Dr. Moritz Nykamp
Working Group Prof. Dr. B. Schütt
Deputy head of laboratory / scientific assistant
Room B 006a
12249 Berlin
Office hours
on appointment
Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Moritz_Nykamp
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2074-1511
Public outreach:
Use and misuse of the ancient environment – Transdisciplinary approaches on clay resources and alluvial fan formation:
https://www.dainst.blog/transpergmikro/use-and-misuse-of-the-ancient-environment/
Geomorphology and the Early Human Life I:
https://www.geo.fu-berlin.de/forschung/forschungsdaten/Forschungsdaten-des-Fachbereichs/2020-08-Geomorphologie-und-fruehe-menschliche-Lebenswelt-I/index.html
Geomorphology and the Early Human Life II:
https://www.geo.fu-berlin.de/forschung/forschungsdaten/Forschungsdaten-des-Fachbereichs/2021-11-Geomorphologie-und-fruehe-menschliche-Lebenswelt/index.html
Late Bronze Age landscape changes (Prignitz, northern Germany):
https://www.geo.fu-berlin.de/forschung/forschungsdaten/Forschungsdaten-des-Fachbereichs/2022-01-Spaetbronzezeitliche-Landschaftsveraenderungen-_Prignitz_-Norddeutschland_/index.html
Cartography for the new composition of the showcase of the „Royal Tomb of Seddin“, Neues Museum Berlin, Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Since 2015 organization and realization of activities around the „Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften“
Since 2021 |
Deputy head of the laboratory for Physical Geography |
Since 2017 |
Post-doc in the DFG-project "Die prähistorischen Gesellschaften Obermesopotamiens und ihre Subsistenz" |
Since 2012 |
Scientific Assistant at the Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Geographical Sciences, Physical Geography |
2013 - 2017 |
PhD-student in the doctoral program "Landscape Archaeology and Architecture (LAA)" at the Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies |
2012 - 2017 |
PhD-student at the Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Earth Sciences. Doctoral thesis: Human–environment interactions in the environs of the Late Bronze Age enclosure Corneşti-Iarcuri, western Romania |
2009-2012 |
M.Sc. studies in Geography (Terrestrial Systems) at the Freie Universität Berlin. Masters thesis: Geoarchaeological Terrain and Sediment Analyses in the Lower Kaïkos (Bakırçay) Valley, Western Turkey |
2009-2011 | Student Assistant in the AI-8 project "Ancient Landscapes in the Environs of Pergamon" in the Cluster of Excellence TOPOI |
2005-2009 |
B.Sc. studies in Geographical Sciences at the Frei Universität Berlin. Bachelors thesis: High-Resolution Terrain Modelling in the Vicinity of the Settlement Felix Romuliana (written in germen) |
2004-2005 | Community Service |
2004 | A-levels at the Ratsgymnasium Wolfburg |
Summer term 2023
Theorie und Praxis der physisch-geographischen Methodik (B.Sc. Geländepraktikum)
Winter term 2022/23
Theorie und Praxis der physisch-geographischen Methodik (B.Sc. Laborpraktikum)
Theorie und Praxis der physisch-geographischen Methodik (B.Sc. Laborpraktikum)
Summer term 2022
Projektseminar - Projektbezogenes Arbeiten Physische Geographie (B.Sc. Auswertungsseminar)
Lehrforschungsprojekt - Projektbezogenes Arbeiten Physische Geographie (B.Sc. Geländearbeiten)
Winter term 2021/22
Theorie und Praxis der physisch-geographischen Methodik (B.Sc. Laborpraktikum)
Summer term 2021
Projekt I - Degradierung städtischer und peri-urbaner Ökosysteme (M.Sc. Seminar im Gelände)
Winter term 2020/21
Theorie und Praxis der physisch-geographischen Methodik (B.Sc. Laborpraktikum)
Projekt II - Physisch-geographische und landschaftsarchäologische Untersuchungen in Westrumänien (M.Sc. Hauptseminar)
Summer term 2019
Projekt I - Physisch-geographische und landschaftsarchäologische Untersuchungen in Westrumänien (M.Sc. Hauptseminar)
Projekt I - Physisch-geographische und landschaftsarchäologische Untersuchungen in Westrumänien (M.Sc. Seminar im Gelände)
Winter term 2018/19
