EDITORIALJohannes Müller, Speaker of the Graduate School

March 2017 still seems far away. However, we are already busy organizing the Gradu-ate School’s fifth International Open Work-shop, which we will hold next year in Kiel from March 20–24. Maybe you would like to submit a paper to one (or more) of the 19 sessions? The topical range is broad, reach-ing from prehistoric ceramics to quantitative analysis and modelling in archaeology or environmental history and heritage man-agement. Please visit the workshop website

www.workshop-gshdl.uni-kiel.de for more information. My special congratulations go to Annette Haug: She was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant. Her research project DECOR, focusing on Pom-peii and Herculaneum, starts this fall. You will find further information in this newsletter.Since October, we have a new colleague at the Graduate School: Henny Piezonka was appointed as a Junior Professor for Anthropological Ar-chaeology. Welcome to Kiel and have a good start!We also welcome our special guest this fall: Anthropologist Gary Rollef-son is visiting the Graduate School until December. Especially if you are interested in the processes of Neolithization in the Near East, you should not miss the opportunity to get in touch with him.I wish you a good winter semester!

SHINING A LIGHT ON SCALES OF TRANSFORMATIONIn late May, Kiel University was granted the new Collaborative Research Centre “Scales of Trans-formation”. The German Research Foundation supports cutting-edge research on human-environment interactions in prehistoric and ar-chaic societies with 12 million Eu-ros during the next four years. Sci-entists from eight CAU institutes, the Johanna Mestorf Academy, the Centre of Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology and the Archaeological State Museum Gottorf Castle par-ticipate in the collaborative project, which was already initiated in July.

To celebrate this great success, the university tower was illuminated in colors on one evening in June, showing the silhouette of a megalithic tomb. The joint initiative by Project Lighthouse, the graphic depart-ment of the institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology and the GS caused people to stop and stare at the corner of Westring and Olshausenstraße.

GSHDL AT THE STATE HORTICULTURAL SHOWFrom July 13–19, the GS brought science to the State Horticultural Show (LGS) in Eutin. Nine PhD projects and other research activities were presented using modules and multimedia presentations. In our photo, Walter Dörfler explains one of the exhibition items to LGS man-ager Martin Klehs, GS member Wiebke Kirleis, CAU vice president Ilka Parchmann, GS speaker Johannes Müller, secretary of state Rolf Fischer

and Gottorf director Claus von Carnap-Bornheim (from left). Martin Klehs was particularly pleased about the scientific focus at the garden show: “When excellent scientific research meets up with a horticulture show, then the topics become accessible and experienceable for the public. Hands-on science – where culture and nature meet – is ben-eficial”.More information is available in the news section of the GS website: www.gshdl.uni-kiel.de/news/exhibition-2016/

ERC GRANT FOR DECOR PROJECT

Fantastic news: GS member Annette Haug has received an ERC Con-solidator Grant for research into Decorative Systems in Pompeii and Herculaneum. Her project, “Decorative Principles in Late Republican and Early Imperial Italy” (DECOR), has been granted two million Euros in funding over a five-year period. Haug will receive support from the GSHDL, where she acts as co-speaker. In the last competitive funding round, only two ERC grants were awarded for humanities and social sciences in Germany, one of which went to Annette Haug.In the DECOR project, the research team working with Professor Haug investigates how people in Italy visually embellished (i.e. decorated) various areas of their antique world between the late Republic and the end of the early Imperial period (2nd century BC to 1st century AD). The term “decorate” encompasses all forms of design from murals to mosaics and structural ornaments as well as sculptures. Individually, these forms of design have all been studied extensively by archaeolo-gists. Now, for the first time, the DECOR project attempts to examine all elements and their combined effects. Haug and her team wish to apply this new, holistic approach to houses, sanctuaries and main streets. More information is available on the GS website: www.gshdl.uni-kiel.de/news/erc-grant-for-decor/

