Thomas Terberger
Biographic Data
| ID | 141479 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Terberger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Terberger |
| SIGNATURE | TERBERGER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Greifswald |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9802-5553 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 441 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
A multi-method approach to the reconstruction of Early Upper Palaeolithic ochre processing
Ochre has been widely recognised as a material of technological and symbolic significance throughout the Palaeolithic, yet detailed studies of its operational sequence and use in the Aurignacian of northern Central Europe remain rare. This study presents a systematic use-wear and spatial analysis of an Aurignacian ochre assemblage from the open-air site of Friedrichsdorf-Seulberg, Hesse, Germany (38,810–35,150 cal BP). The assemblage comprises 10…
Warriors from the south? Arrowheads from the Tollense Valley and Central Europe
Investigations in the Tollense Valley in north-eastern Germany have provided evidence of a large and violent conflict in the thirteenth century BC. Typological analysis of arrowheads from the valley (10 flint and 54 bronze specimens) and comparison with type distributions in Central Europe, presented here for the first time, emphasise the supra-regional nature of the conflict. While the flint arrowheads are typical for the local Nordic Bronze Age…
The Site Groß Fredenwalde, NE-Germany, and the Early Cemeteries of Northern Europe
The Mesolithic burial site Groß Fredenwalde, NE-Germany, discovered in 1962, had remained a poorly understood part of the Mesolithic burial record for decades. Since 2012, the site has been under re-investigation. New discoveries confirm the presence of several single and multiple inhumation graves. Groß Fredenwalde stands out as the largest and one of the oldest Mesolithic cemeteries in North-central Europe. Its use period can be separated into …
Worship or weight? A Bronze Age ‘goddess with a necklace’ from River Tollense (NE Germany)
The Tollense valley in northeast Germany is well known for its substantial evidence indicating a violent conflict dated to the early 13 th century BC (Period III of the Nordic Bronze Age). This article presents a significant new find from a later Bronze Age context, found in the river at a known Bronze Age valley crossing (site Weltzin 13) by Ronald Borgwardt in 2020. The small bronze figurine (14.7 cm tall) has an egg-shaped head with a prominen…
The Shigir idol in the context of early art in Eurasia
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The emergence of hunter-gatherer pottery in the Urals and West Siberia
The site of Edewecht 82-East, district of Ammerland, and the role of Red Heligoland flint in the Late Glacial
Until today there is limited evidence for Late Glacial sites in the Northwest of lower Saxony. Here we present the Ahrensburgian site of Edewecht 82-East, which was excavated by two amateurs in 1973/74. Unfortunately the quality of the excavation was limited, but the distribution of artefacts indicates a single find concentration. Small tanged points and a long blade fragment probably assign the assemblage to the late Ahrensburgian (c. 10.000–9.6…
The Shigir idol in the context of early art in Eurasia
Multi-isotope proveniencing of human remains from a Bronze Age battlefield in the Tollense Valley in northeast Germany
Lost in combat? A scrap metal find from the Bronze Age battlefield site at Tollense
Step by step – The neolithisation of Northern Central Europe in the light of stable isotope analyses
How Fishy was the Inland Mesolithic? New Data from Friesack, Brandenburg, Germany
Recent studies have shown that faunal assemblages from Mesolithic sites in inland Northern Europe contain more fish remains than previously thought, but the archaeological and archaeozoological record does not reveal the dietary importance of aquatic species to hunter-gatherer-fishers, even at a societal level. For example, the function of bone points, as hunting weapons or fishing equipment, has long been debated. Moreover, traditional methods p…
Early art in the Urals
Palaeolithic art at Grotta di Cala dei Genovesi, Sicily
Stone Age Pottery Chronology in the Northeast European Forest Zone
Pottery produced by mobile hunter-gatherer-fisher groups in the northeast European forest zone is among the earliest in Europe. Absolute chronologies, however, are still subject to debate due to a general lack of reliable contextual information. Direct radiocarbon dating of carbonized surface residues (“foodcrusts”) on pots can help to address this problem, as it dates the use of the pottery. If a pot was used to cook fish or other aquatic specie…
New insights on the wooden weapons from the Paleolithic site of Schöningen
Flesh or fish? First results of archaeometric research of prehistoric burials from Sakhtysh IIa, Upper Volga region, Russia
