Karsten Wentink
Postdoc/ Guest
- Name
- Dr. K. Wentink MA MPhil
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- k.wentink.2@arch.leidenuniv.nl
Research
Karsten finished his dissertation in 2020 on Late Neolithic funerary practices. Currently, he is working on various research projects. As a continuation of his PhD research, he is currently investigating the earliest gold ornaments from the Netherlands. He is involved in the research on the Bronze Age Ommerschans sword and has an advisory role for an upcoming exhibition on the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age in the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities.
Curriculum vitae
Karsten Wentink started his studies in 2001 at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University. He did a combined bachelors in both archaeological sciences (focus on functional analysis at the Laboratory for Artefact Studies) and prehistoric archaeology (with a focus on the Neolithic of North-West Europe). In 2004 he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree and was admitted to the newly established Research Masters Program. He graduated with the judicium cum laude in 2006. His MPhil thesis, “Ceci n’est pas une hache”, focussed on Middle Neolithic axe depositions. For his thesis, he was awarded the W.A. van Es-prize.
During his studies, he worked on various research projects and was involved in various University-led research projects, such as the excavation of the Neolithic site at Schipluiden and an archaeological field project in Malawi, Africa. After his studies, he was appointed as a research assistant and junior lecturer in 2006 (temporarily replacing prof. dr. Annelou van Gijn). Between 2006 and 2008, he worked as a research assistant for both the Laboratory for Artefact Studies and the Prehistory Department at Leiden University. In 2007 he co-founded the academic publishing house Sidestone Press where he still works today as co-director.
In 2008 he started his PhD research at the Leiden Faculty of Archaeology as part of the NWO-funded Ancestral Mounds project. He (co-) authored and edited several papers, chapters and books. When the PhD funding stopped in 2012, he started working full-time for Sidestone Press while continuing his PhD research. He defended his dissertation “Stereotype” in 2020. In addition, he is currently also involved in a research project focussing on the Ommerschans sword and aims to continue his research in the future.
Postdoc/ Guest
- Faculteit Archeologie
- World Archaeology
- Europese Prehistorie
- Wentink K. (8 July 2020), Stereotype: the role of grave sets in Corded Ware and Bell Beaker funerary practices (Dissertatie, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University). Leiden: Sidestone Press. Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Fontijn D.R., Fokkens H. & Gijn A.L. van.
- Fontijn D.R., Louwen A.J., Vaart van der S. & Wentink K. (Eds.) (2013), Beyond barrows. Current research on the structuration and perception of the prehistoric landscape through monuments. Leiden: Sidestone press.
- Gijn A.L. van & Wentink K. (2013), The role of flint in mediating identities: The microscopic evidence. In: Hahn H.P. & Weiss H. (Eds.), Mobilty, meaning & transformations of things, shifting contexts of material culture through time and space. Oxford: Oxbow Books. 120-132.
- Fontijn D.R. (Eds.) (2013), Beyond Barrows. Current Research on the structuration and perception of the prehistoric landscape through monuments [Beyond Barrows. Current Research on the structuration and perception of the prehistoric landscape through monuments] (translation: Fontijn D.R., Louwen A.J., Vaart S. van der & Wentink K.). Leiden: Sidestone Press.
- Wentink K., Gijn A.L. van & Fontijn D.R. (2011), Changing contexts, changing meanings: Flint axes in Middle and Late Neolithic communities in the northern Netherlands. In: Davis V. & Edmonds M. (Eds.), Stone Axe Studies III. Oxford: Oxbow books. 399-408.
- Bourgeois Q.P.J., Fontijn D.R., Louwen A., Valentijn P. & Wentink K. (2010), Finds from the “Delfin 190”-mound and its surroundings. In: Fontijn D.R. (Ed.), Living Near the Dead. The barrow excavations of Rhenen-Elst: two millennia of burial and habitation on the Utrechtse Heuvelrug. Leiden: Sidestone Press. 91-106.
- Bourgeois Q.P.J., Fontijn D.R., Louwen A., Valentijn P. & Wentink K. (2010), Finds from the Unitas 1 mound and its surroundings. In: Fontijn D.R. (Ed.), Living Near the Dead. The barrow excavations of Rhenen-Elst: two millennia of burial and habitation on the Utrechtse Heuvelrug: Sidestone Press. 73-90.
- Wentink K. & Gijn A.L. van (2008), Neolithic depositions in the Northern Netherlands. Hamon C., Benedicte B. & Quillec B. (Eds.), Hoards from the Neolithic to the Metal Ages: Technical and codified practices. Session of the XIth. EAA. Bar International Series. Oxford 29-43.
- Wentink K. (2008), Crafting axes, producing meaning: Neolithic axe depositions in the northern Netherlands, Archaeological Dialogues 15 (2): 151-173.
- Wentink K. (2007), Neolitische bijldeposities in Noord-nederland, Nieuwe Drentse Volksalmanak 124: 113-130.
- Wentink K. (2007), Neolithische deposities in Noord-nederland, Archeobrief 11(1): 32-36.
- Gijn A.L. van, Betuw V. van, Verbaas A. & Wentink K. (2006), Flint, procurement and use. In: Louwe Kooijmans L.P. & Jongste P.F.B. (Eds.), Schipluiden: a neolithic settlement on the dutch north sea coast c. 3500 cal bc. Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia no. 37/38. Leiden: Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University. 129-166.
- Wentink K. (2006), Ceci n'est pas une hache; Neolithic Depositions in the Northern Netherlands. [other].
- Wentink K. (2006), An interview with potters in the southernmost part of Malawi, Leiden Journal of pottery studies 22: 45-51.
- Wentink K. (2006), W.A. van Es Prijs. [other].
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