Mads Kähler Holst
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 103520 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Mads Kähler Holst |
| PRENOMES | Mads Kähler |
| SOBRENOME | Holst |
| ASSINATURA | HOLST M K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5402-5287 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 109 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The Mountain Sanctuary of Matzanni in Sardinia
The Matzanni Project tracks the role of the large mountain sanctuary of Matzanni-Vallermosa (southwestern Sardinia) in a scalar network from the local to, potentially, the Bronze Age global. Exploitation of metals in the mountainous setting of the sanctuary constitutes a major research focus together with understanding how metal extraction and religion may have intersected
The Dime project
In september 2018, the DIME portal was officially launched to facilitate the user driven recording of metal detector finds produced by members of the public. The concrete and operational aim of DIME is to provide a portal for the registering and hence safeguarding of the increasing number of metal detector finds and to make them accessible for the general public and for research. The more overarching vision behind the DIME project is to realise t…
Economic and social zones during the Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age in Jæren, Southwest Norway. Reconstructing large-scale land-use patterns
Basierend auf einer Untersuchung der ökologischen und archäologischen Hinterlassenschaften für Jæren, Südwest-Norwegen, wird vorgeschlagen, dass der Übergang zu einer agrar-pastoralen Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft am Übergang vom mittleren zum späten Neolithikum (2400–2350 v. Chr.) erfolgte und es in Folge zu einer raschen Strukturierung der besiedelten Kulturlandschaften kam. In den folgenden Jahrzehnten und Jahrhunderten entwickelte sich die Gese…
Governing martial traditions
Underwater archaeology and submerged landscapes in western Australia
This research aims to explore the submerged landscapes of the Pilbara of western Australia, using predictive archaeological modelling, airborne LiDAR, marine acoustics, coring and diver survey. It includes excavation and geophysical investigation of a submerged shell midden in Denmark to establish guidelines for the underwater discovery of such sites elsewhere
Late Iron Age longhouse chronology. A study aimed at constructing a formal house chronology for the Late Iron Age, based on selected localities in central and eastern Jutland
This paper presents a formalised chronological study of the longhouses of the Late Iron Age. This is based on the correspondence analysis of data relating to house ground plans recorded at a number of Iron Age settlements in central and eastern Jutland, which, as a region, has the most comprehensive relevant data set, including many constructional details. The chronology constitutes a formalisation of the house-chronological considerations undert…
Borum Eshøj Revisited – Bronze Age monumental burial traditions in eastern Jutland, Denmark
Borum Eshøj is one of the internationally most famous monuments from the Nordic Bronze Age, key to understanding burial customs, social identities and societies. Its uniqueness is reflected in its extraordinarily well-preserved oak log coffin burials, its landscape setting in a distinct barrow group and its complex monumental architecture. Since 1988, new investigations have been conducted at the barrow group, and in 2011, the remains of the clas…
Geomorphological setting of a sacred landscape
The Illerup Valley in Denmark contains several large‐scale Iron Age (first to fifth century A.D.) ritual depositions associated with warfare among Germanic groups. The oldest deliberate deposition consisted of human bones and is dated to the first to fifth decade A.D. It is hypothesized that this first deposition initiated a ritual tradition and made the valley sacred to later generations. To understand the choice of the first location, we have r…
The Layout and Internal Development of Celtic Fields
The layout and development of field systems may reflect significant aspects of prehistoric societies such as agricultural strategies, use rights and inheritance practices. This article presents a method for analysing the developments of field systems in their entirety, based on a hierarchical sorting of field boundaries whose intersections have been used to define relations of equivalence and subordination. The formalized relational expression of…
The postmortem exposure interval of an Iron Age human bone assemblage from Alken Enge, Denmark
Repeating boundaries – repertoires of landscape regulations in southern Scandinavia in the Late Bronze Age and Pre-Roman Iron Age
