Prof. Dr. Lorenz Rahmstorf
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In print: “Of middens and markets: detecting marketplaces in the Bronze Age and beyond”, in J. Hahn (ed.), Market as place and spaces of economic exchange. Archaeological and anthropological perspectives. International conference, University of Frankfurt, November 26th–28th 2015.
In print: “Mesopotamian weights, a potential Indus weight and other tools in the Archaeological Museum in Istanbul”, in G. Chambon and A. Otto (eds.), Weights and Measures as a window on the Ancient Near Eastern Societies. International Workshop, University of Munich, December 14th 2013. Tourhout, Brepols.
In print: “The use of bronze objects in the third millennium BC – a survey between Atlantic and Indus”, in J. Maran and Ph. Stockhammer (eds.), Appropriating innovations. Entangled knowledgement in Eurasia, 5000–1500 BCE. Heidelberg, January 15–17, 2015. Oxford: Oxbow.
In print: “Weight metrology in the Harappan civilization: results of a recent comprehensive study”, in E. Myrdal (ed.), 22nd conference of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art (EASAA), 30th of June to 4th of July, Stockholm 2014.
2017: “Anglo-Saxons and Sea Peoples: comparing similar approaches for tracking ancient human migration”, in P. Fischer (ed.), The Sea Peoples Up-To-Date. New Research on transformations in the eastern Mediterranean in the 13th–11th 12th centuries BCE. Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Denkschriften 81, Contributions to the Chronology of the Eastern Mediterranean 35. Wien, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 163–176.
2016: “Snyd ikke på vægten! – nye fund af stenvægte fra den ægæiske bronzealder” (with Lasse Sørensen). Nationalmuseets Arbejdsmark 2016, 158–169.
2016: “Die Rahmenbedingungen des bronzezeitlichen Handels in Europa und im Alten Orient einschließlich Ägyptens”, in U. Dietz and A. Jockenhövel (eds.), 50 Jahre Prähistorische Bronzefunde – Bilanz und Perspektiven. Internationales Kolloquium, 24. bis 26. September 2014. Prähistorische Bronzefunde XX, 14. Stuttgart: Steiner, 291–31.
2016: “Emerging economic complexity in the Aegean and Western Anatolia during the earlier third millennium BC”, in B. Molloy (ed.), Of Odysseys and Oddities: Scales and modes of interaction between prehistoric Aegean societies and their neighbors. Sheffield Aegean Round Table 2013. Oxford: Oxbow, 225–276.
2016: “From ‘value ascription’ to coinage: A sketch of monetary developments in Western Eurasia from the Stone to the Iron Age”. In: S. Krmnicek and C. Haselgrove (eds.), The Archaeology of Money. Proceedings of the ‘Archaeology of Money’, University of Tübingen, October 2013. Leicester Archaeological Monograph 24. Oxford: Oxbow, 19–42.
2015: “Workshop activities and pyrotechnology at Mycenaean Tiryns”, in A.-L. Schallin and I. Tournavitou (eds.), Mycenaeans up-to-date. The archaeology of the NE Peloponnese – current concepts and new directions. [Proceedings of an International Conference at Athens, 10th–14th November 2010] Skrifter utgivna av Svenska Institutet I Athen, 4°, 56. Stockholm: Swedish Institute at Athens, 143–149.
2015:“Textile Tools from Tiryns, mainland Greece” (with M. Siennicka, E. Andersson Strand, M.-L. Nosch and J. Cutler) in E. Andersson Strand and M.-L. Nosch (eds.), Tools, Textiles and Contexts. Investigating textile production in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age. Ancient Textiles Ser. Vol. 21. Oxford: Oxbow, 267–278.
2015: “An introduction to the investigation of archaeological textile tools”, in E. Andersson Strand and M.-L. Nosch (eds.), Tools, Textiles and Contexts. Investigating textile production in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age. Ancient Textiles Ser. Vol. 21. Oxford: Oxbow, 1–23.