- Lektürekurs zur Landschaftsarchäologie (M.Sc. Seminar)
Summer term 2018
- Theorie und Praxis der physisch-geographischen Methodik (B.Sc. Geländepraktikum)
Winter term 2017/18
- Einführung in geographisches und wissenschaftliches Arbeiten (B.Sc. Einführungsseminar)
Summer term 2017
- Projektbezogenes Arbeiten: Spätpleistozäne und Holozäne Landschaftsentwicklung der Rituallandschaft Königsgrab Seddin / Prignitz (B.Sc. Geländepraktikum)
- Projektbezogenes Arbeiten II: Spätpleistozäne und Holozäne Landschaftsentwicklung der Rituallandschaft Königsgrab Seddin / Prignitz (B.Sc. Auswertungseminar)
Winter term 2016/17
- Theorie und Praxis der physisch-geographischen Methodik (B.Sc. Laborpraktikum)
Summer term 2016
- Theorie und Praxis der physisch-geographischen Methodik (B.Sc. Geländepraktikum)
- Theorie und Praxis der physisch-geographischen Methodik
(Vorlesung: Vermessungstechniken) - Einführung in die Geomorphologie und Bodengeographie (B.Sc. Seminar im Gelände)
- Projekt I - Paläoumweltforschung-Moldova (M.Sc. Seminar im Gelände)
Winter term 2015/16
- Einführung in die Klima- und Hydrogeographie (B.Sc. Einführungsseminar)
- Summer term 2015
- Theorie und Praxis der physisch-geographischen Methodik (B.Sc. Geländepraktikum)
- Theorie und Praxis der physisch-geographischen Methodik
(Vorlesung: Vermessungstechniken)
Winter term 2014/15
- Theorie und Praxis der physisch-geographischen Methodik (B.Sc. Laborpraktikum)
Summer term 2014
- Theorie und Praxis der physisch-geographischen Methodik (B.Sc. Geländepraktikum)
- Theorie und Praxis der physisch-geographischen Methodik
(Vorlesung: Vermessungstechniken)
Winter term 2013/2014
- Theorie und Praxis der physisch-geographischen Methodik (B.Sc. Laborpraktikum)
- Projekt II - Terrestrische Systeme: Projektauswertung (M.Sc. Hauptseminar)
Summer term 2013
- Theorie und Praxis der physisch-geographischen Methodik (B.Sc. Geländepraktikum)
- Paläoumweltforschung - Projektvorbereitung Kurs I (M.Sc. Hauptseminar)
- Paläoumweltforschung - Geländearbeit (M.Sc. Seminar im Gelände)
Winter term 2012/2013
- Theorie und Praxis der physisch-geographischen Methodik (B.Sc. Laborpraktikum)
Peer-review
Xun Yang, Fabian Becker, Moritz Nykamp, Bernhard Ludwig, Mehmet Doğan, Brigitta Schütt (2023): Holocene geomorphodynamics of a rural catchment in the Pergamon micro-region (eastern Mediterranean). The Holocene. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836231185837
Fabian Becker, Xun Yang, Mehmet Doğan, Moritz Nykamp, Brigitta Schütt (2023): Arbeiten der Physischen Geographie. In: Felix Pirson. Pergamon - Die Arbeiten in der Kampagne 2021. Archäologischer Anzeiger, 2022/2, 354–361. https://doi.org/10.34780/gb88-g9bh
Xun Yang, Fabian Becker, Moritz Nykamp, Bernhard Ludwig, Mehmet Doğan, Turhan Doğan, Daniel Knitter, Brigitta Schütt (2023): Mid- to Late Holocene geomorphodynamics in a long-term settled mountain catchment in the Pergamon micro-region, western Turkey. Quaternary Research 114, 69–92. https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2022.73
Fabian Becker, Xun Yang, Moritz Nykamp, Mehmet Doğan, Brigitta Schütt (2022): Sedimentologische Arbeiten der Physischen Geographie. In: Felix Pirson. Pergamon - Die Arbeiten in der Kampagne 2020. Archäologischer Anzeiger, 2021/2, 278–287. https://doi.org/10.34780/ayd6-y4fa
Moritz Nykamp, Stephanie Hauschulz, Jacob Hardt, Daniel Knitter, Jens May, Philipp Hoelzmann (2022): The landscape of the Late Bronze Age royal tomb of Seddin (NE Germany): linking geomorphology, archaeology, and historic evidence. Journal of Maps 18 (4), 619–629. https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2021.2020178
Moritz Nykamp, Fabian Becker, Ricarda Braun, Nadja Pöllath, Daniel Knitter, Joris Peters, Brigitta Schütt (2021): Sediment cascades and the entangled relationship between human impact and natural dynamics at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of Göbekli Tepe, Anatolia. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 46, 430–442.
