Peder Mortensen
{{Short description|Danish archaeologist (1934–2022)}}
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Peder Mortensen (7 May 1934 – 8 December 2022) was{{Cite web |title=Peder Mortensen {{!}} Dødsannoncer i Danmark |url=https://afdoede.dk/en/memorial/298508/peder-mortensen |access-date=2022-12-12 |website=afdoede.dk}} a Danish archaeologist specialized in the Palaeolithic and Neolithic periods of southwest Asia.{{cite web|url=https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/441737/Archaeologists-find-new-evidence-of-Paleolithic-era-in-Iranian|title=Archaeologists find new evidence of Paleolithic era in Iranian cave|date=4 November 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://uniavisen.dk/tilbage-til-mellemoesten-iransk-udgravningseventyr-venter-to-arkaeologer/|title=Tilbage til Mellemøsten: Iransk udgravningseventyr venter to arkæologer|last=|first=|date=9 May 2016|website=Newspaper of the University of Copenhagen|archive-url=|archive-date=}}
Education and career
Mortensen was born on 7 May 1934 in Jutland.{{Cite web|url=https://stiften.dk/artikel/peder-mortensen-80-%C3%A5r|title=Peder Mortensen - 80 år|last=|first=|date=7 May 2014|website=Stiften|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=11 November 2019}} He studied prehistoric archaeology at Aarhus University and graduated with an MA degree in 1960.{{Cite book |last=Thrane |first=Henrik |title=From Handaxe to Khan: Essays Presented to Peder Mortensen on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday |publisher=Aarhus University Press |year=2004 |isbn=9788779341074 |editor-last=von Folsach |editor-first=Kjeld |location=Aarhus |pages=9–28 |chapter=From Jutland to Jordan |editor-last2=Thrane |editor-first2=Henrik |editor-last3=Thuesen |editor-first3=Ingolf}} He was a curator at the National Museum of Denmark from 1961–1968, the director of the Moesgaard Museum from 1982–1996,{{Cite web|url=http://denstoredanske.dk/Geografi_og_historie/Arkæologi/Arkæologi_og_forhistorie/Peder_Mortensen|title=Peder Mortensen|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=The Great Danish Encyclopedia|language=da|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}} director for the Danish Institute in Damascus and cultural advisor to the Danish embassy in Damascus 1996–2001, and then honorary professor in Middle Eastern studies at University of Copenhagen.
Recognition
Mortensen was a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters{{cite web|url=http://www.royalacademy.dk/da/Members/Mortensen-Peder|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200811222356/https://www.royalacademy.dk/da/Members/Mortensen-Peder|title=Adj. Professor Peder Mortensen|language=Danish|publisher=Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters|archive-date=11 August 2020}} and a member of the Academia Europea.{{Cite web |title=Academy of Europe: Mortensen Peder |url=https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Mortensen_Peder |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307035548/https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Mortensen_Peder |archive-date=7 March 2023 |website=www.ae-info.org}}
In 2004, he was honored by the festschrift From handaxe to Khan : essays presented to Peder Mortensen on the occasion of his 70th birthday.{{cite book | last1=Folsach | first1=Kjeld von | last2=Thrane | first2=Henrik | last3=Thuesen | first3=I. | last4=Mortensen | first4=Peder | title=From handaxe to Khan : essays presented to Peder Mortensen on the occasion of his 70th birthday | publisher=Aarhus University Press | year=2004 | isbn=87-7934-107-1 | oclc=57046829}}
Books
Mortensen's books include:
- Tell Shimshara: The Hassuna Period (1970){{cite journal|title=Review of Tell Shimshara|author=McGuire Gibson|journal=Journal of Near Eastern Studies|volume=35|issue=1|date=January 1976|pages=65–67|jstor=544837}}
- The Hilly Flanks and Beyond: Essays on the Prehistory of Southwestern Asia Presented to Robert J. Braidwood, 15 November 1982 (edited with T. Cuyler Young Jr. and Philip J. Smith, 1983){{cite journal|title=Review of The Hilly Flanks and Beyond|author=Margaret C. Brandt|journal=Journal of Near Eastern Studies|volume=47|issue=4|date=October 1988|pages=294–296|jstor=544891}}
- Bayt al-'Aqqad. The History and Restoration of a House in Old Damascus (2005){{cite journal|title=Review of Bayt al-'Aqqad|author=Wolf Koenigs|journal=Arabica|volume=55|issue=1|date=January 2008|pages=156–159|jstor=25162275}}
- Excavations at Tepe Guran. The Neolithic Period (2014). Peeters, Leuven
- Mount Nebo. An Archaeological Survey of the Region. Volume I: The Palaeolithic and Neolithic Periods (2013) (with Ingolf Thuesen and Inge Demant Mortensen)
- Mount Nebo. An Archaeological Survey of the Region. Volume II: The Early Bronze Age (2019) (with Ingolf Thuesen and Inge Demant Mortensen)
- Eyes on a Street in Cairo. (2017). Copenhagen, Orbis Publishing House
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