2015: “The Aegean before and after c. 2200 BC between Europe and Asia: trade as a prime mover of cultural change”, in H. Meller, H. W. Arz, R. Jung and R. Risch (eds.), 2200 BC – Ein Klimasturz als Ursache für den Verfall der Alten Welt / 2200 BC – A climatic breakdown as a cause for the collapse of the old world. 7. Mitteldeutscher Archäologentag vom 23. bis 26. Oktober 2014 in Halle (Saale). Tagungen des Landesmuseums für Vorgeschichte Halle 12/1. Halle: Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie in Sachsen-Anhalt, 149–180.
2015: “Ur- und Frühgeschichte”, in M. Dabag, D. Haller, N. Jaspert and A. Lichtenberger (eds.), Handbuch der Mediterranistik. Systematische Mittelmeerforschung und disziplinäre Zugänge. Mittelmeerstudien 8. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink/Ferdinand Schöningh, 481–491.
2014: “Pebble weights“ aus Mitteleuropa und Waagebalken aus der jüngeren Bronzezeit (ca. 14.–12. Jh. v. Chr.) ”, in B. Nessel, I. Heske and D. Brandherm (eds.), Ressourcen und Rohstoffe in der Bronzezeit: Nutzung – Distribution – Kontrolle. Beiträge zur Sitzung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Bronzezeit auf der Jahrestagung des Mittel- und Ostdeutschen Verbandes für Altertumsforschung in Brandenburg an der Havel, 16. bis 17. April 2012. Arbeitsberichte zur Bodendenkmalpflege in Brandenburg 26. Wünsdorf: Brandenburgisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologisches Landesmuseum, 109–120.
2014: “A ‘wall bracket’ from Kandia in the Argolid: notes on the local character and function of an ‘east Mediterranean’ artefact of the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age”, in Y. Galanakis, T. Wilkinson and John Bennet (eds.), ΑΘΥΡΜΑΤΑ. Critical essays on the archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean in honour of E. Susan Sherratt. Oxford: Archaeopress, 187–195.
2014: “Early balance weights in Mesopotamia and western Syria: origin and context”, in P. Bieliński, M. Gawlikowski, R. Koliński, D. Ławecka, A. Sołtysiak and Z. Wygnańska (eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Warsaw, April 30th–May 4th 2012. Volume 3. Wiesbaden: Harassowitz, 427–441.
2013: “Von Nordeuropa bis in den Orient: Beinstein in der Bronzezeit”, in D. Quast and M. Erdich (eds.), Die Bernsteinstrasse. Archäologie in Deutschland, Sonderheft 04/2014, Jahrgang 02/2013, Darmstadt: WGB, 24–28.
2012: “Control mechanisms in Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, the Aegean and Central Europe, c. 2600-2000 BC, and the question of social power in early complex societies”, in T. Kienlin and A. Zimmermann (eds.), Beyond elites. Alternatives to hierarchical systems in modelling social formations. International Conference at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 22.–24. October 2009. Universitätsforsch. Prähist. Arch. 215. Bonn: Habelt, 311–326.
2011: “Re-integrating ‘diffusion’: the spread of innovations among the Neolithic and Bronze Age societies of Europe and the Near East” in T. Wilkinson, S. Sherrattt and J. Bennet (eds.), Interweaving Worlds: Systemic Interactions in Eurasia, 7th to 1st Millennia BC. Papers from a conference in memory of Professor Andrew Sherratt. Oxford, Oakville: Oxbow Books, 100–119.
2011: “Handmade pots and crumbling loomweights: ‘Barbarian’ elements in the eastern Mediterranean in the last quarter of the 2nd millennium BC,” in: O. Kouka and V. Karageorghis (eds.), On cooking pots, drinking cups, loomweights and ethnicity in Bronze Age Cyprus and neighbouring regions. An International Archaeological Symposium held in Nicosia, November 6th–7th 2010. Nicosia: A. G. Leventis Foundation, 315–330.
