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Papers by Felix Biermann

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Since 2009, runs under funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Czech Science Fo... more Since 2009, runs under funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Czech Science Foundation (GACR), a Czech-German research project on "The System of Land Use and Settlement Structures as the Framework for the Rise and Fall of Early Medieval Complex Societies in Eastern Central Europe." The article is a detailed report on the project.

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Since 2009, runs under funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Czech Science Fo... more Since 2009, runs under funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Czech Science Foundation (GACR), a Czech-German research project on "The System of Land Use and Settlement Structures as the Framework for the Rise and Fall of Early Medieval Complex Societies in Eastern Central Europe." The article is a detailed report on the project.

This session seeks to explore new ways to identify elites in the archaeological source material d... more This session seeks to explore new ways to identify elites in the archaeological source material during the 12th until the 18th centuries. Elite is understood as a group of persons belonging to the upper echelons of society in a town, territory or dominion in terms of military, economic, religious or political power, and even education. This group of peers is characterised by being involved in decision-making processes in their homestead. Moreover, its network includes contacts to similar groups in other areas. The contributions in this session are invited to focus upon archaeological approaches available to identify remains of this powerful group. Therefore, presentations should discuss diachronic or supra-regional features and not just single contexts such as graves, monuments, latrines, or outstanding precious finds. Critical reviews of traditional approaches based upon import, prestigious goods, written sources etc., or new perspectives on these classic elite markers are welcome.
The session intends to discuss the following questions:
Theoretical background - what characterises elite? Staging and distinction – is elite defined by other societal classes and/or its members? How far is it possible to spot elite while tracing innovative or traditional products? In terms of norms and practice: is it possible to identify rule setters and rule breakers in archaeological source material? Do the upper layer of society and the elite group always coincide? Supply and demand: what is the relationship between procurement of exotic/import/vintage goods and elites? Between conspicuous consumption and understatement – what does elite show off?

To submit a paper to our session please visit:
https://eaa.klinkhamergroup.com/eaa2018/
Deadline for submissions: 15. February 2018

Civitas Wartberg - warmińska kiapsuła czasu i „zaginione miasta" średniowiecznej Europy Civitas W... more Civitas Wartberg - warmińska kiapsuła czasu i „zaginione miasta" średniowiecznej Europy
Civitas Wartberg - die ermländische „Zeitkapsel" im Kontext europäischer Stadtwüstungen des Mittelalters

This session seeks to explore new ways to identify elites in the archaeological source material d... more This session seeks to explore new ways to identify elites in the archaeological source material during the 12th until the 18th centuries. Elite is understood as a group of persons belonging to the upper echelons of society in a town, territory or dominion in terms of military, economic, religious or political power, and even education. This group of peers is characterised by being involved in decision-making processes in their homestead. Moreover, its network includes contacts to similar groups in other areas. The contributions in this session are invited to focus upon archaeological approaches available to identify remains of this powerful group. Therefore, presentations should discuss diachronic or supra-regional features and not just single contexts such as graves, monuments, latrines, or outstanding precious finds. Critical reviews of traditional approaches based upon import, prestigious goods, written sources etc., or new perspectives on these classic elite markers are welcome.
The session intends to discuss the following questions:
Theoretical background - what characterises elite? Staging and distinction – is elite defined by other societal classes and/or its members? How far is it possible to spot elite while tracing innovative or traditional products? In terms of norms and practice: is it possible to identify rule setters and rule breakers in archaeological source material? Do the upper layer of society and the elite group always coincide? Supply and demand: what is the relationship between procurement of exotic/import/vintage goods and elites? Between conspicuous consumption and understatement – what does elite show off?

Vom 29. März bis 1. April findet im Rahmen der Jahrestagung des Mittel- und Ostdeutschen sowie de... more Vom 29. März bis 1. April findet im Rahmen der Jahrestagung des Mittel- und Ostdeutschen sowie des West- und Süddeutschen Verbandes für Altertumsforschung in Chemnitz eine Sektion zur slawischen Archäologie statt. Das Schwerpunktthema lautet: Vorchristliche Religion der Slawen im frühen und hohen Mittelalter.
Aufgerufen werden Archäologen/innen und Wissenschaftlerinnne udn Wissenschaftler aus benachbarten Disziplinen mit Beiträgen von 20-30 min. Länge teilzunehmen. Deadline für die Anmeldung ist der 15. Februar 2016!

