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Awards and Accomplishments

We would like to congratulate some of our doctoral students:

• Hermann Gorbahn held a talk on "The Middle Archaic Site of Pernil Alto, Southern Peru: the beginnings of horticulture and sedentariness in mid-Holocene conditions" at the 54th International Congress of Americanists (ICA), which took place in Vienna (Austria) from July 15 to 20.
• Philipp Meurer presented his new book "Natur im Bewusstsein der Differenz" (LIT, Münster 2012) at the Caspar-David-Friedrich-Zentrum in Greifswald on May 3.
• Stefan Inderwies presented a paper on "The Formation of Urban Management Committees in Medieval Holstein" at the 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies, which was held at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo (USA) from May 10 to 13.
• Ricardo Fernandes held a talk on a "Quantitative approach to ancient diet reconstruction and reservoir effect correction" at the 39th International Symposium on Archaeometry, which took place in Leuven (Belgium) from May 28 to June 1. Besides his talk, Ricardo also presented three posters on the "Influence of cooking on the isotopic signals of fish species", "EDTA-solution based protocols for the cleaning of ancient bone bioapatite", and "Collagen-bioapatite radiocarbon age differences linked to reservoir effect". From July 9 to 13, Ricardo also participated in the 21st International Radiocarbon Conference in Paris, where he gives talks on the "Characterization of reservoir effects in the Mecklenburg Lake District" and on the formerly mentioned "Quantitative approach to ancient diet reconstruction and reservoir effect correction". In Paris, he also presents his posters on "Collagen-bioapatite radiocarbon age differences linked to reservoir effect" and "Bone: to powder or not to powder?"
• Frank Förster and his co-authors Hanno Kinkel, Annegret Larsen, Uta Lungershausen, Chiara Matarese, Philipp Meurer, Oliver Nelle, Vincent Robin, and Michael Teichmann presented their paper "What is landscape? Towards a common concept within an interdisciplinary research environment" at the 2nd International Landscape Archaeology Conference, which took place in Berlin from June 6 to 9. Other Graduate School members also participated in the event. Oliver Nakoinz held a talk on "Models of centrality". Anja Prust and Tim Schroedter presented posters and Anja placed 2nd in the poster competition. Andrea Ricci contributed to the paper "The Neolithic on the move. High resolution settlement dynamics and their impact on archaeological landscape studies in southwest Azerbaijan", which his co-authors Tevekkül Aliyev and Barbara Helwing presented there.
• Stefan Dreibrodt is among the organizers of the annual convention of the working group for Geoarchaeology within the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geographie (German Society for Geography) in 2015. The event titled "Standortbestimmung Geo-Archäologie: Probleme und Defizite, Chancen und Potentiale" will take place at Kiel University in mid-May 2015. The concept of the convention is to bring together archaeologists and geoscientists working in the same location to give complementary talks focusing on the pertinent issues.
• Dr. Vincent Robin was invited to present his PhD research at a special seminar about forest ecology on January 13. It took place at the CNRS Institute of Mediterranean Biodiversity and Ecology of the Aix-Marseille University (France).
• Ricardo Fernandes MSc participates in the workshop "Progress and pitfalls - New archaeometric research of Stone Age remains in the Baltic Sea region" in Helsinki (Finland) on March 22 and 23. Ricardo is an invited keynote speaker and has prepared two talks: "Quantitative approach to ancient diet reconstruction and reservoir effect correction" and "Characterization of reservoir effect in the Mecklenburg lake district". Graduate School members Dr Marie-Josée Nadeau and Professor Pieter Grootes also attend the workshop.
• Rémi Berthon MA advertised results of his PhD project at the International Ilisu Dam Archaeology Symposium which was held in Mardin from October 19 to 22. His presentation was titled "Animal Exploitation and Socio-economic Organization in the Ilisu Dam Area during the 2nd and 1st Millennia BC".
• Ricardo Fernandes MSc gave a talk titled "Reservoir effect: establishing ancient chronologies based on the radiocarbon dating of human remains" at the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig on October 10.
• Frank Förster MA MLIS presented a poster on "Data and Information Management for Humanist Researchers (Text and Things)" at the conference "Supporting Digital Humanities: Answering the unaskable", which was held in Copenhagen from November 17 to 18. From December 5 to 9, Frank stayed in Cape Town, attending the conference "Outposts of Progress: Joseph Conrad, Modernism and (Post)colonialism". There he gave a talk titled "Illustrating Conrad: An Outlook on Progress?" At the "Knowledge/Culture/Social Change International Conference" in Sydney from November 7 to 9, Frank talked about "Integrating Knowledge from Libraries, Museums etc. into University Culture".
