Pre-Roman Iron Age Research Papers (original) (raw)

2025

Celem pracy była próba opisu zwyczajów pogrzebowych, których relikty zarejestrowano podczas badań archeologicznych na Mosiężysku (Szurpiły, st. 8) oraz określenie czasu, w którym stanowisko użytkowano. Przystępując do działania po raz... more

2025

DE BORTGLÖMDA MÄNNISKORNA En studie av patologier i obrända människoskelett från Skånes bronsålder Ett stort tack till personalen på LUHM för all hjälp med materialet till min uppsats och för att jag fick en bra arbetsplats tilldelad mig ute på Gastelyckan. Tack även till Leena Drenzel på SHM för att jag fick komma upp till Tumba för att titta på det skånska materialet som finns där uppe, och för att du hjälpte mig att plocka fram alla lådor!

2025, Materiały Zachodniopomorskie

K r z y s z t o f Ko w a l s k i , D o r o t a Ko z ł o w s k a , B a r t ł o m i e j R o g a l s k i "Zaginione -Ocalone". Odkrycie zabytków archeologicznych ze szczecińskiej kolekcji starożytności pomorskich w Mołtowie .

2025, Materiały Zachodniopomorskie

In the National Museum in Szczecin collection, there is a destroyed neck ring with cylindrical endings which was found in 1942 in Kol. Hohenheide, Kr. Regenwalde. It is presented on maps in the literature as a neck ring from Kręglino, Łobez district. Currently, this place is identified with Zbrojewo village. Neck rings of this type set a se pa rate stylistic trend in the Jastorf culture material, dated to phases Jastorf IIa-IIb

2025

In diesem Beitrag wird über osteologische Untersuchungen an rezenten Knochenfunden aus der kubanischen Strandsiedlung Caletones berichtet. Außer den Haustierarten Rind, Schaf/Ziege, Schwein und Huhn wurden Knochen von mindestens zwei Meeresschildkrötenarten und von zwei bislang unbestimmten Fischarten gefunden. Marine Tiere spielen in der Ernährung der Küstenbewohner eine wichtige Rolle. Spuren krankhafter Veränderungen wurden ausschließlich an den Schweineschädeln festgestellt und betreffen hauptsächlich Kiefer und Zähne.This paper describes the recent bone finds from the Cuban coastal village Caletones. Bones of domestic animals (cattle, sheep/goat, pig, chicken) as well as sea turtles were present. Furthermore, bones of two, not yet determined, fish species were found. Marine animals provide an important part of animal protein for the coastal population in Cuba. Pathological changes were only found in the skulls of pigs and are mainly related to the teeth and jaws

2025, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology

Nordfors, U., Danielisová, A., Etu-Sihvola, H., Ackerman, L., Mannermaa, K. & Arppe, L. 2025. The origins of Viking Age dogs in Luistari, Eura, Finland. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3419 We used... more

2025, Pomorania Antiqua

The presented research concerns textiles from late medieval (ca. 14th century) graves Nos. 27 and 43, discovered in the cemetery as a result of research by Romuald Odoj in 1957. collected information, along with analysis of the grave goods, was to help to determine the social status of the buried people and to contribute to considerations on the interpretation of similar cemeteries in other parts of former east Prussia.
The HPLC-UV-Vis-MS/MS technique was used to analyse the dyes, which allows
for the detection of trace amounts of organic dyeing compounds in heavily degraded objects. The analysis showed that local plant and animal colourants were used to dye wool, covering colours from blue, through green, yellow, orange to red. The use of undyed wool was also confirmed. Another noteworthy find is the heraldic sign embossed on a leather fragment from grave 43. non-european dyes (indigo and shellac red) were identified on silk fragments, which corresponds to the Far eastern origin of the raw material. The studies carried out suggest that the people buried in the aforementioned graves belonged to the local elite, perhaps associated with the Teutonic stronghold of Wiesenburg. despite the presence of valuable fabrics, both the selection of some of the grave goods (amulets, a ‘Totenkrone’ type necklace) and the fact that they were buried in a cemetery outside the church boundaries indicate a strong connection between the deceased as well as their relatives and the local old Prussian ethnos. The presented results, apart from the partial reconstruction of the colours of the 14th-century Bartians' funeral attire, constitute a starting point for assessing the wealth, access to goods and susceptibility to the influence of christian culture among the old Prussian nobility.

2025, 84. Verbandstagung des Nordwestdeutschen Verbands für Altertumsforschung. Bochum, 09.10.2024

Wie Daten über Grenzen hinweg vergleichbar werden.

