Reading Circle: Conflict/Conciliation on "Sanctioned Violence/Cosmology of Violence in Early China"
Aug 26, 2022 from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Virtual meeting
If you would like to participate, please contact Anna K. Loy aloy@roots.uni-kiel.de
Aug 26, 2022 from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Virtual meeting
If you would like to participate, please contact Anna K. Loy aloy@roots.uni-kiel.de
Oct 04, 2022 from 12:00 PM to 02:00 PM
Room 105, LS1
ROOTS Executive Board Meeting*
*not open to the public
Oct 05, 2022 to Oct 07, 2022
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Conference "3 Dark Depth project".
More information will follow in due time.
Nov 01, 2022 from 12:00 PM to 02:00 PM
Room 105, LS1
ROOTS Executive Board Meeting*
*not open to the public
Nov 07, 2022 from 07:00 PM to 09:00 PM
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Nov 14, 2022 from 07:00 PM to 09:00 PM
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Nov 21, 2022 from 07:00 PM to 09:00 PM
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Dec 06, 2022 from 12:00 PM to 02:00 PM
Room 105, LS1
ROOTS Executive Board Meeting*
*not open to the public
Dec 12, 2022 from 07:00 PM to 09:00 PM
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Dec 19, 2022 from 07:00 PM to 09:00 PM
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Jan 09, 2023 from 07:00 PM to 09:00 PM
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Jan 16, 2023 from 07:00 PM to 09:00 PM
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Jan 23, 2023 from 07:00 PM to 09:00 PM
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Jan 30, 2023 from 07:00 PM to 09:00 PM
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Feb 23, 2023 12:00 AM to Feb 25, 2023 12:00 AM
Amber in prehistory is still a big and important topic. Therefore, we would like to invite you to a joint workshop on amber as a "link between knowledge and societies" in the framework of the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS in Kiel.
The aim of the workshop is to gain an overview of the European amber trade from the Late Neolithic to the Iron Age, less with regard to possible exchange routes than to the social aspect of the people who had access to amber. The main topic will be the social context of amber.
Symposia on amber have a long tradition since the analysis of Baltic amber by C.W. Beck. Much has been discussed about origin, exchange and possible course of exchange routes. We know in which regions amber appears in the archaeological find context and about its frequency in the individual regions. But what was its importance for the societies of that time and which group of people really had access to this strange stone from the north. Is amber just as important in the north at its source as it was in far away Mycenae? Who wore the large amber necklaces, who wore only pendants, who had access to raw amber? Who worked it? Were its flammable and electrostatic properties known? These are all questions we want to explore together in this workshop in order to gain as comprehensive a Europe-wide understanding as possible of the importance of amber in different societies.
Individual presentations will provide an overview of the social environments in which amber occurs. Does it occur primarily in dumps, in graves, or in settlements? Is it socialized with women and children or different age groups, or is it only encountered in rich graves or special burials? What does this say about the appreciation of amber in each society? Is it possible to find uniform patterns across Europe and do they differ depending on how close they are to the resource amber (succinite/simetite/ruminite)? Do we know which groups of people were involved in the amber trade or its processing and which group of people or region benefited from it?
We will try to answer the following questions in our workshop.
The workshop is scheduled for 3 days, February 23-25, 2023. An excursion to one of the amber-rich coasts on the North Sea with a museum visit is planned.
This Workshop is organised by the subcluster Knowledge in the context of the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS of Kiel University.
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Presentation award for ROOTS PhD students by the International Society for Hunter-Gatherer Research
Special guest in Kiel: Panel discussion with and lecture by David Wengrow
People in ROOTS: Carenza Lewis
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The new ROOTS image movie: Complex science in three and a half minutes
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The ‘Lost Cities’ project is back in Mongolia
New high-resolution climate archive from Andalusia
Conference on Urban Dynamics in the Middle Ages
3400 BC – The earliest documentation of the wheel and wagon comes from Northern Germany
Deportationen im Perserreich in teispidisch-achaimenidischer Zeit / Chiara Matarese
Between Plague and Typhoid Fever – the Hanseatic City of Lübeck in the 14th Century
Rare Diseases in the Bronze Age
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IPN Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education |
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology | German Archaeological Institute |
Institutes
Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University | Institute of Geosciences, Kiel University | Institute for Ecosystem Research, Kiel University | Institute of Geography, Kiel University | Institute of Classical Studies, Ancient History, Kiel University | Institute of Classical Studies, Classical Philology, Kiel University | Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, aDNA, Kiel University | Institute of History, Kiel University | Department of Computer Science, Kiel University | Institute for Material Science, Kiel University | Institute of Philosophy, Kiel University | Institute of Scandinavian, Frisian and General Linguistics, Kiel University | Institute of Economics, Kiel University | Institute of German Studies, Kiel University | Institute of Romance Studies, Kiel University | Institute of New Testament Studies and Judaism, Kiel University | Leibniz Laboratory for Radiometric Dating and Stable Isotope Research