Rainer SchregUniversity of Bamberg · Lehrstuhl für Archäologie des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit
Rainer Schreg
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I am professor of medieval and postmedieval archaeology at Bamberg university. My research focus is mainly focusing on environmental aspects of cultural change and the challenges of synthesizing the written and material record. I hold interests especially in rural settlement landscpaes, village ecology, medieval ceramics and New World agriculture.
see http://archaeologik.blogspot.de/
https://bamberg.academia.edu/RainerSchreg (many pdfs there)
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October 2017 - present
October 2016 - December 2016
November 2015 - present
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There is a colonialist perspective on colonisation processes: colonised land in low mountain ranges as well as in flood plains is often regarded as a previous uncultivated wilderness, subdued to a process of civilisation by the authorities. It often neglects indigenous settlers and non-agrarian land use strategies. Most ‘uncultivated’ landscapes we...
In recent years, scientific methods of bio- and geoarchaeology have become increasingly important for archaeological research. Political changes since the 1990s have reshaped the archaeological community. At the same time environmental topics have gained importance in modern society, but the debate lacks an historical understanding. Regarding medie...
In Germany early medieval rural settlements are known from a rising number of excavated sites. Rural architecture was a wooden architecture. Only churches were built in stone. A farmstead consisted of several buildings: the main house and several economic buildings as pit houses and storages. Before the 1980s, when large scale excavations became mo...
Riverine landscapes and their floodplains are subject to constant changes throughout geologic time spans. In the Late Holocene the direct and indirect human activity on the floodplain increases and became the dominant factor in many European catchments, which led to a change from a natural- to a human-dominated floodplain system latest since the Ea...
This paper explores the potential of regional archaeological survey for understanding Neolithic land use beyond and between intensively investigated settlement areas in southwestern Germany. We integrate survey data from two long-term regional projects, comparing natural environments, research histories, and site distributions in the Upper Swabian...
Wie viele Kunstgeschichten gibt es? Eine vielstimmige Antwort auf diese Frage bieten die im vorliegenden Band, der Festschrift für Stephan Albrecht anlässlich seines 60. Geburtstags, versammelten Beiträge. Siebenundzwanzig Autorinnen und Autoren geben Einblick in ihre aktuelle Forschung. Gegenstände und Methoden sind vielfältig: die Materialität de...
Sich erinnern zu können, ist ein zentrales Wesensmerkmal des Menschen. Indem Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft durch Erinnerung in eine sinnstiftende Beziehung gesetzt werden, wird Kollektiven und Individuen Orientierung in der Zeit ermöglicht, können Entscheidungsfindungen unterstützt und Handlungen begründet werden. Gerade im Angesicht zunehme...
Agricultural landscapes (rural landscapes, agrolandscapes) are territories shaped by agricultural production. They have enabled the development of human civilizations and are a cultural achievement. Peasants, farmers and agricultural enterprises feed society. They have created agricultural landscapes for their business and habitats for their life....
In römischer Zeit erreichte die Stein- und Keramikindustrie im Umland von Mayen ein immenses Produktionsvolumen für den überregionalen Bedarf, das alles vorher da gewesene weit übertraf und lange nicht wieder erreicht wurde. Das nur wenige Quadratkilometer große Segbachtal bietet hier ein besonderes geoarchäologisches Archiv, da dort die römischen...
As efforts to recognise the Anthropocene as a new epoch of geological time are mounting, the controversial debate about the time of its beginning continues. Here, we suggest the term Palaeoanthropocene for the period between the first, barely recognizable, anthropogenic environmental changes and the industrial revolution when anthropogenically indu...
Der Bamberger Dom, das bedeutendste Bauwerk der Stadt, besteht seit gut 1000 Jahren. Prof. Dr. Walter Sage, nachmalig erster Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Archäologie des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit (AMANZ) an der Universität Bamberg, führte dort von 1969-72 großangelegte Ausgrabungen durch. Er ließ nahezu das gesamte Hauptschiff öffnen, dazu große B...
The perspectives on the medieval village and on the historical role of peasants have changed throughout the history of research. Traditional views on history saw rural life as unchangeable and therefore presumed that villages were rooted in the migration period. Modern research recognised the formation of the medieval village as a complex long-term...
It is the aim of this contribution to widen the perspective on urban water. Beyond the archaeological traces of water management related to towns, we need to take the ecological consequences of urbanisation into account. On the one hand, the urban infrastructure with water regulations, channels and sewers had direct consequences on the local hydrol...
Durant l'âge du Fer et l'époque romaine des meules de qualité ont été extraites prés de Mayen et largement diffusées via le Rhin et ses affluents. La villa de Mendig « Im Winkel » est située au bord de zone d'extraction de pierres meulières de Mayen et Kottenheim, à 220 m au nord de la coulée de lave du Winfeld. Elle avait deux édifices construites...
