Oct 27, 2020 from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
ROOTS Social Inequalities Forum: Tales from the Burial Mound: Preliminary Results from Research Project T1.2 (2nd of 3 sessions).
All interested persons are welcome to attend. Please email tkerig@roots.uni-kiel.de for the Zoom room code.
Oct 28, 2020 from 03:00 PM to 05:00 PM
Reflective Turn Forum, presentations by:
- Dana Zentgraf on her PhD project
- Gido Lukas on his PhD project
All interested persons are welcome to attend. Please email varponen@gshdl.uni-kiel.de for the Zoom room code.
Oct 29, 2020 02:00 PM to Oct 30, 2020 12:00 PM
ROOTS Executive Board Retreat.*
*Internal meeting
Oct 29, 2020 from 03:15 PM to 04:45 PM
ZOOM
If you would like to participate, please contact Dana Zentgraf (dzentgraf@roots.uni-kiel.de).
Oct 30, 2020 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)
Nov 02, 2020 from 06:30 PM to 08:30 PM
"Archäologisches Kolloquium":
- presentation by Dr. Alexandra Ion from the Anthropology Institute of the Romanian Academy in Bukarest on the "Settlements as assemblages of life and death in the Balkan (E)Neolithic.The case of human remains depositions."
The lecture will take place online, the access code will be provided at www.ufg.uni-kiel.de on time.
Contact: email: sekretariat@ufg.uni-kiel.de; telephone: 0431/880-2334
Nov 03, 2020 from 12:00 PM to 02:00 PM
ROOTS Executive Board Meeting*
*not open to the public
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 10, 2020 from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
ROOTS Social Inequalities Forum: Tales from the Burial Mound: Preliminary Results from Research Project T1.2 (3rd of 3 sessions).
All interested persons are welcome to attend. Please email tkerig@roots.uni-kiel.de for the Zoom room code.
Nov 16, 2020 from 06:30 PM to 08:30 PM
"Archäologisches Kolloquium":
- presentation “Wider die Krise – Mobilität als Resilienz Potential von jungneolithischen Siedlungsgemeinschaften des nördlichen Alpenvorlandes.“ by Dr. des. Caroline Heitz from Bern
The lecture will be hybrid or online, the access code will be provided at www.ufg.uni-kiel.de on time. Contact: email: sekretariat@ufg.uni-kiel.de; telephone: 0431/880-2334
Nov 22, 2020 from 01:00 PM to 04:00 PM
Schleswig - Schlossinseln
Communication Platform Meeting.
For more information please contact Ilka Rau (ilka.rau@zbsa.eu).
Nov 23, 2020 to Nov 24, 2020
Klaus-Murmann-Lecture Hall, Leibnizstr. 1, Kiel
POSTPONE!!!!
ROOTS Communication Platform Workshop “Public participation in archaeological research: Opportunities and Limitations”
More information will follow.
Nov 23, 2020 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
virtual meeting
Mirco Brunner • University of Bern
Abstract coming soon.
Nov 24, 2020 from 04:00 PM to 05:30 PM
Virtual
Presentation by Matthias Renz of the Center for Interdisciplinary Data Science (CIDS).
The presentation aims at illustrating the concept and structure of CIDS as well as the relevance for ROOTS research. Time for discussion after the presentation is also planned.
The event is open to all ROOTS members.
For the videoconference link, please write an email to: office@roots.uni-kiel.de
Nov 26, 2020 from 08:30 AM to 10:00 AM
ROOTS of Socio-environmental Hazards - Meeting.
Virtual Meeting (for the link please contact Prof. Ingmar Unkel)
Nov 26, 2020 from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Virtual
ROOTS Social Inequality Forum with Martin Mikkelsen (Viborg Museum).
Title: "Were unfree families an integrated part of the Nordic Bronze Age?"
Abstract: Through an analysis of 333 threeaisled longhouses from EBA-LBA I suggest that unfree families were in the same longhouse (when a farm only had one longhouse) or in a separate longhouse (when farms had two longhouses) as their 'owners'. Except from very few examples I reject the interpretation of BA longhouses as "wohnstallhäuser". If we accept my interpretation then not only high status but also ordinary farms had an unfree family as part of the then extended households a number of questions arise. For instance: When started the presence of unfree and were they present during the Iron Age until the thralls/slaves of the Viking Age? What kind of activities were normally carried out by the unfree? Were young unfree men and women part of the trade in return for cobber/tin/bronze? These and more questions will be addressed.
