Nov 02, 2020 from 06:30 PM to 08:30 PM
Online
Dr. Alexandra Ion • Anthropology Institute of the Romanian Academy; Bucharest
Nov 02, 2020 from 10:00 AM
Institute for Pre- and Protohistory, Wiebke Kirleis' office, Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 6, room 36
Nov 04, 2020 from 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
Ohlshausenstraße 75, Raum 177 / virtual meeting
Internes Treffen
Hybrides Treffen (attandace & digital)
Nov 09, 2020 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
Virtual meeting
Karsten Lambers • Leiden University
This talk will provide an update on ongoing archaeological research on the Veluwe, one of the few densely forested areas in the Netherlands. While many archaeological traces are well preserved under the forest cover, they are also well hidden. In spite of decades of archaeological fieldwork by Leiden University and others, our image of the rich archaeological heritage of the Veluwe is still sketchy.
Two recently launched, interlinked research projects are currently expanding our knowledge considerably. Both approach the Veluwe from a regional perspective. In a data science project, called WODAN (Workflow for Object Detection of Archaeology in the Netherlands) we are developing a multi-class detector of archaeological objects in LiDAR data, the core of which is a Faster R-CNN (region-based convolutional neural network). This project has more than doubled the amount of known prehistoric burial mounds in the region, and has also allowed substantial progress in the study of Celtic fields and charcoal kilns. In a citizen science project, called Heritage Quest, hundreds of citizen researchers have been mapping the same three object categories in LiDAR data, and some of them are currently helping us to verify them in the field, which again expands the number of known archaeological objects considerably.
Both projects inform each other through the mutual proposal and cross-validation of potential archaeological objects. They also generate data that allow us to assess and compare the performance of experts, volunteers, and neural networks in the detection and mapping of archaeological objects.
Nov 16, 2020 from 06:30 PM to 08:30 PM
Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 4, R. 28 and online
Dr. des. Caroline Heitz • Bern
Nov 18, 2020 from 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
Ohlshausenstraße 75, Raum 177 / virtual meeting
Internes Treffen
Hybrides Treffen (attandace & digital)
Nov 23, 2020 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
Virtual meeting
Mirco Brunner • University of Bern
Abstract coming soon.
Nov 30, 2020 from 06:30 PM to 08:30 PM
Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 4, R. 28 and online
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Meister • Würzburg
Dec 02, 2020 from 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
Leibnizstraße 1, Raum 204 / virtual meeting
Internes Treffen
Hybrides Treffen (attandace & digital)
Dec 07, 2020 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
Virtual meeting
Marc Vander Linden • University of Cambridge
Despite extensive coverage in academic and popular media, the reports of the solution to the spread of farming have been greatly exaggerated. Namely, whilst recent aDNA research has indeed demonstrated the long-suggested link between population movement and the introduction of plant and animal domesticates across Europe, our understanding of how this process actually happened remains surprisingly limited. What factors were shaping the demographic expansion of this population? How much ecological and environmental parameters did influence this expansion and the known spatio-temporal in agricultural practices? To what extent local foraging communities were involved? This lecture will tackle some of these questions by focusing on the early Holocene sequence in the western Balkans and Adriatic basin, by discussing results gained from fieldwork, synthetic appraisal of museum collections and literature, and computational approaches undertaken as part of a recently completed ERC project.
Dec 14, 2020 from 06:30 PM to 08:30 PM
Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 4, R. 28 and online
Claus-Stephan Holdermann M. A. • Innsbruck
Dec 16, 2020 from 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
Leibnizstraße 1, Raum 204 / virtual meeting
Internes Treffen
Hybrides Treffen (attandace & digital)
Jan 11, 2021 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
Virtual meeting
Mary Anne Tafuri • Sapienza University of Rome
The application of biomolecular techniques for the study of food practices in prehistoric Europe has revealed an interesting complexity. This is particularly true for the Bronze Age, where the use of ‘alternative’ grains, such as millets, has been assessed isotopically through the measurement of stable carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotope ratios in human and animal bone collagen. Earliest evidence of C4 plants consumption comes from northern Italy, with the Po plain acting as a hotspot for the development of the farming of new crops. Isotopic data from Early, Middle and Late Bronze Age sites from western Veneto and Friuli will be discussed in the light of a recent reassessment of our understanding of prehistoric food practices in Italy. Data obtained contribute to the understanding of mode and tempo of the spread of new crops in the Peninsula, which might further call for a reconsideration of food production and consumption among Bronze Age groups of southern and central Europe.
Jan 18, 2021 from 06:30 PM to 08:30 PM
Online
Johannes Müller-Kissing • Detmold
Jan 20, 2021 from 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
Leibnizstraße 1, Raum 204 / virtual meeting
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Hybrides Treffen (attandace & digital)
Jan 25, 2021 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
Virtual meeting
Anna-Kaisa Salmi • University of Oulu
The domestication of animals has traditionally been understood in terms of human control over the animal’s lives and the subsequent morphological, genetic and population structure change. However, this approach is not sufficient for understanding the domestication of the reindeer, or in fact, the early domestication processes of many other animal species. The commonly used domestication markers, such as morphological, genetic and population structure changes are not likely to reflect domestication in the reindeer as clearly as in many other species because of the limited and varying human influence on the reindeer’s life cycle in past reindeer pastoralism.
This presentation explores alternative ways to identify and understand reindeer domestication. Specifically, I will explore possibilities for tracing human-reindeer interactions such as draught reindeer use and reindeer feeding in the archaeological record as markers of domestication. Understanding domestication in the context on human-animal interaction is in line with current definition of animal domestication as a wide range of mutualistic relationship between human and animals. Furthermore, it allows a range of new archaeological techniques to be used as domestication markers. This lecture will present some the first archaeological results on past reindeer feeding and draught reindeer use, and their implications for human-reindeer relationships.
Feb 01, 2021 from 06:30 PM to 08:30 PM
Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 4, R. 28 and online
Dr. Alexander Gramsch, M.Phil. • Frankfurt a. M.
Feb 03, 2021 from 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
Leibnizstraße 1, Raum 204 / virtual meeting
Internes Treffen
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Feb 08, 2021 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
Virtual meeting
Alison Sheridan • National Museums Scotland
Abstract coming soon.
Feb 15, 2021 from 06:30 PM to 08:30 PM
Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 4, R. 28 and online
Dr. Viktória Kiss • Academy of Sciences, Budapest
Feb 17, 2021 from 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
Leibnizstraße 1, Raum 204 / virtual meeting
Internes Treffen
Hybrides Treffen (attandace & digital)