Natascha Mehler
Biographic Data
| ID | 673531 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Natascha Mehler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Natascha |
| FAMILY NAME | Mehler |
| SIGNATURE | MEHLER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7732-9395 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Merchants, Measures and Money. Understanding Technologies of Early Trade in a Comparative Perspective
This second volume in the series collects papers from two workshops held at the University of Göttingen in 2019 and 2020. The international meetings tackled questions related to merchants and money in a comparative perspective, with examples spanning from the Bronze Age to the early Modern period and embracing Europe, the Mediterranean, Asia and East Africa. The first part of this volume presents historical case studies of how merchants planned a…
Historical archaeology in Europe
Historical archaeology has made great strides in most European countries in recent years. In South-Eastern Europe, however, it is still almost non-existent. Where it is practised, it has long transcended the boundaries of academic disciplines and today combines methods and approaches adopted from history, sociology, archaeology, anthropology, art history and ethnology. The greatest upturn in recent years has occurred in the area of contemporary a…
Negotiating the North
This book brings together the cumulative results of a three-year project focused on the assemblies and administrative systems of Scandinavia, Britain, and the North Atlantic islands in the 1st and 2nd millennia AD. In this volume we integrate a wide range of historical, cartographic, archaeological, field-based, and onomastic data pertaining to early medieval and medieval administrative practices, geographies, and places of assembly in Norway, Sw…
Dynamic beach response to changing storminess of Unst, Shetland
We present major new findings on the stability of Norse landing places on the island of Unst, Shetland, using a combination of geomorphology, OSL dating, fetch analysis, and sediment transport modeling. Islanders needed reliable access to the sea, and exploited sandy beaches as safe landing places. The persistence of beaches was important for long-term continuity of settlement and could be threatened by stormy conditions. Sediment modeling undert…
Hanse Archaeology
Moravian ceramics on St Croix, the Virgin Islands
The island of St Croix in the Caribbean Sea, today a part of the United States Virgin Islands, is a cultural melting pot of descendants of European settlers, a native population and African slaves
Clay Tobacco-Pipe Research and Historical Archaeology in Germany, a Difficult Relationship
Clay tobacco-pipe studies played an important, yet unacknowledged, role in the formation process of historical archaeology in Germany. Systematic analyses of smoking utensils and the craftsmanship involved in making them were the forerunners of the academic discipline. Clay-pipe studies were never restricted by disciplinary boundaries. Methods and approaches were drawn from ethnology, archaeology, and history, but the field remained purely Euroce…
The material culture of the modern world
We discuss results of a content analysis of material culture articles in Post-Medieval Archaeology in the context of the development of historical archaeology as a discipline. We conclude that the journal remains an important outlet for detailed field reports, but in recent years, influenced by social and anthropological theories, the discipline has matured and articles have changed from antiquarian artefact presentations to contextualized materi…
Þingvellir
The site of the Icelandic general assembly at Þingvellir has long been at the center of assembly research. Over the past few decades in particular, archaeologists have criticised the antiquarian investigations of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The criticism was directed at the methods used at the time to pinpoint assembly sites and to identify their architectural components, such as booths and court-circles. However, it is also important…
Globalization, Immigration, and Transformation
Debating the Thing in the North I
The archaeology of mercantilism
Based on the first extensive research into Bavarian clay tobacco pipes dating from 1600 to 1745, this paper synthesizes written sources and material culture with the aims not only of contributing to post-medieval ceramic studies but also of examining the implementation and impact of a tobacco monopoly within an early modern state. After discussing the methodology, pipes are examined as a medium for mercantilist-driven actions and as indicators of…
The Perception and Interpretation of Hanseatic Material Culture in the North Atlantic
This paper takes the discussion on the concept of Hanseatic material culture from the Baltic and moves it west towards the North Atlantic islands and Norway, focusing on the contact zones between Hanse traders and societies at the fringes of northern Europe. The peoples of this area conducted considerable exchange with the Germans during the 14th through the 17th centuries, a process which could have led to significant impacts on the native cultu…
Globalization, Immigration, and Transformation
Merchants, Measures and Money. Understanding Technologies of Early Trade in a Comparative Perspective
This second volume in the series collects papers from two workshops held at the University of Göttingen in 2019 and 2020. The international meetings tackled questions related to merchants and money in a comparative perspective, with examples spanning from the Bronze Age to the early Modern period and embracing Europe, the Mediterranean, Asia and East Africa. The first part of this volume presents historical case studies of how merchants planned a…
The material culture of the modern world
We discuss results of a content analysis of material culture articles in Post-Medieval Archaeology in the context of the development of historical archaeology as a discipline. We conclude that the journal remains an important outlet for detailed field reports, but in recent years, influenced by social and anthropological theories, the discipline has matured and articles have changed from antiquarian artefact presentations to contextualized materi…
Dynamic beach response to changing storminess of Unst, Shetland
We present major new findings on the stability of Norse landing places on the island of Unst, Shetland, using a combination of geomorphology, OSL dating, fetch analysis, and sediment transport modeling. Islanders needed reliable access to the sea, and exploited sandy beaches as safe landing places. The persistence of beaches was important for long-term continuity of settlement and could be threatened by stormy conditions. Sediment modeling undert…
