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

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Biography

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

University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen (, KU) is a public university, public research university in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia, after Uppsala University. ...

in 1978, and her

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at the University of Århus 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 Danish 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