Biweekly Colloquia: Title t.b.c. (Monica Juneja / Heidelberg University)
Jan 30, 2023 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
Leibnizstraße 1, room 204
Biweekly Colloquia Archive
Biweekly Colloquia: From the existing to the new. How creativity shapes the future (Joanna Sofaer / University of Southampton)
Jan 16, 2023 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
Online - virtual
Joanna Sofaer • University of Southampton
ONLY ONLINE:
Biweekly Colloquia: Drowned Stone Age settlements at Hjarnø. Latest results and future initiatives (Peter Moe Astrup / Moesgaard Museum)
Dec 05, 2022 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
Leibnizstraße 1, room 204
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Biweekly Colloquia: Archaeobotanical analysis of food remains: Background, methods and case studies (Lara Gonzalez Carretero / University of York)
Nov 21, 2022 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
Leibnizstraße 1, room 204
Biweekly Colloquia: Tactical simulation and data quality: A successful couple? (Alfredo Cortell-Nicolau / University of Cambridge)
Nov 07, 2022 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
Leibnizstraße 1, room 204
Biweekly Colloquia: Modelling past political landscapes and settlement hierar- chies: A case study from Southwest Asia (Alessio Palmisano / University of Turin)
Oct 24, 2022 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
Leibnizstraße 1, room 204
Biweekly Colloquium: “Regional interrelations in Europe during the first millenium BC”
Jul 11, 2022 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
Virtual Meeting
Patrice Brun • Professor emeritus, Sorbonne, Paris, France
“Regional interrelations in Europe during the first millenium BC.”
For more information and the videoconference link, please contact:
office@sfb1266.uni-kiel.de or office@roots.uni-kiel.de
Biweekly Colloquium: Panel and Talk with: David Wengrow, University College London, UK
Jun 30, 2022 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
Panel and talk in two different venues!!
1. Panel : "Have we progressed? Panel discussion with Kiel archaeologists on socio-environmental transformations"
Joining the panel: Berit Eriksen, Martin Furholt, Tim Kerig, Johannes Müller, René Ohlrau, Henny Piezonka, Artur Ribeiro
Time: 14.15-16.00 h
Venue: Johanna-Mestorf-Hörsaal – Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Johanna-Mestorf-Str. 4, Rm. 28, Kiel University
2. Biweekly Colloquium/Talk: “Slavery and its rejection among foragers on the Pacific coast of North America.”
Time: 16.15-17.45 h
Venue: Audimax Hörsaal C - Christian-Albrechts-Platz 2 (CAP2)
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You can see the panel discussion and the talk live via ZOOM or the ROOTS YouTube channel.
ZOOM
Link: https://uni-kiel.zoom.us/j/66357996761?pwd=aWZkN01ucGdXMng0OW5JeEkra2NWUT09
Meeting-ID: 663 5799 6761
Kenncode: 729956
YouTube
Panel:
https://youtu.be/nSe5UQRr9DI
Talk
https://youtu.be/VVDqOBU9xIk
Biweekly Colloquium: “The Legacy of Glacial Contexts in Norway. Keywords: Dynamic cultural environment, archaeology, frozen fauna and glaciology.”
Jun 13, 2022 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
Leibnizstraße 1, Room 105
Birgitte Skar • Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Oslo, Norway
“The Legacy of Glacial Contexts in Norway. Keywords: Dynamic cultural environment, archaeology, frozen fauna and glaciology.”
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Link: https://uni-kiel.zoom.us/j/66357996761?pwd=aWZkN01ucGdXMng0OW5JeEkra2NWUT09
Meeting-ID: 663 5799 6761
Kenncode: 729956
Biweekly Colloquium: “Extractive entanglements: Mining and the cosmologies of mineral resources in early modern period”
May 23, 2022 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
Leibnizstraße 1, Room 105
Tina Asmussen • Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum, Germany
“Extractive entanglements: Mining and the cosmologies of mineral resources in early modern period.”
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Biweekly Colloquium: "Pastoral practices and the evolution of mountain landscapes: case studies from the Alps"
May 09, 2022 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
Virtual Meeting
Francesco Carrer • Newcastle University, UK
“Pastoral practices and the evolution of mountain landscapes: case studies from the Alps.”
For more information and the videoconference link, please contact:
office@sfb1266.uni-kiel.de or office@roots.uni-kiel.de
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Biweekly Colloquium: “Life after the Storegga Tsunami? Investigating capacities of Mesolithic societies”
Apr 25, 2022 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
Leibnizstraße 1, Room 105
Astrid Nyland • Faculty of Performing Arts at University of Stavanger, Norway
"Life After the Storegga Tsunami? Investigating capacities of Mesolithic societies."
