Heinrich Guenter Heinz Haerke
- Visiting Lecturer:Faculty of Humanities / Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies / Centre of Classical and Oriental Archaeology
- Heinrich Guenter Heinz Haerke has been at HSE University since 2024.
Responsibilities
Archaeological expeditions, research, and teaching at the Centre for Classical and Oriental Archaeology
Education and Degrees
- 1993
PhD
Georg-August University of Göttingen
Thesis Title: Anglo-Saxon weapon burials, 5th to 7th centuries - 1975
Master's in Archaeology
Georg-August University of Göttingen, Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology
Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience
1973–74 — visiting student at University of Edinburgh (Prehistoric Archaeology, Social Anthropology)
1976–78 — postgraduate studies at University of Oxford (New College); Diploma and B.Litt. (subject of B.Litt. thesis: Settlement types and patterns in the West Hallstatt Province)
Awards and Accomplishments
Michael Foster Memorial Scholarship, University of Oxford, 1976-78
Studentship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) 1978-79
Leverhulme/British Academy Senior Research Fellowship 1997-98
Visiting Research Fellow, University of Reading 2007-2010 and 2014-2017
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (elected 1995)
Corresponding Member of the Archaeological Institute of America (elected 2016)
Gold Medal of Korkyt Ata State University of Kyzylorda, Kazakhstan (November 2017)
- Best Teacher – 2022
Courses (2022/2023)
- Archaeology of Western and Central Europe to the North of the Alps in the 1 Millenium AD (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 2, 3 module)Eng
- History of Archaeological Methods, Theories and Legal Framework (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 2, 3 module)Eng
- Natural Science Methods in Archaelogy, Physical Anthropology, Paleogenetics, Geoinformatics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 2, 3 module)Eng
- Past Courses
Courses (2021/2022)
- Archaeology of Western and Central Europe to the North of the Alps in the 1 Millenium AD (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
- History of Archaeological Methods, Theories and Legal Framework (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 2-4 module)Eng
- Natural Science Methods in Archaelogy, Physical Anthropology, Paleogenetics, Geoinformatics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 2, 3 module)Eng
- Natural Science Methods in Archaelogy, Physical Anthropology, Paleogenetics, Geoinformatics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Research Seminar "Archaeological Research Metodology" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
Courses (2020/2021)
- Archaeology of Western and Central Europe to the North of the Alps in the 1 Millenium AD (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 2, 3 module)Eng
- History of Archaeological Methods, Theories and Legal Framework (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 2-4 module)Eng
- Natural Science Methods in Archaelogy, Physical Anthropology, Paleogenetics, Geoinformatics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Archaeological Research Metodology" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Courses (2019/2020)
- History of Archaeological Methods, Theories and Legal Framework (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 2-4 module)Eng
- Natural Science Methods in Archaelogy, Physical Anthropology, Paleogenetics, Geoinformatics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Research Seminar "Archaeological Research Metodology" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Publications43
- Book Arzhantseva I., Haerke H. G., Armarchuk. E. Muslims on the Volga in the Viking Age: In the footsteps of Ibn Fadlan / First edition. L. : IB Tauris, 2023. doi
- Article Haerke H. G. A Dozen Years of Central Asia: an archaeologist’s blog // Cultural Studies. 2022. Vol. 18. No. 1. P. 57-80. doi
- Article Bronnikova M. A., Karpova J. O., Murasheva V. V., Kochkina A. F., Stashenkov D. A., Arzhantseva I., Haerke H. G. Micromorphological features of medieval cultural layers formed in different environmental backgrounds // Boletin de la Sociedad Geologica Mexicana. 2022. Vol. 74. No. 3. Article A080822. doi
- Chapter Heinrich Haerke, Arzhantseva I., Tazhekeev A., Bronnikova M., Panin A., Modin I. On the interface of steppe and urban civilization: Interdisciplinary research at Dzhankent (6th – 11th centuries AD), in: Eurasian steppe civilization: human and the historical and cultural environment. Proceedings of the 5th International Congress of Archaeology of the Eurasian Steppes (Turkistan, 11-14 October, 2022). Volume 3. Алматы : Margulan Institute of Archaeology, 2022. P. 111-120.