2025

Nøkkelen til lønsam drift på det arealet ein planteskule disponerar er sjølvsagt høg produksjon og låge kostnadar. Ein må unngå sjukdom og utgang av planter. God hygiene i alle ledd i produksjonen er avgjerande for å få til dette. Vi har sett dette omtala som eit kjede; dersom ei løkke ryk, er det til ingen nytte. På same viset kan svake ledd i produksjonskjeda av planter gi innpass for ulike skadegjerarar. Det hjelp lite med til dømes beisa frø, sjukdomsfrie stiklingar og desinfiserte potter dersom vekstmediet er sjukdomsinfisert. Dette er innlysande, men vi ser likevel at det i praksis er utallege døme på at mogelege smittevegar ikkje vert tatt omsyn til. For å lukkast må ein fokusera på hygiene i alle ledd frå produksjonsstart til utsal, ikkje minst fordi friske planter er avgjerande for planteskulen sitt omdøme. God hygiene er ofte snakk om gjennomgang av rutinar for å identifisera svake punkt. Det treng ikkje nødvendigvis vera kostnadskrevjande å få gjort noko med problema. Til...

2025, Da Camunni a Romani. Archeologia e storia della romanizzazione alpina, a cura di S. Solano

e con il contributo della Fondazione Tassara di Breno (BS) In copertina Panoramica di Cevo-Dos Curù (Valcamonica -BS), statua in marmo di nudo eroico dall'area del Foro di Cividate Camuno e frammento di laterizio con bollo in caratteri camuni (Museo Nazionale Archeologico della Valle Camonica di Cividate Camuno). Tutte le relazioni pubblicate nel volume sono state sottoposte a procedura di doppia peer-review © Roma 2016 -Edizioni Quasar di Severino Tognon srl via Ajaccio 43, I-00198 Roma tel.

2025

Har redogors for de senaste besluten inom Bird- Life Sveriges Taxonomikommitte (Tk). vilka togs pa ett mote i december 2018 pa Getteron. Detta ar den fullstandiga rapporten, inkluderande referenser. En kortare version finns i Var Fagelvarld nummer 2/2019. Tk:s Vastpalearktislista har uppdaterats med samtliga forandringar och heter nu VP5. Likasa har Namnlistan over svenska fagelnamn pa alla varldens arter uppdaterats, efter att IOC publicerat sin version 9.1. Alla Tk:s rapporter och listor finns pa birdlife.se/tk.

2025, Archeologia Calisiensis z dziejów Wielkopolski południowo-wschodniej Materiały z konferencji Kalisz, 9–10 czerwca 2022

The article discusses in general intensive cultural and settlement transformations within the area of southern Greater Poland during the Late Pre-Roman Period and the initial stage of the Roman Period (approx. 250 BC – 80 AD). It briefly characterises the natural conditions favourable for the development of prehistoric settlement in the area, as well as its excellent communication with the most important cultural centres of that time in Central Europe, developing in the Middle Danube and the Elbe basins. The latter, associated with the Jastorf culture, played a major role in shaping of the cultural situation in southern Greater Poland and the entire Polish Lowland along with the crystallisation of the Przeworsk culture in the A1 and A2 phases of the Late Pre-Roman period (approx. 250 BC – 50 BC). In turn, an appearance of well-organised Celtic groups over the Prosna River in the Kalisz area, issuing their own small gold trade coins with nominal values, imitating the issues of the powerful Boii tribe,
should be linked with the Danube centre. This coinage became equivalent in a supra-regional exchange with the late Celtic communities living along the so-called Amber Route, connecting the northern coast of the Adriatic Sea with the southern Baltic coast. Undoubtedly, due to these contacts, a large number of wares characteristic of the late Celtic elite culture appeared in the three large settlement clusters that are visible around the turn of the era in the area of Kalisz and Sieradz and on the upper and middle Obra River, with dominant elements of costume and weaponry of the Noric origin.

2025

The EU project xFORMAL. Informal and non-formal E-learning for Cultural Heritage (MCSA RISE Action 2021-2025) is presented in the framework of the EAA 2023 Congress held in Belfast "Weaving Narratives". The paper introduces the strategy adopted in the project in narrating the history of Ancient Europe of the pre-Roman cultures from the 8th c. BC to Romanisation. Key elements of the project are: The rediscovery of the landscape for an authentic experience, Heutagogy, IT support infrastructure, Sharing experience between the academic and non-academic world: universities and research centres vs Museums and IT partners.

2025

The project SELECT - Self Learning Atlas of Ancient European Cultures (Erasmus+ SCH, 2020-2023) is presented under the framework of the topic of the EAA 2023 Congress: Weaving narratives.

