Archaeometry Workshop on Bioarchaeology - Past people and their environment
April 04th to 08th 2022

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The 2022 spring workshop of the Archäometrie Kolleg focusses on the application of scientific methods to investigate past people, their diet, provenance and environment. Various approaches will be presented during the workshop ranging from individual data on a single skeleton to comparative population studies. The following questions will be dealt with: What can we learn from skeletal and mummified remains? What was the landscape like, in which they lived? How was the climate? Participants will get answers to these questions by gaining insights into the field of bioarchaeology, including physical anthropology, mummy studies, isotope analyses and methods of environmental reconstruction. The course will introduce basic principles and analytical methods for disclosing individual information of each of the topics. The participants will collect hands-on-experience in the selection, preparation and analysis of samples as well as data analysis and interpretation during practical sessions.

  • Program

  • Speakers

    • Amelie Alterauge, M.A.

      Amelie Alterauge works as a lecturer and researcher at the Institute of Pre- and Protohistory and Medieval Archaeology of the University of Tübingen. Her main research focus is the investigation and identification of modern burials by using different approaches, including physical anthropology and imaging methods.

    • Dr. Corina Knipper

      Corina Knipper is bioarchaeologist. Her speciality is the application of isotope analyses for the reconstruction of nutrition and mobility of humans and animals in Pre- and Early History.

    • Dr. Hannes Knapp

      Dr. Hannes Knapp is anthracologist and paleobotanist. At the dating lab of CEZA he works in the field of dendrochronology and is in charge of the Hohenheim tree ring collection.

    • Kristina Reetz

      Kristina Reetz is a climate and environmental scientist working at the Department of Geography at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. Her research focus is on biomarker analyzes in soils and sediments. In the field of geoarchaeology, her focus is on settlement reconstructions and paleoenvironmental reconstructions.

    • Prof. Dr. Roland Schwab

      Roland Schwab is head of the Curt-Engelhorn Centre for Archaeometry in Mannheim and teaches archaeometry at the University of Tübingen.

    • Stephanie Zesch

      Stephanie Zesch is a biological anthropologist and Egyptologist working as curator of the human remains collection at the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museum in Mannheim, Germany. She further analyses mummified human remains from various museum collections as part of her work for the German Mummy Project. In her PhD thesis, Stephanie studies Egyptian child mummies focusing on their preservation, applied techniques of artificial mummification, age at death, sex, diseases and possible cause of death.

    • Dr. Susanne Lindauer

      Dr. Susanne Lindauer is physicist at the dating lab at the Curt Engelhorn Center for Archaeometry with additional laboratory training and is responsible for the luminescence laboratory and its projects.

  • Associates

      Klaus Tschira Foundation

      The Klaus Tschira Foundation (KTS) promotes natural sciences, mathematics and computer science and aims to contribute to the appreciation of these subjects. It was established in 1995 by the physicist and SAP co-founder Klaus Tschira with private funds. The nationwide commitment begins in kindergarten and continues in schools, universities and research institutions. The foundation advocates new ways of communicating scientific content.

      www.klaus-tschira-stiftung.de

      University of Tübingen

      The University of Tübingen is one of eleven German universities which in 2012 and now again in 2019 has been honoured as excellent. In the life sciences, it offers cutting-edge research in the fields of neurosciences, translational immunology and cancer research, microbiology and infection research as well as molecular biology. Other research priorities are machine learning, geo- and environmental research, archaeology and anthropology, language and cognition as well as education and media. More than 27,600 students from all over the world are currently enrolled. They can choose from more than 330 courses of study.

      In archaeometry, the University has a unique breadth with the Competence Center Archaeometry - Baden Wuerttemberg (CCA-BW), the Institute of Natural Science Archaeology (INA) and the course of studies "Natural Science Archaeology" as main and subsidiary subject in material science analytics, geoarchaeology and the biologically oriented fields of palaeoanthropology, archaeobotany or archaeozoology.

      www.uni-tuebingen.de

      CEZA gGmbH

      The Curt-Engelhorn-Zentrum für Archöometrie (CEZA) is a subsidiary of the Curt-Engelhorn-Foundation for the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museums and a nationally and internationally operating research institute, which answers questions of natural and cultural history with most modern, innovative technology and research. In addition to its role as a renowned research institution, CEZA also acts as a service provider for public institutions, companies and private individuals. The portfolio of scientific research includes authenticity, material identification, origin, technology, age determination, bioarchaeology and climate research. Through its participation in EU projects, international cooperation and publications in internationally recognised journals, CEZA's work is also visible internationally.

      www.ceza.de
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