Kategorie: Veranstaltungen

Freitag den 14.06. Um 12:00 h

This webcast will be in English!

5000 years ago, a migration shaped Europe’s future. Migrating communities spread across Europe within two centuries, leaving lasting changes in connectivity, language, and genetics. Yet these migrating communities did not enter an empty continent. Across Europe, they encountered indigenous communities with millennia-old roots. What interactions between migrating and indigenous communities drove the changes seen in the archaeological record?

This talk sheds new light on this question with an innovative approach to ceramics. Ceramics bear traces of production techniques which potters learned and applied to create them. The approach outlined here can quantitatively assess the amount of shared knowledge between potters from these traces by combining the chaîne opératoire method with network analysis and probability theory.

This offers a unique perspective on the past which focusses on information exchange between groups rather than on groups. A crucial shift not only for understanding migration 5000 years ago but for understanding migration today.

There will be plenty of opportunity for discussions after the presentation.

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Freitag den 24.05. Um 12:00 h

This webcast will be in English!

The emergence of the so-called Virtual Archaeology in the 90s of the last century marked a before and after in the current system of documentation of the archaeological record. Cause and consequence of the computerization of our discipline, the new tools provided by this created new and interesting lines of research, strengthened some pre-existing ones and prepared the archaeological discipline for a methodological renewal as important as necessary. Currently, Virtual Archaeology, also known as Cyber Archaeology, involves a wide range of techniques and procedures that allow us to deepen our knowledge of the past.

The practical non-existence of outdoor engravings or megalithic art in the middle Guadalquivir explains the repeated mentions of the Sileras site as the best-known testimony of a phenomenon scarcely documented in the territory. The objective of relocating it and obtaining updated information on its supports, location and context, with the appropriate methodologies, has guided the development of this work. For this purpose, we have designed a triple-scale digitization approach. An inductive digital methodology which allow us to understand the the surrounding archaeological landscape through 4 decontextualized engraved stone fragments.

Throughout this presentation we will explore some of these methodologies through a particular case study, the megalithic complex of Las Sileras (municipality of Córdoba, Spain), with the aim of relocating it and obtaining updated information on its supports, location and context. To this end, we have designed a triple-scale virtual digitisation and analysis approach that allows us to understand the surrounding archaeological landscape through 4 decontextualised engraved stone fragments.

There will be plenty of opportunity for discussions after the presentation.

This meeting is in the past

Freitag den 08.03. Um 12:00 h

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Dieser Webcast ist der Auftakt zur einer Reihe von Webcasts über NFDI4Objects, die sich mit verschiedenen Schwerpunkten der NFDI4O beschäftigen werden. Die Schwerpunkte werden vorab (mit genügend Zeit) bekannt gegeben und es wird möglich sein vorab Fragen zu den entsprechenden Themen stellen zu können die dann in den einzelnen Webcasts berücksichtigt werden.

Derzeit oft dezentral, projektgebunden und temporär gelagerte Forschungsdatenbestände sollen im Rahmen der NFDI für das gesamte deutsche Wissenschaftssystem systematisch erschlossen, zugänglich gemacht und national wie auch international vernetzt werden. Für die Ausgestaltung der Nationalen Forschungsdateninfrastrukturen arbeiten Nutzende und Anbieterinnen in Konsortien zusammen. NFDI4Objects ist eine Initiative zum Aufbau eines multidisziplinären Konsortiums innerhalb der Nationalen Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (NFDI). Die Initiative richtet sich an Forscherinnen und Praktiker*innen, deren Arbeitsschwerpunkte auf dem materiellen Erbe von rund drei Millionen Jahren Menschheits- und Umweltgeschichte liegen und adressiert die Herausforderungen moderner Forschungsdateninfrastrukturen.

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Eleftheria Paliou and Andreas Angourakis from the University of Cologne are organizing a workshop on socio-ecological modelling in archaeology.

The workshop will take place in Cologne between 22nd and 24th of May 2024.

This workshop invites papers on archaeological computational models that seek to take fuller into account advancements shaping the current discourse in socio-ecological research. We are particularly interested in approaches to simulation modelling that gain insights from Indigenous and traditional ecological knowledge. We also encourage contributions that explore the socio-ecological dynamics of resource use, depletion and renewal and in interdisciplinary eco-archaeological approaches that bring together ethnoarchaeology, archaeological science methods, and computational modelling. 

The workshop is linked to a planned special journal issue and invites papers on archaeological computational models that seek to take fuller into account advancements shaping the current discourse in socio-ecological research. Travel and accommodation costs will be covered for all paper presenters.

Please send your extended abstracts (max. 1000 words) to Andreas Angourakis (aangourauni-koeln.de) by February 2nd, 2024.

For more information, please visit the workshop website here.