Dr. Noah Steuri

Noah Steuri (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9735-9092) is a Swiss prehistoric archaeologist. His dissertation at the Institute of Archaeological Sciences of the University of Bern (Switzerland) was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and focused on Neolithic graves and burial practices in the Alps of Switzerland, France, and Italy. It addressed longstanding research gaps and provided new chronological insights, revealing crucial data about interactions of Alpine Neolithic communities. His additional interest in integrating Virtual Reality into the analysis of prehistoric structures got him awarded a postdoc project at the McDonald institute for Archaeological Research and the Cambridge Open Reality and Visual AI Laboratory of the University of Cambridge (UK), where he will further develop this cutting-edge methodology covering various megalithic monuments throughout Western Europe.

In addition, Steuri is the archaeological partner of an ongoing Swiss National Science Foundation research project at the Department of Forensics of the University of Bern (Switzerland) focusing on ancient DNA and isotope analyses of the human bone samples he extracted in the context of his dissertation. He has further been awarded a Swiss Polar Institute grant to conduct an archaeological field project in northern Alaska (USA). Steuri’s research and innovative approaches aim to advance our understanding of prehistoric human societies and their ritual practices, especially in the context of mountainous and Arctic settings.