Urgeschichte und Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie

Previous Semester Programs

Winter Semester 2024–2025

23.10.2024Tamara Michealis (University of Tübingen, Germany)Reconstructing animal mobility – Oxygen and carbon isotope analyses applied to animal remains from the site of Mesa Redonda (Seville, Spain)
06.11.2024Dr. Torbjörn Brorsson (Ceramic Studies, Sweden)Analyses of pottery – Much more than natural science. Examples from Scandinavia and Iceland
20.11.2024Prof. Dr. Christoph Snoeck, Dr. Hannah James (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)Beyond just mobility: using strontium isotope analyses in archaeology
11.12.2024Marika Ciela (University of Trento, Italy)Crafting with bones. Tempering strategies in Neolithic pottery production in northeast Italy (6th–5th millennia cal. BCE)
18.12.2024Jun-Prof. Dr. Alice Toso (University of Bonn, Germany)Biomolecular applications to historical archaeology: case studies from Bonn to Mongolia
22.01.2025Giulia Deimichei (University of Tübingen, Germany)Investigating ceramic production in the early Iron Age site of Duna Feniglia (Orbetello, GR): an archaeometric approach
05.02.2025Kathleen Schaupp (University of Tübingen, Germany)Broken memories – Glass composition and technology as a reflection of the craftsman knowledge in the 16th century glass workshop Scharfenstein-Süd, Münster valley, Black Forest
12.02.2025Dr. Elena Marocchino (University of Ferrara, Italy)Geoscience and archaeometry in the preservation of medieval and renaissance heritage: a scientific journey through Ferrara's historical materials

Summer Semester 2024

08.05.2024Nina Finkel (University of Tübingen, Germany)On the crossroads: an investigation of the isotopic and chemical composition of copper and bronze finds from Troy
29.05.2024Dr. Susanna Cereda (University of Innsbruck, Austria)Of fire and water: a microarchaeological investigation of the Kropfsberg mine (North Tyrol, Austria)
12.06.2024Aitor Brito Mayor (University of Las Palmas De Gran Canaria, Spain)Food and healing in a colonial spot: zooarchaeology and isotopes at hospital de San Martín (Canary Islands, 15th – 18th AD)
26.06.2024Dr. Dobereiner Chala-Aldana (University of Tübingen, Germany)Isoscape modelling: comments on map scaling and isoscapes application in prehistoric mobility analyses
10.07.2024Eirini Koutouvaki (University of Padova, Italy)Black, white, red: analysis of a late 5th-3rd mil. painted decorated ceramic class from Mahtoutabad, southeastern Iran
24.07.2024Kelly Brandão (University of São Paulo, Brazil)Clay-based materials of the Monte Castelo site – Amazon

Winter Semester 2023–2024

25.10.2023

Tinoco Domínguez

(University of Granada, Spain)

Social archaeozoology applied to the study of food in the Bronze Age settlement of Peñalosa (Baños de la Encina, Jaén, Spain)
08.11.2023

Julia Becher

(University of York, UK; Université Côte d'Azur, France)

Pots, people, place. Investigating the use of ceramics in late Neolithic, Orkney
22.11.2023Gökçe Öztürk (University of Tübingen, Germany)Tracing animal herding patterns of central Anatolian Neolithic populations with carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis
06.12.2023

Lara van der Schüür

(University of Cologne, Germany)

Narrating clays - A multidisciplinary exploration of the local pottery production at Elusa (northern Negev, Israel) in Imperial Roman and Byzantine times - A preliminary report
20.12.2023Pablo González-Fernández (University of Tübingen, Germany)The Bronze Age human remains from Cape Trafalgar (Cádiz, Spain). Paleodiet, paleomobility and activity reconstruction
10.01.2024

Ramón López-Gijón

(University of Granada, Spain)

Health and disease in the past through palaeoparasitology
24.01.2024Meryem Büyükyaka (University of Tübingen, Germany)Archaeological and archaeometric studies of Iron Age basket-handle amphora and mortaria from Tell el-Burak
07.02.2024Elena Revert Francés (University of Tübingen, Germany)Organic residue analysis at the transition to the Iron Age in south Iberia

Summer Semester 2023

10.05.2023Dr. Vanessa Linares (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)“The invisible trade”: organic residue analysis of small ceramic vessels from Tel Shadud, Tel Bene Beraq and Tel Yehud during the late Bronze Age
24.05.2023Thomas Rose (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel; Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany)Blown away by old material: new insights into the unalloyed copper process of the Chalcolithic southern Levant (4500–3800 BCE)
07.06.2023Qi Zeng (University of Tübingen, Germany)Preliminary ORA result of consumption practices in Hazor during late Bronze Age
21.06.2023Dr. Lua Valenzuela Suau (University of the Balearic Islands, Spain)Animal husbandry and mobility patterns during the Prehistory of the Balearic Islands (Spain). New contributions through strontium and oxygen analyses (87Sr/86Sr and δ18Ο)
05.07.2023Sinem Hacıosmanoğlu (University of Tübingen, Germany)Exploring the profile of Cilician clay deposits: the implications for the provenance study of Bronze and Iron Age potteries from Sirkeli Höyük, southern Anatolia, Turkey
19.07.2023Marcel Frenken (University of Tübingen, Germany)A petrographic overview of the Greek transport amphora from Tell el-Burak, Lebanon

