Johannes Müller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584693 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Johannes Müller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Johannes |
| FAMILY NAME | Müller |
| SIGNATURE | MULLER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3538-197X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 112 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 415 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 106 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1857 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Road to transformation or dead end? Elite athletes’ narratives of getting into and out of mental health crises
Did 57,500 people live in Schleswig-Holstein in 3000 BC? Prehistoric population estimates for East Holstein and Schleswig-Holstein
This study examines demographic developments in East Holstein and Schleswig-Holstein between 3300 and 2800 BCE during the Middle Neolithic phases (MN I–V) of the Funnel Beaker Culture. Using archaeological settlement and burial data and applying geostatistical methods – especially the “Cologne Protocol” – the research estimates diachronic population densities. The primary focus is on the western Oldenburger Graben in East Holstein, an area with e…
Environment, land use, and archaeology in the north-central German Lower Mountain Range during the Younger and Late Neolithic
Palynological, macroremain, and sedimentological analyses of a well-dated, high-resolution sediment profile from the Körbecker Bruch have enabled a detailed reconstruction of the land-use history in a fertile loess landscape during the Younger and the Late Neolithic. The results indicate that already around 4700 cal. BCE, agriculture, animal husbandry, and slash-and-burn techniques, as elements of the subsistence economy, had significantly shaped…
Managing crops under hydroclimatic instability before the 5.9 ka event
This paper presents new stable isotope data from charred cereal grains and Chenopodium album seeds recovered from the Kodjadermen-Gumelniţa-Karanovo VI (KGK VI) (second half of the 5th millennium BC) settlement of Sultana in southeastern Romania, alongside comparative material from the nearby site of Gumelnița. This period coincides with mid-Holocene climatic instability in the lower Danube region (c. late 5th–early 4th millennium BC), frequently…
Visual Patterns of Attention in Prehistoric Central Germany
Stylistic variation has been a central concern in the study of prehistoric pottery in central Europe. In this paper, we approach stylistic variation from a visual cognition perspective, focusing on the effects that stylistic attributes of vessels have on patterns of attention. A free-viewing eye-tracking experiment was conducted using pottery vessels from central Germany spanning from 5500 to 1 bce . Our results show that, among modern observers,…
Bedeutung des Sportunterrichts für die Integration aus Sicht neu zugewanderter Kinder im Grundschulalter
Vor dem Hintergrund, dass sich die bisherige Forschung im Themenfeld „Migration, Integration und Sport“ sehr stark auf das Sporttreiben von Jugendlichen mit ‚Migrationshintergrund‘ im Kontext des vereinsorganisierten Sports fokussiert hat, richtet dieser Beitrag den Fokus auf das Kindesalter und den Sportunterricht. Dabei zielt die Studie darauf ab, zu rekonstruieren, wie neu zugewanderte Kinder im Grundschulalter den Sportunterricht hinsichtlich…
How incarcerated women experience sport in prison
Previous sociological research on sport in prisons has primarily focused on the male prison population. Against this background, this article deals with sport in women's prisons and analyzes qualitative studies published in English and German since the turn of the millennium in the form of a systematic review. The focus is on how incarcerated women experience and reflect on sport in prison and what meanings they attach to sport, according to prev…
The Book of Faith (Sefer Emunah)
The article discusses Sefer Emunah (»Book of Faith«), an anti-Jewish polemic written in Hebrew that was edited by Protestant reformer Paul Fagius in 1542, exploring its dating, authorship, original purpose, and reception in close engagement with the existing research literature. Moreover, the argumentation used in Sefer Emunah for the veracity of the Christian faith is outlined throughadetailed analysis of the Hebrew and Latin sources incorporate…
Superblocks between theory and practice
The concept of Superblocks has been recognized as a promising urban transformational intervention. With the concept evolving, spreading, and being adapted to different contexts, it is necessary to take stock of the situation. The article aims to clarify the Superblocks concept through an e-Delphi process and test the theoretical framework against ongoing implementations in Vienna and Berlin. Experts’ opinions show that the concept has retained tr…
Gegenwart gestalten, Zukunft sichern
