Dr Caroline Heitz
Research Interests
Prehistoric archaeology; social archaeology; wetland archaeology; pottery analyses; resilience & vulnerability research; theory & epistemology in archaeology; integration of scientific, qualitative & quantitative methods in archaeology.
Geographic areas
Circum Alpine Space; Central and Western Europe
Current Position
Since 2020 SNSF-Postdoc.Mobility Fellow, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford
Since 2019 Editorial board of the Open Series in Prehistoric Archaeology (OSPA)
http://openprehist.archaeological.science/
Advisory board of the German Theoretical Archaeology Group (Ag TidA)
http://www.agtida.de/vereinssache/vorstand-beirat/
Current Projects
Time and Temporality in Archaeology. Approaching Rhythms and Reasons for Societal (Trans)formations in Prehistoric Central Europe (TimeArch), Fellowship. Funding: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Grant No. http://p3.snf.ch/project-194326.
Quantifying human impacts to tease apart cultural and climatic drivers of Holocene vegetation change (QuantHum), PI: M Conedera. Funding: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Grant No. http://p3.snf.ch/project-169371.
Publications
Monographs / Anthologies
2020 Heitz, C. (2020) Abseits der grossen Seen. Archäologie und Erhaltung der neolithischen Unesco-Welterbestätte Seedorf, Lobsigesee. Hefte zur Archäologie im Kanton Bern 7. Bern: Archäologischer Dienst des Kantons Bern. https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/145073
2017 Heitz, C., Stapfer, R. (Eds.) (2017) Mobility and Pottery Production: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives. Leiden: Sidestone.
https://www.sidestone.com/books/mobility-and-pottery-production
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles / Chapters
In Print Heitz, C., Laabs, J., Hinz, M., Hafner, A. (2021) Collapse and Resilience in Prehistoric Archaeology: Questioning Concepts and Causalities in Models of climate-induced Societal Transformations. In: P. Erdkamp, J.G. Manning and K. Verboven (eds.) Climate and society in ancient worlds. Divergence in collapse and resilience, Basingstoke: Palgrave McMillan.
2021 Heitz, C., Hinz, M., Laabs, J., Hafner, A. Mobility as resilience capacity in northern Alpine Neolithic settlement communities. In: L. Brainerd, S. Russo (eds.). Resilience and Archaeology: Human response to past hardship. The Archaeological Review from Cambridge 36.1, 2021, pp. 75–106.
Heitz, C., Stapfer, R. (2021) Itineraries of pottery. A mixed methods approach to mobility. In: C.D. Gibson, K. Cleary, C.J. Frieman, (Eds.) Making Journeys. Archaeologies of Mobility. Oxford: Oxbow, pp. 107–119.
Affolter, J., Emmenegger, L., Hafner, A., Heitz, C., Hinz, M., Stapfer, R., & Wehren, H. (2021). From flint provenance to mobility studies: New raw material determinations from Late Neolithic wetland sites at Lake Biel and Lake Constance. Quaternary International.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2021.05.027
2020 Deza-Araujo, M., Morales-Molino, C., Henne, P., Heitz, C., Pezzatti, G. B., Hafner, A., Tinner, W., Conedera, M. (2020) A critical assessment of human impact indexes based on anthropogenic pollen indicators. Quaternary Science Reviews 236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106291
2019 Stapfer, R., Heitz, C., Hinz, M., Hafner, A. (2019) Interdisciplinary examinations carried out on heterogeneous coarse ceramics from Neolithic lakeside settlements: Analysis strategy and preliminary results from a test series using pXRF. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.03.018
Links
https://unibe-ch.academia.edu/CarolineHeitz
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7188-6775
https://boris.unibe.ch/view/contributors_bern/Heitz=3ACaroline_Franziska=3A=3A.html