Event Archive
Publication within the SFB 1070 Book Series: RessourcenKulturen 11
Waters. Conference proceedings for “Waters as a Resource” by Sandra Teuber, Anke Scholz, Thomas Scholten and Martin Bartelheim (Hrsg.):
This volume contains the conference contributions of scientists of the SFB 1070 presented at the conference “Waters as a Resource”, which was organized in cooperation with DEGUWA (Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Unterwasserarchäologie e.V.) and took place in Tübingen from March 15th to 18th 2018.
The conference proceedings focus on different resources provided by waters or on the ResourceComplexes connected to them. After a brief reflection on theories and methods used within the SFB 1070 to study and understand resources, conceptions of water bodies in cultural anthropology and archaeology are compared using the examples of the Guadalquivir and Syr Darya Rivers. The third contribution investigates water management on islands and its influences on the identity of the islanders. The fourth chapter shows how seclusion on islands can be an important resource for island communities in the Strait of Sicily. Waters as means for identity formation in medieval monasteries is the focus of the fifth chapter, which is followed by a contribution that investigates the impact of maritime food sources on Viking Life. The last study analyses Greek settlements in the Black Sea. All contributions illustrate how a new perspective on resources opens up new possibilities for interpretation.
The book is available as print version (Email to uni@pro-business.de) as well as Open Access Download.
Moving Materials?
Trade has connected distant regions throughout human history. It is hardly ever a simple exchange of material goods (raw materials, food, tools), but also involves the transfer of knowledge, practices and technologies (intangible resources). By looking at objects, archaeologists, geographers and anthropologists can understand the complexity of these exchange relationships. Thus, the following objects from the fields of economy, culture and food show the influence of trade on the development of social structures – and how the mobility of goods and people can be traced through time.
Exhibition: https://museum-ressourcenkulturen.de/en/exhibition/
Publication within the SFB 1070 Book Series: RessourcenKulturen 10
Ur- und frühgeschichtliche Siedlungsdynamiken zwischen Gunst- und Ungunsträumen in Südwestdeutschland. Landschaftsarchäologische Untersuchungen zur Baar und den angrenzenden Naturräumen des Schwarzwaldes und der Schwäbischen Alb by Jan Johannes Miera:
Die Untersuchung von Mensch-Umwelt-Beziehungen gehört zu den Schwerpunkten der siedlungs- und landschaftsarchäologischen Forschung. Ur- und frühgeschichtliche Siedlungsdynamiken zwischen Gunst- und Ungunsträumen werfen eine Reihe von Fragen hinsichtlich der auslösenden Faktoren für die Erschließung und Wahrnehmung bzw. Nutzung von Landschaften mit unterschiedlichen agrarwirtschaftlichen Voraussetzungen auf. Im Fokus der vorliegenden Arbeit stehen eine theoretische und methodische Auseinandersetzung mit diesem Themenkomplex innerhalb der deutschsprachigen Prähistorischen Archäologie sowie eine Untersuchung von ur- und frühgeschichtlichen Siedlungsdynamiken anhand eines Fallbeispiels aus dem südwestdeutschen Raum. Ausgehend von einer archäologischen Quellenkritik werden mittels Geographischer Informationssysteme (GIS) Veränderungen in der Landnutzung auf der Baar und in angrenzenden Naturräumen der Südostabdachung des Mittleren Schwarzwaldes sowie der Schwäbischen Alb erfasst und mit Erkenntnissen aus anderen Untersuchungsregionen diskutiert. Die Datenbasis umfasst 1826 Fundstellen aus der Zeit vom Paläolithikum bis zum Ende des Hochmittelalters und wird durch AMS-Radiokarbondatierungen von Holzkohleproben und OSL-Datierungen von Sedimentproben aus Kolluvien ergänzt. Die Synthese dieser archäologischen und bodenkundlichen Daten ermöglicht es, die wechselnde Erschließung und Konzeptualisierung der Baar, des Schwarzwaldes und der Schwäbischen Alb zu erfassen. Durch die Berücksichtigung von theoretischen Ansätzen aus der Anthropologie und Geographie werden alternative Perspektiven für den archäologischen Umgang mit Gunst- und Ungunsträumen aufgezeigt.
The book is available as print version (Email an uni@pro-business.de) as well as Open Access Download.
Application for Conference
Burg - Adel - Landschaft
Burgen als landschaftsprägende Ressourcen im Mittelalter
| When | 22. - 23. October 2020 |
| Where | Online |
Organisation Project Management | Jonas Froehlich Prof. Dr. Sigrid Hirbodian, Prof. Dr. Rainer Schreg |
Application possible until 19.10.2020 via sekretariat.ifgl@ifgl.uni-tuebingen.de
Charity for and by the Poor
Publication of Dr. Laura Dierksmeier
When Spain colonized Latin America during the sixteenth century, Spanish missionaries employed various strategies to convert indigenous inhabitants to the Catholic faith, including running schools, organizing choirs, and establishing charitable brotherhoods, known as confraternities.
In this book, Laura Dierksmeier investigates how the reformed Franciscans’ vocation to missionize Mexico gave rise to an extensive network of local confraternities and their respective care institutions. She shows how the Franciscan missionary instructions to promote the works of mercy as an embodiment of charity inspired the goals, governance, and operations of indigenous confraternities, their hospital and orphan care, as well as their contributions to the moral economy, for instance, through the release of debt prisoners and money lending to the poor.
