A5054054606- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies
- Archaeological and Geological Studies
- Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
- Historical and Archaeological Studies
- Archaeological and Historical Studies
- Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Race, Genetics, and Society
- Neural Networks and Applications
- Archaeological Research and Protection
- Forensic and Genetic Research
- Paleopathology and ancient diseases
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
- Geological formations and processes
- Remote-Sensing Image Classification
- Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques
- Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
- Ancient Egypt and Archaeology
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies
University of Bergen
2019-2024
ETH Zurich
2023
Universität Hamburg
2014-2018
Institute of Archaeology
2016
Bielefeld University
2012-2014
Hamburg Archaeological Museum
2014
Cardiff University
2005-2014
Oxford Archaeology
2006
University of Bremen
2004
Goethe University Frankfurt
1997-2002
Community differentiation is a fundamental topic of the social sciences, and its prehistoric origins in Europe are typically assumed to lie among complex, densely populated societies that developed millennia after their Neolithic predecessors. Here we present earliest, statistically significant evidence for such first farmers Europe. By using strontium isotopic data from more than 300 early human skeletons, find significantly less variance geographic signatures males females, burials with...
In this essay, we interrogate how aDNA analyses have been blended with the study of migrations in European prehistory. Genetic research into ancient populations has given archaeologists and geneticists a new rich data-set that sparks media coverage public fascination. Yet far right wing racist political activists also report on repeat results archaeogenetic studies because it bolsters their image 'Fortress Europe' under threat from biologically distinct non-Europeans. We worry about lack...
Analyses of organic residues preserved in ceramic potsherds enable the identification foodstuffs processed archaeological vessels. Differences isotopic composition fatty acids allow differentiation non-ruminant and ruminant fats, as well adipose dairy fats. This paper investigates trends milk use areas where sheep goats are dominant faunal assemblage some sites from Linearbandkeramik culture. Sites include: Colle Santo Stefano, Abruzzo, Italy, Oldest to Young Zwenkau, Eythra Brodau, Saxony,...
This paper is concerned with the impact of ancient DNA data on our models Mesolithic–Neolithic transition in central Europe. Beginning a brief overview how genetic have been received by archaeologists working this area, it outlines potential and remaining problems kind evidence. As migration around beginning Neolithic now seems certain, new research foci are then suggested. One renewed attention to motivations modalities process. The second fundamental change attitude towards capabilities...
This article is based on an EAA session in Kiel 2021, which thirteen contributors provide their response to Robb and Harris's (2018) overview of studies gender the European Neolithic Bronze Age, with a reply by Harris. The central premise 2018 was opposition ‘contextual gender’ ‘cross-contextual Age gender’, created uneasiness among four co-organizers meeting. Reading original leaves impression that there essentialist ‘Neolithic’ ‘Bronze Age’ gender, former being under-theorized, unclear,...
Abstract This paper re-evaluates recent kinship studies in Neolithic Ireland through a close analysis of biomolecular and fine-grained archaeological data. It outlines the rich possibilities these datasets offer when interwoven to enhance our understanding diverse webs social relationships. We synthesize range scientific data form new model its relationship shifting traditions megalith building funerary cosmological practices. is put dialogue with recently published genetic used test variety...
Migration played a central role throughout the LBK culture. After summarising motivations for migration in earliest LBK, article outlines how some of these factors remained relevant later phases. Beyond continued westand eastward expansion, at regional and site levels to better one’s social position provided an alternative patrilineal land inheritance. The main change between phases is material culture after events. Initially means creating long-distance connections, it stressed difference...
Abstract The Linearbandkeramik (LBK) Neolithic communities were the first to spread farming across large parts of central Europe, settling fertile regions from Ukraine France during second half 6th millennium BCE. LBK had a high degree material culture uniformity, albeit with regional differences in settlement patterns, subsistence, and mortuary practices. To date, ancient DNA data individuals have been generated for limited number locations often small sample sizes, making it challenging...
The early Neolithic in northern Central Europe ought to be the theatre which incoming farmers meet local hunter-gatherers, with greater or lesser impact. By way of contrast, authors use isotope analysis a cemetery beside Danube describe peaceful, well-integrated community common diet and largely indigenous inhabitants. Men women may have had different mobility strategies, but isotopes did not signal special origins diverse food-producing roles. Other explanations attend variations burial...
The settlement record of the Neolithic northern Alpine foreland is used to address question what difference having high-resolution chronology — in this case principally provided by dendrochronology makes kinds narrative we seek write about Neolithic. In a search for detailed histories, three scale are examined. longer-term development cultural patterns and boundaries found correlate very imprecisely with character architecture settlements. Individual houses settlements were generally...
Stable isotope analysis is a new, not-so-secret weapon which promises much in mapping population movement on regional and local scale. Lining up these movements with certain economic strategies, such as farming or foraging, social strategies exogamy ethnicity ranking constitutes forgivable temptation. Here our astute authors urge caution. Taking the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition south-west Germany their example, they show that caution does not inhibit interpretation, but opens door to more...