Prof. Dr. Barbara Helwing

Function

Director (Vorderasiatisches Museum)

Institution

Vorderasiatisches Museum

Vita

Since 2019	Director Vorderasiatischen Museums der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin
Since 2021	Honorary Professor, Near Eastern Archaeology, Freie Universität Berlin
2016 until 2019	Professor, Near Eastern Archaeology (Edwin Culbert Hall Chair), at the University of Sydney, Australia
2018 until 2019	Excavation and Survey at Kantarodai, Sri Lanka Northern Province
2014 until 2015	Professor of Near Eastern Prehistory at University Lyon II – Frères Lumière, France
2009 until 2015	Kamiltepe excavations and survey in collaboration with Academy of Sciences Baku, Azerbaijan Republic
2000 until 2014	Head of Teheran Branch of the German Archaeological Institute, Eurasia Dept.
2008	Habilitation and venia legendi in Near Eastern Archaeology, Tübingen University
2008	Visiting professor at Tübingen University
1997 until 2000	Lecturer at Bilkent University Ankara, Turkey
1996	PhD, Heidelberg University
1992 until 1995	Researcher, Project “Early Metal in Mesopotamia”, funded by Volkswagen Foundation, collaboration of Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics and Heidelberg University, Dept. For Near Eastern Archaeology

Publications

Helwing, Barbara. “Echoes from Uruk (?) In Highland Iran: Evidence from Arisman and Other Sites on the Central Plateau of Iran.” In Uruk: Altorientalische Metropole und Kulturzentrum:. 8. Internationales Colloquium der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft, 25. und 26. April 2013, Berlin, hg. Margarete van Ess, 203–27. Colloquien der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 8. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021.
Barbara Helwing. “Sealing Practices at Tal-e Bakun A: Revisiting Concepts of Social Organization and Economic Control.” In Art/Ifacts and Artworks in the Ancient World, edited by Karen Sonik, 211–39. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania University Press, 2021.
Barbara Helwing. “Metal Headbands in Southwestern Asia at the Turn of the 3rd Millennium BCE: A Social Innovation in Its Context.” In Contextualising Ancient Technology: From Archaeological Case Studies Towards a Social Theory of Ancient Innovation Processes, edited by Florian Klimscha, Svend Hansen, and Jürgen Renn, 137–58. Berlin Studies of the Ancient World 73. Berlin: Edition Topoi, 2021.
Barbara Helwing. “Patterns of Early Metallurgy on the Iranian Plateau, from the Beginnings to the End of the Bronze Age.” In On Salt, Copper and Gold: The Origins of Early Mining and Metallurgy in the Caucasus., edited by Catherine Marro and Thomas Stöllner, 201–29. Archéologie(s) 5. Lyon: MOM Éditions, 2021.
Barbara Helwing. “Steingefäße des 3. Jts. v. Chr. aus Uruk. Ein neuer Blick auf die Chloritgefäße.” In Zwischen Ausgrabung und Ausstellung. Beiträge zur Archäologie Vorderasiens. Festschrift für Lutz Martin, hg. Nadja Cholidis, Elisabeth Katzy, und Sabina Kulemann-Ossen, 359–84. Marru 9, Münster: Zaphon, 2020.
Mehrjoo, Zohreh, Zohreh Fattahi, Maryam Beheshtian, Marzieh Mohseni, Hossein Poustchi, Fariba Ardalani, Khadijeh Jalalvand, Sanaz Arzhangi, Zahra Mohammadi, Shahrouz Khoshbakht, Farid Najafi, Pooneh Nikuei, Mohammad Haddadi, Elham Zohrehvand, Morteza Oladnabi, Akbar Mohammadzadeh, Mandana H. Jafari, Tara Akhtarkhavari, Ehsan Shamsi Gooshki, Aliakbar Haghdoost, Reza Najafipour, Lisa-Maria Niestroj, Barbara Helwing, Yasmina Gossmann, Mohammad Reza Toliat, Reza Malekzadeh, Peter Nürnberg, Kimia Kahrizi, Hossein Najmabadi and Michael Nothnagel. “Distinct Genetic Variation and Heterogeneity of the Iranian Population.” PLOS Genetics 15 (9): e1008385.
Sivitskis, Alexander J., Joseph W. Lehner, Michael J. Harrower, Ioana A. Dumitru, Paige E. Paulsen, Smiti Nathan, Daniel R. Viete, Suleiman al-Jabri, Barbara Helwing, Frances Wiig, Daniel Moaretis, Bernhard Pracejus, “Detecting and Mapping Slag Heaps at Ancient Copper Production Sites in Oman.” Remote Sensing 11 (24), 2019.
Barbara Helwing. ‘Metals and Mining’, in: Javier Alvarez-Mon, Gian Pietro Basello, and Yasmina Wicks (eds.): The Elamite World, London 2018, pp.118–45.
A. Ricci, M. B. D’Anna, D. Lawrence, Tevekkül Aliyev and Barbara Helwing. ‘Human Mobility and Early Sedentism: The Late Neolithic Landscape of Southern Azerbaijan’. Antiquity 92 (366),2018, pp.1445–61.
Barbara Helwing, Tevekkül Aliyev, Bertille Lyonnet, Farhad Guliyev, Svend Hansen, and Guram Mirtskhulava (eds.): The Kura Projects: New Research on the Later Prehistory of the Southern Caucasus. Archäologie in Iran und Turan 16. Berlin 2017.
Barbara Helwing & Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Iran. Frühe Kulturen zwischen Wasser und Wüste, München 2017.
Barbara Helwing and Patricia Rahemipour (eds.): Tehran 50. Ein halbes Jahrhundert deutsche Archäologen in Iran. Archäologie in Iran und Turan 11, Darmstadt 2017.

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