Graves and their human remains not only shed light on burial customs and social structures of past populations, but also constitute an excellent archive of prehistoric environmental and living conditions. Especially 13C/15N isotope analysis has recently opened up promising perspectives for reconstructing changes in diet and their social, cultural and economic background. Such investigations have been started on material from the Stone and Early M…
The Grotta di Cala dei Genovesi – New studies on the Ice Age cave art on Sicily
Die Grotta di Cala dei Genovesi auf der Insel Levanzo vor der Westküste Siziliens repräsentiert ein ganz bedeutendes Beispiel spätglazialer Felskunst des Mittelmeerraumes. Die hier entdeckten Gravuren von Tieren und Menschen datieren in das späte Epigravettien (Spätpaläolithikum) und zeichnen sich durch einen naturalistischen Stil aus, der seine Parallelen in Sizilien und Süditalien findet. Mehr als fünfzig Jahre nach der ersten Dokumentation füh…
Relations of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers of Pomerania (Poland) with Neolithic cultures of central Europe
The appearance of the first farming groups on the North European Plain was the turning point for the Mesolithic foragers who had inhabited that region for almost 7000 years. Interrelations between these two very different communities are fascinating for archaeologists interested in the northern European Stone Age. Research at Dąbki in Poland provides elements for a discussion of the Neolithic transformation along the southern Baltic coast. Potter…
Bronze Age tin rings from the Tollense valley in northeastern Germany
Das Tollensetal in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ist in den letzten Jahren durch die Entdeckung zahlreicher Menschenreste, die z.T. Verletzungen zeigen, und zweier Holzkeulen aus der älteren Nordischen Bronzezeit in den Blickpunkt der Forschung gerückt. Die ungewöhnlichen, ca. 3300–3200 Jahre alten Funde konnten auf einer Länge von ca. 1,5 km entlang des Flusses an verschiedenen Stellen nachgewiesen werden. Mit Unterstützung der DFG haben seit dem Somme…
New information from Maszycka Cave and the Late Glacial recolonisation of Central Europe
The Magdalenian settlement of Europe
Hunter-Gatherer Pottery and Charred Residue Dating
This article discusses 18 accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon dates from the peat bog sites Sakhtysh 2a, Ozerki 5, and Ozerki 17 in the Upper Volga region. The aim is to contribute to a better understanding of the emergence and dispersal of early ceramic traditions in northern Eurasia and their connection to the Baltic. With 1 exception, all dates were obtained from charred residue adhering to the sherd. A possible reservoir effect wa…
Radiocarbon Chronology of the Shigir and Gorbunovo Archaeological Bog Sites, Middle Urals, Russia
Two well-known archaeological sites, the peat bogs of Shigir and Gorbunovo (Middle Urals, Russia), have been radiocarbon dated (61 conventional and accelerator mass spectrometry [AMS] dates from various natural and artifact samples). For the first time, a detailed chronology of Early to Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic occupation for this region has been obtained, and a paleoenvironmental history reconstructed. Based on these results, we propo…
New insights on the wooden weapons from the Paleolithic site of Schöningen
Hiatus or continuity? New results for the question of pleniglacial settlement in Central Europe
The authors present new dating evidence for a refined understanding of human presence in Central Europe between 23,000 and 14,000 BP
A Bronze Age battlefield? Weapons and trauma in the Tollense Valley, north-eastern Germany
Chance discoveries of weapons, horse bones and human skeletal remains along the banks of the River Tollense led to a campaign of research which has identified them as the debris from a Bronze Age battle. The resources of war included horses, arrowheads and wooden clubs, and the dead had suffered blows indicating face-to-face combat. This surprisingly modern and decidedly vicious struggle took place over the swampy braided streams of the river in …
Final Paleolithic and Mesolithic Research in Reunified Germany
Dietary Habits and Freshwater Reservoir Effects in Bones from a Neolithic NE German Cemetery
Within a project on Stone Age sites of NE Germany, 26 burials from the Ostorf cemetery and some further Neolithic sites have been analyzed by more than 40 accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dates. We here present the results of stable isotope and radiocarbon measurements together with reference 14 C dates on grave goods from terrestrial animals such as tooth pendants found in 10 of the graves. Age differences between human individuals and their …
Multi-isotope proveniencing of human remains from a Bronze Age battlefield in the Tollense Valley in northeast Germany
The last Pleniglacial and the human settlement of Central Europe
