Rebecca Hofmann
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 115606 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Rebecca Hofmann |
| NOMBRES | Rebecca |
| APELLIDO | Hofmann |
| FIRMA | HOFMANN R |
| AFILIACIONES | Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0028-6155 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
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…
Scales of Political Practice and Patterns of Power Relations in Prehistory
Political practices are fundamental for co-existence in human groups, yet the systematic investigation of such practices within prehistoric societies is still very much pending. Relevant discussions are often limited to cases of obvious asymmetric power relations and the alleged establishment of elites. In order to fill this complex gap in the current discussion we take a systematic approach exploring the nature and organisation of prehistoric po…
Trypillia mega-sites
Explanations for the emergence and abandonment of the Chalcolithic Trypillia mega-sites have long been debated. Here, the authors use Gini coefficients based on the sizes of approximately 7000 houses at 38 Trypillia sites to assess inequality between households as a factor in the rise and/or demise of these settlements. The results indicate temporarily reduced social inequality at mega-sites. It was only after several generations that increased s…
A complex subsistence regime revealed for Cucuteni–Trypillia sites in Chalcolithic eastern Europe based on new and old macrobotanical data
We present a comprehensive data-based characterization of the subsistence economy of Chalcolithic Cucuteni–Trypillia societies (CTS) on the Moldovian and Suceava plateaus and the Podolian and the Dnieper uplands. This study is based on a quantitative evaluation of archaeobotanical samples from 34 settlement sites, with a focus on Trypillia mega-sites and on stable isotopic analysis of ancient crop residues. The isotopic analysis allows us to iden…
Tracing the micro processes of the production and use of ceramic vessels and textile products from the Cucuteni-Trypillia settlements of Bilyi Kamin and Krynychky-Ferma (Ukraine)
The article presents an analysis of a collection of ceramic fragments with textile imprints from the Cucuteni-Trypillia settlements of Bilyi Kamin and Krynychky-Ferma, which are situated in modern Ukraine. The analysis involved macroscopic and microscopic examinations as well as use-wear studies, aimed at characterizing traces that provide insights into the production and utilization of ceramic vessels and textile products. A comparison of result…
Okolište – Spätneolithische Keramik und Siedlungsentwicklung in Zentralbosnien
Ausgehend von Anatolien und Griechenland breitete sich um etwa 6000 v. u. Z. in Südosteuropa Ackerbau und Viehzucht aus. Das frühe Neolithikum (6100–5500 v. u. Z.) ist zunächst noch durch relativ kleine soziale Gruppen undzahlreiche kleine und eher kurzlebige Siedlungen gekennzeichnet. Ab etwa 5500 v. u. Z. begannen sich erstmals in der Geschichte Südosteuropas große langlebige Dörfer mit teils enormen Bevölkerungskonzentrationen zu etablieren, d…
Community negotiation and pasture partitioning at the Trypillia settlement of Maidanetske
The inhabitants of the vast Chalcolithic Trypillia sites of Eastern Europe required highly organised strategies to meet subsistence needs. Here, the authors use isotopic analyses of faunal remains from Maidanetske, Ukraine, to identify intensive and extensive grazing practices. The former demanded intra-community negotiation to ensure access to high-quality pastures for valuable animals such as dairy cows, suggesting that pasture may have also se…
Magnetization Patterns as Indicator of Settlement Structures
Inverse filtering of magnetic prospection data to determine magnetization distribution.– Different building types and internal site patterns visible by magnetization
On‐site non‐destructive determination of the remanent magnetization of archaeological finds using field magnetometers
The determination of the natural remanent magnetization (NRM) of archaeological features can be used for magnetic modelling, joining of shards, archaeomagnetic dating or the investigation of the firing–cooling–collapsing order of ancient buildings. The measurement of NRM is normally conducted on cylindrical or cubic samples in the laboratory. Nevertheless, archaeological finds should preferably not be destroyed, and laboratory instruments are hig…