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Biweekly Colloquium: “Things and Monuments as Resources of Sociality. On Social Transformations in Etruria and the Magna Graecia in the First Millennium BC”
Jan 31, 2022 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
Virtual Meeting
Dr. Beat Schweizer • Institute of Classical Archaeology, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen
Things and Monuments as Resources of Sociality. On Social Transformations in Etruria and the Magna Graecia in the First Millennium BC
Biweekly Colloquium: “Conjunctions and Disjunctions in Interpretations of European Iron Age Socio-temporal Meshworks”
Jan 17, 2022 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
Format to be confirmed
Prof. Dr. Bettina Arnold • Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Conjunctions and Disjunctions in Interpretations of European Iron Age Socio-temporal Meshworks
The archaeological record presents us with a conflated material record of interactions that are the product of horizontal meshworks at several geographic scales simultaneously. In addition to temporalities that reflect potentially different meshworks depending on the archaeological context in question (settlement vs. mortuary deposits, for example), these interactions were engaged in by actors belonging to different social categories based on age, gender, role and status. While some individuals may have moved vertically between these layers of relational systems most did not and yet we analyze the material traces of the interactions that occurred in Iron Age contexts as though they occurred within a single relational plane. Based on the extensive data sets and new methodologies now available to us it has become clear that interaction and mobility patterns were differentiated along several different axes geographically, temporally and socially. We must find ways of distinguishing between these conjunctive and disjunctive planes to develop a more complete picture of the various modes of early Iron Age communication and interaction. It should be possible to develop a more nuanced approach to this interpretive challenge with specific reference to the still emerging and by now quite extensive mortuary evidence from the West Hallstatt area, which will serve as the case study for this presentation.
Biweekly Colloquium: “Feeding Anglo-Saxon England: The Bioarchaeology of an ‘Agricultural Revolution’ ”
Dec 06, 2021 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
Virtual Meeting
Prof. Dr. Helena Hamerow • School of Archaeology, University of Oxford
Feeding Anglo-Saxon England: The Bioarchaeology of an ‘Agricultural Revolution’
The early medieval ‘agricultural revolution’ saw the advent of extensive forms of cereal farming that supported the exceptionally rapid growth of towns, markets and populations. The spread of open-field farming in particular is regarded as one of the transformative changes of the Middle Ages, one that has left a clear mark on the landscape today. Historians and archaeologists studying these developments in England have had to rely on a few pre-Conquest texts, post-medieval maps and scatters of potsherds associated with manuring when investigating the ‘cerealisation’ of the early medieval countryside. The project ‘Feeding Anglo-Saxon England’ (FeedSax) addresses an ongoing debate regarding the origins and spread of new forms of cereal farming in England between c AD 700-1300 from the perspective of bioarchaeology (plant macrofossils, animal bones, and pollen). This talk presents an overview of some of FeedSax’s results, which constitute direct evidence for the conditions in which medieval crops were grown.
Biweekly Colloquium: “Persistence, Land Use and Sustainability: Exploring Long-term Trends in Urban Duration in the Fertile Crescent”
Nov 22, 2021 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
Virtual Meeting
Prof. Dr. Dan Lawrence • Department of Archaeology, Durham University
Persistence, Land Use and Sustainability: Exploring Long-term Trends in Urban Duration in the Fertile Crescent
The Fertile Crescent, encompassing present-day Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan and southeast Turkey, saw the emergence of the world’s first indigenous urban communities ca. 6,000 years ago, with cities a feature of the region ever since. These developed in diverse environmental settings, including the dry-farming plains of Northern Mesopotamia, the irrigated alluvium of Southern Mesopotamia and the more variegated landscapes of the Levant. The emergence of cities also coincides with a decoupling of settlement and climate trends, suggesting urbanism may have enhanced the adaptive capacity of societies to withstand changing climatic conditions. Urban forms followed a variety of different trajectories, with a much more sporadic and episodic history in the dry farming plains of the North and West of the study region compared to the stable build up in the irrigated South. In this paper we use a dataset of several thousand urban sites spanning the entire region and dating from the earliest urban forms to later territorial empires, to examine trends in urban sustainability through time. We use duration of occupation as a proxy for sustainability and compare urban trajectories at a variety of scales. Such an approach allows us to examine the relationships between city size, environmental conditions, infrastructural investment and urban sustainability. Our results show that the millennial timescales available through archaeology can allow us to identify the sorts of political, social, and ecological conditions required for urban sites to persist through time.
