Hendrik Raese

Hendrik Raese, holding a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree, serves as a Research Assistant at Kiel University's Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology and is actively affiliated with the ROOTS Cluster of Excellence, a major interdisciplinary research initiative funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) focused on social, environmental, and cultural connectivity in past societies across diverse temporal and geographical contexts.

His research centers on Archaeology with specialized emphasis on Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, integrating Social Connectivity frameworks, Environmental Archaeology methodologies, and Cultural History analysis to reconstruct ancient societal transformations through material culture and environmental data. This interdisciplinary approach examines how human groups interacted, adapted, and evolved across millennia.

Within the ROOTS Cluster infrastructure, he contributes to large-scale collaborative projects that synthesize archaeological evidence with environmental science and anthropological perspectives to model connectivity patterns in ancient human societies.