Volker Heyd
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 148580 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Volker Heyd |
| PRENOMES | Volker |
| SOBRENOME | Heyd |
| ASSINATURA | HEYD V |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0889-6513 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 146 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Searching for the ideal red
An AI-assisted workflow for object detection and data collection from archaeological catalogues
Mobility and community at Mesolithic Lake Onega, Karelia, north-west Russia
This study investigates the underlying mechanisms driving the formation of the largest known burial site of the Northern European Mesolithic, Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov (YOO). Radiogenic strontium isotope analysis (87Sr/86Sr) was used to identify group dynamics within the cemetery and examine the site's place within local and supra-regional networks. The analysis of 57 humans and 31 animals was supported by the creation of an environmental baseline wh…
Layer by layer – Dismantling a Yamnaya kurgan by geochemical, pedological and statistical approaches (Wallachain Plain, Romania)
Geoarchaeological approach combining pedological and archaeological data enhances the understanding of the construction of Yamnaya kurgans. • Palaeosoil buried at the end of the 4 th millennium BC transmits pedological information on the contemporary steppe environment. • Archaeological and geoarchaeological sources reveal and provide details on the ‘cultural re-use’ of Bronze Age Yamnaya kurgans. Kurgans are peculiar, human-made formations of th…
The Indo-European Puzzle Revisited
This book examines the impact of ancient DNA research and scientific evidence on our understanding of the emergence of Indo-European languages in prehistory. Offering cutting-edge contributions from an international team of scholars, it considers the driving forces behind the Indo-European migrations during the 3rd and 2nd millenia BC. The volume explores the rise of the world's first pastoral nomads the Yamnaya Culture in the Russian Pontic step…
Integrated approaches to understanding animal exploitation and dairying in the Central European Early Neolithic
Recent genetic studies point towards 6 th millennium BC central Europe as the core region for the emergence of the lactase persistence (LP) gene mutation -13,910 * T, making it important to understand the intensity of milk production and consumption among Linearbandkeramik (or LBK) farming groups. However, it is not known if milking was part of the LBK Neolithic “package” from the start, or if it displayed a discontinuous pattern in time and spac…
Drastic demographic events triggered the Uralic spread
The widespread Uralic family offers several advantages for tracing prehistory: a firm absolute chronological anchor point in an ancient contact episode with well-dated Indo-Iranian; other points of intersection or diagnostic non-intersection with early Indo-European (the Late Proto-Indo-European-speaking Yamnaya culture of the western steppe, the Afanasievo culture of the upper Yenisei, and the Fatyanovo culture of the middle Volga); lexical and …
Isotopic insights into the early Medieval (600–1100 CE) diet in the Luistari cemetery at Eura, Finland
In this article, we present the results of an isotopic study of diet for the early medieval (Merovingian, Viking, Early Christian) humans buried in the unique Luistari cemetery at Eura (ca. 600–1400 CE), southwestern Finland, the largest cemetery of the region. Isotope analysis was conducted on 37 humans for dentine and bone collagen (δ 13 C, δ 15 N, and δ 34 S), and five of them were also studied using compound-specific nitrogen isotope analysis…
Titelseiten
The Forgotten Child of the Wider Corded Ware Family
The Fatyanovo Culture, together with its eastern twin, the Balanovo Culture, forms part of the pan-European Corded Ware Complex. Within that complex, it represents its eastern expansion to the catchment of the Upper and Middle Volga River in the European part of Russia. Its immediate roots are to be found in the southern Baltic States, Belarus, and northern Ukraine (the Baltic and Middle-Dnepr Corded Ware Cultures), from where moving people sprea…
The Northern Way
The Corded Ware complex represents an archaeologically defined culture whose people inhabited large areas of Europe during the third millennium BC. Although Corded Ware graves are known also from Finnish territory – the northernmost area of Corded Ware expansion – these graves represent a special challenge and methodological problem for archaeological research. This is because unburnt bone material is generally not preserved in the acidic soils o…
The Yamnaya Impact North of the Lower Danube
This paper aims to provide an overview of the current understanding in Yamnaya burials from north of the Lower Danube, particularly focussing on their relationship with supposed local archaeological cultures/ societies. Departing from a decades-long research history and latest archaeological finds from Romania, it addresses key research basics on the funerary archaeology of their kurgans and burials ; their material culture and chronology ; on st…
