Prof. Dr. Thomas Saile

Current academic position

Full Professor of Prehistory and Early History (appointed to the chair in October 2010).

Previous employment

• Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence, University of West Alabama, Livingston (2023).

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• Substitute for the Chair of Prehistory and Early History, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena (2009).
• Interim Professor of Prehistory and Early Historical Archaeology, Otto Friedrich University, Bamberg (2008/2009).
• Research assistant in the Institute of Prehistory and Early History, Georg August University, G?ttingen (1999–2005).

Academic qualifications

• Habilitation, Georg August University, G?ttingen (habilitation thesis: Slawen in Niedersachsen. Zur westlichen Peripherie der slawischen ?kumene vom 6. bis 12. Jahrhundert); bestowal of venia legendi for the subject of Prehistory and Early History on May 2, 2006.
• PhD (Dr. phil.), Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main (doctoral thesis: Untersuchungen zur ur- und frühgeschichtlichen Besiedlung der n?rdlichen Wetterau); June 28, 1995 (summa cum laude/with highest distinction). – The dissertation was awarded the Sperl Prize of the University of Frankfurt.
• Master’s degree (Magister Artium, M.A.) in Prehistory and Early History with minors in History and Soil Science, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main (Master’s thesis: Die Keramik der ?ltestbandkeramischen Siedlung Goddelau, Landkreis Gro?-Gerau); November 30, 1990. – Study at Frankfurt am Main, Marburg, Kiel, and Dublin (UCD).

Recent publications (for more, see ACADEMIA)

