Agathe Reingruber
Biographic Data
| ID | 904756 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Agathe Reingruber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Agathe |
| FAMILY NAME | Reingruber |
| SIGNATURE | REINGRUBER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Freie Universität Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3494-9460 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ditches and their possible use in early gardening practices in the Aegean (6500–5500 calBC)
Many Neolithic settlements in the Aegean region are accompanied by ditches. • Ditches from the flat dispersed settlement Elateia 1 date back to 6000–5800 BCE. • Based on landscape-related and interdisciplinary research, we developed a new model. • Ditches can be multifunctional; one practical use could be water management. • Other early Greek ditches may also have served for watering and drainage of gardens. Neolithic ditches were discovered in T…
Dating the Early Neolithic in Pelagonia: Closing a chronological gap in Balkan prehistory
Since Gordon V. Childe first discussed the diffusion of culture from the Near East into Europe 100 years ago, various models for the advance of the Neolithic way of life have been proposed. Chronology has played an important role in this, but not all regions were included in the narratives due to a lack of data. Recent investigations in the border area between North Macedonia and Greece, namely in Pelagonia, have provided reliable new radiocarbon…
Socialising the Landscape in the Early Neolithic of Thessaly, Greece
This article attempts to draw attention to the social choices of the earliest farming societies, evaluating new and old settlement data from the Early Neolithic of Thessaly in Greece. We examine the inhabitation of landscapes, the organisation of the inhabited spaces and the human–landscape interaction as a framework for the creation of a socialised environment. Taking into account aspects such as settlement location, duration, architecture and i…
Elateia 1 in Northeastern Thessaly 8000 Years Ago: Relative and Absolute Chronology of a Flat Extended Settlement
Intensive and systematic surveys in the area south of Mount Olympos and west of Mount Ossa revealed not only tell settlements, but also several flat sites from different prehistoric periods. For one of the settlements, namely Elateia 1, a detailed relative chronological assessment was made with the help of statistical evaluations of pottery assemblages. In addition, short-lived bone samples confirmed and more precisely defined the exact chronolog…
Geographical mobility and social motility in the Aegean before and after 6600 BC
Eine der folgenreichsten Veränderungen in der Menschheitsgeschichte betrifft die Überwindung der Abhängigkeit von ausschließlich lokalen Ressourcen durch die am Beginn des Holozäns im Vorderen Orient einsetzende Domestikation von zuerst Pflanzen und dann Tieren. Jede Generation von Archäologen hat diesen Wandel im Lichte neu gewonnen Wissens aufgrund neuer Ausgrabungen und neuer analytischer Methoden reflektiert. Die Ausbreitung der produzierende…
Going West?: The Dissemination of Neolithic Innovations between the Bosporus and the Carpathians
Going West: The Dissemination of Neolithic Innovations Between the Bosporus and the Carpathians
Neolithic Thessaly: Radiocarbon dated periods and phases
Thessaly in Central Greece is famous for settlement mounds (magoules) that were already partly formed in the Early Neolithic period. Some of these long-lived sites grew to many metres in height during the subsequent Middle, Late and Final Neolithic periods, and were also inhabited in the Bronze Age. Such magoules served as the backbone for defining relative chronological schemes. However, their absolute dating is still a topic of debate: due to…
A network of the steppe and forest steppe along the Prut and Lower Danube rivers during the 6th millennium BC
The transition from a (predominantly) mobile way of life relying on hunting, fishing and gathering to a (predominantly) sedentary life-style based on farming and animal husbandry is considered in the western Pontic archaeological tradition almost exclusively from a southern, AegeanAnatolian perspective. Contacts between the steppe and forest steppe of the north-eastern Balkans and the north-western Pontic were seen as linear and unidirectional; ‘…
Preceramic, Aceramic or Early Ceramic? The radiocarbon dated beginning of the Neolithic in the Aegean
The Pre-Pottery-Neolithic refers to a period in the Eastern Mediterranean when ceramic containers were not yet in use (although small objects made of clay were already being created). This concept, which reflects a specific and quite unique stage in the development of human history, was introduced to Aegean prehistory under the term of Preceramic during the 1950’s (e.g., in Argissa Magoula and Sesklo). Shortly thereafter, a different term, the Ac…