Precision farming and archaeology
Zeitgeist archaeology
The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe
Landscape opening and herding strategies
Kossinna's smile
Pit-Graves, Yamnaya and Kurgans along the Lower Danube
Die Autoren untersuchen im Beitrag Grubengräber unter Grabhügeln (Kurgane) von der gesamten Unteren Donau auf ihre Bestattungssitte, Grabausstattung, Stratigraphie und Les sépultures à fosses ou à puits sous tumulus (kourgane) de la culture Yamna dans la vallée inférieure du Danube font l’objet de notre article. Nous nous penchons sur les questions concernant les rites funéraires, le mobilier des sépultures, la stratigraphie et les datations radi…
Event reconstruction through Bayesian chronology
Precise timing of natural and cultural events provides a foundation for understanding how past natural phenomena have driven changes in population and culture. In this study, we used high-resolution Bayesian chronology to describe an event sequence of a massive and abrupt water level decline of a large lake and the contemporaneous cultural changes that occurred in eastern Fennoscandia during the mid-Holocene. The study provides the first transdis…
Europe 2500 to 2200 BC
This article studies Europe during the period between 2500 and 2200 BC. It first studies 2500 BC, which was when the Bell Beaker phenomenon and the Early Bronze Age occurred. The next section focuses on the period of the ‘International Spirit’ that occurred within the Aegean; this also marked the start of the Early Bronze Age. Three European regions came into closer contact and direct exchange with this Aegean network during the Early Bronze Age,…
Identifying kurgan graves in Eastern Hungary
Isotopic analyses of human tooth enamel are increasingly applied to provide answers to archaeological questions. 87 Sr/ 86 Sr and 18 O analyses are used to investigate small-and large-scale mobility and migration of prehistoric human individuals. Within a pilot study looking into the kurgan graves in the Eastern Carpathian Basin, we analysed the tooth enamel of 8 humans from the Early Bronze Age burial mound of Srrtudvari-O rhalom, Hungary. Accor…
Immigration and transhumance in the Early Bronze Age Carpathian Basin
You never know until you look. The authors deconstruct a kurgan burial mound in the Great Hungarian Plain designated to the Yamnaya culture, to find it was actually shared by a number of different peoples. The Yamnaya were an influential immigrant group of the Late Copper Age/Early Bronze Age transition. The burials, already characterised by their grave goods, were radiocarbon dated and further examined using stable isotope analysis on the human …
The origins of Europe's first farmers
Recent discoveries in Western Anatolia have shed new light on the origins of Europe’s first farmers. Fifty years ago, James Mellaart suggested that Early Neolithic communities in Greece and the Balkans shared a common ancestry in Western Anatolia at the site of Hacılar. Current excavations conducted along the Aegean coast of Turkey and in the broader Mar- mara region, halfway between Hacılar and Europe, confirm this link and provide a more comple…
Ancient DNA, Strontium isotopes, and osteological analyses shed light on social and kinship organization of the Later Stone Age
In 2005 four outstanding multiple burials were discovered near Eulau, Germany. The 4,600-year-old graves contained groups of adults and children buried facing each other. Skeletal and artifactual evidence and the simultaneous interment of the individuals suggest the supposed families fell victim to a violent event. In a multidisciplinary approach, archaeological, anthropological, geochemical (radiogenic isotopes), and molecular genetic (ancient D…
Families, Prestige Goods, Warriors & Complex Societies
From the Middle Copper Age in the mid-4th millennium cal BC , and throughout the whole Late Copper Age, we observe the emergence of supra-regional, expansionistic ‘cultures’. Originating in south-east Europe, they expanded into central and northern Europe, eventually reaching the west and the margins. Typical of these are the Černavoda III/Boleráz cultures; then, later, the Baden sequence, along with the Globular Amphora Culture adjacent to the n…
The Transformation of Europe in the Third Millennium BC
Die megalithischen Grabanlagen von Sion-‘Le Petit Chasseur I+III’ bieten eine einmalige Chance, Strukturen von sozialem Wandel über fast das gesamte 3. Jahrtausend v. Chr. hinweg kontinuierlich zu verfolgen und aufzuzeigen, wie eine lokale Bevölkerung die europaweiten ideologischen Veränderungen dieser Zeit rezipiert. Unsere Analyse der Funeralbauten, der anthropomorphen Stelen und der materiellen Hinterlassenschaften (die als drei unterschiedlic…
Kossinna's smile
Pit-Graves, Yamnaya and Kurgans along the Lower Danube
