Als einer der zentralen Orte menschlicher Interaktion prägen Städte wie kaum ein anderes Phänomen unsere Lebenswirklichkeit. Sie stehen dabei in einem hochkomplexen, reziproken Verhältnis zu den Veränderungen umweltlicher, sozialer, politischer, wirtschaftlicher und religiöser Konstellationen. Entsprechend sind die Anforderungen an Städte und die mit ihnen verbundenen Vorstellungen oft einem hochdynamischen Wandel unterworfen. Gerade vor dem Hintergrund einer immer rasanteren Urbanisierung ist die Gestaltung dieses Wandels eine der zentralen Herausforderungen und verdient eine prominente Position im öffentlichen Diskurs.Das Booklet ¿Urban Design¿ möchte die Komplexität dieses Diskurses aufzeigen. Es lädt zur Reflexion über die Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten der Städte und ihre Auswirkungen auf die Gegenwart und Zukunft ein. Hierfür vereint es Beiträge aus ganz unterschiedlichen Fachrichtungen, die ihre jeweils eigenen Perspektivierungen auf das Phänomen Stadt einbringen.Ein Grundgedanke ist dabei, dass aktuelle Städte nicht ohne ein tieferes Verständnis ihrer historischen Dimension gestaltet werden können. Auf einer praktischen Ebene betrifft dies die (selektive) Sichtbarmachung des archäologischen Kulturerbes mit ihren identitätspolitischen Implikationen. Es betrifft aber auch die Abhängigkeit historischer Stadtbilder von zeitgenössischen Diskursen, etwa religiöse Vorstellungen und ihre politische Nutzbarmachung oder literarische Imaginationen des Städtischen.Das Booklet will aber auch danach fragen, welche unmittelbaren Auswirkungen die materielle Stadtgestaltung auf die Bewohnerschaft hat. So beeinflussen Designmerkmale die Orientierung und Bewegung im Stadtraum und bestimmen damit die Bewegungsoptionen gehandicapter und älterer Menschen. Das städtische Umfeld hat aber auch einen direkten Einfluss auf die menschliche Gesundheit.Wie sehr die aktuellen Diskurse über Umweltprobleme und Klimawandel die Anforderungen an städtisches Design verändern, wird exemplarisch durch Beiträge zu den Themen Verkehr und klimaneutrales Bauen beleuchtet. Es ist zu erwarten, dass gerade in diesen Bereichen innovative Ideen das Gesicht der Städte der Zukunft langfristig verändern werden.ContentsVorwortUrban Design zwischen Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und ZukunftAnnette HaugArchäologisches Kulturerbe im Spannungsfeld historischer StadtlandschaftenUlrich MüllerUrbanistische Leitbilder im Wandel. Die römische Stadt im Levanteraum und ihre Orte-Alexander Kreuz¿Stadtgestalter¿ und ¿Stadtgestalten¿: Heilige Städte und städtische Heilige im MittelalterAndreas BihrerMentale Konzepte von Stadt in literarischen Texten des MittelaltersMargit DahmStadt, Gedächtnis und Orientierung: Designmerkmale einer altersgerechten StadtAnnika HanertUrbanes Leben und die Zunahme von Lifestyle-Erkrankungen. Erkenntnisse der Mikrobiom-ForschungThomas C. G. BoschCAPTN Future: Autonomer Öffentlicher NahverkehrDirk NowotkaZero Waste ArchitekturSabine SchlüterProgramm, Autorenschaft, Offenheit. Gedanken zum zeitgenössischen StadtentwurfVittorio Magnago LampugnaniBeitragendeWeiterführende LiteraturImpressum
As central places of human interaction, cities influence the reality of our lives like no other phenomenon. They are in a highly complex, reciprocal relationship with changing environmental, social, political, economic and religious constellations. Accordingly, the demands placed on cities and the ideas associated with them are often subject to highly dynamic change. Especially against the backdrop of increasingly rapid urbanisation, shaping this change is one of today¿s central challenges and it deserves a prominent position in public discourse.The booklet ¿Urban Design¿ aims to show the complexity of this discourse. It invites reflection on the possibilities of designing cities and their impact on the present and the future. To this end, it brings together contributions from very different disciplines, each of which provides their own perspectives on the phenomenon of the city.A basic idea here is that contemporary cities cannot be designed without a deeper understanding of their historical dimension. On a practical level, this entails the (selective) visualisation of the archaeological cultural heritage, with its implications for identity politics. But its is also concerned with the dependence of historical city images on contemporary discourses, for example, religious ideas and their political utilisation or literary imaginations of the urban.Moreover, the booklet also wants to inquire about the direct effects of material urban design on the residents. For instance, design characteristics influence orientation and movement in urban space and thus determine the movement options of handicapped and elderly people. The urban environment also has a direct impact on human health.The extent to which current discourses on environmental problems and climate change are changing the requirements for urban design is exemplified by contributions on the topics of transport and climate-neutral construction. It is to be expected that innovative ideas in these areas, in particular, will change the appearance of the cities of the future in the long term.ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Urban Design between Past, Present and FutureAnnette HaugArchaeological Heritage in the Historic Urban LandscapeUlrich MüllerUrban Models in Transition: The Roman City in the Levant Region and Its SpacesPatric-Alexander KreuzSacred Design: ¿Holy Cities¿ and ¿City Saints¿ in the Middle AgesAndreas BihrerMental Conceptions of Cities in Literary Texts of the Middle AgesMargit DahmCity, Memory and Orientation: Design Features of an Age-friendly CityAnnika HanertUrban Living and the Rise of Lifestyle Diseases: Lessons from Microbiome ResearchThomas C. G. BoschCAPTN Future: Clean Autonomous Public TransportDirk NowotkaZero Waste ArchitectureSabine SchlüterProgramme, Authorship, Openness: Thoughts on Contemporary Urban DesignVittorio Magnago LampugnaniContributorsFor further readingImprint
Why do we collect? Where does the urge to collect come from? This book explores the phenomenon of collecting in various contexts. Collecting is an illustration of a strong human-thing entanglement. It can be caused by psychological incentives that are deeply rooted in human doubts and anxieties. It is also related to building a pleasant, unthreatening, and even paradisical, environment to compensate for the uncertainties of everyday life.The chapters in this book range from psychological perspectives in the Habsburg empire to Rococo collecting in France, from a fanatic English book collector to a 16th/17th century encyclopaedic Dutch collector. And finally the fascinating story of Baron Edmond de Rothschild¿s boxes.The contributions to this book were first presented as papers at the seminar ¿The Psychology of Collecting¿ in April 2022, organised by the Interdisciplinary Research Group ¿Museums, Collections and Society¿ of Leiden University, Netherlands.Edited by Prof. Dr. Pieter ter Keurs and Dr. Holly O¿Farrell.ContentsForewordThe Urge to Collect: An IntroductionPieter ter KeursWhat Drives the Collector? The Case of Rococo CollectingCaroline van EckFrom Hegel to Freud. Imperial Museums and the Rise of Psychology in the History of Culture, between Triumphalism and CriticismPascal GrienerTulips, Rabies and BooksCécilia Hurley-GrienerHow to Form a Wunderkammer in 1600? The Encyclopedic Collection of Bernardus Paludanus (1550-1633)Marika KeblusekStoring and Staging: Baron Edmond¿s BoxesJuliet Carey
