R Bernbeck
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1600 |
|---|---|
| NOME | R Bernbeck |
| PRENOMES | R |
| SOBRENOME | Bernbeck |
| ASSINATURA | BERNBECK R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Freie Universität Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8062-3384 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 149 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Gird-I Begum – Report on the 2022 Excavations
In the summer of 2022, renewed excavations were conducted at the site of Gird-i Begum in the Shahrizor Plain, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The project aims to examine patterns of mobility, exchange, and resource acquisition practiced by the inhabitants of Gird-i Begum over time. To do so we re-examine the stratigraphic sequence, with a focus on continuities and breaks in site occupation. While the earliest occupation of the site dates to the Halaf p…
Linking archaeology and paleoenvironment
Early human habitation of the arid to semiarid Central Iranian Plateau was strongly connected to the availability of water and associated natural hazards, such as flooding and drought events. In this geoarchaeological study, we focus on the occupation at the prehistoric site of Ajor Pazi within the formerly active fluvial environment of the Varamin Plain. Through radiocarbon and luminescence‐dated sediment cross‐sections, we apply multivariate st…
Chalcolithic Painted Pottery of the Sialk III Period
In the last two decades, the Varamin Plain to the southeast of Tehran has been the focus of intensified archaeological work, with surveys and excavations yielding new insights into the region's settlement history. New material from the dynamic network of Chalcolithic sites on the Jajrud alluvial fan now offers a more solid basis to assess the links between the Varamin Plain and the site of Tappeh Sialk in the Kashan Plain, which still remains a r…
A forgotten technology
Are All Things Created Equal? The Incidental in Archaeology
Archaeologists evince a strong tendency to impute significance to the material traces they study, a propensity that has been especially marked since the post-processual emphasis on meaning and that has taken on renewed vigour with the turn to materiality. But are there not situations in which things are rather incidental or insignificant? This set of essays emerged from a workshop held in Berlin in April 2018, in which a group of scholars was inv…
Final Thoughts on Beiläufigkeit
The essays in this theme section demonstrate clearly the diversity and complexity of a topic that seems negligible in practice but emerges as important upon further reflection—the incidentalness of things. In this brief afterword, we highlight three of the themes addressed by all or most of the contributions, which we suggest are of particular relevance when considering the place of the incidental in our archaeological engagements
Archaeology's 'People
We commend González-Ruibal et al. (above) for their well-formulated challenge to a widely held view in Anglophone archaeology. Their insistence that archaeologists must rethink their position in a radically changed political context is highly apposite, although we do not agree entirely with all of their arguments. Here, we address three principal issues
An Emerging Archaeology of the Nazi Era
The archaeology of the Nazi era is a relatively new field of research. This review addresses motivations and ethical circumstances of such research, as well as the complex relations between archaeological evidence and a variety of other sources, including documents, oral history, and photography. Archaeologists work with two fundamentally different conceptualizations: an objectivist one concerned with recording material remains, for which scale i…
Witnessing and the Right to Intransparency
Archaeology as Bearing Witness
Palestinian Looted Tombs and their Archaeological Investigation
This report describes archaeological rescue work in four looted tombs from late Roman and early Byzantine times in the surroundings of Ramallah, located in the Occupied Palestinian National Territories (OPNT). One goal of our work was to assess in detail how much of the original remains of a tomb are left behind after looting. A second aim was to explore the actual practices of looting by comparing interviews with looters with the results of an a…
Quotidian and Transgressive Practices in Nazi Forced Labor Camps
Framing matters
Kerstin Hofmann and Philipp Stockhammer's essay on theory in 'Beyond antiquarianism' displays a mood that lacks self-confidence, despite a more optimistic outlook on theoretical reflections in their field than an earlier paper by Ulrike Sommer (2000b). The citations, amounting to 60 per cent of the text, are just an outward sign of that mood. A more revealing element is the essay's framing. Hofmann and Stockhammer do not discuss theory in German-…
The Limits of Experience
As Adorno argued, one of the most fundamentally human experiences is suffering. However, a comparative archaeology of human experience that focuses on suffering raises troubling ethical issues. We draw on our excavations of World War II Nazi-run forced labor camps at the Tempelhof airfield in Berlin to demonstrate the need to confront suffering archaeologically and, at the same time, the ultimate impossibility of speaking for and about the suffer…
Scalar differences
"Framed Ambiguity". Zum historiographischen Status der Dinge aus Grabungen in Konzentrationslagern und NS- Zwangsarbeitslagern