• T. Saile, F. Reitmaier, M. Posselt, I. Denk, The Hascherkeller rectangular farmstead and its implications for Hallstatt social complexity. Antiquity 99, 2025, 170–186. doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.195.
• T. Saile, F. Reitmaier, M. Posselt, I. Denk, Hallstatt Period Rectangular Farmsteads in the Old Bavarian Loess Landscape: The Hascherkeller Site Revisited. Pr?hist. Zeitschr. 99, 2024, 85–109. doi.org/10.1515/pz-2023-2034.
• T. Saile, Late Bronze Age salt production in the Carpathians and its socio-economic context. Quaternary Scien. Rev. 343, 2024, 108757. doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108757.
• A. Pelisiak, T. Saile, M. D?biec, A contribution to research on the knapped lithic assemblage from the Late Neolithic site of Altheim in Lower Bavaria. Spraw. Arch. 76, 2024, 497–531. doi.org/10.23858/SA/76.2024.1.3738.
• M. Moskal-del Hoyo, M. Kapcia, A. Salavert, W. P. Alexandrowicz, T. Saile, D. Kiosak, M. D?biec, Archaeobotanical and palaeoenvironmental analyses from the easternmost Early Neolithic sites at Kamyane-Zavallia (Ukraine) and Nicolaevca V (Moldova). Vegetation Hist. Archaeobot. 33, 2024, 49–61. doi.org/10.1007/s00334-023-00944-y.
• T. Saile, M. Posselt, Diemarden in Lower Saxony: An Early Neolithic settlement and its environs. In: M. D?biec, J. Górski, J. Müller, M. Nowak, A. Pelisiak, T. Saile, P. W?odarczak (Hrsg.), From Farmers to Heroes? Archaeological Studies in Honor of S?awomir Kadrow. Universit?tsforsch. Pr?hist. Arch. 376 (Bonn 2022) 43–64.
• T. Saile, M. D?biec, D. Buzea, Aspects of a Bandkeramik settlement near Olteni in Transylvania. Pr?hist. Zeitschr. 97, 2022, 1–21. doi.org/10.1515/pz-2021-2006.
• S. Kadrow, J. Forysiak, D. Okupny, T. Saile, M. Posselt, A. Rauba-Bukowska, M. W?s, J. Twardy, A. Golański, J. Abramów, The Early Neolithic Cultural Transformation in the Targowisko Settlement Region, SE Poland. Pr?hist. Zeitschr. 97, 2022, 409–446. doi.org/10.1515/pz-2022-2038.
• T. Saile, M. Posselt, M. D?biec, M. Lobanova, A. Peresunchak, Kozachyi Yar 1: An enclosed Trypillian settlement on the Southern Bug River in Kozavchyn (Ukraine). Pr?hist. Zeitschr. 96, 2021, 401–412. doi.org/10.1515/pz-2021-2007.
• S. Kadrow, M. Posselt, T. Saile, M. W?s, J. Abramów, A. Golański, Culture transformation in the Targowisko microregion: Trends of changes inside Danubian farmers. Spraw. Arch. 73, 2021, 153–176. doi.org/10.23858/SA/73.2021.1.2684.
• M. D?biec, T. Saile, P. Alagierski, A. Rauba-Bukowska, Ein Ungar in Polen. Zu einer frühneolithischen Statuette aus Kosina 62 bei ?ańcut im süd?stlichen Polen. Arch. Korrbl. 51, 2021, 23–35. doi.org/10.11588/ak.2021.1.86861.
• T. Saile, On the Bandkeramik to the east of the Vistula River: At the limits of the possible. Quaternary Internat. 560–561, 2020, 208–227. doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.04.036.
• J. Mazanec, S. Hummel, T. Saile, “Raptus Sabinae?” complemented: Molecular genetic studies on a female calvarium of the Bandkeramik settlement of Rovantsi in Volhynia (UA). Spraw. Arch. 72, 2020, 201–211. doi.org/10.23858/SA/72.2020.2.1844.
• The earthworks at Altheim: Built by many for many. In: J. Müller, M. Hinz, M. Wunderlich (Eds.), Megaliths – Societies – Landscapes. Early Monumentality and Social Differentiation in Neolithic Europe. Proceedings of the international conference ?Megaliths – Societies – Landscapes. Early Monumentality and Social Differentiation in Neolithic Europe? (16th–20th June 2015) in Kiel. Vol. 1 (Bonn 2019) 131–151.
• T. Saile, H. Sedlmaier, M. D?biec, ?árka in Wolhynien und in Bayern. Ein Beitrag zu sp?tbandkeramischen Dreiecksintarsien. Arch. Korrbl. 48, 2018, 27–38. doi.org/10.11588/ak.2018.1.75216.
• T. Saile, M. Posselt, R. Schoon, C. Tinapp, Hollenstedt 2. Eine bandkeramische Siedlung an der mittleren Leine. Pr?hist. Zeitschr. 93, 2018, 25–47. doi.org/10.1515/pz-2018-0003.
• T. Saile, M. Posselt, B. Zirngibl, R. Schoon, B. Steinrücken, C. Tinapp, Die jungneolithischen Erdwerke von Altheim. Pr?hist. Zeitschr. 92, 2017, 66–91. doi.org/10.1515/pz-2017-0003.
• T. Saile, M. D?biec, M. Posselt, S. ?erna, D. Kiosak, Zur Bandkeramik zwischen Pruth und Südlichem Bug. Pr?hist. Zeitschr. 91, 2016, 1–15. doi.org/10.1515/pz-2016-0001.
• T. Saile, Competing on unequal terms: saltworks at the turn of the Christian era. In: R. Brigand, O. Weller (Eds.), Archaeology of Salt: Approaching an invisible past (Leiden 2015) 199–209.
• M. D?biec, T. Saile, Zu den ?stlichsten Siedlungen der frühen Bandkeramik. Pr?hist. Zeitschr. 90, 2015, 1–19. doi.org/10.1515/pz-2015-0008.
• T. Saile, Salt in the Neolithic of Central Europe: production and distribution. In: V. Nikolov, K. Bacvarov (Eds.), Salt and Gold: The Role of Salt in Prehistoric Europe. Proceedings of the International Symposium (Humboldt-Kolleg) in Provadia, Bulgaria, 30 September – 4 October 2010 (Provadia, Veliko Tarnovo 2012) 225–238.
• C. Lorz, T. Saile, Anthropogenic pedogenesis of Chernozems in Germany? – A critical review. Quaternary Internat. 243, 2011, 273–279. doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2010.11.022.