Dr Anne Kremmer
Dr Anne Kremmer is a bioarchaeologist and biological anthropologist specialising in human osteology. She received her doctorate in 2023 with a thesis on “Socioeconomic Differences and Secular Changes in Living Conditions in Late-Medieval and Postmedieval Luxembourg City.” The aim of this work was to reconstruct living conditions in Luxembourg City from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period based on anthropological analysis and stable isotope analysis of human remains from a cemetery of a former Franciscan monastery.
From 2021, Anne Kremmer was actively involved in field research conducted by the German Archaeological Institute in Saudi Arabia. From 2022 to 2025, she then took on the role of anthropologist in the project “Funerary Landscapes, Contacts and Mobility in Bronze Age Northwest Arabia,” focusing on the excavation and analysis of mixed and fragmented human remains from the Bronze Age in Taymāʾ and Wadi Saq, Saudi Arabia.
Since March 2025 she is working at the Museum of the University of Tübingen (MUT) and conducting research in the project „Research into human remains from the colonial era in the collections of the University Tübingen“.
Dr Anne Kremmer
Provenance research ‘ancestral human remains’
Phone: +49 (0)7071 29 74127
E-mail: anne.kremmer[at]uni-tuebingen.de
2025– | Research assistant | Project: „Ancestral Human Remains in the Collections of the University of Tübingen “, Museum of the University of Tübingen (MUT) |
2024–2025 | Research assistant | Project „Funerary Landscapes, Contacts and Mobility in Bronze Age Northwest Arabia “, German Archaeological Institute (DAI) |
2024 | Anthropologist | Survey and post-excavation analysis, Al-Ula, Saudi Arabia, German Archaeological Institute (DAI) |
2023 | Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat. Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie) at the University of Tübingen | Topic: „Socioeconomic Differences and Secular Changes in Living Conditions in Late-Medieval and Postmedieval Luxembourg City “ |
2023 | Anthropologist | Survey and post-excavation analysis, Al-Ula, Saudi Arabia, German Archaeological Institute (DAI) |
2023 | Research assistant, SFB 1070, University of Tübingen |
2022 | Anthropologist | Excavations in Taymāʾ, Saudi Arabia, German Archaeological Institute (DAI) |
2021 | Anthropologist/Assistant | Excavations in Taymāʾ, Saudi Arabia, German Archaeological Institute (DAI) |
2018–2023 | Doctoral candidate | Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen |
2018–2022 | Stipend: AFR of the Luxembourgish Fonds National de la Recherche |
2017–2018 | Anthropologist | Centre National de Recherche Archéologiques, Luxembourg |
2016-2017 | M.Sc. Bioarchaeological and Forensic Anthropology, UCL, UK |
2015-2016 | MPhil. Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge, UK |
2012-2015 | B.A. Prehistory, Early History and Archaeology of the Middle Ages/Palaeoanthropology, University of Tübingen, Germany |
Publications
- Kremmer, A.; Zur, A.; Hausleiter, A. (2025) Reconstructing Social Practices from 3rd to 2nd Millennium BCE Burials in the North-Western Arabian Peninsula, SMEA (submitted)
- Kremmer, A. (2023) Socioeconomic differences and secular changes in living conditions in late medieval and postmedieval Luxembourg City, Dissertation, Universitätsbibliothek Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, http://dx.doi.org/10.15496/publikation-99642
- Bis-Worch Chr. & Kremmer, A. Anthropologische Untersuchungen im Zusammenhang mit der archäologischen Erforschung von Friedhöfen. Ein kurzer Überblick über Begriffe und Methoden. In: Kmec, S., Philippart, R. L., Reuter, A. (2019) Ewige Ruhe? Grabkulturen in Luxemburg und den Nachbarregionen, Capybarabooks, 351 S., ISBN 978-99959-43-23-3
- Münzel et al. (2015) Chaîne opératoire of Molly, an Indian elephant from the Wilhelmina in Stuttgart-Bad Canstatt: results of a workshop in Blaubeuren on the processing of Proboscidian ribs as raw material for tools. Poster presented at the 57th Annual Meeting of Hugo Obermaier Society, Heidenheim, Germany.
Scientific Talks
- 2025 – Talk at the 58th Seminar for Arabian Studies, Abu Dhabi, UAE
"Bioanthropology in North- west Arabia: Bronze Age Burial practices at the oasis of Taymāʾ" - 2025 – Workshop-organisation with Dr. des. Annika Vosseler (MUT) and Dr. Karin König (Universitätsklinikum Leipzig) at the Sammlungstagung 2025 „Ist Sammeln zeitgemäß?“, Berlin, Germany
- "Kann man Menschen entsammeln?"
2025 – Talk at the workshop „Uncovering Colonial Collections, Enabling Reconnection: Provenance Research and Repatriation of Ancestral Remains“, University of Göttingen, Germany
"Visual and Osteobiographical Assessment of Human Remains in the Context of Provenance Research: The Case of Six Crania from the Marshall Islands at the SMNS and the University of Freiburg"2025 – Talk at the 4èmes Journées Archéologiques, Institut National de Recherche Archéologique (INRA), Luxembourg
"Reconstructing Weaning Practices in Late Medieval and Postmedieval Luxembourg City: A Multiproxy Paleodietary Approach"- 2024 – Talk at the EAA conference, Rome, Italy
"Reconstructing social practices from 2nd millennium BCE burials in the northwestern Arabian Peninsula" 2024 – Talk at the 3èmes Journées Archéologiques, Institut National de Recherche Archéologique (INRA), Luxembourg
“Socioeconomic differences and secular changes in livingconditions in late medieval and postmedieval Luxembourg City”- 2023 – Talk at the EAA conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland
“Diachronic trends and social stratification in a late-medieval and postmedieval cemetery from Luxembourg City” 2022 – Poster presentation at the EAA conference, Budapest, Hungary
“Living through times of political unrest : Examining Living Conditions in Luxembourg City through Osteological and Bioarchaeological Analyses”2022 – Talk at the PPA conference, Vilnius, Lithuania
“A multiproxy approach to reconstructing weaning age in medieval-postmedieval Luxembourg City”2020 – Talk at the STEVE Konferenz, University of Tübingen, Germany
“Preliminary results on secular changes in living conditions in medieval/postmedieval Luxembourg City”