Renata HuberKanton Zug · Amt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie
Renata Huber
lic. phil.
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The approach to analyse Neolithic settlement structures only on a strict scale of ‘house – farmstead – village‘ is unrewarding in our opinion. Even individualisation, and therefore reconstruction, of separate houses in Neolithic wetland sites is much more problematic than commonly assumed (e.g. distinction of architectural units, rate of dated vs....
In 2015 the skeletal remains of a late glacial bull mammoth, approximately 17,000 years old, were discovered in Risch-Rotkreuz (Canton Zug, Switzerland, location: https://s.geo.admin.ch/7d5a3a861a), see https://goo.gl/2Efdze for the original publication. In the meantime bones and tusk have been analysed both for stable isotopes and aDNA (see https:...
In archaeology, environmental history all too often focused on the individual settlements and on the economic use of their immediate environment. This view fails to acknowledge the importance of other actors (e.g. animals, plants, waters) interacting with humans. Outside the settlements, the traces of humans and these other actors are entangled and...
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When a Middle Neolithic site was found on the shallow of Cham-Eslen in Lake Zug in 1996, this opened up a new perspective with regards to underwater archaeology for the Canton of Zug. This was for two main reasons: firstly, the conservation of the finds was relatively good and, secondly, they were, at the time, the Canton’s oldest finds a...
There is some controversy regarding the site and
history of discovery of the eponymous axe blade
of the type Zug. A reappraisal of the archive mate-
rial has now ascertained that the axe blade cor-
responds to the one found in 1867 at Alpen-
strasse 2 in Zug. A similar blade was fished out of
Lake Zug in 1860 in the very area where the site of
Cham...
Bei der jungneolithischen Fundstelle Cham-Eslen im zentralschweizerischen Zugersee steht ausweislich der Funde und Befunde die aquatische Ressourcennutzung klar im Zentrum. Der Abschluss der Auswertungen der mehrphasigen Fischerhütte auf einer Untiefe am Nordende des Sees, nicht unweit des einzigen Abflusses, ist der Anlass, die Fundstelle – bekann...
Kilian Weber, Jochen Reinhard, Renata Huber, Gishan Schaeren und Werner Müller, Cham ZG, Hagendorn, Werkserweiterung Fensterfabrik
(2551). Jahrbuch Archäologie Schweiz 106, 2023, 177.
Jochen Reinhard, Renata Huber und Gishan Schaeren, Baar ZG, Sternmattstrasse 10 (2610). Jahrbuch Archäologie Schweiz 106, 2023, 181–182.
For the first time, a large and well-preserved tusk of a late-glacial mammoth from central Switzerland was examined in toto with use of a clinical scanning device featuring an improved design with an 82-cm-wide bore (SOMATOM X.ceed, Siemens Healthineers). The CT scans showed annual increments of dentin apposition from the central canal. A total of...
In archaeology, environmental history all too often focused on the individual settlements and on the economic use of their immediate environment. This view fails to acknowledge the importance of other actors (e.g. animals, plants, waters) interacting with humans. Outside the settlements, the traces of humans and these other actors are entangled and...
Introduction to a series of papers representing some of the contributions to a session with the same title, organised by the authors together with Ekaterina Dolbunova, Tryfon Giagkoulis and Goce Naumov, at the 25th Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA), 4-7 September 2019, in Bern. Abstracts of all the presentations can be fo...
Zusammenfassung (english summary below):
Aufgrund unserer Erfahrungen mit Ufersiedlungen stellen wir den Ansatz, Siedlungsstrukturen im Neolithikum auf der „Skala Haus-Hof-Dorf“ untersuchen zu wollen, grundsätzlich in Frage. Unserer Meinung nach können wir über das „Leben der Menschen im Neolithikum“ gar nicht genug „erfahren“, wenn wir „nicht über...
Three elk (Alces alces) bones found in 1955 in Zug-Gartenstadt, Switzerland, two shoulder blades and a tibia fragment, have been analysed anew: They date to the Late Ice Age around 12400 BP (12776-12220 calBC) according to two C14 dates - the finds are currently the oldest known elk bones in Switzerland after the Last Glacial Maximum and represent...
A small exhibition near their find spot shows the remains of the Rotkreuz mammoth bones and tusk found in 2015. In addition to display cases containing the finds and panels with text and images, the exhibition links to interactive 3D models of the bones derived from CT scans (accessible via https://skfb.ly/6BRT6). These can be 3D printed and used i...
Tugium 35, 2019, 42-44
In 2015, a tusk and several postcranial bones of a woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) were found during construction work in Risch-Rotkreuz (Canton Zug, Switzerland). Radiocarbon dated to around 17,000 calBP, the capital bull is one of the latest known mammoth finds from the Swiss plateau shortly before the species went extinct regionally. Thou...
