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An Iconic Late Neolithic Tell on the Hungarian Plain: Hódmezővásárhely-Gorzsa in a New Perspective Open
It often happens that the fresh investigation of well-known sites using newly developed techniques and their reassessment brings the recognition that some of the assertions believed to be timelessly true turn out to have been strongly mist…
On the ‘pseudo-ditch’ system of the Late Neolithic Öcsöd-Kováshalom settlement complex on the Great Hungarian Plain Open
The well-known Late Neolithic tell-like settlement of Öcsöd-Kováshalom on the Great Hungarian Plain gained a completely new context when a triple enclosure consisting of segments (hence the name ‘pseudo-ditch’) was discovered in 2018. Foll…
Inverse Filtering of Magnetic Prospection Data—A Gateway to the Social Structure of Cucuteni–Tripolye Settlements? Open
Magnetic mapping is a common method for investigating archaeological sites. Typically, the magnetic field data are treated with basic signal improving processing followed by image interpretation to derive the location and outline of archae…
The evolution of dual-chambered updraught kilns on the Cucuteni-Tripolye mega-sites in the 4th millennium BC: a view from Stolniceni Open
Four complex dual-chambered pottery firing kilns have been recently systematically excavated at the Cucuteni-Tripolye mega-site of Stolniceni in Northern Moldova. The data obtained from these investigations are corroborated with older and …
Beyond Newgrange: Brú na Bóinne in the later Neolithic Open
The Brú na Bóinne World Heritage Site, Ireland is best known for its megalithic monuments, in particular the great developed passage tombs of Knowth, Dowth, and Newgrange, and its abundance of megalithic art. However, our understanding of …
Test excavation of the “pseudo-ditch” system of the Late Neolithic settlement complex at Öcsöd-Kováshalom on the Great Hungarian Plain Open
In 2018, the RGK’s research team led by Knut Rassmann undertook the magnetometer survey of the Late Neolithic site of Öcsöd-Kováshalom over a roughly 65 ha large area. An enclosure system of three concentric semi-circular ditches was detec…
Magnetization Patterns as Indicator of Settlement Structures Open
– Inverse filtering of magnetic prospection data to determine magnetization distribution.– Different building types and internal site patterns visible by magnetization.
View article: What over 100 drillings tell us: a new method for determining the Koenigsberger ratio of soils from magnetic mapping and susceptibility logging
What over 100 drillings tell us: a new method for determining the Koenigsberger ratio of soils from magnetic mapping and susceptibility logging Open
We investigate the relative fractions of remanent and induced magnetization of the fillings of neolithic long pits in order to develop remanent magnetization as an additional parameter for the archaeological interpretation of magnetic maps…
View article: A new approach to the temporal significance of house orientations in European Early Neolithic settlements
A new approach to the temporal significance of house orientations in European Early Neolithic settlements Open
This paper shows that local differences in house orientation in settlements from the Early Neolithic in Central Europe reflect a regular chronological trajectory based on Bayesian calibration of 14C-series. This can be used to extrapolate …
Stolniceni – Excavation results from the 2017 campaign Open
During extensive field work, different aspects of the large Tripolye settlement Stolniceni I in northwest Moldova were investigated by an international team. These investigations allow a reassessment of these population agglomerations from…
Non- and Minimally-Invasive Methods to Investigate Megalithic Landscapes in the Brú na Bóinne World Heritage Site (Ireland) and Rousay, Orkney Islands in North-Western Europe Open
The paper summarizes results of an on-going project in the Boyne Valley in Ireland and in Orkney in the north of Scotland. The research of the Romano-Germanic Commission and our partners aimed to investigate the interaction of social, econ…
Deciphering archeological contexts from the magnetic map: Determination of daub distribution and mass of Chalcolithic house remains Open
The unique size and development of prehistoric megasites of the north Pontic Cucuteni-Tripolye Chalcolithic groups (4100–3600 BCE) challenge modern archeology and paleoecology. The extremely large number of houses (approximately 3000, most…
Stolniceni, Petreni, Brînzeni, Republik Moldau. Luftbildaufnahmen mit Drohnen (UAV) von kupferzeitlichen Siedlungen in Moldawien im Kontext magnetischer Prospektionen und Ausgrabungen. Die Arbeiten der Jahre 2009 bis 2017 Open
There are numerous Eneolithic settlements of the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture in North and Central Moldova. Its distribution ranges from the East of Romania via Moldova up to the Dnieper River. In Romania and Moldova settlements measure 10 t…
An early Bronze Age causeway in the Tollense Valley, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania – The starting point of a violent conflict 3300 years ago? Open
Research on the Bronze Age battlefield site in the Tollense Valley (Mecklenburg- Western Pomerania, 13th cent. BCE) has to date uncovered the remains of more than 130 individuals, predominantly young adult men with perimortal as well as he…
Vráble, Slowakei: Herausbildung und Niedergang des frühbronzezeitlichen Siedlungszentrums – Untersuchungen zu Wirtschaft, Sozialstruktur und politischer Organisation eines Sozialverbandes und seines Umfeldes Open
The Early Bronze Age fortified settlement of Fidvár by Vráble is located in southwestern Slovakia. Rich resources of fertile loess soil areas, highly valuable copper, gold and tin deposits as well as the area’s function as a cultural inter…
Trichterbecherkultur in Nordmitteleuropa: Bevölkerungsdichte, Kommunikationsstrukturen und Traditionsräume Open
During the 4th millennium BC in northern Central Europe, social changes took place which led to the building of monumental grave architecture. The detailed analysis of the architecture of megalithic graves is based on the processing of spe…
Sárköz, Südungarn: Das Neolithikum in Transdanubien Open
Since 2011 the Romano-Germanic Commission (RGK) engages in geomagnetic prospections on Hungarian multi-period settlements. Our study began with fieldwork at the Alsónyék-Bátaszék and Tolna-Mözs sites. In die following years we continued th…
County Kilkenny, Republik Ireland: Geomagnetische Prospektion auf dem eisenzeitlichen Hillfort „Freestone Hill“ Open
Subsequent to his exile in Britain as a result of the Nazi regime and his reinstatement in 1950 as the director of the Romano-Germanic Commission, Gerhard Bersu organized and directed excavations at the Iron Age hillfort of „Freestone Hill…
Maidanetske 2013 Open
In European prehistory, population agglomerations of more than 10,000 inhabitants per site are an infrequent phenomenon. The unexpected discovery of the Trypillia mega-sites, excavated nearly 50 years ago by Soviet, Ukrainian and Moldavian…