Through an analysis of confraternity record books, lawsuits, last wills, missionary correspondence, and parish records, Dierksmeier argues that confraternities became an essential institution to assist the population during epidemics, to integrate the different indigenous classes from the former Aztec Empire, and to safe-guard indigenous self-governance within religious spheres.
Most notably, Franciscan-established confraternities built social structures where the poor could be not only recipients of assistance but also, through their voluntary participation, self-empowered agents of community care; charity was provided for and by the poor.
Press Release (29.07.2020)
Time Travel on your couch
The ResourceCultures collaborative research center takes visitors to lost worlds via its virtual museum
29.04.2020
What do 3000-year-old artefacts from the royal crypt at Qaṭna in Syria have in common with the thousand-year-old wall of Haithabu in northern Germany and the medieval castles of Staufeneck and Ramsberg in southern Germany? They all represent power. And they are all part of the exhibition “Symbols of Power - (In)visible Representation” at the virtual museum built by the ResourceCultures collaborative research center at the University of Tübingen. The museum opened in March and can be visited online.
The visitor can virtually stroll through three rooms, examining objects such as donut stones from Iran, ancient cisterns on Mediterranean islands, and Viking cats. Or you can click your way through the many projects in the collaborative research center’s depot. Following a timeline, you can explore projects from the Early Stone Age right up to the present day. These projects are being carried out by interdisciplinary researchers from the fields of archaeology, cultural anthropology, history and geoscience, and many more.
“We came up with the idea for the museum about two years ago,” says Professor Thomas Thiemeyer, who heads the museum’s project group. “We want to address the public as well as academics, outlining how our research works and how we analyze artefacts which may be thousands of years old; how we arrive at new information which is relevant to us today.” “It was a challenge to work with the more than 60 members of our collaborative research center in one joint project,” says research coordinator Dr. Sandra Teuber. She adds that the most impressive thing was that everyone made a contribution with ideas, photos, videos and texts - alongside their research work.
The 1070 ResourceCultures virtual museum lets people take a trip into the past from the comfort of their own homes - making it the ideal visitor’s tip for these times.
This way to the museum! https://museum-ressourcenkulturen.de
Press Release is online
Download Press Release: 2020-04-29_Virtual_Museum_SFB
News from Paola and her team
We are still in Duhok, Iraqi Kurdistan. We came here 6 weeks ago for our last study season (Project B07). The airport is closed at the moment, but we hope it will be re-opened by the end of the month, so that we can fly safely home as soon as possible.
We are all well, we try to make the best use of the time we have left here.
Mesa Redonda & Siete Arroyos Fieldwork
The A02 team spent some time at Mesa Redonda and Siete Arroyos (Villaverde, Spain) doing fieldwork, prior to the Covid-19 shut down in Spain and the new measures taken in Germany. We are happy that they returned to Germany safely and are now working remotely from home. Still, we are looking forward too hear about their results and stories from the field!
The S project of the SFB 1070 RessourcenKulturen supports Folding@home
Folding@home is a global project to study the mechanisms of protein folding. This is of great importance for many medical topics such as Alzheimer's, cancer and currently the corona virus. With the SFB 1070's powerful workstations for machine learning, it will contribute to data analysis in a mainframe computer network.
Arbeitstreffen mit Hobbyforschern im Allgäu
Nach intensiven archäologischen und bodenkundlichen Geländearbeiten im Allgäu gilt es nun im Teilprojekt B 02, die genau untersuchten Fundstellen in einen regionalen Kontext einzubetten. Wie dicht war die bronzezeitliche Besiedlung (ca. 2200 - 800 v. u. z.) des Westallgäus und gab es Gemeinsamkeiten oder Unterschiede im Ausmaß und in der Art der damaligen Landutzung im Vergleich etwa zur Baar oder zum Hegau?
Gerade in einer Region wie dem Allgäu, das bisher kaum im Blick systematischer Forschungen gestanden hat, ist die lokale Orts- und Quellenkenntnis von geschichtlich-archäologisch Interessierten unverzichtbar. Deshalb organisierte das Teilprojekt am 07. März 2020 ein Treffen mit einigen ehrenamtlichen Denkmalpflegern und Heimatforschern in Leutkirch im Allgäu. Zusätzlich zur Recherche in Bibliotheken und Archiven ergeben sich aus dieser Zusammenarbeit wichtige Hinweise zu weiteren Fundstellen und somit zur prähistorischen Besiedlung in der Region. Gleichzeitig wird vor Ort nicht nur das Bewusstsein für das gemeinsame kulturelle Erbe gestärkt, sondern auch Nähe zur universitären Forschung geschaffen.
Love - Violence - Intrigue
What do the Bayeux Carpet, the Iwein frescoes of Rodenegg Castle or the rune stone of Stora Hammars have in common? They are pictorial sources that allow very special access to the past: the content of a picture is just as exciting as the circumstances of its creation or reception or the material on/from which it was created.