Archaeology has gone digital for some time now! Topics such as GIS databases, 3D models, drone photography, meta- and para-data, semantic mapping, text mining, simulation, and social network analysis have become commonplace in archaeological discourse and practice. Digital and technological advancements seemingly offer limitless promises for data recording, analysis and dissemination. Yet, after several decades of innovation, we must ask ourselves which of these promises are actually fulfilled, and which persistent impasses are present. Today, some reflexive questions are more important than ever. In particular, when, how and why do our innovative archaeology tools fail? Do we approach our archaeological projects with a digital wand and (implicitly or explicitly) expect a magical solution? And when there is indeed a digital solution, at what expense does it come?In this volume, scholars and practitioners in the field discuss the state of the art, as well as the promises and impasses that digital approaches to archaeology entail. The authors discuss the current state of teaching digital archaeology, the societal impact of digital innovations, current issues in archaeological data management, promises and limitations of isotopic research and remote sensing techniques, and why subfields such as agent-based modelling and serious gaming struggle to keep momentum.ContentsIntroduction: Leiden Perspectives on Digital ArchaeologyKarsten LambersMetaphors, Myths, and Transformations in Digital ArchaeologyTuna Kalayc¿ and Piraye Hac¿güzellerData Exchange Protocol in Dutch ArchaeologyMilco Wansleeben, Walter Laan and Ronald VisserDigital Data Integration in Mediterranean Field Survey Archaeology: Status Quo and Future PerspectivesTymon de Haas and Martijn van LeusenIsotopes, Isoscapes, and the Search for Geographic Origins: Unrealized Potential or Unrealistic Expectations?Jason E. Laffoon and Till F. SonnemannFrom the Jungle to the Lab: Using Remote-Sensing and Deep Learning to Map Archaeological Features in Lab-based SettingsSarah Klassen, Tommaso Pappagallo and Damian EvansBibliometric Analysis of Agent-Based Simulation in Archaeology: People, Topics, and Future ProspectsIza Romanowska and Fulco ScherjonCritical Miss? Archaeogaming as a Playful Tool for Archaeological Research and OutreachAris Politopoulos and Angus MolReflectionsRachel Opitz
In 2020 and 2021 the Research Group on Storage in Ancient Egypt and Sudan organised two online workshops focusing on earthen storage buildings in ancient Egypt and Nubia. Following these two meetings, the nine contributions of this volume present often unpublished case studies (from the IVth millennium BCE to the Greco-Roman Period), as well as issues and perspectives of current research. They are authored by archaeologists working in Egypt, Sudan and Western Africa as well as architects specialised in earthen architecture.The interdisciplinary approach adopted to investigate storage strategies along the ancient Nile Valley effectively address the subject¿s complexity and the socioeconomic issues involved, which not only pertain to the ancient world but are also relevant to modern-day societies. Throughout the volume, functional and technical analysis of the architectural and archaeological remains helps understand how specific layouts, building materials and techniques were employed in the past to create suitable conditions for short-, medium- and long-term storage.Ethnographic and ethnoarchaeological comparisons with West African vernacular traditions are used as a fruitful line of research for better understand of building practices, storage strategies and possible volumes of archaeological remains. Furthermore, extending the scope of the research to other geographical areas shows how different human groups may have used similar responses to overcome similar technical problems. Ancient and traditional practices and know-how, on the other hand, proved effective in a contemporary onion storehouse project in Senegal to find sustainable, low-cost solutions to protection and development of local products.The volume also include the preliminary results of an experimental archaeology project which led to the construction of a mud-brick silo ¿ according to ancient Egyptian techniques ¿ and further ensiling. The issue is highly topical since these ancient earthen facilities offer valuable information for the current debates on sustainable strategies for foodstuff storage.ContentsStorage buildings in ancient Egypt and Nubia. Issues and perspectivesAdeline Bats, Nadia LicitraPits, pots and silos: Storage facilities at the Predynastic and early pharaonic settlement of ElkabWouter Claes, Stan Hendrickx, Elizabeth HartLes structures circulaires de stockage à Karnak aux XIIe et XIIIe dynastiesMarie MilletLe bâtiment BAT 603 de Kôm el-Nogous/Plinthine : un édifice de stockage polyvalent de l¿époque saïto-perse ?Bérangère RedonLe thêsauros ptolémaïque de Tebtynis (Fayoum)Gisèle Hadji-MinaglouUn thêsauros à Bouto. Architecture et organisation d¿un bâtiment de stockage dans le Delta nord-occidental à l¿époque impérialeLoïc MazouVariabilité des dispositifs de stockage en Afrique de l¿Ouest : approches ethnoarchéologiquesAnne Mayor, Thomas PelmoineIntérêts croisés des échanges transdisciplinaires entre architecture, archéologie et développement durableDavid Gandreau, Thierry Joffroy, Philippe Garnier, Nuria Sanchez Muñoz, Majid Hajmirbaba, Mauricio Corba BarretoThe Egyptian mud-brick silo. Technical and functional analysis of a grain storage deviceAdeline Bats, Nadia Licitra, Thierry Joffroy, Bastien Lamouroux, Aurélie Feuillas, Julie Depaux