Biweekly Colloquium: “Nuna Nalluyuituq (The Land Remembers): Combining ethnographic inquiry and remote sensing to study traditional Yup’ik subsistence in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta”
Nov 08, 2021 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
rid Meeting (Leibnizstraße 1, R. 204/Online)
Prof. Dr. Sean Gleason • Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia
Nuna Nalluyuituq (The Land Remembers): Combining ethnographic inquiry and remote sensing to study traditional Yup’ik subsistence in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta
This lecture outlines a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach to the study of Yup’ik subsistence in Southwest Alaska's Yukon-Kuskokwim (Y-K) Delta. Because distinctive vegetation patterns appear on ancestral cultural sites during the summer months, the analysis of multispectral imagery in combination with local Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) is useful for classifying, documenting, and studying the cyclical, year-long practice of Yup’ik subsistence known collectively as Yuuyaraq (trans. “The way we genuinely live”). In sum, this lecture highlights the role of Yuuyaraq in past Yup’ik societies before considering how these practices have changed and what ethnographic inquiry and remote sensing can tell us today about these changes.
Biweekly Colloquium: “Linking Settlement and Quarry: Chert Acquisition from Early to Late Neolithic on the Southeastern Swabian Alb”
Oct 25, 2021 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
Hybrid Meeting (Leibnizstraße 1, R. 204 / Online
Prof. Dr. Lynn E. Fisher • Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Illinois Springfield
Linking Settlement and Quarry: Chert Acquisition from Early to Late Neolithic on the Southeastern Swabian Alb
Biweekly Colloquium: The chalcolithic >mega site< of Valencina de la Concepcíon (Seville): New investigations in the Northern Sector (Thomas Schuhmacher)
Jun 28, 2021 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
Virtual
CRC 1266/ROOTS Biweekly Colloquium:
"The chalcolithic >mega site< of Valencina de la Concepcíon (Seville): New investigations in the Northern Sector" (Thomas Schuhmacher, DAI)
Abstract
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).
For more information and the videoconference link, please contact the CRC1266 at office@sfb1266.uni-kiel.de or the ROOTS office at office@roots.uni-kiel.de
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Biweekly Colloquium: Motherhood and environment in Bronze Age Central Europe (Katharina Rebay-Salisbury)
Jun 14, 2021 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
virtual
CRC 1266/ROOTS Biweekly Colloquium:
"Motherhood and environment in Bronze Age Central Europe" (Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, Austrian Academy of Science)
Burial of a 12-14 year-old girl from Franzhausen I, c. 2000 BC © Bundesdenkmalamt Wien
Abstract:
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.
For more information and the videoconference link, please contact the CRC1266 at office@sfb1266.uni-kiel.de or the ROOTS office at office@roots.uni-kiel.de
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Biweekly Colloquium: The (Re)Shaping of Pompeii in the Early Imperial Period: New insights from the Porta Stabia neighbourhood (Steven Ellis)
May 31, 2021 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
virtual
CRC 1266/ROOTS Biweekly Colloquium:
"The (Re)Shaping of Pompeii in the Early Imperial Period: New insights from the Porta Stabia neighbourhood" (Steven Hellis, University of Cincinnati)
Abstract:
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.
For more information and the videoconference link, please contact the CRC1266 at office@sfb1266.uni-kiel.de or the ROOTS office at office@roots.uni-kiel.de
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Biweekly Colloquium: Animated stones and animal sacrifices in the highlands of Odisha (India): environment as socio-cosmic order (Roland Hardenberg)
May 10, 2021 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
virtual
CRC 1266/ROOTS Biweekly Colloquium:
"Animated stones and animal sacrifices in the highlands of Odisha (India): environment as socio-cosmic order" (Roland Hardenberg, Goethe Universität Frankfurt)
Abstract:
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.
For more information and the videoconference link, please contact the CRC1266 at office@sfb1266.uni-kiel.de or the ROOTS office at office@roots.uni-kiel.de
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Biweekly Colloquium: Social change and textile technology: a comparative perspective on the Aegean, Italy, and central Europe during the first millennium BC (Bela Dimova)
Apr 26, 2021 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
CRC 1266/ROOTS Biweekly Colloquium:
"Social change and textile technology: a comparative perspective on the Aegean, Italy, and central Europe during the first millennium BC" (Bela Dimova, British School at Athens)
Abstract:
Social change and textile technology: a comparative perspective on the Aegean, Italy, and central Europe during the first millennium BC
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.
