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Settlement and Coastal Research in the Southern North Sea Region:
Proceedings of the Marschenrat Colloquium 2011:
Current Archaeological Research on the Southern Coast of the North Sea: |
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Settlement and Coastal Research in the Southern North Sea Region is published by VML Verlag Marie Leidorf. |
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Die Geschichte der Landschaft um den Jadebusen
Karl-Ernst Behre |
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Studies in Landscape and Settlement History in the Southern North Sea Region: vol. 3 released
Lutz Volmer and W. Haio Zimmermann
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For over 7000 years, buildings in Europe have been built of wood. The Glossary of Prehistoric and Historic Timber Buildings contains almost 900 specialist terms relating to such buildings, with approximately 600 illustrations, in nine European languages. Eighteen archaeologists and researchers specialising in buildings from the participating countries have worked on the definition of these terms in their respective languages. The comprehensive introduction to the Glossary and the presentation of the individual terms are in English and German. Three chapters cover terms relating to the functional, social and structural characteristics of buildings together with the technological details of the various parts of the buildings, from the foundations to the roof. A further chapter is devoted to woodworking joints. Finally, two chapters with terms relating to building timber, working techniques and tools complete the Glossary. Studies in Landscape and Settlement History in the Southern North Sea Region is published by VML Verlag Marie Leidorf. |
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Settlement and Coastal Research in the Southern North Sea Region: vol. 35 is released |
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Volume 35 of Settlement and Coastal Research in the Southern North Sea Region presents five contributions which work with very different methodologies to provide new results on the history of the North Sea coastal region and its inhabitants. Chronologically, the volume ranges from the geological periods of the earth’s history through to the Early Middle Ages. Two contributions on settlements in the Reiderland marsh along the lower Ems form the focus of the volume. Wolfgang Schwarz reports the results of an excavation near Weener, where a settlement with three-aisled Wohnstallhäuser combining dwelling space and a byre existed alongside a cemetery with numerous mostly oblong grave enclosures between the Later Bronze Age and the Earlier Pre-Roman Iron Age. In her contribution, Cornelia Becker summarises and critically discusses the results of several dissertations from the late 1970s which examined the extensive animal bone assemblage from the Early Iron Age settlement at Hatzum-Boomburg. Gerhard Linke examines the salt dome in the Weser estuary between Mellum and Scharhörn and its importance for coastal formation in the Inner German Bight. Imke Brandt, Annette Siegmüller and Felix Bittmann use a combination of geographical and scientific methods to reconstruct the palaeotopography of a settlement area in the Roman Iron Age. Using the Hunte estuary in the Weser marshes as an example, they show the dependence of settlement and economy on environmental conditions. Andrea Fischer, Christina Peek and Annette Siegmüller report on the study of organic remains such as fabrics, leather or feathers which have been preserved on iron objects from the early medieval cemetery of Dunum in the East Frisian Pleistocene sandy soil (Geest). These items make it possible to better situate the burial community in terms of its social structure and long-distance contacts. Settlement and Coastal Research in the Southern North Sea Region is published by VML Verlag Marie Leidorf. |
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Studies in Landscape and Settlement History in the Southern North Sea Region: vol. 2 released
Katrin Struckmeyer: Die Knochen- und Geweihgeräte der Feddersen Wierde – Gebrauchsspurenanalysen an Geräten von der Römischen Kaiserzeit bis zum Mittelalter |
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The wet ground of the marshes on the North Sea coast provides excellent conditions for the preservation of organic materials, which are found in considerable quantities in excavations of the settlements in this area. This is also true of Feddersen Wierde in the estuary of the River Weser. The original settlement was founded on flat ground in the 1st century BC and later became a raised terp (Wurt) settlement from the 1st century AD until the end of the Middle Ages, with a hiatus in the late 5th and the 6th century. Approximately 1300 bone and antler artefacts have been found at Feddersen Wierde and these are presented here in Volume 7 of the Feddersen Wierde series. Analyses of the finds clearly show that the raw material was carefully chosen with specific purposes in mind. Most of the artefacts were made in a domestic context: no specialised workshop for the manufacture of bone and antler artefacts has been found at Feddersen Wierde. In order to learn more about the purpose of the artefacts, a detailed use-wear analysis was undertaken with a digital reflected-light microscope. They were also compared with a selection of bone and antler artefacts from other Wurt settlements on the North Sea coast of the Netherlands. These investigations showed that the bone and antler artefacts were used for a wide range of craft activities and were an important feature of daily life in a settlement. Studies in Landscape and Settlement History in the Southern North Sea Region is published by VML Verlag Marie Leidorf. |