Archaeology has gone digital for some time now! Topics such as GIS databases, 3D models, drone photography, meta- and para-data, semantic mapping, text mining, simulation, and social network analysis have become commonplace in archaeological discourse and practice. Digital and technological advancements seemingly offer limitless promises for data recording, analysis and dissemination. Yet, after several decades of innovation, we must ask ourselves which of these promises are actually fulfilled, and which persistent impasses are present. Today, some reflexive questions are more important than ever. In particular, when, how and why do our innovative archaeology tools fail? Do we approach our archaeological projects with a digital wand and (implicitly or explicitly) expect a magical solution? And when there is indeed a digital solution, at what expense does it come?In this volume, scholars and practitioners in the field discuss the state of the art, as well as the promises and impasses that digital approaches to archaeology entail. The authors discuss the current state of teaching digital archaeology, the societal impact of digital innovations, current issues in archaeological data management, promises and limitations of isotopic research and remote sensing techniques, and why subfields such as agent-based modelling and serious gaming struggle to keep momentum.ContentsIntroduction: Leiden Perspectives on Digital ArchaeologyKarsten LambersMetaphors, Myths, and Transformations in Digital ArchaeologyTuna Kalayc¿ and Piraye Hac¿güzellerData Exchange Protocol in Dutch ArchaeologyMilco Wansleeben, Walter Laan and Ronald VisserDigital Data Integration in Mediterranean Field Survey Archaeology: Status Quo and Future PerspectivesTymon de Haas and Martijn van LeusenIsotopes, Isoscapes, and the Search for Geographic Origins: Unrealized Potential or Unrealistic Expectations?Jason E. Laffoon and Till F. SonnemannFrom the Jungle to the Lab: Using Remote-Sensing and Deep Learning to Map Archaeological Features in Lab-based SettingsSarah Klassen, Tommaso Pappagallo and Damian EvansBibliometric Analysis of Agent-Based Simulation in Archaeology: People, Topics, and Future ProspectsIza Romanowska and Fulco ScherjonCritical Miss? Archaeogaming as a Playful Tool for Archaeological Research and OutreachAris Politopoulos and Angus MolReflectionsRachel Opitz
In 2020 and 2021 the Research Group on Storage in Ancient Egypt and Sudan organised two online workshops focusing on earthen storage buildings in ancient Egypt and Nubia. Following these two meetings, the nine contributions of this volume present often unpublished case studies (from the IVth millennium BCE to the Greco-Roman Period), as well as issues and perspectives of current research. They are authored by archaeologists working in Egypt, Sudan and Western Africa as well as architects specialised in earthen architecture.The interdisciplinary approach adopted to investigate storage strategies along the ancient Nile Valley effectively address the subject¿s complexity and the socioeconomic issues involved, which not only pertain to the ancient world but are also relevant to modern-day societies. Throughout the volume, functional and technical analysis of the architectural and archaeological remains helps understand how specific layouts, building materials and techniques were employed in the past to create suitable conditions for short-, medium- and long-term storage.Ethnographic and ethnoarchaeological comparisons with West African vernacular traditions are used as a fruitful line of research for better understand of building practices, storage strategies and possible volumes of archaeological remains. Furthermore, extending the scope of the research to other geographical areas shows how different human groups may have used similar responses to overcome similar technical problems. Ancient and traditional practices and know-how, on the other hand, proved effective in a contemporary onion storehouse project in Senegal to find sustainable, low-cost solutions to protection and development of local products.The volume also include the preliminary results of an experimental archaeology project which led to the construction of a mud-brick silo ¿ according to ancient Egyptian techniques ¿ and further ensiling. The issue is highly topical since these ancient earthen facilities offer valuable information for the current debates on sustainable strategies for foodstuff storage.ContentsStorage buildings in ancient Egypt and Nubia. Issues and perspectivesAdeline Bats, Nadia LicitraPits, pots and silos: Storage facilities at the Predynastic and early pharaonic settlement of ElkabWouter Claes, Stan Hendrickx, Elizabeth HartLes structures circulaires de stockage à Karnak aux XIIe et XIIIe dynastiesMarie MilletLe bâtiment BAT 603 de Kôm el-Nogous/Plinthine : un édifice de stockage polyvalent de l¿époque saïto-perse ?Bérangère RedonLe thêsauros ptolémaïque de Tebtynis (Fayoum)Gisèle Hadji-MinaglouUn thêsauros à Bouto. Architecture et organisation d¿un bâtiment de stockage dans le Delta nord-occidental à l¿époque impérialeLoïc MazouVariabilité des dispositifs de stockage en Afrique de l¿Ouest : approches ethnoarchéologiquesAnne Mayor, Thomas PelmoineIntérêts croisés des échanges transdisciplinaires entre architecture, archéologie et développement durableDavid Gandreau, Thierry Joffroy, Philippe Garnier, Nuria Sanchez Muñoz, Majid Hajmirbaba, Mauricio Corba BarretoThe Egyptian mud-brick silo. Technical and functional analysis of a grain storage deviceAdeline Bats, Nadia Licitra, Thierry Joffroy, Bastien Lamouroux, Aurélie Feuillas, Julie Depaux
Why do we collect? Where does the urge to collect come from? This book explores the phenomenon of collecting in various contexts. Collecting is an illustration of a strong human-thing entanglement. It can be caused by psychological incentives that are deeply rooted in human doubts and anxieties. It is also related to building a pleasant, unthreatening, and even paradisical, environment to compensate for the uncertainties of everyday life.The chapters in this book range from psychological perspectives in the Habsburg empire to Rococo collecting in France, from a fanatic English book collector to a 16th/17th century encyclopaedic Dutch collector. And finally the fascinating story of Baron Edmond de Rothschild¿s boxes.The contributions to this book were first presented as papers at the seminar ¿The Psychology of Collecting¿ in April 2022, organised by the Interdisciplinary Research Group ¿Museums, Collections and Society¿ of Leiden University, Netherlands.Edited by Prof. Dr. Pieter ter Keurs and Dr. Holly O¿Farrell.ContentsForewordThe Urge to Collect: An IntroductionPieter ter KeursWhat Drives the Collector? The Case of Rococo CollectingCaroline van EckFrom Hegel to Freud. Imperial Museums and the Rise of Psychology in the History of Culture, between Triumphalism and CriticismPascal GrienerTulips, Rabies and BooksCécilia Hurley-GrienerHow to Form a Wunderkammer in 1600? The Encyclopedic Collection of Bernardus Paludanus (1550-1633)Marika KeblusekStoring and Staging: Baron Edmond¿s BoxesJuliet Carey
This book is a significant contribution to the field of survey pottery studies, which is not frequently theorised, and could also serve as a guide and provide inspiration to archaeologists designing their own survey projects and methodologies.