2025, Preistoria Alpina

The inscriptions on two omphalos cups from the Brandopferplatz in San Giorgio di Valpoli- cella (Verona) are presented here. The first case reads two incomplete words, the meaning of which unfortunately remains obscure. The second case presents a two-letter abbreviation. The palaeographic characteristics allow a general chronological classification in the Second Iron Age. In contrast, the typology of the artefacts allows them to be placed between the late 6th and early 5th century BC.

2025, Confrontation and violence in Prehistoric and Ancient Archaeology in the Tisza-Dniester area

Summary: The primary focus of this study is an older discovery from the fortification of Horodca Mica, which represents, to date, an unusual phenomenon for the period of the Second Iron Age in the Prut-Dniester space. The deposit consists of 11 iron artefacts, which can be interpreted as agricultural and carpentry tools, but which can also be seen as weapons. The objective of this approach was to present these findings in a manner that firstly contextualised their discovery, followed by a typological-chronological analysis and interpretation of the deposition phenomenon.

2025, Danish Journal of Archaeology

This paper presents the Pre-Roman Iron Age component of the cemetery at Mang de Bargen in Northern Germany. Thus far, the primary focus of investigations at this site has been on the Bronze Age. However, evidence indicates that intense activity also occurred during the pre-Roman Iron Age, which was not limited to the cemetery but also manifested in the surrounding area. The Iron Age is characterised by significant changes and innovations, particularly in material culture. This study examines these developments, with a particular focus on relative and absolute dating. The cemetery features demonstrate not only a new, institutionalised practice of cremation, but also a new approach to collecting the burnt bones at the pyre and their placement in the urn. Moreover, some urn burials are enclosed with different types of ditches – a custom that can be situated within a supra-regional context. Furthermore, the osteological investigation indicates a shift in age composition at the transition from the Late Bronze Age to the pre-Roman Iron Age. By integrating environmental data from pollen profiles and find distribution patterns, the cemetery can be contextualised within a region undergoing a transformation with the advent of the pre-Roman Iron Age, exhibiting a notable surge in activity.

2025, Landskaber og Strategier. Sociale miljøer og identitet. Middelalderens rurale Danmark

Arkæologien arbejder med materielle fænomener som jordfaste fortidsminder og genstandsfund. Det har som konsekvens, at aktiviteter, der efterlader tydelige spor i undergrunden, står stærkt i datamaterialet, mens de mange aktiviteter, som udspillede sig på landskabets overflade eller i det øverste jordlag, ofte ikke har efterladt håndgribelige spor. Til denne sidste gruppe hører oldtidens og middelalderens marksystemer. De var uden sammenligning de mest omfattende menneskeskabte anlæg i landskabet og grundlag for samfundets fødevareproduktion. Alligevel er stort set alle rester forsvundne i dag. På heder, i skove eller andre steder i landskabet, som har undgået pløjning i nyere tid, findes der rester af ældre marksystemer, men i forsvindende få promiller af den oprindelige udbredelse (Agersnap Larsen 2015; Hatt 1949; Møller 1990; Nielsen 1993; Vinter 2011a, 2011b).
Formålet med denne artikel er at diskutere middelalderens agrare landskab i lyset af de nuværende arkæologiske datasæt sammenholdt med det historiske kortmateriale; to kildegrupper, som peger både frem og tilbage i tid.
De seneste to årtiers omfattende udgravningsaktivitet har gang på gang afsløret, at mange af de såkaldte sent anlagte torper rummede bebyggelse igennem lange perioder af jernalderen. Et andet resultat, som træder tydeligere og tydeligere frem, er, at jernalderens bebyggelse var langt mere udbredt og omfattende, end nogen havde turdet forestille sig (Søvsø 2020a). Til alle disse bebyggelser hørte naturligvis også et marksystem, som i en eller anden form indgik i senere tiders landskabsudnyttelse.
Den digitale tilgængeliggørelse af de historiske kort i årene efter år 2000 har muliggjort præcise rekonstruktioner af det agrare landskab omkring år 1800. Sammenholdt med udgravningsresultater og fund fra metaldetektering er det nu muligt at betragte bebyggelseshistorien i et tidsperspektiv, som omfatter to årtusinder. Denne tidshorisont, af den franske annales-skole institutionaliseret som begrebet la longue durée, muliggør analyser, der isolerer og fremhæver historiens gennemgående strukturer i f.eks. udnyttelsen af det agrare landskab (Braudel og Wallerstein 2009; Søvsø 2020a).
Fokus i artiklen kommer naturligt til at ligge på Sydvestjyske Museers arkæologiske ansvarsområde, primært Esbjerg Kommune. Dette område er kendetegnet ved både en lang antikvarisk tradition, et meget stort antal arkæologiske udgravninger, mange detektorfund samt en komplet digitalisering af Original 1-kortene. Sydvestjyske Museers data er samlet i en forskningsrettet database med GIS-funktionaliteter, som er en forudsætning for de følgende overvejelser