https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5035
Moritz Nykamp, Jacob Hardt, Philipp Hoelzmann, Jens May, Tony Reimann (2021): Towards timing and stratigraphy of the Bronze Age burial mound royal tomb (Königsgrab) of Seddin (Brandenburg, northeastern Germany). E&G Quaternary Science Journal 70, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-70-1-2021
Fabian Becker, Daniel Knitter, Moritz Nykamp, Brigitta Schütt (2020): Meta-Analysis of Geomorphodynamics in the Western Lower Bakırçay Plain (Aegean Region, Turkey). Land 9, 338. https://doi.org/10.3390/land9090338
Moritz Nykamp, Daniel Knitter, Brigitta Schütt (2020): Sediment descriptions and geochemical analyses of radiocarbon-dated deposits from the vicinity of Göbekli Tepe—A dataset. Data in Brief 31, 106012. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2020.106012
Vincent Haburaj, Moritz Nykamp, Jens May, Philipp Hoelzmann, Brigitta Schütt (2020): On-Site VIS-NIR Spectral Reflectance and Colour Measurements—A Fast and Inexpensive Alternative for Delineating Sediment Layers Quantitatively? A Case Study from a Monumental Bronze Age Burial Mound (Seddin, Germany). Heritage 3, 528–548. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage3020031
Moritz Nykamp, Daniel Knitter, Brigitta Schütt (2020): Late Holocene geomorphodynamics in the vicinity of Göbekli Tepe, SE Turkey. Catena 195, 104759. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2020.10475
Daniel Knitter, Ricarda Braun, Lee Clare, Moritz Nykamp, Brigitta Schütt (2019): Göbekli Tepe: A Brief Description of the Environmental Development in the Surroundings of the UNESCO World Heritage Site. Land 8 (4), 1-16.
https://doi.org/10.3390/land8040072
Moritz Nykamp, Daniel Knitter, Gábor Timár, Jan Krause, Bernhard S. Heeb, Alexandru Szentmiklosi, Brigitta Schütt (2017): Estimation of wind-driven soil erosion of a loess-like sediment and its implications for the occurrence of archaeological surface and subsurface finds – An example from the environs of Corneşti-Iarcuri, western Romania. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 12, 601-612. https://doi.org/10.3390/land8040072
Moritz Nykamp, Daniel Knitter, Bernhard S. Heeb, Alexandru Szentmiklosi, Rüdiger Krause, Brigitta Schütt (2017): A landscape archaeological approach to link human activities to past landscape change in the built-up area of the Late Bronze Age enclosure Corneşti-Iarcuri, western Romania. eTopoi. Journal for Ancient Studies 6, 1-15.
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/FUDOCS_document_000000026266
Moritz Nykamp, Philipp Hoelzmann, Bernhard S. Heeb, Alexandru Szentmiklosi, Brigitta Schütt (2016): Holocene sediment dynamics in the environs of the fortification enclosure of Corneşti-Iarcuri in the Romanian Banat. Quaternary International 415, 190-203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.11.118
Moritz Nykamp, Bernhard S. Heeb, Daniel Knitter, Jan Krause, Rüdiger Krause, Alexandru Szentmiklosi, Brigitta Schütt (2015): Linking hydrological anomalies to archaeological evidences – identification of Late Bronze Age pathways at the fortification enclosure Iarcuri in western Romania. eTopoi. Journal for Ancient Studies, Special Volume 4, 77-92.
Steffen Schneider, Moritz Nykamp, Albrecht Matthaei, Wiebke Bebermeier, Brigitta Schütt (2013): Alluvial geoarchaeology of a small drainage basin in western Anatolia: Late Holocene landscape development and the question of the mouth of the Paleo-Bakırçay. Quaternary International 312, 84-95. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.05.043
Other:
Oliver Nakoinz, Daniel Knitter, Franziska Faupel, Moritz Nykamp (2020): Modelling Interactions in Landscapes. In: Piotr Łuczkiewicz (Ed.) Landschaft und Siedlungen, Wydawnictwo UMCS, 12-45.