The analysis of image sources therefore requires the cooperation of a wide range of disciplines. In the case of the Iwein frescoes, for example, questions of art-historical analysis as well as their interpretation in literary studies, the historical contextualization of their creation or their location in the castle from an architectural and archaeological perspective arise.
Valerie Palmowski and Jonas Froehlich explored such questions with students of history and archaeology in the winter semester. The interdisciplinary approach of the course "Love - Violence - Intrigue. Interdisciplinary Interpretation of "Living" Image Sources" was equally challenging, exciting and informative for teachers and students alike. A highlight was the short excursion to the old town of Tübingen - image source analysis on site!
The virtual museum of the SFB 1070 is now online!
The virtual museum is our way of showing you how we gain new insights through the analysis of material culture. Our museum is divided into three exciting rooms: the depot, where 21 subprojects are presented, the collection which explains what we do and how we work with individual objects from our research and changing exhibitions on current SFB research topics. The current exhibition deals with the topic: "Symbols of Power - (In)visible Representation".
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The Collaborative Research Centre 1070 ResourceCultures does great PR!
On the Occasion of the 50th anniversary of its program ‚Collaborative Research Centers‘ the German Research Community DFG presented an article about it in its online magazine. Out of 260 Collaborative Research Centers in whole Germany they chose to present seven for being great examples of PR. Among them: the Collaborative Research Centre SFB 1070 ResourceCultures. We are very proud of that, because it shows that we are on the right track. Amongst the events our research centre had carried out they named especially three: The exhibition ‚Curse and Blessing of Resources‘ at the museum of the university at the castle of Tübingen wich took place from October 2016 until January 2017, Children’s University Tübingen, where kids could discover bronze age resources by playing and last years school project: ‚The world is our field‘. In this project our researchers and students were able to give pupils some insights into various subjects of Cultural Anthropology. Our Collaborative Research Centre SFB 1070 ResourceCultures is one out of seven at the University of Tübingen. We are funded by the German Research Community DFG since 2013. Researchers from different fields of Archaeology, Philology, the science of history, Cultural Anthropology and empirical Cultural Studies are working at a new understanding of the concept of resources. DFG is funding the staff, invests in scientific devices and finances field trips, symposia, guest lectures, international cooperations, PR, and programs concerning young researchers as well as gender equity. We congratulate the German Research Community DFG on this anniversary and we want to give our sincere thanks for allowing us at SFB 1070 ResourceCultures to do our research.
Call for Papers: "Ästhetik vs. Programmatik"
Perspektiven der archäologischen Stilforschung
| When | 14 - 16 March 2019 |
| Where | Institut für Klassische Archäologie, Schloss Hohentübingen |
| Organisation | PD Dr. Martin Kovacs, Dr. des. Martin Dorka Moreno |
The SFB 1070 welcomes scientists from all over the world to the conference "ResourceCultures - Reflections and New Perspectives"
With an evening lecture by Prof. Dr. Dirk Krausse from the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Esslingen, our international conference on ResourceCultures started last Wednesday evening in the Old Assembly Hall in Tübingen. Dirk Krausse gave an insight into the exciting excavation work around the Heuneburg in the district of Sigmaringen, which is considered the first town north of the Alps and had about 5000 inhabitants at its heyday in the 6th and 5th century BC. The Heuneburg and the many archaeological sites, such as the burial mounds, the Great Heuneburg and the so-called Old Castle in the immediate vicinity still pose many mysteries today.
The lectures at the sessions on Thursday and Friday were usually given by an international guest, a member of the SFB 1070 and a young scientist to encourage young researchers. The conference was attended by guests from other European countries, Australia and the USA.
To take another look at the presentation held, please refer to the abstract volume.
International Conference
RESOURCECULTURES
Reflections and New Perspectives
| When: | 12 - 14 February 2020 |
| Where: | Tübingen, Alte Aula |
For more information klick here.
Workshop Announcement by the Project B 02
Soil and Human Culture Dynamics during the Holocene Epoch: Anthropology, Archaeology and Soil Science
| When: | 10 February 2020, from 2:00pm to 5:00pm |
| Where: | Room E015, SFB RessourcenKulturen, Gartenstraße 29 |
Open Discussion Round for all SFB Members
Lecture
as part of the ResourceCultures Dialogues
Der mittelalterliche Mensch und die Ressource Wasser:
archäologische und historische Schlaglichter
| When: | 19. December 2019, 4:15pm |
| Where: | Room 314, SFB RessourcenKulturen, Gartenstraße 29 |
| Speaker: | Dr. Lukas Werther |
This year's Wildberg Retreat took place on December 13th and 14th, 2019. This year the focus was on the preparation of the extension proposal. In addition to numerous informative discussions, there was also time to talk about the past year.
The SFB 1070, the IANES and the Biblical Archaeological Institute invite you to a lecture.
