📜EAZ-Archive: Vol. 16,2 (1975) is now available in our digital archive! This issue featured a number of contributions to the 'Provocation and Response' section on the historical periodisation in #AncientGreece and the Orient
#History #Archaeology #EAZ #EAZArchives
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📜EAZ-archives: Using the example of so-called 'Celtic Art’, the author shows how narrative patterns originate, develop and function, and how they influence the discourse and constitute collective knowledge.
#CelticArt #Archaeology #EAZ #EAZArchives
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📜🐑EAZ-Archive, 1961: A very brief presentation of the first doctoral study of #sheep #husbandry and shepherds in #CentralEurope with the focus on their economic, social, and cultural-historical contexts.
#Archaeology #EAZ #EAZArchives
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📜EAZ-archive: Review of Alfred Holder’s Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz – classic that documented lexicon of Celtic words known from Greek and Roman sources.
#Celts #Linguistics #EAZArchives #EAZ
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📜EAZ-archives: In this paper, K. Pannhorst views the museums as a form of “time machine” and explores their deep connection with the dimension of time.
#Museum #Time #Archaeology #EAZ #EAZArchives
Pannhorst, K. 2011. “Beyond Chronology? Time at the Museum”. EAZ 52 (2):239-51. doi.org/10.54799/QWV...
📜EAZ-archives: Published in 1968, Feustel’s article remains highly relevant in today's archaeology due to his insistence on non-linear, dialectical and regional models of development.
#StoneAge #Evolution #Archaeology #EAZ #EAZArchives
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📚In this piece, U. Veit advocates a “problem history” approach, where the questions we ask – and how we ask them – shape the histories we tell.
#Archaeology #EAZArchives
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In this paper, S. Grunwald explores how awards, jubilees and named scholarships are not just honours but powerful tools for shaping what and who gets remembered in #archaeology.
#MemoryCulture #DisciplinaryMemory #EAZArchives
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Heinz Gau (front right) during the excavation of a megalithic tomb near Ludwigsburg, Altkr. Greifswald (Greifswalder Zeitung newspaper, 6 January 1937).
What happens when a young scholar’s career is shaped – and cut short – by war and ideology?
#HistoryOfScience #WWIIHistory #Archaeology #EAZ #EAZArchives
Rauchfuß, B.. 2013. Heinz Gau – A Greifswald Prehistorian in National Socialist Germany”. EAZ 54 (1/2): 5-28 (in German)
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This publication covers the long-standing debate in #ethnography on the balance between universal historical laws and the unique local histories of communities
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Sellnow, I. 1961. On the Problem of Local and Universal History in Ethnographic Methodology. EAZ 2 (2)
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In 1973 #Malta, scholars from across 20 countries gathered to celebrate #Latin language and culture and nurture peaceful global dialogue.
#EAZ #EAZArchives
Irmscher, J. 1974. “Omnium Gentum Ac Nationum Conventus Latinus Litteris Linguaeque Fovendis, Malta 1973”. EAZ 15 (1).
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🔬 In 1962, German anthropologists presented groundbreaking finds – from the world’s largest known Neolithic skull trepanation to early evidence of cancer, epilepsy, and dwarfism in ancient skeletons – bridging #archaeology, #medicine, and #history.
#EAZ #EAZArchives
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📚This review highlights how a bestselling book about the "mysterious" #Etruscans can say more about postwar worldviews than the ancient people themselves.
#EAZArchives #EAZ
Zinserling, G. 1964. O.‐W. Von Vacano, Die Etrusker in Der Welt Der Antike, Leipzig 1962. EAZ 5 (2)
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Why do people tame animals — and how did it start in the ancient Near East? This review of Brentjes’ classic explores domestication, science, and society as it is covered in a book.
#Domestication #AncientNearEast #Archaeology #EAZ #EAZArchives
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This dissertation became a groundbreaking correction to dominant narratives about Afro-American communities in Suriname at the time.
#PostColonialStudies #Ethnography #SurinameHistory #EAZ #EAZArchives
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⚔️S. Hansen’s review unpacks “Die Vollgriffschwerter in der Slowakei“ by M. Novotná: highlights the volume's contribution to our understanding of #CentralEurope’s sword-depositing traditions and reviews how we date and interpret #hoards.
#Archaeology #BronzeAge #EAZArchives
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Here is a case study in Marxist methodology applied to non-Western societies, challenging Eurocentric models of historical development.
#AncientChina #MarxistHistory #EAZArchives #EAZ
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📚Deep in the roots of German folk tales lie forgotten initiation rituals and lost traditions.
#Fairytales #BrothersGrimm #Folklore #EAZ #EAZArchives
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“Toepferei in Afrika” (1967) is an ethnographic study that documented the techniques and traditions of pottery-making across Africa. The review is available at the link below.
#Africa #Pottery-Making #BookReview #EAZ #EAZArchives
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In "Fictitious Tradition and Cultural Memory", Holger Wendling explores how the past can be used to validate the present, based on Celtic cultural remains.
#CelticHistory #IronAge #Archaeology #EAZ #EAZArchives
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What role did kinship and marriage rules play in maintaining social order? How can taboos shape interactions between certain family members? And why were some relationships considered ‘half-taboo’? Discover with this paper from our archives.
#Taboo #Anthropology #EAZArchives
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