Towards the end of the Late Bronze Age, linear boundaries such as enclosed farmsteads, field divisions, and pit zone alignments emerged and gradually permeated the landscapes of southern Scandinavia on multiple scales. This article suggests the concept of a ‘repertoire’ as a way of approaching this phenomenon. The repertoire consisted of different topological operations (e.g. plot definition, demarcation, and enclosure), constructed by different …
A Palisade Fit for a King
The royal estate in Viking Age Jelling has long been a theme for both saga and research, but has, nonetheless, lived an elusive life as far as its archaeological remains are concerned. However, recent excavations have revealed the remains of a massive wooden palisade demarcating an area of c. 125,000 m2, encircling a series of buildings and monuments. The impressive structure follows a strict architectural regularity and demonstrates a rigid conc…
Burials
This article discusses burials and the burial practices during the Bronze Age. It examines the state of research on the study of burials and then considers the overall trends in burial custom. The article discusses the issue of the identity of buried individuals in relation to burial analysis. It then studies the event dimension of burials and burial clusters or communities, which generally accumulate over time. The article concludes with a secti…
Searching for long-term trends in prehistoric manuring practice. δ15N analyses of charred cereal grains from the 4th to the 1st millennium BC
Bronze Age ‘Herostrats’
In this article we argue that within the Danish Bronze Age there was a short-lived period (roughly 1500–1150 bc ) that witnessed a dramatic investment of resources into the construction of monumental architecture in the form of barrows and long houses. These investments had far-reaching long-term effects on the local landscape with negative consequences for agricultural productivity. We use two extraordinary well-documented excavations of a barro…
The Late Viking-Age Royal Constructions at Jelling, central Jutland, Denmark
Der königliche Komplex in Jelling mit seinen monumentalen Verweisen auf königliche Macht und Christianisierung ist als bedeutender Schlüsselort für die archäologische wie historische Deutung des politischen und religiösen Wandels im skandinavischen Raum am Ende der Wikingerzeit zu verstehen. In den letzten Jahren erfolgte eine Neubewertung der Denkmäler und ihrer Umgebung auf Basis neuer umfangreicher Ausgrabungen und damit auch der in einem Zeit…
The hydrology in huge burial mounds built of loamy tills
For centuries a well was located on the top of one of the two Viking Age royal mounds in Jelling. This indicates that a perched water table had developed in the mounds. Perched water tables are well known in Bronze Age burial mounds due to the development of iron pans in the central part of the mounds, but it is unclear whether the genesis of the perched water table in the Jelling mounds is similar and due to iron pan formation or due to other so…
Tårup
In 1992 a well-preserved round dolmen covered by a Bronze Age burial mound was excavated at the village of Tarup between Vejle and Fredericia in East jutland.The chamber can be classified as a dolmen without passage, but with access by a threshold construction.It contained no primary burial, but an undisturbed floor that may be the original.The mound seems to have been constructed in two stages, and the kerbstones may have been free-standing for …
Spatial patterns of social organization in the Early Bronze Age of South Scandinavia
Preservation Within Log Coffins Before and After Barrow Construction
The Chemical Environment in a Burial Mound Shortly after Construction—An Archaeological–Pedological Experiment
The South Scandinavian barrows with well-preserved oak-log coffins
Recent archaeological and pedological research on South Scandinavian Bronze Age barrows reveals that the remarkable conditions of preservation in a number of mounds are the result of particular construction techniques or special activities during construction. Augerings indicate that the phenomenon is concentrated within specific groups of barrows with central positions in a hypothetical Bronze Age communication system
Recent Studies on the Formation of Iron Pans around the Oaken Log Coffins of the Bronze Age Burial Mounds of Denmark
Soil Forming Processes in and below a Bronze Age Burial Mound at Lejrskov, Southern Jutland
Geografisk Tidsskrift, Danish Journal of Geography 98: 46–55. In the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century archaeological excavations of Bronze Age burial mounds in Jutland occasionally revealed mounds with water saturated cores, in which the conditions of preservation were extraordinary good. The wet areas were totally encapsulated by thin, strongly cemented iron pans, and until 1942 several different theories on the genesis of these pans w…
Genesis of Iron Pans in Bronze Age Mounds in Denmark
L'auteur s'interesse aux procedes et reactions chimiques grâce auxquelles une fine couche ferreuse etait formee dans les tumulus danois de l'âge du Bronze, offrant ainsi d'exceptionelles conditions de conservation
