Akademische Ausbildung

Seit 2020 Promotionsstudium zum Thema: “Keeping Things in Check: Containment and Closure Technologies in the Highlands of Iran in the 4th and 3rd mill. BCE” (Arbeitstitel)

2014 - 2018 Masterstudiengang Geschichte und Kulturen Altvorderasiens mit dem Schwerpunkt Vorderasiatische Archäologie an der Freien Universität Berlin

Thema der Masterarbeit: “Halaf Painted Pottery from Fıstıklı Höyük: past and present categorizations”

2015 - 2016 ERASMUS-Studium am Institut für Frühgeschichte und Vorderasiatische Archäologie, Ege Üniversitesi, Izmir, Türkei

2011-2014 Bachelorstudiengang Altertumswissenschaften: Profilbereich Vorderasiatische Archäologie an der Freien Universität Berlin

Thema der Bachelorarbeit: „Bestattungen im Äneolithischen Monjukli Depe, Turkmenistan“ 

Berufliche Tätigkeit

Seit 2023 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Projekt “Mobile villages and dynamic landscapes: Excavations at Tell Begum in the Shahrizor Plain ” am Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie der Freien Universität Berlin (Teil des SPP 2176: The Iranian Highlands: Resilience and Integration of Premodern Societies)

2020-2023 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Projekt “Mobile villages and dynamic landscapes: the Varamin Plain from the late 5th to the early 3rd mill. BCE” am Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie der Freien Universität Berlin (Teil des SPP 2176: The Iranian Highlands: Resilience and Integration of Premodern Societies)

2018 - 2020 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Projekt “Monjukli Depe. Technologische und soziale Entwicklungen im neolithisch-chalkolithischen Monjukli Depe (Turkmenistan) und dessen Umgebung” am Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie der Freien Universität Berlin

2013 - 2018 Studentische/wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft an der Orient-Abteilung des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts im Projekt " Archäologie der Oasenstadt Tayma"

2017 Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft an der Eurasien-Abteilung des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts im Projekt „Die spätbronzezeitliche Siedlung Saridschar (Tadschikistan)“

2013-2014 Studentische Hilfskraft am Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie der Freien Universität Berlin im Projekt "Monjukli Depe“

Mitarbeit an archäologischen Feldprojekten

2022 Gird-i Begum, Iraqi Kurdistan

2021 Wustrau (Brandenburg), Deutschland

2018 Varamin Plain Project, Iran

2017 Tayma, Saudi-Arabien

2016, 2017 Saridschar, Tadschikistan

2015 Wünsdorf-Moschee (Brandenburg), Deutschland

2013, 2014 Monjukli Depe, Turkmenistan

2013 Çatal Höyük West, Türkei

2012 Oymaağac Höyük, Türkei

2011 Mont Bego (06), Frankreich

Research interessts

Prehistory of Iran and Central Asia; Containers, containment and closure; Halaf tradition and ceramics; Mortuary Practices; Categorization in Archaeology; Micro-debris Analysis

PhD project

Perspectives on Containment and Closure Technologies in the Highlands of Iran in the 4^th and 3^rd millennium BCE (working title)

What do prehistoric stone vessels have in common with woven baskets, clay bins, warehouses, ceramic pots, jar stoppers or clay sealings? At the very least, those objects usually studied separately all participate in a ubiquitous but multiform technology of containment that provides amongst others the material basis for the storage, transport, distribution, and consumption of goods. In my dissertation, I study the development of containment and closure technologies in Iran in the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age and compare container assemblages on a regional, supra-regional and diachronic scale. By focusing on functional properties such as capacity, closeability and portability, an integrative study of both mobile and immobile types of containers can assess their potentially divergent or complementary uses, opening a window into the scale and organization of socioeconomic activities. Building on emerging studies of "the container" as an anthropological object and drawing on already published archaeological material, the objective of my research project is to analyze the involvement of containers in a variety of taskscapes, shed light on the structure of the communities they were embedded in and examine their changing roles in the still poorly understood political economies of early highland communities.

The PhD project is supervised by Prof. Susan Pollock and Prof. Reinhard Bernbeck.

Publikationen

• Rol, Nolwen, Reinhard Bernbeck, Lisa Wolff-Heger, Hassan Akbari, Morteza Hessari, Susan Pollock, and Daniel Schäfer. 2022. ‘Chalcolithic Painted Pottery of the Sialk III Period: Quantifying Stylistic Continuities and Changes on the Northern Central Plateau’. Iran: 1–22. DOI:10.1080/05786967.2022.2101937.
• D’Anna, Maria Bianca, Nolwen Rol, Birgül Öğüt, and Reem Aljader. 2021. ‘“Women in a Men’s World”: Still?’ In Pearls, Politics and Pistachios: Essays in Anthropology and Memories on the Occasion of Susan Pollock’s 65th Birthday, edited by Herausgeber*Innenkollektiv, 557–83. Berlin: ex oriente. DOI:10.11588/propylaeum.837.c10767.
• Rol, Nolwen. 2021. “Hybrid Styles: Categorizing Painted Pottery at 6^th Millennium Fıstıklı Höyük.” In Neolithic Pottery from the Near East: Production, Distribution and Use - Third International Workshop on Ceramics from the Late Neolithic Near East 7-9 March 2019 – Antalya. Proceedings, edited by Rana Özbal, Mücella Erdalkiran, and Yukiko Tonoike, 141–54. Istanbul: Koç University AKMED Publications. 
• Bernbeck, Reinhard, Morteza Hessari, Susan Pollock, Nolwen Rol, and Hassan Akbari, with contributions by Jana Eger and Sepideh Saeedi. 2020. “Soundings at Three Chalcolithic Sites in the Varamin Plain, 2018.” Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan 49: 49–75.
•  Rol, Nolwen. 2019. “Dealing with the Dead in Aeneolithic Monjukli Depe. Norms and Handlungsräume in Burial Practices.” In Looking Closely. Excavations at Monjukli Depe, Turkmenistan, 2010 – 2014, edited by Susan Pollock, Reinhard Bernbeck, and Birgül Öğüt, 213–64. Leiden: Sidestone Press. https://www.sidestone.com/books/looking-closely.