Leandra Reitmaier-Naef

Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum · Montanarchäologie

The inner Alpine Oberhalbstein valley has long been known as a Bronze Age settlement chamber and prehistoric mining landscape. Systematic mining-archaeological investigations have now brought to light several prehistoric mines and almost 90 smelting sites. Extensive series of absolute dates suggest that copper production occurred in two main phases...

Seit Jahrzehnten als prähistorisches Bergbaugebiet bekannt, war das Oberhalbstein in den vergangenen Jahren erstmals Gegenstand systematischer montanarchäologischer Forschungen. Dabei wurden nicht nur Dutzende neue Fundstellen entdeckt, sondern erstmals auch zentrale Verhüttungsbefunde wie Öfen und Röstbette ausgegraben. Zudem konnten gleich m...

The mining region of Oberhalbstein, to date sparsely studied, has been the subject of archaeological research since 2013. Two mining areas which lie well above the forest line were studied in the summer of 2017. The Avagna-Ochsenalp site includes multi-phased heap features, of which the earliest phase has been dendrochronologically dated to the 11...

Resources like colourful stones and pigments , ivory, shells, amber, ores and metals have always fascinated humankind. Over time, different resources played an important role, not only in everyday life, but also in intra-and intercultural communications and as ritualistic offerings to supernatural powers. Accordingly, the appropriation of raw mater...

From 2013 to 2019, the prehistoric copper mining region of Oberhalbstein was in the focus of archaeological research carried out by the Department of Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Zurich in cooperation with the Archaeological Service of the Canton of Grisons. The surveys and excavations of mining and smelting structures unexpectedly...

Mining archaeologists and archaeometallurgists have attempted to decipher the prehistoric multistage process of copper smelting from chalcopyrite for a number of decades. For this purpose, various examinations of archaeological remains, historical and ethnographical comparisons and archaeological experiments have been carried out. Apart from archae...

Mining archaeologists and archaeometallurgists have attempted to decipher the prehistoric multistage process of copper smelting from chalcopyrite for a number of decades. For this purpose, various examinations of archaeological remains, historical and ethnographical comparisons and archaeological experiments have been carried out. Apart from archae...

The exploitation of copper deposits in the mountainous areas of the Alps gained enormous economic importance particularly in the 2nd and 1st millennium B.C., as Alpine copper began to play a central role in the metal supply of Europe. This volume summarises the current state of research on prehistoric Alpine copper exploitation from the western and...

The first Swiss Alpine Archaeology Summer School is about Alpine landscapes, geology, mineralogy and ores, copper production, prospection, settlements as well as social and economic systems. It comprises invited keynotes for specific topics and teachings on methods, applications and models. Lectures and practical fieldwork take place in Switzerland...

Seit drei Jahren stehen Fachleuten, aber auch der breiten Öffentlichkeit hochaufgelöste Lidar-Daten des Kantons Zürich zur Verfügung. Sie werden von der Kantonsarchäologie eingesetzt, um neue Fundstellen aufzuspüren, die Dokumentation bereits bekannter Befunde zu verbessern oder um Geländedenkmäler zu visualisieren. Darüber hinaus sind sie eine wic...

In the region of the Swiss central Alps sites have been repeatedly discovered where lithic material testified to prehistoric mining of local rock crystal. Primary mining sites of this mineral had been previously unknown in the central Alps of Prehistory. In autumn 2013 the amateur geologist H. Infanger found a joint in the area of Fuorcla da Strem...

Twenty years have passed since the Iceman’s discovery and the archaeological consequences of the rapid melting of the alpine glaciers have become well known. However, hardly any methodological procedures for glacial archaeology have been developed in Central Europe. In 2011, at the Dept. for Prehistory at the University of Zurich a project was foun...

In the framework of a long-time research focus on prehistoric Alpine settlement, activity, and human ecology, the University of Zurich Dept. of Prehistoric Archaeology has engaged in a new tri-national interdisciplinary project on early Copper production in the Central and Eastern Alps. This paper discusses the research settings and strategies of t...

In der Bronzezeit (2200-800 v. Chr.) ist der zentraleuropäische Alpen- raum ein wichtiger Lieferant für den Rohstoff Kupfer. Neben den gro- ssen Bergbaugebieten im Ostalpenraum spielen ab der Spätbronzezeit auch kleinere Reviere wie das Bündner Oberhalbstein eine Rolle. Rund 60 Schlackenfundstellen zeugen im Gebiet zwischen Tiefen- castel und dem J...

Seit Jahrzehnten sind zwischen Tiefencastel und dem Julierpass prähistorische Kupferverhüttungsplätze bekannt. Eine erste systematische Untersuchung dieser Fundplätze, der lokalen Erze und bronzezeitlichen Siedlungen mit Hinweisen auf Metallverarbeitung findet seit 2013 unter der Regie der Universität Zürich, Fachbereich Prähistorische Archäologie,...

Since 2013 new archaeological studies undertaken by the Dept. of Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Zurich have revisited previous research carried out since the 1970s in the Oberhalbstein region (Canton Grisons, Switzerland). The aim is to add an important area to the existing infor- mation regarding the production and use of Alpine copp...

Seit 2007 untersucht ein internationales Forschungsprojekt in der Silvretta zwischen der Schweiz und Österreich die Spuren der ersten Hirten. Dabei wird immer mehr die hohe Anzahl und Qualität alpiner Denkmäler aus mittlerweile 11 Jahrtausenden deutlich - von Lagern steinzeitlicher Jagdgruppen bis zur ältesten Alphütte der Schweiz.