• Ralph Grossmann MA presented a poster about the dialectic relation between the Neolithic cultures of Corded Ware and Bell Beaker at two occasions: firstly, the 50th anniversary International Conference of the discovery of Petit-Chasseur in Sion (Valais, Switzerland) from October 27 to 30; and secondly, the Corded Days International conference in Kraków (Poland) from December 1 to 2.
• Daniel Zwick MA presented a paper on variations in medieval shipbuilding at the 7th German Archaeology Congress in Bremen on October 10. From November 18 to 20, Daniel participated in the 2nd "MARIS PhD-researchers network" workshop in Helsinki, Finland. This network provides an exchange platform for PhD students in maritime archaeology around the Baltic Sea.
• Ricardo Fernandes MSc gave a talk about "Reservoir effect: establishing ancient chronologies based on the radiocarbon dating of human remains" at the European Association of Archaeologists 17th Annual Meeting from September 14 to 18 in Oslo. He also presented a paper on this issue at the Department of Physics of Aarhus University on September 9.
  The article "Deletion/Substitution/Addition (DSA) model selection algorithm applied to the study of archaeological settlement patterning" authored by Ricardo, Geert Geeven, Steven Soetens, and Vera Klontza-Jaklova was published in the Journal of Archaeological Science (Volume 38, Issue 9, September 2011, Pages 2293-2300).
• Natalia Toma-Kansteiner MA is going to present an aspect of her PhD project at the colloquium "Antike Bauornamentik - Möglichkeiten und Grenzen ihrer Erforschung" which takes place in Munich from October 13 to 15. The title of Natalia's talk is "Vom Marmorblock zum Halbfabrikat. Ein neuer Vorschlag zum Entwurf und Herstellungsprozess eines korinthischen Kapitells in der Kaiserzeit".
• Frank Förster MA MLIS presented a paper titled "Illustrating Conrad in Germany" at the 5th International Joseph Conrad Conference "Conrad's Polish Footprints", which took place in Lublin from July 12 to 16. At the "Knowledge/Culture/Social Change International Conference" in Sydney from November 7 to 9, Frank talks about "Integrating Knowledge from Libraries, Museums etc. into University Culture".
• Merle Zeigerer presented her PhD project at the colloquium of Professor Birgit Aschmann, Humboldt University Berlin, on June 27 and at the colloquium of Professor Jürgen Zimmerer, Hamburg University, on July 14.
• Michael Teichmann MA talked about aspects of his PhD project "Landschaftsarchäologische Forschungen zum südwestlichen, küstennahen Latium" at the Colloquium of Classical Archaeology, Bonn University, on July 8.
• Numerous members of the Graduate School have participated in this year's INQUA conference in Bern, Switzerland. Wiebke Kirleis, Mara Weinelt and Walter Dörfler convened the session "Climate, Environment, and Economy in the North and Central European Neolithic" together with Felix Bittmann and Ingo Feeser. Kirleis, Johannes Müller, and Stefan Dreibrodt delivered oral presentations, while Marta Dal Corso Sarah Diers, Hannes Knapp, Doris Mischka, Daniela Moser, Vincent Robin, Mykola Sadovnik and others went to Bern with posters about their scientific work. Ingmar Unkel spoke in the session "Geoarchaeology: Paleoenvironments and Human Interactions", while Elke Hänssler and Christian Heymann took part in poster sessions.
• Dipl.-Inf. Robert Wulff and Monica de Cet MA participated in the 39th Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA 2011) in Beijing from April 12 to 16. Robert presented a paper entitled "Towards a System for Semantic Image-Based 3D Documentation of Archaeological Trenches". Monica presented a poster.
• Philipp Meurer MA participated in the workshop "Art & Nature in the Early Modern Period" at Aarhus University on May 12 and 13. He presented a paper on "Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Large Alpine Landscape and the Problem of Historical Perspectives". The workshop, which was moderated by the art historians Lisbet Tarp (Aarhus University) and Claire Farago (University of Colorado), had a special focus on interdisciplinary methodology and the relationship between science and art.
• Daniel Zwick MA held a paper on May 25 at the University of Bologna's International Summer School with the annual theme "The Baltic and Mediterranean: A Cultural Bridge between Northern and Southern Europe" in Cattolica, Italy.
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  Marta Dal Corso MA was awarded the first prize of the poster contest during the International Workshop of the Graduate School. On the poster Marta presented an aspect of her PhD thesis, which focuses on environmental history and development of the human landscape in a north-eastern Italian lowland during Bronze Age. Heiko Scholz placed second in the poster contest, Merle Zeigerer was awarded the third prize.