2025

Report on archaeological excavations in connection with road construction, north of Stavanger, SW-Norway. Settlement remains from late neolithic, late bronze-age, early iron age and merovingian period. Cremation grave from merovingian... more

2025, Antiquity Project Gallery

Extraordinary finds from the Store Frigård cremation cemetery on the Danish island of Bornholm suggest that the society that used the site played a key role in supra-regional contacts and in the distribution of goods and people across the... more

2025, Archeologia Calisiensis z dziejów Wielkopolski południowo-wschodniej

Zlokalizowane nad Prosną stanowisko Janków II vel Janków II – Oszczywilk, które odkryto już
w okresie przedwojennym stanowi rozległa wielokulturowa osada oraz sąsiadujące z nią bezpośrednio
trzy inhumowane groby datowane na okres wędrówek ludów. Dominują na osadzie
materiały należące do kultury przeworskiej, ale obecne są też reprezentujące kulturę łużycką,
kulturą pomorską, okres średniowiecza, a także nowożytności. Wszakże niniejszy szkic, wykorzystujący
przede wszystkim rezultaty badań z lat 2007 i 2008 dotyczy wyłącznie rozwoju osady
w okresach przedrzymskim i rzymskim oraz pozyskanych materiałów, które to w dostateczny
sposób uzasadniają. Do najciekawszych i najwartościowszych odkryć, których dokonano
należą relikty lokalnego mennictwa celtyckiego w postaci jedynych w swoim rodzaju złotych
staterów nazwanych typem Janków, którym towarzyszyła ponadto gliniana foremka służąca
do odlewania ich zaczątkowej postaci zwanej przedkuwką. Znaleziska te znamionują najbujniejszy
rozwój osady datowany na fazę A3 młodszego okresu przedrzymskiego i jej rolę jako
handlowej faktorii na bursztynowym szlaku, którego dolina Prosny stanowiła wówczas istotny
fragment. Aktywna rola jankowskiej osady przetrwała też do okresu rzymskiego, co poświadczają
liczne znaleziska rzymskich denarów. Natomiast w następnych fazach, tj. późnorzymskiej
i wędrówek ludów zauważalny jest na jej obszarze swego rodzaju regres i depopulacja, niemniej
niektóre z odkryć wskazują na to, że tutejsze osadnictwo utrzymało się jeszcze do końca
wczesnego okresu wędrówek ludów. Artykuł porusza także problematykę kontekstualnego
usytuowania osady i jej związków z pobliskimi cmentarzyskami wraz z którymi tworzyła jeden
osadniczy zespół. Kończy rozważania konkluzja, że zespół ten w makroskali stanowił integralną
część Kaliskiego Skupiska Osadniczego, który w rozumieniu autorów można bez przeszkód
kojarzyć z tym co w „Geografii” Ptolemeusza zostało określone jako „polis Kalisia”, a w wersji
łacińskiej jako „civitas Calisia”.

2025, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

This study examines the role of the Eura region as a nexus linking the inland with Baltic Sea trade routes. Luistari cemetery, spanning from the early Merovingian to Medieval periods, provides key insights into SouthWestern Finland's socioeconomic structure and communication networks. Despite its significance, this burial community's chronological dynamics and regional role remain poorly understood. Using multi-isotopic evidence contextualised with archaeological data, this research explores mobility and subsistence patterns among Luistari's population. By delineating the bioavailable strontium range in the Eura region, the study assesses the local burial community's mobility dynamics across various chronological phases. Identification of long-and short-distance migrants, discerned through strontium and carbon isotopes in conjunction with archaeological context, enhances understanding of Luistari within the regional and Circum-Baltic framework. Multi-isotopic evidence further aids in grasping local development within environmental and climatic contexts. Analysis of the strontium isotopic data patterns, combined with carbon and nitrogen, sheds light on settlement locations and subsistence strategies of the Luistari population. Notable transformations during the Viking I period (800-880 CE), marked by the establishment of a "founding" community, and shifts in dietary and migratory patterns in periods V II-III (880-1000 CE), indicate stabilisation of the local socioeconomic conditions. Period V IV (1000-1070 CE) reveals connections, both maritime and continental, as the local community integrates into long-distance communication networks. The Final Period (1070-1130 CE) then shows only limited signs of mobility. The data suggest varied mobility patterns over the long-term development of the local community coupled with visibly changing subsistence strategies.

