Claudia Gerling
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 905513 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Claudia Gerling |
| NOMBRES | Claudia |
| APELLIDO | Gerling |
| FIRMA | GERLING C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Basel |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4619-7032 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Supplying the Augustean conquest of the Alps — investigating the origins of Roman slingshot projectiles by lead isotope analysis
Lead isotope analyses of 40 lead slingshot projectiles and two lead plummets, recovered from a conflict landscape proximal to the Crap Ses Gorge in the Surses Valley, Switzerland, and thought to relate to the central marching route of Augustus’ Alpine Campaigns (late 1st c. BCE), are presented. Results point to a centralised production using a mixed lead stock primarily derived from the Almería-Cartagena Volcanic Belt of the southeastern Iberian …
Tracing the influence of Western Mediterranean innovations in Neolithic Europe through directly radiocarbon-dated naked wheat (Triticum aestivum/durum/turgidum)
The dispersal of crops offers a powerful lens through which to investigate prehistoric mobility, interaction, and adaptation. This study examines the spatiotemporal distribution of naked wheat across Europe during the Neolithic using a dataset of 116 directly dated naked wheat remains from 58 archaeological sites (ca. 6000–2400 cal BCE). Dates were calibrated and analysed through summed probability distributions, composite Kernel Density Estimati…
All equal in the face of death? Life histories of confirmed victims of the last plague epidemic in Basel (Switzerland)
The Covid-19 pandemic widened public awareness of the close links between socioeconomic status and resilience in the face of infection, yet this interplay was already well established in archaeological discourse. Here, the authors combine osteoarchaeological, stable isotope and pathogenomic analyses with archival research to explore the formation of multiple, or ‘plural’, burials at an early hospital in Basel, Switzerland. Identification of a sta…
A forest-steppe landscape and the settlement Ksizovo-1 in the Don region during the Middle Bronze Age
Systematic investigations of Bronze Age settlements in different regions of western Eurasia have provided new insights into settlement structures, land use, and past mobile lifestyles. In this paper, we examine the single-layered site of Ksizovo-1 in the Upper Don basin, located in a microregion of the Eastern European forest-steppe. We integrate archaeological, bioarchaeological, and molecular investigations to evaluate if the Middle Bronze Age …
Investigating the origins of the Cherniakhiv community at Voitenki, East Ukraine, through strontium isotope analysis
This paper presents strontium isotope data of human burials from Voitenki, a cemetery attributed to the Cherniakhiv Culture (1 st Millennium AD), in East Ukraine. Intending to use strontium isotope analysis to distinguish between local and non-local origins, we sampled 30 out of 113 inhumation graves that were excavated until 2018. The sample set included 22 adults, 4 juvenile individuals and 4 children, among them 11 anthropologically identified…
Manured or not manured? New baselines for re-interpreting cereal C and N stable isotope data from Neolithic sites in the NW Mediterranean
Livestock management during times of transition. Exploring the relationship between animal size and diet from Roman to early medieval Augusta Raurica (Switzerland)
Zooarchaeological research all over Europe has suggested a generalised pattern of livestock size decrease during the transition between the Roman times and the Early Middle Ages. Different reasons have been proposed to explain this pattern, including a change in management and feeding practices, in the context of a shift of animal husbandry from large to small scale production. This paper is based on faunal material from Roman and early medieval …
At the onset of settled pastoralism – Implications of archaeozoological and isotope analyses from Bronze age sites in the North Caucasus
Bioarchaeological studies provide a valuable contribution to the understanding of the economy and activities of prehistoric populations in mountain regions. The Late Bronze Age in the Caucasus is an epoch of fundamental transformations that is accompanied by the development of a semi-stationary pastoral economy and ultimately by the emergence of combined mountain agriculture. So far, only a few archaeozoological assemblages from this period have …
Isotopic perspectives on pastoral practices in the Eastern European forest-steppe during the Middle Bronze Age
This study investigates the modes of subsistence practices of a Middle Don Catacomb Culture community for which archaeological evidence suggests a reliance on seasonal mobility of humans and their herds. A sequential multi-isotope approach [stable carbon (δ13C), stable oxygen (δ18O), and strontium (87Sr/86Sr)] on tooth enamel of mainly domestic animals (cattle and sheep/goat) from the Middle Bronze Age settlement Ksizovo-1 provides new and import…
The economic importance and mobility of horses in the Roman Netherlands