Vor dem Hintergrund multipler und gleichzeitig auftretender Krisen rückt die Frage nach sozialer Gerechtigkeit zunehmend in den Mittelpunkt gesellschaftlicher Diskussionen. Laut Internationalem Gerechtigkeitsindex der Stiftung Familienunternehmen (2025) belegt Deutschland im Jahr 2024 Rang 10 von 34 Staaten. Während Verteilungsgerechtigkeit in der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung eine geringere Rolle spielt, rückt insbesondere Generationengerechtigkeit s…
Detecting intern Trypillia house installations from the magnetization map
Different building types and internal installations are visible by magnetization, Magnetization patterns are connected to building's architecture
Structure of the Multiphase Chalcolithic Tell Chiselet–Grădiștea Fundeanca (Romania) From SH‐Wave Full‐Waveform Inversion, Borehole Geophysics and Coring
The emergence and development of settlement mounds, also called tells, is of major interest for the analysis of socio‐economic transformations occurring in the lower Danube plain during the East European Chalcolithic period. In this context, the multiphase chronology and structural layout of tells are highly relevant indicators, but small‐scale heterogeneities and pronounced topography constitute challenging conditions for noninvasive geophysical…
On uncertain terrain
Millet and meals
The translocation of broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) is an enticing subject of archaeological investigation. While the species was rapidly dispersed across Eurasia during prehistory, its adoption appears to have been inconsistent, with evidence for its sudden and gradual adoption, as well as its rejection, observed within and between contemporary communities and cultures. The translocation of P. miliaceum may be better understood through the…
A guide to the mechanisms of transformation
Despite the clear divisions in current archaeological theories, in the last 30 years a 'new consensus' is emerging; this is the recognition that materials can actively shape human behaviour and cognition. While this recognition offers major opportunities for explaining changes in the archaeological record without just succumbing to individual simplistic models - such as migration or diffusion, or acculturation or convergence - there is still a ne…
Perspectives on Socio-environmental Transformations in Ancient Europe
This open access book brings together key issues from transformative processes and events across Europe (in some cases beyond) from 15,000 to 1 BCE.
Sport in der totalen Institution – eine Gefängnisethnographie
Das Buch beleuchtet die vielschichtigen Bedeutungen, die sportliche Betätigung aus der Sicht der Gefangenen in Justizvollzugsanstalten besitzt.
Inequality in relational wealth within the upper societal segment
While our understanding of long-term trends in material wealth inequality in prehistoric societies has expanded in recent decades, we know little about long-term trends in other dimensions of wealth and about social developments within particular societal segments. This paper provides the first evidence of inequality in relational wealth within the upper societal segment of a supra-regional network of communities in prehistoric Central Europe ove…
Demografski varijabiliteti u kasnom neolitu na području Bosne i pitanje gustine naseljenosti u neolitu jugoistočne Evrope
Pored rekonstrukcije prirodne okoline, ekonomskih i socijalnih odnosa u praistorijskim zajednicama, jedno od značajnih zadataka praistorijske arheologije predstavlja i vrednovanje količine stanovništva. Dok se modeli socijalne klasifikacije, na primjer, zasnivaju na razlikama u veličini grupe, modeli priliva i odliva stanovništva zahtijevaju realnu predstavu o demografskom porastu. Intenzitet kulturnih kontakata, takođe, zavisi od demografskih fa…
Exploring the dynamics of dynamic ride-sharing
This study delves into the potential of dynamic ride-sharing (DRS) systems utilizing the agent-based simulation framework MATSim. Through a comprehensive sensitivity analysis across various scenarios, we investigate the efficacy of a newly developed dynamic ride-sharing extension and unveil key insights. Our findings underscore the pivotal role of user willingness in driving DRS utilization, emphasizing the necessity of flexible departure times t…
Multi‐Method Structural Investigation of the Schneiderberg–Baalberge Burial Mound (Saxony‐Anhalt, Germany) Including Seismic Full‐Waveform Inversion (FWI)
The construction history and subsequent usage of burial mounds are an important testimony for socio‐economic transformation in prehistoric societies. The Baalberge–Schneiderberg burial mound, subject of the presented study, falls in this category as it is considered as an important monument that indicates the emergence of early social stratification during the Chalcolithic period in central Europe. This hypothesis relies on the chronological deve…
De glandularum secernentium structura penitiori
Maidanetske
Trypillia and Uruk