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Decorated room of the Casa degli Amorini Dorati, Pompeii. Photo: Haug

CASTLES IN THE GROUNDThe Graduate School’s „castle team“, Daniel Kossack and Stefan Mag-nussen, prospected two sites in South Jutland with geomagnetic equipment in late June. Together with their fellow PhD student, René Ohlrau, who has great expertise in geomagnetics, and several other colleagues from Kiel they went to Nordborg on the island of Als/ Den-mark and to Bollingstedt in the county of Schleswig-Flensburg. The re-sults are promising. At Nordborg, they discovered a circular structure in the ground where the main part of the castle is supposed to have been located. In Bollingstedt, the foundations of a two-winged building were detected in the area surrounded by a ditch. “We assume this to be a typical building from the transitional time when castles changed to mansions during the 16th century”, Stefan Magnussen explains. The “castle team” plans to investigate more sites in the fall, hoping for com-parably good results.Stefan blogs about his research activities: https://casles.wordpress.com/

STAFF & PERSONAL NEWSDoctoral student Uta Lungershausen passed her disputation on “Late Holocene aeolian activity and landscape development in a northern German inland dune system – An approach to spatially reconstruct past landscape dynamics using geoarchaeological records and scien-tific visualization techniques” on September 13.Doctoral student Kathrin Marterior passed her disputation on “Slavic settlements in Holstein: Bilingual language landscape?” on June 29.Doctoral student Artur Ribeiro passed his disputation on “Complexity and Change of Bronze Age Societies and Landscapes in Southwest Ibe-ria: a microhistorical approach.” on June 21.Doctoral students Natàlia Égüez, Milinda Hoo, Jos Kleijne, Aslı Oflaz, Artur Ribeiro and Gustav Wollentz and postdoctoral fellow Liang Yang participated in the World Archaeology Congress in Kyoto from Au-gust 29 to September 2. They gave the following talks: “Threads and Traces: The Archaeologist as a Detective” and “Has archaeology ever been phenomenological?” (both by Artur), “A heritage of belonging beyond ethnicity – Heritage and Memory-practices in the Balkans” and “Whose home is the Past? – The medieval battle of Kosovo Polje and the construction of narratives” (both by Gustav), “Migration and mobility and the Bell Beaker phenomenon in North Western Europe. Theoretical considerations to a practical problem” and “Innovation in prehistory, a case study of the 3rd millennium BC” (both by Jos), “Micro-stratigraphic analysis on a modern central Sahara pastoral campsite. Ovicaprine pellets and stabling floors as ethnographic referential data” and “Same but different. Management of dung in pastoral campsites along north to south Eastern Mongolia” (both by Natalia), “De- and re-culturalizing culture? Transcultural views on hybrid architecture in Hel-lenistic Central Asia” (Milinda), “The Middle to Late Holocene human-environment interactions in western Turkey: A review of multi-proxy evidences” (Asli) and “Holocene climate change, disaster history and the urbanscape transitions in Athens” (Liang).GS members Wiebke Kirleis, Helmut Kroll, Anna Elena Reuter and Anna Wierzgon and GS alumna Henrike Effenberger attended the 17th Conference of the International Workgroup for Palaeoethnobotany (IWGP) at the National Museum for Natural History in Paris from July 4–9. Wiebke Kirleis presented results on the transition from hunting/ gathering to farming and the establishment of new subsistence strate-gies on the North-European Plain gained from intensive archaeobotan-ical investigations which were conducted in the frame of the research program “Early Monumentality and Social Differentiation”. The paper she presented, titled “The late adaption of farming in the SW Baltic region in the Neolithic”, was co-authored by Walter Dörfler, Ingo Fees-er, E. Fischer and Stefanie Kloos. Anna Elena Reuter focused her talk “The Early Byzantine Balkan area between Caričin Grad and the Lower Danube – An archaeobotanical perspective” on one topic of her PhD