Þingvellir
The site of the Icelandic general assembly at Þingvellir has long been at the center of assembly research. Over the past few decades in particular, archaeologists have criticised the antiquarian investigations of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The criticism was directed at the methods used at the time to pinpoint assembly sites and to identify their architectural components, such as booths and court-circles. However, it is also important…
The archaeology of mercantilism
Based on the first extensive research into Bavarian clay tobacco pipes dating from 1600 to 1745, this paper synthesizes written sources and material culture with the aims not only of contributing to post-medieval ceramic studies but also of examining the implementation and impact of a tobacco monopoly within an early modern state. After discussing the methodology, pipes are examined as a medium for mercantilist-driven actions and as indicators of…
Clay Tobacco-Pipe Research and Historical Archaeology in Germany, a Difficult Relationship
Clay tobacco-pipe studies played an important, yet unacknowledged, role in the formation process of historical archaeology in Germany. Systematic analyses of smoking utensils and the craftsmanship involved in making them were the forerunners of the academic discipline. Clay-pipe studies were never restricted by disciplinary boundaries. Methods and approaches were drawn from ethnology, archaeology, and history, but the field remained purely Euroce…
Debating the Thing in the North I
The archaeology of mercantilism
Based on the first extensive research into Bavarian clay tobacco pipes dating from 1600 to 1745, this paper synthesizes written sources and material culture with the aims not only of contributing to post-medieval ceramic studies but also of examining the implementation and impact of a tobacco monopoly within an early modern state. After discussing the methodology, pipes are examined as a medium for mercantilist-driven actions and as indicators of…
The Perception and Interpretation of Hanseatic Material Culture in the North Atlantic
This paper takes the discussion on the concept of Hanseatic material culture from the Baltic and moves it west towards the North Atlantic islands and Norway, focusing on the contact zones between Hanse traders and societies at the fringes of northern Europe. The peoples of this area conducted considerable exchange with the Germans during the 14th through the 17th centuries, a process which could have led to significant impacts on the native cultu…
Globalization, Immigration, and Transformation
Debating the Thing in the North I
Þingvellir
The site of the Icelandic general assembly at Þingvellir has long been at the center of assembly research. Over the past few decades in particular, archaeologists have criticised the antiquarian investigations of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The criticism was directed at the methods used at the time to pinpoint assembly sites and to identify their architectural components, such as booths and court-circles. However, it is also important…
The material culture of the modern world
We discuss results of a content analysis of material culture articles in Post-Medieval Archaeology in the context of the development of historical archaeology as a discipline. We conclude that the journal remains an important outlet for detailed field reports, but in recent years, influenced by social and anthropological theories, the discipline has matured and articles have changed from antiquarian artefact presentations to contextualized materi…
Hanse Archaeology
Moravian ceramics on St Croix, the Virgin Islands
The island of St Croix in the Caribbean Sea, today a part of the United States Virgin Islands, is a cultural melting pot of descendants of European settlers, a native population and African slaves
Clay Tobacco-Pipe Research and Historical Archaeology in Germany, a Difficult Relationship
Clay tobacco-pipe studies played an important, yet unacknowledged, role in the formation process of historical archaeology in Germany. Systematic analyses of smoking utensils and the craftsmanship involved in making them were the forerunners of the academic discipline. Clay-pipe studies were never restricted by disciplinary boundaries. Methods and approaches were drawn from ethnology, archaeology, and history, but the field remained purely Euroce…
Dynamic beach response to changing storminess of Unst, Shetland
We present major new findings on the stability of Norse landing places on the island of Unst, Shetland, using a combination of geomorphology, OSL dating, fetch analysis, and sediment transport modeling. Islanders needed reliable access to the sea, and exploited sandy beaches as safe landing places. The persistence of beaches was important for long-term continuity of settlement and could be threatened by stormy conditions. Sediment modeling undert…
Historical archaeology in Europe
Historical archaeology has made great strides in most European countries in recent years. In South-Eastern Europe, however, it is still almost non-existent. Where it is practised, it has long transcended the boundaries of academic disciplines and today combines methods and approaches adopted from history, sociology, archaeology, anthropology, art history and ethnology. The greatest upturn in recent years has occurred in the area of contemporary a…
Negotiating the North
This book brings together the cumulative results of a three-year project focused on the assemblies and administrative systems of Scandinavia, Britain, and the North Atlantic islands in the 1st and 2nd millennia AD. In this volume we integrate a wide range of historical, cartographic, archaeological, field-based, and onomastic data pertaining to early medieval and medieval administrative practices, geographies, and places of assembly in Norway, Sw…
Merchants, Measures and Money. Understanding Technologies of Early Trade in a Comparative Perspective
This second volume in the series collects papers from two workshops held at the University of Göttingen in 2019 and 2020. The international meetings tackled questions related to merchants and money in a comparative perspective, with examples spanning from the Bronze Age to the early Modern period and embracing Europe, the Mediterranean, Asia and East Africa. The first part of this volume presents historical case studies of how merchants planned a…
Archaeology (10 works) · Geography (8 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (8 works) · History (8 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works)