New scientific methods offer new insights in the past. Promising opportunities for archaeology and historiography are confronted with the challenges of interdisciplinary cooperation between the sciences and the humanities. This volume presents contributions by European researchers, arranged in four sections: fundamental questions of archaeology and biosciences, migrations, transformations, and social structures.
Author(s): Susanne Brather-Walter (ed.)
Series: Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, 107
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 218
City: Berlin
Susanne Brather-Walter, Foreword v
Susanne Brather-Walter, Archaeology, History and Biosciences: An Introduction 1
I. Archaeology and Biosciences
Stefanie Samida, Archaeology in Times of Scientific Omnipresence 9
Sabine Deschler-Erb, Pride and Prejudice? On the Relationship Between Archaeology and Biosciences 23
Hélène Réveillas, Archaeothanatology, the Recognition of Funerary Practices: Recent Examples 33
II. Migrations: Mobility and Communication
Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner, Barbarian Migrations and the Agrarian Economy of the Later Roman Empire in the Fourth Century CE 55
Susanne Brather-Walter, Bow-Brooches as Ethnic Indicators? A Myth of Early Medieval Archaeology 85
III. Transformations: Continuity and Discontinuity
Roland Steinacher, Transformation or Fall? Perceptions and Perspectives on the Transition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages 103
Frans Theuws, Burial Archaeology and the Transformation of the Roman World in Northern Gaul (4th to 6th Centuries) 125
Clémence Hollard and Christine Keyser, Funerary Recruitment and Ancient DNA 151
IV. Social Structures: Conditions of Life and Social Order
Magali Coumert, Archaeology vs Written Sources: The Case of Gothic Women 163
Andrea Czermak, Diet Reconstruction Based on C/N Stable Isotope Analysis: What Can It Contribute to Address Questions on Cultural Change? 181
Philipp von Rummel, Conclusion and Perspectives 199
Indices 205