2025, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Danielisová, A., Nordfors, U., Kertes, S., Wessman, A., Ackerman, L., Oinonen, M., Etu-Sihvola, H., & Arppe, L. 2025. Multi-isotopic evidence reveals the emergence of a cosmopolitan community at the Luistari cemetery in Eura, Finland,... more

2025

Archäologie in Niedersachsen 2023 [Schwerpunkt: Römer | Lifestyle | Sachkultur] 65–69.

2025

I forbindelse med reguleringsplan for nytt dobbeltspor for jernbanen mellom Oslo og Ski utførte KHM en arkeologisk undersøkelse på Roaas 121/1 i Ski kommune, i perioden 14.10. t.o.m. 24.10.2013. Akershus fylkeskommune gjennomførte en registrering av området i løpet av tre sesonger, 2010-2012 (Aasheim og Fjærestad 2012). Lokaliteten ligger i dyrket mark, på begge sider av gårdsveien til gnr. 121/1 Roaas. Det er vid utsikt mot sør, vest og nord. Undergrunnen veksler mellom sand, morenegrus, silt og leire, i tillegg til mye stein. I kanten av åkeren og i skogen i nord er det dumpet store mengder rydningsstein. Under utgravningen ble det ved maskinell flateavdekking åpnet to områder på til sammen 761 kvm, som bør sees under ett. 13 strukturer, hvorav fem groper, seks kokegroper og to kullflekker som trolig viser til utpløyde kokegroper, tolkes som spor etter forhistorisk aktivitet. Åtte kullprøver ble sendt til Helge I. Høeg for vedartsbestemmelse og seks ble C14-datert ved Ångström Lab...

2025

I forbindelse med reguleringsplanen for del av Torke skog – Åskollvegen (B20) ble det utført en arkeologisk utgravning i tidsrommet 8/7 til 2/8 2013. Reguleringsplanen omfatter den sørøstre delen av Øverbymarka, og området består av en hogstflate og noe skog. Det er bebyggelse sørøst, øst og nordøst for planområdet, og det går en lysløype gjennom vestre del av området. Ved utgravningen ble det påvist 80 mulige rydningsrøyser og en grop. Av disse ble 7 tegnet i plan, og 21 ble snittet med gravemaskin. Gropen og en av rydningsrøysene ble avskrevet etter snitting. Det foreligger 11 radiologiske dateringer. Disse strekker seg fra romertid til nåtid, og de gir et innblikk i et område med en meget lang bruksperiode. Dateringene sammenfaller med tidligere undersøkelser gjort i området. 15 makrofossilprøver ble analysert hos Natur og Kultur (NOK), v/Annine Moltsen. Analysene viste at det ikke fantes frø i prøvene, men grannåler og kull i varierende mengder. To pollenserier fra hhv. A261 og ...

2025

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2025, Cmentarzysko z MOP i OWR w Wólce Domaniowskiej

2025, Z. Kobylinski et al. (eds.), Archaeology without borders. Papers in honour of Louis Daniel Nebelsick. Archaeologia Hereditas 23

This article opens up new perspectives on the interpretation of the Gundestrup cauldron. It argues for a place of origin and manufacture in northwestern Gaul (modern northern France and Belgium). One key argument is the prominent numerical symbolism, the three-time reoccurrence of single motives like triple leaves or garlands or the triple repetition of narrative elements on some inner plates. Number-three-symbolism is a Leitmotiv of Celtic religious belief. Furthermore, the narrative content of the inner plates manifests different facets of the overarching theme or iconographic content of the Gundestrup Cauldron: the belief in eternity, resurrection and rebirth in a ritual as well as narrative sense. In this context, the article traces the motif of the horned snake back to the 5th c. BC and connects it with already existing Dionysian beliefs in the Celtic world. This longue durée perspective is reflected in some scenes on the inner plates, which draw on historical events such as the encounters of Celtic tribes with Hellenistic and Roman rulers, generations before the Cauldron’s manufacture. These cataclysmic encounters with lasting effects led to their incorporation into legend and myth, visualized on the Cauldron in symbolic abbreviation. Finally, the article offers an explanation of why the Gundestrup Cauldron was deposited in a peat bog in northern Jutland, Denmark, way out of its place of manufacture and primary use.

2025, Studia i Materiały do Dziejów Żup Solnych w Polsce

Korekta w jęz yku angielskim / English proofreading: Alicja Chodorowska Opracowanie graficzne i skład / Graphic design and t ypesetting: Katarzyna Poznańska (robieksiazki.pl)

2025, Informator Archeologicznny

Badania sondażowe

2025, Dacia N.S. 68, 2024, p. 437-448.