Previous research has suggested that horse breeding, with the army as the intended buyer, was an important part of the local agrarian economy in the Roman Dutch eastern river area. Since it is very difficult to trace the origins of horses by traditional archaeozoological methods, strontium isotope analysis was used to investigate the origins of horses in both military and rural sites. These new data are integrated with data on horse frequencies a…
Neither fish nor fowl. Isotopic evidence of a plant-based diet in (captive?) brown bears from Roman Augusta Raurica, Switzerland
In Roman times, the brown bear (Ursus arctos Linnaeus, 1758) was one of the most important hunted wild animal species. Bears were killed for e.g. their furs, their teeth and their meat. One of the reasons for catching bears alive was for their use in the context of public entertainment, i.e., animal hunts in amphitheatres. Bear bones from the Roman settlement of Augusta Raurica, NW Switzerland, attest the tradition of hunting (or trading?) bears …
An archaeobotanical and stable isotope approach to changing agricultural practices in the NW Mediterranean region around 4000 BC
It has recently been observed, that a change in the crop spectrum happened during the so-called Middle Neolithic in France at ca. 4000 BC. An agricultural system based on free-threshing cereals (naked wheat and naked barley) seems to shift to one based on glume wheats. This is a major change for traditional farmers and this paper aims to shed light on its possible causes. Here we describe the results of new investigations in a key area for the un…
Mapping Strontium Isotope Geographical Variability as a Basis for Multi-regional Human Mobility
Archaeological findings from the 8th c. BC settlement at Francavilla Marittima (CS) and its necropolis on the nearby Macchiabate plateau point to multi-regional interactions and the emergence of new identities in connection with the establishment of the Greek colony Sybaris. Strontium isotope analysis (87Sr/86Sr) is an efficient method to reconstruct human mobility and provides new insights into the Iron Age and Archaic period in the Calabria reg…
Titelseiten
Some insights into the lives of builders of early Saint Petersburg
In 2014, the unexpected discovery of some mass graves shed light on the earliest days of the newly founded city of Saint Petersburg. The graves could be dated to the beginning of the 18 th century, and analyses of the 255 excavated skeletons indicate that the individuals buried there were some of the workers who were forced to the construction sites and contributed tobuilding early Saint Petersburg. In this article, we aim to examine the possible…
Different in death
Alpine cattle management during the Bronze Age at Ramosch-Mottata, Switzerland
Landscape opening and herding strategies
A multi-isotopic pilot study of the burial mound of Boyanovo
Im Rahmen einer Pilotstudie wurden fünf menschliche Skelette aus dem Grabhügel Cinq squelettes humains provenant du tumulus funéraire de Five Bronze Age human skeletons from the burial mound of
Prehistoric Mobility and Diet in the West Eurasian Steppes 3500 to 300 BC
Questions concerning mobility and migration as well as subsistence strategies of past societies have always been of major importance in archaeological research. The West Eurasian steppes in the Eneolithic, the Early Bronze and the Iron Age were largely inhabited by cultural communities believed to show an elevated level of spatial mobility, often linked to their subsistence economy. In this volume, questions concerning the mobility and potential …
Identifying kurgan graves in Eastern Hungary
Isotopic analyses of human tooth enamel are increasingly applied to provide answers to archaeological questions. 87 Sr/ 86 Sr and 18 O analyses are used to investigate small-and large-scale mobility and migration of prehistoric human individuals. Within a pilot study looking into the kurgan graves in the Eastern Carpathian Basin, we analysed the tooth enamel of 8 humans from the Early Bronze Age burial mound of Srrtudvari-O rhalom, Hungary. Accor…
Immigration and transhumance in the Early Bronze Age Carpathian Basin
You never know until you look. The authors deconstruct a kurgan burial mound in the Great Hungarian Plain designated to the Yamnaya culture, to find it was actually shared by a number of different peoples. The Yamnaya were an influential immigrant group of the Late Copper Age/Early Bronze Age transition. The burials, already characterised by their grave goods, were radiocarbon dated and further examined using stable isotope analysis on the human …
Prehistoric Mobility and Diet in the West Eurasian Steppes 3500 to 300 BC
Questions concerning mobility and migration as well as subsistence strategies of past societies have always been of major importance in archaeological research. The West Eurasian steppes in the Eneolithic, the Early Bronze and the Iron Age were largely inhabited by cultural communities believed to show an elevated level of spatial mobility, often linked to their subsistence economy. In this volume, questions concerning the mobility and potential …
Immigration and transhumance in the Early Bronze Age Carpathian Basin
You never know until you look. The authors deconstruct a kurgan burial mound in the Great Hungarian Plain designated to the Yamnaya culture, to find it was actually shared by a number of different peoples. The Yamnaya were an influential immigrant group of the Late Copper Age/Early Bronze Age transition. The burials, already characterised by their grave goods, were radiocarbon dated and further examined using stable isotope analysis on the human …
Different in death
