Jörg Linstädter

Jörg Linstädter is a scholar specializing in Prehistoric Archaeology, Geology, and Egyptology, having studied at the Universities of Berlin and Cologne. His dissertation focused on the Early Neolithic of the Western Mediterranean, particularly the pottery from the site of Hassi Ouenzga in Morocco and its relevance to the Mediterranean Neolithic of North Africa. After a DAAD short-term lectureship at the Universities of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Oxford, he became the Scientific Director of the Commission for Archaeology of Non-European Cultures at the German Archaeological Institute in 2015. He habilitated at the University of Tübingen in 2016 with research on Early and Middle Holocene occupation in Northeastern Morocco and the beginnings of food production. In 2019, he transferred his Venia Legendi to the University of Cologne. In 2022, he was appointed First Director of the Commission for Archaeology of Non-European Cultures at the German Archaeological Institute.