Prof. Dr. Felix Bittmann
- Since 2006 Scientific Director and head of the Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research (since 2016 bi-annually changing)
- 2000-2006 Head of the Department Natural Sciences at the Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research
- 1999-2000 Head of the Division Archaeo-Biology at the Brandenburg Department of Cultural Heritage and Archaeological State Museum
- 1994-1998 Scientific collaborator at the University of G?ttingen
- 1993-1994 Scientific collaborator at the University of Munich
- 1991 Dissertation (Dr. rer. nat) at the University of G?ttingen (Investigations on the vegetation history of Middle and Late Pleistocene deposits of the Neuwied Basin (Middle Rhine region))
- 1988-1992 Scientific collaborator at the University of G?ttingen and PhD degree programme with the subjects Botany, Geography and Meteorology/Climatology
- 1981-1988 Studies of Biology (Diploma) at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau and G?ttingen with the additional subjects Soil Sciences and Organic Chemistry
- Quaternary and Holocene vegetation history of Central Europe
- Quaternary stratigraphy
- History of cultural plants (Archaeobotany)
- WASA - The Wadden Sea as an archive of landscape evolution, climate change and settlement history: Exploration – analysis – predictive modelling. Funding by the State Ministry for Science and Culture with financial means of the Nieders?chsisches Vorab (http://nihk.de/index.php?id=483)
- Archaeobotanical and pollenanalytical investigations on the subsistence and environmental impact oft he Bronze Age settlement Fidvár, Slowakia. Funding by the DFG http://nihk.de/index.php?id=356
- Editor-in-Chief of Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, Springer, Heidelberg New York.
- Member of the editorial board of Arch?ologisches Korrespondenzblatt, RGZM Mainz
- Member of the Committee of the International Work Group for Palaeoethnobotany (since 2016 speaker)
- 2007-2016 Chairman of the work group Vegetation History of the Reinhold-Tüxen-Society, Hannover (vice chairman since 2016)
- Full member of the Subcommission Quaternary Stratigraphy within the German Commission on Stratigraphy (chairman since 2012)
- Member of the advisory council “Ausgrabungen in Kalkriese”
- Full member of the German Archaeological Institute
- 2008-2018 Member of the Roman-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute
- Member of the advisory board of the Journal of Archaeology in the Low Countries
- 2010-2013 Member of the advisory board “Forschungs- und Erlebniszentrum Sch?ninger Speere” – Pal?on”
- 2010-2017 Member of the evaluation panel SH6 (The Study of the Human Past) of the European Research Council
- Member of the advisory board of the Oldenburgische Landschaft
- Member of the advisory board “Grabungsst?tte Sch?ningen”
- Vegetation History of Central Europe (lecture)
- Pollenanalytical practical
- Introduction to the History of Cultural Plants (lecture)
- Laboratory course in Archaeobotany
ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Felix_Bittmann
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9618-2798
Tolksdorf, J.F., Turner, F., Veil, S., Bittmann, F., Breest, K., 2017. Beaver (Castor fiber) activity in the archaeological context: A Mid-Holocene beaver burrow feature and a Late-Holocene ecofact within the Late Palaeolithic Grabow site, northern Germany. Journal of Wetland Archaeology 17(1): 36-50 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14732971.2017.1371432
Kegler, J.F., Siegmüller, A., Thiemann, B., Bittmann, F., 2017. Beim Hausbau entdeckt - Mittelalterliche Siedlungsschichten der Dorfwurt Klein-Borssum. Nachrichten des Marschenrates zur F?rderung der Forschung im Küstengebiet der Nordsee 54: 29-32. http://nihk.de/fileadmin/resources/images/Marschenrat/Nachrichtenheft_54_2017.pdf