AMS and other dating methods have been applied to the problem of Upper Palaeolithic occupation in Central Europe. The results from the excavations at the Rhineland site of Wiesbaden-Igstadt provide an opportunity for comparison and discussion of whether central Europe was really subject to abandonment at various times during Glacial/Pleniglacial episodes
New information from Maszycka Cave and the Late Glacial recolonisation of Central Europe
The Homo aurignaciensis hauseri from Combe-Capelle - A Mesolithic burial
Step by step – The neolithisation of Northern Central Europe in the light of stable isotope analyses
The Magdalenian settlement of Europe
The emergence of hunter-gatherer pottery in the Urals and West Siberia
Relations of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers of Pomerania (Poland) with Neolithic cultures of central Europe
The appearance of the first farming groups on the North European Plain was the turning point for the Mesolithic foragers who had inhabited that region for almost 7000 years. Interrelations between these two very different communities are fascinating for archaeologists interested in the northern European Stone Age. Research at Dąbki in Poland provides elements for a discussion of the Neolithic transformation along the southern Baltic coast. Potter…
The Grotta di Cala dei Genovesi – New studies on the Ice Age cave art on Sicily
Die Grotta di Cala dei Genovesi auf der Insel Levanzo vor der Westküste Siziliens repräsentiert ein ganz bedeutendes Beispiel spätglazialer Felskunst des Mittelmeerraumes. Die hier entdeckten Gravuren von Tieren und Menschen datieren in das späte Epigravettien (Spätpaläolithikum) und zeichnen sich durch einen naturalistischen Stil aus, der seine Parallelen in Sizilien und Süditalien findet. Mehr als fünfzig Jahre nach der ersten Dokumentation füh…
Hunter-Gatherer Pottery and Charred Residue Dating
This article discusses 18 accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon dates from the peat bog sites Sakhtysh 2a, Ozerki 5, and Ozerki 17 in the Upper Volga region. The aim is to contribute to a better understanding of the emergence and dispersal of early ceramic traditions in northern Eurasia and their connection to the Baltic. With 1 exception, all dates were obtained from charred residue adhering to the sherd. A possible reservoir effect wa…
Radiocarbon Chronology of the Shigir and Gorbunovo Archaeological Bog Sites, Middle Urals, Russia
Two well-known archaeological sites, the peat bogs of Shigir and Gorbunovo (Middle Urals, Russia), have been radiocarbon dated (61 conventional and accelerator mass spectrometry [AMS] dates from various natural and artifact samples). For the first time, a detailed chronology of Early to Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic occupation for this region has been obtained, and a paleoenvironmental history reconstructed. Based on these results, we propo…
Elks in the early Stone Age art of the northern Lowlands
Der Beitrag stellt drei mesolithische Geweihlochstäbe der Fundstellen Twedt-Buschau, Verchen (beide Norddeutschland) und Krzyż (Polen) vor, die nach Meinung der Autoren als zoomorphe Darstellungen interpretiert werden können. Die Basis der Abwurfstangen wurde jeweils teilweise abgearbeitet und die Sprosse als spitzer Stumpf zugerichtet. Die so entstandene Form kann als stilisierter Kopf eines Elches angesprochen werden. Die ähnliche Zurichtung de…
Stone Age Pottery Chronology in the Northeast European Forest Zone
Pottery produced by mobile hunter-gatherer-fisher groups in the northeast European forest zone is among the earliest in Europe. Absolute chronologies, however, are still subject to debate due to a general lack of reliable contextual information. Direct radiocarbon dating of carbonized surface residues (“foodcrusts”) on pots can help to address this problem, as it dates the use of the pottery. If a pot was used to cook fish or other aquatic specie…
The Shigir idol in the context of early art in Eurasia
Early art in the Urals
Long distance exchange in the Central European Neolithic
As Mesolithic people living on the Baltic coast began to adopt farming in the later fifth millennium BC, imports of a new type and quality started to reach them from the south — highly decorated pots and then copper axes from the Hungary-Serbia area. With new excavations at the site of Dąbki 9 in northern Poland, the authors are able to show how high quality thin-walled shiny black vessels are travelling over 1000km in the early fourth millennium…
Bronze Age tin rings from the Tollense valley in northeastern Germany
Das Tollensetal in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ist in den letzten Jahren durch die Entdeckung zahlreicher Menschenreste, die z.T. Verletzungen zeigen, und zweier Holzkeulen aus der älteren Nordischen Bronzezeit in den Blickpunkt der Forschung gerückt. Die ungewöhnlichen, ca. 3300–3200 Jahre alten Funde konnten auf einer Länge von ca. 1,5 km entlang des Flusses an verschiedenen Stellen nachgewiesen werden. Mit Unterstützung der DFG haben seit dem Somme…
