Oct 18, 2021 from 06:30 PM to 08:30 PM
Hybrid Meeting (Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 2-6, Johanna-Mestorf-Hörsaal/Online)
Dr. Ester Oras and Dr. Mari Tõrv • Institute of Chemistry / Institute of History and Archaeology, University of Tartu
Jul 07, 2021 from 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
Virtual Meeting
"Settlements on former Shorelines: where and why"
Erica Corradini et al
Closing discussion/ Exhibition Task Force
Jul 05, 2021 from 06:30 PM to 08:30 PM
Virtual Meeting
Dr. Maikel H. G. Kuijpers • Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University
Jun 28, 2021 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
Virtual Meeting
Dr. Thomas Schuhmacher • German Archaeological Institute (Madrid Department)
The ›mega-site‹ of Valencina de la Concepción extends throughout the northeast limit of the Aljarafe Plateau, 6 km to the West of modern-day Seville in the South of Spain. It consists of a huge necropolis area with several monumental tombs and a settlement area which covers an area of about 200 hectares. In the margin of a project financed by the DFG the German Archaeological Institute investigates the Northern sector of this ›mega-site‹ by means of geophysical surveys, excavations and scientific studies. The geomagnetic survey of a surface of more than 19 ha. revealed a concentric system of at least five ditched enclosures and one smaller rectangular one, as well as a large amount of pits, semi-circular huts excavated in the ground, as well as possible hypogea. For the first time we have also been able to sequence the infill of almost all chalcolithic ditches by means of manual drillings. During the excavations carried out in the municipal plot of Cerro de la Cabeza a dense sequence of chalcolithic pits, semi-excavated huts and workshops have been documented and first stratigraphic cuts through some of the ditches have been undertaken. The chrono-typological definition of the ceramics, as well as a series of 14C dates obtained by AMS begin to reveal the sequence of the settlement. Beginning in the late Neolithic/Early Chalcolithic (end of the 4th millennium BC) it experiments its peak occupation during the Middle Chalcolithic (first half of the 3rd millennium BC). During its transition to the Late Chalcolithic (mid 3rd millennium BC) there seems to be a reduction in the size of the settlement, seeming to become even more reduced during the Bell-Baker phase. At about 2200 BC the excavation of ditches as well as the settlement itself suddenly ends. We also present some evidence that seems to indicate a short and not very intense re-occupation of the Cerro de la Cabeza area during the later Early Bronze Age (beginning of the 2nd millennium BC).
Jun 23, 2021 from 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
Virtual Meeting
"Conceptualizing an anatomy of transformations: DPSIR, theorization, semiotics, and emergence"
Artur Ribeiro et al
"Scales of abstraction: The CRC 1266 conceptual approach from heterogeneous data to interpretations"
Nicole Taylor et al.
Jun 21, 2021 from 06:30 PM to 08:30 PM
Virtual Meeting
Dr. Thomas P. Leppard • Department of Anthropology, Florida State University / Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University
Jun 14, 2021 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
Virtual Meeting
Dr. Katharina Rebay-Salisbury • Austrian Archaeological Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Motherhood includes a range of cultural choices and practices in addition to the biological framework of sexual reproduction, which are subject to research within the ERC-Starting Grant funded project ‘The value of mothers to society’. This presentation will present the latest findings from new analytical approaches such as tracing the stress of pregnancies and childbirth in female skeletons, applying organic residue analysis to understand what prehistoric baby bottles contained, and using peptide analysis in children’s dental enamel to determine their sex. In the spirit of the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS, this talk will aim to focus on how changing environments may influence strategies of mothering and childrearing.
Jun 09, 2021 from 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
Virtual Meeting
"Archaeodemography in the Weichselian Lateglacial: Structural equation models as model for collaboration in the CRC?"
Tim Kerig et al.
"Indicators of transformation processes: Pattern recognition on settlement structures, climatic conditions and environmental data"
Franziska Engelbogen et al.
Jun 07, 2021 from 06:30 PM to 08:30 PM
Virtual Meeting
May 31, 2021 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
Virtual Meeting
Prof. Dr. Steven Ellis • Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati
Much is already well known about the urban shape of Pompeii by the time of its destruction in 79 CE. And though good inroads have been made into the various developments over time that brought it to this shape, still not all of these readings benefit from the sub-soil excavations of more recent years that have targeted the episodic growth spurts of the city. This lecture draws on some recent excavations at Pompeii to show the extent to which some of the most pivotal changes to the city occurred in the early Imperial period. These excavations, under the auspices of the University of Cincinnati and the American Academy in Rome, targeted two town blocks of the city, as well as several adjacent, civic structures (the fortification wall and gate, the streets, and the Quadriporticus); the excavations covered more than ten separate building plots (c. 4000m2) made up of shops, houses, and hospitality establishments. This ‘behind-the-scenes’ view of some of the latest excavations at Pompeii opens up an entirely new perspective on the city, with a special focus on the developments that reshaped the city - both socially and structurally - in the early Imperial period.
May 19, 2021 from 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
Virtual Meeting
"Agricultural Adaptation to climatic anomalies in the Late Holocene : palaeoclimate, palaeoenvironmental and archaeobotanical records for the Northern German Plain"
Dragana Filipović et al.
"Diachronic perspective of transformation processes"
Jutta Kneisel et al.
