Regine Stapfer Editor

Caroline Heitz has studied prehistoric archaeology, social anthropology and the modern history of Eastern Europe at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Since 2014, she has been a research and teaching assistant at the Institute of Archaeological Sciences at the University of Bern. Within the scope of her PhD-project – and the SNFS-research-project ‘Mobilities, Entanglements and Transformations in Neolithic Societies of the Swiss Plateau (3900 – 3500 BC)’ – she is currently working on the phenomena of mobility, entanglement, appropriation and transformation in Neolithic pottery from the UNESCO-World Heritage wetland sites of Lake Constance and Lake Zurich. Having a special interest in inter- and transdisciplinarity, she combines theoretical approaches from social anthropology with methods of archaeology and archaeometry in her research. She has co-authored a book on oral history entitled ‘Annäherung an die soziale Wirklichkeit der SS-Ärzte’, published papers on Neolithic wetland sites and is, with Albert Hafner, co-editor of the e-series ‘Bern Working Papers on Prehistoric Archaeology’. Regine Stapfer is an archaeologist specializing in Neolithic wetland sites and works as a research and teaching assistant at the University of Bern (Switzerland), Institute of Archaeological Sciences (Prehistory). She is part of the research team of the project ‘Mobilities, Entanglements and Transformations in Neolithic Societies of the Swiss Plateau (3900–3500 BC)’ supported by the SNFS. In this project, she investigates the situation in western and part of Central Switzerland, studying the pottery of several settlements in this area. Further, she is concerned with the implementation of portable X-ray fluorescence analysis in this project. With Albert Hafner and Caroline Heitz she has published papers on Neolithic wetland sites. With Caroline Heitz she organized an international workshop ‘Mobilities and Pottery Production: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives’ at the University of Bern, 5-6 June 2015.