ROOTS Studies

The book series ‘ROOTS Studies’ presents scientific research that proceeds from the implementation of individual and cross-disciplinary projects within the Cluster of Excellence ‘ROOTS – Social, Environmental and Cultural Connectivity in Past Societies’ at Kiel University. The series addresses social, environmental, and cultural phenomena as well as processes of past human development in light of the key concept of ‘connectivity’. The results of specific research topics and themes across various formats, including monographs, edited volumes, proceedings of conferences and workshops as well as data collections, are the backbone of this book series.

The Cluster of Excellence ROOTS explores the roots of social, environmental, and cultural phenomena and processes that substantially marked past human development. In a broad interdisciplinary conceptual framework, archaeological and historical ‘laboratories’ are investigated under the basic assumption that humans and environments have deeply shaped each other, creating socio-environmental connectivities, which still persist today. A better understanding of interwoven past socio-environmental dynamics will shed light on the ‘roots’ of current challenges and crises under diverse economic, ecological, and social conditions.

An important objective of ROOTS is the transfer of knowledge. This is achieved through the volumes of the ROOTS book series, which serve as one mirror of the coordinated concern of ROOTS researchers and their partners. ROOTS researchers explore the human-environmental relationship over a plurality of spatial and temporal scales within past societies and environments. The associated research challenges revolve around the premise that humans and environments have interwoven roots, which reciprocally influence each other, stemming from and yielding connectivities that can be identified and juxtaposed against current social issues and crises. The highly dynamic research agenda of the ROOTS cluster, its diverse subclusters and state of the art research set the stage for interdisciplinary results, which are published in the volumes of this book series.

For more information: www.cluster-roots.uni-kiel.de

Editors

Prof. Dr. Eileen Eckmeier
Prof. Dr. Martin Furholt
Prof. Dr. Luka Käppel
Prof. Dr. Johannes Müller

Contact information

Dr. Franziska Engelbogen
Associate Editor ‘ROOTS Studies’
Excellence Cluster ‘ROOTS – Social, Environmental and
Cultural Connectivity in Past Societies’
Kiel University
Leibnizstraße 3
24118 Kiel
Germany

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