Die Autoren untersuchen im Beitrag Grubengräber unter Grabhügeln (Kurgane) von der gesamten Unteren Donau auf ihre Bestattungssitte, Grabausstattung, Stratigraphie und Les sépultures à fosses ou à puits sous tumulus (kourgane) de la culture Yamna dans la vallée inférieure du Danube font l’objet de notre article. Nous nous penchons sur les questions concernant les rites funéraires, le mobilier des sépultures, la stratigraphie et les datations radi…
Families, Prestige Goods, Warriors & Complex Societies
From the Middle Copper Age in the mid-4th millennium cal BC , and throughout the whole Late Copper Age, we observe the emergence of supra-regional, expansionistic ‘cultures’. Originating in south-east Europe, they expanded into central and northern Europe, eventually reaching the west and the margins. Typical of these are the Černavoda III/Boleráz cultures; then, later, the Baden sequence, along with the Globular Amphora Culture adjacent to the n…
The Yamnaya Impact North of the Lower Danube
This paper aims to provide an overview of the current understanding in Yamnaya burials from north of the Lower Danube, particularly focussing on their relationship with supposed local archaeological cultures/ societies. Departing from a decades-long research history and latest archaeological finds from Romania, it addresses key research basics on the funerary archaeology of their kurgans and burials ; their material culture and chronology ; on st…
Immigration and transhumance in the Early Bronze Age Carpathian Basin
You never know until you look. The authors deconstruct a kurgan burial mound in the Great Hungarian Plain designated to the Yamnaya culture, to find it was actually shared by a number of different peoples. The Yamnaya were an influential immigrant group of the Late Copper Age/Early Bronze Age transition. The burials, already characterised by their grave goods, were radiocarbon dated and further examined using stable isotope analysis on the human …
Isotopic insights into the early Medieval (600–1100 CE) diet in the Luistari cemetery at Eura, Finland
In this article, we present the results of an isotopic study of diet for the early medieval (Merovingian, Viking, Early Christian) humans buried in the unique Luistari cemetery at Eura (ca. 600–1400 CE), southwestern Finland, the largest cemetery of the region. Isotope analysis was conducted on 37 humans for dentine and bone collagen (δ 13 C, δ 15 N, and δ 34 S), and five of them were also studied using compound-specific nitrogen isotope analysis…
Event reconstruction through Bayesian chronology
Precise timing of natural and cultural events provides a foundation for understanding how past natural phenomena have driven changes in population and culture. In this study, we used high-resolution Bayesian chronology to describe an event sequence of a massive and abrupt water level decline of a large lake and the contemporaneous cultural changes that occurred in eastern Fennoscandia during the mid-Holocene. The study provides the first transdis…
The origins of Europe's first farmers
Recent discoveries in Western Anatolia have shed new light on the origins of Europe’s first farmers. Fifty years ago, James Mellaart suggested that Early Neolithic communities in Greece and the Balkans shared a common ancestry in Western Anatolia at the site of Hacılar. Current excavations conducted along the Aegean coast of Turkey and in the broader Mar- mara region, halfway between Hacılar and Europe, confirm this link and provide a more comple…
The Forgotten Child of the Wider Corded Ware Family
The Fatyanovo Culture, together with its eastern twin, the Balanovo Culture, forms part of the pan-European Corded Ware Complex. Within that complex, it represents its eastern expansion to the catchment of the Upper and Middle Volga River in the European part of Russia. Its immediate roots are to be found in the southern Baltic States, Belarus, and northern Ukraine (the Baltic and Middle-Dnepr Corded Ware Cultures), from where moving people sprea…
An AI-assisted workflow for object detection and data collection from archaeological catalogues
The Northern Way
The Corded Ware complex represents an archaeologically defined culture whose people inhabited large areas of Europe during the third millennium BC. Although Corded Ware graves are known also from Finnish territory – the northernmost area of Corded Ware expansion – these graves represent a special challenge and methodological problem for archaeological research. This is because unburnt bone material is generally not preserved in the acidic soils o…
Precision farming and archaeology
Mobility and community at Mesolithic Lake Onega, Karelia, north-west Russia
This study investigates the underlying mechanisms driving the formation of the largest known burial site of the Northern European Mesolithic, Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov (YOO). Radiogenic strontium isotope analysis (87Sr/86Sr) was used to identify group dynamics within the cemetery and examine the site's place within local and supra-regional networks. The analysis of 57 humans and 31 animals was supported by the creation of an environmental baseline wh…