• Karina Iwe MA participated in the 6th International Symposium Radiocarbon & Archaeology in Pafos (Cyprus) from April 10 to 15. On April 12, she presented a paper on "Dynamic interaction of the Animal Style in Eurasia during the Iron Age (on selected examples from the 9th to 3rd century BC)".
  From March 25 to 27, Karina took part in the anniversary conference 20 Jahre FemArc-Netzwerk archäologisch arbeitender Frauen (20 years FemArc-Women's Network in Archaeology) in Heilbronn which focused on prehistoric and ancient goddesses. She held a lecture on "Göttinnen bei den Skythen" (Goddesses of the Scythians) on March 26.
• On June 4th, Stefan Inderwies MA is going to present a paper at the conference "1111 – 2011: 900 Jahre Belehnung des Hauses Schauenburg mit Holstein und Stormarn: Ansätze und Perspektiven der Forschung" in Itzehoe. He talks about "Die Schauenburger als Städtegründer und als Stadtherren".
• Stefan Inderwies MA participated in the conference "Slesvig gennem tiden" at Syddansk Universitet, Odense, on January 21. He there presented a paper on "The relations between the Counts of Holstein and urban management committees shown by the example of towns built by the House of Schauenburger in the 13th century".
• Michael Teichmann MA has been granted a one-term visiting fellowship at the Digital Institute for Archaeology, University of Arkansas. Having started on January 18, he plans to work in the fields of Advanced Raster GIS, Society and Environment and Settlement Archaeology during his stay in Fayetteville. On December 15, Michael presented a paper at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies (Rethymno/Crete) on geo- and landscape archaeological investigations in central Italy. Another paper he presented at the University of Vienna on January 13.
• On November 6 Daniel Zwick MA presented a paper on itineraries in the age of the northern crusades from a maritime archaeological perspective at the annual meeting of the Arbeitskreis der Kommission für Unterwasserarchäologie (Working group of the committee for underwater archaeology) hosted by the German Maritime Museum, Bremerhaven.
• Annegret Kranz co-organized the "1st Mid-European Summer School on Geomorphology: Complex Response of Earth Surface Processes to Environmental Change". The school took place in her research area in Heimbuchenthal (Spessart, near Frankfurt) from September 26 to October 2. It was funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. Professor Hans-Rudolf Bork and Vincent Robin participated in the event and supported Annegret with scientific presentations.
• The Graduate School sailing team was placed 4th in the final round of the Alumni Cup 2010 on September 4th. Two boats from business institutions and the former Ecology Centre yacht made it to the podium in Schilksee. In total, twelve teams qualified for the finals and competed for the Alumni Cup, the b+m Business Trophy and the Otto Science Trophy. David Bergemann, Ben Krause-Kyora and Philipp Meurer missed the latter by just one position. Beaufort force 4 to 6 winds meant a good speed for the Mantra 28 yachts. "Philipp's experience as a skipper was very helpful for us", Ben pointed out. And David added: "The Cup races were a lot of fun and a great opportunity to meet other alumni. I hope we'll be able participate again next year."
• Daniel Zwick MA participated in an international workshop on underwater archaeology from August 23 to September 5 in Gdańsk, Poland, co-organised by the Polish Maritime Museum, the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the Polish UNESCO Committee. Methodology, legislation and preservational issues were discussed in terms of their applicability within the framework of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage. The workshop concluded with an underwater archaeological survey of a newly discovered late medieval shipwreck and its well-preserved cargo of barrels of iron ore.
