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Introduction
Martin Auer currently works at the Department of Archaeology, University of Innsbruck. Their current project is 'Excavations in the city Center of Aguntum’ and ‚Aguntum Pottery'.
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The excavations in the Roman Municipium Claudium Aguntum (conducted by the Institut für Archäologien, Universität Innsbruck; head of excavations: Prof. Dr. Michael Tschurtschenthaler) concentrated on the centre of the city in recent years. After some preliminary work in the 1990s a large-area excavation started in 2006 with the unearthing of the Ma...
This paper presents the first results of studies on local pottery production
in Aguntum, in the Roman Province of Noricum, modern Eastern Tyrol, Austria.
Archaeometric analyses involved MGR-analysis (Matrix Group by Refiring), chemical
analysis by wavelength-dispersive X-ray fluorescence (WD-XRF) and thin-section studies
using a polarising microsco...
In this paper the pottery production in Noricum is examined based on the data about pottery regions in this area created during the author’s PhD work. Using different attributes of the vessels, the paper aims to explain intraregional equality and variability within different communities of potters. This approach is suggested by the occurrence of mo...
Roman pottery production is very often automatically connected with throwing wheels and kilns. In contrast, the analysis of pottery used during Roman Times in the Province Noricum shows, that for the production of not fully oxidised wares (which are often considered to be typical for Noricum) neither kilns nor throwing wheels are necessary. In this...
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/195641
Greyware tripod-bowls are common on 1st to 3rd centuries AD sites in present-day Austria, known as Noricum. They measure between 18 and 22 cm in diameter and were used for cooking practices. Due to their abundance and macroscopic homogeneity, tripod-bowls hold important potential to study the technology and infer aspects of the production organisat...
Grey ware pottery circulated widely in 2nd-5th centuries AD Noricum, covering most of present-day Austria, south-western Germany, as wel as northern Italy and Slovenia. This article examined two types of grey ware bowls from Aguntum and Lavant in south-western Noricum, combining macroscopic observation with thin section petrography. The aims of thi...
Aspects of 2nd‐ to 5th‐century ce Roman production technology and knowledge transfer in southern Austria (known as Noricum ) were examined. With no evidence for workshops identified in the study area, 44 grey ware bowls from two sites at Aguntum and Lavant were studied macroscopically, and combined with optical microscopy, X‐ray powder diffraction,...
This volume, edited by Martin Auer and Christoph Hinker, unites 13 papers presented at the 4th Aguntum Workshop. This international conference was dedicated to the discussion of the so-called crisis the Roman empire experienced during the 3rd century AD. The aim of the workshop was to bring together archaeological data from different parts of the I...
When analysing past excavations, the possible lack of information on stratigraphy of small finds can lead to difficulties in dating features of settlements such as building periods or destruction layers. While there can be many factors, the most common reasons are outdated excavation methods, lost written documentation or problems in storage. Study...
The second Aguntum workshop focused on the location of the Municipium Claudium Aguntum on the upper reaches of the Drava. The contributions published in volume 3 of the series Ager Aguntinus investigate to what extent the Roman settlements along the river route were in contact with each other – from the source of the Drava to its confluence with th...
The central aim of this study is to analyze pottery regions as spheres of interaction. Inspired by previous publications on “Norican pottery” the first step was to define morphological types and to analyse their distribution. But the restriction to morphological attributes of pottery led to severe problems in attributing the material to already def...
Die von Martin Auer und Harald Stadler gegrundete neue Reihe Ager Aguntinus prasentiert die archaologisch-historischen Forschungen zum Municipium Claudium Aguntum und dessen Umland. Sowohl die Agentum-Workshops als auch weitere wissenschaftliche Arbeiten zu Archaologie und Geschichte der Region erhalten nun ein Publikationsforum und erfullen damit...
The Atrium House of Aguntum resembles an Italian House Type, which is – with its open roof – not very suitable for the alpine region. Several adaptations of the building can be recognized, including the creation
of a heating system. During these building activities, a former cellar (room 216) was filled with kitchen residues and demolition waste. T...
Begleitheft zur im Mai 2016 neu eingerichteten Vitrine im Museum Aguntum (www.aguntum.info), 72S, 17 Tafeln.
In den Jahren 2006 und 2007 wurde das Macellum des Municipium Claudium Aguntum in Südwestnoricum freigelegt. Dabei fanden sich in spätantiken Nutzungsschichten des Gebäudes zwei Gefäße der Formgruppe Niederbieber 89/Alzey 27. Das bislang singuläre Auftreten dieser Topfform südlich der Alpen lässt vermuten, dass es sich hierbei um persönliche Gegens...
The macellum ot the Municipium Claudium Aguntum in south-western Noricum was excavated in 2006 and 2007. In late Roman contexts of this building two pots belonging to the group Niederbieber 89/Alzey 27 were found. This is the first evidence for this kind of vessel south of the Alps and opens the possibility of these pots having been brought to Agun...