Dealing with the largest settlements of European prehistory, Trypillia mega-sites and the Late Trypillia development should be compared with population agglomerations that took place contemporarily in Southern Mesopotamia: the development of ‘agricultural towns’ and first cities during the Uruk-period. The only two phenomena of such huge population agglomerations worldwide at that time, within the Southern Buh and Dnipro interfluve and Southern M…
Chronology and Demography
Since the discovery of the huge dimensions of Trypillia BIVCI mega-sites, estimations about their population size have mainly resulted magnitudes which are as extraordinary for European prehistory as the dimensions of the sites themselves. A variety of population calculations is known, usually (e.g. for Taljanky and Maidanetske) focusing on around 7500-25,000 inhabitants per site (Shmaglij, 1982; Shmaglij & Videiko, 1987; Kruts, 1989; Ohlrau, 201…
The Human Community as a Primate Society [and Comments]
Demography and the intensity of cultural activities
Trypillia Mega-Sites and European Prehistory
Early farmers in the Mediterranean Basin
The Dalmatian province of Yugoslavia, lying between the limestone mountains of the Dinaric range and the Adriatic Sea, is an important zone for early European agriculture, as both its neighbouring regions are precocious in their development. New information on the nature and chronology of first Dalmation farming is presented
The Second Phase of the Trypillia Mega-Site Methodological Revolution
The first phase of the Trypillia mega-sites' methodological revolution began in 1971 with aerial photography, magnetic prospection, and archaeological excavations of huge settlements of hundreds of hectares belonging to the Trypillia culture in Ukraine. Since 2009, we have created a second phase of the methodological revolution in studies of Trypillia mega-sites, which has provided more significant advances in our understanding of these large sit…
Increasing inequality in Chalcolithic Southeast Europe
Step by step – The neolithisation of Northern Central Europe in the light of stable isotope analyses
A Middle Neolithic well from Northern Germany
Social stratification of leisure time sport and exercise activities
Guided by a social inequality perspective that combines Bourdieu’s conception of socially shaped tastes and lifestyles with Peterson’s notion of omnivorous consumption, this paper addresses the link between social inequality and participation in specific subfields of sport. Ten popular sports and adjacent activity subfields are analysed and compared. Based on representative data from Germany, the paper points out that participation in different f…
Maidanetske 2013
In European prehistory, population agglomerations of more than 10,000 inhabitants per site are an infrequent phenomenon. The unexpected discovery of the Trypillia mega-sites, excavated nearly 50 years ago by Soviet, Ukrainian and Moldavian archaeologists using a multidisciplinary approach, uncovered the remains of more than 2000 houses spread over 250 hectares. These extraordinary mega-sites developed at the border of the North Pontic Forest Step…
Emerging genetic patterns of the european neolithic
The transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture in Europe is associated with demographic changes that may have shifted the human gene pool of the region as a result of an influx of Neolithic farmers from the Near East. However, the genetic composition of populations after the earliest Neolithic, when a diverse mosaic of societies that had been fully engaged in agriculture for some time appeared in central Europe, is poorly known. At this…
New burial rites at the end of the Linearbandkeramik in south-west Slovakia
Using the Capability Approach to Conceptualise Inequality in Archaeology
Those students who are really self-confident about their homosexuality usually have considerably fewer problems’
Previous research indicates that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer plus (LGBTQ+) students feel marginalised and discriminated against in physical education (PE) and that teachers play a crucial role in establishing openness towards sexual and gender diversity in schools. Despite these findings, there is a lack of research that focuses on the topic of sexual and gender diversity in PE from the perspective of PE teachers. The paper address…
Grave gifts manifest the ritual status of cattle in Neolithic societies of northern Germany
The Neolithic period in NW-Europe marks a time of major transformation in human lifestyle including sedentism, farming, agropastoralism with early animal husbandry and the use of ornamented pottery by “Funnelbeaker” societies. Domestic animals, in particular cattle, served for traction, plowing, and manuring to support agricultural production but also supplied a variety of dietary products including meat, fat, and milk as well as wool. The impact…
The Western Altmark versus Flintbek – palaeoecological research on two megalithic regions
A Revision of Corded Ware Settlement Pattern –New Results from the Central European Low Mountain Range