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Ausflüge zu Archäologie, Geschichte und Kultur in Deutschland, Band 54, 2012

Ausflüge im Südwesten Brandenburgs - Erlebnisreiche Ausflüge in die Geschichte. Der Südwesten des... more Ausflüge im Südwesten Brandenburgs - Erlebnisreiche Ausflüge in die Geschichte. Der Südwesten des heutigen Bundeslandes Brandenburg ist durch unter-schiedliche Landschaften geprägt. Von Nordwest nach Südost durchzieht das Baruther Urstromtal die Region und trennt die aus Sandern und trockenen Hochebenen aufgebauten Landschaften Zauche und Teltow im Norden vom hohen und niederen Fläming im Süden. Für die Mark Brandenburg hat der Südwesten besondere Bedeutung: Von der am nordwestlichen Rand gelegenen Stadt Brandenburg an der Havel, dem einstigen Hevellersitz, ging die Herrschafts-und Siedlungsdurchdrin-gung seitens der askanischen Markgrafen aus. Namentlich die Zauche-"tota zucha"-kann als Herzland der späteren Mark Brandenburg bezeichnet werden, war es doch dieses, unmittelbar südlich an die Brandenburg in der Havel angrenzende Gebiet, das der letzte Hevellerfürst dem Sohn Albrechts des Bären 1130 als Taufgeschenk überließ. Fläming und Teltow jedoch, die im Mittelalter lange als Grenzregionen sächsisch, magdeburgisch und wettinisch und entprechend umstritten waren, sind erst spät zu Branden-burg gekommen. Der Band der Reihe »Ausflüge zu Archäologie, Geschichte und Kultur in Deutschland« zeigt, was die Region archäologisch zu bieten hat: Von der steinzeitlichen Kreisgrabenanlage und den Hügelgräbern der Bronzezeit über slawische Burgwälle und mittelalterliche Kirchen bis hin zu Schlacht-feldern der Napoleonischen Kriege oder geheimen militärischen Versuchsanlagen aus der NS-Zeit. Der Ausflugsführer mit über 50 Zielen • Überblick zu den Museen in der Region Ausflüge im Südwesten Brandenburgs

Warsaw University Press, 2020

The present monograph reports on the results of a research project Use of ancient coins in East-C... more The present monograph reports on the results of a research project Use of ancient coins in East-Central Europe in the medieval and modern periods project financed by the National Science Centre in Poland (No. 2016/23/B/HS3/00173), completed 2017–2020 under the direction of dr hab. Arkadiusz Dymowski at the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Warsaw. The aim of the Project was to examine the use of ancient coins (understood here as pre-AD 6th century Greek, Celtic and Roman issues) in Central, Eastern and Northern Europe in a period spanning the early medieval period and the modern age (approximately 7th – turn of the 18th century). The main territory addressed in our studies of the archaeological, numismatic and written sources was that of Poland within its present-day borders. A detailed preliminary survey of Polish coin finds was made, its results published in a catalogue included in the present monograph. Similar resources from the Baltic States, western Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, eastern Germany and Scandinavia provided a rich reference base for our research. In addition, as a background for the main research problem, some important processes and phenomena have been addressed in less detail: first – the influx and use of ancient coins into the territories of European Barbaricum during the pre-Roman, Roman and Migration periods, second – the collecting of ancient coins in Polish lands during the pre-partition period (before the partition of Poland in 1772), third – prehistoric and classical objects other than coins discovered in East-Central Europe in medieval and modern period contexts.

Collectio Cathalogorum Gnesnensium 2, 2020

Themes in Contemporary Archaeology, 2021

Written sources from the early Middle Ages frequently report enslavement and slave trade in north... more Written sources from the early Middle Ages frequently report enslavement and slave trade in northern Europe. The evidence, abundant and unequivocal, indicates the great importance of this form of unfreedom for social structures and the economy, and sheds light on the forms of violence and oppression associated with it. But written sources, by nature fragmentary, illuminate only some aspects of the phenomenon of slavery and leave many questions unanswered. It is therefore tempting to supplement them with archaeological finds. This raises, however, a number of methodological problems, given that enslavement, slave trade, and slave holding leave few, if any, unambiguous material traces. They can be easily missed when looked at it in isolation; but when combined with the results reached by historians, natural scientists, or linguists, archaeological evidence can provide important insights into this “dark side” of the early medieval economy. To address this methodological challenge, comparative and interdisciplinary approaches offer the most secure way forward.