René Kunze

Biographic Data

ID6049771
NAMERené Kunze
GIVEN NAMESRené
FAMILY NAMEKunze
SIGNATUREKUNZE R
AFFILIATIONSMartin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
ORCID0000-0002-8217-9467
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • A fortified Early Bronze Age settlement in the Southern Caucasus

    Open AccessWieke De Neef, René Kunze et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2026

    Despite intensive study, the socioeconomic and political structuring of the Southern Caucasus Kura-Araxes cultural tradition remain poorly understood. Here, the authors explore the results of integrated geophysical survey and excavation at Artanish 9 in the Lake Sevan highlands (Armenia). They document a small, densely built site enclosed by monumental walls—an anomaly in highland Kura-Araxes settlement systems—offering new insights into sociopol…

  • Titelseiten

    Simone Arnhold, M Avramenko et al.ARTICLEPraehistorische Zeitschrift2023

  • Prehistoric gold from Lake Sevan Basin? New research on Armenian gold deposits and objects

    Open AccessRené Kunze, Khachatur Meliksetian et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2023References: 3

    The article gives an overview of the results of a joint Armenian-German project in the area of today's open pit gold mine of Sotk in Eastern Armenia. Special attention is given to the preliminary results of the gold analysis. Interdisciplinary studies on regional natural gold deposits - especially the Sotk and Tsarasar deposits - and their archaeological context are presented together with the analytical results of 43 gold and four silver objects…

  • Geoarchaeological investigations in Artanish Peninsula, Armenia

    Open AccessArshavir Hovhannisyan, Արսեն Բոբոխյան et al.ARTICLEArchaeological Prospection2023References: 4

    Within the framework of an Armenian–German research project, taking place between 2019 and 2021 on the Artanish Peninsula at Lake Sevan (Armenia), in addition to numerous (geo‐) archaeological investigations, methods of geochemical prospection have been carried out. The ancient burial grounds of Artanish 23 and Artanish 29 have served as model sites to successfully test the well‐known method of geochemical prospection and evaluation of metal depo…

  • Analytische Untersuchungen zu ostgeorgischen Bronzeobjekten

    René Kunze, Simone Arnhold et al.ARTICLEPraehistorische Zeitschrift2023

    Verschiedene Funde lassen spätestens ab der Frühbronzezeit Kontakte zwischen dem Kaukasus und dem Vorderen Orient erwarten Smith 2015; Ivanova 2012; Boehmer/Kossack 2000. . Dem Zentral- und Südkaukasus kommt dabei aufgrund seines Rohstoffreichtums eine besondere Rolle zu. Der Bedarf an Metallen, Obsidian u. a. regte in der Bronzezeit weitreichenden Handel an, der bislang jedoch noch nicht ausreichend Gegenstand der Forschung war. Vorangegangene U…

  • The Ecstasy of Gold

    Open AccessSandra E Hahn, Mandana Parsi et al.ARTICLEArchéoSciences2021

    Magnetometer prospection of a Bronze Age burial ground in Armenia.– Natural remanent magnetisation is the chief cause of anomalies.– Prehistoric gold mining near Sotk

  • Ushkiani-Project

    Open AccessArsen Bobokhyan, Արսեն Բոբոխյան et al.ARTICLEPraehistorische Zeitschrift2021Cited by: 1

    The enclosed landscape around the Artanish Peninsula (Lake Sevan/Armenia) can be seen as a prehistoric terra incognita due to the wholesale lack of archaeological investigations to date. Initial approaches in 2019 – funded by the Gerda-Henkel-Foundation – revealed outlines of the prehistoric settlement patterns which could be placed in relation to gold mining in a clearly delineated natural corridor along this line of superregional communication …

  • Archaeometallurgical prospections in the highlands of Medni Rid, southeastern Bulgaria

    Open AccessRené Kunze, Jonas Abele et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2018Cited by: 2References: 1

  • Felduntersuchungen zur frühen Kupfermetallurgie im Großen Kaukasus

    René Kunze, Marianne Mödlinger et al.ARTICLEPraehistorische Zeitschrift2018

    Im Zuge einer von der Fritz Thyssen Stiftung unterstützten Feldbegehung wurden im August 2016 in Ostgeorgien (Provinz Kachetien) die Täler der vom Großen Kaukasus in den Alazani entwässernden Nebenflüsse auf Kupfererzvorkommen, deren Abbau und etwaiger Weiterverarbeitung untersucht und soweit möglich chronologisch eingeordnet. Dabei konnten frühere Beobachtungen zum Vorkommen von Kupfererzen zum Teil bestätigt und um neue Funde erweitert werden. …