Kunst und Ästhetik im Neuassyrischen Reich : Die Königsstatuen
| When: | 11 December 2019, 6:15pm |
| Where: | Room 136, IANES, Castle Hohentübingen |
| Speaker: | Prof. Dr. Dominik Bonatz |
Lecture
Evidence of rock art in Iranian Baluchistan: Petroglyphs of Kajou Valley and Gosht Region
| When: | 26 November 2019, 6:15pm |
| Where: | Room 136, IANES, Castle Hohentübingen |
| Speaker: | Dr. Rouhollah Shirazi |
International Conference
European Islands
Between Isolated and Interconnected Life Worlds
Interdisciplinary Long-Term Perspectives
| When: | 15 - 16 November 2019 |
| Where: | Ernst von Sieglin Hörsaal (165), Institute for Classical Archaeology, Castle Hohentübingen |
To have a look at the program please click here
For more information please click here
Lecture as part of the Conference
More Than Land Surrounded by Water? A Geographer’s View of Island Spatiality
| When: | 15 November 2019, 7:00pm |
| Where: | Ernst von Sieglin Hörsaal (165), Department for Classical Archaeology, Castle Hohentübingen |
| Speaker | Prof. Dr. Beate M.W. Ratter (Hamburg) |
Review of the Conference
On November 15 and 16, 2019, scientists from all over the world came to Schloss Hohentübingen for the conference "European Islands - Between Isolated and Interconnected Life Worlds. Interdisciplinary Long-Term Perspectives".
Islands make up only about 2% of the Earth's surface and yet the invention of shipping has brought these seemingly marginal areas into contact with countless trading partners and their respective languages, religions, information networks and goods, turning them into cultural powerhouses. The connection with the sea sometimes meant danger, for example from attacks by conquerors, pirates or sailors with infectious diseases and sometimes complete isolation, which in turn meant that there was no support from allies when resources were needed or settlements had to be rebuilt after storms. The insularity sometimes led to innovative solutions and different cultural practices that could not be found on the mainland.
The central question of this conference was how islands in the waters of Europe were used and understood by earlier societies, whereby the postcolonial term "European Islands" was critically questioned. It presented the cultural practices, social norms and solutions of the islanders for the many opportunities and challenges that they faced from 3000 BC. Faced up to 1800 n. Chr. Island-specific factors have been explored to better understand the fragile balance of life between scarcity and surplus, between local customs and global treaties, between dependency and independence, between security and insecurity, between control and power, and between physical, political or private life.
Due to the increasing digital networking, the rapidly increasing mobility of people and goods and the dramatic climatic changes, our earth seems to us more and more like an island. Many of the conference's questions can therefore provide answers to today's problems.
A short review on the workshop "VennMaker"
On October 30, a workshop on ethnological network analysis organized by the SFB took place in Tehran, where after an introductory part, especially the work with the analysis and visualization software "VennMaker" was taught. The approx. 15 Iranian participants learned and practiced the presentation of egocentric networks, whereby the event, apart from the practical use, of course also served the intercultural dialogue.
International Workshop
Beyond Subsistence
Human-Nature Interactions
| When: | 17 - 18 October 2019 |
| Where: | Alte Aula, Tübingen |
For more information click here.
Review of the Workshop
The workshop Beyond Subsistence: Human-Nature Interactions organized by the AG Animal, Plants and Substances was celebrated during the 17th and 18th of November in Tübingen. More than 40 international scholars from different backgrounds and universities attended this event. The objective of this workshop was to discuss and to re-define the term "Subsistence" from a multidisciplinary perspective with a wide temporal and spatial scale. The event was a great success due to the leading of discussion to exchange different ideas and perspectives from the Archaeology and the Anthropology.
Back in Tübingen: For four weeks, the project B02 worked together with students of prehistoric and early historical archaeology in a forest near Leutkirch in the Allgäu region. This time two burial mounds from the Bronze Age or Iron Age (2nd/1st millennium BC) were examined. The analysis of sample material should provide further details about the age of the dead monuments.
International Workshop
Landscapes as Resources
Assemblages in the Bronze Age of Southern Spain
| When: | 26 - 28 September 2019 |
| Where: | Linares, Spanien, Museo RAPHAEL |
International Congress
of the intern. Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences
Poznan/Poland 2019
Workshop by PD Dr. Sabine Klocke-Daffa about Science Communication
(together with Prof. Giovanna Guslini/Italy and Dr. Ajeet Jaisval/India)
Find the program here.
SFB 1070 co-hosted a workshop about Scientific Communication at the Inter-Congress 2019
More than a dozen researchers coming from twelve different countries took part in the workshop ‘Writing for a public of non-anthropologists’ of the Commission on Anthropology and Education. The workshop under the direction of PD Dr. Sabine Klocke-Daffa (SFB 1070 – University of Tübingen, Germany), Prof. Giovanna Guslini (formerly Ministry of Education, University and Research, Italy) and Dr. Ajeet Jaiswal (Pondicherry University, India) was held at the Inter-Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) in Poznán/Poland 2019.
DBG Annual Meeting 2019 in Bern
The soil science chair of Prof. Dr. Thomas Scholten was able to impress at the annual meeting of the Deutsche Bodenkundliche Gesellschaft. Doctoral student Sascha Scherer and Dr. Peter Kühn presented their research results about colluvial deposits in southwest Germany, which have been developed in close collaboration with archaeologists Benjamin Höpfer and apl. Prof. Dr. Thomas Knopf as part of the Project Division B02. Additionally, Sascha Scherer won first place by giving an excellent speech about his research topic in the soil-pitch.
Even the S-Project was present in the lecture series of the work group Digital Soil Mapping with lectures by Dr. Karsten Schmidt and doctoral student Tobias Rentschler. In addition, Dr. Sandra Teuber demonstrated the successful collaboration between archaeologists and soil scientists.