Orientation of Neolithic dwellings in Central and Southeast Europe
This paper explores to what extent orientations of houses can contribute to chronological questions and to the cultural and social contextualisation in the Neolithic of Europe in general and societies with pottery styles labeled as Vinča and LBK in particular. First of all, the question is investigated to what extent systematic errors in the orientation of houses can contribute to the clarification of intra-site chronologies in tells and flat set…
When female leaders believe that men make better leaders
Late Neolithic multicomponent sites of the Tisza region and the emergence of centripetal settlement layouts
Deciphering archeological contexts from the magnetic map
The unique size and development of prehistoric megasites of the north Pontic Cucuteni-Tripolye Chalcolithic groups (4100–3600 BCE) challenge modern archeology and paleoecology. The extremely large number of houses (approximately 3000, mostly burned) necessitates the development of multidisciplinary technologies to gain a holistic understanding of such sites. In this contribution, we introduce a novel geophysical methodology and a detailed analysi…
Unique pottery kiln construction? The interpretation of massive clay objects from the Trostianchyk site of the Trypillia culture
The article considers the characteristics of truncated-pyramidal and discal type clay objects that were found in pit 1 at the Trostianchyk site (Vinnytsia oblast, Ukraine) of BII Trypillia stage. The context, location and chronology of these artifacts are characterized. On the basis of ethnographic evidence, the interpretation of the clay objects as movable constructive elements of a pottery kiln is given. We assume that such kilns are the archai…
Late Neolithic multicomponent sites of the Tisza region and the emergence of centripetal settlement layouts
In der Theiß-Region an der nördlichen Peripherie der südosteuropäischen Tellkulturen beobachten wir zwischen 5300 und 4450 v. u. Z. das Auftreten großer bevölkerungsreicher Siedlungen, die durch die Kombinationen unterschiedlicher Siedlungskomponenten, von Tells, Flachsiedlungen und Kreisgrabenanlagen gekennzeichnet sind. In diesem Beitrag ist die Entwicklung einer solchen Mehrkomponenten-Siedlung – Borđoš in der serbischen Vojvodina – rekonstrui…
Localizing Global Climate Change in the Pacific. Knowledge and Response in Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM)
This paper explores how the idea of climate change travels to the islands of Micronesia and how discourses are translated in radically different ways in local life-worlds. Building on long-term fieldwork in Chuuk, the paper first conceptualizes climate change as a ‘travelling idea’ which takes its departure to the islandscape of Oceania in ‘Western’ island conceptions of ‘insularity’ and feed the ‘vulnerability trajectories’ that turned the islan…
P-ed-XRF-geochemical signatures of a 7300 year old Linear Band Pottery house ditch fill at Vráble-Ve'lké Lehemby, Slovakia - House inhabitation and post-depositional processes
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…
Island impressions of Typhoon Owen
Over Easter 2012, Rebecca Hofmann travelled to Nómwiin, an outer atoll of Chuuk State in the Paafeng Islands (literally ‘lying to the north’, also known as Hall Islands after the first European to have encountered them). This special article contains some of her interviews with Nómwiin islanders, and photographs
Shrinking, sinking, resurfacing
Using the Capability Approach to Conceptualise Inequality in Archaeology
The Puzzle of Chuukese Mobility Patterns-Contradictory, Dualistic, or Pluralistic
Education, employment, and health care are the three main reasons given by Micronesians for the ongoing flow of migrants to the USA. In many families, remittances constitute the only source of steady cash income. Therefore, migration is seen as part of the islanders’ subsistence strategy. Emotional implications for the individual are subsumed under the collective good. This paper will review migration motifs as experienced by chóón (people of) Ch…
Culturecide in changing Micronesian climates? About the unintenionality of climate change
This article establishes and explains the (cultural) genocidal dimension of climate change, engaging aspects of identity, intellectual property and cultural heritage from an emic view of the people concerned, namely the inhabitants of Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia. The Pacific Islands are widely recognised as being specifically vulnerable to the impact of a warming climate. The threat it poses to the scarcely, but partly densely populated…
