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Germanic Rampart or Roman Encampment?—New Geoarchaeological Evidence at the Roman Conflict Site at Kalkriese (NW‐Germany)

Geoarchaeology, Volume 40, Issue 1, January/February 2025.
ABSTRACT Kalkriese, near Osnabrueck (NW Germany), is considered the location of the ‘Battle of Varus’, where a coalition of Germanic tribes, under the leadership of Arminius, defeated three Legions under the command of Varus in 9 ad. Roman coinage and remains of military equipment prove that the Oberesch site at Kalkriese saw military operations ...
Joachim W. Härtling, Andreas Stele, Salvatore Ortisi, Andre Jepsen, Marc Rappe, Jens Bussmann, Alexander Fülling   +6 more
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Dating Dated Sites: Using Correspondence Analysis to handle Chronologies as Graphs

Journal of Historical Network Research
This article discusses digital methods to model and handle the ordering of so-called dated sites in archaeology. This findspot attribute is usually elaborated by indirect evidence based on the chronology of find materials, which are often based on ...
Florian Thiery, Allard W. Mees
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Simulation of emissions from pottery kilns in the Roman period

Meteorological Applications, Volume 31, Issue 6, November/December 2024.
The porta nigra (black gate), the Roman city gate of Trier, is actually made of white stone. It received its eponymous colour before the Middle Ages, suggesting that air pollution already existed with the Romans. Based on measurements at a reconstructed Roman kiln (picture), we used a dispersion model to simulate the air pollution at that period for ...
Clemens Drüe
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Some remarks on the cognitive impact of metallurgical development in promoting numerical and metrological abstraction in Europe

Documenta Praehistorica, 2015
If we accept the thesis that advanced metrological systems existed in Bronze Age societies, described and analysed as weight standards by many authors, we should also consider its simple consequence; these weight standards were the successors of earlier ...
Aleksander Dzbynski
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Growth trends reveal the forest structure during Roman and Medieval times in Western Europe: a comparison between archaeological and actual oak ring series (Quercus robur and Quercus petraea) [PDF]

, 2005
At some point in time, man has influenced nearly all forests in Western Europe. Most of the original forest cover has been converted to arable land and pastures, or has been cut for the supply of firewood and construction timber.
Beeckman, Hans, Haneca, Kristof, Van Acker, Joris   +2 more
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Transformation processes in the osteoarchaeological record between the Iron Age and the Roman times with reference to the civitas Treverorum

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 34, Issue 6, November/December 2024.
Abstract This paper discusses transformations in human behavior between the Iron Age and the Roman times in the tribal territory of the Treveri, later civitas Treverorum, located between the Rhine and the Ardennes. This aspect has been examined from two perspectives: first, from an anthropological point of view vis‐a‐vis the historical inhabitants, and
Wolf‐Rüdiger Teegen
wiley   +1 more source

Explaining population booms and busts in Mid-Holocene Europe

Scientific Reports, 2023
Archaeological evidence suggests that the population dynamics of Mid-Holocene (Late Mesolithic to Initial Bronze Age, ca. 7000–3000 BCE) Europe are characterized by recurrent booms and busts of regional settlement and occupation density.
Dániel Kondor, James S. Bennett, Detlef Gronenborn, Nicolas Antunes, Daniel Hoyer, Peter Turchin   +5 more
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Massive migration from the steppe is a source for Indo-European languages in Europe

, 2015
We generated genome-wide data from 69 Europeans who lived between 8,000-3,000 years ago by enriching ancient DNA libraries for a target set of almost four hundred thousand polymorphisms. Enrichment of these positions decreases the sequencing required for
A Keller, A Seguin-Orlando, Alan Cooper, Aleksandr Khokhlov, Alissa Mittnik, Anna Szécsényi-Nagy, AW Briggs, AW Briggs, Bastien Llamas, C Der Sarkissian, C Gamba, C Renfrew, Christina Roth, Christos Economou, D Reich, David Anthony, David Reich, DH Alexander, DH Alexander, DM Behar, Dorcas Brown, DW Anthony, Eadaoin Harney, Eszter Bánffy, Fredrik Hallgren, G Brandt, G Hellenthal, Guido Brandt, H Li, Harald Meller, I Lazaridis, I Olalde, Iosif Lazaridis, J Czebreszuk, Joachim Wahl, Johannes Krause, JP Mallory, Kristin Stewardson, Kurt Werner Alt, M Kircher, M Lipson, M Meyer, M Raghavan, Manuel A. Rojo Guerra, Matthias Meyer, Michael Francken, Michael Kunst, N Patterson, N Rohland, N Rohland, N Rohland, Nadin Rohland, Nick Patterson, Nicole Nicklisch, NM Myres, Oleg Mochalov, P Bellwood, P Ralph, P Skoglund, P Skoglund, P Skoglund, PA Underhill, Pavel Kuznetsov, Q Fu, Q Fu, Q Fu, Qiaomei Fu, Rafael Garrido Pena, RE Green, Roberto Risch, S Purcell, S Sawyer, Sandra L. Pichler, Susanne Friederich, Susanne Nordenfelt, Swapan Mallick, T Lassmann, TV Gamkrelidze, Valery Khartanovich, Vayacheslav Moiseyev, W Haak, Wolfgang Haak   +81 more
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Of highland-lowland borderlands: local societies and foreign power in the Zagros-Mesopotamian interface [PDF]

, 2016
Narratives of civilization are spun from the juxtaposition of a civilized self with that of a barbarous other. Such an opposition is never more easily constructed than from the distinctiveness of lowland and mountain topographies, environments, and life ...
Casana, Jesse, Glatz, Claudia
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From social traditions to personalized routines: Maintenance goals as a resilience factor

European Journal of Social Psychology, Volume 54, Issue 6, Page 1198-1210, October 2024.
Abstract We identified and tested a novel aspect of human resilience: The daily pursuit of maintenance goals. Taking inspiration from archaeological records, which point at routinized cultural practices as a central resilience factor, we tested whether personal routine practices, governed by maintenance goals, serve a similar function to individuals as
Yael Ecker, Alexandra W. Busch, Stefan Schreiber, Roland Imhoff   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source