Stefanie Treydte M.A.

Stefanie Treydte has been a research associate since March 2026 in the Collaborative Research Centre SFB 1482 “Human Differentiation” at the Leibniz Institute of European History. She is involved in the subproject “Becoming Human, Being Human: Human Differentiation and Conviviality – From the Present to Prehistory.” Her work focuses on the history of scholarship concerned with the study of prehistoric and early humans (Hominini) from the eighteenth century to the present.

After completing her Bachelor’s degree in Prehistoric and Early Historic Archaeology and Classical Archaeology at Goethe University Frankfurt, she obtained her Master’s degree in Prehistoric and Early Historic Archaeology in 2022. In her Master’s thesis, she examined the phenomenon of amuletic grave goods in richly furnished Early Iron Age burials in Germany and Austria. Her research interests lie in the archaeology of prehistoric and early historic Europe, Eurasia, and Africa. She is also concerned with burial practices and grave goods in prehistoric and early historic cultural contexts, as well as with the archaeology of religion.

From December 2019 to February 2020, she worked as an intern in the editorial office of the journal ANTIKE WELT at the Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (wbg) in Darmstadt. There, she contributed to the editorial processing of articles for the archaeological journal ANTIKE WELT and was involved in the online editorial team.

In 2018, she participated in several weeks of research excavations at the Glauberg near Glauburg, a former Celtic princely site in the Wetterau district. Her work there included the excavation and documentation of Middle Neolithic and Early Iron Age finds and features. In addition, in 2016 she took part in a training excavation at the Kapellenberg in Hofheim am Taunus, funded by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. This project focused on the excavation and documentation of Neolithic features associated with the Michelsberg culture.

• Prehistory and early history of Europe, Eurasia, and Africa
• The Iron Age of Central Europe
• Burial practices and grave goods in prehistoric and early historic cultural contexts
• Archaeology of religion