Stefanie Treydte M.A.

Since March 2026, I have been a research associate at the Leibniz Institute for European History in Mainz, working on the sub-project "Becoming Human, Being Human: Human Differentiation and Conviviality – From the Present to Prehistory." 

After completing my bachelor's degree in Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology and Classical Archaeology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, I earned a master's degree in Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology. My research focuses on the archaeology of the prehistory and protohistory of Europe, Eurasia, and Africa. I also study the archaeology of religion and am interested in various aspects of sepulchral culture, with a particular focus on burial and grave goods customs in prehistoric and protohistoric cultures. In my dissertation, I examine the aspect of transcendence as one of the central characteristics of human evolution and analyze the ideas and practices of 19th- and 20th-century prehistoric and paleoanthropological researchers who used grave goods and burial practices to make classifications, comparisons, and distinctions among pre- and early humans. 

From December 2019 to February 2020, I worked as an intern at the editorial office of the archaeological journal “ANTIKE WELT” (Ancient World), published by the Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (wbg) in Darmstadt. In 2016 and 2018, I participated in several weeks of archaeological excavations, including at Glauberg near Glauburg, a former Celtic princely seat in the Wetterau district, and at Kapellenberg near Hofheim am Taunus, where the focus was on the Neolithic Michelsberg culture.

Photo: Francisca Rubio