All interested persons are welcome to attend. Please email tkerig@roots.uni-kiel.de for the Zoom room code.
Nov 30, 2020 from 09:00 AM to 10:30 PM
Nov 30, 2020 from 06:30 PM to 08:30 PM
"Archäologisches Kolloquium":
- presentation “Mensch-Umwelt-Beziehungen im östlichen Mittelmeerraum - Geoarchäologische Untersuchungen in Göbekli Tepe (Türkei), Jawa (Jordanien) und Bubastis (Ägypten).“ by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Meister from the Institut für Geographie und Geologie in Würzburg
The lecture will be hybrid or online, the access code will be provided at www.ufg.uni-kiel.de on time. Contact: email: sekretariat@ufg.uni-kiel.de; telephone: 0431/880-2334
Dec 01, 2020 from 12:00 PM to 02:00 PM
ROOTS Executive Board Meeting*
*not open to the public
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 11, 2020 from 02:00 PM
ROOTS Annual Plenary Meeting and Christmas Party*
*Internal event for ROOTS members
Dec 14, 2020 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
Talk by Prof. Dr. Jörg Baten (Director Chair of Economic History, Tübingen University)
Abstract follows
Dec 14, 2020 from 06:30 PM to 08:30 PM
"Archäologisches Kolloquium":
- presentation “Über ein Bergwerk im südtiroler Hochgebirge –
700 Jahre Bergbau auf Silber, Blei und Zink am Schneeberg in Hinterpasseier.
Geschichte - Technik - Archäologie“ by Claus-Stephan Holdermann, M. A. from Innsbruck
The lecture will take place in a hybrid format, further information will be provided at www.ufg.uni-kiel.de on time.
Contact: email: sekretariat@ufg.uni-kiel.de; telephone: 0431/880-2334
Dec 17, 2020 from 08:30 AM to 10:00 AM
ROOTS of Socio-environmental Hazards - Meeting.
Virtual Meeting (for the link please contact Prof. Ingmar Unkel)
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 12, 2021 from 12:00 PM to 02:00 PM
ROOTS Executive Board Meeting*
*not open to the public
Jan 18, 2021 from 06:30 PM to 08:30 PM
"Archäologisches Kolloquium":
- presentation “Flakstellungen, Deckungs- und Schützengräben – „Holz-Erde-Befestigungen" des 2. Weltkriegs im archäologischen Befund.“ by Johannes Müller-Kissing from Detmold
The lecture will take place online, the access code will be provided at www.ufg.uni-kiel.de on time.
Contact: email: sekretariat@ufg.uni-kiel.de; telephone: 0431/880-2334
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
"Archäologisches Kolloquium":
- presentation “Das Itinerarium des menschlichen Körpers: Transformative Praktiken u. Osteobiographien.“ by Dr. Alexander Gramsch from Frankfurt am Main
The lecture will take place online or in a hybrid format, further information will be provided at www.ufg.uni-kiel.de on time.
Contact: email: sekretariat@ufg.uni-kiel.de; telephone: 0431/880-2334
Feb 08, 2021 from 04:15 PM to 05:45 PM
virtual meeting
Alison Sheridan • National Museums Scotland
Abstract coming soon.
Members of the Cluster ROOTS at the Steinzeitlive in Arche Warder, on Sunday, October 11 2020
People in ROOTS: Guillermo Torres
On the trail of pandemics. NDR SH Magazine reportage and studio talk with Johannes Müller
ROOTS members at "Ground Check" Conference
People in ROOTS: Bente Majchczack
Mountains, mires, metal pollution: investigating past sulphidic ore mining in the Arlberg Alps
ROOTS Social Inequalities Forum: Tales from the burial mound
Georadar investigations, Casa del Citarista, Pompeii
The Wadden Sea Project starts geophysical investigations
Historical case studies on pandemics
Past societies. Human development in landscapes.
Maidanets’ke: Development and decline of a Trypillia mega-site in Central Ukraine
Newly published research investigation: Marks on the Rocks.
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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
