Epistemology, Economics, and Ethics
A Practical Philosophy of Prehistoric Archaeology
Konrad Ott | 2023
This book is intended to be a groundwork of how to theorise prehistory and archaeology and how to make connectivities between the past and the present. It is divided into four parts. The first part…
Mentale Konzepte der Stadt in Bild- und Textmedien der Vormoderne
Edited by Margit Dahm & Timo Felber | 2023
Der Band versammelt Beiträge aus verschiedenen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen, die sich mentalen Konzepten, d.h. Vorstellungen oder Imaginationen der westeuropäischen mittelalterlichen Stadt widmen, die epochenübergreifend in unterschiedlichsten narrativen, diskursiven und visuellen Repräsentationen in Erscheinung treten. Stadt wird…
Connectivity Matters!
Social, Environmental and Cultural Connectivity in Past Societies
Edited by Johannes Müller | 2022
This book is a presentation of the basic concept of social, environmental and cultural connectivity in past societies, as embodied in a diversity of disciplines in the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS. Thus, rather pragmatically driven…
Insights into Social Inequality
A Quantitative Study of Neolithic to Early Medieval Societies in Southwest Germany
Ralph Grossmann | 2021
Social inequality is a subject of contemporary concerns. Life capabilities and the access to resources vary significantly in rich and poor countries, between elites and others. Furthermore, inequalities based on bio-anthropological and non-bio-anthropological causes are…
Archaeological Approaches to Inequality, Political Organisation, and Social Complexity
Edited by V. P. J. Arponen, René Ohlrau and Konrad Ott | Forthcoming
Featuring internationally leading contributions on archaeological theories of inequality, political organisation, and social complexity, this concise collection explores alternative and complementary perspectives to dominant approaches to inequality. The book illustrates the breadth and depth of…
Stadterweiterungen und urbane Dynamik im Mittelalter
Edited by Gerald Schwedler & Ulrich Müller | Forthcoming
Die Vielzahl und Dimensionierungen der Stadterweiterungen im späteren Mittelalter lassen Aufbruchstimmung und Zukunftsoptimismus erkennen. Trotz geringer Ressourcen wurden Vergrößerungen und Erweiterungen großflächig und auf erheblichen Zuwachs angelegt. Erweiterungsprozesse zogen sich in der Regel über Jahrzehnte…
Death in Times of Change
Transformations of Prehistoric Hunter-Fisher Burial Rituals Between the Baltic and the Urals
Anastasia Khramtsova | Forthcoming
This book examines burial rituals among prehistoric communities that inhabited the East European forest zone between ca. 9500 and 2700 cal BCE. Based on evidence from 130 burial sites with a total of 1406 graves…
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Epistemology, Economics, and Ethics
A Practical Philosophy of Prehistoric Archaeology
Konrad Ott | 2023
This book is intended to be a groundwork of how to theorise prehistory and archaeology and how to make connectivities between the past and the present. It is divided into four parts. The first part…
Mentale Konzepte der Stadt in Bild- und Textmedien der Vormoderne
Edited by Margit Dahm & Timo Felber | 2023
Der Band versammelt Beiträge aus verschiedenen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen, die sich mentalen Konzepten, d.h. Vorstellungen oder Imaginationen der westeuropäischen mittelalterlichen Stadt widmen, die epochenübergreifend in unterschiedlichsten narrativen, diskursiven und visuellen Repräsentationen in Erscheinung treten. Stadt wird…
Connectivity Matters!
Social, Environmental and Cultural Connectivity in Past Societies
Edited by Johannes Müller | 2022
This book is a presentation of the basic concept of social, environmental and cultural connectivity in past societies, as embodied in a diversity of disciplines in the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS. Thus, rather pragmatically driven…
Insights into Social Inequality
A Quantitative Study of Neolithic to Early Medieval Societies in Southwest Germany
Ralph Grossmann | 2021
Social inequality is a subject of contemporary concerns. Life capabilities and the access to resources vary significantly in rich and poor countries, between elites and others. Furthermore, inequalities based on bio-anthropological and non-bio-anthropological causes are…
Archaeological Approaches to Inequality, Political Organisation, and Social Complexity
Edited by V. P. J. Arponen, René Ohlrau and Konrad Ott | Forthcoming
Featuring internationally leading contributions on archaeological theories of inequality, political organisation, and social complexity, this concise collection explores alternative and complementary perspectives to dominant approaches to inequality. The book illustrates the breadth and depth of…
Stadterweiterungen und urbane Dynamik im Mittelalter
Edited by Gerald Schwedler & Ulrich Müller | Forthcoming
Die Vielzahl und Dimensionierungen der Stadterweiterungen im späteren Mittelalter lassen Aufbruchstimmung und Zukunftsoptimismus erkennen. Trotz geringer Ressourcen wurden Vergrößerungen und Erweiterungen großflächig und auf erheblichen Zuwachs angelegt. Erweiterungsprozesse zogen sich in der Regel über Jahrzehnte…
Death in Times of Change
Transformations of Prehistoric Hunter-Fisher Burial Rituals Between the Baltic and the Urals
Anastasia Khramtsova | Forthcoming
This book examines burial rituals among prehistoric communities that inhabited the East European forest zone between ca. 9500 and 2700 cal BCE. Based on evidence from 130 burial sites with a total of 1406 graves…
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