- Article Féaux de la Croix J., Arzhantseva I., Dağyeli J., Dubuisson E., Haerke H. G., Penati B., Ueda A., Wooden A. Roundtable Studying the Anthropocene in Central Asia: the challenge of sources and scales in human–environment relations. // Central Asian Survey. 2022. Vol. 41. No. 1. P. 180-203. doi
- Article Haerke H. G., Arzhantseva I. Interfaces and Crossroads, Contexts and Communications: Early medieval towns in the Syr-Darya Delta (Kazakhstan) // Journal of Urban Archaeology. 2021. Vol. 3. P. 51-63. doi
- Article Haerke H. G. Review of: Barbara Sasse, Der Weg zu einer archäologischen Wissenschaft. Band 2: Die Ur- und Frühgeschichtliche Archäologie 1630–1850. // Germania. 2021. Vol. 98. No. 1-2. P. 468-473. doi
- Chapter Heinrich Härke. ‘Der Besuch der alten Dame’: A post-Soviet family visit to the home of Vera Borisovna Kovalevskaya, in: Эпоха всадников на Северном Кавказе: к 90-летию Веры Борисовны Ковалевской. М. : Институт археологии Российской академии наук, 2021. doi P. 69-79. doi
- Chapter Arzhantseva I., Haerke H. G., Панин А., Тажекеев А. А., Бронникова М. А., Модин И. Н. Interdisciplinary fieldwork at Jankent: Exploring early medieval urbanization on the lower Syrdarya., in: Маргулановские чтения-2020. Материалы международной научно-практической конференции «Великая Степь в свете археологических и междисциплинарных исследований» (г. Алматы, 17–18 сентября 2020 г.). Т. 1. Институт археологии им. А. Х. Маргулана, 2020. P. 219-229.
- Article Korobov D., Belinskij A. B., Rastorguev S., Demidenko S., Dobrovolskaya M., Boulygina E., Nedoluzhko A., Haerke H. G. Mitochondrial and Y-chromosome diversity of the prehistoric Koban culture of the North Caucasus // Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 2020. Vol. 31. P. 102357. doi
- Article Haruda A. F., Ventresca Miller A. R., Tazhekeev A. A., Bilalov S., Haerke H. G., Arzhantseva I. The earliest domestic cat on the Silk Road // Scientific Reports. 2020. Vol. 10. No. 11241. P. 1-12. doi
- Article Haerke H. G., Arzhantseva I., Tazhekeev A. A. The early medieval town of Dzhankent (Kazakhstan): from initial hypothesis to new model // The European Archaeologist. 2020. Vol. 66. No. 4. P. 27-34.
- Article Haerke H. G. Through a Black Hole into Parallel Universes: Multiple Monocultures and Dual Contact Zones in the British Isles, 5th-8th Centuries AD. // Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia. 2020. Vol. 26. No. 2. P. 413-424. doi
- Chapter Arzhantseva I., Härke Heinrich. Am Südost-Horizont der Wikingerwelt. Die Seidenstraße, in: Die Wikinger: Entdecker und Eroberer. Berlin : Propyläen, 2019. Ch. 5.6. P. 295-302.
- Chapter Arzhantseva I., Haerke H. G., Tazhekeev A. A. Geoarchaeology at Dzhankent: Urbanization and state formation on the Northern Silk Road, in: Proceedings of the international scientific and practical conference “Methods and methodology of archaeological sciences in archaeological field research”, 18 September 2019, Al-Farabi National Kazakh University. Almaty : Kazakh Universiteti Almaty, 2019. P. 4-11.
- Article Haerke H. G., Arzhantseva I., Tazhekeev A. A. Mittelalter anderswo: Die Stadtwüstung Dzhankent auf der nördlichen Seidenstraße // Informationen zur Archäologie des Mittelalters (Verein zur Förderung der Archäologie des Mittelalters, Schloss Hohentübingen) (Germany). 2019. Vol. 18. P. 6-9.