Moritz Nykamp (2017): Human–environment interactions in the environs of the Late Bronze Age enclosure Corneşti-Iarcuri, western Romania. Doctoral thesis at the Institute of Geographical Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin.
Moritz Nykamp, Bernhard S Heeb, Philipp Hoelzmann, Daniel Knitter, Jan Krause, Rüdiger Krause, Alexandru Szentmiklosi, Brigitta Schütt (2016): Identification of ancient paths within the Late Bronze Age enclosure Cornesti-Iarcuri, western Romania. Geophysical Research Abstracts (abstracts volume).
Moritz Nykamp, Bernhard Heeb, Philipp Hoelzmann, Brigitta Schütt, Alexandru Szentmiklosi (2014): Preliminary results on sediment and settlement dynamics in the environs of the fortification enclosure Corneşti-Iarcuri, western Romania. GeoReview Journal (abstracts volume).
Conference contributions:
Fabian Becker, Moritz Nykamp, Xun Yang, Brigitta Schütt (2023): The (dis)entanglement of urban development and sediment dynamics – perspectives from the Pergamon micro-region. Jahrestagung Arbeitskreis Geoarchäologie, Würzburg.
Jens Jouaux, Fabian Becker, Julia Pagels, Moritz Nykamp, Hanna Hadler, Wiebke Bebermeier (2023): Identification of sedimentary units based on statistical analysis of geochemical data (p-ED-XRF)—comparing cluster analysis and linear discriminant analysis. Jahrestagung Arbeitskreis Geoarchäologie, Würzburg.
Moritz Nykamp, Fabian Becker (2022): Geoarchaeology: Approaches, Methods, and Examples. Highway to Science! Scientific Archaeology in Turkey with a Special Focus on Basic Research Methods. Online workshop.
Xun Yang, Fabian Becker, Moritz Nykamp, Mehmet Doğan, Daniel Knitter, Brigitta Schütt (2021): Mid–late Holocene alluvial dynamics and the interactions with settlement history: insights from two case studies in the Bakırçay plain around the ancient city Pergamon (Aegean Turkey). Mid‐European Geomorphology Meeting Munich (MGM 2021).
Ricarda Braun, Birgül Öğüt, Matthias Lange, Moritz Nykamp, Daniel Knitter, Brigitta Schütt (2021): What happened after Göbekli Tepe? Human-Environmental Interactions in the Urfa Region from a Historico-cultural and Natural Science Perspective. 27th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Kiel (online).
Moritz Nykamp, Fabian Becker, Ricarda Braun, Daniel Knitter, Brigitta Schütt (2021): Holocene sediment cascades and the entangled relationship between human impact and natural dynamics: A case study from the environs of Göbekli Tepe, SE Anatolia. 6th Landscape Archaeology Conference: LAC 2020+1, Madrid (online).
Moritz Nykamp, Fabian Becker, Ricarda Braun, Daniel Knitter, Brigitta Schütt (2021): A Holocene sediment cascade from the environs of Göbekli Tepe, SE Turkey. 6th Landscape Archaeology Conference: LAC 2020+1, Madrid (online).
Fabian Becker, Mehmet Doğan, Daniel Knitter, Moritz Nykamp, Xun Yang, Brigitta Schütt (2021): Satellite imagery, new sediment profiles and old maps geoarchaeological research on the alluvial settings around Pergamon (2019–2020). 40th International Mediterranean Survey Conference Programme, Istanbul (online).
Ricarda Braun, Lee Clare, Daniel Knitter, Moritz Nykamp, Brigitta Schütt (2019): Göbekli Tepe in a landscape context. A work-in-progress report about the manifestation of a turning point in the history of humankind. Society for Near Eastern Landscape Archaeology (SNELA) International Symposium 2019, Istanbul.
Moritz Nykamp, Daniel Knitter, Bernhard S. Heeb, Alexandru Szentmiklosi, Brigitta Schüt (2018): The path network of the Late Bronze Age enclosure Corneşti-Iarcuri, Romania. 5th Landscape Archaeology Conference: LAC 2018, Newcastle & Durham.
