Großbaustellen gab es bereits in der Steinzeit. Aber warum haben Jäger und Sammler gewaltige Monumente errichtet? – In einem #PlanetSchule-Beitrag stellen @SWRpresse und @WDR die Forschungen unserer Orient- und Istanbul-Abteilung […]
The German Archaeological Institute and “Zero Hour – A Future for the Time after the Crisis”, in cooperation with the Lebanese Directorate General of Antiquities, conducted a training program on Recording […]
The worldwide spread of the coronavirus is currently having a major impact on the everyday life of many people. While this is a completely new experience for most of us, pandemics and […]
English version below Eine weitere Woche ohne Schule und die Freude weicht langsam der Langeweile? Dann werft doch mal einen Blick in unsere Hefte zur Ostasiatischen Archäologie. Im Heft „Chinas […]
The rocky Cataract region in southern Egypt has long fascinated visitors. Even members of the ancient Egyptian elite left their marks on the rocky surfaces for millennia. Therefore, Elephantine Island […]
#SocialDistancing ist das Gebot der Stunde, auch wenn es uns schwer fällt. Der Mensch ist ein grundsätzlich soziales Wesen – Zusammenkünfte, gemeinsame Unternehmungen und Feste stehen auch am Anfang unserer […]
Bericht von Raisa Barthauer von der SUB Göttingen zu ihren Erkenntnissen von der RDA DE Tagung 2020 über Bedarfe und Hindernisse für ein nachhaltiges Datenmanagement.
The German Archaeological Institute, the home-base of the Göbekli Tepe Project (excavations and research conducted by the Orient and Istanbul Departments in close cooperation with the Şanlıurfa Haleplibahçe Museum, funded […]
We were asked in comments and messages to elaborate some more on the contents of our recent paper. So here is a short summary of the article recently published in […]
We have finally published some thoughts on processing and use of cereals at Göbekli Tepe. As the text is open access, we will just leave the link , some beautiful […]
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 […]
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 […]
In 1894 a very special discovery was made in a peat bog c. 100 km north of Jekatarinburg in the Urals. Gold miners discovered fragments of an originally possibly 5.3 […]
In 1894 a very special discovery was made in a peat bog c. 100 km north of Jekatarinburg in the Urals. Gold miners discovered fragments of an originally possibly 5.3 […]
This is a short version of the article: O. Dietrich, L. Dietrich, J. Notroff, A clay mask depiction from Göbekli Tepe. Neo-Lithics 2018/01. During the 2001 excavation season at Göbekli […]
