Tom Fellner
Born in 1956.
Robert O. Fellner is an archaeologist and author whose bibliography includes the book Cultural Change and the Epipalaeolithic of Palestine (Oxford, BAR Publishing, 1995); the following nationalities are attributed to him in the sources: Swiss, American, Austrian.
The son of Else-Lotte Fellner (née Wyler), a painter, and Carl Fellner, a psychiatrist, he is also described as « the brother of the artist Tom Fellner ».
Initially trained in the United States, he completed a bachelor’s degree in anthropology at the University of Washington (Seattle) between 1977 and 1982, before continuing his studies at University College London, where he obtained a master’s degree in archaeology in 1984 and a doctorate in 1993; his doctoral research focuses in particular on Develier‑Courtételle, a rural Merovingian settlement.
The results of these investigations were presented in scholarly publications, including the article « Intrasite spatial analysis of the Early Medieval Hamlet of Develier‑Courtételle, Switzerland » (Medieval Archaeology, vol. 57, 2013).
In 2005, he was appointed head of A16 archaeology and joined the collective leadership of the Section d'archéologie et paléontologie de l'Office de la culture (SAP); in parallel, he completed a habilitation and taught at the Universities of Bern and Basel, while publishing contributions such as « The Problems and Prospects of Cultural Evolution » (Papers from the Institute of Archaeology, 1990).