Moritz Nykamp, Daniel Knitter, Bernhard S. Heeb, Alexandru Szentmiklosi, Brigitta Schüt (2018): Identification of ancient pathways in the loess landscape of W Romania. 5th Landscape Archaeology Conference: LAC 2018, Newcastle & Durham.
Philipp Hoelzmann, Jens May, Stephanie Hauschulz, Daniel Knitter, Moritz Nykamp (2018): A geomorphological - archaeological map of a ritual landscape in N-Germany. 5th Landscape Archaeology Conference: LAC 2018, Newcastle & Durham.
Moritz Nykamp (2017): Human-environment interactions in the environs of the Late Bronze Age enclosure Corneşti-Iarcuri, western Romania. Colloquium at the Institute for Physical Geography of the Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main. (Invited by: Prof. Dr. Thiemeier)
Daniel Knitter, Moritz Nykamp, Oliver Nakoinz, Franziska Faupel (2017): Modelling interaction in landscapes. Humboldt-Kolleg: Landscape Archaeology, Lublin.
Moritz Nykamp, Daniel Knitter, Bernhard Heeb, Alexandru Szentmiklosi, Brigitta Schütt (2016): The ancient path network of the Late Bronze Age enclosure Corneşti-Iarcuri, W Romania. International Summer School: Opening the Landscape - Methods in Landscape Archaeology, Berlin.
Moritz Nykamp (2016): Landscape development and human-environment interactions in the environs of the Late Bronze Age enclosure Corneşti-Iarcuri, western Romania. Landscape Archaeology and Architecture Lecture Series Spring/Summer 2016, Berlin.
Moritz Nykamp, Daniel Knitter, Gábor Timár, Jan Krause, Bernhard Heeb, Alexandru Szentmiklosi, Brigitta Schütt (2016): Quantification of wind-driven soil erosion in a loess-like sediment and its implications on the occurrence of archaeological surface and sub-surface finds. 10th International Workshop of Young Geomorphologists, Werbellinsee.
Moritz Nykamp, Bernhard S. Heeb, Philipp Hoelzmann, Daniel Knitter, Jan Krause, Rüdiger Krause, Alexandru Szentmiklosi, Brigitta Schütt (2016): Identification of ancient paths within the Late Bronze Age enclosure Corneşti-Iarcuri, western Romania. EGU, Vienna.
Moritz Nykamp, Bernhard S. Heeb, Philipp Hoelzmann, Daniel Knitter, Jan Krause, Rüdiger Krause, Alexandru Szentmiklosi, Brigitta Schütt (2015): Identification of ancient paths within the Late Bronze Age enclosure Corneşti-Iarcuri. Fortifications: Rise and Fall of Defended Sites in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age of South-Eastern Europe, Timişoara.
Moritz Nykamp, Bernhard S. Heeb, Philipp Hoelzmann, Brigitta Schütt, Alexandru Szentmiklosi (2014): Preliminary results on sediment and settlement dynamics in the environs of the fortification enclosure Corneşti-Iarcuri, western Romania. Late Pleistocene and Holocene climatic variability in the Carpathian-Balkan region (CBW2014), Cluj-Napoca.
Moritz Nykamp, Bernhard S. Heeb, Philipp Hoelzmann, Brigitta Schütt, Alexandru Szentmiklosi (2014): First results on late Quaternary sediment dynamics in the environs of the fortification enclosure Corneşti-Iarcuri, western Romania. Arbeitskreis Geomorphologie 2014, Kiel.
Moritz Nykamp, Bernhard S. Heeb, Philipp Hoelzmann, Astrid Röpke, Brigitta Schütt, Astrid Stobbe, Alexandru Szentmiklosi (2014): Past sediment and vegetation dynamics in the hinterland of the Late Bronze Age fortification enclosure Corneşti-Iarcuri, western Romania – first results. 3rd Landscape Archaeology Conference: LAC 2014, Rom.
Moritz Nykamp, Steffen Schneider, Brigitta Schütt (2012): Geomorphological and Sedimentological Investigations in the Surroundings of the Ancient City of Atarneus. 2nd Landscape Archaeology Conference: LAC 2012, Berlin.