This note is occasioned by the chance find of a Bronze Age blade, 2.5 km north‑west of Sălătrucu village, Argeș County. It is a halberd, in authors’ opinion, the implement representing a rare occurence at the Lower Danube. Amongst few analogies can be mentioned the golden specimens from Măcin and Perșinari, and also the fragmentary item from Urlați. Several aspects are discussed, such as origin and chronology of these implements at the Lower Danube, possible analogies and their function.

2025

The paper was presented at the symposium “Friends, Enemies, Neighbours” in Knoxville, TN on May 16 2007.

2025, Dacia N. S.

The discovery of a fibula in the settlement of the Poienești – Lucașeuca culture at Ivancea – Sub pădure (Orhei, Republic of Moldova) allows the authors to resume the discussion about the Zarubincy type. This fibula is the second specimen of this type discovered in the environment of the Poienești – Lucașeuca culture (besides the one discovered earlier in the settlement of Lucaşeuca II). The authors intend to deepen aspects related to origin, spread and chronology of Zarubincy‑type fibulae.

2024, Weimarer Monographien zur Ur- und Frühgeschichte

Die Funkenburg bei Westgreußen im Kyffhäuserkreis gehört zu den bedeutendsten archäologischen Entdeckungen der vergangenen 50 Jahre in Thüringen. Die befestige Siedlung in Spornlage, die vom 3. Jh. v. Chr. bis um die Zeitenwende existierte, gehört zu den wenigen großflächig und systematisch untersuchten Plätzen der späten vorrömischen Eisenzeit im nördlichen Mittelgebirgsraum.
Die von 1974–1980 durchgeführten Ausgrabungen erfassten nahezu das gesamte prähistorische Siedlungsareal von 2,5 ha und erbrachten neben reichhaltigem Fundmaterial auch in diesem Ausmaß selten dokumentierte Baubefunde. Zu letzteren zählen drei Dutzend Grubenhäuser sowie eine Reihe von ebenerdigen Gebäuden, Vorrats- und Materialentnahmegruben, Öfen und Grabenstrukturen. Diese Befunde lassen sich auf der Grundlage einer differenzierten chronologischen Gliederung des Fundmaterials vier Besiedlungsphasen zuweisen, die durch einen mehrfachen Wechsel der kulturellen Einflusssphären gekennzeichnet sind. Im Verlauf der Siedlungsgeschichte wandelten sich zudem Aussehen, Struktur und Funktion der Funkenburg.
Im Fokus des vorliegenden Bandes stehen darüber hinaus die wirtschaftlichen Grundlagen der Siedlung sowie Aspekte der rituellen Handlungen ihrer Bewohner. Zu Letzteren erlauben Bestattungen in häuslichen Kontexten, manipulierte Menschenknochen sowie eine Reihe vielfältiger Tierdeponierungen neue Einsichten.
Weitere wertvolle Ergänzungen zu archäometrischen Materialanalysen an den Metall- und Keramikfunden sowie zu Knochenartefakten erhält der Band durch Beiträge von Małgorzata Daszkiewicz, Oliver Mecking und Ralf-Jürgen Prilloff.

2024, FOLIA PRAEHISTORICA POSNANIENSIA

This article presents a zooarchaeological isotopic database for Bronze Age Italy, based on previously published isotopic studies. It integrates 209 samples from both, domesticated and wild animals, across Northern, Central, and Southern Italy. The primary aim of the study is to provide comprehensive description of isotopic data covering historical, archaeological, biological, zooarchaeological, geological information in one compile file. It offers a wide ranging analysis of animal and plant consumption patterns across Italy during the Bronze Age, highlighting differences and similarities across the Italian peninsula and islands. The article underlines isotopic databases as a crucial source for meta-analytical research of prehistorical lifestyle, underscoring their significance in archaeological studies and providing multi-layered insights into prehistoric human-animal interactions. Furthermore, it presents a vital importance of zooarchaeology, as a discipline to investigate human dietary and husbandry practices. Statistical methods are applied to visualize and interpret the isotopic data in order to enhance the clarity and accuracy of dietary and socio-economic dynamics in Bronze Age Italy. After gathering isotopic studies and organizing them in an excel file based on various criteria, statistical tests for multiple comparison analysis of isotopic ratios were performed using the SPSS software. The Results suggest marked regional differences in diet, with Northern Italy showing early evidence of C4 plant cultivation, such as millet, while Central and Southern Italy maintained a reliance on traditional cereals like wheat and barley (C3 plants).