This book is a significant contribution to the field of survey pottery studies, which is not frequently theorised, and could also serve as a guide and provide inspiration to archaeologists designing their own survey projects and methodologies.
Menschen und Räume waren schon immer durch Routen verbunden: Pfade, Wege und Straßen ¿ zu Lande, zu Wasser und manchmal auch durch die Luft, über Stock und Stein ebenso wie über Holzbohlen, Pflaster und Asphalt. Menschen und Tiere folgten ihnen. Die Routen lenkten den Kreislauf von Rohstoffen und Waren. Sie bestimmten die Wege, auf denen die Menschen vor Elend und Gefahr flohen, und sie bildeten die physischen und imaginären Adern der Netzwerke zwischen Gemeinschaften. All diese kulturellen und biologischen Konnektivitäten sind die Bausteine für die Umgestaltung vergangener (und gegenwärtiger) Gesellschaften.In dieser Broschüre ¿ der zweiten in der Broschürenreihe des Exzellenzclusters ROOTS an der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel ¿ legen wir die Wurzeln dieser Routen frei: Von den Anfängen in der Steinzeit bis in die heutige Zeit gab es ausgeprägte Routen, die den Austausch von Gegenständen, Praktiken und Wissen zwischen den Menschen ermöglichten. Viele dieser alten Routen sind heute nicht nur sichtbar geblieben, sondern sogar noch in Betrieb: von den Seidenstraßen, die die Kontinente überspannen, bis zu den lokalen Routen des Ochsenwegs in Schleswig-Holstein, von den Wasserwegen Mesopotamiens und den Flusswelten der Waldzone bis zu den spirituellen Routen der philosophischen Kontemplation. Aber auch Isolation und Unterbrechungen ehemals etablierter Routen, z.B. in der wikingerzeitlichen Diaspora, haben sich als richtungsweisend für kulturelle Entwicklungen erwiesen. In einem Kaleidoskop von Perspektiven wird die Rolle von Landschaft und Klima untersucht. Besonderes Augenmerk wird auf jene Routen gelegt, auf denen Gegenstände, Rituale und damit auch kulturelle Praktiken transportiert wurden. Es wird gezeigt, dass religiöse Rituale, Wissen und sogar philosophische Erkenntnisse ihre Wurzeln in der Bewegung entlang von Routen haben.Diese und die vielen anderen Themen in diesem Heft veranschaulichen, wie sehr die Entwicklung menschlicher Gesellschaften von den Wegen bestimmt wird, über die sie miteinander verbunden oder nicht verbunden sind. Moderne Narrative einer grenzenlosen, offen zugänglichen Welt, die auf einer urban-industrialisierten Erfahrung (oder Agenda) beruhen, können Risse bekommen, wenn wir tief genug in die Vergangenheit blicken. Es sind die Pfade, die ganz konkreten Verbindungen im materiellen wie im geistigen Sinne, die das Leben der Menschen, ihr Dasein und ihre Entwicklung in der Welt beeinflussen. Kommunikation und Dialog entlang der Wege und Netzwerke müssen aufrechterhalten werden, denn sie der Garant für ein gutes Zusammenleben der Menschen auf dieser Welt waren und sind.
The present publication constitutes the Proceedings of Session 7 of the ¿Creation of landscapes VI¿ workshop, hosted by the CAU Kiel in 2019. The session was entitled ¿Mediterranean Connections ¿ how the sea links people and transforms identities¿.With our focus on the linkage of people, this volume can be understood as a contribution to recent network research. But network research, especially when employed in the humanities, is often looked at with scepticism, not to say mistrust: Isn¿t this just a game with numbers? Does it really relate to the type of data we are used to in our research, to poems, sherds or seal impressions? Can it say anything at all about¿ life?In fact, the various articles of this volume are not restricted to the strict technical approach of classical network research. Our session on Mediterranean networks started from the idea that for the inhabitants of this relatively integrated region, the sea evidently influenced their lives and their thinking in a significant way. In fact, it was the sea that provided the medium for such integration on various levels. The substantial body of data produced by long-standing research in diverse disciplines makes it possible to chart the emergence of ancient perceptions of distance and movement, connectivity and identities. This approach allows us to observe ancient awareness of the role of the sea in these processes. It also allows us to connect across academic boundaries and build a network of disciplines for a much more cohesive picture of past life.ContentsForewordIntroductionAnja Rutter, Laura C. SchmidtPart 1: Identity of Centres and PeripheriesSeafaring and the Reception of (Some) Archaic Greek Lyric PoetryMaria Noussia-FantuzziChalcidic connectivity between Sithonia and Pallene: transmutations of epichoric identity and resilience in the long 5th and 4th c. B.C.Maria G. XanthouThe importance of geography to the networked Late Bronze Age AegeanPaula Gheorghiade, Henry Price, Ray RiversTo be Greek or not to be: about the ¿Greekness¿ of Epirus and Southern Illyria. An overview through urbanism and theatrical architecture in a Mediterranean perspectiveLudovica Xavier de SilvaFrozen Wine and the frozen Black Sea. Ovid as Exiled Poet Faced with Climatic Extremes (trist. 3.10; Pont. 4.7; 4.9; 4.10)Stefan FeddernA Sea of Wine and Honey: networks of narratives as resources for the negotiation of identities, an heuristic approach in the Hellenistic Western MediterraneanRaffaella Da VelaPart 2: Connectivity by Sea and Networking of SeafarersSeafaring Songs in Pindar¿s Epinikia and EnkomiaThomas Kuhn-TreichelMaritime Cultural Landscapes of Fishing Communities in Roman CyprusMaria M. Michael, Carmen ObiedSea Storms and Aristocratic Identity in AlcaeusIppokratis KantziosThe Ideology of Seafaring in the Odyssey and Telemachos¿ Hanging of the Slave Girls (Od. 22,461-474)Hauke SchneiderMaltäs connections and cultural identity: remarks on the architectural language in the western Mediterranean in the 4th and 3rd centuries BCEFrancesca BonzanoBecoming a Man Ashore ¿ the Role of the Sea in Sappho¿s Brothers SongLaura C. Schmidt
