Research interests
African prehistory:
- Cultural changes and innovations
- Development of complex societies
- Emergence and development of early agro-pastoral societies in the Sahel of West Africa (Neolithisation of West Africa)
Regional specialization on West Africa, fieldwork in Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Namibia.
Research projects
- Research training group 1576: Value and Equivalence. The genesis and transformation of values from an archaeological and anthropological perspective (since 2010)
- DFG long-termed project: Development of complex societies in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Nigerian Nok Culture (since 2009)
- DFG Research Unit 510: Ecological and cultural change in West and Central Africa (2003-2009)
- Collaborative Research Centre 268: Cultural development and language history in the West African savanna (1989-2002)
- Rock art in south western Africa (1981-1984, 1988-1989)
Academic career
since 1992
Professor of African prehistory at the Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
1989
Habilitation, University Cologne: Brandberg –settlement history of high mountains in Namibia
1983
PhD (Dr), University Cologne, subject: C14-chronology of the near eastern, south eastern and middle European Neolithic
1979-1983
Study of pre- and protohistory, geology and cultural anthropology in Frankfurt am Main and Cologne.
1952
born on April 23rd in Flörsheim am Main
Positions
- (associate-)publisher of the Journal of African Archaeology
- Speaker of DFG Research Unit (FOR 510): Ecological and cultural change in West and Central Africa (2003-2009)
- Dean of Philosophy and History department at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (2001/2002)
- Speaker DFG Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 268): Cultural development and language history in the West African savanna (1998-2002)
Selected publications
Breunig, P. (2009): Die früheisenzeitliche Nok-Kultur in Zentral-Nigeria, Westafrika. Neues archäologisches Langfristprojekt der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft. Archäologisches Nachrichtenblatt 14 (4), 341-360.
Breunig, P. (2009): Cultural change in the first millennium BC – Evidence from Nigeria, West Africa. In: Magnavita, S., Koté, L., Breunig, P. & Idé, O.A. (eds.), Crossroads / Carrefour Sahel. Cultural and technologial developments in first millennium BC/AD West Africa. Journal of African Archaeology Monograph Series 2. Africa Magna Verlag, Frankfurt a. M., 15-26.
Breunig, P. (2003): Der Brandberg. Untersuchungen zur Besiedlungsgeschichte eines Hochgebirges in Namibia. Africa Praehistorica 17. Köln: Heinrich-Barth-Institut.
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