(Bell Beaker distribution, from Czebreszuk 2008, if I recall correctly)
Last week I received notice from Kiel University that my application for a PhD position has been granted! From November 1st 2014 onward I will study the adoption and interpretation of Bell Beaker ideas by local Late Neolithic communities. I will be doing this at the Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel. My project fits well within their Graduate School "Human Development in Landscapes" and the research which is being carried out at the moment by scholars such as Prof. Dr. Johannes Müller and PD Dr. Martin Furholt into the social transformations of the third millennium BC.
Now I just wait for more details and confirmation from the Kiel University administration, before I can start planning, arranging practicalities (finding a new house, the future of my private company (MAK Onderzoek & Advies), looking for cheap moving boxes, selling unnecessary items on Marktplaats) and moving from Amersfoort, the Netherlands to Kiel, Germany.
In the meantime, I also need to finish my work on a synthesis of Bronze Age Kennemerland (funded by the Province of North Holland), re-arrange my Bell Beaker bibliography and personal library and help organising the Dutch Metal Ages-day (www.metaaltijden.nl), and finally, say everyone sweet goodbyes...