For the whole workgroup, this fruitful annual meeting concluded in a small city tour through Bern, guided by Prof. Dr. Thomas Scholten.
In summer semester 2019, Postdocs Frerich Schön and Laura Dierksmeier taught a new interdisciplinary course on Mediterranean Island History and Archaeology that they developed through the SFB1070 workgroup "Insularitäten." History and archaeology students reflected on island resources through topics including water management, commerce, cartography, and island architecture, in addition to two guest lectures by island researchers from the United States and Great Britain.
International Conference
Medicine, Religion and Alchemy in South India
Resources and Permutations of Siddha Traditions and Siddha Medicine
| When: | 25 - 27 July 2019 |
| Where: | Room 119, Department for Prehistoric Archaeology and in the Library in the Department for Anthropology, Castle Hohentübingen |
Click here for further information.
ResourceCulture Dialogues
The Universal and the Global: Ayurvedic Herbs and Practices in Europe
| When: | 22 July 2019, 4:15pm to 6:00pm |
| Where: | Room 314, Gartenstr. 29, 72074 Tübingen |
Review on the International Medieval Congress
Up to 2500 humanities scholars working on the European Middle Ages gather in Leeds every year, making the IMC (International Medieval Congress) the largest annual conference of its kind in Great Britain. The host, the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds, offers an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of all possible aspects of medieval studies. The University of Tübingen and the Collaborative Research Centre 1070 ResourceCultures were again strongly represented this year.
The planning trio Christoph Haack (University of Tübingen), Marco Krätschmer (University of Marburg, formerly SFB 1070) and Jonas Froehlich (SFB 1070) organised a panel with nine lectures on "Updating The Knight". The concept of the "Knight" was questioned across time, region and discipline. Jonas Froehlich's lecture focused not only on the knight but also on the castle and finally on the question: Is there a knight's castle?
Lecture
Conquest, Consolidation and Colonialism? Castles and their Landscapes in Norman England
| When: | 16 July 2019, 6:15pm |
| Where: | Room 165, Department for Classical Archaeology, Castle Hohentübingen |
| Speaker: | Prof. Dr. Oliver Creighton |
ResourceCultures Dialogue
Macht und Herrschaft Interpretationskonzepte, Akteure und materieller Niederschlag in der Archäologie des Mittelalters
Time: 06.06.2019, 4 pm c.t.
Venue: Keplerstraße 2, Tübingen, R. 181
Lecture Announcement
Prof. Dr. Markus Tauschek will talk about:
Kulturerbe und Authentizität als globale Ressourcen
Time: 28.05.2019, 6 pm
Venue: Room 165 in the Department fo Classical Archaeology, Castle Hohentübingen
Fact Check: Were Vikings barbaric? - Dr. Sandra Teuber and Annika Condit from SFB 1070 ResourceCultures answered all questions about the fascinating Norsemens
Did Viking helmets actually have horns? Were the Vikings really in front of Columbus on the American continent? And of course: Were they brutal barbarians?
These and many more questions were answered by Dr. Sandra Teuber and Annika Condit last Friday at the Tübinger Fenster für Forschung (TÜFFF) the many interested children, young people and adult visitors. They had something for all ages: an edible Viking treasure, the board game Hnefatafl, a kind of viking-age chess, and a lot of background information on the area of spread of the Vikings, the former trading metropolis Haithabu and on ships, helmets, swords and jewelry. The two staff members of the Collaborative Research Center 1070 Resource Cultures cleared up with a few clichés: There was never a horned Viking helmet found, this would have been quite impractical in combat and Vikings actually entered around the year 1000 AD as the first Europeans today's Canada. It is true, however, that from the 8th century onward, Vikings were terrified throughout Europe as far as Constantinople and Kiev by raids. But not only: they became increasingly traders and settlers, settling down around the 11th century and thereby ending the Viking era.
”The constructed landscape"
Michael Weidenbacher and Jonas Froehlich held a lecture on 15 May 2019 at an international conference in Ulm -
Not only have people changed their environment since the beginning of open-cast mining or in times of Stuttgart 21. An international meeting of the Societies for Medieval and Modern Archeology from Germany, Austria and Switzerland in Ulm focused on landscape changes in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times.
In their lecture "No mountain without a castle - castles and their lords on the Swabian Alb“ Michael Weidenbacher and Jonas Froehlich from the SFB 1070 ResourceCultures dealt with landscape interventions by castles. For the nobility in the Swabian Alb castles had various functions: they were military bulwark, administrative center, as well as residential and meeting place. You can still see traces of these functions everywhere in the terrain. In Schlat near Göppingen fro example, where once stood a small castle in the village next to Mühlbach. The mill was presumably part of the castle and the mill race was probably used for daily fishing.
Top research for all ages
The "Tübinger Fenster für Forschung" (TÜFFF) offers generally comprehensible and interactive insights into top research in Tübingen. The next TÜFFF will take place Friday, May 24, 2019 from 3 to 10 pm at the Hörsaalzentrum der Naturwissenschaften, at Morgenstelle 16.
