Jutta Häser is a Near Eastern archaeologist and in January 2017 became manager of the cooperation project DOJAM (Documentation of Objects in Jordanian Archaeological Museums) between the DEI and the Jordanian Department of Antiquities, which is funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation. https://www.deiahl.de/forschungsprojekte.html
From 2013 to 2017, she worked as a research fellow of the Gerda Henkel Foundation at the Biblical Archaeological Institute (BAI) in Wuppertal. Her work focused on the Byzantine period in northern Jordan and the publication of the Byzantine and of the Byzantine and Umayyad strata from the excavations at Tall Zirā’a.
Before coming to Jordan in 2004 , she worked for six years as a consultant and editor in the Orient Department of the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin. During this time, she carried out an interdisciplinary project on the oases in Oman. http://www.oases-of-oman.org
From 2004 to 2013, Jutta Häser was Director of the German Evangelical Institute of Antiquities of the Holy Land (DEI) in Amman. Since 2004 she has been codirector of the joint DEI and BAI Gadara Region Project and the excavations at Gadara Region Project and the excavations on Tall Zirā’a. http://www.tallziraa.de.
She has also been involved in archaeological projects in various countries in the Middle East.
During her studies she took part in excavations and surveys in Germany, Italy, Syria, the United Arab Emirates and Sudan and worked for the Free University of Berlin and the University Berlin and the Technical University of Applied Sciences Berlin in the field of cartography and remote sensing.
Jutta Häser studied in Göttingen, Aarhus (Denmark) and Berlin. She received her master’s and doctoral degrees from the Free University of Berlin. She wrote her dissertation on “Settlement archaeology in the Jebel Marra-area (Darfur/Sudan) based on remote sensing data” http://www.vml.de/e/detail.php?ISBN=978-3-89646-327-2&hl=H%E4ser
Her master’s thesis was entitled “Stone vessels of the second pre-Christian millennium in the area of the Arabian/Persian Gulf, Typology of vessels and lids made of serpentinite, chlorite, steatite and related stone types” (unpublished 1989).
Her main interests lie in settlement archaeology, ancient water management and the application of modern technologies for excavation, survey and documentation.