Searching for long-term trends in prehistoric manuring practice. δ15N analyses of charred cereal grains from the 4th to the 1st millennium BC
Bronze Age ‘Herostrats’
In this article we argue that within the Danish Bronze Age there was a short-lived period (roughly 1500–1150 bc ) that witnessed a dramatic investment of resources into the construction of monumental architecture in the form of barrows and long houses. These investments had far-reaching long-term effects on the local landscape with negative consequences for agricultural productivity. We use two extraordinary well-documented excavations of a barro…
The South Scandinavian barrows with well-preserved oak-log coffins
Recent archaeological and pedological research on South Scandinavian Bronze Age barrows reveals that the remarkable conditions of preservation in a number of mounds are the result of particular construction techniques or special activities during construction. Augerings indicate that the phenomenon is concentrated within specific groups of barrows with central positions in a hypothetical Bronze Age communication system
Preservation Within Log Coffins Before and After Barrow Construction
Recent Studies on the Formation of Iron Pans around the Oaken Log Coffins of the Bronze Age Burial Mounds of Denmark
The Chemical Environment in a Burial Mound Shortly after Construction—An Archaeological–Pedological Experiment
The Layout and Internal Development of Celtic Fields
The layout and development of field systems may reflect significant aspects of prehistoric societies such as agricultural strategies, use rights and inheritance practices. This article presents a method for analysing the developments of field systems in their entirety, based on a hierarchical sorting of field boundaries whose intersections have been used to define relations of equivalence and subordination. The formalized relational expression of…
The Late Viking-Age Royal Constructions at Jelling, central Jutland, Denmark
Der königliche Komplex in Jelling mit seinen monumentalen Verweisen auf königliche Macht und Christianisierung ist als bedeutender Schlüsselort für die archäologische wie historische Deutung des politischen und religiösen Wandels im skandinavischen Raum am Ende der Wikingerzeit zu verstehen. In den letzten Jahren erfolgte eine Neubewertung der Denkmäler und ihrer Umgebung auf Basis neuer umfangreicher Ausgrabungen und damit auch der in einem Zeit…
Soil Forming Processes in and below a Bronze Age Burial Mound at Lejrskov, Southern Jutland
Geografisk Tidsskrift, Danish Journal of Geography 98: 46–55. In the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century archaeological excavations of Bronze Age burial mounds in Jutland occasionally revealed mounds with water saturated cores, in which the conditions of preservation were extraordinary good. The wet areas were totally encapsulated by thin, strongly cemented iron pans, and until 1942 several different theories on the genesis of these pans w…
Economic and social zones during the Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age in Jæren, Southwest Norway. Reconstructing large-scale land-use patterns
Basierend auf einer Untersuchung der ökologischen und archäologischen Hinterlassenschaften für Jæren, Südwest-Norwegen, wird vorgeschlagen, dass der Übergang zu einer agrar-pastoralen Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft am Übergang vom mittleren zum späten Neolithikum (2400–2350 v. Chr.) erfolgte und es in Folge zu einer raschen Strukturierung der besiedelten Kulturlandschaften kam. In den folgenden Jahrzehnten und Jahrhunderten entwickelte sich die Gese…
Governing martial traditions
The hydrology in huge burial mounds built of loamy tills
For centuries a well was located on the top of one of the two Viking Age royal mounds in Jelling. This indicates that a perched water table had developed in the mounds. Perched water tables are well known in Bronze Age burial mounds due to the development of iron pans in the central part of the mounds, but it is unclear whether the genesis of the perched water table in the Jelling mounds is similar and due to iron pan formation or due to other so…
Geomorphological setting of a sacred landscape
The Illerup Valley in Denmark contains several large‐scale Iron Age (first to fifth century A.D.) ritual depositions associated with warfare among Germanic groups. The oldest deliberate deposition consisted of human bones and is dated to the first to fifth decade A.D. It is hypothesized that this first deposition initiated a ritual tradition and made the valley sacred to later generations. To understand the choice of the first location, we have r…
The postmortem exposure interval of an Iron Age human bone assemblage from Alken Enge, Denmark
A Palisade Fit for a King
