De verdwenen Eems, een participatieproject in het grensgebied

The lost Ems, a participatory project in the border regionSince 2017, the GIA and NLD have conducted joint research into a fossil branch of the river Ems between Landegge (Ldkr. Emsland) and Sellingen (prov. Groningen), where this branch merged with the Runde system as the Ruiten Aa/Westerwoldsche Aa. As its flanking river dunes were intensively exploited by farming communities up to the middle/late Iron Age, this string of settlements became an umbilical cord linking the Westerwolde region with the Ems bank, especially after accelerated peat growth intensified the barrier posed by the Bourtanger Moor.Mapping the fossil river, its regime and riverbank occupation as well as its abandonmentgoes hand-in-hand with involving today’s landowners and local residents, explaining to them that there is more to the supposedly poor cultural history of this hinterland zone than the era of peatbog exploitation and the Emslandlager during WWII

To Gender or not To Gender? Exploring Gender Variations through Time and Space

This article is based on an EAA session in Kiel in 2021, in which thirteen contributors provide their response to Robb and Harris's (2018) overview of studies of gender in the European Neolithic and Bronze Age, with a reply by Robb and Harris. The central premise of their 2018 article was the opposition of ‘contextual Neolithic gender’ to ‘cross-contextual Bronze Age gender’, which created uneasiness among the four co-organizers of the Kiel meeting. Reading Robb and Harris's original article leaves the impression that there is an essentialist ‘Neolithic’ and ‘Bronze Age’ gender, the former being under-theorized, unclear, and unstable, the latter binary, unchangeable, and ideological. While Robb and Harris have clearly advanced the discussion on gender, the perspectives and case studies presented here, while critical of their views, take the debate further, painting a more complex and diverse picture that strives to avoid essentialism

Vom Anfangen und Ankommen : Frauen in der deutschsprachigen Archäologie, von den Anfängen bis zu #MeToo

Der Beitrag beleuchtet die Berufstätigkeit von Frauen in der deutschsprachigen Archäologie seit deren Anfängen. Die eher späte Professionalisierung der Archäologie bot zunächst Tätigkeitsfelder für Frauen, solange diesen der Zugang zu den Universitäten verwehrt blieb. Einzelne, inspirierende Archäologinnen leisteten damals grundlegende Beiträge zu den archäologischen Fächern. Nachdem ein Studium möglich war gelangten einzelne Kolleginnen früh auf einflussreiche Positionen, hatten dabei aber erhebliche Hindernisse zu überwinden. Bis heute hinkt der Anteil von Archäologinnen auf bedeutenden Stellen dem Anteil der Studentinnen deutlich hinterher. Frauennetzwerke im Fach arbeiten seit rund 30 Jahren auf vielen Ebenen für mehr Chancengleichheit und vielfältigere Inhalte.49584

Net(z)werk+ Projekt:Die verschwundene Ems

State of the art of the coring project 'Die verschwundene Ems' to unravel a fossil branch of the river Ems and its exploitation in prehistory and early history