Past Societies

The Kiel Graduate School 'Human Development in Landscapes' has conducted research on socio-environmental issues of past societies during the last years. From the North Atlantic to the Persian Gulf and from Peru to the Near East, different attempts on the interfluve of environments and societies in landscapes describe certain historical moments and processes in which the interplay of ecological and societal factors is entangled. Events, processes and structures are described on local, regional and global scales as well as methodological developments on ecological and societal archives.The selected case studies are linked by the general idea of the ability to integrate discovery, documentation, description and interpretation within the scope of analyses and synthesis. Thus, the interdisciplinary framework of the Kiel Graduate School formed the agenda for a holistic approach. 'Landscapes of power', transitions during neolithisation processes, maritime and other networks, site formation dynamics, 'landscapes of identities' and the 'making of heritage' are only a few topics included in this book. The closeness of human behaviour in certain environmental conditions becomes obvious despite the often huge distance in time and space. At the same time, one of the strengths of humanistic science becomes apparent: its commitment to a culture of knowledge across borders.Contents:PrefaceJohannes Müller and Andrea RicciIntroduction: Concepts of Human Developments in Landscapes: A Structured Research ProgramJohannes Müller and Andrea RicciTransitions during Neolithisation Processes in Southern Scandinavia: New Insights from Faunal Remains and Pottery from the Site Neustadt LA 156 in Northern GermanyAikaterini GlykouInteraction and Networks in the Neolithic Funnel Beaker CultureJulia MenneDevelopment of Identification Criteria of Non-Dietary Cereal Crop Products by Phytolith Analysis to Study Prehistoric Agricultural SocietiesWelmoed A. OutEarly Agriculture in Southern PeruHermann Gorbahn and Markus ReindelCorded Ware and Bell Beaker between Rhine and Saale: Theories, Methods and ResultsRalph GroßmannSettlement History and Tell Formation Processes in the Birecik and Carchemish Sectors of the Euphrates RiverAndrea RicciWriting the History of 'Peoples without History': The Case of the Zagros in the First Millennium BCESilvia BalattiIron Age Landscapes of Power in the Middle Rhine-Moselle RegionManuel Fernández-GötzMeteorological Medicine in the Hippocratic CorpusAnne LiewertDo as the Romans do? Human-Environmental Interactions in Ancient Southern LatiumMichael Teichmann and Hans-Rudolf BorkPalynological Investigations on the Deposits of a Well Shaft from the Roman Iron Age with Special Reference to Non-Pollen PalynomorphsMagdalena Wieckowska-Lüth and Dieter BischopHuman-Landscape Interconnections: The Döberitzer Heide in the Early Middle Ages (ca. 7th-11th century) as a Space of Action between the Appropriation of Material Wealth and the Destruction of the Basis of ExistenceDonat WehnerSeafaring of the Hansa to the Shetland Islands, Faroe Islands and Iceland: The Maritime-Archaeological Potential of the North Atlantic Islands in the Late Hanseatic PeriodPhilipp GrasselFrom Salamander to Siren: Landscapes of IdentityMaren BiederbickWarscapes: Managing Space on the Western Front, 1914-1918Christoph NübelEthics in the Practice of Archaeology and the Making of Heritage: Understanding beyond the MaterialArtur Ribeiro and Gustav Wollentz