Dr. Nicole Rupp
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Professional and academic career
Research interests
African prehistory:
- Settlement structures of the Nok culture
- Development of complex societies
- Geoarchaeology
Regional specialization on West Africa, fieldwork in Nigeria
Research projects (participation)
- Development of complex societies in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Nigerian Nok Culture (since 2009)
- Ecological and cultural change in West and Central Afrika (2006-2009)
- Cultural development and language history in the West African savanna (2000-2002)
Professional and academic career
since 2009
Research fellow at DFG long term project: Development of complex societies in sub-Saharan Africa: The Nigerian Nok Culture; direction and organization of field work. Main focus: settlement structures of the Nok culture.
2006-2009
Research fellow at DFG Research Unit (FOR 510): Ecological and cultural change in West and Central Africa. Main focus: The Nok culture as an example of cultural changes in the first millennium before Christ in West Africa.
2004-2006
Assistant lecturer, work group of pre- and protohistory, Institute of archaeological sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt.
2003/2004
Completion of dissertation and defense
2000-2002
Research assistant at DFG Special Research Project (SFB 268): Cultural development and language history in the West African savanna. Subject of dissertation: Land without stones. raw material supply in the Chad basin of Nigeria - from Late Stone Age to Iron Age.
2000
Magisterprüfung; Thema der Magisterarbeit: Studien zu den Rohmaterialien der Gajiganna Kultur, Nordost-Nigeria/Westafrika
1995-1999
Study of pre- and protohistory, geology and palaeontology; Goethe University Frankfurt/Main
1995
Diploma in social work, Frankfurt/Main
1989
State examination as kindergarten teacher; Würzburg
Lectures
2010
Mehr als nur Statuetten und Altgrabungen - Neue Forschungen zur Nok-Kultur in Zentralnigeria. Kolloquiumsvortrag, Ur- und Frühgeschichte Uni Leipzig
2009
- Cultural Change and the Origin of Complexity in the 1st Millennium BC of Nigeria, Tagung: 12th Biennial Colloquium - West African Archaeological Association, Jos
- Exploring the Nok enigma: recent studies on the Nok culture in central Nigeria
Tagung: West African Archaeology, New Developments, New Perspectives, Sheffield, UK - Unbekannte Künstler. Die Nok-Kultur in Zentral-Nigeria.
Tagung: Rietberg Museum Zürich, Schweiz
2008
- Recent Studies on the Nok Culture, Central Nigeria
Tagung: Safa (Society of Africanist Archaeologists), Frankfu rt/ M - Unbekannte Künstler. Die Nok-Kultur in Zentral-Nigeria.
TÜVA Tübingen
2006
New studies on the Nok Culture, Central Nigeria
Tagung: Safa (Society of Africanist Archaeologists), Calgary / Kanada
2004
Changing patterns of lithic complexity in the first Millenium BC
Tagung: Safa (Society of Africanist Archaeologists), Bergen / Norwegen
2002
How to live in the Stone Age without stones?
Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Ibadan / Nigeria
2002
- Stone Age without Stones
Tagung: Safa (Society of Africanist Archaeologists), Tucson / Arizona - Abschlußkonferenz des SFB 268 in Maiduguri / Nigeria
2001
- The Raw Materials of the Gajiganna Culture, Northeast Nigeria
- Centre of Transsaharan Studies, University of Maiduguri / Nigeria
Teaching
2007
Übung: Informationsgehalt prähistorischer Quellen anhand afrikanischer Beispiele
2005
Seminar, zusammen mit Dr. Christine Hertler, Paläobiologie Frankfurt:
„Stein und Bein“. Kultur und Ökologie in der Entwicklung der Menschen
2005
Proseminar: Einführung in die Vor- und Frühgeschichte
2004
Übung: Analyse und Dokumentation von Steinartefakten
zusammen mit Prof. Dr. Peter Breunig:
Vorbereitung (Seminar/Organisation) und Durchführung mehrerer Exkursionen ins südliche Afrika (2002, 2006, 2009) und nach Norddeutschland (2004)
Selected publications
