Dr. Christoph Purschwitz
Chairman I / Treasurer of ex oriente
(Since 2006)

Co-director of the Ba`ja Household and Death Project

Email: purschw[at]zedat.fu-berlin.de

Curriculum vitae

Research foci

• Near Eastern Neolithic
• Near Eastern Chipped Lithic Industries
• Holocene Abiotic Resource Management
• Stratigraphy
• Skill, Knowledge and Learning in Lithic Industries

Monographs

• C. Purschwitz, Die lithische Ökonomie von Feuerstein im Frühneolithikum der Größeren Petra Region. SENEPSE 19. Berlin: ex oriente (2017).

Selected Publications

• H. Parow-Souchon, C. Purschwitz, Variability in Chert Raw Material Procurement and Use during the Upper Palaeolithic and Early Neolithic of the Southern Levant: A Regional Perspective from the Greater Petra Area. Journal of Archaeological Science 29, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.102087
• C. Delage, H. Parow-Souchon, C. Purschwitz, Challenges to reconstruct chert availability in tectonically highly modified environments: Examples from the Dead Sea Transform (Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Wadi Hammeh, Greater Petra Region). Journal of Archaeological Sciences 32, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102384
• M. Kinzel, A.M. Harpelund, M. Jørkov, P. Nielsen, C. Purschwitz, A. Soria, M. Thuesen, I. Thuesen. Life and Death at Shkarat Msaied: Results of the 2014 and 2015 seasons. Studies in History and Archaeology of Jordan 13, 503-512. Amman: Department of Antiquities (2020).
• H.G.K. Gebel, M. Benz, C. Purschwitz, H. Alarashi, J. Bauer, J. Gresky, B. Heitkamp, L. Miškolciová, A. Keßeler, B. Kubíková, D. Štefanisko, M. Strauss, K. Wellbrock, Household and Death, 2: Preliminary Results of the 12th Season (2018) at Late PPNB Ba`ja, Southern Jordan. Neo- Lithics 19, 2019: 20-45.
• R.M. Czichon, J. Klinger, P. Hnila, D.P. Mielke, S. Behrendt, H. Böhm, M. Breuer, C. Forster, C. Griggs, M. Klein, M. Koch, G.K. Kunst, M. Lehmann, B. Lorentzen, S.W. Manning, K. Marklein, C. Purschwitz, C. Rössner, C. Tappert, M.A. Valsecchi Gillmeister, Archäologische Forschungen am Oymaağaç Höyük/Nerik 2016–2018. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient Gesellschaft 151, 2019: 39-202.
• M. Benz, J. Gresky, D. Štefanisko, H. Alarashi, C. Knipper, C. Purschwitz, J. Bauer, H.G. K. Gebel, Burying power – New insights into incipient leadership in the Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic from an outstanding burial at Baʻja, southern Jordan. PLOS One 14(8), 2019: e0221171. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221171
• C. Purschwitz, The Lithological Landscape of the Greater Petra Region, Southern Levant. Availability of Flint and other Abiotic Resources. In: L. Astruc, C. McCartney, F. Briois, V. Kassianidou (eds.), Near Eastern Lithic Technologies on the Move. Interactions and Contexts in the Development of Neolithic Traditions. Proceedings of 8th International Conference on PPN Chipped and Ground Stone Industries of the Near East Nicosia, November 23rd – 27th 2016. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, Vol. CL: 199-212. Nicosia: Astrom Editions (2019).
• C. Purschwitz, A MPPNB Bidirectional Blade Workshop at Shkârat Msaied, Southern Levant. In: L. Astruc, C. McCartney, F. Briois, V. Kassianidou (eds.), Near Eastern Lithic Technologies on the Move. Interactions and Contexts in the Development of Neolithic Traditions. Proceedings of 8th International Conference on PPN Chipped and Ground Stone Industries of the Near East Nicosia, November 23rd – 27th 2016. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, Vol. CL: 277-286. Nicosia: Astrom Editions (2019).
• C. Purschwitz, Socio-economic Changes in Flint Production and Consumption among the PPNB lithic Economies of the Greater Petra Region, southern Levant. In: L. Astruc, C. McCartney, F. Briois, V. Kassianidou (eds.), Near Eastern Lithic Technologies on the Move. Interactions and Contexts in the Development of Neolithic Traditions. Proceedings of 8th International Conference on PPN Chipped and Ground Stone Industries of the Near East Nicosia, November 23rd – 27th 2016. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, Vol. CL: 213-226. Nicosia: Astrom Editions (2019).
• C. Purschwitz, Chalcolithic and Middle Bronze Age Obsidian Industries at Karmir Sar: a mountain view on the Lithic Economies of the Southern Caucasus. Journal of Lithic Studies 5 (1), 2018. https://doi.org/10.2218/jls.2520
• C. Purschwitz, The Prehistory of Tayma: The Chipped Stone Evidence. The surface finds and a techno-typological analysis of chert artefacts from the carnelian bead workshop SE2. Zeitschrift für Orient Archäologie 10, 2017: 288-311.
• H.G.K. Gebel, M. Benz, C. Purschwitz, B. Kubíková, D. Štefanisko, A.S. al-Souliman, K. Tucker, J. Gresky,B. Abuhelaleh, Household and Death: Preliminary Results of the 11th Season (2016) at Late PPNB Ba'ja, Southern Jordan. Neo-Lithics 1/17, 2017: 18-36.
• C. Purschwitz, The Lithic Economy of Flint during the Early Neolithic of the Greater Petra Region. Geological Availability, Procurement, Production, and Modes of Distribution of Flint from the Early to Late PPNB-Period. Neo-Lithics 1/17, 2017: 51-53.
• M. Kinzel, L. Bakkar, K. N. Godtfredsen, A. M. Harpelund, J. K. Hellum, Kh. Hwawra, M. L. Jørkov, P. Nielsen, C. Purschwitz, I. Thuesen, M. Bangsborg Thuesen, A. Hilton Soria,Shkārat Msaied, the 2014 and 2015 Seasons. Neo-Lithics 2/15, 2015: 3-11.
• C. Purschwitz, Early Neolithic Flint Raw Material Selection at LPPNB Ba'ja /Southern Levant. Preliminary Results from two Room Fills of Area B-North. In: F. Borrell, J.J. Ibáñez, M. Molist (eds.), Stone Tools in Transition: From Hunter-Gatherers to Farming Societies in the Near East: 141-157, Bellaterra: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Servei de Publicacions (2013).
• C. Purschwitz, Ba'ja 2012: Abiotic Resources and Early Neolithic Raw Material Procurement in the Greater Petra Area (ARGPA) - Research Aims and First Results. Neo-Lithics 1/13, 2013: 3-10.
• C. Purschwitz, M. Kinzel, Ba'ja 2007. Two Room and Ground Floor Fills: Reconstructed House-Life Scenarios. Neo-Lithics 2/07, 2007: 22-35.