Hands-on activities, demonstrations, laboratory tours, lectures, an information fair and a science slam await the interested public at the fourth "Tübinger Fenster für Forschung" (TÜFFF) at the University of Tübingen.
The SFB 1070 Resource Culture is also funded by Dr. Sandra Teuber and Annika Condit with the booth "Fact check: were vikings barbaric?" You will find us on the ground floor with the stand number 33.
By editing and presenting current research topics for a non-specialist audience, the event is aimed at all age groups. Many program items are also suitable for children and students.
Admission is free and possible without registration. More information can be found here.
ResourceCultures Dialogue
Reframing Insularity: Communities, Places, and Resources in the Mediterranean Longue Durée
Time: 14.05.2019, 6.15 pm
Venue: Castle Hohentübingen, Department for Classical Archaeologie, Room 165
Google praises bachelor thesis from Tübingen as an important contribution to the topic of time-series analysis and cloud computing
As part of the S-Projekt Laura Bindereif writes her bachelor thesis about the topic „Analysis and mapping of spatio-temporal land use dynamics in Andalusia, Spain using the Google Earth Enginge cloud computing platform and the Landsat archive.“ The goal is to visualize the land use of the past 30 years and to utilize time-series of optic satellite pictures for questions of soil science, archaeology and ethnology. In April, she presented her results at the European Geoscience Union’s (EGU) general assembly to over 16,000 participants (read the abstract here). On Google’s homepage and at their exhibition booth our student’s outstanding work has been praised as an important contribution to the topics of time-series analysis and cloud computing using the Google Earth Engine.
Stones from the South: Workshop in Iran successfully completed
The archaeological-anthropological project “Stones from the South. Resource complexes in southeastern Iran in the context of regional and interregional networks” (A 03) has for the first time conducted a workshop with colleagues from the Iranian Centre for Archaeological Research (ICAR) and Anthropological Research Center (ARC)in the Jiroft/Southern Iran research region. The successful cooperation will be continued. A joint conference in Tuebingen is planned for the year 2020.
Our contribution to the newsletter Uni Tübingen aktuell No. 1/2019 entitled: "Books, photos and archives instead of shovels, spatulas and brushes - Matthias Toplak investigates grave finds from the Swedish island of Gotland from the year 1884" has been published today: https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/university/news-and-publications/newsletter-uni-tuebingen-aktuell/2019/1/forschung/4/
ResourceCultures Dialogue
A Living Mountain? New Materialist Encounters with Matter and Landscape
Date: 12.03.2019, 2.15 pm
Venue: SFB, Gartenstr. 29, Tübingen, Room 314
Workshop announcement
From 20 - 21 February 2019 an international, interdisciplinary, closed workshop takes place at the Goethe University Frankfurt/Main.
It is organized by project C04 and is entitled "Religious Speech and Religious Speakers. Authority and Influence of Word and People".
ResourceCultures Dialogue
Relationale Ontologien, Assemblagen, Intra-Aktionen. Zu einem Prozessdenken von Ressourcen
12.02.2019 | 3.15 - 6 pm | Discussion of selected texts
13.02.2019 | 10.15 am - 1 pm | Lecture by Dr. Stefan Schreiber, ‚Römischer Import‘ als Ressource? Assemblagedenken statt Objektdenken | Round of discussions
Venue: SFB, Gartenstraße 29, 72074 Tübingen | HS 15
At our annual workshop in Wildberg, concepts and theories of the SFB 1070 were discussed intensively again this year. In addition to all the work, there was time to discuss the past months.
On the 12th of December the AG Animals, Plants and Substances in collaboration with the AG Cultural Memory and Identity through the Research Dialogues series invited Prof. Dr. Dan Hicks who was speaking about The Past as a Resource?. On the 13th of December we celebrated a discussion round about one of the main topics of the SFB 1070 RessourcenKulturen such as the value of material past in and for the present.
Lecture
Prof. Dr. Sabine Föllinger speaks about:
"Vertrauen" als Ressource in Platons Nomoi
29.01.2019, 18 Uhr
Room 165 in the Department for Classical Archaeology, Schloss Hohentübingen
Lecture
Prof. Dr. Thomas Widlock will talk about:
Das Hier und Jetzt von Mobilität, Ressourcen und von Zukunftserwartungen
Time: 15.01.2019, 18 Uhr
Venue: Room 165 in the Department for Classical Archaeology, Schloss Hohentübingen
ResourceCultures Dialogue
The Past as a Resource?
Lecture: 12.12.2018, 6.15 pm, Schloss Hohentübingen, R. 119
Discussion Round: 13.12.2018, 10.15 am, SFB, Gartenstr. 29, R. 314
The SFB 1070 will be present at this year's annual meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists from September 6th-8th 2018 in Barcelona, Spain, with the session "HUMAN-MADE ENVIRONMENTS – THE DEVELOPMENT OF LANDSCAPES AS RESOURCE ASSEMBLAGES" and several lectures. Please find the program for the session here.
Field and Post-Field Activities
A Workshop on Documentation of Archaeological Material
In regard of a cultural memorandum between the university of Tübingen and Iranian Cultural Heritage, Handicraft and Tourism Organization (ICHHTO), from 2015 the Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies (IANES) as a part of a great project of SFB 1070 conducts archaeological and ethnological researches in the region southeast of Iran. In fact, Project A03 of SFB 1070 focuses on trade of semi-precious stones during the 3rd millennium BC between the southeast Iran and Mesopotamia. The project (SOJAS) undertakes archaeological, geological as well as anthropological investigations and documents the archaeological sites with new methods in archaeology.
