Video: Ein Blick auf die Archäologie Japans
Die Geschichte der Insel Hokkaido ist voller Überraschungen, ihre Gegenwart voll Traditionen. Seit der Eiszeit leben die Menschen vor allem von den Ressourcen des Meeres, wo sich die Wege am […]
Author: Jens Notroff
Fit für die Zukunft – digital und analog: Fernpraktikum zu Arbeitstechniken in den Altertumswissenschaften
(von Barbara Sielhorst) In den vergangenen Wochen haben sich zehn Praktikantinnen und Praktikanten im Rahmen eines Fernpraktikums eingehend mit den Arbeitstechniken in den Altertumswissenschaften befasst. Unter dem Titel „Erschließen, verknüpfen, ordnen“ wurden […]
„Hello? Is this thing on?“ – Science communication, impact and relevance. On a personal note.
About three years ago, in March 2016 we went online with the first version of this weblog. From the beginning of Klaus Schmidt’s research there in the 1990s, public outreach […]
A rather odd figure: The so-called Kilisik Sculpture from Adıyaman, Turkey
The apparently anthropomorphic appearance and meaning of (at least some of) the T-shaped pillars known from Göbekli Tepe, Nevalı Çori (and likely many of the other sites with similar pillars […]
New Publication: „Ritual Practices and Conflict Mitigation at Early Neolithic Körtik Tepe and Göbekli Tepe“
Again the Göbekli Tepe research project did have the great pleasure contributing to another volume edited by Ian Hodder (Stanford University, California) which has been been recently published: „Violence and […]
On Air: National Geographic’s „Riddle of the Stone Age Giants“
A new National Geographic Channel [external link] documentary movie about current state of research and excavations at Göbekli Tepe, filmed last year and titled „Riddle of the Stone Age Giants“ […]
Building with big stones. – Or: There is no globe-spanning ‚Megalithic Culture‘.
Recently a colleague from the University of Gothenburg, Bettina Schulz Paulsson, published a most interesting study [external link] about the origin and evolution of megalithic constructions in Europe (Schulz Paulsson […]