Zeitgeist archaeology
Families, Prestige Goods, Warriors & Complex Societies
From the Middle Copper Age in the mid-4th millennium cal BC , and throughout the whole Late Copper Age, we observe the emergence of supra-regional, expansionistic ‘cultures’. Originating in south-east Europe, they expanded into central and northern Europe, eventually reaching the west and the margins. Typical of these are the Černavoda III/Boleráz cultures; then, later, the Baden sequence, along with the Globular Amphora Culture adjacent to the n…
The Transformation of Europe in the Third Millennium BC
Die megalithischen Grabanlagen von Sion-‘Le Petit Chasseur I+III’ bieten eine einmalige Chance, Strukturen von sozialem Wandel über fast das gesamte 3. Jahrtausend v. Chr. hinweg kontinuierlich zu verfolgen und aufzuzeigen, wie eine lokale Bevölkerung die europaweiten ideologischen Veränderungen dieser Zeit rezipiert. Unsere Analyse der Funeralbauten, der anthropomorphen Stelen und der materiellen Hinterlassenschaften (die als drei unterschiedlic…
Ancient DNA, Strontium isotopes, and osteological analyses shed light on social and kinship organization of the Later Stone Age
In 2005 four outstanding multiple burials were discovered near Eulau, Germany. The 4,600-year-old graves contained groups of adults and children buried facing each other. Skeletal and artifactual evidence and the simultaneous interment of the individuals suggest the supposed families fell victim to a violent event. In a multidisciplinary approach, archaeological, anthropological, geochemical (radiogenic isotopes), and molecular genetic (ancient D…
The origins of Europe's first farmers
Recent discoveries in Western Anatolia have shed new light on the origins of Europe’s first farmers. Fifty years ago, James Mellaart suggested that Early Neolithic communities in Greece and the Balkans shared a common ancestry in Western Anatolia at the site of Hacılar. Current excavations conducted along the Aegean coast of Turkey and in the broader Mar- mara region, halfway between Hacılar and Europe, confirm this link and provide a more comple…
Identifying kurgan graves in Eastern Hungary
Isotopic analyses of human tooth enamel are increasingly applied to provide answers to archaeological questions. 87 Sr/ 86 Sr and 18 O analyses are used to investigate small-and large-scale mobility and migration of prehistoric human individuals. Within a pilot study looking into the kurgan graves in the Eastern Carpathian Basin, we analysed the tooth enamel of 8 humans from the Early Bronze Age burial mound of Srrtudvari-O rhalom, Hungary. Accor…
Immigration and transhumance in the Early Bronze Age Carpathian Basin
You never know until you look. The authors deconstruct a kurgan burial mound in the Great Hungarian Plain designated to the Yamnaya culture, to find it was actually shared by a number of different peoples. The Yamnaya were an influential immigrant group of the Late Copper Age/Early Bronze Age transition. The burials, already characterised by their grave goods, were radiocarbon dated and further examined using stable isotope analysis on the human …
Europe 2500 to 2200 BC
This article studies Europe during the period between 2500 and 2200 BC. It first studies 2500 BC, which was when the Bell Beaker phenomenon and the Early Bronze Age occurred. The next section focuses on the period of the ‘International Spirit’ that occurred within the Aegean; this also marked the start of the Early Bronze Age. Three European regions came into closer contact and direct exchange with this Aegean network during the Early Bronze Age,…
Event reconstruction through Bayesian chronology
Precise timing of natural and cultural events provides a foundation for understanding how past natural phenomena have driven changes in population and culture. In this study, we used high-resolution Bayesian chronology to describe an event sequence of a massive and abrupt water level decline of a large lake and the contemporaneous cultural changes that occurred in eastern Fennoscandia during the mid-Holocene. The study provides the first transdis…
Pit-Graves, Yamnaya and Kurgans along the Lower Danube
Die Autoren untersuchen im Beitrag Grubengräber unter Grabhügeln (Kurgane) von der gesamten Unteren Donau auf ihre Bestattungssitte, Grabausstattung, Stratigraphie und Les sépultures à fosses ou à puits sous tumulus (kourgane) de la culture Yamna dans la vallée inférieure du Danube font l’objet de notre article. Nous nous penchons sur les questions concernant les rites funéraires, le mobilier des sépultures, la stratigraphie et les datations radi…
Landscape opening and herding strategies
Kossinna's smile
The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe
Precision farming and archaeology
Zeitgeist archaeology
Titelseiten
The Forgotten Child of the Wider Corded Ware Family