- Chapter Haerke H. G., Arzhantseva I., Tazhekeev A. A. Project "Nomad state formation and urbanization: The early medieval town of Dzhankent (Aral Sea region, Kazakhstan)", in: Antiquities of East Europe, South Asia and South Siberia in the Context of Connections and Interactions within the Eurasian Cultural Space (new data and concepts). St. Petersburg : IIMK RAN, 2019. doi P. 239-241. doi
- Chapter Arzhantseva I., Härke Heinrich. “The General and his Army”: Metropolitans and Locals on the Khorezmian Expedition, in: “Masters” and “Natives”: Digging the Others’ Past. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2019. P. 137-174. doi
- Article Haerke H. G. Review of M. Gerds, Das Gräberfeld des frühmittelalterlichen Seehandelsplatzes von Groß Strömkendorf // Early Medieval Europe. 2018. Vol. 26. No. 1. P. 111-114. doi
- Book Belinskij A. B., Haerke H. G. Ritual, society and population at Klin-Yar (North Caucasus): Excavations 1994-1996 in the Iron Age to early medieval cemetery. Berlin : Habelt, 2018.
- Chapter Haerke H. G. The Sarmatian and Alanic graves, in: Ritual, society and population at Klin-Yar (North Caucasus): Excavations 1994-1996 in the Iron Age to early medieval cemetery. Berlin : Habelt, 2018. P. 20-34.
- Article Haerke H. G. Review of J. Hines and A. Bayliss (eds.), Anglo-Saxon graves and grave goods of the 6th and 7th centuries AD // Germania. 2017. Vol. 94. P. 401-405. doi
- Chapter Haerke H. G., Arzhantseva I., Tazhekeev A. A. Urbanization and state formation on the northern Silk Road: The Dzhankent Project, in: Relevant Problems and Prospects for the Preparation of Competitive Specialists. Proceedings of the International scientific-practical conference dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Korkyt Ata Kyzylorda State University, November 17, 2017.. Kyzylorda (Kazakhstan): Korkyt Ata State University of Kyzylorda (Kazakhstan), 2017. P. 30-37.
- Article Haerke H. G. „A young (wo)man's game?” Skeptische Beobachtungen aus dem theoretischen Ruhestand // Ethnographisch-Archäologische Zeitschrift (Germany). 2015. Vol. 56. No. 1/2. P. 27-30.
- Book Archaeological and linguistic research. Materials of the Humboldt-Conference (Simferopol – Yalta, 20-23 September, 2012) / Ed. by V. Mordvintseva, H. G. Haerke, T. Shevchenko. Kiev : Stilos, Kiev, Ukraine, 2014.
- Article Haerke H. G. Grave goods in early medieval burials: messages and meanings. // Mortality. 2014. Vol. 19. No. 1. P. 1-21. doi
- Article Haerke H. G. Review of H.J. Kim, The Huns, Rome and the Birth of Europe, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2013 // Classical Review. 2014. Vol. 64. No. 1. P. 260-262. doi
- Article Haerke H. G. Review of R. Wegener, Sauromatisches und sarmatisches Fundgut nordöstlich und östlich des Kaspischen Meeres: Eine Bestandsaufnahme bisheriger Forschungen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Waffengräber (British Archaeological Reports, International Series 2072), Oxford: Archaeopress 2010. // Britannia (Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies). 2012. Vol. 43. P. 461-462. doi
- Article Haerke H. G. Anglo-Saxon immigration and ethnogenesis // Medieval Archaeology. 2011. Vol. 55. P. 1-28. doi
- Article Higham T., Warren R., Belinskij A. B., Haerke H. G., Wood R. Radiocarbon dating, stable isotope analysis and diet-derived offsets in 14C ages from the Klin-Yar site, Russian North Caucasus // Radiocarbon. 2010. Vol. 52. No. 2. P. 653-670. doi
- Article Thomas M. G., Stumpf M. P., Haerke H. G. Integration versus apartheid in post-Roman Britain: a response to Pattison // Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2008. Vol. 275. P. 2419-2421. doi
- Article Thomas M. G., Stumpf M. P., Haerke H. G. Evidence for an apartheid-like social structure in early Anglo-Saxon England // Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2006. Vol. 273. P. 2651-2657. doi
- Book Haerke H. G. Archaeology, ideology and society: The German experience. Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, 2000.
- Article Haerke H. G. Social analysis of mortuary evidence in German protohistoric archaeology // Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 2000. Vol. 19. P. 369-384. doi
- Article Херке Х. Г., Savenko S. Проблемы исследования древних погребений в американской археологии // Российская археология. 2000. № 2. С. 212-220.
