Calendar

Dec 07, 2023 12:00 PM — Leibnizstraße 1 - R.209a ROOTS 2 Proposal*
Dec 07, 2023 02:15 PM — Leibnizstraße 3, R. 123 Palaeoecological Colloquium (POEC)
Dec 07, 2023 06:00 PM — Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 2-6, R. 14, 24118 Kiel, Germany Christmas Party
Dec 11, 2023 06:30 PM — Hybride Veranstaltung (Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 2-6, Johanna-Mestorf-Hörsaal/Online) Archäologisches Kolloquium: "Archaeology of the Flea Market: Dynamics between humans, space, and things within the total context."
Dec 12, 2023 10:00 AM — Room 123, Leibnizstr. 3 Social Inequality Forum: “Principles of Inequality in 5th millennium calBC burial sites of the south-eastern European Copper Age”

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5 December 2023

Languages are louder in the tropics

23 November 2023

Cambridge University honours Kiel archaeologist

22 November 2023

Kinder und Jugendliche bauen auf Föhr frühmittelalterliches Grubenhaus nach

10 November 2023

Surprising finds: Kiel researchers investigate Duisburg's regional history

5 October 2023

Science Day in Kiel: Great interest in research on the human past

26 September 2023

Welcome to Joseph L. Rife as new JMA Chair

Fieldwork + Activities

12 October 2023

ROOTS field campaign investigates Late Neolithic settlement in present-day Serbia

28 September 2023

First research trip of Project W.A.L.D. completed

1 June 2023

ROOTS Seminar Series: New platform for interactive research exchange successfully launched

09 May 2023

The return to a Bronze Age village in Hungary

28 March 2023

Tracing past cultures with cutting-edge technology

20 March 2023

Kiel Conference 2023: Publish Proceedings now!

Publications

30 November 2023

Cities in Past, Present, and Future

25 October 2023

Were early societies dependent on climate? – ROOTS study published in PLOS ONE –

19 September 2023

Homo homini lupus est? Images of Human Beings and the Unknown: Interaction and Perception

22 August 2023

The socio-spatial organisation of ancient cities - New volume funded by ROOTS published open access

18 August 2023

Imaginations of the Western European City from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

2 August 2023

The mobility of people, goods and ideas since the Stone Age

Participating Institutions

Kiel University

Johanna Mestorf Academy

Archaeological State Museum Schloss Gottorf

Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology (ZBSA)


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