Die Erfindung der Hose
Nach vielen Jahren Forschung legen Archäologen, Mode- und Textildesignerinnen sowie Naturwissenschaftler die Ergebnisse ihrer Arbeit vor, in Artikeln (Link), Büchern und einem Film: Mayke Wagner und Pavel E. Tarasov: Die […]
Cereals, feasts and monuments at Göbekli Tepe
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 […]
Cereals, feasts and monuments at Göbekli Tepe
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 […]
Cereal processing at Early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe, southeastern Turkey
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 […]
Publication: Archaeological research of the ‚InterLINK‘ project, 2018-2019
Das Forschungsprojekt
„InterLINK – Interregional Linkage Investigations in Northern Kordofan“ der Forschungsstelle Alter Sudan erforscht mögliche Verbindungen zwischen den antiken und mittelalterlichen Kulturen des Nil
tals und ihren näheren und ferneren Nachbarn im Westen. {…]
Bericht über archäologische Arbeiten des Projekts ‚InterLINK, 2017-2018
Das Forschungsprojekt „InterLINK – Interregional Linkage Investigations
in Northern Kordofan“ der Forschungsstelle Alter Sudan erforscht mögliche Verbindungen zwischen den antiken und mittelalterlichen Kulturen des Niltals und ihren näheren und ferneren Nachbarn im Westen. […]
Publication: New thoughts on the Land of Ṭarī’
The frontiers of the medieval Nubian states often evoke the riverine landscape of the Nile. For example, in a 2002 overview, Derek Welsby wrote, “virtually no sites [of medieval Nubia] are known outside the Nile valley.” […]
Publikation: Neue Überlegungen zum Land von Ṭarī’
The frontiers of the medieval Nubian states often evoke the riverine landscape of the Nile. For example, in a 2002 overview, Derek Welsby wrote, “virtually no sites [of medieval Nubia] are known outside the Nile valley.” […]
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 […]
30 Jahre Internet – die RGK feiert mit
Die Welt feiert heute 30 Jahre Internet. Auch wir in Forschungsinstitutionen und wissenschaftlichen Redaktionen können uns heute ein Arbeiten ohne Internet nicht mehr vorstellen. Und dies nicht nur, weil E-Mail- […]
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 […]
Tracking Analogies: The Shigir Idol from the Urals
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 […]
Tracking Analogies: The Shigir Idol from the Urals
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 […]