In dem vorliegenden Sammelband präsentieren Vertreter*innen verschiedener Disziplinen des Instituts für Archäologische Wissenschaften, Denkmalwissenschaften und Kunstgeschichte der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg Erträge ihrer Forschungen. Dabei zeichnet sich in mehreren Beiträgen ein Alleinstellungsmerkmal des Instituts ab, das gemeinsam mit de...
The formation of villages and the introduction of systematic three-field crop rotation transformed the landscape of western central Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. These processes have often been seen as an important progress of the medieval agriculture. This paper examines these developments from the perspective of human ecology. T...
This review paper examines the potential of (geo)archaeological data of past human-environment systems to contribute to the development of sustainable land use and soil management strategies. Looking at past land use systems and their socio-economic background extends our understanding of the slow processes and low frequency events that appear to b...
geht u.a. auf die Rolle von Rindenr und Schafen für die spätmittelalterliche Landschaftsentwicklung ein
Klöstern wird häufig eine besondere Rolle beim mittelalterlichen Landesausbau zugeschrieben. Einerseits wirkt hier das klösterliche Ideal des Lebens in der Einsamkeit, andererseits ist das Bild auch beeinflusst von anachronistischen, modernen Geschichts- und Naturvorstellungen. Aus einer landschaftsarchäologischen Perspektive untersucht der Beitrag...
What do we know about the environments in which the Byzantine Empire unfolded in the eastern Mediterranean? How were they perceived and how did man and the environment mutually influence each other during the Byzantine millennium (AD 395-1453)? Which approaches have been tried up ’til now to understand these interactions? And what could a further e...
Excavations at the early Byzantine hillfort-settlement Caričin Grad hint at a relatively short time of active settlement of only 90 years. The cause for abandonment is still unknown, though it is widely assumed that ecological and environmental factors played a pivotal role. This study aims to evaluate, if soils and sediments in the vicinity of the...
Grain price (GP) volatility has been a central constituent of European commerce, with fluctuations in barley, rye and wheat prices having been carefully documented over centuries. How- ever, a thorough understanding of the climatic and environmental drivers of long-term GP variations is still lacking. Here, we present a network of historical GP rec...
The site of Caričin Grad in south-eastern Serbia – currently listed on UNESCO’s tentative list – has been the subject of archaeological investigations for more than 100 years. For the last decades it has been the focus of a joint project of the Archaeological Institute in Belgrade and the École Française de Rome. A reconstruction of the economic, e...
aktuelle Einführung in die Archäologie des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit; Lehrbuch
Die Tübinger Thesen zur Archäologie entstanden im Kontext der Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte e. V. (DGUF): "Schafft sich die Öffentlichkeit eine andere Archäologie? Analysen einer Machtverschiebung" im Mai 2015 in Tübingen. Die Tagung war geprägt von einer sich durch die Vorträge und Diskussionen ziehenden gemein...
This poster explores the history, methods, motivations, and contributions of three avocational archaeologists whose lifelong legacies helped to shape an international research project on the Neolithic settlement of the southeastern Swabian Alb in Germany. Their efforts to document site locations and build significant private collections span three...
In his article, published in Archäologische Informationen 36 (2013) Christoph Huth provides an overview of the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) in England and Wales. Hopefully in Germany the debate of possible steps towards a solution of the increasing problem of uncontrolled degradation of archaeological sites by metal detecting will be pushed fo...
http://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/martin343
Romans and Indians. European Pottery Tradition in Central America: Transformation – Imitation – Habitus
With the Spanish conquest ways of European life and economics reached the New World. Pottery finds refer to very different patterns, how European pottery traditions in the 16th and 17th century were adopted, transformed and integrated into societ...
http://archaeologik.blogspot.de/2014/11/sonderangebot-der-woche-antike.html
Einleitung Das Hauptinteresse sozialgeschichtlicher Analy-sen in der Archäologie gilt der Identifikation so-zialer Gruppen und Schichten, wobei eindeutig die Eliten im Mittelpunkt stehen (kritisch dazu: TREBSCHE ET AL. 2007). In diesen Kontext gehört auch das weite Feld ethnischer Interpretationen, das zunehmend mit – berechtigter – Skepsis be-trac...
As efforts to recognize the Anthropocene as a new epoch of geological time are mounting, the controversial debate about the time of its beginning continues. Here, we suggest the term Palaeoanthropocene for the period between the first, barely recognizable, anthropogenic environmental changes and the industrial revolution when anthropogenically indu...
Beginning in the Early Neolithic Period (or LBK) and increasingly in the Middle and Later Neolithic periods (a transition spanning about 5,000-2,300 B.C.) in Europe, considerable energy was invested in quarrying and mining chert and flint for tool production. Acquisition of stone combined local sources with regional transport. Chipped stone was use...
