Jana Eger studied archaeology of Western Asia between 2006 and 2013 with a focus on the application of archaeozoological and bioarchaeological methods. In 2020, she completed her doctorate at the Freie Universität Berlin as part of the Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies. During her academic career, she participated in field projects in Iraqi Kurdistan, Russia, Iran, Turkmenistan and Germany.
Jana Eger has been a research assistant at CEZA since 2024.
Academic and professional background
Since 03/2024
Research assistant at CEZA
2023-2024
Postdoc at the Institute for Prehistory and Early History at Kiel University and at the Institute for Near Eastern Archaeology at Freie Universität Berlin
2022-2023
Postdoc at the Institute for Prehistoric Archaeology at Freie Universität Berlin
2021-2022
Postdoc at the German Archaeological Institute, Eurasia Department
2014-2020
PhD at the Free University of Berlin: “Human-animal relations in Monjukli Depe. An analysis of social coexistence in a Neolithic-Eneolithic settlement in Turkmenistan” Doctoral candidate at the Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies
2015-2018
Elsa Neumann scholarships for doctoral students
2012
PROMOS-Stipendiatin, Graduate Course: Zooarchaeological Interpretation, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
2008-2009
ERASMUS exchange programme at La Sapienza University in Rome, Italy
2006-2013
Master’s and Bachelor’s degree programme in Southwest Asian Archaeology at the Freie Universität Berlin
Work and research focus
Isotope analyses and archaeo(zoo)logical analyses to investigate ways of life, in particular subsistence practices, eating habits and mobility patterns of humans and animals and how these shaped past societies.