For more information click here.
Lecture
On 04.12.2018 at 6.15 pm in room 165 in the Department for Classical Archaeology at Schloss Hohentübingen Prof. Dr. Andreas Schachner will give an insight into the topic:
"Hattuša und sein Umfeld - zur Versorgung einer Hauptstadt in einer Region begrenzter Ressourcen"
Lecture
On 20.11.2018 at 18:00 c.t. in room 136 in IANES at Schloss Hohentübingen Prof. Dr. Roger Matthews and Dr. Amy Richardson will give an insight into the topic:
"Mesopotamian cities at the dawn of history, 3100-2750 BC: new approaches to the city seal evidence"
On October 23, 2018 an article about the project B 02 was published in the Schwäbische Zeitung:
"Tübinger Forscher wollen Rätsel auf Spornberg lösen"
With the decision of the German Research Foundation (DFG) on 27.09.2018 to support the University of Tübingen with three clusters, top-level soil research in the field of the application of machine learning methods in soil science was successfully located. In addition to many years of experience in this field, an important factor was the high level of interdisciplinarity in soil science work, not least expressed by the establishment of intensive cooperation in the humanities. This upswing and the interdisciplinary work in the Sonderforshcungsbereich 1070 underline and motivate continued successful cooperation.
Impressions from the Workshop:
Indigenous Knowledge as a Resource? Transmission, Reception, and Interaction of Global and Local Knowledge between Europe and the Americas 1492-1800
Historians, linguists, and archeologists from Asia, Europe, and the Americas met in Tuebingen on September 10th and 11th for the conference: Indigenous Knowledge as a Resource? Transmission, Reception, and Interaction of Global and Local Knowledge between Europe and the Americas, 1492-1800. This conference was organized by Laura Dierksmeier from SFB1070 RESOURCECULTURES, together with Dr. Fabian Fechner from FernUniversität Hagen and Prof. Dr. Kazuhisa Takeda from Meiji University in Tokyo, Japan, and funded by the Deutsche Forschungs Gemeinschaft (DFG).
Workshop
Indigenous Knowledge as a Resource? Transmission, Reception, and Interaction of Global and Local Knowledge between Europe and the Americas 1492-1800
¿Conocimientos indígenas como un recurso? Transmisión, recepción e interacción del conocimiento global y local entre Europa y las Américas 1492-1800
10. - 11. September 2018, Castle Hohentübingen, Dep. for Classical Archaeology, R. 165
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Project B03: Expert discussion Burg Wäscherschloss & Burren - On the Swabian Alb, the Project B03 "Resource development and Dominions in the Middle Ages: monasteries and castles.
On July 19th, the surely project invited historians, archaeologists and building researchers to an interdisciplinary expert discussion to the Wäscherschloss Castle and the Burren Castle at Wäschenbeuren. After a thematic introduction by means of lectures in Schloss Filseck – a suitable ambience for the topic – the excursion to the facilities took place in the afternoon. The participants in the discussion were responsible for a successful start to the event series "expert discussion".
The B03 project thanks the District Archaeology and the District archives of Göppingen for the excellent cooperation. Both the Fils Valley Wave and radio FIPS were the guests of the press.
Here you can find the contribution of Filstalwelle on "Auf den Spuren der Vergangenheit".
Project B05 - In the first two weeks of July, the first campaign of field research in the hinterland of Carthage took place in close cooperation with the Tunisian Institute National de Patrimoine and the German Archaeological Institute (Rome Department). The settlement Abbir Cella in the quarry region around the Djebel Aziz was investigated with an archaeological survey.
We congratulate Dr. Jan Ahlrichs, who received the Doctorate prize in Prehistoic Archaeologyearly of the Faculty of Humanities 2018.
International Workshop in Anthropology and Soil Science at Ohio State University
22.06.-27.06.2018
From June 22-27, 2018, an international interdisciplinary workshop in anthropology, archaeology and soil science has taken place at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA, on the topic "Soil and Human Culture Dynamics during the Holocene Epoch". This collaboration, led by Dr. Sean Downey (OSU), Dr. Peter Kühn (UT) and Prof. Dr. Bruce James (UMD), was initiated within the framework of the SFB1070 and the exchange program of the University of Tübingen (UT) and the University of Maryland (UMD). After Tübingen (2016) and Maryland (2017), this is the third meeting of German and American scientists on the topic of resource cultures. The cooperation is financed by the institutional strategy of UT (German Research Foundation, ZUK 63), UMD, The Ohio State University (OSU), and the OSU Sustainable and Resilient Economies Discovery Theme.
The topics of this year's meeting are 'Managing World Soils for Food, Climate and Peace' and 'Favor - Disfavor? Development of Resources in Marginal Areas'. The workshop included an intensive two-day writing workshop, a fieldtrip to local archaeological sites, and a networking event including research talks lightning presentations by OSU, UT, and UMD faculty and students. There was a day-long outing to Hopewell Cultural National Park where National Park Service Chief Archaeologist staff provided explanation and interpretation of the sites ancient burial mounds. The workshop ended with a day-long discussion of future collaborative research and graduate student training activities.