A forest-steppe landscape and the settlement Ksizovo-1 in the Don region during the Middle Bronze Age
Systematic investigations of Bronze Age settlements in different regions of western Eurasia have provided new insights into settlement structures, land use, and past mobile lifestyles. In this paper, we examine the single-layered site of Ksizovo-1 in the Upper Don basin, located in a microregion of the Eastern European forest-steppe. We integrate archaeological, bioarchaeological, and molecular investigations to evaluate if the Middle Bronze Age …
Mapping Strontium Isotope Geographical Variability as a Basis for Multi-regional Human Mobility
Archaeological findings from the 8th c. BC settlement at Francavilla Marittima (CS) and its necropolis on the nearby Macchiabate plateau point to multi-regional interactions and the emergence of new identities in connection with the establishment of the Greek colony Sybaris. Strontium isotope analysis (87Sr/86Sr) is an efficient method to reconstruct human mobility and provides new insights into the Iron Age and Archaic period in the Calabria reg…
Identifying kurgan graves in Eastern Hungary
Isotopic analyses of human tooth enamel are increasingly applied to provide answers to archaeological questions. 87 Sr/ 86 Sr and 18 O analyses are used to investigate small-and large-scale mobility and migration of prehistoric human individuals. Within a pilot study looking into the kurgan graves in the Eastern Carpathian Basin, we analysed the tooth enamel of 8 humans from the Early Bronze Age burial mound of Srrtudvari-O rhalom, Hungary. Accor…
Immigration and transhumance in the Early Bronze Age Carpathian Basin
You never know until you look. The authors deconstruct a kurgan burial mound in the Great Hungarian Plain designated to the Yamnaya culture, to find it was actually shared by a number of different peoples. The Yamnaya were an influential immigrant group of the Late Copper Age/Early Bronze Age transition. The burials, already characterised by their grave goods, were radiocarbon dated and further examined using stable isotope analysis on the human …
A multi-isotopic pilot study of the burial mound of Boyanovo
Im Rahmen einer Pilotstudie wurden fünf menschliche Skelette aus dem Grabhügel Cinq squelettes humains provenant du tumulus funéraire de Five Bronze Age human skeletons from the burial mound of
Prehistoric Mobility and Diet in the West Eurasian Steppes 3500 to 300 BC
Questions concerning mobility and migration as well as subsistence strategies of past societies have always been of major importance in archaeological research. The West Eurasian steppes in the Eneolithic, the Early Bronze and the Iron Age were largely inhabited by cultural communities believed to show an elevated level of spatial mobility, often linked to their subsistence economy. In this volume, questions concerning the mobility and potential …
Landscape opening and herding strategies
Alpine cattle management during the Bronze Age at Ramosch-Mottata, Switzerland
Different in death
Titelseiten
Some insights into the lives of builders of early Saint Petersburg
In 2014, the unexpected discovery of some mass graves shed light on the earliest days of the newly founded city of Saint Petersburg. The graves could be dated to the beginning of the 18 th century, and analyses of the 255 excavated skeletons indicate that the individuals buried there were some of the workers who were forced to the construction sites and contributed tobuilding early Saint Petersburg. In this article, we aim to examine the possible…
Neither fish nor fowl. Isotopic evidence of a plant-based diet in (captive?) brown bears from Roman Augusta Raurica, Switzerland
In Roman times, the brown bear (Ursus arctos Linnaeus, 1758) was one of the most important hunted wild animal species. Bears were killed for e.g. their furs, their teeth and their meat. One of the reasons for catching bears alive was for their use in the context of public entertainment, i.e., animal hunts in amphitheatres. Bear bones from the Roman settlement of Augusta Raurica, NW Switzerland, attest the tradition of hunting (or trading?) bears …
An archaeobotanical and stable isotope approach to changing agricultural practices in the NW Mediterranean region around 4000 BC
It has recently been observed, that a change in the crop spectrum happened during the so-called Middle Neolithic in France at ca. 4000 BC. An agricultural system based on free-threshing cereals (naked wheat and naked barley) seems to shift to one based on glume wheats. This is a major change for traditional farmers and this paper aims to shed light on its possible causes. Here we describe the results of new investigations in a key area for the un…
Mapping Strontium Isotope Geographical Variability as a Basis for Multi-regional Human Mobility
Archaeological findings from the 8th c. BC settlement at Francavilla Marittima (CS) and its necropolis on the nearby Macchiabate plateau point to multi-regional interactions and the emergence of new identities in connection with the establishment of the Greek colony Sybaris. Strontium isotope analysis (87Sr/86Sr) is an efficient method to reconstruct human mobility and provides new insights into the Iron Age and Archaic period in the Calabria reg…
Livestock management during times of transition. Exploring the relationship between animal size and diet from Roman to early medieval Augusta Raurica (Switzerland)