Pietrele in the Lower Danube region: Integrating archaeological, faunal and environmental investigations
The c. 9m high tell-settlement of Pietrele-Magura Gorgana, situated close to the Danube river, is one of the westernmost sites of the Kod∫adermen-Gumelnita-Karanovo VI cultural complex that spread over the whole Westpontic region during the 5th millennium BC. Until recently tells were equated with the site when, in fact, they represent only the outstanding part of a far more complex settlement system as we now know from Pietrele thanks to geomagn…
Early Neolithic settlement patterns and exchange networks in the Aegean
The Neolithisation process is one of the major issues under debate in Aegean archaeology, since the description of the basal layers of Thessalian tell-settlements some fifty years ago. The pottery, figurines or stamps seemed to be of Anatolian origin, and were presumably brought to the region by colonists. The direct linking of the so-called ‘Neolithic Package’ with groups of people leaving Central Anatolia after the collapse of the Pre-Pottery N…
Pietrele-Măgura Gorgana: O aşezare eneolitică la Dunărea de Jos între 4500 şi 4250 î.e. / Siedlung Măgura Gorgana bei Pietrele an der Unteren Donau
Noile cercetări de pe tell-ul eneolitic „ Măgura Gorgana”, lângă satul Pietrele la Dunărea de Jos au început în anul 2002, printr-un proiect de colaborare între Institutul German de Arheologie, Secţia Eurasia, Institutul de Arheologie „ Vasile Pârvan” al Academiei Române şi Institutul de Geografie Fizică al Universităţii „ Johann Wolfgang Goethe” din Frankfurt a. M. Scopul cercetărilor este obţinerea de informaţii asupra cronologiei culturii Gume…
The Impact of Rapid Climate Change on Prehistoric Societies during the Holocene in the Eastern Mediterranean
In this paper we explore the impact of Rapid Climate Change (RCC) on prehistoric communities in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Early and Middle Holocene. Our focus is on the social implications of the four major climate cold anomalies that have recently been identified as key time-windows for global RCC (Mayewski et al. 2004). These cooling anomalies are well-dated, with Greenland ice-core resolution, due to synchronicity between warm/cold …
Depending on 14 C Data: Chronological Frameworks in the Neolithic and Chalcolithic of Southeastern Europe
With the introduction of the radiocarbon method in 1949 and the calibration curve constantly improving since 1965, but especially due to the development of the more accurate accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dating some 30 yr ago, the application of the 14 C method in prehistory revolutionized traditional chronological frameworks. Theories and models are adjusted to new 14 C sequences, and such sequences even lead to the creation of new theorie…
Depending on 14 C Data: Chronological Frameworks in the Neolithic and Chalcolithic of Southeastern Europe
With the introduction of the radiocarbon method in 1949 and the calibration curve constantly improving since 1965, but especially due to the development of the more accurate accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dating some 30 yr ago, the application of the 14 C method in prehistory revolutionized traditional chronological frameworks. Theories and models are adjusted to new 14 C sequences, and such sequences even lead to the creation of new theorie…
Preceramic, Aceramic or Early Ceramic? The radiocarbon dated beginning of the Neolithic in the Aegean
The Pre-Pottery-Neolithic refers to a period in the Eastern Mediterranean when ceramic containers were not yet in use (although small objects made of clay were already being created). This concept, which reflects a specific and quite unique stage in the development of human history, was introduced to Aegean prehistory under the term of Preceramic during the 1950’s (e.g., in Argissa Magoula and Sesklo). Shortly thereafter, a different term, the Ac…
Geographical mobility and social motility in the Aegean before and after 6600 BC
Eine der folgenreichsten Veränderungen in der Menschheitsgeschichte betrifft die Überwindung der Abhängigkeit von ausschließlich lokalen Ressourcen durch die am Beginn des Holozäns im Vorderen Orient einsetzende Domestikation von zuerst Pflanzen und dann Tieren. Jede Generation von Archäologen hat diesen Wandel im Lichte neu gewonnen Wissens aufgrund neuer Ausgrabungen und neuer analytischer Methoden reflektiert. Die Ausbreitung der produzierende…
Elateia 1 in Northeastern Thessaly 8000 Years Ago: Relative and Absolute Chronology of a Flat Extended Settlement
