Digital Geoarchaeology 2013 – conference website online

The official website of Digital Geoarchaeology 2013, an information portal dedicated to the international conference hosted by the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 7.-8. November 2013 is now online. Find out more about the concept of the symposium, its topics and the preliminary schedule. Anyone interested the investigation of past human-environmental interactions is cordially inivited to attend the meeting and to enter into a cross-disciplinary dialogue between scientists from various subjects like Archaeology, Computer Sciences, Geography, Geoinformatics, History, etc. Besides stimulation of collaboration, common fields of work are to be identified and discussed from different scientific perspectives in order to better understand past relationships between man and environment and to protect cultural heritage.

Digital Geoarchaeology 2013 is affiliated with the Geographical Institue of Heidelberg University and the Insitute of Geography of University of Cologne. It is funded by the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

En-route: Kosovo, Israel & La Réunion

A new section on a field-trip to the Republic of Kosovo has been added to On-site & en-route. Have a look at the geoarchaeological research project of Ulpiana, located ca. 10 km south of Priština. Additionally you can find a new report about a geophysical survey in Israel and some impressions from the island of La Réunion, the French overseas department in the Indian Ocean.

Zominthos: unraveling the Minoan mystery

I published a monograph about the landscape evolution of Central Crete with special regard to the Minoan mountain settlement of Zominthos (Crete, Greece). Using a multi-method approach, the question to be investigated was why Bronze-Age people were able to colonize the remote mountains of Crete and how they were able to survive in a nowadays isolated region. Moreover, the mystery of their sudden disappearance was unravelled.

Have a look at the table of contents in the following slideshare presentation. The full book can be purchased here.

Heidelberg Academy of Sciences – conference contest award for 2013 symposium

Dr. Christoph Siart and Dipl.-Geogr. Markus Forbriger rank among the winners of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences contest for conference funding. The proposal “Digital geoarchaeology: application of new technologies in interdisciplinary man-environmental research” was rated highly worthy of promotion by the decision committee. The symposium will be organized in cooperation with the Heidelberg Excellence-Initiative measure “Transcultural Studies” and held at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities from 7.-9. November 2013.  It is part of a young researches funding concept that offers the unique opportunity to form a network of young international scientists from a broad range of disciplines. The conference contributions will be peer-reviewed and published in a special proceedings issue. Further details can be found on the conference website.