2024, Das Gräberfeld von Zehmen. Studien zu den eisenzeitlichen Bestattungsplätzen in Mitteldeutschland

2024, Neue Studien zur Sachsenforschung 13

In 2013 and 2016, the Museum of Southern Jutland excavated two settlement sites outside Haderslev, in southern Jutland, very close to the well-known sacrificial bog of Ejsbøl. One dated to the Pre-Roman Iron Age (500-50 BC) and the other to the Late Roman and Germanic Iron Ages (AD 250-550). This article mainly considers the latter, a site comprising numerous farmsteads in several phases, and presents preliminary results of the excavation while taking the wider context, including its proximity to Ejsbøl, into account.

2024, Landskaber og strategier. Sociale miljøer og identitet. MIRUDA

Arkæologien arbejder med materielle fænomener som jordfaste fortidsminder og genstandsfund. Det har som konsekvens, at aktiviteter, der efterlader tydelige spor i undergrunden, står stærkt i datamaterialet, mens de mange aktiviteter, som udspillede sig på landskabets overflade eller i det øverste jordlag, ofte ikke har efterladt håndgribelige spor. Til denne sidste gruppe hører oldtidens og middelalderens marksystemer. De var uden sammenligning de mest omfattende menneskeskabte anlæg i landskabet og grundlag for samfundets fødevareproduktion. Alligevel er stort set alle rester forsvundne i dag. På heder, i skove eller andre steder i landskabet, som har undgået pløjning i nyere tid, findes der rester af ældre marksystemer, men i forsvindende få promiller af den oprindelige udbredelse (Agersnap Larsen 2015; Hatt 1949; Møller 1990; Nielsen 1993; Vinter 2011a, 2011b).
Formålet med denne artikel er at diskutere middelalderens agrare landskab i lyset af de nuværende arkæologiske datasæt sammenholdt med det historiske kortmateriale; to kildegrupper, som peger både frem og tilbage i tid.
De seneste to årtiers omfattende udgravningsaktivitet har gang på gang afsløret, at mange af de såkaldte sent anlagte torper rummede bebyggelse igennem lange perioder af jernalderen. Et andet resultat, som træder tydeligere og tydeligere frem, er, at jernalderens bebyggelse var langt mere udbredt og omfattende, end nogen havde turdet forestille sig (Søvsø 2020a). Til alle disse bebyggelser hørte naturligvis også et marksystem, som i en eller anden form indgik i senere tiders landskabsudnyttelse. Den digitale tilgængeliggørelse af de historiske kort i årene efter år 2000 har muliggjort præcise rekonstruktioner af det agrare landskab omkring år 1800. Sammenholdt med udgravningsresultater og fund fra metaldetektering er det nu muligt at betragte bebyggelseshistorien i et tidsperspektiv, som omfatter to årtusinder. Denne tidshorisont, af den franske annales-skole institutionaliseret som begrebet la longue durée, muliggør analyser, der isolerer og fremhæver historiens gennemgående strukturer i f.eks. udnyttelsen af det agrare landskab (Braudel og Wallerstein 2009; Søvsø 2020a).
Fokus i artiklen kommer naturligt til at ligge på Sydvestjyske Museers arkæologiske ansvarsområde, primært Esbjerg Kommune. Dette område er kendetegnet ved både en lang antikvarisk tradition, et meget stort antal arkæologiske udgravninger, mange detektorfund samt en komplet digitalisering af Original 1-kortene. Sydvestjyske Museers data er samlet i en forskningsrettet database med GIS-funktionaliteter, som er en forudsætning for de følgende overvejelser.

2024, Arkæologi i Slesvig

From october to november 2013 Sydvestjyske Museer in Ribe excavated the ploughed-over remains of a small circular motte situated in the meadows east of Ribe. The motte has been known as Riber Ulfsborg since the 16th c. Riber Ulf was a nobleman allied to Sven Grathe and played a central role in the Civil Wars 1146 – 57. He died shortly after Svens defeat at Grathe hede in 1157. The excavation revealed that the 35 m diameter-motte was built from turf and that a small wooden castle had been standing on the top. The time of construction could be determined to 1148/49 and timbers from the castle were found in the moat. At the foot of the mound lots of stones were unearthed, probably used by the defenders against an attacking army. Along with clear traces of fire on the timber from the moat this shows, that the castle fell to an attacking army and was burned down at some time prior to 1157.

