Books by Philipp von Rummel
Clothing and outward appearance as a means of expressing individual and collective identity were ... more Clothing and outward appearance as a means of expressing individual and collective identity were of great importance in Late Antiquity. This publication is the first interdisciplinary overview of source material and provides a critical view of opposing statements on the value of written sources, images, and archaeological finds on habitus barbarus . Based on these sources, the book develops not only a new perspective on the meaning of “barbaric” clothing but also sheds new light on the Late Roman “barbarians” themselves.
This volume contains the results of the excavations that have been conducted by the Archaeologica... more This volume contains the results of the excavations that have been conducted by the Archaeological Institute at Freiburg University in cooperation with the Tunisian Institut du Patrimoine at the site of ancient Thugga between 2001 and 2003. The exemplary excavation of a greater area in a residential quarter in the south of the Roman town has allowed us, for the first time, to gain an comprehensive insight into all periods of the city’s long history, from prehistoric times to late antiquity.
Edited Books and Journals by Philipp von Rummel
Menschen - Kulturen - Traditionen. Studien aus den Forschungsclustern des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts 16
Wie lebten frühere Menschen in Europa? Welche Spuren haben sie hinterlassen? Der großformatige Pr... more Wie lebten frühere Menschen in Europa? Welche Spuren haben sie hinterlassen? Der großformatige Prachtband bietet einen Überblick über Archäologie und Geschichte in Europa vom Auftreten der ersten Menschen bis heute. Aktuellste Funde und Grabungsergebnisse sind verständlich dargelegt und mit über 500 Fotos, Karten und Zeichnungen eindrücklich illustriert. Die Autoren des Werkes spannen dabei den Bogen von der Altsteinzeit (vor ca. 800.000 Jahren) über Antike und Mittelalter, bis zur Industriellen Revolution und ins 21. Jahrhundert. Dem Leser öffnet sich so ein großes historisches Panorama, das im Blick zurück hilft, auch aktuelle Entwicklungen und Ereignisse wie weltweite Vernetzung, Migration und Klimawandel sowie Innovationen und Krisen besser einordnen zu können.
Herausgegeben von Eszter Bánffy, Kerstin P. Hofmann, Philipp von Rummel. 2019. Etwa 520 S. mit über 500 farb. Abb., Grafiken und Karten, Zeitleiste, Bibliogr. und Glossar, 24 x 28 cm, geb. mit SU. wbg Theiss, Darmstadt.
Das Deutsche Archäologische Institut. Geschichte und Dokumente, vol. 12, 2021
At the turn of the year 1991/1992, as a result of German reunification, the then Central Institut... more At the turn of the year 1991/1992, as a result of German reunification, the then Central Institute for Ancient History and Archaeology (ZIAGA) of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR was dissolved. Some of its staff were able to continue their scientific work at the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). The 25th anniversary of this event was the occasion for a research history workshop at the Scientific Department of the Head Office on 10 November 2017. At this meeting, the focus was on the question of what impulses the German Archaeological Institute received through the takeover of staff and research infrastructure (libraries, laboratories) of the ZIAGA. Several contributions deal with the research and research opportunities in the years before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall in the various archaeological disciplines and fields, including Classical Archaeology, research on Germanic, Roman and Slavic peoples, Medieval Archaeology, Non-European Archaeology and the Archaeo-Natural Sciences. The volume is supplemented by two contributions devoted to the beginnings of pre- and early history research at the Berlin Academy of Sciences and personal recollections of the relationship between the Roman-Germanic Commission and ZIAGA in the 1980s.
Zum Jahreswechsel 1991/1992 wurde in Folge der deutschen Wiedervereinigung das damalige Zentralinstitut für Alte Geschichte und Archäologie (ZIAGA) der Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR aufgelöst. Einige seiner Mitarbeiter/innen konnten ihre wissenschaftliche Arbeit am Deutschen Archäologischen Institut fortsetzen. Der 25. Jahrestag dieses Ereignisses war Anlass für einen forschungsgeschichtlichen Workshop an der Wissenschaftlichen Abteilung der Zentrale am 10. November 2017. Bei diesem Treffen stand die Frage im Vordergrund, welche Impulse das Deutsche Archäologische Institut durch die Übernahme von Mitarbeiter/innen und Forschungsinfrastruktur (Bibliotheken, Labore) des ZIAGA erhielt. Mehrere Beiträge befassen sich mit den Forschungen und Forschungsmöglichkeiten in den Jahren der Vor- und Nachwendezeit in den verschiedenen archäologischen Disziplinen und Bereichen, u. a. der Klassischen Archäologie, den Forschungen zu Germanen, Römern und Slawen, der Mittelalter-Archäologie, der Außereuropäischen Archäologie und den Archäo-Naturwissenschaften. Ergänzt wird der Band durch zwei Beiträge, die sich den Anfängen der Vor- und Frühgeschichtsforschung an der Berliner Akademie der Wissenschaften sowie persönlichen Erinnerungen an das Verhältnis von Römisch-Germanischer Kommission und ZIAGA in den 1980er Jahren widmen.