Heritage Void and the Void as Heritage
Selective Remembrances
An Archaeology of Categorization and Categories in Archaeology
As archaeologists we are accustomed to classifying and categorizing the material remains of past groups. We tend, however, to devote relatively little thought to the background and implications of our practices of categorization. In this paper, we address three elements of classifi cation : the ways in which archaeologists classify objects recovered in the context of fi eldwork, the classifications used by people in the past, and the relationship…
Class Conflict in Ancient Mesopotamia
In this article I provide a critique of historiography in Near Eastern archaeology and argue that forms of narrating the past are by necessity always political in nature. Current writing styles have a bias towards the upper classes of the past. I use this insight to elaborate on new ways of writing that shift the focus to different subjects of history. As a case study, I analyse discourses about evidence from fourth millennium Mesopotamia. Finall…
An Archaeology of Multisited Communities
The Looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad
Archaeology and English as an Imperial lingua franca
Imperial Inspections
Theorien in der Archäologie
Ayodhya, Archaeology, and Identity
Archaeology as Bearing Witness
Structural Violence in Archaeology
An Emerging Archaeology of the Nazi Era
The archaeology of the Nazi era is a relatively new field of research. This review addresses motivations and ethical circumstances of such research, as well as the complex relations between archaeological evidence and a variety of other sources, including documents, oral history, and photography. Archaeologists work with two fundamentally different conceptualizations: an objectivist one concerned with recording material remains, for which scale i…
The Limits of Experience
As Adorno argued, one of the most fundamentally human experiences is suffering. However, a comparative archaeology of human experience that focuses on suffering raises troubling ethical issues. We draw on our excavations of World War II Nazi-run forced labor camps at the Tempelhof airfield in Berlin to demonstrate the need to confront suffering archaeologically and, at the same time, the ultimate impossibility of speaking for and about the suffer…
An Archaeology of Categorization and Categories in Archaeology
As archaeologists we are accustomed to classifying and categorizing the material remains of past groups. We tend, however, to devote relatively little thought to the background and implications of our practices of categorization. In this paper, we address three elements of classifi cation : the ways in which archaeologists classify objects recovered in the context of fi eldwork, the classifications used by people in the past, and the relationship…
Witnessing and the Right to Intransparency
Class Conflict in Ancient Mesopotamia
In this article I provide a critique of historiography in Near Eastern archaeology and argue that forms of narrating the past are by necessity always political in nature. Current writing styles have a bias towards the upper classes of the past. I use this insight to elaborate on new ways of writing that shift the focus to different subjects of history. As a case study, I analyse discourses about evidence from fourth millennium Mesopotamia. Finall…
Uruk Colonies and Anatolian Communities
The first Mesopotamian city-states in the Uruk period (ca. 3800-3100 B. C.) pursued a strategy of commercial expansion into neighboring areas of the Zagros Mountains, Syria, and southeastern Anatolia. Recent research in these areas has located several Uruk outposts, in what is apparently the world's earliest-known colonial system. Although some Uruk "colonies" have been excavated, virtually nothing is known about either the operation of this syst…
Heritage Void and the Void as Heritage
Fars Archaeology Project 2003
Migratory Patterns in Early Nomadism
In this article the nature of early nomadism is discussed. To this end, the stratigraphy and ceramic assemblages of the seventh millennium B.C. site Tepe Tula'i are reanalyzed. Similarity coefficients for the assemblages indicate a complicated sequence of partially contemporary strata. Relations to other excavated assemblages in southwestern Iran suggest that Tepe Tula'i was frequented by mobile groups from two different regions. From the charact…
Quotidian and Transgressive Practices in Nazi Forced Labor Camps
Imperial Inspections
"Framed Ambiguity". Zum historiographischen Status der Dinge aus Grabungen in Konzentrationslagern und NS- Zwangsarbeitslagern
Palestinian Looted Tombs and their Archaeological Investigation
This report describes archaeological rescue work in four looted tombs from late Roman and early Byzantine times in the surroundings of Ramallah, located in the Occupied Palestinian National Territories (OPNT). One goal of our work was to assess in detail how much of the original remains of a tomb are left behind after looting. A second aim was to explore the actual practices of looting by comparing interviews with looters with the results of an a…
Scalar differences
Reconsidering the Neolithic at Toll-e Bashi (Iran)
Chalcolithic Painted Pottery of the Sialk III Period