Worship or weight? A Bronze Age ‘goddess with a necklace’ from River Tollense (NE Germany)
The Tollense valley in northeast Germany is well known for its substantial evidence indicating a violent conflict dated to the early 13 th century BC (Period III of the Nordic Bronze Age). This article presents a significant new find from a later Bronze Age context, found in the river at a known Bronze Age valley crossing (site Weltzin 13) by Ronald Borgwardt in 2020. The small bronze figurine (14.7 cm tall) has an egg-shaped head with a prominen…
Lost in combat? A scrap metal find from the Bronze Age battlefield site at Tollense
Warriors from the south? Arrowheads from the Tollense Valley and Central Europe
Investigations in the Tollense Valley in north-eastern Germany have provided evidence of a large and violent conflict in the thirteenth century BC. Typological analysis of arrowheads from the valley (10 flint and 54 bronze specimens) and comparison with type distributions in Central Europe, presented here for the first time, emphasise the supra-regional nature of the conflict. While the flint arrowheads are typical for the local Nordic Bronze Age…
The last Pleniglacial and the human settlement of Central Europe
AMS and other dating methods have been applied to the problem of Upper Palaeolithic occupation in Central Europe. The results from the excavations at the Rhineland site of Wiesbaden-Igstadt provide an opportunity for comparison and discussion of whether central Europe was really subject to abandonment at various times during Glacial/Pleniglacial episodes
Final Paleolithic and Mesolithic Research in Reunified Germany
Hiatus or continuity? New results for the question of pleniglacial settlement in Central Europe
The authors present new dating evidence for a refined understanding of human presence in Central Europe between 23,000 and 14,000 BP
A critical review of the German Paleolithic hominin record
Genetic Discontinuity Between Local Hunter-Gatherers and Central Europe’s First Farmers
Cultivating Farmers Were the ancestors of modern Europeans the local hunter-gatherers who assimilated farming practices from neighboring cultures, or were they farmers who migrated from the Near East in the early Neolithic? By analyzing ancient hunter-gatherer skeletal DNA from 2300 to 13,400 B.C.E. Bramanti et al. (p. 137 , published online 3 September) investigated the genetic relationship of European Ice Age hunter-gatherers, the first farmers…
Dietary Habits and Freshwater Reservoir Effects in Bones from a Neolithic NE German Cemetery
Within a project on Stone Age sites of NE Germany, 26 burials from the Ostorf cemetery and some further Neolithic sites have been analyzed by more than 40 accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dates. We here present the results of stable isotope and radiocarbon measurements together with reference 14 C dates on grave goods from terrestrial animals such as tooth pendants found in 10 of the graves. Age differences between human individuals and their …
Radiocarbon Dating the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition
Elks in the early Stone Age art of the northern Lowlands
Der Beitrag stellt drei mesolithische Geweihlochstäbe der Fundstellen Twedt-Buschau, Verchen (beide Norddeutschland) und Krzyż (Polen) vor, die nach Meinung der Autoren als zoomorphe Darstellungen interpretiert werden können. Die Basis der Abwurfstangen wurde jeweils teilweise abgearbeitet und die Sprosse als spitzer Stumpf zugerichtet. Die so entstandene Form kann als stilisierter Kopf eines Elches angesprochen werden. Die ähnliche Zurichtung de…
Long distance exchange in the Central European Neolithic
As Mesolithic people living on the Baltic coast began to adopt farming in the later fifth millennium BC, imports of a new type and quality started to reach them from the south — highly decorated pots and then copper axes from the Hungary-Serbia area. With new excavations at the site of Dąbki 9 in northern Poland, the authors are able to show how high quality thin-walled shiny black vessels are travelling over 1000km in the early fourth millennium…
The Homo aurignaciensis hauseri from Combe-Capelle - A Mesolithic burial
A Bronze Age battlefield? Weapons and trauma in the Tollense Valley, north-eastern Germany
Chance discoveries of weapons, horse bones and human skeletal remains along the banks of the River Tollense led to a campaign of research which has identified them as the debris from a Bronze Age battle. The resources of war included horses, arrowheads and wooden clubs, and the dead had suffered blows indicating face-to-face combat. This surprisingly modern and decidedly vicious struggle took place over the swampy braided streams of the river in …
Bronze Age tin rings from the Tollense valley in northeastern Germany