Shumilovskikh, L.S., Hopper, K., Djamali, M., Ponel, Ph., Demory, F., Rostek, F., Tachikawa, K., Bittmann, F., Guibal, F., Talon, B., Wang, L.-C., Nezamabadi, M., Bard, E., Lahijani, H., de Beaulieu, J.-L., Sauer, E., Andrieu-Ponel, V., 2016. Landscape evolution and agro-sylvo-pastoral activities on the Gorgan Plain (NE Iran) in the late Holocene. The Holocene 26(10): 1676–1691 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683616646841
Schlütz, F, Bittmann, F., 2016. Dating archaeological cultures by their moats? A case study from the Early Bronze Age settlement Fidvár near Vráble, SW Slovakia. Radiocarbon 58(2): 331-343. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2015.17
Schlütz, F, Bittmann, F., 2015. Arch?obotanische und pollenanalytische Untersuchungen zur Subsistenz und Umwelteinfluss der bronzezeitlichen Siedlung Fidvár bei Vráble (Slowakei). Siedlungs- und Küstenforschung im südlichen Nordseegebiet 38:271-285
Müller-Schee?el, N., Bittmann, F., Schlütz, F., Gau?, R., Gelo, J., 2015. Prospektionen in der Hochebene von Kupres, Bosnien-Herzegowina. Germania 92(2014): 61-83
Kramer, A, Bittmann, F., 2015. Fl?geln reloaded – Zur Chronologie der Vegetations- und Siedlungsgeschichte in Nordwestdeutschland w?hrend des Neolithikums. Siedlungs- und Küstenforschung im südlichen Nordseegebiet 38:89-106
Kramer, A., Bittmann, F., 2015. Revised human impact in northwestern Germany during the Neolithic - methodological limits and challenges. Journal of Quaternary Science 30(5):434-451, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2785
Bittmann, F., 2015. Geologie und Landschaftsgenese. In: Akkermann, R.; Brunken, H., Michaelsen, W., Moritz, V., von Essen, L.-M. (Hrsg.) Die Jade – Flusslandschaft am Jadebusen. Isensee, Oldenburg, S. 26-39
Zolitschka, B., Rolf, C., Bittmann, F., Binot, F., Frechen, M., Wonik, T., Froitzheim, N., Ohlendorf, C., 2014. Pleistocene climatic and environmental variations inferred from a terrestrial sediment record – the Rodderberg Volcanic Complex near Bonn, Germany. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften (German J. Geosci.) 165: 407-424 http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/1860-1804/2014/0071
Tolksdorf, J.F., Turner, F., Kaiser, K., Eckmeier, E., Bittmann, F., Veil, S., 2014. Potential of palaeosols, sediments and archaeological features to reconstruct Late Glacial fire regimes in northern Central Europe – case study Grabow site and overview. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie 58: 211-232 dx.doi.org/10.1127/0372-8854/2013/S-00155
Kramer, A., Bittmann, F., N?sler, D., 2014. New insights in vegetation dynamics and settlement activities from the Hümmling (north-western Germany) during the Neolithic. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 23: 461-478 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00334-013-0409-z
Turner, F., Tolksdorf, J.F., Viehberg, F., Schwalb, A., Kaiser, K., Bittmann, F., von Bramann, U., Pott, R., Staesche, U., Breest, K., Veil, S., 2013. Late Glacial / early Holocene fluvial reactions of the Jeetzel river (Elbe valley, northern Germany) to abrupt climatic and environmental changes. Quaternary Science Reviews 60: 91-109, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.10.037
Bittmann, F., Grimm, J., Sander, A., 2013 Tischlein deck dich! Küchenabf?lle des 17./18. Jahrhunderts als Dokument h?fischen Lebens im Schloss zu Jever, Landkreis Friesland. In: von Carnap-Bornheim, C., D?rfler, W., Kirleis, W., Müller, J., Müller, U. (Hrsg.) Von Sylt bis Kastanas – Festschrift für Helmut Johannes Kroll. Offa 69/70, 2012/13: 95-111
Bittmann, F., 2013. Klima- und Landschaftsver?nderungen in der Vergangenheit (und Gegenwart) auf der Basis pal?o?kologischer Daten. Ber RTG 25: 108-122
Bittmann, F., 2013. Geographie und Umwelt in Südost-Niedersachsen im 3. Jh. n. Chr. In: P?ppelmann, H., Deppmeyer, K., Steinmetz, W.-D. (Hrsg.) Roms vergessener Feldzug - Die Schlacht am Harzhorn. Ver?ffentlichungen des Braunschweigischen Landesmuseums 115: 149-154. Theiss, Stuttgart
Berger, F., Bittmann, F., Geschwinde, M., L?nne, P., Meyer, M., Moosbauer, G., 2013. Die r?misch-germanische Auseinandersetzung am Harzhorn (Lkr. Northeim, Niedersachsen). Germania 88/2010, 1.-2. Halbband: 313-402