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…
Deciphering archeological contexts from the magnetic map
The unique size and development of prehistoric megasites of the north Pontic Cucuteni-Tripolye Chalcolithic groups (4100–3600 BCE) challenge modern archeology and paleoecology. The extremely large number of houses (approximately 3000, mostly burned) necessitates the development of multidisciplinary technologies to gain a holistic understanding of such sites. In this contribution, we introduce a novel geophysical methodology and a detailed analysi…
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…
Using the Capability Approach to Conceptualise Inequality in Archaeology
Late Neolithic multicomponent sites of the Tisza region and the emergence of centripetal settlement layouts
In der Theiß-Region an der nördlichen Peripherie der südosteuropäischen Tellkulturen beobachten wir zwischen 5300 und 4450 v. u. Z. das Auftreten großer bevölkerungsreicher Siedlungen, die durch die Kombinationen unterschiedlicher Siedlungskomponenten, von Tells, Flachsiedlungen und Kreisgrabenanlagen gekennzeichnet sind. In diesem Beitrag ist die Entwicklung einer solchen Mehrkomponenten-Siedlung – Borđoš in der serbischen Vojvodina – rekonstrui…
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…
A complex subsistence regime revealed for Cucuteni–Trypillia sites in Chalcolithic eastern Europe based on new and old macrobotanical data
We present a comprehensive data-based characterization of the subsistence economy of Chalcolithic Cucuteni–Trypillia societies (CTS) on the Moldovian and Suceava plateaus and the Podolian and the Dnieper uplands. This study is based on a quantitative evaluation of archaeobotanical samples from 34 settlement sites, with a focus on Trypillia mega-sites and on stable isotopic analysis of ancient crop residues. The isotopic analysis allows us to iden…
Magnetization Patterns as Indicator of Settlement Structures
Inverse filtering of magnetic prospection data to determine magnetization distribution.– Different building types and internal site patterns visible by magnetization
The Puzzle of Chuukese Mobility Patterns-Contradictory, Dualistic, or Pluralistic
Education, employment, and health care are the three main reasons given by Micronesians for the ongoing flow of migrants to the USA. In many families, remittances constitute the only source of steady cash income. Therefore, migration is seen as part of the islanders’ subsistence strategy. Emotional implications for the individual are subsumed under the collective good. This paper will review migration motifs as experienced by chóón (people of) Ch…
Community negotiation and pasture partitioning at the Trypillia settlement of Maidanetske
The inhabitants of the vast Chalcolithic Trypillia sites of Eastern Europe required highly organised strategies to meet subsistence needs. Here, the authors use isotopic analyses of faunal remains from Maidanetske, Ukraine, to identify intensive and extensive grazing practices. The former demanded intra-community negotiation to ensure access to high-quality pastures for valuable animals such as dairy cows, suggesting that pasture may have also se…
Unique pottery kiln construction? The interpretation of massive clay objects from the Trostianchyk site of the Trypillia culture
The article considers the characteristics of truncated-pyramidal and discal type clay objects that were found in pit 1 at the Trostianchyk site (Vinnytsia oblast, Ukraine) of BII Trypillia stage. The context, location and chronology of these artifacts are characterized. On the basis of ethnographic evidence, the interpretation of the clay objects as movable constructive elements of a pottery kiln is given. We assume that such kilns are the archai…
Culturecide in changing Micronesian climates? About the unintenionality of climate change
This article establishes and explains the (cultural) genocidal dimension of climate change, engaging aspects of identity, intellectual property and cultural heritage from an emic view of the people concerned, namely the inhabitants of Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia. The Pacific Islands are widely recognised as being specifically vulnerable to the impact of a warming climate. The threat it poses to the scarcely, but partly densely populated…
