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CONNECTING WORLDS BRONZE-AND IRON AGE DEPOSITIONS in EUROPE Dahlem TH ST Dorf BERLIN 19 -21 APRIL CONNECTING WORLDS BRONZE-AND IRON AGE DEPOSITIONS IN EUROPE Dahlem TH ST Dorf BERLIN 19 -21 APRIL Ethnologisches Museum Dahlem Ethnologisches Museum Dahlem Lansstraße 8, 14195 Berlin U 3 direction: U Krumme Lanke to U Dahlem Dorf Ethnologisches Museum (Dahlem) Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Eurasien-Abteilung des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Im Dol 2-6, D-14195 Berlin, www.dainst.org, Phone +49 30 187711-311 EURASIEN-ABTEILUNG CONNECTING WORLDS BRONZE-AND IRON AGE DEPOSITIONS IN EUROPE BERLIN 19TH-21ST APRIL Eurasien-Abteilung Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Berlin 2018 WELCOMING ADDRESS Preface On the occasion of the European Cultural Heritage Year (ECHY) 2018, which aims to make the shared European roots visible, the Eurasian Department of the German Ar- chaeological Institute organizes the conference Connecting worlds - Bronze and Iron Age depositions in Europe. Bronze Age and Early Iron Hoards and single depositions in rivers, lakes and bogs but also mountains and along old paths have been discussed over years. Whereas they were still in the 1970s considered as hidden treasures, in the last 30 years a lot of studies showed the regularities of hoard contents, the non-functional treatment of the objects and many other details which speak for ritual deposition. Meanwhile, most specialists would agree that if not all but the great majority of metal hoards was deposited by religious reasons in the broadest sense. This paradigm change makes Bronze Age hoards a cultural phenomenon which links most regions in Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals and to the Caucasus from Scan- dinavia to Greece between 2200 and 500 BC and in many regions also thereafter. This raises a number of questions which are not answered yet and require more research and discussion. How was it possible that the idea and the practice of deposition could spread over such large areas? What is the explanation for the different rhythms of de- position during the Bronze and Early Iron Age in these regions? Was the deposited me- tal really a considerable amount of wealth? How was deposition practice connected with other forms of destruction of wealth? Was there a difference between the deposi- tion practices in the Mediterranean and the rest of Europe? 35 invited archaeologists from 19 European countries will discuss new directions in re- search on Bronze Age and Iron Age depositions. Metal deposition as a widespread and long lasting social practice seems to be a perfect candidate of shared cultural Heritage in Europe. Facing the actual crisis of Europe in the West and in the East, the European Cultural Heritage Year can enhance the understanding of what unites Europe culturally in its broad diversity. Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Svend Hansen 3 PROGRAMME Thursday, 19th of April 2018 16.30 Ondřej Chvojka (České Budějovice) Finds of Bronze Age metal hoards in Bohemia and their Chair: Joni Apakidze (Tiflis/ Berlin) relations in the longue durée 9.30 Svend Hansen (Berlin) 17.00 Dragan Jovanovič (Vršac)/ Barry Molloy (Dublin) Introduction: Hoarding practices in Europe Bronze Age Depositions in Serbia 10.00 Christian Jeunesse (Strasbourg) 17.30 Wojciech Blajer (Kraków) Introduction: hoards and graves in the long term perspective Hoards in Poland between the Carpathians and the Baltic Sea 10.30 Botond Rezi (Târgu Mureş) 20.00 Conference Dinner Fragmentation in hoards. What does it mean? 11.00 Coffee break Friday, 20th of April 2018 11.30 Sabine Reinhold (Berlin) Hording practices in the Caucasus between European and Near Chair: Daniel Neumann (Frankfurt) Eastern traditions – Old ideas and new contexts 9.30 Harald Meller (Halle) 12.00 Sergej Kuzmynich (Moscow) The Sky Disc of Nebra in the Context of the European Hoarding Practice Remarks on the Relation between Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Hoards in Northern Eurasia 10.00 Agnė Čivilyte (Vilnius) United by one idea: The Bronze and Iron Age metal depositions 12.30 Ol‘ga Koročkova (Ekaterinburg) in the Eastern Baltic Region Bronze Age Hoards in Transurals: Content, Chronology, Context 10.30 Flemming Kaul (Kopenhagen) 13.00 Lunch break A Late Bronze Age hoard of 2000 gold spirals from Boeslunde, Zealand, Denmark Chair: Tilmann Vachta (Berlin) 11.00 Coffee break 14.30 Josyp Kobal‘ (Užgorod) On the border of Central and Eastern Europe: 11.30 Katharina Becker (Cork) Bronze Age Hoards in the Transcarpathian Region (Ukraine) Hoards in Ireland. Development Variety 15.00 Oliver Dietrich (Berlin) 12.00 Tobias Mörtz (Berlin) One but not the same. Hoarding socketed axes Weapon sacrifices in the Bronze Age in Bronze Age Romania 12.30 David Fontijn (Leiden) 15.30 János Gábor Tarbay (Budapest) Imagined and real – on the nature of depositional landscapes The Hajdúböszörmény hoard and related finds in Europe in the European Bronze Age 16.00 Coffee break 4 5 PROGRAMME 13.00 Lunch break Saturday, 21st of April 2018 Chair: Dirk Brandherm (Belfast) Chair: Udo Schlotzhauer (Berlin) 14.30 Xosé-Lois Armada (Santiago de Compostela) 9.30 Friederike Fless (Berlin) requested Atlantic Late Bronze Age interaction through metal hoards: challenges Address of welcome and results of a research strategy (read by Ana Bettencourt) 10.00 Alessandro Naso (Neapel) 15.00 Ana Bettencourt (Braga) Iron Age Hoards in Italy Late Bronze Age Metal Depositions in the Northwestern Iberian Peninsula: an Ontological Approach 10.30 Viktoria Fischer Christoforides (Genève) Bronzes from Swiss lake dwellings: lost or immersed? 