Intensive and systematic surveys in the area south of Mount Olympos and west of Mount Ossa revealed not only tell settlements, but also several flat sites from different prehistoric periods. For one of the settlements, namely Elateia 1, a detailed relative chronological assessment was made with the help of statistical evaluations of pottery assemblages. In addition, short-lived bone samples confirmed and more precisely defined the exact chronolog…
Dating the Early Neolithic in Pelagonia: Closing a chronological gap in Balkan prehistory
Since Gordon V. Childe first discussed the diffusion of culture from the Near East into Europe 100 years ago, various models for the advance of the Neolithic way of life have been proposed. Chronology has played an important role in this, but not all regions were included in the narratives due to a lack of data. Recent investigations in the border area between North Macedonia and Greece, namely in Pelagonia, have provided reliable new radiocarbon…
Socialising the Landscape in the Early Neolithic of Thessaly, Greece
This article attempts to draw attention to the social choices of the earliest farming societies, evaluating new and old settlement data from the Early Neolithic of Thessaly in Greece. We examine the inhabitation of landscapes, the organisation of the inhabited spaces and the human–landscape interaction as a framework for the creation of a socialised environment. Taking into account aspects such as settlement location, duration, architecture and i…
A network of the steppe and forest steppe along the Prut and Lower Danube rivers during the 6th millennium BC
The transition from a (predominantly) mobile way of life relying on hunting, fishing and gathering to a (predominantly) sedentary life-style based on farming and animal husbandry is considered in the western Pontic archaeological tradition almost exclusively from a southern, AegeanAnatolian perspective. Contacts between the steppe and forest steppe of the north-eastern Balkans and the north-western Pontic were seen as linear and unidirectional; ‘…
Pietrele-Măgura Gorgana: O aşezare eneolitică la Dunărea de Jos între 4500 şi 4250 î.e. / Siedlung Măgura Gorgana bei Pietrele an der Unteren Donau
Noile cercetări de pe tell-ul eneolitic „ Măgura Gorgana”, lângă satul Pietrele la Dunărea de Jos au început în anul 2002, printr-un proiect de colaborare între Institutul German de Arheologie, Secţia Eurasia, Institutul de Arheologie „ Vasile Pârvan” al Academiei Române şi Institutul de Geografie Fizică al Universităţii „ Johann Wolfgang Goethe” din Frankfurt a. M. Scopul cercetărilor este obţinerea de informaţii asupra cronologiei culturii Gume…
The Impact of Rapid Climate Change on Prehistoric Societies during the Holocene in the Eastern Mediterranean
In this paper we explore the impact of Rapid Climate Change (RCC) on prehistoric communities in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Early and Middle Holocene. Our focus is on the social implications of the four major climate cold anomalies that have recently been identified as key time-windows for global RCC (Mayewski et al. 2004). These cooling anomalies are well-dated, with Greenland ice-core resolution, due to synchronicity between warm/cold …
Depending on 14 C Data: Chronological Frameworks in the Neolithic and Chalcolithic of Southeastern Europe
With the introduction of the radiocarbon method in 1949 and the calibration curve constantly improving since 1965, but especially due to the development of the more accurate accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dating some 30 yr ago, the application of the 14 C method in prehistory revolutionized traditional chronological frameworks. Theories and models are adjusted to new 14 C sequences, and such sequences even lead to the creation of new theorie…
Early Neolithic settlement patterns and exchange networks in the Aegean
The Neolithisation process is one of the major issues under debate in Aegean archaeology, since the description of the basal layers of Thessalian tell-settlements some fifty years ago. The pottery, figurines or stamps seemed to be of Anatolian origin, and were presumably brought to the region by colonists. The direct linking of the so-called ‘Neolithic Package’ with groups of people leaving Central Anatolia after the collapse of the Pre-Pottery N…
Pietrele in the Lower Danube region: Integrating archaeological, faunal and environmental investigations
The c. 9m high tell-settlement of Pietrele-Magura Gorgana, situated close to the Danube river, is one of the westernmost sites of the Kod∫adermen-Gumelnita-Karanovo VI cultural complex that spread over the whole Westpontic region during the 5th millennium BC. Until recently tells were equated with the site when, in fact, they represent only the outstanding part of a far more complex settlement system as we now know from Pietrele thanks to geomagn…
