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Wolfram Gottfried Kurt Schier (* 26). June 1957 in Hohenbrunn is a German prehistoric archaeologist and university teacher.

Wolfram Schier is the son of Kurt Schier. Between 1975 and 1981 he studied prehistory and early history, ethnology and soil science at the universities of Munich, Saarbrücken and Oxford. In Munich he completed his studies in 1981 with a master’s degree and was four years later doctorate by Georg Kossack. He then became an assistant there. For his dissertation The prehistoric settlement in the southern Main Triangle, he was awarded the Kurt-Bittel-Prize for Southern German Antiquity of the city of Heidenheim an der Brenz in 1991. In 1986/87 Schier travelled as holder of the travel scholarship of the Roman-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa, Yemen, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Cyprus and Greece. After returning, Schier became an assistant at the University of Heidelberg. There he habilitated in 1996 and subsequently became a curator of the collection of the University of Bonn. In 1998 Schier became C-3 Professor at the University of Bamberg, but in the same year he moved to the University of Würzburg as C-4 Professor. He refused a call to the University of Kiel in 2004. In 2006 he became a W-3 professor at Freie Universität Berlin.

Schier’s research interests are the Neolithic of Central and Southeastern Europe, the diachronic and comparative settlement and landscape archaeology, the multidisciplinary and experimental research of prehistoric agriculture as well as the social structures and social change in the Central European Iron Age. Since 1999, Schier has been a member of the Kollegialkommission der Kommission für Archaeologie Non-European Kulturen des DAI and an ordinary member of the DAI. From 1999 to 2002 he was spokesman for the Association of German University Teachers of Archaeology, from 2000 to 2011 he was vice-president of the Presidium of German Associations of Archaeology. In 2005 he was awarded as Commander of the Romanian Order Meritul Cultural, in 2006 Schier was awarded the honorary doctorate of the Universitatea de Vest in Timișoara. Schier was Chairman of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory from 2014 to 2017.

Writings
The prehistoric settlement in the southern Main Triangle. Lassleben, Kallmünz 2012, ISBN 3-7847-5061-3 (Materials booklets on Bavarian prehistory: Series A, Fund inventories and excavation findings, Volume 60)
Elke Kaiser and Joachim Burger: Population dynamics in prehistory and early history. New approaches using stable isotopes and genetics. De Gruyter, Berlin and Boston 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-026629-0 (Topoi, Volume 5)
Elke Kaiser: Mobility and knowledge transfer in a diachronic and interdisciplinary perspective. De Gruyter, Berlin and Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-025890-5 (Topoi, Volume 9)

Weblinks
Presentation on the FU Ber website