15.30 Beatriz Comendador Rey (Ourense) 11.00 Coffee break The Hoard of As Silgadas (Caldas de Reis): Structured Actions and Interactions in the Landscape 11.30 Gerhard Tomedi (Innsbruck) Beyond Piller: Offerings on ritual pyres, favissae and further 16.00 Coffee break deposits in the Iron Age in the Alpine area 16.30 Sylvie Boulud-Gazo (Nantes) / Francis Bordas (Toulouse)/ 12.00 Ioannis Mylonopoulos (New York) Henri Gandois (Paris)/ Muriel Mélin (Rennes)/ Marilou Nordez (Toulouse) Metal votive objects of “foreign” origin in Greek sanctuaries Bronze Age land hoards in France: modes of immobilisation of the Geometric and Archaic periods and burial 12.30 Susanne Bocher (Mirow) 17.00 Muriel Mélin (Rennes)/ Stefan Wirth (Dijon) Votive practice in geometric and early archaic Olympia French River Finds from the Bronze and Early Iron Ages 13.00 Lunch break 17.30 Muriel Fily (Le Faou)/ José Gomez de Soto (Poitiers) The metallic hoards in the Bronze and Iron Ages in Brittany, France: Chair: Franz Schopper (Brandenburg/ Zossen) old and new discoveries 14.30 Denis Topal (Chişinău) Swords from hoards: depositional practice of ceremonial akinakai 15.00 Biba Teržan (Ljubljana) Iron Age Depositions in Southeastern Alpine Area 15.30 Coffee break 16.00 Panel Discussion, directed by Andrew Curry (Berlin) Hoards: European Bronze Age Heritage with Kristian Kristiansen (Göteborg), Richard Bradley (Reading/ Berkshire), Marie-Louise Sørensen (Cambridge) Visitors are welcome 6 7 ABSTRACTS Late Bronze Age metal depositions in the Northwest Iberian Peninsula: an ontological approach Prof. Dr. Ana M.S. Bettencourt Atlantic Late Bronze Age interaction through metal hoards: Landscapes, Heritage and Territory Laboratory, challenges and results of a research strategy Department of History at University of Minho, Braga, Portugal Prof. Dr. Xosé-Lois Armada Institute of Heritage Sciences (Incipit) Deposition of metal artefacts during the Bronze Age is a wider phenomenon at- Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) tested in northwestern Iberia as well as all over Europe. In this area, the study of this phenomenon has been conducted using several approaches: typological, met- Research on the Atlantic Late Bronze Age metal hoards has traditionally come up allurgical, contextual and, finally, interpretative. against two major problems. On the one hand, the majority of studies adopt a In this paper, the main goal is to interpret the Late Bronze Age hoards - mainly geographically very restricted focus that makes it difficult to identify both their those containing axes – while bearing in mind the premises that they are inten- regional singularities and their general patterns. On the other hand, they tend to tional depositions to one or more selected places in the context of the Bronze Age assess each aspect of the phenomenon (typology, metal composition, geographic network landscapes. location…) while paying little attention to how they relate to each other. Using this approach, it will be taken into account the organisation/orientation of Our research strategy aims to examine the nature and extent of interaction be- the axes inside the hoards and the micro and medium contexts of its deposition, tween the Late Bronze Age communities of the European Atlantic façade (c. 1300- based on recent research. 850 BC) through the comparative study of metal hoards in selected geographical Interpretations related to the importance of some liminal places or mounds in areas. To achieve this aim, we prioritise a standardised data acquisition protocol natural pathways will explain in the context of the crescent amount of internal and in focus areas on the Atlantic façade (central Portugal, north of Galicia, Morbihan, external travels and exchanges that connected people in the Late Bronze Age. south-east of Britain…). From the analytical point of view, we aim to build a new corpus of chemical composition and lead isotope analysis of Late Bronze Age metal objects from the selected study areas which will be extended through the compila- tion of previous analytical data. Hoards in Poland between the Carpathians and the Baltic Sea In our presentation we will focus on the results generated in the framework of our Prof. Dr. Wojciech Blajer research projects. These new results, alongside other archaeological and analytical Institut of Archaeology of the Jagellonian University, Kraków information, provide new insights into the circulation and hoarding of metals in the Atlantic Late Bronze Age. In the Bronze and Early Iron Ages, bronze metallurgy in what is now Poland relied on imported raw material. From a typological perspective, most artefacts reveal local traits, although their prototypes usually originated from the Alpine-Danubian zone, and less often from the Tisa River basin and the Nordic circle.
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