The Fatyanovo Culture, together with its eastern twin, the Balanovo Culture, forms part of the pan-European Corded Ware Complex. Within that complex, it represents its eastern expansion to the catchment of the Upper and Middle Volga River in the European part of Russia. Its immediate roots are to be found in the southern Baltic States, Belarus, and northern Ukraine (the Baltic and Middle-Dnepr Corded Ware Cultures), from where moving people sprea…
The Northern Way
The Corded Ware complex represents an archaeologically defined culture whose people inhabited large areas of Europe during the third millennium BC. Although Corded Ware graves are known also from Finnish territory – the northernmost area of Corded Ware expansion – these graves represent a special challenge and methodological problem for archaeological research. This is because unburnt bone material is generally not preserved in the acidic soils o…
The Yamnaya Impact North of the Lower Danube
This paper aims to provide an overview of the current understanding in Yamnaya burials from north of the Lower Danube, particularly focussing on their relationship with supposed local archaeological cultures/ societies. Departing from a decades-long research history and latest archaeological finds from Romania, it addresses key research basics on the funerary archaeology of their kurgans and burials ; their material culture and chronology ; on st…
Drastic demographic events triggered the Uralic spread
The widespread Uralic family offers several advantages for tracing prehistory: a firm absolute chronological anchor point in an ancient contact episode with well-dated Indo-Iranian; other points of intersection or diagnostic non-intersection with early Indo-European (the Late Proto-Indo-European-speaking Yamnaya culture of the western steppe, the Afanasievo culture of the upper Yenisei, and the Fatyanovo culture of the middle Volga); lexical and …
Isotopic insights into the early Medieval (600–1100 CE) diet in the Luistari cemetery at Eura, Finland
In this article, we present the results of an isotopic study of diet for the early medieval (Merovingian, Viking, Early Christian) humans buried in the unique Luistari cemetery at Eura (ca. 600–1400 CE), southwestern Finland, the largest cemetery of the region. Isotope analysis was conducted on 37 humans for dentine and bone collagen (δ 13 C, δ 15 N, and δ 34 S), and five of them were also studied using compound-specific nitrogen isotope analysis…
The Indo-European Puzzle Revisited
This book examines the impact of ancient DNA research and scientific evidence on our understanding of the emergence of Indo-European languages in prehistory. Offering cutting-edge contributions from an international team of scholars, it considers the driving forces behind the Indo-European migrations during the 3rd and 2nd millenia BC. The volume explores the rise of the world's first pastoral nomads the Yamnaya Culture in the Russian Pontic step…
Integrated approaches to understanding animal exploitation and dairying in the Central European Early Neolithic
Recent genetic studies point towards 6 th millennium BC central Europe as the core region for the emergence of the lactase persistence (LP) gene mutation -13,910 * T, making it important to understand the intensity of milk production and consumption among Linearbandkeramik (or LBK) farming groups. However, it is not known if milking was part of the LBK Neolithic “package” from the start, or if it displayed a discontinuous pattern in time and spac…
Layer by layer – Dismantling a Yamnaya kurgan by geochemical, pedological and statistical approaches (Wallachain Plain, Romania)
Geoarchaeological approach combining pedological and archaeological data enhances the understanding of the construction of Yamnaya kurgans. • Palaeosoil buried at the end of the 4 th millennium BC transmits pedological information on the contemporary steppe environment. • Archaeological and geoarchaeological sources reveal and provide details on the ‘cultural re-use’ of Bronze Age Yamnaya kurgans. Kurgans are peculiar, human-made formations of th…
An AI-assisted workflow for object detection and data collection from archaeological catalogues
Mobility and community at Mesolithic Lake Onega, Karelia, north-west Russia
This study investigates the underlying mechanisms driving the formation of the largest known burial site of the Northern European Mesolithic, Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov (YOO). Radiogenic strontium isotope analysis (87Sr/86Sr) was used to identify group dynamics within the cemetery and examine the site's place within local and supra-regional networks. The analysis of 57 humans and 31 animals was supported by the creation of an environmental baseline wh…
Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (19 obras) · Geography (19 obras) · Archaeology (17 obras) · History (11 obras) · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies (10 obras) · Art (6 obras) · History (6 obras) · Biology (5 obras) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (5 obras) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (5 obras)