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Some remarks on the cognitive impact of metallurgical development in promoting numerical and metrological abstraction in Europe

open access: yesDocumenta 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
doaj   +1 more source

Transformation processes in the osteoarchaeological record between the Iron Age and the Roman times with reference to the civitas Treverorum

open access: yesInternational 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

Zur eisernen Fibel vom Spätlatèneschema aus der Siedlung von Kruhlyk (obl. Tscherniwzi, UA): Klassifikation und Querverbindungen in Europa / On the iron brooch of the Late La Tène pattern from the settlement of Kruhlyk (obl. Chernivtsi, UA): Classification and cross-connections in Europe [PDF]

open access: yesPlural: History, Culture, Society
Building on the older discovery of a brooch from the Late Ice Age settlement of Kruhlyk and a more recent interpretation of the same, this article focuses on the distribution of brooches from the Kostrzewski K var.
Piotr Łuczkiewicz   +2 more
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From social traditions to personalized routines: Maintenance goals as a resilience factor

open access: yesEuropean 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   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

LOST AT SEA: MARITIME MODERNITY AND THE NEGOTIATION OF IDENTITY IN THEODOR STORM'S ‘HANS UND HEINZ KIRCH’

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, Volume 77, Issue 4, Page 423-439, October 2024.
ABSTRACT This article explores the depiction of the sailor and the conflict between bourgeois life and its fluid ‘other’ in Theodor Storm's novella ‘Hans und Heinz Kirch’ (1883). The analysis brings together spatial theory, in particular Deleuze and Guattari's understanding of ‘smooth’ and ‘striated’ spaces, and reception aesthetics.
Linda Karlsson Hammarfelt
wiley   +1 more source

Grenzen überwinden. Archäologie zwischen Disziplin und Disziplinen. Festschrift für Uta Halle zum 65. Geburtstag

open access: yes, 2021
Die Festschrift „Grenzen überwinden“ ist der Bremer Landesarchäologin, Professorin für Ur- und Frühgeschichte sowie Abteilungsleiterin des Focke Museums Frau Prof. Dr. Uta Halle gewidmet.

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Who in the world are the Heruli?1

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 284-305, August 2024.
The history of the Heruli represents a historical conundrum. Because of the poor state of the sources, caution is required when analysing this subject. However, the peculiarity of the case encourages us to rethink the way we conceive of and describe migrations in Late Antiquity.
Salvatore Liccardo
wiley   +1 more source

Archäologie im Kanton Zürich_04

open access: yes, 2021
Otelfingen-Vorderdorfstrasse Kat.-Nr. 838. Siedlungsstrukturen und Funde des Frühmittelalters Webhaus und Speicherbau – mittelalterliche Siedlungsreste in Otelfingen-Schmittengasse 18–20 Die Ausgrabung Otelfingen-Vorderdorfstrasse Kat.-Nr. 1145 und
Frascoli, Lotti   +12 more
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Bridging Archaeological Samian Ware Data and the Knowledge Graph: Potentials and Challenges of Using Wikidata as a Linking Hub

open access: yesJournal of Open Humanities Data
This discussion paper explores the role of Wikidata as a secondary database and linking hub for the Linked Open Samian Ware project, which builds upon the specialised archaeological primary database Samian Research.
Allard W. Mees, Florian Thiery
doaj   +1 more source

Elephant ivory rings in early medieval graves reconsidered

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 306-336, August 2024.
This work is the most complete investigation to date of the enigmatic ivory rings found in graves of fifth‐ to seventh‐century lowland Britain. This new survey of the archaeological evidence has produced a corpus of 752 ivory rings from seventy‐eight cemeteries.
Rowan S. English
wiley   +1 more source

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