The royal estate in Viking Age Jelling has long been a theme for both saga and research, but has, nonetheless, lived an elusive life as far as its archaeological remains are concerned. However, recent excavations have revealed the remains of a massive wooden palisade demarcating an area of c. 125,000 m2, encircling a series of buildings and monuments. The impressive structure follows a strict architectural regularity and demonstrates a rigid conc…
Genesis of Iron Pans in Bronze Age Mounds in Denmark
L'auteur s'interesse aux procedes et reactions chimiques grâce auxquelles une fine couche ferreuse etait formee dans les tumulus danois de l'âge du Bronze, offrant ainsi d'exceptionelles conditions de conservation
Recent Studies on the Formation of Iron Pans around the Oaken Log Coffins of the Bronze Age Burial Mounds of Denmark
Soil Forming Processes in and below a Bronze Age Burial Mound at Lejrskov, Southern Jutland
Geografisk Tidsskrift, Danish Journal of Geography 98: 46–55. In the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century archaeological excavations of Bronze Age burial mounds in Jutland occasionally revealed mounds with water saturated cores, in which the conditions of preservation were extraordinary good. The wet areas were totally encapsulated by thin, strongly cemented iron pans, and until 1942 several different theories on the genesis of these pans w…
The Chemical Environment in a Burial Mound Shortly after Construction—An Archaeological–Pedological Experiment
The South Scandinavian barrows with well-preserved oak-log coffins
Recent archaeological and pedological research on South Scandinavian Bronze Age barrows reveals that the remarkable conditions of preservation in a number of mounds are the result of particular construction techniques or special activities during construction. Augerings indicate that the phenomenon is concentrated within specific groups of barrows with central positions in a hypothetical Bronze Age communication system
Preservation Within Log Coffins Before and After Barrow Construction
Spatial patterns of social organization in the Early Bronze Age of South Scandinavia
Tårup
In 1992 a well-preserved round dolmen covered by a Bronze Age burial mound was excavated at the village of Tarup between Vejle and Fredericia in East jutland.The chamber can be classified as a dolmen without passage, but with access by a threshold construction.It contained no primary burial, but an undisturbed floor that may be the original.The mound seems to have been constructed in two stages, and the kerbstones may have been free-standing for …
The hydrology in huge burial mounds built of loamy tills
For centuries a well was located on the top of one of the two Viking Age royal mounds in Jelling. This indicates that a perched water table had developed in the mounds. Perched water tables are well known in Bronze Age burial mounds due to the development of iron pans in the central part of the mounds, but it is unclear whether the genesis of the perched water table in the Jelling mounds is similar and due to iron pan formation or due to other so…
Burials
This article discusses burials and the burial practices during the Bronze Age. It examines the state of research on the study of burials and then considers the overall trends in burial custom. The article discusses the issue of the identity of buried individuals in relation to burial analysis. It then studies the event dimension of burials and burial clusters or communities, which generally accumulate over time. The article concludes with a secti…
Searching for long-term trends in prehistoric manuring practice. δ15N analyses of charred cereal grains from the 4th to the 1st millennium BC
Bronze Age ‘Herostrats’
In this article we argue that within the Danish Bronze Age there was a short-lived period (roughly 1500–1150 bc ) that witnessed a dramatic investment of resources into the construction of monumental architecture in the form of barrows and long houses. These investments had far-reaching long-term effects on the local landscape with negative consequences for agricultural productivity. We use two extraordinary well-documented excavations of a barro…
The Late Viking-Age Royal Constructions at Jelling, central Jutland, Denmark
Der königliche Komplex in Jelling mit seinen monumentalen Verweisen auf königliche Macht und Christianisierung ist als bedeutender Schlüsselort für die archäologische wie historische Deutung des politischen und religiösen Wandels im skandinavischen Raum am Ende der Wikingerzeit zu verstehen. In den letzten Jahren erfolgte eine Neubewertung der Denkmäler und ihrer Umgebung auf Basis neuer umfangreicher Ausgrabungen und damit auch der in einem Zeit…
Repeating boundaries – repertoires of landscape regulations in southern Scandinavia in the Late Bronze Age and Pre-Roman Iron Age
Towards the end of the Late Bronze Age, linear boundaries such as enclosed farmsteads, field divisions, and pit zone alignments emerged and gradually permeated the landscapes of southern Scandinavia on multiple scales. This article suggests the concept of a ‘repertoire’ as a way of approaching this phenomenon. The repertoire consisted of different topological operations (e.g. plot definition, demarcation, and enclosure), constructed by different …