• Philipp Meurer MA, Ben Krause-Kyora MA and David Bergemann MA represented the Graduate School in the preliminary round of the Alumni Cup 2010 on Juli 4th in Schilksee. They performed very well and placed 3rd, which means they are qualified for the finals on September 4th. The result is remarkable because Philipp, Ben and David have never sailed together before and the Mantra 28 yacht was completely new to them. The crew would like to thank the GS board members for their financial support. Congratulations and best wishes for the finals!
• Christoph Nübel MA, was invited to present his PhD project at the Chair of History of the University of Potsdam (Prof. Ralf Pröve) on 29th of June.
• Daniel Zwick MA participated in the first Baltic workshop for PhD researchers in maritime archaeology, held on June 5-6 at the newly founded Marinarkeologiska Forskningsinstitutet (MARIS) at the Södertörn University of Stockholm. www.sh.se/maris
• Susanne Schwarz MSc was awarded the second prize, including 500 Euros prize money, at the 1st Schleswig-Holstein student conference on medical and biotechnology for her PhD project "The human treponematoses in a European perspective".
• Philipp Meurer, who was invited to present his paper for the workshop
  "Aesth/Ethics in Environmental Change" (Hiddensee, 24th-28th May).
  Philipp´s talk is titled: "The image of the 'little ice-age' or: Did Dutch artists directly react to the climatic change?"
  The conference is organized by the University of Greifswald and the Norwegian University of Science and Techology, Trondheim.
• Dipl. Biol. Melanie Röpke, Susanne Schwarz MSc and Ben Krause-Kyora MA, who are going to present aspects of their PhD projects at the “1. Schleswig-Holsteinische Studententagung zur Medizin- und Biotechnologie” (1st Schleswig-Holstein student conference on medical and biotechnology) at the Science Park Kiel on 20th May. Professor Manuela Dittmar (Speaker Cluster 3) will give an introduction to the Graduate School.
  http://www.life-science-nord.net/studententagung_sh/
• Annegret Kranz MA, who was invited to give a lecture on “Quantitative reconstruction of past soil erosion in the Kirschgraben catchment (Spessart mountains, Central Europe)” at the EGU2010 conference in Vienna on 6th May.
• Martin Hinz MA, who was invited to present his paper “Non-Metric Multidimensional Scaling: A (in archaeology) neglected multivariate method?” at the CAA in Granada on April 8. Ricardo Fernandes MSc and Michael Teichmann MA attended the conference with posters of their projects.
• Rémi Berthon MA, Kemal Moetz MA and Andrea Ricci MA, who participated in the ICAANE congress with several oral presentations and posters. The conference took place in London from April 12 to 16.
• Svea Mahlstedt, who was invited to present her paper “Between marsh and mountains – The last hunter-gatherers in north-western Germany” at the LAC2010 Conference in Amsterdam on January 26th to 28th. Ricardo Fernandes, Hermann Gorbahn, Mykola Sadovnik, and Michael Teichmann were invited to present posters of their PhD projects there.
• Uta Lungershausen, who is going to participate in the Geoinformatik 2010 Conference in Kiel from March 17th to 19th. Together with Rolf Gabler-Mieck and Professor Rainer Duttmann she gives a lecture on the 3D reconstruction of historic environmental data on March 19th.
• Donat Wehner, who was invited to the Colloquium Praehistoricum at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main on December the 8th, 2009 to present his paper: Das Havelland im frühen Mittelalter.
• Christoph Nübel, who was invited to the University of Düsseldorf (Chair Professor Gerd Krumeich) and to the University of Mainz (Chair Professor Sönke Neitzel) to the present his dissertation project at the Research Colloquia of the mentioned History Departments on the 1st of December and the 19th of November respectively.

