Erich Claßen, Michael Rind, Thomas Schürmann, Marcus Trier (eds.), Roms fließende Grenzen - Archäologische Landesausstellung Nordrhein-Westfalen 2021/2022. Schriften zu Bodendenkmalpflege in Nordrhein-Westfalen Band 12 , 2021
Short introduction of early Roman lead production east of the Rhine.
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In this article, the original finds from the Yargait rock tomb in the Ömnögovi sum, Uvs Aimag, are published for the first time. In 2016, a group of people looted the site and tried to sell some of the artifacts. As a result, the artifacts were confiscated and handed over to the then Institute of History and Archaeology by the Central Bureau of Police in 2017. The authors carried out a comparative analysis to compare the findings with other rock grave assemblages and with the grave goods of ancient Türkic horse-accompanied burials.
In addition, some of the authors carried out fieldwork at the site in 2019, providing a detailed description of the site and discovering further artifacts despite the previous looting. The study of the comparative finds allows a dating to the Early Türkic period, which was confirmed by the radiocarbon dating of a wood sample to 580-675 CE, roughly corresponding to the era of the first Türk Khaganate. Together with the monuments of Ikh Maanit and Jargalant Khairkhan, it is one of the few rock burials from the Türk period.
Full article: https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/871373
The version of record of this manuscript has been published and is freely available in Journal of Field Archaeology https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00934690.2022.2085916
https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2022.2085916
An open access and high resolution pdf is available at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41826-020-00039-x
The full text is only available at Springer doi.org/10.1007/s41826-018-0001-8
and small test excavations at four different locations of the site. The
trench in the southern wall clarified that it was erected in rammed earth technique (hāngtǔ) by several layers of clay and earth and between some of them wooden beams were placed in a parallel position across the wall. An AMS radiocarbon analyses of a sample of one wooden beam gives a dating range from 536-660 AD and refers roughly to the period of the First Turkic Qaghanate (AD 552–630). Until now this is the only Turkic walled enclosure identified so far.
In this article, the original finds from the Yargait rock tomb in the Ömnögovi sum, Uvs Aimag, are published for the first time. In 2016, a group of people looted the site and tried to sell some of the artifacts. As a result, the artifacts were confiscated and handed over to the then Institute of History and Archaeology by the Central Bureau of Police in 2017. The authors carried out a comparative analysis to compare the findings with other rock grave assemblages and with the grave goods of ancient Türkic horse-accompanied burials.
In addition, some of the authors carried out fieldwork at the site in 2019, providing a detailed description of the site and discovering further artifacts despite the previous looting. The study of the comparative finds allows a dating to the Early Türkic period, which was confirmed by the radiocarbon dating of a wood sample to 580-675 CE, roughly corresponding to the era of the first Türk Khaganate. Together with the monuments of Ikh Maanit and Jargalant Khairkhan, it is one of the few rock burials from the Türk period.
Full article: https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/871373
The version of record of this manuscript has been published and is freely available in Journal of Field Archaeology https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00934690.2022.2085916
https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2022.2085916
An open access and high resolution pdf is available at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41826-020-00039-x
The full text is only available at Springer doi.org/10.1007/s41826-018-0001-8
and small test excavations at four different locations of the site. The
trench in the southern wall clarified that it was erected in rammed earth technique (hāngtǔ) by several layers of clay and earth and between some of them wooden beams were placed in a parallel position across the wall. An AMS radiocarbon analyses of a sample of one wooden beam gives a dating range from 536-660 AD and refers roughly to the period of the First Turkic Qaghanate (AD 552–630). Until now this is the only Turkic walled enclosure identified so far.
Base metal fragments from archaeological sites in the Roman Northwest and adjacent Barbaricum were never a controversial find group. Favoured for their chronological or socio-cultural potential, they are largely classed as recycling material up until Late Antiquity. At that time, however, coinage experiences a massive change. Bronze coins become increasingly devalued before entirely disappearing from the monetary system during the first half of the 5th century AD. The archaeological record reflects this transformation in a complex, enigmatic manner. Viewed together, the practices surrounding coins and ‘scrap’ reveal a myriad of questions concerning possible meanings of value and their transformations.
In some instances, people tried to melt down bronze coins, in order to recycle them: was this devaluation or valorisation? On one hand, some excavations yield carpet-like layers of scattered coins. Were they lost—or discarded? On the other, the Theodosian bronze coin hoards must also be taken into account: stashes of value or waste metal rendered useless? On the same note, the question arises whether artefacts were fragmented into weighted units—as is the case for the well-known (Hack-)silver. If so, for what purpose, and on which chronological, regional and quantitative scale? Did Hackbronze, occasionally or even regularly, hold para-monetary functions equal to small ingots?
‘What’s aught but as ‘tis valued?’ (W. Shakespeare): The conference is an opportunity to discuss and examine how to reconstruct transformations in practice such as the above toward coins and base metal artefacts, thus assessing the significance of bronze within material culture. Ideally, this enables us to approach not only the extent of monetisation, but also rarely-identified material—and immaterial values and meanings which in turn can be linked to the material practice as well as the created artefacts.