A Palisade Fit for a King
The royal estate in Viking Age Jelling has long been a theme for both saga and research, but has, nonetheless, lived an elusive life as far as its archaeological remains are concerned. However, recent excavations have revealed the remains of a massive wooden palisade demarcating an area of c. 125,000 m2, encircling a series of buildings and monuments. The impressive structure follows a strict architectural regularity and demonstrates a rigid conc…
The postmortem exposure interval of an Iron Age human bone assemblage from Alken Enge, Denmark
Late Iron Age longhouse chronology. A study aimed at constructing a formal house chronology for the Late Iron Age, based on selected localities in central and eastern Jutland
This paper presents a formalised chronological study of the longhouses of the Late Iron Age. This is based on the correspondence analysis of data relating to house ground plans recorded at a number of Iron Age settlements in central and eastern Jutland, which, as a region, has the most comprehensive relevant data set, including many constructional details. The chronology constitutes a formalisation of the house-chronological considerations undert…
Borum Eshøj Revisited – Bronze Age monumental burial traditions in eastern Jutland, Denmark
Borum Eshøj is one of the internationally most famous monuments from the Nordic Bronze Age, key to understanding burial customs, social identities and societies. Its uniqueness is reflected in its extraordinarily well-preserved oak log coffin burials, its landscape setting in a distinct barrow group and its complex monumental architecture. Since 1988, new investigations have been conducted at the barrow group, and in 2011, the remains of the clas…
Geomorphological setting of a sacred landscape
The Illerup Valley in Denmark contains several large‐scale Iron Age (first to fifth century A.D.) ritual depositions associated with warfare among Germanic groups. The oldest deliberate deposition consisted of human bones and is dated to the first to fifth decade A.D. It is hypothesized that this first deposition initiated a ritual tradition and made the valley sacred to later generations. To understand the choice of the first location, we have r…
The Layout and Internal Development of Celtic Fields
The layout and development of field systems may reflect significant aspects of prehistoric societies such as agricultural strategies, use rights and inheritance practices. This article presents a method for analysing the developments of field systems in their entirety, based on a hierarchical sorting of field boundaries whose intersections have been used to define relations of equivalence and subordination. The formalized relational expression of…
Economic and social zones during the Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age in Jæren, Southwest Norway. Reconstructing large-scale land-use patterns
Basierend auf einer Untersuchung der ökologischen und archäologischen Hinterlassenschaften für Jæren, Südwest-Norwegen, wird vorgeschlagen, dass der Übergang zu einer agrar-pastoralen Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft am Übergang vom mittleren zum späten Neolithikum (2400–2350 v. Chr.) erfolgte und es in Folge zu einer raschen Strukturierung der besiedelten Kulturlandschaften kam. In den folgenden Jahrzehnten und Jahrhunderten entwickelte sich die Gese…
Governing martial traditions
Underwater archaeology and submerged landscapes in western Australia
This research aims to explore the submerged landscapes of the Pilbara of western Australia, using predictive archaeological modelling, airborne LiDAR, marine acoustics, coring and diver survey. It includes excavation and geophysical investigation of a submerged shell midden in Denmark to establish guidelines for the underwater discovery of such sites elsewhere
The Dime project
In september 2018, the DIME portal was officially launched to facilitate the user driven recording of metal detector finds produced by members of the public. The concrete and operational aim of DIME is to provide a portal for the registering and hence safeguarding of the increasing number of metal detector finds and to make them accessible for the general public and for research. The more overarching vision behind the DIME project is to realise t…
The Mountain Sanctuary of Matzanni in Sardinia
The Matzanni Project tracks the role of the large mountain sanctuary of Matzanni-Vallermosa (southwestern Sardinia) in a scalar network from the local to, potentially, the Bronze Age global. Exploitation of metals in the mountainous setting of the sanctuary constitutes a major research focus together with understanding how metal extraction and religion may have intersected
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