The excavation of the Wattendorf-Motzenstein Corded Ware settlement in Franconia (Germany) has yielded new information with regard to the architecture, economy, and ritual activities, as well as the social organisation of Final Neolithic groups in Central Europe. The settlement is dated to 2660–2470 cal BC and was an agrarian community. Detailed analyses of the material culture combined with biological and pedological parameters allowed new inter…
Communality and Discord in an Early Neolithic Settlement Agglomeration
Our research at the large LBK settlement site of Vráble, southwest Slovakia, revealed dynamics of social integration and antagonisms unfolding in an agglomerated, early farming community. During its lifespan from 5250 to 4950 bc, it constantly grew until around 5050 bc it was inhabited by about 70 contemporaneous longhouses. We found that Vráble consisted of markedly autonomous farmstead units that were held together by village-wide social instit…
Collective burials among agro-pastoral societies in later Neolithic Germany
Chronology and Demography
Since the discovery of the huge dimensions of Trypillia BIVCI mega-sites, estimations about their population size have mainly resulted magnitudes which are as extraordinary for European prehistory as the dimensions of the sites themselves. A variety of population calculations is known, usually (e.g. for Taljanky and Maidanetske) focusing on around 7500-25,000 inhabitants per site (Shmaglij, 1982; Shmaglij & Videiko, 1987; Kruts, 1989; Ohlrau, 201…
Middle-Neolithic agricultural practices in the Oldenburger Graben wetlands, northern Germany
A number of small middle-Neolithic (3300–2800 BC) settlements flourished in the Oldenburger Graben area of northern Germany. The excavations yielded large amounts of crop remains, suggesting that agrarian production was a cornerstone of subsistence economy. Until about 3000 BC, Oldenburger Graben was a fjord, which over time was separated from the Baltic Sea and became a lagoon. The location of the settlement in the wetlands would have been highl…
Dating the Neolithic
Ideas of Neolithic societies and of the identities of Neolithic individuals changed rapidly during the last decade. The archaeological concept of “culture” implies sequential changes of material culture in spatial and temporal “slices.” The term “society” describes human behavior within social identities, which could produce huge differences in material culture. Ideas of Neolithic “cultures” are no longer valid, as absolute chronological evidence…
Monuments and economies
In the regions of southern Scandinavia and northern Germany, within the Neolithic ( c. 4100–1700 BCE), two episodes of intensified monumental burial construction are known: Funnel Beaker megaliths mainly from c. 3400–3100 BCE and Single Grave burial mounds from c. 2800–2500 BCE. So far, it remains unclear whether these boom phases of monumental construction were linked with phases of economic expansion, to phases of economic changes or to periods…
The concept of socio-environmental transformations in prehistoric and archaic societies in the Holocene
Transformations of human societies and environments are closely interwoven. Due to improved possibilities of paleoecological reconstruction and archaeological methods, we are now in a position to empirically collect detailed data from a variety of records. The Collaborative Research Centre 1266 ‘Scales of Transformation’ has developed a concept in which both deductive and inductive transformation dimensions are compared on different temporal and …
Ancient DNA insights from the Middle Neolithic in Germany
Monographie de la famille des Résédacées
Des organes des Résédacées, de leur genèse, de leur forme et de leur anatomie.A. Des organes de la végétation.$. {.Germination.Lorsque les graines du Reseda alba (Jacq.)se sont trouvées pendant environ une quinzaine de jours dans des conditions favorables à leur germination, l'ouverture naturelle du mycropyle commence à s'élargir et à ouvrir un passage à la radicule de l'embryon.Cette ouverture se prolonge le plus souvent par une petite fente plu…
Der Mitteldeutsche Industriebezirk
Wirtschaftskunde von Deutschland
Early farmers in the Mediterranean Basin
The Dalmatian province of Yugoslavia, lying between the limestone mountains of the Dinaric range and the Adriatic Sea, is an important zone for early European agriculture, as both its neighbouring regions are precocious in their development. New information on the nature and chronology of first Dalmation farming is presented
The Human Community as a Primate Society [and Comments]
Europa Casa común ¿Bastión del bienestar frente al Tercer Mundo
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Nationalismus und moderner Staat. Deutschland und Europa
Zur Belegungsabfolge des Gräberfeldes von Trebur
Article Zur Belegungsabfolge des Gräberfeldes von Trebur: Argumente der typologieunabhängigen Datierungen was published on January 1, 2002 in the journal Praehistorische Zeitschrift (volume 77, issue 2)
A Revision of Corded Ware Settlement Pattern –New Results from the Central European Low Mountain Range
