Jana Esther Fries

Lower Saxony State Office for Cultural Heritage | DENKMALNIEDERSACHSEN · Department of Archaeology

Our concepts of the past are, as we are all well aware, never purely objective. The personality, attitude and sense of self of those working on this topic, always influence our image of (pre)history. Therefore it is not apathetic, who explores the past and who has control over the results. On the other hand, especially far, prehistorical times are...

A blade core found at Damme near Lake Dümmer in 1996 was identified in 2011 as red Heligoland flint. It resembles Late Upper Palaeolithic concepts of blade production in northern Central Europe, e.g. Hamburgian and Magdalenian, and could thus be older than the three known artefacts of the Federmesser groups from the Lake Dümmer region. The exhauste...

Call for papers der AG Geschlechterforschung

This article is based on an EAA session in Kiel in 2021, in which thirteen contributors provide their response to Robb and Harris's (2018) overview of studies of gender in the European Neolithic and Bronze Age, with a reply by Robb and Harris. The central premise of their 2018 article was the opposition of ‘contextual Neolithic gender’ to ‘cross-co...

In contrast to classical, prehistoric archaeology is a product of middle class amateurs of the 19th century. That is one reason why - at least until the 1980s - it comprised and was built upon a mostly unspoken paradigm of gender that followed the traditional image of the middle class family. Within the last 25-30 years feminist archaeologists hav...

Mesolithic hearthpits in the west of Lowwer Saxony and the northern Netherlands

Formen, Typen, Gruppen, Schubladen.... Archäologie funktioniert nur, wenn wir die Dinge, die wir behandeln, in Kategorien erfassen, seien es Keramikgefäße, Hausgrundrisse, Austauschbeziehungen oder ganze Kulturen. Oft genug stehen uns diese Kategorien aber auch im Weg, hindern uns daran, neue Erklärungen zu finden oder führen dazu, dass wir die Ver...

This article sheds light on the professional activities of women in German-speaking archaeology since the beginning. The rather late professionalisation of archaeology initially off ered fi elds of activity for women as long as they were denied access to universities. In those days individual, inspiring female archaeologists made fundamental contri...

Archäologie in Niedersachsen 24, 2021, 142-145.

Imaging of archaeology, imaging by archaeologists. Among the general public and in the popular media, archaeology has a quite positive image, but one that is far from the realities of the everyday work of professional archaeologists. In this paper, I explore how that biased image became established and what role media professionals and archaeologis...

Abstract In 2016, an archaeological excavation of approximately one hectare in area took place in Suddendorf, in the county of Bentheim, Lower Saxony, prior to the development of a residential area. The investigations revealed numerous hearth pits under a thick layer of ash dating to the Mesolithic period, as well as a Late Bronze and Early Iron Ag...

The chapter discusses the influence of feminist theories on theory construction, self-conception, and the public perception of archaeology and its various sub-disciplines. The theoretical foundations of gender archaeology are also considered. As there are many feminist theories as well as archaeologies, the chapter also summarizes what can be descr...

Archäologie in Niedersachsen

Until today there is limited evidence for Late Glacial sites in the Northwest of lower Saxony. Here we present the Ahrensburgian site of Edewecht 82-East, which was excavated by two amateurs in 1973/74. Unfortunately the quality of the excavation was limited, but the distribution of artefacts indicates a single find concentration. Small tanged poin...

Call for Papers EAA Meeting 2020 in Budapest, Session 385, sponsored by AGE (Working party Archaeology and Gender in Europe)

Among the general public and in the popular media, archaeology has a quite positive image, but one that is far from the realities of the everyday work of professional archaeologists. In this paper, I explore how that biased image was established and what role media professionals and archaeologists play in maintaining it. I further discuss what effe...

A rare archaeological evidence of the shoa: Documentation of a fire destruction horizon in the former synagogue of Jever.

An early 20th century shipwreck in the wadden sea near Wilhelmshaven

Archäologie in Niedersachsen 22

In Pestrup bei Wildeshausen liegt mit 500 Grabhügeln einer der größten Bestattungsplätze der Bronze-­ und Eisenzeit in Deutschland. Neue technische Methoden haben in den letz­ten Jahren wichtige zusätzliche Erkenntnisse über das Bodendenkmal ermöglicht. Sie sollen hier kurz vorgestellt werden.

The Pestrup burial ground is a well know necropolis of the late Bronce and Iron Age in Lower Saxony. Several hundred grave mounds within a heathland nature reserve can still be found and illustrate the prehistoric landscape. During the last years new technologies like laserscanning, Lidar and structure from motion have oppened up new opportunities...

Only very few sites of the Middle Palaeolithic are hitherto known from the West of Lower Saxony. Moreover, they eachyielded only few or an individual artefact from the surface. In the neighbouring Netherlands, the situation is quitedifferent: Here, our understanding of the Middle Palaeolithic during the Weichselian glacial is much more concrete due...