Das Tollensetal in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ist in den letzten Jahren durch die Entdeckung zahlreicher Menschenreste, die z.T. Verletzungen zeigen, und zweier Holzkeulen aus der älteren Nordischen Bronzezeit in den Blickpunkt der Forschung gerückt. Die ungewöhnlichen, ca. 3300–3200 Jahre alten Funde konnten auf einer Länge von ca. 1,5 km entlang des Flusses an verschiedenen Stellen nachgewiesen werden. Mit Unterstützung der DFG haben seit dem Somme…
New information from Maszycka Cave and the Late Glacial recolonisation of Central Europe
The Magdalenian settlement of Europe
Hunter-Gatherer Pottery and Charred Residue Dating
This article discusses 18 accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon dates from the peat bog sites Sakhtysh 2a, Ozerki 5, and Ozerki 17 in the Upper Volga region. The aim is to contribute to a better understanding of the emergence and dispersal of early ceramic traditions in northern Eurasia and their connection to the Baltic. With 1 exception, all dates were obtained from charred residue adhering to the sherd. A possible reservoir effect wa…
Radiocarbon Chronology of the Shigir and Gorbunovo Archaeological Bog Sites, Middle Urals, Russia
Two well-known archaeological sites, the peat bogs of Shigir and Gorbunovo (Middle Urals, Russia), have been radiocarbon dated (61 conventional and accelerator mass spectrometry [AMS] dates from various natural and artifact samples). For the first time, a detailed chronology of Early to Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic occupation for this region has been obtained, and a paleoenvironmental history reconstructed. Based on these results, we propo…
Flesh or fish? First results of archaeometric research of prehistoric burials from Sakhtysh IIa, Upper Volga region, Russia
Graves and their human remains not only shed light on burial customs and social structures of past populations, but also constitute an excellent archive of prehistoric environmental and living conditions. Especially 13C/15N isotope analysis has recently opened up promising perspectives for reconstructing changes in diet and their social, cultural and economic background. Such investigations have been started on material from the Stone and Early M…
The Grotta di Cala dei Genovesi – New studies on the Ice Age cave art on Sicily
Die Grotta di Cala dei Genovesi auf der Insel Levanzo vor der Westküste Siziliens repräsentiert ein ganz bedeutendes Beispiel spätglazialer Felskunst des Mittelmeerraumes. Die hier entdeckten Gravuren von Tieren und Menschen datieren in das späte Epigravettien (Spätpaläolithikum) und zeichnen sich durch einen naturalistischen Stil aus, der seine Parallelen in Sizilien und Süditalien findet. Mehr als fünfzig Jahre nach der ersten Dokumentation füh…
Relations of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers of Pomerania (Poland) with Neolithic cultures of central Europe
The appearance of the first farming groups on the North European Plain was the turning point for the Mesolithic foragers who had inhabited that region for almost 7000 years. Interrelations between these two very different communities are fascinating for archaeologists interested in the northern European Stone Age. Research at Dąbki in Poland provides elements for a discussion of the Neolithic transformation along the southern Baltic coast. Potter…
New insights on the wooden weapons from the Paleolithic site of Schöningen
Stone Age Pottery Chronology in the Northeast European Forest Zone
Pottery produced by mobile hunter-gatherer-fisher groups in the northeast European forest zone is among the earliest in Europe. Absolute chronologies, however, are still subject to debate due to a general lack of reliable contextual information. Direct radiocarbon dating of carbonized surface residues (“foodcrusts”) on pots can help to address this problem, as it dates the use of the pottery. If a pot was used to cook fish or other aquatic specie…
Step by step – The neolithisation of Northern Central Europe in the light of stable isotope analyses
How Fishy was the Inland Mesolithic? New Data from Friesack, Brandenburg, Germany
Recent studies have shown that faunal assemblages from Mesolithic sites in inland Northern Europe contain more fish remains than previously thought, but the archaeological and archaeozoological record does not reveal the dietary importance of aquatic species to hunter-gatherer-fishers, even at a societal level. For example, the function of bone points, as hunting weapons or fishing equipment, has long been debated. Moreover, traditional methods p…
Early art in the Urals
Palaeolithic art at Grotta di Cala dei Genovesi, Sicily
Archaeology (30 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (29 works) · Geography (29 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (22 works) · History (16 works) · Geology (13 works) · Mesolithic (12 works) · Ancient history (11 works) · History (11 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (10 works)