The lecture programme 2023/2024 of the Istanbul Department is online
Our new Lecture Programme 2023/ 2024 is online! The lectures will take place on Thursdays at 18:00 (Istanbul time) in the announced language. The events will be held in a […]
Year: 2023
Publication: Interregional Linkage Investigations in Northern Kordofan (InterLINK). Report on the first project phase (2017-2022)
Overview to the first phase of the InterLINK project in North Kordofan.
Publikation: Interregional Linkage Investigations in Northern Kordofan (InterLINK). Report on the first project phase (2017-2022)
Überblick zur ersten Phase des Projekts InterLINK in Nord-Kordofan.
This little piggy… was newly discovered in Building D!
As many of you may have already heard, our excavations in Special Building D this year turned up the remarkable statue of a wild boar. Unfortunately, the social media is […]
DAI4UKR: Cremated Human Remains from Late Roman Cemeteries in Ukraine – Bioarchaeological Approach
The burning of the dead as a burial custom has been practiced for over 4000 years. For most of the ancient communities that lived on the territory of Ukraine from […]
DAI4UKR: Recording and Analyzing Bronze Age Stelae: Stylistic Traditions and Innovations
Anthropomorphic stone stelae are a very widespread cultural phenomenon of the past. Besides burial mounds, they have shaped the European and Eurasian steppe landscapes since the 4th millennium BCE. Especially […]
DAI4UKR: Exploring Classical Attic Black-Glazed Pottery from Olbia Pontica
Last week, we discussed trade relations within the northern Pontic Greek poleis. Today, the focus will be on the wider relations within the Greek oikumene. Iryna Chechulina from the Department […]
DAI4UKR: Chersonesan Ceramic Import to North-Western Black Sea Region
The Greek poleis on the northern Black Sea coast were by no means an episodic phenomenon in the history of modern Ukraine, but a period that had a significant impact […]
Feierliche Amtsübergabe – ein bebilderter Rückblick
von Christoph Rummel (ORCID: 0000-0001-5770-682X) und Susanne Grunwald (ORCID: 0000-0003-2990-839X) Ende Februar 2023 ging die Erste Direktorin der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission (RGK) des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts (DAI), Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. […]
Publication: Earth, Water, Air, and Fire – Thinking about Farming and Farmscapes
Overview discussing the historical development of African farmscapes.
Publication: A Unique Twelfth- to Fourteenth-Century AD Iron Nail Assemblage from Kanem, Chad
Detailed analysis of iron nails from the Kanem region in Chad.
Publikation: Earth, Water, Air, and Fire – Thinking about Farming and Farmscapes
Überblick zur historischen Entwicklung der afrikanischen Farmwirtschaft.
Publikation: A Unique Twelfth- to Fourteenth-Century AD Iron Nail Assemblage from Kanem, Chad
Detaillierte Analyse von Eisennägeln aus dem Gebiet Kanem im Tschad.
DAI4UKR: “Ostrogothia” – Archaeological Exhibition near Viytenky in Eastern Ukraine
The settlement of Viytenky dating to the Late Roman and the Early Migration periods is one of the long-lasting cooperation projects of the Eurasia Department of the DAI with Ukrainian […]
Mit Sediment-DNA die Geschichte prähistorischer Siedlungen neu schreiben
von Knut Rassmann (ORCID: 0000-0002-2570-6099) und Kerstin P. Hofmann (ORCID: 0000-0003-4405-5751) Durch die Analyse von in Sedimenten konserviertem Erbgut kann die Anwesenheit von Menschen, Tieren und Pflanzen an archäologischen Fundstätten […]