Christoph was also invited to present his paper "Schlacht-Perspektiven. Wahrnehmungen und Repräsentationen der 'Michael' - Offensive 1918" at the Annual Conference of the Militar History Study Group (Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises Militärgeschichte), which will take place between 5th and 7th November 2009.

 

• Annegret Kranz, who presented her paper: "Human or natural? Impacts on a Central European Landscape" at the Conference Geomorphology 2009 in Melbourne, Australia.

 

• Bettina Schulz Paulsson and Carolin Lubos, who participated at the Radiocarbon Conference 2009 (June 1st-6th, 2009) in Kona, Hawaii, USA.

 

Left: Carolin Lubos presents her poster to Marie-Joseé Nadeau (Leibniz Laboratory, CAU) and Alex Bayliss (English Heritage); right: Bettina Schulz Paulsson discusses about her poster with Alex Bayliss. Pictures by: B. Schulz Paulsson and C. Lubos.

 

• Bettina Schulz Paulsson, who coordinated together with Bisserka Gaydarska (University of Durham, UK) the session "Neolithic monuments: functions, mentalité and the social construction of the landscape" at the 15th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA), which took place between September 15th and 20th, 2009 in Riva del Garda, Italy. Johannes Müller, Doris Mischka, Martin Hinz, Kemal Fevzi-Moetz and Bettina presented papers at the conference. More information at: http://www.eaaitaly2009.com/sessions-roundtables.php

 

• Daniel Zwick, who was invited to present a paper in the session "Maritime Archaeology: The investigation, interpretation and historical significance of shipwrecks" of the X Nordic TAG Conference in Stiklestad/Ttrondheim, Norway, 26 - 29 May, 2009.

 

• Andrea Ricci, who was invited to present a paper at the BANEA 2009 (British Association for Near Eastern Archaology: Annual Conference 2009). Andrea Ricci paper develops on his Phd Project. More information on BANEA 2009 here.

-Another Andreas paper proposal "Early urbanization along the Middle Euphrates River Valley" has been accepted for the the ASOR meeting which will take place in New Orleans next November (2009). More information here.

• Natalia Toma, whose papers were presented or accepted to the following conferences:

  -10th Session of the Symposium ARA (Architectura. Restaurare. Arheologie) organised by the Archaeological Institute "Vasile Parvan" of the Romanian Academy on 23rd-25th April 2009. Papers:

  - Note de topografie tomitana. Activitati edilitare in portul Küstendje/Constanta 1850-1908/Notes on the Topography of Tomis. Building Activities in the Harbour of Küstendje/Constanta 1850-1908.

  -Antichitatea in culisa. Restaurarea si inscenarea monumentelor antice in Grecia (sec. XIX), Italia (sec. XX) si Romania (sec. XX) / Antiquity as Stage Decoration. Restoration and Exploitation of Ancient Monuments in Greece (19th Century), Italy (20th Century) and Romania (20th Century). More information at www.simpara.ro

-11th Colloquium on Roman Provincial Art, “Rome and the Provinces: Models and Diffusion” organised by National Museum of Roman Art (MNAR) and the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC) on 18-21th May 2009 in Mérida (Spain).
She participated with the presentation: The „import“ of Monumentality. Marble Trade and Mobility of Craftmenship – New Evidence from Tomis (Constanta/Romania)
For more details see http://www.icac.net/merida/

 

- The 9th International Conference of the Association for the Study of Marbles and Other Stones In Antiquity “Interdisciplinary Studies on Ancient Stone” - from 8 to 13th June 2009 in Tarragona (Spain).

Special Theme Session: Symbolism of stones - local and imported materials.
Natalia participates with the presentation: The Import of Prefabricated Architectural Marble Items to Moesia inferior. Provenance, Determination and Technical Aspects. For more details see http://www.icac.net/asmosia9/

 

- Darmstädter Diskussionen 1. Interdisziplinäres Doktorandenkolloquium zu Antiken Kulturen: Darmstadt, September 24th-26th 2009). Title of presentation: Importierte Monumentalität. Marmor und die Transformation der urbanen Landschaft der römischen Städte der moesia Inferior (1.-3. Jh. n. Chr.).

• Rémi Berthon, who was invited to present his paper "Animal exploitation in the Upper Tigris Valley from the Middle Bronze Age to the Iron Age: A first assesment from Hirbemerdon Tepe and Kenan Tepe" at the 3rd. Graduate Symposium "Southeastern Anatolia Studies Symposium" organised by the Graduate Program in Settlement Archaeology of the Middle East Technical University, Ankara (30th April-1st. May, 2009).

 

• Ben Krause-Kyora, who was invited to present his PhD project at the Module 4: Migration and Mobility of the Graduate Programme "Integrative Archaeology" at the University of Basel (February 12th 2009).

-He was also invited to the "Forschungskolloquium" (Research Colloquium) of the Institute of Pre- and Protohistory at the University of Heidelberg on May the 26th. 2009. His talk developed on the pig´s domestication and the aDNA. Title: Vom Wald auf den Teller, vom Wildschwein zum domestizierten Schwein (sus scrofa) - eine archäologische Studie"