- Article Херке Х. Г., Savenko S. Проблемы исследования древних погребений в западноевропейской археологии // Российская археология. 2000. № 1. С. 217-226.
- Article Haerke H. G. Archaeologists and migrations: a problem of attitude? // Current Anthropology. 1998. Vol. 39. No. 1. P. 19-45. doi
- Article Haerke H. G., Wolfram S. The power of the past // Current Anthropology. 1993. Vol. 34. No. 2. P. 182-184. doi
- Article Haerke H. G. 'Warrior graves'? The background of the Anglo-Saxon weapon burial rite // Past and Present. 1990. Vol. 126. P. 22-43. doi
- Article Haerke H. G. Early Iron Age hill settlement in West Central Europe: patterns and developments. // Oxford Journal of Archaeology. 1982. Vol. 1. P. 187-211. doi
- Book Haerke H. G. Settlement types and settlement patterns in the West Hallstatt province. Oxford : British Archaeological Reports, Oxford, UK, 1979.
Conferences
Member, International Editorial Board, Yearbook of the Archaeology Department of Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Hungary (from 2014)
Grants
2011 International Collaborative Research Grant of the Wenner Gren Foundation (USA), grant no. ICRG-104 for fieldwork at early medieval town of Dzhankent (Kazakhstan)
2012-2015 Collaborative research grant from Gerda Henkel Foundation (Germany) for archive project 'Conserving, Cataloguing and Digitizing the Archive of the Soviet Chorasmian Expedition'
2018-2023 Collaborative research grant by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, Germany), grant no. 389351859 for fieldwork at early medieval town of Dzhankent (Kazakhstan)
Employment history
since 26 June 2019 Professor, HSE
2010-2019 Honorarprofessor, Tübingen University (Germany)
1989-2007 Reader, University of Reading (Great Britain)
1984-1989 Lecturer, Queen’s University Belfast (Great Britain)
Heinrich Härke: Employment history
since 26 June 2019 Professor, HSE Moscow (Russia)
2010-2019 Honorarprofessor, Universität Tübingen (Germany)
1989-2007 Reader, University of Reading (Great Britain)
1984-1989 Lecturer, Queen’s University Belfast (Great Britain)
The Earliest Cat on the Northern Silk Road
Associate Professor Irina Arzhantseva and Professor Heinrich Haerke from the HSE Centre of Classical and Oriental Archaeology (Faculty of Humanities) have been involved in the discovery of the earliest domestic cat yet found in northern Eurasia. The study has been published in Scientific Reports journal.
‘The Sense of Doing Something New Appeals to Me’
Professor Heinrich Haerke, a renowned archaeology expert, has been cooperating with HSE University researchers for a long time. This year he has joined HSE as a Professor at the recently formed Centre for Classical and Oriental Archaeology. He has talked to HSE News Service about his research interests, field projects, and teaching archaeology.
Heinrich Härke and Irina Arzhantseva hosting a workshop in Kazakhstan
In the second week of September, at the end of this year’s excavation season at Dzhankent, an international group of experts gathered in western Kazakhstan for an intensive workshop discussing archaeological work at Dzankent and its results so far.
New book on the past of the North Caucasus
At the end of July, the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI) in Berlin published the full account and results of the cemetery excavations which Professor Heinrich Härke and his colleague Andrej Belinskij (Stavropol) carried out some 20 years ago near Kislovodsk in the North Caucasus.
Participation of Irina Arzhantseva and Heirich Härke in the International Congress in St. Petersburg
From the 6th to the 8th of June, the International Congress “Cultural heritage of Uzbekistan – the path to dialogue between peoples and countries” was held in St. Petersburg. The event was dedicated to the publication of 15 unique books, albums and documentaries dedicated to the collections of historical and cultural monuments of the peoples of Uzbekistan. Irina Arzhantseva and Heinrich Härke are the authors of the volume “The works of the Khorezm expedition in Uzbekistan. Archival material”.
Irina Arzhantseva and Heinrich Härke at Princeton
At the end of April this year, Dr. Arhzantseva and Prof. Härke flew to the USA to attend a workshop at the famous Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. The workshop was entitled Climate, Archaeology and History in the Eurasian Middle Ages, and it was organised by Prof. Nicola DiCosmo, a renowned expert on early historical nomads and their interaction with China and other civilizations.