The present publication constitutes the Proceedings of Session 7 of the ¿Creation of landscapes VI¿ workshop, hosted by the CAU Kiel in 2019. The session was entitled ¿Mediterranean Connections ¿ how the sea links people and transforms identities¿.With our focus on the linkage of people, this volume can be understood as a contribution to recent network research. But network research, especially when employed in the humanities, is often looked at with scepticism, not to say mistrust: Isn¿t this just a game with numbers? Does it really relate to the type of data we are used to in our research, to poems, sherds or seal impressions? Can it say anything at all about¿ life?In fact, the various articles of this volume are not restricted to the strict technical approach of classical network research. Our session on Mediterranean networks started from the idea that for the inhabitants of this relatively integrated region, the sea evidently influenced their lives and their thinking in a significant way. In fact, it was the sea that provided the medium for such integration on various levels. The substantial body of data produced by long-standing research in diverse disciplines makes it possible to chart the emergence of ancient perceptions of distance and movement, connectivity and identities. This approach allows us to observe ancient awareness of the role of the sea in these processes. It also allows us to connect across academic boundaries and build a network of disciplines for a much more cohesive picture of past life.ContentsForewordIntroductionAnja Rutter, Laura C. SchmidtPart 1: Identity of Centres and PeripheriesSeafaring and the Reception of (Some) Archaic Greek Lyric PoetryMaria Noussia-FantuzziChalcidic connectivity between Sithonia and Pallene: transmutations of epichoric identity and resilience in the long 5th and 4th c. B.C.Maria G. XanthouThe importance of geography to the networked Late Bronze Age AegeanPaula Gheorghiade, Henry Price, Ray RiversTo be Greek or not to be: about the ¿Greekness¿ of Epirus and Southern Illyria. An overview through urbanism and theatrical architecture in a Mediterranean perspectiveLudovica Xavier de SilvaFrozen Wine and the frozen Black Sea. Ovid as Exiled Poet Faced with Climatic Extremes (trist. 3.10; Pont. 4.7; 4.9; 4.10)Stefan FeddernA Sea of Wine and Honey: networks of narratives as resources for the negotiation of identities, an heuristic approach in the Hellenistic Western MediterraneanRaffaella Da VelaPart 2: Connectivity by Sea and Networking of SeafarersSeafaring Songs in Pindar¿s Epinikia and EnkomiaThomas Kuhn-TreichelMaritime Cultural Landscapes of Fishing Communities in Roman CyprusMaria M. Michael, Carmen ObiedSea Storms and Aristocratic Identity in AlcaeusIppokratis KantziosThe Ideology of Seafaring in the Odyssey and Telemachos¿ Hanging of the Slave Girls (Od. 22,461-474)Hauke SchneiderMaltäs connections and cultural identity: remarks on the architectural language in the western Mediterranean in the 4th and 3rd centuries BCEFrancesca BonzanoBecoming a Man Ashore ¿ the Role of the Sea in Sappho¿s Brothers SongLaura C. Schmidt
Traditional archaeological ideas about Neolithic societies were shaped by questionable premises. The modern concept of social and cultural coherence of residence groups as well as the ethnic interpretation of ¿archaeological cultures¿ fostered ideas of static and homogeneous social entities with fixed borders. Farming ¿ as the core of the Neolithic way of life ¿ was associated with sedentariness rather than with spatial mobility and cross-regional social networks. Furthermore, the widely used (neo-)evolutionist thinking universally assumed a growing social complexity and hierarchisation during prehistory. After all, such ¿top-down¿¿perspectives deprived individuals and groups of genuine agency and creativity while underestimating the relational dynamic between the social and material worlds. In recent years, a wide array of empirical results on social practices related to material culture and settlement dynamics, (inter-)regional entanglements and spatial mobility were published. For the latter the adoption of the relatively new scientific methods in archaeology like Stable Isotope Analysis as well as aDNA played a crucial role. Yet the question of possible inferences regarding spatial and temporal differences in forms of social organisation has not been addressed sufficiently.The aim of this volume is therefore to rethink former top-down concepts of Neolithic societies by studying social practices and different forms of Neolithic social life by adopting bottom-up social archaeological perspectives. Furthermore, the validity and relevance of terms like ¿society¿, ¿community¿, ¿social group¿ etc. will be discussed. The contributions reach from theoretical to empirical ones and thematize a variety of social theoretical approaches as well as methodological ways of combining different sorts of data. They show the potential of such bottom-up approaches to infer models of social practices and configurations which may live up to the potential social diversity and dynamism of Neolithic societies. The contribution shed light on spatial mobility, social complexity, the importance of (political) interests and factors of kinship etc. We hope that this volume, with its focus on the Neolithic of Europe, will contribute to the ongoing critical debates of theories and concepts as well as on our premises and perspectives on Neolithic societies in general ¿ and the practices of social archaeology as such.
