Results 31 to 40 of about 40,323 (170)
Abstract The Jundushan cemetery, located on the northern boundary of the present‐day Beijing, sits at a crucial nexus between the Yan and Taihang mountains linking northern and central China. This strategic location provides an interesting case for examining interactions between pastoralism and agriculture around the early half of the first millennium ...
Wenxun Ren +7 more
wiley +1 more source
Lübeck's Founding Quarter: Urban Development at an Authentic Site
Lübeck, one of the oldest Hanse cities in Germany, harbours a rich historical heritage that is particularly evident in the so-called Founding Quarter. In the years 2009–2016, archaeological investigations were carried out in an area of more than 10,000m²
André Dubisch
doaj +1 more source
Letters, gifts and messengers. The epistolary strategies of St Radegund
This article studies the ways the sixth‐century queen and monastic founder Radegund (c.520–87) managed the non‐textual elements of communication by letter. While Radegund’s role as a writer and commissioner of letters has been well studied, her efforts as an orchestrator of letter deliveries, gift exchanges and other associated acts of public ...
Robert Flierman, Hope Williard
wiley +1 more source
ABSTRACT The Lake Volvi area, part of the region of Macedonia (northern Greece), is a biodiversity hotspot, located in the central part of a major communication corridor connecting the western and eastern parts of the Balkans. The sediment succession from Lake Volvi is investigated here to provide a unique high‐resolution pollen and geochemical record ...
Lucrezia Masci +14 more
wiley +1 more source
Abstract Oysters inhabit a variety of coastal and deep‐sea settings over a wide latitudinal range and have a role as ecosystem engineers. They also represent an important food source for humans since hunter‐gatherer times, which motivates interest in using oyster shells as environmental and life history archives.
Vincent Mouchi +9 more
wiley +1 more source
Book Review: Experimentelle Archäologie in Europa, Jahrbuch 2016
The periodical "Experimentelle Archäologie" is issued by Gunter Schöbel and the "Europäische Vereinigung zur Förderung der experimentellen Archäologie", together with Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen from Germany. Issue no.
Milica Tapavički-Ilić
doaj
Glimpses of the Third Millennium BC in the Carpathian Basin [PDF]
The relative and absolute chronology of the cultural groups of the 3rd millennium BC is a particularly exciting field of prehistoric research because this period spans the assumed boundary of two major periods — the final phase of the Copper Age and ...
Kulcsár, Gabriella
core
Abstract Archaeological campaigns carried out at the emporic sanctuary of Gravisca (Tarquinia, Italy) have revealed extraordinary evidence for ritual depositions and ceremonies linked to the divinities/guarantors of the sanctuary. The ritual of one such deposition was reconstructed using a multidisciplinary approach, comprising an in‐depth analysis of ...
Giulia Patrizi +7 more
wiley +1 more source
Book Review: Experimentelle Archäologie in Europa, Bilanz 2015
Volume number 14 of the periodical “Experimentelle Archäologie in Europa: Bilanz 2015” represents the proceedings of the 11th meeting of EXAR held in cooperation with the Labor für Experimentelle Archäologie (LEA), a branch of the Römisch-Germanischen ...
Michaela Seidel-Gibbons
doaj
ABSTRACT The construction history and subsequent usage of burial mounds are an important testimony for socio‐economic transformation in prehistoric societies. The Baalberge–Schneiderberg burial mound, subject of the presented study, falls in this category as it is considered as an important monument that indicates the emergence of early social ...
Manuel Zolchow +8 more
wiley +1 more source

