linearbandkeramik way of life, at its end we find new, inter-regionally…
The early Neolithic of Northern Europe
New approaches to migration, movement and social connection
Edited by Daniela Hofmann, Vicki Cummings, Mathias Bjørnevad-Ahlqvist & Rune Iversen | Forthcoming
In Britain, Ireland and Southern Scandinavia, the Early Neolithic is characterised by monumental constructions (e.g. causewayed enclosures, dolmens) and by specific traditions of depositional practice. Some aspects of these practices are similar in both regions,…
The eve of destruction?
Local groups and large-scale networks during the late fourth and early third millennium BC in central Europe
Edited by Daniela Hofmann, Doris Mischka & Silviane Scharl | Forthcoming
This volume collects papers on the pre-Corded Ware horizon in central Europe and adjacent areas (i.e. from c. 3500 – 2800 BC). This phase is very patchily researched, partly also because certain kinds of evidence,…