2024, Arkæologi i Slesvig

Det var tidligere en del af middelalderarkæologiens børnelærdom, at brugen af jordgravede stolper i husbyggeriet forsvandt i løbet af middelalderen i takt med stigende knaphed på egnet tømmer. Men i de seneste år er der flere steder i landet udgravet gårde fra renæssancen opført med jordgravede stolper, og nogle af de bedste eksempler stammer fra Ribe-egnen. I det følgende præsenteres de foreløbige resultater fra to udgravninger i hhv. landsbyen Kærbøl i 2006 og landsbyen Enderup i 2008.

2024, A. Michałowski, M. Piotrowska, M. Olędzki (eds.), Kultura Wielbarska. Procesy przemian i kontakty zewnętrzne / Wielbark culture. Transformation processes and external contacts (Poznań 2024) 73-94.

KULTURA WIELBARSKA WIELBARK CULTURE Oddajemy Państwu do rąk monografię poświęconą jednemu z najciekawszych ugrupowań schyłku starożytności, jaką jest kultura wielbarska-niejednoznaczna, tak z racji swych dziejów, jak również badań nad nimi prowadzonych. Wymyka się ona bowiem ze standardów, do jakich przywykliśmy w trakcie studiów archeologicznych nad pradziejowymi społecznościami zamieszkującymi wnętrze kontynentu europejskiego. Nie do końca jasna jej geneza oraz regionalne odmienności kulturowe, a nade wszystko posiadane przez nią skomplikowane i niejednoznaczne oblicze etniczne, są powodem do niekończących się w środowisku akademickim polemik i dyskusji. Charakter i skomplikowanie materii powoduje także to, że w jej analizowanie włączają się specjaliści z różnych dziedzin. Oczywiście prym wiodą archeolodzy, ale w swoich, nieraz zbyt wybujałych interpretacjach, są stopowani i korygowani przez historyków i filologów, dla których to jedyną uprawnioną perspektywę stanowią źródła pisane. Wydawnictwo Nauka i Innowacje

2024, E. Fudzińska (ed.), XXIII Sesja Pomorzoznawcza. Od epoki kamienia do czasów współczesnych (Malbork 2024) 231-238.

Badania archeologiczne na wczesnośredniowiecznej osadzie podgrodowej w Bydgoszczy-Fordonie (historyczny Wyszogród) w roku 2021

2024

The pre-Roman history of the town of Aléria has been interpreted in various ways since the early 20th century. However, some of these interpretations have been more political than scientific, particularly within fascist historiography and post-war Corsican regionalist historiography. Based on this observation, this article aims to examine the issues and the ways in which Aléria's pre-Roman history – and through it, Corsica's history – has been utilized by scholars and intellectuals close to the Corsican nationalist movement to support an essentialist discourse on contemporary island identity.

2024, Kleszewo. Cmentarzysko kultur przeworskiej i wielbarskiej na północnym Mazowszu. Część 2: Analizy

Jest to kolejne cmentarzysko związane z kulturami przeworską lub/i wielbarską, z którego dysponujemy serią analiz chemicznych. W badanej próbie wyróżniono przede wszystkim brązy i mosiądze o zróżnicowanej
zawartości Sn, Zn i Pb. W składzie metalu zidentyfikowano również naturalne domieszki innych pierwiastków wskazujące na wykorzystywanie polimetalicznych rud metali. Łącznie analizy wykonano dla 50 przedmiotów zabytkowych.

2024, Interaktion ohne Grenzen. Beispiele archäologischer Forschungen am Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts

T he bog depositions with fire stones are dated to the late Roman period and the Migration Period. T he same chronology concerns graves with fire-making implements of the type in question (Ilkjaer 1993 a, 251-252; 359-373; 1993 b, 438-440 list 22). T he earliest sharp-pointed oval fire stone was recorded in Störlinge grave on Öland where it co-occurred with weapon combination group 7 dated to period C1b/C2. Strike-alight stones were also found in assemblages with weapon combination groups 9-12, dated to phases from C2 up till D2 (e. g. graves in Rønsberg, Foss and Evebø in Norway, Rumma in Sweden). One of the latest Scandinavian grave finds with the fire stones in question remains the splendid grave at Högom in Sweden from the end of 5th century (Ramqvist 1992). As mentioned above, fire stones are connected with military belts and warriors of different ranks (see Fett 1937 a; 1937 b; Ilkjaer 1993 a, figs. 146; 150-151); however, they are also linked with settlements' activities and fire rituals (cf. Monikander 2014). In settlement context or as stray finds, rarely in graves, the Scandinavian fire-striking implements are recorded in the southern zone of the Baltic Sea and North Sea-in the Netherlands,

2024, Gefjon - Arkæologiske studier og rapporter, nr. 9