For more information and the videoconference link, please contact the CRC1266 at office@sfb1266.uni-kiel.de or the ROOTS office at office@roots.uni-kiel.de
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Biweekly Colloquium: Landscape affordances - methodological approaches in computational archaeology (Michael Kempf)
Apr 12, 2021 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
virtual
CRC 1266/ROOTS Biweekly Colloquium:
"Landscape affordances - methodological approaches in computational archaeology" (Michael Kempf, Masaryk University)
Abstract:
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.
For more information and the videoconference link, please contact the CRC1266 at office@sfb1266.uni-kiel.de or the ROOTS office at office@roots.uni-kiel.de
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Biweekly Colloquium: “Making Sense of Scottish Neolithic Funerary Monuments and Practices”
Feb 08, 2021 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
virtual meeting
Alison Sheridan • National Museums Scotland
Making Sense of Scottish Neolithic Funerary Monumentsand Practices
Abstract:
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.
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Mini-biog:
Dr Alison Sheridan recently retired, in 2019, as Principal Archaeological Research Curator in National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, having worked there since 1987 after obtaining her doctorate on the Irish Neolithic from the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on the Scottish Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age in their wider European context, and she specialises in pottery, stone axeheads, and jewellery of jet, faience and gold. She has been a member of several major national and international projects including the Beaker People Project and Projet JADE, and was the Principal Investigator on an AHRC-funded project to create a Research Network to formulate a Research Framework and Strategy for Chalcolithic and Bronze Age gold in Britain’s auriferous regions. She was the President of the Prehistoric Society 2010–2014, and was made a Corresponding Member of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut in 2017, a Fellow of the British Academy in 2019 after winning the Academy’s Grahame Clark medal in 2018, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2020. Most recently, last December she has presented the 2020 series of 6 lectures on Neolithic Scotland in honour of Alexander Henry Rhind for the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. You can view these on the Society’s Youtube channel.
Biweekly Colloquium: “Domestication in Action – On the Archaeology of Human- Reindeer Interaction”
Jan 25, 2021 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
virtual meeting
Anna-Kaisa Salmi • University of Oulu
Domestication in Action – On the Archaeology of Human-Reindeer Interaction
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.
Biweekly Colloquium: “The Lesser Grains. Millet Consumption in Prehistoric Italy”
Jan 11, 2021 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
virtual meeting
Mary Anne Tafuri • Sapienza University of Rome
The Lesser Grains. Millet Consumption in Prehistoric Italy
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.
Biweekly Colloquium: “Dispersal 2.0: Population History and the Spread of Early Farming in Europe”
Dec 07, 2020 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
virtual meeting
Marc Vander Linden • University of Cambridge
Dispersal 2.0: Population History and the Spread of Early Farming in Europe
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.
Biweekly Colloquium: “Dynamics and Communication of Prehistoric Societies in the Central Alpine Region. Concepts on Mobility, Networks and Transformation”
Nov 23, 2020 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
virtual meeting
Mirco Brunner • University of Bern
Dynamics and Communication of Prehistoric Societies in the Central Alpine Region. Concepts on Mobility, Networks and Transformation
Abstract coming soon.
Biweekly Colloquium: “Uncovering the Archaeological Landscape of the Veluwe; Central Netherlands, through Remote Sensing, Data Science and Citizen Science”
Nov 09, 2020 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
virtual meeting
Karsten Lambers • Leiden University
Uncovering the Archaeological Landscape of the Veluwe; Central Netherlands, through Remote Sensing, Data Science and Citizen Science
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.
Biweekly Colloquium: "Connectivities of herding"
Jul 13, 2020 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
virtual meeting
ROOTS/CRC 1266 Biweekly Colloquium.
The colloquium will take place virtually.
Prof. Dr. Cheryl Makarewicz (Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University): „Connectivities of herding“
Biweekly Colloquium: „Outline of a Philosophy of Archaeology“
Jun 29, 2020 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
virtual meeting
ROOTS/CRC 1266 Biweekly Colloquium.
The colloquium will take place virtually.
Prof. Dr. Konrad Ott (Department of Philosophy, Kiel University): „Outline of a Philosophy of Archaeology“
Abstract will follow.
Biweekly Colloquium: „Transcontinental connectivities of hunter gatherers“
Jun 15, 2020 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
virtual meeting
ROOTS/CRC 1266 Biweekly Colloquium.
The colloquium will take place virtually.