2010: “Indications for Aegean-Caucasian relations in the third millennium BC,” in S. Hansen, A. Hauptmann, I. Mötzenbäcker and E. Pernicka (eds.), Von Majkop bis Trialeti – Gewinnung und Verbreitung von Metallen und Obsidian in Kaukasien im 4.–2. Jts. v. Chr., Beiträge des Internationalen Symposiums in Berlin, 1.– 3. Juni 2006. Kolloquien zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte 13. Bonn: Dr. Rudolf Habelt, 263–295.
2010: “The concept of weighing during the Bronze Age in the Aegean, the Near East and Europe,” in I. Morley and C. Renfrew (eds.), The Archaeology of Measurement: Comprehending Heaven, Earth and Time in Ancient Societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 88–105.
2010: “Die Funktion von Booten und Schiffen in der bronzezeitlichen Ägäis und die Fernkontakte der Frühbronzezeit,” in F. Bertemes and H. Meller (eds.), Der Griff nach den Sternen. Wie Europas Eliten zu Macht und Reichtum kamen. Internationales Symposium, Halle, 16.–21.2. 2005. Tagungen des Landesmuseums für Vorgeschichte Halle 5. Halle: Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt, 675–697.
2008: “The Bell Beaker Phenomenon and the Interaction Spheres of the EBA East Mediterranean: Similarities and differences,” in A. Lehoërff (ed.), Construire le temps. Histoire et méthodes des chronologies et calendriers des derniers millénaires avant notre ère en Europe occidentale. Actes du XXXe colloque international de Halma-Ipel, UMR 8164 (CNRS, Lille 3, MCC), 7-9 décembre 2006, Lille. Collection Bibracte 16. Glux-en-Glenne: Bibracte, Centre archéologique européen, 149–170.
2007: “Zu Gewichten der Späthallstatt- und Frühlatènezeit” (with C. F. E. Pare). Jahrbuch des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums Mainz 54, 2007 (2009), 265–295.
2006: “In search of the earliest balance weights,scales and weighing systems from the East Mediterranean, the Near and Middle East,” in M. E. Alberti, E. Ascalone and L. Peyronel (eds.), Weights in Context. Bronze Age Weighing Systems of Eastern Mediterranean: Chronology, Typology, Material and Archaeological Contexts. Proceedings of the International Colloquium, Rome 22–24 November 2004, Studi e Materiali 13. Rom: Istituto Italiano di Numismatica, 9–45.
2006: “Zur Ausbreitung vorderasiatischer Innovationen in die frühbronzezeitliche Ägäis,” Prähistorische Zeitschrift 83/1, 49–96.
2005: “Ethnicity and changes in weaving technology in Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean during the 12th. cent. B.C,” in V. Karageorghis, H. Matthäus and S. Rogge (eds.), Cyprus: Religion and Society from the Late Bronze Age to the End of the Archaic Period. Proceedings of an International Symposium on Cypriote Archaeology, Erlangen, 23–24 July 2004. Erlangen: Bibliopolis, 143–169.
2005: “Terramare and faience. Mycenaean influence in Northern Italy in the Late Bronze Age,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), Emporia. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean. Proceedings of the 10th International Aegean Conference. Athens, 14-18 April 2004, Aegaeum 25. Liège: Université de Liège, 663–672.
2003: “Clay spools from Tiryns and elsewhere. An indication of foreign influence in LH III C?” in N. Kyparissi-Apostolika and M. Papakonstantinou (eds.), Η Περιφέρεια του Μυκηναϊκού Κόσμου. Β΄Διεθνές Διεπιστημονικό Συμπόσιο/ The Periphery of the Mycenaean World. 2nd International Interdisciplinary Colloquium. Lamia 26-30.9.1999. Lamia: Υπουργείο Πολιτισμοΰ, 397–415.
2003: “The Identification of Early Helladic weights and their wider implications,” in K. Foster and R. Laffineur (eds.), Metron. Measuring the Aegean Bronze Age. Proceedings of the 9th International Aegean Conference. Yale University 18-21.4.2002. Liège: Université de Liège, 293–298.