The conference offers space for an international forum at the intersection of both Roman (Provincial) and early Historic archaeology, and Numismatics. The issues to be raised concern the base metal coins in the archaeological record, their circulation and manners of reuse, phenomena around counterfeits and local imitations, as well as practices regarding copper alloy artefacts: origin and production, transport and trade. Special attention will be paid to fragmentation, reuse, deposition and loss. Supraregional trends and small-scale observations are equally welcome. The geographic focus is on the Roman Northwestern provinces including the British Isles and the adjacent—as well as more distant—regions of European Barbaricum.
Results of the excavation campaign 2022 in the abandoned mining area of Bennerscheid near Königswinter. Mainly remains of the Roman lead and silver mining were found. A secondary use of the site is evidenced by a (smelting?) furnace from the High Middle Ages.
A project outline can be found at: https://www.iak.uni-bonn.de/de/institut/abteilungen/vor-und-fruehgeschichtliche-archaeologie/projekte-1/bennerscheid
Die Lösung dieser Frage ist nur möglich, wenn die zeitliche Stellung und die kulturellen Bezüge der in Frage kommenden Gräber und ihrer Beigaben geklärt werden. Da Schleswig-Holstein aufgrund seiner Lage eine Brückenfunktion einnehmen müsste, verdienen die Körpergräber aus diesem Raum eine besondere Betrachtung. Sie stellen hier genauso wie in Mecklenburg und in der Altmark eine Rarität dar. Im angrenzenden niedersächsischen Gebiet sind in den letzten Jahren zahlreiche völkerwanderungszeitliche Körpergräber geborgen worden. Hier gehen die großen jüngerkaiserzeitlichen Urnenfriedhöfe allem Anschein nach in Körpergräberfelder über. Dieser Prozess zieht sich über mehrere Generationen hin und setzt etwa in der Mitte des 4. Jahrhunderts ein.
gestellt. Ihre Produktion erfolgte wahrscheinlich in der Provinz Raetien und somit stellt sie ein ungewöhnliches Fremdstück aus dem Imperium dar. Auch für eine vogelförmige Klapper aus Ichstedt, Kyffhäuserkreis, wird eine Herkunft aus den römischen Provinzen an der oberen Donau erörtert und die Interpretation als Altstück aus der Lausitzer Kultur bezweifelt. Die Figur aus Frienstedt kam in einem Schacht zutage, der – wie auch Vergleichsfunde
in der Region belegen – zumindest in der Endphase seiner Nutzung rituellen Zwecke diente.
1. Welche Vorteile hatten die Franken von dem Sieg über das Thüringerreich? Was nützte die Ausdehnung des Herrschaftsgebietes?
2. Wann, wie und warum wurde Thüringen in das Frankenreich integriert?
3. Welche Faktoren hätten eine Integration der Region und ihrer Bewohner, eine aktive Herrschaftsausübung behindern können?
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter als Doktorand/innen (65%). - Das Verbund-Forschungsprojekt „Medium:Keramik – Produktion, Verwendung und kulturelle Bedeutung rhei-nischer Keramik mit Bildsprache und Symbolik in der frühen Neuzeit“ untersucht mithilfe quantitativer Verfah-ren und innovativer Technologien die Materialität und die funktionale Einbindung speziell zweier Objektgrup-pen in den gesellschaftlichen Kommunikationsprozess, zum einen der bemalten, bleiglasierten Irdenware und zum anderen des reliefverzierten Steinzeugs, welche jeweils die Arbeitsschwerpunkte der ausgeschriebenen Stellen bilden. Dienstorte sind Bonn und Meckenheim.
About 3km northeast another small necropolis – Ar Bulan Bronze – is situated on a hill above the Orkhon, a small Xiongnu period cemetery consisting of nine graves, is located nearby. In a first phase of the project the visible structures have been documented and mapped. In 2011, 2012 and 2015 excavations have been conducted. In this article we report shortly on the structures that had been excavated in the years 2011 and 2012. The cemetery of Maikhan Tolgoi is characterized by a unique density and variety of structures situated along the slope of a mountain ridge. The necropolis exhibits at least 108 identifiable surface structures (Fig. 1). While 31 structures are classifiable as slab graves and 37 as khirgisuurs other surface structures, such as stone rings and coverings of various designs are not specific for any known culture.
The density and variety of structures in this cemetery is not only exceptional for the whole upper and middle Orkhon valley, but also for other regions as well. So far a total of twelve structures of different shape, size, and construction have been investigated in Maikhan Tolgoi (Fig. 1; structures 3, 10, satellite 3 and 9 of khirgisuur 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 51, 52, and 89). In Ar Bulan Bronze, two satellite structures of khirgisuurs and two slab graves have been excavated (ABB gr. 2 and 10, Figs. 8-12). In the Xiongnu period cemetery one grave (ABKH, gr. 2, Fig. 13-15) has been investigated together with its northern stone line.
Especially noteworthy is grave 3 with a slight figure shape that was E-W orientated. It dates between 1737-1526 BC and thus is currently the oldest grave of such a type in Central Mongolia. Four structures (Maikhan Tolgoi nos. 3, 13, 52, Ar Bulan Khunnu, gr. 2) produced almost complete skeletons with good bone preservation, thus allowing for a complex anthropological investigation. But also the partial skeletons of Ar Bulan Bronze, gr. 2 and 10 allowed for the conduction of isotopical analyses. All skeletons from Maikhan Tolgoi and Ar Bulan display muscle attachment features indicative of significant mechanical stress caused by work related loading that are more pronounced on the lower extremities than on the upper body.