Peter F. Biehl
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Department Chair Associate Professor Ph.D., Institut für Vor- und Frühgeschichte (Department of Prehistory and Protohistory), University of the Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany, 1995 Office: 380 MFAC Phone: (716) 645-0402 Email: pbiehl@buffalo.edu |
Research Interests
Neolithic and Copper Age Europe and Near East, Archaeological Method and Theory, Cognitive Archaeology and the Social Meaning of Visual Imagery and Representation, Archaeology of Cult and Religion, Multimedia in Archaeology, Cultural Heritage
Current Research Projects
Neolithic and Chalcolithic West Mound in Çatalhöyük, Turkey
Leonardo Da Vinci II Lifelong Learning Programme: E-learning as a tool of knowledge transfer in the field of protection and management of archaeological heritage
Positions
Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology (IEMA)
European Association of Archaeologists (EAA)
German Archaeological Institute (DAI)
Center for Black Sea Archaeology (ZAKS)
Selected Publications
Books
2010 Biehl, P.F. (ed.), Cravens World. The Human Aesthetic. University at Buffalo Art Galleries.
2008 Biehl, P.F. & Rassamakin, J. (eds.), Import and Imitation in Archaeology. Schriften des Zentrums für Archäologie und Kulturgeschichte des Schwarzmeerraumes, Vol. 11. Weissbach: Beier & Beran.
2003 Studien zum Sym bolgut der Kupferzeit und des Neolithikums in Südosteuropa. Saarbrücker Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Bd. 64. Bonn: Dr. Rudolt Habelt Verlag.
2002 Biehl, P.F., Gramsch, A. & Marciniak, A. (eds.), Archaeologies of Europe. History, Methods and Theories/ Archäologien Europas. Geschichte, Methoden und Theorien. Tübinger Archäologische Taschenbücher 4. Waxmann Verlag: Münster, New York, München, Berlin.
2001 Biehl, P.F. & Bertemes, F. (eds.), The Archaeology of Cult and Religion. Archaeolingua: Budapest.
Articles and book chapters
2010 Measuring Time in the European Neolithic via Circular Enclosures. In: Morley, I. and Renfrew C. (eds.), The Archaeology of Measurement. Comprehending Heaven, Earth and Time in Ancient Societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 229-244.
2010 Representing the Human Body: Figurines of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic of Southeast Europe. V. Becker/M. Thomas/A. Wolf-Schuler (Hrsg.), Zeiten - Kulturen - Systeme. Gedenkschrift für Jan Lichardus. Schriften des Zentrums für Archäologie und Kulturgeschichte des Schwarzmeerraumes Bd. 17 (Langenweißbach 2009), 103-110.
2010 Introduction. In: Biehl, P.F. (ed.), Cravens World. The Human Aesthetic. University at Buffalo Art Galleries, 7-14.
2009 Von Çatalhöyük Ost nach Çatalhöyük West: Kulturelle Umbrüche an der Schwelle vom 7. zum 6. Jahrtausend cal BC in Zentralanatolien. In: Löhr, H. et. al. (eds.), Festschrift Andreas Furtwängler. Schriften des Zentrums für Archäologie und Kulturgeschichte des Schwarzmeerraumes. Weissbach: Beier & Beran, 1-11 (with E. Rosenstock).
2009 The Past in the Future: E-Learning, Multimedia and Archaeological Heritage in the Digital Age. In: London, H. (ed.), E-Learning Archaeology. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Publications, 158-175 (with F. Bertemes).
2007 Enclosing Places: A Contextual Approach to Cult and Religion in Neolithic Central Europe. In: Malone, C. (eds.), Cult in Context. Comparative approaches to prehistoric and ethnographic religious practices. Oxford: Oxbow, 173-182.
2006 Figurines in Action: Methods and Theories in Figurine Research. In: Festschrift Peter Ucko: A Future for Archaeology - the Past as the Present. R. Layton, St. Shennan and P. Stone (eds.), UCL Press: London, 199-215.
2006 Materialität, Variabilität und Individualität kommunikativen Handelns in der Vorgeschichte. In: Pontos Euxeinos. Beiträge zur Archäologie und Geschichte des Antiken Schwarzmeer- und Balkanraumes. Festschrift Manfred Oppermann, S. Conrad et. al (eds.), Schriften des Zentrums für Archäologie und Kulturgeschichte des Schwarzmeerraumes 10. Weissbach: Beier & Beran, 23-34.
2004 "'Multimedia Archaeology': Potentials and Dangers of Popularising Archaeology" . In: "Archaeology and the Public". M. Kucharik (ed.), Prague (with F. Bertemes & A. Northe).
2002 Hypermedia and Archaeology: A Methodological and Theoretical Framework. In: F. Niccolucci (ed.), Multimedia Communication for Cultural Heritage. Proceedings of the Multimedia Conference in Prato, Italy 2001, All'Insegna del Giglio: Florence, 147-153.
2000 The Construction of Hierarchy: Rethinking the Copper Age in Southeast Europe. In: Michael W. Diehl (ed.), Hierarchies in Action: Cui Bono? Center for Archaeological Investigations, Occasional Paper No. 27. Southern Illinois University: Carbondale, 181-209 (with A. Marciniak).
1999 Analogy and Context: A Re-Construction of the Missing Link. In: Linda R. Owen & Martin Porr (eds.), Ethno-Analogy and the Reconstruction of Prehistoric Artefact Use and Production. Urgeschichtliche Materialhefte 14, MoVince Verlag: Tübingen, 13-26.
1997 Overcoming the 'Mother-Goddess-Movement': A New Approach to the Study of Human Representations. In: A. Vasks (ed.), Selected Papers of the Second Annual Meeting European Association of Archaeologists in Riga/Latvia 1996, Proceedings of the Latvian Academy of Science, Section A, No. 5/6, 59-67.
1996 Symbolic Communication Systems. Symbols on Anthropomorphic Figurines in Neolithic and Chalcolithic Southeast Europe. In: Journal of European Archaeology Vol. 4, 1996, 153-176.
Undergraduate Courses Offered
APY 238 | Near and Middle Eastern Prehistory
APY 353 | Old World Prehistory
APY 414 | Museum Management
Graduate Courses Offered
APY 514 | Museum Management
APY 587 | Archaeology in the Digital Age, Human Representations in Prehistory
APY 652 | Graduate Survey of Archaeology