Palilia 34, 2019
Papers of a Conference held in Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano, Terme di Diocleziano, 28 February - ... more Papers of a Conference held in Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano, Terme di Diocleziano, 28 February - 2 March 2013
TANA Booklet, 2022
DAI Africa Projects
Das Deutsche Archäologische Institut. Geschichte und Dokumente, vol. 11, 2018
https://publications.dainst.org/books/index.php/dai/catalog/view/65/75/635-1
Die Broschüre "Archäologische Forschungen des DAI in Afrika 2018" informiert auf Deutsch und Engl... more Die Broschüre "Archäologische Forschungen des DAI in Afrika 2018" informiert auf Deutsch und Englisch über alle aktuellen Projekte von Marokko und Tunesien über Ägypten, Sudan und Äthiopien bis nach Südafrika im Rahmen des TransArea Network Africa.
Papers and Chapters by Philipp von Rummel
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2024
V. Occari - H. Möller - C. Fenwick - P. Quinn - I. C. Freestone - M. Chaouali - P. von Rummel. Ab... more V. Occari - H. Möller - C. Fenwick - P. Quinn - I. C. Freestone - M. Chaouali - P. von Rummel. Abstract: Ifriqiya (roughly Tunisia and eastern Algeria) is believed to have played a significant role in the diffusion of ceramic glazed technologies into other regions of the Western Mediterranean. However, due to limited analysis on North African glazed ceramics, its role in technology transfer remains poorly understood. This paper uses SEM-EDS and petrographic analyses to understand the technology employed in the production of Tunisian ceramics through the study of 30 polychrome glazed ceramics from a medieval settlement at the site of Chimtou (ancient Simitthus), Tunisia, dated to the late ninth-twelfth century. The results show that these are lead-rich glazes with varying contents of alkalis, coloured with copper, iron and manganese oxide and applied over a calcareous body. Opaque glazes were obtained using cassiterite crystals as opacifier or by adding crushed quartz. The use of lead stannate as a colourant and opacifier in one light yellow glaze raises questions about the mechanisms of introduction of tin opacification technology in North Africa. Scrap metal seems to have been used as a source of lead for the glazes; while iron slag was probably used as a source of iron to colour the glaze in one sample, pointing to a cross-craft interaction between glazemaking and metallurgy.
Journal of Maps 20:1, 2024
Julia Pagels, Moheddine Chaouali, Corisande Fenwick, Philipp von Rummel
& Wiebke Bebermeier. - A... more Julia Pagels, Moheddine Chaouali, Corisande Fenwick, Philipp von Rummel
& Wiebke Bebermeier. - Abstract: This study focuses on the characterization of the geomorphological setting in the hinterland of the archaeological sites of Chimtou and Bordj Hellal located in the central Medjerda Valley, North Tunisia. Our approach integrates the algorithm Geomorphons for semi-automatic landform classification with the soil erosion model Unit Stream Power-based Erosion Deposition (USPED), providing information on the intensity and regional distribution of erosional and depositional processes. Data from geomorphological field mapping provide a database for a ground-truth of the semi-automatic landform classification derived by the algorithm Geomorphons and complemented the database for the creation of a detailed map of the geomorphology in the hinterland of Chimtou. In line with the delineation of the spatial distribution of erosional and depositional processes, the results deepen the understanding of the geomorphology and the sediment routing of this region.
S. Killen - S. Scheuble-Reiter - S. Schmidt (Hrsg.), Caput studiorum. Festschrift für Rudolf Haensch zu seinem 65. Geburtstag, Philippika 177 (Wiesbaden 2024) 505-514.
Proceedings of the Conference on Research Data Infrastructure, 2023
NFDI4Objects represents a broad community dealing with material remains of human history from aro... more NFDI4Objects represents a broad community dealing with material remains of human history from around 3 million years and involves numerous disciplines from the humanities, cultural studies and natural sciences with an archaeological and historical focus. The objects examined include potsherds of common ware, artworks such as sculptures or jewellery, serially produced objects such as coins, organic remains such as wood, bones or pollen, inscribed clay tablets, papyri and stones, architectural remains, as well as human-modified landscapes. Modern research materials such as plaster casts, analogue photographs and drawings, archival documents, books and raw digital data are equally relevant.
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Edited Books and Journals by Philipp von Rummel
Herausgegeben von Eszter Bánffy, Kerstin P. Hofmann, Philipp von Rummel. 2019. Etwa 520 S. mit über 500 farb. Abb., Grafiken und Karten, Zeitleiste, Bibliogr. und Glossar, 24 x 28 cm, geb. mit SU. wbg Theiss, Darmstadt.
