Ursula Brosseder

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie

To this day the cultural landscape of Mongolia is dominated by extensive cemeteries of the Bronze and Iron Ages with their massive stone constructions visible above ground. Despite numerous selective excavations, they remain misunderstood in many respects. Therefore, this study approaches four cemeteries in Central Mongolia holistically, examines t...

The Yuhuangmiao culture emerged around the 7th to the 4th centuries BCE in northeastern China near Beijing. The burial ritual with stone layers, numerous animal deposits, and the material culture indicate a strong steppe connection. It is often used to support the narratives in the Chinese historical texts that people living in the area had a disti...

To this day the cultural landscape of Mongolia is dominated by extensive cemeteries of the Bronze and Iron Ages with their massive stone constructions visible above ground. Despite numerous selective excavations, they remain misunderstood in many respects. Therefore, this study approaches four cemeteries in Central Mongolia, examines their internal...

This article presents the oldest iron smelting furnaces of the Xiongnu Empire period in central Mongolia and argues that a significant smelting center existed at the site of Baga Nariĭn Am. Five iron smelting furnaces and four smelting installations were excavated, with a total 26 furnaces further identified through SQUID magnetometry. In combinati...

This paper gives a state of the art report of an ongoing interdisciplinary project on bioarchaeological research on cemeteries in the Upper Orkhon valley, Central Mongolia, in particular at the Maikhan Tolgoi site. The archaeological focus is on the investigation of the development, use and transformation of a ritual landscape in the course of the...

Several khirigsuurs, slab graves, and other stone structures were excavated during rescue excavations in the Middle Orkhon Valley in 2006 and 2007. The information from these excavations provides the most extensive data—including the first large series of radiocarbon dates—on the Bronze Age and Early Iron Ages from central Mongolia. Contrary to wha...

Cambridge Core - Prehistory - Globalization in Prehistory - edited by Nicole Boivin

The Xiongnu Empire (3rd century bce to 2nd century ce) was the earliest and longest lasting of the so-called steppe empires of Inner Asia. It extended from the Ordos to Lake Baikal and from Manchuria to eastern Kazakhstan with its heartland in Mongolia. Information on the Xiongnu Empire relies on Chinese chronicles and archaeological evidence. Alth...

Partant des publications les plus recentes sur les importations de la Heuneburg, l'attention est portee sur quelques problemes lies a ce site. On discute la ceramique grecque, surtout en ce qui concerne sa stratification, analyse la publication des amphores de transport et examine de plus pres leur distribution dans la forteresse. On y met en evide...

In view of the recent literature on Heuneburg's import finds, this article deals with some issues associated with this site. It discusses Greek pottery, including its stratification. The literature on transport amphorae is reviewed and their distribution at the Heuneburg is looked at more closely. The problematic dating of the building period is ad...