A presentation of the latest Palaeolithic and Mesolithics finds and results from the west of Lower Saxnony

Oldenburger Jahrbuch Rock art or galcial scratches? Carvings on a newly detected boilder within a megaltihic tomb rise several questions.

In contrast to classic archaeology prehistoric archaeology is a product of middle class amateurs of the 19th century. That it one reason why - at least until the 1980s - it contained and was built upon a mostly unspoken paradigm of genders that followed the traditional image of the middle class family. Within the last 25-30 years feminist archaeolo...

Iron Age house plans in the daily work of cultural heritage managmenet in the Weser-Ems region

Archäologie in Niedersachsen Research in Bronze and Iron Age urns by citizen scientists and anthropological results

Like many academic professions archeology is still considered as a predominantly male activity in popular perception, especially concerning fieldwork. This is also the area of archeology which was restricted for women for the longest time. While they were accepted at universities and museums earlier, it was still believed that “ladies” are not suit...

Pictures are an essential feature of archaeological discourse. The way they are used and their unconsciously made assertions demonstrate important things about ourselves, our theories, our methods, and the way we think. They subtly convey our convictions and view of the world – especially with regards to gender issues. The papers united in this vo...

Following the publication about a red Heligoland flint core from Damme (FRIES/VEIL 2014), older finds from the collection of Hans Reinerth, dating from the 1930/40es, and from Siegfried Bolkes are presented here. Evidence of both mesolithic as well as upper to late palaeolithic elements are demonstrated. The core belongs to a thinly distributed but...

Iron Age, house ground plans, rescue archaeology, Lower Saxony, settlement archaeology, settlement types

Archaeological Heritage Managment in the West of Lower Saxony: Aims and Results

Vortrag im Historisches Seminar der Universität Münster, Abteilung für Ur- und Frühgeschichtliche Archäologie

Overview of late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic finds and sites recently detected or researched in Western Lowwwer Saxony

This joint conference volume of the "AG Eisenzeit" and the "AG Geschlechterforschung" assemble 13 papers dealing with gender roles and images used and transported by archaeological research on the European Iron Age. These papers were given at the annual meeting of the "AG Eisenzeit" and the "AG Geschlechterforschung" at the 7. conference of German...

Nachrichten Marschenrat 50, 2013, 38-40.

Hearth pits are a very typical Mesolithic feature in the cover-sand areas of the Northwest-European Plain. Thousands of hearth pits are known from well over 100 sites in the northern Netherlands and to a lesser extent in the neighbouring part of Germany. Extensive sites with hundreds of hearth pits, so-called ‘pit clusters’, were not known from the...

Zitat: Jana Esther Fries / Doris Gutsmiedl-Schümann, Pionierinnen der Archäologie – warum, woher und wohin. In: Jana Esther Fries / Doris Gutsmiedl-Schümann (Hrsg.), Ausgräberinnen, Forscherinnen, Pionierinnen. Ausgewählte Portraits früher Archäologinnen im Kontext ihrer Zeit. Frauen – Forschung – Archäologie 10 (Münster 2013), 15-28. ----- Abstrac...

Iron Age houseground plans and settlement patterns

Early femal pioniers of prehistoric Archaeology

Mesolithiic Hearth Pits from Oldenburg-Eversten

The main subject of this contribution is circular, oblong and keyhole-shaped grave enclosures. Firstly, the ditched enclosures of Westphalian graves from the Early and Middle Bronze Ages are presented describing their shape, distribution and genesis. The situation of some graves within larger burial sites is described. The emphasis is on ditched st...

From May to November 2009, the Lower Saxony State Service for Cultural Heritage documented a Mesolithic site on the western outskirts of the city of Oldenburg, which yielded just under 400 hearth pits. Apart from these, extensive soil improvement fosse systems were identified. The hearth pits lie on the summit and slopes of a dune, which reaches –...

Abb. 1 Massives, aber uneinheitliches Fundament des Barockbaus. Alt-& Mittelsteinzeit Jungsteinzeit Bronzezeit Vorrömische Eisenzeit Römische Kaiserzeit Frühes Mittelalter Hohes Mittelalter Spätes Mittelalter Neuzeit ✗ ➜ D as ehemalige Augustiner-Chorherren-Stift Mari-enwolde in Frenswegen bei Nordhorn, Ldkr. Grafschaft Bentheim, hat eine höchst we...

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In 2008/2009 rescue excavations covering a total area of 1.2 hectares were undertaken at Baccum (Lingen, Emsland) in advance of the development of a housing area. The archaeological structures yielded evidence of three different occupation phases. The oldest phase is represented by a late Bronze Age/early Iron Age grave field, the next phase by an...