Prof. Dr. Henny Piezonka (Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University):
„Transcontinental connectivities of hunter gatherers“
Abstract will follow.
Biweekly Colloquium: „Epidemics and Connectivities"
May 25, 2020 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
virtual meeting
ROOTS/CRC 1266 Biweekly Colloquium.
The colloquium will take place virtually.
Prof. Dr. Ben Krause-Kyora (Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Kiel University): „Epidemics and Connectivities"
Abstract will follow.
Biweekly Colloquium: „Hydrological hazards in the past - an Eastern Mediterranean narrative“
May 18, 2020 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
virtual meeting
ROOTS/CRC 1266 Biweekly Colloquium.
The colloquium will take place virtually.
Prof. Dr. Ingmar Unkel (Institute for Ecosystem Research, Kiel University):
„Hydrological hazards in the past - an Eastern Mediterranean narrative“
Abstract will follow.
Biweekly Colloquium: „Urbanity and Connectivities“
May 04, 2020 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
virtual meeting
ROOTS/CRC 1266 Biweekly Colloquium.
The colloquium will take place virtually.
Prof. Dr. Annette Haug (Institute of Classical Studies / Classical Archaeology, Kiel University): „Urbanity and Connectivities“
Abstract will follow.
Biweekly Colloquium: “Words are not enough. Materiality of funerary rituals in Roman Pompeii”
Feb 10, 2020 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
Leibnizstr. 1, room 204
ROOTS/CRC 1266 Biweekly Colloquium.
Prof. William van Andringa, University of Lille, with a paper titled: “Words are not enough. Materiality of funerary rituals in Roman Pompeii”.
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Biweekly Colloquium: “Time and temporality: integrating new scientific chronologies into approaches to European prehistory”
Jan 13, 2020 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
Leibnizstr. 1, room 204
ROOTS/CRC 1266 Biweekly Colloquium.
Dr. Seren Griffiths, University of Central Lancashire, with a paper titled: “Time and temporality: integrating new scientific chronologies into approaches to European prehistory”.
Biweekly Colloquium: “Manifestation of economy changes in the Middle Bronze Age Moravia”
Dec 09, 2019 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
Leibnizstr. 1, room 204
ROOTS/CRC 1266 Biweekly Colloquium.
Dr. Klára Šabatová, Masaryk University, with a paper titled:
“Manifestation of economy changes in the Middle Bronze Age Moravia.
The Middle Bronze Age (local 1600 - 1300 BC) is a transition period between the Early Bronze Age with its Neolithic tradition and the Urnfield period with the homogeneous-looking society. The objective of this paper is to present particular changes in the context. It will discuss the period based on the new radiocarbon data, the change of material of artefacts, the structural change in the Middle Bronze Age settlement - which is in Moravia represented by dispersed lowland sites, recurring structures of timber-framed and post hole houses - and the transformation of settlement features. The occurrence of hilltop settlements is still assumed only at the beginning and at the end of the Middle Bronze Age. We can see changes in crop husbandry and sufficient livestock breeding. From this point of view is the short time of the Middle Bronze Age a period of significant transition that is conditioned by economic prosperity. The question remains whether the increasing number of archaeological traces is related to real population growth or a change of the nature of the living culture."
Download the abstract here
Biweekly Colloquium: “Mobility, territoriality and transformations in Northern Italy from the Bell Beaker period to the Terramare and Frattesina”
Nov 25, 2019 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
Leibnizstr. 1, room 204
ROOTS/CRC 1266 Biweekly Colloquium.
Dr. Claudio Cavazzuti, Museo delle Civiltà (Rome, Ministry of Culture), with a paper titled: “Mobility, territoriality and transformations in Northern Italy from the Bell Beaker period to the Terramare and Frattesina”.
Biweekly Colloquium: “Not drowning but waving! Doggerland and the Lost Frontiers Project”
Nov 11, 2019 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
Leibnizstr. 1, room 204
ROOTS/CRC 1266 Biweekly Colloquium.
Prof. Vincent Gaffney, University of Bradford, with a paper titled: "Not drowning but waving! Doggerland and the Lost Frontiers Project”.
Biweekly Colloquium: “Community structure of copper supply networks in the prehistoric Balkans: An independent evaluation of the archaeological record from the 7th to the 4th millennium BC” (Dr. Miljana Radivojević - University College London)
Jul 01, 2019 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
Leibnizstr. 3, room 204
Dr. Miljana Radivojević • University College London: “Community structure of copper supply networks in the prehistoric Balkans: An independent evaluation of the archaeological record from the 7th to the 4th millennium BC”