Traditional archaeological ideas about Neolithic societies were shaped by questionable premises. The modern concept of social and cultural coherence of residence groups as well as the ethnic interpretation of ¿archaeological cultures¿ fostered ideas of static and homogeneous social entities with fixed borders. Farming ¿ as the core of the Neolithic way of life ¿ was associated with sedentariness rather than with spatial mobility and cross-regional social networks. Furthermore, the widely used (neo-)evolutionist thinking universally assumed a growing social complexity and hierarchisation during prehistory. After all, such ¿top-down¿¿perspectives deprived individuals and groups of genuine agency and creativity while underestimating the relational dynamic between the social and material worlds. In recent years, a wide array of empirical results on social practices related to material culture and settlement dynamics, (inter-)regional entanglements and spatial mobility were published. For the latter the adoption of the relatively new scientific methods in archaeology like Stable Isotope Analysis as well as aDNA played a crucial role. Yet the question of possible inferences regarding spatial and temporal differences in forms of social organisation has not been addressed sufficiently.The aim of this volume is therefore to rethink former top-down concepts of Neolithic societies by studying social practices and different forms of Neolithic social life by adopting bottom-up social archaeological perspectives. Furthermore, the validity and relevance of terms like ¿society¿, ¿community¿, ¿social group¿ etc. will be discussed. The contributions reach from theoretical to empirical ones and thematize a variety of social theoretical approaches as well as methodological ways of combining different sorts of data. They show the potential of such bottom-up approaches to infer models of social practices and configurations which may live up to the potential social diversity and dynamism of Neolithic societies. The contribution shed light on spatial mobility, social complexity, the importance of (political) interests and factors of kinship etc. We hope that this volume, with its focus on the Neolithic of Europe, will contribute to the ongoing critical debates of theories and concepts as well as on our premises and perspectives on Neolithic societies in general ¿ and the practices of social archaeology as such.
¿What Does This Have to Do with Archaeology?¿ is a collection of essays published on the occasion of Reinhard Bernbeck¿s 65th birthday. The distinguished archaeologist Reinhard Bernbeck from the Institute of Near Eastern Archaeology at Freie Universität Berlin is an internationally highly esteemed colleague. This commemorative volume (Festschrift) reflects his great influence on many different areas of archaeological research from the Neolithic in Central Asia to contemporary archaeology in Europe.The essays are written by an international circle of colleagues who contributed scientific papers, photographs, and personal memories of joint research and scientific exchange with Reinhard Bernbeck. The book covers a wide range of subjects, from analytical discussions on ethnology, spatial theory, and digital archaeology to more practical considerations of research practices related to fieldwork, data management, and alternative modes of archaeological writing. Case studies provide insights into new investigations and re-interpretations of ancient material culture of Southwest and Central Asia. Other contributions address the political use of archaeology in the present, as well as the heritage management and the study of the most recent past.
People and spaces have always been connected by routes: paths, trails, roads ¿ on land, on water and sometimes even through the air, over hill and dale as well as over wooden planks, pavement and asphalt. Humans and animals followed them. The routes directed the circulation of raw materials and goods. They determined the paths on which humans fled from misery and danger, and they constituted the physical and imagined veins of networks between communities. All these cultural and biological connectivities are the building blocks of reshaping past (and present) societies.In this booklet ¿ the second in the booklet series of the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS at Kiel University ¿ we uncover the roots of these routes: From the earliest stages of the Stone Age to the present day, there have been well-defined routes, which enabled the exchange of things, practices and knowledge between people. Many of these ancient routes are not only still visible today, but even continue to operate: from the Silk Roads spanning the continents to the local routes of the Ox Trail in Schleswig-Holstein, from the waterways of Mesopotamia and the river worlds of the forest zone to the spiritual routes of philosophical contemplation. Moreover, isolation and disruptions of formerly established routes, for example in the Viking diaspora, have also proven to be directional for cultural developments. In a kaleidoscope of perspectives, the roles of landscape and climate are examined. Special attention is given to those routes along which objects, rituals, and therefore also cultural practices were transported. Religious rituals, knowledge, even philosophical insights are shown to have their roots in movement along routes.These and the many other topics in this booklet illustrate to what extent the development of human societies is determined by the routes through which they are connected ¿ or not connected. Modern narratives of a limitless, openly accessible world, grounded in an urban-industrialised experience (or agenda), can get cracks if we look deep enough into the past. It is the paths, the very concrete connections in a material as well as a spiritual sense that influence human lives, their existence and their development. Communication and dialogue along the routes and networks must be maintained, as they were and are the guarantors for a good coexistence of humans in this world.
¿What Does This Have to Do with Archaeology?¿ is a collection of essays published on the occasion of Reinhard Bernbeck¿s 65th birthday. The distinguished archaeologist Reinhard Bernbeck from the Institute of Near Eastern Archaeology at Freie Universität Berlin is an internationally highly esteemed colleague. This commemorative volume (Festschrift) reflects his great influence on many different areas of archaeological research from the Neolithic in Central Asia to contemporary archaeology in Europe.The essays are written by an international circle of colleagues who contributed scientific papers, photographs, and personal memories of joint research and scientific exchange with Reinhard Bernbeck. The book covers a wide range of subjects, from analytical discussions on ethnology, spatial theory, and digital archaeology to more practical considerations of research practices related to fieldwork, data management, and alternative modes of archaeological writing. Case studies provide insights into new investigations and re-interpretations of ancient material culture of Southwest and Central Asia. Other contributions address the political use of archaeology in the present, as well as the heritage management and the study of the most recent past.