In archaeology, environmental history all too often focused on the individual settlements and on the economic use of their immediate environment. This view fails to acknowledge the importance of other actors (e.g. animals, plants, waters) interacting with humans. Outside the settlements, the traces of humans and these other actors are entangled and...
Einst reichte der Zugersee bis nach Steinhausen. Auf dem Gebiet dieser heute verschwundenen Bucht liegen unter der Erde verborgen Überreste von jungstein- und bronzezeitlichen Siedlungen, die Teil des UNESCO-Welterbes «Prähistorische Pfahlbauten um die Alpen» sind.
https://www.librumstore.com/buecher/archaeologie/ausflug-in-die-vergangenheit-archae...
Talk held at the general assembly of the Mammut Museum friends' association in Niederweningen (see https://www.mammutmuseum.ch/) on 11.5.2019.
165 years after the discovery of pile dwellings in Switzerland, this meeting in Bern should be an occasion to relate archaeological waterscapes to their surrounding landscapes. Due to their inherent fluidity and their impact on cultural phenomena, waterscapes are destined to make us look beyond rigid paradigms, dichotomies, and categories, in order...
Das letzte Zuger Mammut ist zurück! Nach fast zweijähriger Konservierung und umfangreichen wissenschaftlichen Analysen sind die Knochen und der Stosszahn des Mammuts von Risch-Rotkreuz wieder an ihren Fundort zurückgekehrt. Sie werden hier erstmals in konserviertem Zustand gezeigt. (Ausstellung in Rotkreuz 5.-30.11.2018)
The last mammoth from Zug...
The Roman villa rustica of Cham-Heiligkreuz (Canton Zug, Switzerland; see https://goo.gl/9qtK7w for its location on a map) was partly excavated in the 1930ies. The exact position of the excavation trenches has been debated for a long time and was only reconstructed in 1993 using archival data. This placement has now been verified by a combination o...
https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/epaper/hbd/afs/graben_und_auswerten_output/web/flipviewerxpress.html
In July 2015, a tusk and several bone fragments of an adult mammoth bull have been unearthed on a construction site in Risch-Rotkreuz, Canton of Zug. They have been dated to the end of the last ice age at around 15'000 BC by AMS radiocarbon measurements. The discovery of the mammoth remains entailed international media coverage. See https://skfb.ly...
http://www.hierundjetzt.ch/de/catalogue/lebensweisen-in-der-steinzeit_16000047/
In July 2015, a tusk and several bone fragments of an adult mammoth bull have been unearthed on a construction site in Risch-Rotkreuz, Canton Zug, Central Switzerland. The perfectly preserved skeletal elements have been dated to the end of the last ice age at around 15'000 BC by AMS radiocarbon measurements, which is interesting also from the point...
In July 2015, a tusk and several bone fragments of an adult mammoth bull have been unearthed on a construction site in Risch-Rotkreuz, Canton of Zug. They have been dated to the end of the last ice age at around 15’000 BC by AMS radiocarbon measurements. The discovery of the mammoth remains entailed international media coverage. See https://skfb.ly...
As one of the oldest (around 4000 BC) Neolithic sites on Lake Zug, Cham-Eslen features a single house built on a small island that currently lies below water level. Since it was exposed to strong erosion, it was completely excavated in several campaigns between 1996 and 2013. The unusually isolated setting of the single building raises the question...
Zusammenfassung: Die Rettungsgrabungen auf der Rothuswiese in Zug (2001-2003) haben aussergewöhnlich gut erhaltene Funde und Befunde aus der Mittelbronzezeit geliefert. Zwei nebeneinanderliegende Gruben mit einer komplexen Schichtabfolge und einer grossen Menge an Keramik und anderen Objekten wurden bereits untersucht. Die vorliegende Teilauswertun...
Die mehrfache Besiedlung dieses Feuchtbodenfundplatzes sowie die starke Aufarbeitung der Fundschichten durch den Zugersee waren schlechte Voraussetzungen für die Konservierung von Befunden. Erhalten haben sich im Wesentlichen nur Steinkonzentrationen sowie steinarme Zonen, Lehmlagen und Konzentrationen von Rindenstücken. In akribischer Kleinarbeit...
Im folgenden Artikel wird über die jüngste Tauchgrabungskampagne an der jungneolithischen Fundstelle Cham ZG, Eslen berichtet. Eine wichtige Erkenntnis dieser Kampagne war, dass die Erosion am Seegrund hier messbar stärker wirkt als bisher angenommen. Dazu wurde zur üblichen Feingrabung auch eine Grobgrabungsmethode angewendet. Grosses Gewicht wurd...