Zum Jahreswechsel 1991/1992 wurde in Folge der deutschen Wiedervereinigung das damalige Zentralinstitut für Alte Geschichte und Archäologie (ZIAGA) der Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR aufgelöst. Einige seiner Mitarbeiter/innen konnten ihre wissenschaftliche Arbeit am Deutschen Archäologischen Institut fortsetzen. Der 25. Jahrestag dieses Ereignisses war Anlass für einen forschungsgeschichtlichen Workshop an der Wissenschaftlichen Abteilung der Zentrale am 10. November 2017. Bei diesem Treffen stand die Frage im Vordergrund, welche Impulse das Deutsche Archäologische Institut durch die Übernahme von Mitarbeiter/innen und Forschungsinfrastruktur (Bibliotheken, Labore) des ZIAGA erhielt. Mehrere Beiträge befassen sich mit den Forschungen und Forschungsmöglichkeiten in den Jahren der Vor- und Nachwendezeit in den verschiedenen archäologischen Disziplinen und Bereichen, u. a. der Klassischen Archäologie, den Forschungen zu Germanen, Römern und Slawen, der Mittelalter-Archäologie, der Außereuropäischen Archäologie und den Archäo-Naturwissenschaften. Ergänzt wird der Band durch zwei Beiträge, die sich den Anfängen der Vor- und Frühgeschichtsforschung an der Berliner Akademie der Wissenschaften sowie persönlichen Erinnerungen an das Verhältnis von Römisch-Germanischer Kommission und ZIAGA in den 1980er Jahren widmen.
Papers and Chapters by Philipp von Rummel
& Wiebke Bebermeier. - Abstract: This study focuses on the characterization of the geomorphological setting in the hinterland of the archaeological sites of Chimtou and Bordj Hellal located in the central Medjerda Valley, North Tunisia. Our approach integrates the algorithm Geomorphons for semi-automatic landform classification with the soil erosion model Unit Stream Power-based Erosion Deposition (USPED), providing information on the intensity and regional distribution of erosional and depositional processes. Data from geomorphological field mapping provide a database for a ground-truth of the semi-automatic landform classification derived by the algorithm Geomorphons and complemented the database for the creation of a detailed map of the geomorphology in the hinterland of Chimtou. In line with the delineation of the spatial distribution of erosional and depositional processes, the results deepen the understanding of the geomorphology and the sediment routing of this region.
Herausgegeben von Eszter Bánffy, Kerstin P. Hofmann, Philipp von Rummel. 2019. Etwa 520 S. mit über 500 farb. Abb., Grafiken und Karten, Zeitleiste, Bibliogr. und Glossar, 24 x 28 cm, geb. mit SU. wbg Theiss, Darmstadt.
Zum Jahreswechsel 1991/1992 wurde in Folge der deutschen Wiedervereinigung das damalige Zentralinstitut für Alte Geschichte und Archäologie (ZIAGA) der Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR aufgelöst. Einige seiner Mitarbeiter/innen konnten ihre wissenschaftliche Arbeit am Deutschen Archäologischen Institut fortsetzen. Der 25. Jahrestag dieses Ereignisses war Anlass für einen forschungsgeschichtlichen Workshop an der Wissenschaftlichen Abteilung der Zentrale am 10. November 2017. Bei diesem Treffen stand die Frage im Vordergrund, welche Impulse das Deutsche Archäologische Institut durch die Übernahme von Mitarbeiter/innen und Forschungsinfrastruktur (Bibliotheken, Labore) des ZIAGA erhielt. Mehrere Beiträge befassen sich mit den Forschungen und Forschungsmöglichkeiten in den Jahren der Vor- und Nachwendezeit in den verschiedenen archäologischen Disziplinen und Bereichen, u. a. der Klassischen Archäologie, den Forschungen zu Germanen, Römern und Slawen, der Mittelalter-Archäologie, der Außereuropäischen Archäologie und den Archäo-Naturwissenschaften. Ergänzt wird der Band durch zwei Beiträge, die sich den Anfängen der Vor- und Frühgeschichtsforschung an der Berliner Akademie der Wissenschaften sowie persönlichen Erinnerungen an das Verhältnis von Römisch-Germanischer Kommission und ZIAGA in den 1980er Jahren widmen.
& Wiebke Bebermeier. - Abstract: This study focuses on the characterization of the geomorphological setting in the hinterland of the archaeological sites of Chimtou and Bordj Hellal located in the central Medjerda Valley, North Tunisia. Our approach integrates the algorithm Geomorphons for semi-automatic landform classification with the soil erosion model Unit Stream Power-based Erosion Deposition (USPED), providing information on the intensity and regional distribution of erosional and depositional processes. Data from geomorphological field mapping provide a database for a ground-truth of the semi-automatic landform classification derived by the algorithm Geomorphons and complemented the database for the creation of a detailed map of the geomorphology in the hinterland of Chimtou. In line with the delineation of the spatial distribution of erosional and depositional processes, the results deepen the understanding of the geomorphology and the sediment routing of this region.