The excavation of the Wattendorf-Motzenstein Corded Ware settlement in Franconia (Germany) has yielded new information with regard to the architecture, economy, and ritual activities, as well as the social organisation of Final Neolithic groups in Central Europe. The settlement is dated to 2660–2470 cal BC and was an agrarian community. Detailed analyses of the material culture combined with biological and pedological parameters allowed new inter…
Dating the Neolithic
Ideas of Neolithic societies and of the identities of Neolithic individuals changed rapidly during the last decade. The archaeological concept of “culture” implies sequential changes of material culture in spatial and temporal “slices.” The term “society” describes human behavior within social identities, which could produce huge differences in material culture. Ideas of Neolithic “cultures” are no longer valid, as absolute chronological evidence…
Climate Change, Justice and Sustainability
Rich nations are mainly responsible for global greenhouse gas emissions, and they are financially and institutionally better placed to adapt to the impacts of global climate change. Developing countries, though, must face issues such as severe droughts, floods, and other environmental changes associated with the Earth’s warming, with far fewer resources to adapt at their disposal. This volume examines the way climate change is affecting the lives…
Quantification of archaeological proxies
Crop growing and gathering in the northern German Neolithic
New archaeobotanical results from 15 Neolithic sites in northern Germany are presented in a review of the Neolithic plant economy in northern and north-western Europe. Available archaeobotanical data from north-western Europe are evaluated and compared with our new results. In the whole region, barley and emmer were the main crops. Regional and diachronic differences are observed in the cultivation of einkorn, spelt and naked wheat. For oil plant…
Collective burials among agro-pastoral societies in later Neolithic Germany
Increasing inequality in Chalcolithic Southeast Europe
Demography and the intensity of cultural activities
Aspenstedt-Großer Berg
Eines der seltenen chalkolithischen Einzelgräber mit einem kupfernen Nietdolch ermöglicht die Diskussion der Einführung der frühen Metallurgie in Nordmitteleuropa und Südskandinavien. Obwohl im Mittelelbe-Saale-Gebiet und in der Trichterbecher-Nordgruppe eine eigenständige Metallurgie nachweisbar ist, bleiben die Dolche aus Aspenstedt und Bygholm singulär. Anders als im südlichen Mitteleuropa setzt sich das Prinzip „Dolch“ als Bewaffnungsform ers…
Emerging genetic patterns of the european neolithic
The transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture in Europe is associated with demographic changes that may have shifted the human gene pool of the region as a result of an influx of Neolithic farmers from the Near East. However, the genetic composition of populations after the earliest Neolithic, when a diverse mosaic of societies that had been fully engaged in agriculture for some time appeared in central Europe, is poorly known. At this…
Memory before Modernity
Many students of memory assume that the practice of memory changed dramatically around 1800; this volume shows that there was much continuity as well as change. Premodern ways of negotiating memories of pain and loss, for instance, were indeed quite different to those in the modern West. Yet by examining memory practices and drawing on evidence from early modern England, France, Germany, Ireland, Hungary, the Low Countries and Ukraine, the case s…
The Western Altmark versus Flintbek – palaeoecological research on two megalithic regions
A Middle Neolithic well from Northern Germany
Ancient DNA insights from the Middle Neolithic in Germany
The Second Phase of the Trypillia Mega-Site Methodological Revolution
The first phase of the Trypillia mega-sites' methodological revolution began in 1971 with aerial photography, magnetic prospection, and archaeological excavations of huge settlements of hundreds of hectares belonging to the Trypillia culture in Ukraine. Since 2009, we have created a second phase of the methodological revolution in studies of Trypillia mega-sites, which has provided more significant advances in our understanding of these large sit…
Zur Praxis der Menschenrechte
Die Menschenrechte haben sich als praktische Querschnittaufgabe einer Vielzahl an Politikfeldern etabliert. Oft werden sie als überzeugendes Beispiel für einen normativen Konsens der Weltgemeinschaft angeführt. Gleichzeitig wird immer wieder erkennbar, dass dieses Ideal verschiedenen Deutungen in der Praxis unterliegt. Welche Funktion hat etwa der Universalismus der Menschenrechte oder was trägt der Würde-Begriff wirklich aus? Welche Begründungss…
Using the Capability Approach to Conceptualise Inequality in Archaeology
Geography (54 works) · Archaeology (44 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (38 works) · Political science (28 works) · Sociology (27 works) · History (25 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (20 works) · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies (18 works) · Geology (17 works) · Prehistory (17 works)