Zooarchaeological research all over Europe has suggested a generalised pattern of livestock size decrease during the transition between the Roman times and the Early Middle Ages. Different reasons have been proposed to explain this pattern, including a change in management and feeding practices, in the context of a shift of animal husbandry from large to small scale production. This paper is based on faunal material from Roman and early medieval …
At the onset of settled pastoralism – Implications of archaeozoological and isotope analyses from Bronze age sites in the North Caucasus
Bioarchaeological studies provide a valuable contribution to the understanding of the economy and activities of prehistoric populations in mountain regions. The Late Bronze Age in the Caucasus is an epoch of fundamental transformations that is accompanied by the development of a semi-stationary pastoral economy and ultimately by the emergence of combined mountain agriculture. So far, only a few archaeozoological assemblages from this period have …
Isotopic perspectives on pastoral practices in the Eastern European forest-steppe during the Middle Bronze Age
This study investigates the modes of subsistence practices of a Middle Don Catacomb Culture community for which archaeological evidence suggests a reliance on seasonal mobility of humans and their herds. A sequential multi-isotope approach [stable carbon (δ13C), stable oxygen (δ18O), and strontium (87Sr/86Sr)] on tooth enamel of mainly domestic animals (cattle and sheep/goat) from the Middle Bronze Age settlement Ksizovo-1 provides new and import…
The economic importance and mobility of horses in the Roman Netherlands
Previous research has suggested that horse breeding, with the army as the intended buyer, was an important part of the local agrarian economy in the Roman Dutch eastern river area. Since it is very difficult to trace the origins of horses by traditional archaeozoological methods, strontium isotope analysis was used to investigate the origins of horses in both military and rural sites. These new data are integrated with data on horse frequencies a…
A forest-steppe landscape and the settlement Ksizovo-1 in the Don region during the Middle Bronze Age
Systematic investigations of Bronze Age settlements in different regions of western Eurasia have provided new insights into settlement structures, land use, and past mobile lifestyles. In this paper, we examine the single-layered site of Ksizovo-1 in the Upper Don basin, located in a microregion of the Eastern European forest-steppe. We integrate archaeological, bioarchaeological, and molecular investigations to evaluate if the Middle Bronze Age …
Investigating the origins of the Cherniakhiv community at Voitenki, East Ukraine, through strontium isotope analysis
This paper presents strontium isotope data of human burials from Voitenki, a cemetery attributed to the Cherniakhiv Culture (1 st Millennium AD), in East Ukraine. Intending to use strontium isotope analysis to distinguish between local and non-local origins, we sampled 30 out of 113 inhumation graves that were excavated until 2018. The sample set included 22 adults, 4 juvenile individuals and 4 children, among them 11 anthropologically identified…
Manured or not manured? New baselines for re-interpreting cereal C and N stable isotope data from Neolithic sites in the NW Mediterranean
Supplying the Augustean conquest of the Alps — investigating the origins of Roman slingshot projectiles by lead isotope analysis
Lead isotope analyses of 40 lead slingshot projectiles and two lead plummets, recovered from a conflict landscape proximal to the Crap Ses Gorge in the Surses Valley, Switzerland, and thought to relate to the central marching route of Augustus’ Alpine Campaigns (late 1st c. BCE), are presented. Results point to a centralised production using a mixed lead stock primarily derived from the Almería-Cartagena Volcanic Belt of the southeastern Iberian …
Tracing the influence of Western Mediterranean innovations in Neolithic Europe through directly radiocarbon-dated naked wheat (Triticum aestivum/durum/turgidum)
The dispersal of crops offers a powerful lens through which to investigate prehistoric mobility, interaction, and adaptation. This study examines the spatiotemporal distribution of naked wheat across Europe during the Neolithic using a dataset of 116 directly dated naked wheat remains from 58 archaeological sites (ca. 6000–2400 cal BCE). Dates were calibrated and analysed through summed probability distributions, composite Kernel Density Estimati…
All equal in the face of death? Life histories of confirmed victims of the last plague epidemic in Basel (Switzerland)
The Covid-19 pandemic widened public awareness of the close links between socioeconomic status and resilience in the face of infection, yet this interplay was already well established in archaeological discourse. Here, the authors combine osteoarchaeological, stable isotope and pathogenomic analyses with archival research to explore the formation of multiple, or ‘plural’, burials at an early hospital in Basel, Switzerland. Identification of a sta…
Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (17 obras) · Geography (16 obras) · Archaeology (14 obras) · History (8 obras) · History (7 obras) · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies (6 obras) · Bronze Age (6 obras) · Ancient history (5 obras) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (5 obras) · Forestry (5 obras)