The ancient settlement of Henchir Bourgou/Djerba (Tunisia) has been the focus of joint research by the Tunisian Institut National du Patrimoine (INP) and the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) since 2017. The article summarizes the results of a first sondage in the centre of the settlement area. The sequence of layers and the building features from the first settlement phases in the 8th century B.C. to the last traces of intensive occupation at the highest point of the settlement area in the last half of the 2nd century A.D., together with the find pottery and accompanying scientific investigations, provide a first overview of the settlement and economic history of Henchir Bourgou.
Abstract: The rural site of Mezraya (Jerba), which was the subject of a rescue excavation in 2018, has revealed a range of interesting archaeological results. The stratigraphy documents continuous use and occupation of the site from protohistoric to Roman times. Systematic pottery analysis has been used to establish, for the first time, a cultural-chronological sequence covering almost a thousand years. Interpreted as a farm, the remains of amphora, as well as important small finds, give clues to the range of agricultural and artisanal activities carried out on the site, including spindle whorls and loom weights, providing direct evidence of textile production. Beginning in the second half of the 8th century BCE, evidence of archaic Phoenician ceramics indicates that Mezraya developed contact and connections with the wider Mediterranean world. After a long existence, the site was completely abandoned during the first half of the 3rd century CE.
Das zahlreiche Fachrichtungen und Institutionen umfassende Netzwerk NFDI4Objects beschäftigt sich mit den materiellen Überresten der Menschheit aus einem Zeitraum von mehr als 2,6 Millionen Jahren. Aufbau und Ziele sowie die unterschiedlichen Task Areas werden im Folgenden vorgestellt.
Reprint from: Walter Pohl - Gerda Heydemann (eds.), Post-Roman Traditions. Christian and Barbarian Identities in the Early Medieval West, CELAMA 14 (Turnhout 2013) 365-406
Abstract: This contribution explores the application of the socio-ecological interaction model proposed by Marina Fischer-Kowalski for an investigation of the colonization of marginal habitats. Central to our approach is the hypothesis that the occupation of areas beyond the ’regular’ settlement patterns of (pre)historic, and indeed modern, societies corresponds to
colonization processes that reflect specific social strategies and may have stimulated the development of new technological skills. Four case studies from the sites of Resafa (Syria), Petra (Jordan), and Ayamonte (Spain) highlight the potentials, as well as the limits, of applying the socio-ecological model to archaeological material/studies.
Material remains, hereinafter “objects”, are the only source of knowledge about most of the cultural and biological evolution of humanity. Tools made, monuments built and landscapes shaped by humans bear witness to essential aspects of human history, such as technological development, innovation, human–environment interaction, migration, cultural exchange and transformation. Material remains gain their scientific, historical and cultural significance through multilayered analyses and contextualisation. Their diversity, manifold contexts and complex (object) biographies pose a particular challenge to integrated digital research. The strategy to empower the NFDI4Objects (N4O) Community to integrate and develop solutions that benefit the entire NFDI the initiative has nine objectives:
1. to provide reliable and interoperable data services;
2. to foster awareness of data quality;
3. to improve research data quality;
4. to implement, align and expand standards;
5. to promote professionalism and qualification;
6. to strengthen NFDI-wide cross-cutting topics;
7. to embed N4O into the national and international landscape;
8. to assure collaborative governance and sustainability;
9. to increase the diversity of those actively involved in the consortium.
The N4O work programme will implement these objectives in seven Task Areas (TAs):
TA1 Documentation covers all needs arising from exploring, collecting and documenting primary data sources (of excavations, field projects, artefacts, landscapes, sites, monuments, etc.).
TA2 Collecting provides an integrated research data infrastructure and qualityoriented data management processes that meet the complex requirements of artefact collection contextualisation and provenance research.
TA3 Analytics and Experiments sets up platforms, standards and services for desk-based research, controlled experiments and laboratory-based object analysis.
TA4 Protecting offers applications and data management solutions to meet the complex requirements of protection, conservation, restoration.
TA5 Storage, Access and Dissemination delivers comprehensive technologies and standards for the long-term archiving and reusability of FAIR research data.
TA6 Qualification, Integration and Harmonisation systematically establishes appropriate research data management (RDM) skillsets with tailored qualification concepts and aligns research data and metadata to integrate digital representations of object biographies.
TA7 Support and Coordination manages and develops structure and content for N4O. It coordinates the processes between fields of activity, and ensures the continued scientific and community-driven development of the consortium.