thesis “Pflanzen und Pflanzennutzung im Byzantinischen Reich” which concerns food security strategies and urban agriculture reflected in the cereal spectra of Early Byzantine sites from present day Serbia, Bul-garia and Romania. Henrike Effenberger presented results of her PhD thesis “Pflanzennutzung und Ausbreitungswege von Innovationen im Pflanzenbau der Nordeuropäischen Bronzezeit und angrenzender Re-gionen” in a poster co-authored by Almut Alsleben: “The plant econ-omy of the Northern European Bronze Age: More than just Emmer”. Doctoral student Stephanie Merten presented aspects of her PhD project at the 22nd annual conference of the Mittel- und Ostdeutscher Verband für Altertumsforschung e.V. and the 83rd Verbandstagung des West- und Süddeutschen Verbandes für Altertumsforschung e.V., The-mentag Stadt / frühstädtische Siedlungen, held at Technical University Chemnitz on March 30. Her talk was titled “Architektur (wird ge)formt. Eine Standortbestimmung von Klassischer Archäologie, Urbanistik und Architektursoziologie”.Doctoral student Maren Biederbick presented part of her research results at the conference „Konflikt und Ausgleich. Möglichkeiten der Aushandlung in Städten der Vormoderne“ in Kiel on September 14. Her talk was titled „Von Cosimo il Vecchio zu Cosimo I. – Herrscher-Inszenierung der Medici durch Impresen-Anbringung im öffentlichen und privaten Raum“.Doctoral student Gianpiero di Maida participated in the PhD workshop “Theorising Digital Archaeology: Critically Engaging with the Digital Turn in Archaeology”, organized by the Nordic Graduate School “Dia-logues with the Past” and held in Athens from August 29–September 3.Doctoral student Daniel Zwick participated in the AKUWA (Arbeitskreis der Kommission für Unterwasserarchäologie) conference in Rostock on October 8 with a talk titled “Mittelalterliche Schiffshölzer, Kalfatklam-mern und Riemen: neue Forschungsergebnisse zu maritim-archäolo-gischen Funden aus Hamburg und Stade”.Doctoral student Jessica Krause was invited to give a talk at the 6th

Walter-de-Gruyter seminar of the Mommsen Society in Lutherstadt Wittenberg, October 7–9. Her presentation was titled “Theseus, der Held der Athener?”

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Editorial Journalist: Jirka Niklas Menke (press@gshdl.uni-kiel.de)

SELECTED EVENTS (COMPLETE CALENDAR: WWW.GSHDL.UNI-KIEL.DE/CALENDAR)

Venue for Biweekly Colloquia: Leibnizstraße 1, Room 204

NOVEMBER Tuesday, November 8, 4:30 p.m. – Talk by Wiebke Kirleis: “Mensch und Umwelt in der Jungsteinzeit – Neue Ergebnisse aus Norddeutschland” – Bürgerhaus Albersdorf

Monday, November 14, 4:15 p.m. – Biweekly Colloquium – Mette Løvschal (University of Aarhus): Non-linear dynamics and trajectories in the emergence of landscape parcel-ling in northwestern Europe

Tuesday, November 15 – Advisory Board meeting - Leibnizstr. 1 and 3

November 23-25 - Workshop: The “Self” and the “Other”. The con-struction of “otherness” in Late Antiquity - Leibnizstraße 1, Room 105a

Monday, November 28, 4:15 p.m. – Biweekly Colloquium – Martin Schulz (Hochschule für Künste Bremen): Animated and Animating Landscapes. Space Voyages and Time Travel in the Art of Pieter Bruegel the Elder

DECEMBER Monday, December 12, 4:15 p.m. – Biweekly Colloquium – Julie Hog-garth (Baylor University): Interdisciplinary Approaches to Understand-ing the Effects of Severe Drought in the ‘Classic Maya Collapse’Friday, December 16, 3:00 p.m. - GSHDL plenary meeting (Vollver-sammlung) - Leibnizstr. 1, Room 106a+b