Culturecide in changing Micronesian climates? About the unintenionality of climate change
This article establishes and explains the (cultural) genocidal dimension of climate change, engaging aspects of identity, intellectual property and cultural heritage from an emic view of the people concerned, namely the inhabitants of Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia. The Pacific Islands are widely recognised as being specifically vulnerable to the impact of a warming climate. The threat it poses to the scarcely, but partly densely populated…
Island impressions of Typhoon Owen
Over Easter 2012, Rebecca Hofmann travelled to Nómwiin, an outer atoll of Chuuk State in the Paafeng Islands (literally ‘lying to the north’, also known as Hall Islands after the first European to have encountered them). This special article contains some of her interviews with Nómwiin islanders, and photographs
Shrinking, sinking, resurfacing
Using the Capability Approach to Conceptualise Inequality in Archaeology
The Puzzle of Chuukese Mobility Patterns-Contradictory, Dualistic, or Pluralistic
Education, employment, and health care are the three main reasons given by Micronesians for the ongoing flow of migrants to the USA. In many families, remittances constitute the only source of steady cash income. Therefore, migration is seen as part of the islanders’ subsistence strategy. Emotional implications for the individual are subsumed under the collective good. This paper will review migration motifs as experienced by chóón (people of) Ch…
P-ed-XRF-geochemical signatures of a 7300 year old Linear Band Pottery house ditch fill at Vráble-Ve'lké Lehemby, Slovakia - House inhabitation and post-depositional processes
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…
Localizing Global Climate Change in the Pacific. Knowledge and Response in Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM)
This paper explores how the idea of climate change travels to the islands of Micronesia and how discourses are translated in radically different ways in local life-worlds. Building on long-term fieldwork in Chuuk, the paper first conceptualizes climate change as a ‘travelling idea’ which takes its departure to the islandscape of Oceania in ‘Western’ island conceptions of ‘insularity’ and feed the ‘vulnerability trajectories’ that turned the islan…
Deciphering archeological contexts from the magnetic map
The unique size and development of prehistoric megasites of the north Pontic Cucuteni-Tripolye Chalcolithic groups (4100–3600 BCE) challenge modern archeology and paleoecology. The extremely large number of houses (approximately 3000, mostly burned) necessitates the development of multidisciplinary technologies to gain a holistic understanding of such sites. In this contribution, we introduce a novel geophysical methodology and a detailed analysi…
Unique pottery kiln construction? The interpretation of massive clay objects from the Trostianchyk site of the Trypillia culture
The article considers the characteristics of truncated-pyramidal and discal type clay objects that were found in pit 1 at the Trostianchyk site (Vinnytsia oblast, Ukraine) of BII Trypillia stage. The context, location and chronology of these artifacts are characterized. On the basis of ethnographic evidence, the interpretation of the clay objects as movable constructive elements of a pottery kiln is given. We assume that such kilns are the archai…
Late Neolithic multicomponent sites of the Tisza region and the emergence of centripetal settlement layouts
In der Theiß-Region an der nördlichen Peripherie der südosteuropäischen Tellkulturen beobachten wir zwischen 5300 und 4450 v. u. Z. das Auftreten großer bevölkerungsreicher Siedlungen, die durch die Kombinationen unterschiedlicher Siedlungskomponenten, von Tells, Flachsiedlungen und Kreisgrabenanlagen gekennzeichnet sind. In diesem Beitrag ist die Entwicklung einer solchen Mehrkomponenten-Siedlung – Borđoš in der serbischen Vojvodina – rekonstrui…
Orientation of Neolithic dwellings in Central and Southeast Europe
This paper explores to what extent orientations of houses can contribute to chronological questions and to the cultural and social contextualisation in the Neolithic of Europe in general and societies with pottery styles labeled as Vinča and LBK in particular. First of all, the question is investigated to what extent systematic errors in the orientation of houses can contribute to the clarification of intra-site chronologies in tells and flat set…