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The deserted site at Oberwürzbach in the northern Black Forest near Calw (Baden-Württemberg) was abandoned at around 1400. According to the field relics, very well preserved in nowaday forest, Oberwürzbach was a forest village with long strip plots behind the farmsteads. The preserved field structures are closely connected to the present-d...
Das Hauptinteresse sozialgeschichtlicher Analysen in der Archäologie gilt der Identifikation sozialer Gruppen und Schichten, wobei eindeutig die Eliten im Mittelpunkt stehen. In jüngerer Zeit wurde vermehrt nach Identität und Distinktion gefragt, für die letztlich das Habitus-Konzept von Pierre Bourdieu wesentlich ist. Zugleich bietet das Habitus-Ko...
Der Band erweitert den Blick von einzelnen Fundstellen und Töpferregionen auf überregionale Betrachtungen und Zusammenhänge hinsichtlich der Warenarten, ihrer Produktion und den Handel hinaus. In der Zusammenschau ergeben sich damit neue Einblicke in die regionale Wirtschaftgeschichte als auch überregionale Entwicklungstendenzen, die Leben und Allt...
Stability and fluctuation of early and high medieval settlements in southern Germany
Landschaftsentwicklung seit der Römerzeit im westlichen Segbachtal bei Mayen (Lkr. Mayen-Koblenz) in der Osteifel. Erste Teilprojektergebnisse des DFG-Projekts »Zur Landnutzung im Umfeld eines römischen Industriereviers« ***
Bodenkundlich-sedimentologische Untersuchungen an Hangkolluvien, Auensedimenten und Altflurrelikten im westlichen Segbachtal...
Stellungnahme zu den Bestrebungen verschiedener Kommunen in Bayern, Bodendenkmäler der Archäologie des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit nur noch per Ausnahmetatbestand zuzulassen.
Phosphate analysis at an early medieval building excavated at Amstetten-Schalkstetten (Alb-Donau-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg) on the Swabian Alb confirms the existence of distinct activity zones. Similar results are known from several rural settlements in northern and southern Germany. High phosphate values at the barn, around the fire place and along...
Vorbericht zur ersten Prospektions-Kampagne auf der Stubersheimer Alb
Phosphate analysis at an early medieval building at Schalkstetten (Gde. Amstetten, Alb-Donau-Kreis) Phosphate analysis at an early medieval building excavated at Amstetten-Schalkstetten (Alb-Donau-Kreis, Baden-Wurttemberg) on the Swabian Alb confirms the existence of distinct activity zones. Similar results are known from several rural settlements...
Der Begriff »Kulturwissenschaften« wird gegenwärtig in Kontexten genutzt, in denen gegen die fortschreitende Spezialisierung insbesondere in den Geisteswissenschaften und gegen die damit einhergehende Fragmentierung des Wissens plädiert wird. Neben einer Perspektivierung der einzelnen Disziplinen als Kulturwissenschaften im Plural wird aber auch ei...
Panamanian coarse handmade earthenware is part of the wide-ranging phenomenon of handmade Colono wares common in Latin America and the Caribbean during the colonial and post-colonial periods. This article presents an overview of vessel forms and decoration and discusses the possible influence of different cultural traditions, based on archaeologica...
kurzer Vorbericht zu einem geoarchäologischen Schnitt, der im Herbst 2010 in einem Tälchen unterhalb der Wüstung Würzbach angelegt werden konnte.
Since 2006, the RGZM has been engaged in archaeological research in South-West Crimea together with Ukrainian partners from Simferopol and colleagues from Germany and Poland.
Archaeology of Deserted Villages and Late Medieval Land-use Strategies: Archaeological Approaches towards Houses and Fields in Late Medieval Southwestern Germany
The Medieval Settlement Landscape near Geislingen - a Perspective from Environmental History
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-opus-51825
This paper gives an outline of the environmental history of a small landscape in Southwestern Germany during the Middle Ages. The study area includes the valleys near Geislingen as well as the surroundi...
The Rural Environment of Medieval Ulm - Perspectives from Environmental Archaeology and History
Erschließung und Aufgabe einer Kulturlandschaft.
Settlements in the Periphery of Villages. An Archaeological Contribution to the Genesis of Villages in Southern Bavaria
After desertion: Early modern restructuration of rural landscapes
Water in the Karst. Water Management and Human-Environment Interaction
Within the framework of a NSF-funded project on Pastures, Chert Sources, and Upland-Lowland Mobility in Neolithic Southwest Germany geomagnetic and archaeological survey with small, targeted test excavations to locate high-quality chert sources have been realized in 2006-2008 at the Swabian Alb plateau near Blaubeuren. We focused on selected settle...
Further Research on Neolithic Settlements and Chert Acquisition Strategies near Blaubeuren