In the last two decades, the Varamin Plain to the southeast of Tehran has been the focus of intensified archaeological work, with surveys and excavations yielding new insights into the region's settlement history. New material from the dynamic network of Chalcolithic sites on the Jajrud alluvial fan now offers a more solid basis to assess the links between the Varamin Plain and the site of Tappeh Sialk in the Kashan Plain, which still remains a r…
A forgotten technology
Archaeology's 'People
We commend González-Ruibal et al. (above) for their well-formulated challenge to a widely held view in Anglophone archaeology. Their insistence that archaeologists must rethink their position in a radically changed political context is highly apposite, although we do not agree entirely with all of their arguments. Here, we address three principal issues
Life in a Fifth-Millennium BCE Village
Migratory Patterns in Early Nomadism
In this article the nature of early nomadism is discussed. To this end, the stratigraphy and ceramic assemblages of the seventh millennium B.C. site Tepe Tula'i are reanalyzed. Similarity coefficients for the assemblages indicate a complicated sequence of partially contemporary strata. Relations to other excavated assemblages in southwestern Iran suggest that Tepe Tula'i was frequented by mobile groups from two different regions. From the charact…
Lasting Alliances and Emerging Competition
Uruk Colonies and Anatolian Communities
The first Mesopotamian city-states in the Uruk period (ca. 3800-3100 B. C.) pursued a strategy of commercial expansion into neighboring areas of the Zagros Mountains, Syria, and southeastern Anatolia. Recent research in these areas has located several Uruk outposts, in what is apparently the world's earliest-known colonial system. Although some Uruk "colonies" have been excavated, virtually nothing is known about either the operation of this syst…
Ayodhya, Archaeology, and Identity
Zwischen Euphrat und Indus
Presentism and the LAW
We welcome the Lampeter Archaeology Workshop's (LAW) attempt to clarify the ways in which they understand relativism in post-processual archaeology and especially their distinctions among several kinds of relativism. We would like to comment on links between epistemological relativism and a particular view of history (or, more generally, the past) that the LAW's discussion raises. In particular, we draw attention to several implications of their …
The Halaf Settlement at Kazane Höyük
The Ancient Mesopotamian City . Marc van de Mieroop
Museum History, Museum Theory
I thank the commentators for their thoughtful and constructive critiques of my paper. They have led me to reconsider some substantial issues. In my reply, I will address five major themes around which the comments are centred: the question of historical detail; the development of German philhellenism; national identity and politics of culture; commodification and museological work; and finally the idea of museums as institutions ‘for the people’
The exhibition of architecture and the architecture of an exhibition
One of the major archaeological museums, the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, serves as an example to discuss present problems of museology. I argue that the development of museums has to be analysed from a combination of perspectives, including an historical one, that of visitors and of museum staff. In a first section, the paper outlines the history of the Pergamon Museum, including an institutional history and the larger socio-political framework. T…
The context of wilful ignorance
Can we ever understand the day when four civilian planes were turned into deadly weapons, killing thousands of people? Maybe not, and maybe ‘understanding’ in the sense of a historian would only equal an apology for terrorism. Nevertheless, these events need to be seen in a larger context, and it is this context which is being systematically silenced. There is an urgent need for explanation of what happened, and one has to make a strict distincti…
Archaeology, Ideology and Society
War-time academic professionalism
This brief commentary shows how chronic problems of academic praxis come to the fore in times of major political crises. The areas of popularisation, education and fieldwork are used as examples to highlight the weaknesses and failures of scholarly routines. As a consequence of these difficulties, a fundamental re-conceptualisation of the boundaries of the academic sphere is required.
Fars Archaeology Project 2003
Formation Processes of the First Developed Neolithic Societies in the Zagros and the Northern Mesopotamian Plain
Reconsidering the Neolithic at Toll-e Bashi (Iran)
Excavations at Arjoune, Syria . Peter J. Parr
Life in a Fifth-Millennium BCE Village
Investigating Upper Mesopotamian Households Using Micro-Archaeological Techniques . Lynn Rainville
An Archaeology of Multisited Communities
The Looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad
Archaeology and English as an Imperial lingua franca
Imperial Inspections
Structural Violence in Archaeology
Class Conflict in Ancient Mesopotamia
In this article I provide a critique of historiography in Near Eastern archaeology and argue that forms of narrating the past are by necessity always political in nature. Current writing styles have a bias towards the upper classes of the past. I use this insight to elaborate on new ways of writing that shift the focus to different subjects of history. As a case study, I analyse discourses about evidence from fourth millennium Mesopotamia. Finall…
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