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Settlement and Coastal Research in the Southern North Sea Region: vol. 34 is released Proceedings of the colloquium “Rivers as Communication and Trade Routes” at Bremerhaven 2009 |
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The assemblages of high-quality objects brought to light during river dredging have been attracting the attention of archaeologists since the 19th century. Together with “foreign goods” or “imports”, which often concentrate along the banks of waterways, they show that riverine routes in the form of large rivers, streams and rivulets held a central importance as axes of communication and exchange in prehistoric and early historic Europe, as well as being the location for sacrificial deposition in many areas. Bearing in mind that the frequently waterlogged sediments close to the river banks mostly offer exceptionally favourable conditions for the preservation of wood and other organic materials, it is surprising that this floodplain archive for reconstructing the development of prehistoric and early historic landscape, vegetation and settlement was for a long time but little studied. In recent years, the successful deployment of geophysical prospection methods, even under water and in the soft sediments of river banks, as well as the increase of archaeological excavations in advance of construction projects on the floodplains, have fundamentally changed the situation. The 2009 colloquium on “Rivers as communication and trade routes”, co-organised by the Marschenrat zur Förderung der Forschung im Küstengebiet der Nordsee e. V., the Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research and the German Maritime Museum, has addressed this improved research base through a broad spectrum of contributions. On the basis of both large-scale studies and detailed investigations focused on individual, well-researched sites and settlement areas, these contributions elucidate different aspects of the culture-historical significance of rivers across Central and Northern Europe. In addition, the watercraft themselves, as well as the prospection methods for identifying landing places and watercraft, are discussed. 25 of the papers presented in Bremerhaven are collected in vol. 34 of Settlement and Coastal Research in the Southern North Sea Region. Settlement and Coastal Research in the Southern North Sea Region is published by VML Verlag Marie Leidorf. |
| Excavations of the early medieval dwelling mound Hessens in Wilhelmshaven now extensively published |
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Between 1938 and 1963, repeated excavations were carried out of the medieval dwelling mound (Wurt) Hessens in the area of the town of Wilhelmshaven. Annette Siegmüller has evaluated the features and objects of these excavations in her PhD thesis. From the early 7th to the 13th century, the excavation attested six phases with four farmsteads in every phase, each with a three-aisled longhouse. One house was later used as a boathouse, as indicated by a slip construction. Included in the settlement was a Fething, a pit to collect rainwater. There was a wooden structure built in, which was used for washing sheeps. Amongst the finds were many remains of organic material, such as wood or textiles. Annette Siegmüller's study has appeared as the first volume of the new series Studien zur Landschafts- und Siedlungsgeschichte im südlichen Nordseegebiet / Studies in Landscape and Settlement History in the Southern North Sea Region (SLSN) published by VML Verlag Marie Leidorf. |
| 15. Conference of the International Workgroup for Palaeoethnobotany |
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Wilhelmshaven, May 31st to June 5th 2010 |
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Marschenratskolloquium 2009 |
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5.-7.11.2009 im Deutschen Schiffahrtsmuseum, Bremerhaven : Das Kolloquium wurde gemeinsam vom Deutschen Schiffahrtsmuseum, Bremerhaven, dem Marschenrat zur Förderung der Forschung im Küstengebiet der Nordsee e.V. und dem Niedersächsischen Institut für historische Küstenforschung in Wilhelmshaven organisiert. |
| Cooperation between NIhK and Centre of Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology |
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The Collaboration between NIhK and the Archaeological Museum of Schleswig-Holstein has a long history. This collaboration has been revived December, 9th 2008 by the joint signature of a cooperation agreement. The Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research (NIhK) and the Centre of Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology (ZBSA) at the Archaeological Museum in Gottorf Castle/Schleswig intend to cooperate in various fields of science with special reference to the promotion of young scientists and the publication of scientific results. |
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Landschaftsgeschichte Norddeutschlands Karl-Ernst Behre
21 x 28 cm, 308 pp., 250 Fig., Wachholtz Publishers December 2008 |
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