Lotte Hedeager (born February 24, 1948) is a Danish archaeologist who is Professor of Archaeology at the

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Biography

Lotte Hedeager was born in Copenhagen on February 24, 1948. She gained her MA in prehistoric archaeology at the

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in 1978, and her

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at the

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in 1990. In 1996, Hedeager was appointed Professor of Archaeology at the

. She specializes in the study of

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. She is a fellow of the

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Selected works

* ''Iron Age Societies. From Tribe to State in Northern Europe'', 1992

References

External links

Lotte Hedeager
at the website of the

1948 births Aarhus University alumni Danish archaeologists Danish emigrants to Norway Living people Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Members of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters Prehistorians Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters University of Copenhagen alumni Academic staff of the University of Oslo Danish women archaeologists {{Denmark-archaeologist-stub