The volume in hand throws light on historical encounters with troubled pasts in contemporary Dutch and Greek historiography. Contributors, experts in their respective research fields with a wide range of scholarly publications, eschew dominant national accounts, deconstruct top-down narratives, and situate the historical subject(s) at the centre of the analysis.Troubled pasts are the outcome of local, national and international conflicts, of the continuous quest for growth and dominance, of Colonialism and Great Power rivalry, of ideologically-motivated purges, of Genocide, of National Liberation Struggles, and of Civil Wars. They go hand-in-hand with a great deal of human suffering and horrendous atrocities against civilians on ethnic, religious, racial and political grounds. The examination of troubled pasts and their accompanying imagery raise enduring questions: Whose past is remembered? How is the past appropriated and memorialised? Which pasts are at best neglected, at worst silenced ¿ and why?Encounters with Troubled Pasts addresses such issues by reference to Dutch colonialism in the New World and South East Asia, the Greek campaign in Asia Minor, the Shoah and its aftermath in Greece and the Netherlands, the Greek Civil War of the 1940s, Transitional Justice in Post-Soviet Russia and the Massacre of Srebrenica. It will be of interest to postgraduate students and academics working on Colonialism, the Shoah, modern Dutch and Greek History, Memory and on Oral History.ContentsPrefaceAbout the ContributorsAn Undigested Past. The Netherlands and its Colonial HistoryFrank van VreePride, Shame, Responsibility: New Historical and Heritage Studies on the Holocaust and SlaveryDienke HondiusThe Other Side of the ¿Catastrophe¿: Greek Army Atrocities During the Asia Minor Campaign (1919-1922)Tasos KostopoulosAn Unclaimed Past: The Shoah in AthensPhilip CarabottThe Silent Tree: Collaborationism, Political Power and Collective Guilt. A Dutch-Greek Case Study in MemoryRiki van BoeschotenA Ticket of Re-admission into Dutch Society: The Controversy on Amsterdam¿s Monument of Jewish Gratitude (1950)Roel Hijink and Bart WalletPersecution Through Demonisation, Condemnation Through Silence: Reflecting on Left-Wing Violence in 1940s GreeceIason ChandrinosThe ¿Morality Narrative¿ on Jewish Rescue in Greece: Commemorative Practices and RepresentationsAnna Maria Droumpouki¿Narratives Don¿t Burn¿: Understanding Oral Testimonies and Conceptions of Loyalty Among Exiled Greek Minorities in Central Asia After the Stalinist RepressionsEftihia VoutiraNarratives Competing for the Public Space in Post-Soviet Russia: A Case Study in Challenges to Transitional JusticeNanci AdlerThe Narratives of the Survivors of SrebrenicaSelma Leydesdorff
The volume in hand throws light on historical encounters with troubled pasts in contemporary Dutch and Greek historiography. Contributors, experts in their respective research fields with a wide range of scholarly publications, eschew dominant national accounts, deconstruct top-down narratives, and situate the historical subject(s) at the centre of the analysis.Troubled pasts are the outcome of local, national and international conflicts, of the continuous quest for growth and dominance, of Colonialism and Great Power rivalry, of ideologically-motivated purges, of Genocide, of National Liberation Struggles, and of Civil Wars. They go hand-in-hand with a great deal of human suffering and horrendous atrocities against civilians on ethnic, religious, racial and political grounds. The examination of troubled pasts and their accompanying imagery raise enduring questions: Whose past is remembered? How is the past appropriated and memorialised? Which pasts are at best neglected, at worst silenced ¿ and why?Encounters with Troubled Pasts addresses such issues by reference to Dutch colonialism in the New World and South East Asia, the Greek campaign in Asia Minor, the Shoah and its aftermath in Greece and the Netherlands, the Greek Civil War of the 1940s, Transitional Justice in Post-Soviet Russia and the Massacre of Srebrenica. It will be of interest to postgraduate students and academics working on Colonialism, the Shoah, modern Dutch and Greek History, Memory and on Oral History.ContentsPrefaceAbout the ContributorsAn Undigested Past. The Netherlands and its Colonial HistoryFrank van VreePride, Shame, Responsibility: New Historical and Heritage Studies on the Holocaust and SlaveryDienke HondiusThe Other Side of the ¿Catastrophe¿: Greek Army Atrocities During the Asia Minor Campaign (1919-1922)Tasos KostopoulosAn Unclaimed Past: The Shoah in AthensPhilip CarabottThe Silent Tree: Collaborationism, Political Power and Collective Guilt. A Dutch-Greek Case Study in MemoryRiki van BoeschotenA Ticket of Re-admission into Dutch Society: The Controversy on Amsterdam¿s Monument of Jewish Gratitude (1950)Roel Hijink and Bart WalletPersecution Through Demonisation, Condemnation Through Silence: Reflecting on Left-Wing Violence in 1940s GreeceIason ChandrinosThe ¿Morality Narrative¿ on Jewish Rescue in Greece: Commemorative Practices and RepresentationsAnna Maria Droumpouki¿Narratives Don¿t Burn¿: Understanding Oral Testimonies and Conceptions of Loyalty Among Exiled Greek Minorities in Central Asia After the Stalinist RepressionsEftihia VoutiraNarratives Competing for the Public Space in Post-Soviet Russia: A Case Study in Challenges to Transitional JusticeNanci AdlerThe Narratives of the Survivors of SrebrenicaSelma Leydesdorff
Bradley J. Parker made numerous contributions to the field of archaeology and Assyriology on a broad array of topics spanning six millennia of archaeological history in both ancient Mesopotamia and the Andes. His varied research interests included the archaeology of empires and imperial dynamics, frontiers and borderlands, households and micro-archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, aerial drone mapping, and the politics of archaeology and nationalism.This volume contains a collection of essays from his friends, colleagues and former students that cover three broad themes: household archaeology, frontiers and borderlands, and the archaeology of empire. Our goal is to explore Bradley¿s indelible legacy in the field of archaeology and how his work will contribute to academic discourses in the future.ContentsChapter 1: IntroductionJason R. KennedyChapter 2: Whose House? An Abridged Exploration in Household ArchaeologyJason R. KennedyChapter 3: Household Activities at Ubaid Kenan Tepe: Revisiting the Burnt HouseMarie Hopwood and Jason R. KennedyChapter 4: Living with the Dead: Burial Practice at Kenan Tepe, Turkey, During the Ubaid PeriodDavid E. HopwoodChapter 5: Living Amidst the Ruins: Continuities, Interruptions, and Memory in a 5th mill. BCE Village in the Kopet Dag FoothillsSusan Pollock and Ilia HeitChapter 6: Lithics in the Household: Obsidian Use at Kenan TepeStuart Campbell and Elizabeth HealeyChapter 7: Bureaucrats and Binaries: Household Archaeologies of Indigenous Andean LeadershipScotti M. Norman and Kylie E. QuaveChapter 8: Into the BorderlandsPatrick MullinsChapter 9: The Land that Time Forgot: Five Millennia of Settlement at Çad¿r Hoyuk on the Anatolian PlateauSharon R. Steadman, Jennifer C. Ross and Marica CassisChapter 10: Out of the Shadow of the Texts: Reinvigorating Archaeology¿s Role in Ancient Nubia and Modern Egyptology Through a Borderlands PerspectiveStuart Tyson SmithChapter 11: Dynamic Frontier Processes: Examples from Jordan and PeruAaron Gidding and Alicia BoswellChapter 12: Borderlands of the Moche Valley: The Chimú Phase (~900 ¿ 1450s CE) Chaupiyunga and the Rise of ChimorPatrick MullinsChapter 13: Migration, Settlement, and Warfare in the Prehispanic Nasca Highlands of PeruWeston C. McCoolChapter 14: Imperial DynamicsMatthew J. EdwardsChapter 15: Beating Swords into Plowshares: The Role of Agricultural Colonization in Imperial HistoriesMelissa S. RosenzweigChapter 16: After DeportationAzer Keskin and Reinhard BernbeckChapter 17: Imperial Bodies: Sex and Bodily Hygiene in the Early Assyrian EmpireBleda DüringChapter 18: The Role of Institutions in Imperial Formations in the AndesPatrick Ryan WilliamsChapter 19: Inca Aesthetic and Ideological Signals in the Imperial Heartland (Cuzco, Peru)R. Alan CoveyChapter 20: Putting the Horse Before the Cart: Timelines and Cadences in Archaeological Data PublishingSarah Witcher Kansa and Eric C. Kansa
Bradley J. Parker made numerous contributions to the field of archaeology and Assyriology on a broad array of topics spanning six millennia of archaeological history in both ancient Mesopotamia and the Andes. His varied research interests included the archaeology of empires and imperial dynamics, frontiers and borderlands, households and micro-archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, aerial drone mapping, and the politics of archaeology and nationalism.This volume contains a collection of essays from his friends, colleagues and former students that cover three broad themes: household archaeology, frontiers and borderlands, and the archaeology of empire. Our goal is to explore Bradley¿s indelible legacy in the field of archaeology and how his work will contribute to academic discourses in the future.ContentsChapter 1: IntroductionJason R. KennedyChapter 2: Whose House? An Abridged Exploration in Household ArchaeologyJason R. KennedyChapter 3: Household Activities at Ubaid Kenan Tepe: Revisiting the Burnt HouseMarie Hopwood and Jason R. KennedyChapter 4: Living with the Dead: Burial Practice at Kenan Tepe, Turkey, During the Ubaid PeriodDavid E. HopwoodChapter 5: Living Amidst the Ruins: Continuities, Interruptions, and Memory in a 5th mill. BCE Village in the Kopet Dag FoothillsSusan Pollock and Ilia HeitChapter 6: Lithics in the Household: Obsidian Use at Kenan TepeStuart Campbell and Elizabeth HealeyChapter 7: Bureaucrats and Binaries: Household Archaeologies of Indigenous Andean LeadershipScotti M. Norman and Kylie E. QuaveChapter 8: Into the BorderlandsPatrick MullinsChapter 9: The Land that Time Forgot: Five Millennia of Settlement at Çad¿r Hoyuk on the Anatolian PlateauSharon R. Steadman, Jennifer C. Ross and Marica CassisChapter 10: Out of the Shadow of the Texts: Reinvigorating Archaeology¿s Role in Ancient Nubia and Modern Egyptology Through a Borderlands PerspectiveStuart Tyson SmithChapter 11: Dynamic Frontier Processes: Examples from Jordan and PeruAaron Gidding and Alicia BoswellChapter 12: Borderlands of the Moche Valley: The Chimú Phase (~900 ¿ 1450s CE) Chaupiyunga and the Rise of ChimorPatrick MullinsChapter 13: Migration, Settlement, and Warfare in the Prehispanic Nasca Highlands of PeruWeston C. McCoolChapter 14: Imperial DynamicsMatthew J. EdwardsChapter 15: Beating Swords into Plowshares: The Role of Agricultural Colonization in Imperial HistoriesMelissa S. RosenzweigChapter 16: After DeportationAzer Keskin and Reinhard BernbeckChapter 17: Imperial Bodies: Sex and Bodily Hygiene in the Early Assyrian EmpireBleda DüringChapter 18: The Role of Institutions in Imperial Formations in the AndesPatrick Ryan WilliamsChapter 19: Inca Aesthetic and Ideological Signals in the Imperial Heartland (Cuzco, Peru)R. Alan CoveyChapter 20: Putting the Horse Before the Cart: Timelines and Cadences in Archaeological Data PublishingSarah Witcher Kansa and Eric C. Kansa
Das europäische Neolithikum zeichnet sich durch eine Vielzahl von Umgangsweisen mit menschlichen Körpern von Toten aus. Der archäologische Diskurs zu Mensch, Körper und Tod stützte sich für das Neolithikum traditionell jedoch auf Körperbestattungen. Dies ist unter anderem auf die in der westlichen Welt vorherrschende Idealvorstellung von Totenruhe und der Deponierung eines Körpers an einem, oft separat dafür vorgesehenen Ort zurückzuführen.In der letzten Zeit gerieten jedoch Deponierungen fragmentierter und mitunter auch manipulierter menschlicher Überreste in den Fokus des Interesses, nicht zuletzt durch die Zunahme neuer archäologischer Funde, die sich mit traditionellen Begriffen und Konzepten nicht ohne weiteres erklären lassen. Eine wachsende Zahl solcher Funde fordert die Archäologie heraus, sich mit diesen Themen aus neuen Perspektiven zu beschäftigen.Der vorliegende Band integriert theoretische Reflexionen zur Bedeutung des menschlichen Körpers und zur Wahrnehmung des Übergangs vom Leben zum Tod, wie sie anhand von Bestattungen und Deponierungen menschlicher Überreste und archäologischer Funde untersucht werden können. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf dem neolithischen Mitteleuropa. Mit Hilfe verschiedener interdisziplinärer und theoretischer Ansätze wird anhand von Fallstudien deutlich, dass etablierte Praktiken und performative Akte des Umgangs mit dem menschlichen Körper hochkomplex sind und daher auch gemeinsam aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln betrachtet werden sollten.Der aus einer Tagungssektion in Würzburg 2019 hervorgegangene Sammelband vereint dabei Beiträge zu verschiedenen Gebieten und neolithischen Subperioden, wie der Linearbandkeramik, der Trichterbecherkultur und dem subalpinen Spätneolithikum, darunter prominente Fundkomplexe. Eingerahmt werden diese von Aufsätzen, die sich kritisch mit der archäologischen Erforschung des Umgangs von Tod und mit Toten auseinandersetzen und einem zusammenfassenden Überblick zu den Beiträgen des Sammelbandes geben.
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