When female leaders believe that men make better leaders
Late Neolithic multicomponent sites of the Tisza region and the emergence of centripetal settlement layouts
Magnetization Patterns as Indicator of Settlement Structures
Inverse filtering of magnetic prospection data to determine magnetization distribution.– Different building types and internal site patterns visible by magnetization
On‐site non‐destructive determination of the remanent magnetization of archaeological finds using field magnetometers
The determination of the natural remanent magnetization (NRM) of archaeological features can be used for magnetic modelling, joining of shards, archaeomagnetic dating or the investigation of the firing–cooling–collapsing order of ancient buildings. The measurement of NRM is normally conducted on cylindrical or cubic samples in the laboratory. Nevertheless, archaeological finds should preferably not be destroyed, and laboratory instruments are hig…
Okolište – Spätneolithische Keramik und Siedlungsentwicklung in Zentralbosnien
Ausgehend von Anatolien und Griechenland breitete sich um etwa 6000 v. u. Z. in Südosteuropa Ackerbau und Viehzucht aus. Das frühe Neolithikum (6100–5500 v. u. Z.) ist zunächst noch durch relativ kleine soziale Gruppen undzahlreiche kleine und eher kurzlebige Siedlungen gekennzeichnet. Ab etwa 5500 v. u. Z. begannen sich erstmals in der Geschichte Südosteuropas große langlebige Dörfer mit teils enormen Bevölkerungskonzentrationen zu etablieren, d…
Community negotiation and pasture partitioning at the Trypillia settlement of Maidanetske
The inhabitants of the vast Chalcolithic Trypillia sites of Eastern Europe required highly organised strategies to meet subsistence needs. Here, the authors use isotopic analyses of faunal remains from Maidanetske, Ukraine, to identify intensive and extensive grazing practices. The former demanded intra-community negotiation to ensure access to high-quality pastures for valuable animals such as dairy cows, suggesting that pasture may have also se…
A complex subsistence regime revealed for Cucuteni–Trypillia sites in Chalcolithic eastern Europe based on new and old macrobotanical data
We present a comprehensive data-based characterization of the subsistence economy of Chalcolithic Cucuteni–Trypillia societies (CTS) on the Moldovian and Suceava plateaus and the Podolian and the Dnieper uplands. This study is based on a quantitative evaluation of archaeobotanical samples from 34 settlement sites, with a focus on Trypillia mega-sites and on stable isotopic analysis of ancient crop residues. The isotopic analysis allows us to iden…
Tracing the micro processes of the production and use of ceramic vessels and textile products from the Cucuteni-Trypillia settlements of Bilyi Kamin and Krynychky-Ferma (Ukraine)
The article presents an analysis of a collection of ceramic fragments with textile imprints from the Cucuteni-Trypillia settlements of Bilyi Kamin and Krynychky-Ferma, which are situated in modern Ukraine. The analysis involved macroscopic and microscopic examinations as well as use-wear studies, aimed at characterizing traces that provide insights into the production and utilization of ceramic vessels and textile products. A comparison of result…
Scales of Political Practice and Patterns of Power Relations in Prehistory
Political practices are fundamental for co-existence in human groups, yet the systematic investigation of such practices within prehistoric societies is still very much pending. Relevant discussions are often limited to cases of obvious asymmetric power relations and the alleged establishment of elites. In order to fill this complex gap in the current discussion we take a systematic approach exploring the nature and organisation of prehistoric po…
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…
Trypillia mega-sites
Explanations for the emergence and abandonment of the Chalcolithic Trypillia mega-sites have long been debated. Here, the authors use Gini coefficients based on the sizes of approximately 7000 houses at 38 Trypillia sites to assess inequality between households as a factor in the rise and/or demise of these settlements. The results indicate temporarily reduced social inequality at mega-sites. It was only after several generations that increased 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…
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