Preceramic, Aceramic or Early Ceramic? The radiocarbon dated beginning of the Neolithic in the Aegean
The Pre-Pottery-Neolithic refers to a period in the Eastern Mediterranean when ceramic containers were not yet in use (although small objects made of clay were already being created). This concept, which reflects a specific and quite unique stage in the development of human history, was introduced to Aegean prehistory under the term of Preceramic during the 1950’s (e.g., in Argissa Magoula and Sesklo). Shortly thereafter, a different term, the Ac…
A network of the steppe and forest steppe along the Prut and Lower Danube rivers during the 6th millennium BC
The transition from a (predominantly) mobile way of life relying on hunting, fishing and gathering to a (predominantly) sedentary life-style based on farming and animal husbandry is considered in the western Pontic archaeological tradition almost exclusively from a southern, AegeanAnatolian perspective. Contacts between the steppe and forest steppe of the north-eastern Balkans and the north-western Pontic were seen as linear and unidirectional; ‘…
Going West?: The Dissemination of Neolithic Innovations between the Bosporus and the Carpathians
Going West: The Dissemination of Neolithic Innovations Between the Bosporus and the Carpathians
Neolithic Thessaly: Radiocarbon dated periods and phases
Thessaly in Central Greece is famous for settlement mounds (magoules) that were already partly formed in the Early Neolithic period. Some of these long-lived sites grew to many metres in height during the subsequent Middle, Late and Final Neolithic periods, and were also inhabited in the Bronze Age. Such magoules served as the backbone for defining relative chronological schemes. However, their absolute dating is still a topic of debate: due to…
Geographical mobility and social motility in the Aegean before and after 6600 BC
Eine der folgenreichsten Veränderungen in der Menschheitsgeschichte betrifft die Überwindung der Abhängigkeit von ausschließlich lokalen Ressourcen durch die am Beginn des Holozäns im Vorderen Orient einsetzende Domestikation von zuerst Pflanzen und dann Tieren. Jede Generation von Archäologen hat diesen Wandel im Lichte neu gewonnen Wissens aufgrund neuer Ausgrabungen und neuer analytischer Methoden reflektiert. Die Ausbreitung der produzierende…
Socialising the Landscape in the Early Neolithic of Thessaly, Greece
This article attempts to draw attention to the social choices of the earliest farming societies, evaluating new and old settlement data from the Early Neolithic of Thessaly in Greece. We examine the inhabitation of landscapes, the organisation of the inhabited spaces and the human–landscape interaction as a framework for the creation of a socialised environment. Taking into account aspects such as settlement location, duration, architecture and i…
Elateia 1 in Northeastern Thessaly 8000 Years Ago: Relative and Absolute Chronology of a Flat Extended Settlement
Intensive and systematic surveys in the area south of Mount Olympos and west of Mount Ossa revealed not only tell settlements, but also several flat sites from different prehistoric periods. For one of the settlements, namely Elateia 1, a detailed relative chronological assessment was made with the help of statistical evaluations of pottery assemblages. In addition, short-lived bone samples confirmed and more precisely defined the exact chronolog…
Dating the Early Neolithic in Pelagonia: Closing a chronological gap in Balkan prehistory
Since Gordon V. Childe first discussed the diffusion of culture from the Near East into Europe 100 years ago, various models for the advance of the Neolithic way of life have been proposed. Chronology has played an important role in this, but not all regions were included in the narratives due to a lack of data. Recent investigations in the border area between North Macedonia and Greece, namely in Pelagonia, have provided reliable new radiocarbon…
Ditches and their possible use in early gardening practices in the Aegean (6500–5500 calBC)
Many Neolithic settlements in the Aegean region are accompanied by ditches. • Ditches from the flat dispersed settlement Elateia 1 date back to 6000–5800 BCE. • Based on landscape-related and interdisciplinary research, we developed a new model. • Ditches can be multifunctional; one practical use could be water management. • Other early Greek ditches may also have served for watering and drainage of gardens. Neolithic ditches were discovered in T…
Archaeology (10 works) · Geography (10 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (9 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 works) · Art (7 works) · History (6 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · Prehistory (5 works) · Pottery (4 works) · Radiocarbon dating (4 works)