The Burial Mound Sites of Imperial Central Tibet, Map scale 1:800.000

The map illustrates the position of the burial mound fields in Central Tibet that have been registered so far by the “Tibetan tumulus project”, an Austrian Science Fund (FWF) financed long-term research conducted at the Austrian Academy of Sciences’ Institute for Social Anthropology (ISA). The entries of districts and key political sites related to the time of the Tibetan Empire (7th-9th cent. CE) form the relevant historical reference for this distribution map. This reveals a tumulus landscape of enormous concentration in the relatively small geographic area of Central Tibet (Dbus-Gtsang region), which in geographical, economic and political terms formed the heartland of the Tibetan Empire.Die Karte illustriert die Lage der Hügelgräberfelder von Zentraltibet, die im Rahmen des “Tibetan Tumulus Project“, einem vom Österreichischen Wissenschaftsfonds (FWF) finanzierten Forschungsprogramm am Institut für Sozialanthropologie (ISA) der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, registriert wurden. Die Einträge von politischen Distrikten und Wirkungsstätten aus der Zeit des tibetischen Reiches (7.-9. Jh. u. Z.) bilden die relevanten historischen Referenzorte für diese Verbreitungskarte. Diese zeigt eine Tumuluslandschaft von enormer Dichte in dem geographisch relativ kleinen Gebiet von Zentraltibet (Dbus-Gtsang Region), das geographisch, wirtschaftlich und politisch das Kernland des tibetischen Reiches bildete

The Burial Mound Sites of Imperial Central Tibet, Map scale 1:800.000

The map illustrates the position of the burial mound fields in Central Tibet that have been registered so far by the “Tibetan tumulus project”, an Austrian Science Fund (FWF) financed long-term research conducted at the Austrian Academy of Sciences’ Institute for Social Anthropology (ISA). The entries of districts and key political sites related to the time of the Tibetan Empire (7th-9th cent. CE) form the relevant historical reference for this distribution map. This reveals a tumulus landscape of enormous concentration in the relatively small geographic area of Central Tibet (Dbus-Gtsang region), which in geographical, economic and political terms formed the heartland of the Tibetan Empire

Design and Production of the Himachal Pradesh Topographic Overview Map, 1:500,000

This article describes the design of a map of the Indian state Himachal Pradesh at the scale of 1:500,000. The aim of this foldable map with topography is to support an interdisciplinary research network focusing on the cultural history of the western Himalayas starting in the eighth century. In this research network, cartography and geography fulfill a mediating role between the disciplines of art history, numismatics, Buddhist philosophy, and Tibetan and Sanskrit philology. The map’s goal is to facilitate scientific work and interdisciplinary collaboration both in the office and out in the field. In addition to the printed version, the map is available for download to the general public through a Web-based cartographic information system. Topographic data was compiled from a variety of sources—starting with maps originally surveyed by the colonial British and ending with satellite imagery. Production involved ArcGIS and Natural Scene Designer for initial data preparation and Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for final map compilation

MyMap als Werkzeug im GW-Unterricht. GW-Unterricht|GW-Unterricht 141|

Dieser Beitrag sowie das angeführte Unterrichtsbeispiel verfolgen verschiedene Ziele: Das sind die computergestützte Kartenerstellung, die Kartenmanipulation, die Kartenkritik und damit verbunden die Sensibilisierung zu kritischem Kartenlesen in verschiedenen Medien

Das Antlitz des Fremden : die Münzprägung der Hunnen und Westtürken in Zentralasien und Indien

In the collective memory of western and eastern civilizations the Huns more than any other people symbolize the menace of migrating nomadic peoples from the steppes of Asia in late antiquity. Over time, “Huns” referred to a number of different peoples, from the tribes against whose onslaught the Chinese built the Great Wall to the formations under the command of Attila († AD 453) who devastated Europe. However, the Huns and their Turkish successors were much more effective in Central Asia and northern India where they established themselves in the 4th century, profoundly influencing the region’s culture and history