May 17, 2021 from 06:30 PM to 08:30 PM
Virtual Meeting
May 10, 2021 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
Virtual Meeting
Prof. Dr. Roland Hardenberg • Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main
This presentation focuses on the ritual practices of swidden cultivators in the highlands of Odisha (India) called Dongria Kond, who are recognised as one of the many tribal societies and original inhabitants (“Adivasi”) of this area. Like other Kond tribes, they regularly practice large scale buffalo sacrifices to their earth goddess, who is represented by a stone setting in the center of each village. The earth goddess is regarded as the mother of the Kond and is responsible for their well-being. However, she is only one of the many deities and spiritual beings who according to the Kond populate their environment. The sun and the moon, the wind and the rain, mountains and hills, plants and animals, forests and rivers – the whole socio-cosmic space is, in the view of the Kond, populated by various powers with whom they maintain relationships. Ritual practices such as the buffalo sacrifices are major occasions when these relationships are activated and maintained through communication, possession and the sacrifice of animals and food. Some of these divine actors are represented by stones of varying sizes, including large megaliths representing the husband of the earth goddess. The presentation will particularly focus on the nexus between stones, deities, social categories, sacrificial offerings, and local notions of well-being.
May 05, 2021 from 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
Virtual Meeting
"Scales and dimensions of political practice and patterns of power relations in Prehistory"
Maria Wunderlich et al.
"Creation of cultural landscapes: decision-making and perception within specific ecological settings"
Marta Dal Corso et al.
May 03, 2021 from 06:30 PM to 08:30 PM
Virtual Meeting
Dr. Astrid Stobbe • Institute of Archaeological Sciences, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main
Apr 26, 2021 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
Virtual Meeting
Dr. Bela Dimova • British School at Athens
This paper will explore the roles which textiles and textile technology played in periods of social change among different societies in the Aegean, the Italic peninsula, and central Europe. We will focus on two main themes: social stratification and the changing organisation of production. During the 8th–5th century BC, societies in different parts of Europe underwent parallel developments, including the increase in visible hierarchies and the growth of settlements, sometimes categorised as urban. The conspicuous consumption of textiles, played an important role in this process. Elites used textiles in different ways in key arenas of social competition – burials, weddings, religious activities. The archaeological record for this includes remains of cloth in burials, iconography of dress and furnishings, in addition to literary sources. We will explore the parallels and different regional traditions in the ways elites used textiles to assert and materialise local identities or wider connections, to show off wealth or demureness. The organisation of textile production offers another perspective on social change, by considering the issues of standardisation, specialisation, and the growing importance of exchange. While some aspects of textile manufacture changed (e.g., yarn manufacture), others did not. Despite the limited evidence for textile workshops, households remained important sites of production, which tells us something both about the nature of the craft and the socio-economic context in which it was practiced.
Apr 21, 2021 from 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
Virtual Meeting
"Exhibition Task Force: Everything remains different? – Getting to the point and sharpening research content!"
Anna Elena Reuter et al.
Apr 19, 2021 from 06:30 PM to 08:30 PM
Virtual Meeting
Dr. Evita Kalogiropoulou • Department of Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Apr 12, 2021 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
Virtual Meeting
Dr. Michael Kempf • Institute of Archaeology and Museology, Masaryk University, Brno
Functional landscape connectivity and spatial distribution of resource patches have long been considered important driving factors of human-environment interactions. In this context, human activity spheres, movement patterns, and situational decision-making represent the spatio-temporal expression of how individuals and groups perceive and transform their immediate surroundings in the process of landscape construction. This process is based on various environmental and cognitive variables such as group memory or individual demands and perceptions – a combination of different empirically, theoretically, and methodologically derived concepts, which are not often included jointly in archaeological and geographical research. A potential approach to overcome these limitations is the concept of landscape affordances, which entails dynamic and processual feedbacks of an individual or a group and the environment in the moment of mutual interaction and integrates human ingenuity in the production of landscapes, ecological processes, and sociocultural patterns. Deriving from psychology research of the late 1970’s by James J. Gibson, affordances describe the phenomena of propositions emanating from objects within a specific environment. Consequently, landscape affordances are non-static, actual, and potential confrontations between observer and particular resources or functions distributed among the accessible realm of the observer. In this lecture, the conceptual framework of landscape affordances is used to evaluate its potential in computational landscape archaeology and geography through the integration of different temporal scales and time-series analyses.
Feb 17, 2021 from 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
Leibnizstraße 1, Raum 204 / virtual meeting
Internes Treffen
Hybrides Treffen (attandace & digital)
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 08, 2021 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
Virtual meeting
Alison Sheridan • National Museums Scotland
Megalithic chamber tombs – of widely varying shape and size – and non-megalithic funerary monuments loom large in the visible traces of Scotland’s Neolithic, but they formed just one element in a diverse range of practices concerned with dealing with, relating to, and commemorating the dead. This lecture explores this diversity and draws out the regional and chronological trends that can now be discerned, thanks to our growing body of radiocarbon dates. It also attempts to understand the origins, meanings and significance of these funerary monuments, and to identify the ‘drivers’ for the specific trajectories of change that we see.
Feb 03, 2021 from 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
Leibnizstraße 1, Raum 204 / virtual meeting
Internes Treffen
Hybrides Treffen (attandace & digital)
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.
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.
Jan 20, 2021 from 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
Leibnizstraße 1, Raum 204 / virtual meeting
Internes Treffen
Hybrides Treffen (attandace & digital)
Jan 18, 2021 from 06:30 PM to 08:30 PM
Online
Johannes Müller-Kissing • Detmold
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.
Dec 16, 2020 from 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
Online
Internes Treffen (Online)
Dec 15, 2020 from 05:00 PM to 06:30 PM
Online
Social diversity and conflict: a Neolithic lockdown?
In the framework of a Bournemouth University/Kiel University Joint Seminar, the ROOTS Social Inequalities Forum will host two presentations:
The programme of the 2020/2021 winter term Bournemouth University "Department of Archaeology & Anthropology Research Seminars" (including the relevant login data) can be downloaded here.