Marion Uckelmann

School: College of Social Sciences and International Studies
Department: Archaeology
Research Centre/Unit: Leverhulme project Tracing Networks/Salt of the Earth

Marion is a specialist in the European Bronze Age and is working together with Professor Anthony Harding on the project Salt of the Earth: the exotic and the everyday in Bronze Age Europe (http://www.tracingnetworks.ac.uk/content/web/salt_of_the_earth.jsp); within the larger project Tracing Networks in collaboration with researchers of the Universities of Leicester and Glasgow (http://www.tracingnetworks.ac.uk). Different areas of research were chosen to explore networks and exchange systems of objects, ideas and technologies. In this project they are centred on the salt production and trade in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as amber objects, the making and distribution of handmade burnished ware and the spread of bronze sheet working technologies.

Marion joined the University in April 2010, before that she worked for seven years as an editor of the Prähistorische Bronzefunde series at the Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Germany. In 2008 she finished her PhD on the European Bronze Age shields at the Westfälische Wilhelms University in Münster, Germany, where she had also earlier gained her Masters.

Aside from the Tracing Networks project, she is interested in Bronze Age warfare and technology, with a special focus on the usage of weapons and experimental work on bronze objects. She is currently collaborating with the British Museum and Neil Burridge, a bronze smith, to analyse, replicate and test a Bronze Age shield.

PUBLICATIONS:

Uckelmann, M. forthcoming (2012). Die Schilde der Bronzezeit in Nord-, West- und Zentraleuropa. Prähistorische Bronzefunde III, 4. Stuttgart, Steiner.

Uckelmann, M. forthcoming (2012). Land transport. In H. Fokkens and A. Harding (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Bronze Age Europe. Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Roberts, B. W, Uckelmann, M. and Brandherm, D., forthcoming (2012). Old Father Time:The Chronology of the Bronze Age in Western Europe. In H. Fokkens and A. Harding (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Bronze Age Europe. Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Uckelmann, M. 2011 [online publication, Re-Thinking Pitt-Rivers project]. Found, Lost and Found Again:

http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/rpr/index.php/object-biography-index/7-farnhamcollection/716-found-lost-and-found-again-add9455vol1p19-13

Uckelmann, M. 2011. Jungbronzezeitliche Schilde: Nutzung und Bedeutung. In A. Jockenhövel and U. Dietz (eds), Bronzen im Spannungsfeld zwischen praktischer Nutzung und symbolischer Bedeutung. PBF Kolloquium Oktober 2008, 249–258. Prähistorische Bronzefunde XX, 13. Stuttgart, Steiner.

Uckelmann, M. 2011. Protection, apparat et culte. De la fonction du bouclier à l’âge du Bronze. In L. Baray, M. Honegger and M.-H. Dias-Meirinho (eds), L'armement et l'image du guerrier dans les sociétés anciennes: de l'objet à la tombe. Actes de la Table ronde internationale et interdisciplinaire, Sens, CEREP, 4-5 juin 2009, 271–278. Dijon, Éditions universitaires de Dijon.

Uckelmann, M. 2011. The function of Bronze Age shields. In M. Uckelmann and M. Mödlinger (eds), Warfare in Bronze Age Europe: Manufacture and use of weaponry. BAR International series 2255, 187–199. Oxford, Archaeopress.

Uckelmann, M. 2010. Zur Ornamentik jungbronzezeitlicher Schilde. In F. Bertemes and H. Meller (eds), Der Griff nach den Sternen. Wie Europas Eliten zu Macht und Reichtum kamen. Tagung des Landesmuseum Halle 2005, Bd. 5, 553–562. Halle (Saale).

Uckelmann, M. 2008. Irland oder Iberien – Überlegungen zum Ursprung einer Ornamentform der Bronzezeit. In F. Verse, B. Knoche, J. Graefe, M. Hohlbein, K. Schierhold, C. Siemann, M. Uckelmann and G. Woltermann (eds), Durch die Zeiten... Festschrift für Albrecht Jockenhövel zum 65. Geburtstag, 259–268. Rahden/Westf., Marie Leidorf.

Uckelmann, M. 2006. Schutz, Prunk und Kult – Zur Funktion bronzezeitlicher Schilde. Anodos 2004/2005, 4–5, 243–249.

Uckelmann, M. 2005. Die Schilde von Herzsprung – Bemerkungen zu Herstellung, Funktion und Deutung. Jahresschrift für mitteldeutsche Vorgeschichte 89, 159–188.

EDITED VOLUMES

2011 M. Uckelmann and M. Mödlinger (eds), Warfare in Bronze Age Europe: Manufacture and use of weaponry. BAR International series. Oxford, Archaeopress.

2008 F. Verse, B. Knoche, J. Graefe, M. Hohlbein, K. Schierhold, C. Siemann, M. Uckelmann and G. Woltermann (eds), Durch die Zeiten... Festschrift für Albrecht Jockenhövel zum 65. Geburtstag. Rahden/Westf., Marie Leidorf.