Winter Semester 2022–2023

02.11.2022Eirini Koutouvaki (University of Tübingen, Germany)Pottery traditions during the emergence of the first states. Analysis of the late Chalcolithic 3-5 pottery assemblage from eastern Ḫabur area, Iraqi Kurdistan
16.11.2022Andrea Martínez-Carrasco (University College London, UK)State control of production and distribution of Inka-Style pottery in the southern border of Tawantinsuyu (Inka state)
30.11.2022Dr. Petra Tušlová (Charles University, Czech Republic)Identifying regional pottery production in the Roman Thrace based on archaeometric data. The case study of Yurta-Stroyno
14.12.2022Zaira García López (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)Necrosol: soil formation and archaeological implications
11.12.2022Michaela Schauer (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)What has p-XRF ever done for us?! Prejudices towards an analytical method and suggestions to overcome them
25.01.2023Enrique Fernández-Palacios (University of La Laguna, Spain)Microscopic and biomolecular analyses of a Neolithic combustion feature from Abric del Xicotó (Spain)
08.01.2023Barbara Huber (Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Germany)Exploring ancient aromatics, spices and smells capes through metabolic profiling

Summer Semester 2022

18.05.2022Giulia Deimichei (University of Trento, Italy)When the potter has a choice: petrographic study of North Italian Neolithic ceramic production
01.06.2022Dr. Javier Escudero-Carillo (University of Tübingen, Germany)A good place to live? Herd management in the lower Guadalquivir Valley in southern Iberia during the 3rd mill. BC: the site of Valencina-Castilleja
22.06.2022Evelyn Ibanhez Pilih (University of Tübingen, Germany)Mobility patterns of ancient Eurasian pastoralists informed by 87Sr/86Sr analysis and landscape-use
06.07.2022Valeria Tiezzi (University of Pisa, Italy)From pots to cultural dynamics: technological choices in 5th and 4th millennium Po Plain (Italy)
20.07.2022Marcel Frenken (University of Tübingen, Germany)The Philosophers Stone and the Latrine of Secrets –Mineralogical and chemical analysis of early modern technical ceramics and lead glazed earthenware from Mannheim

Summer Semester 2021

19.05.2021Arvin Raj Mathur (University of Tübingen, Germany)Biomolecular investigations of pottery and cuisine during Periods 1 and 2 at Harappa, Pakistan
02.06.2021Julia Becher (University of Tübingen, Germany)Reconstructing vessel use at Lydenburg Heads site, South Africa, using GC-MS and GC-c-IRMS
09.06.2021Dr. Umberto Veronesi (University College London, UK)Archaeology and the alchemical laboratory. Exploring early modern alchemical practices at colonial Jamestown (Virginia) and the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford)
23.06.2021Dr. Petra Tušlová (Charles University, Czech Republic)Pottery in context. Different methods and approaches to pottery studies
07.07.2021Dr. Berta Morell-Rovira (University of Vigo, Spain)Middle Neolithic funerary practices in north-eastern Iberian Peninsula: chronology, long-distance exchange networks and gender relationships
21.07.2021Dr. Marek Verčík (Charles University, Czech Republic)The iron and metalworking on the western Anatolian littoral during the Archaic period

Winter Semester 2020–2021

11.11.2020Ada Dinckal (University of Tübingen, Germany)Take it with a grain of salt; Micromorphology and diagenesis at the site of Diepkloof Rock Shelter, South Africa
25.11.2020Eirini Koutouvaki (University of Tübingen, Germany)Clayey sediments and pottery fabrics in the wider Ierapetra area (Crete)
09.12.2020Enrique Fernández-Palacios (University of Tübingen, Germany)Approaching formation processes at the aboriginal site of Belmaco Cave (La Palma, Canary Islands) through the combined use of soil micromorphology and lipid biomarker analysis
16.12.2020Sinem Hacıosmanoğlu (University of Tübingen, Germany)Provenance analysis and production technology of late Bronze and Iron Age Plain Ware from Sirkeli Höyük in the Ceyhan Plain, Cilicia, South Anatolia (Turkey)
13.01.2021Beatrice Boese (University of Tübingen, Germany)A window into the past. Mortars of the so-called Ginnasio (Solunto, Sicily) as a key-element for a better understanding of ancient building techniques and the chronological development of a Hellenistic-Roman city
27.01.2021Dr. Tillmann Viefhaus (University of Stuttgart, Germany)Raman spectroscopy – A non-invasive analytic method in archeology/archaeometry
03.02.2021Dobereiner Chala-Aldana (University of Tübingen, Germany)Investigating mobility and social interaction along southern Iberia during the Bronze Age through isotopic and GIS analyses
10.02.2021Baptiste Solard (University of Tübingen, Germany)Back to black: a mineralogical and chemical characterisation of Atticising 4th century B.C. black gloss
24.02.2021Dr. Stephen Buckley (University of York, UK)Sequential thermal desorption and pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry: current state of the ‘art’ and future potential for archaeometry

Winter Semester 2019-2020

20.11.2019Mauricio Marciales Daza (University of Tübingen, Germany)Diet reconstruction through C and N stable isotopes: the Bronze Age population in the Biniadris Cave, Menorca, Spain
04.12.2019Rivka Chasan (University of Tübingen, Germany)Food choices and dietary practices during the 6th to 5th Millennium BC in the southern Levant: evidence from organic residue analysis
18.12.2019Jorge Meza Paggi (University of Tübingen, Germany)δ18O my Goodness! The potential and limitations of stable oxygen isotopes for the study of animal husbandry. The case of the Chalcolithic lower Guadalquivir Basin, Spain
15.01.2020Julia Becher (University of Tübingen, Germany)Once upon a time in Africa. Dietary reconstructions of late hunter-gatherers and early farming communities in South Africa using organic residue analysis