Workshop
„Soil and Human Culture Dynamics during the Holocene Epoch“
Date: 22.-27. June 2018
Venue: Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Lecture
Tschernoseme - Vorkommen und Genese unter besonderer Berücksichtigung agrarkultureller Einflüsse im Neolithikum
Venue: Tueseday, 24.04.2018, at 18 o'clock c.t. in room 165, Institute for Classical Archaeology, Castle Hohentübingen.
Dr. Ernst Gehrt
Landesamt für Bergbau, Energie und Geologie Hannover
The Sonderforschungsbereich 1070 "ResourceCultures" congratulates Dr. Nicholas Meinzer on his doctoral award from the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences. He was awarded the prize on July 21, 2018 at the central doctoral ceremony of the University of Tübingen by Rector Prof. Dr. Bernd Engler. In addition to his work at the Chair of Economic History of Prof. Dr. Jörg Baten, Dr. Nicholas Meinzer was also a member of the Sonderforschungsbereich 1070 "Resource Cultures" and participated in the first funding phase in the project "B 06: Humans and Resources in the Migration Period and Early Middle Ages - Anthropological and Bioarchaeological Analyses on the Use of Food Resources and Detection of Migration Movements".
Conference
Lecture
Frühmittelalterlicher Burgenbau: Funktion und Bedeutung
Lecture on Tueseday, 19.06.2018, at 18 o'clock c.t. in room 165, Institute for Classical Archaeology, Castle Hohentübingen.
(The lecture takes place in cooperation with the Verein zur Förderung der Archäologie des Mittelalters Schloss Hohentübingen e.V.)
Prof. Dr. Peter Ettel
Universität Jena
Lecture
Characterising organic compounds from archaeological contexts - what can they tell us?
Lecture on Tueseday, 12.06.2018, at 18 o'clock c.t. in room 165, Institute for Classical Archaeology, Castle Hohentübingen.
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Cynthianne Debobo Spiteri
Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters, Universität Tübingen
Evening Lecture
A Neolithic Waterscape - Archaeological Discoveries of the "Beyond Lake Villages" Project in the Westallgäu Region
Lecture on Saturday, 17.02.2018, 8 pm c.t. in the conference room at the Old Aula, Münzgasse 30, Tübingen.
Dr. Martin Mainberger
AGBU - Arbeitsgruppe Bodenseeufer
Workshop für die Angehörigen des SFB 1070:
Selbstorganisation und Zeitmanagement in der Wissenschaft
Die Arbeit in Forschung und wissenschaftlichen Projekten stellt ganz besondere Anforderungen an Selbstorganisation und Zeitmanagement: Die Übernahme von Projektaufgaben und Lehrverpflichtungen einerseits und die Fertigstellung der eigenen Qualifizierungsarbeit andererseits, lässt sich auf Dauer nur bewältigen, wenn Sie über gut eingespielte Routinen und ein verlässliches System in der Verarbeitung von Informationen und Erledigung von Aufgaben verfügen. Dabei besteht eine zentrale Herausforderung darin, im Trubel der Alltagsanforderungen die Orientierung an übergeordneten Zielen als klare Prioritätensetzung nicht zu verlieren.
In diesem zweitägigen Workshop erhalten Sie konkrete Impulse für die Gestaltung Ihres persönlichen Selbstmanagements und lernen wirksame Instrumente kennen, die Sie ohne übergroßen Aufwand im Kontext Ihrer spezifischen Arbeitsbedingungen als Wissenschaftler/in umsetzen können. Sie überprüfen bisherige Arbeitsabläufe mit dem Ziel, gleichermaßen Ihre Produktivität wie Ihre Arbeitszufriedenheit zu erhöhen.
Referent:
Martin Maier, Organisationsberater und Coach
Termin:
06. - 07. Februar 2018, jeweils 9:30 - 17:00 Uhr
Ort:
Gartenstraße 29, 72074 Tübingen
Anmeldung bis zum 26.01.2018 bei Christina Vossler-Wolf
Lecture: Von kluger Ressourcennutzung zu globaler Gerechtigkeit und zurück: Nachhaltige Entwicklung in historischer und systematischer Perspektive
Tuesday, January 30th 2018 at 6.15 p.m.
Hörsaal der Klassischen Archäologie, Schloss Hohentübingen, Room 165.
Prof. Dr. Thomas Potthast
Universität Tübingen, Internationales Zentrum für Ethik in den Wissenschaften (IZEW)
Lecture: Politische Herrschaft und materielle Kultur in der Späten Bronzezeit. Ein Wechselspiel und seinen Folgen am Beispiel von Tell Fecheriye in Nordost-Syrien
Lecture in the SFB Forschungskolloquium: Dezember the 19th 2017 at 6.15 p.m.
Institut für Klassische Archäologie, Schloss Hohentübingen, Room Number 165.
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dominik Bonatz, Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie
Las Casas Prize for Laura Dierksmeier
Warm congratulations to Laura Dierksmeier who won the Bartolomé de Las Casas Prize 2017 by the University of Fribourg, Switzerland for her dissertation!