Ruth Beusing

Rezension zu: Michael Doneus, Die hinterlassene Landschaft. Prospektion und Interpretation in der Landschaftsarchaologie. Mitteilungen der Prahistorischen Kommission, Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Hrsg. Herwig Friesinger), volume 78. Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 2013. €125.00. ISBN 978-3-7001-7197-3, ISSN 0065-5376. 399 pages, 217 figures

The tabular eminence of Burnswark Hill in Dumfriesshire has intrigued settlers at least from the Bronze Age onwards, its surrounding landscape in the Scottish Lowlands is a distinguished livestock farming region. Positioned in intervisibility with the Hadrian's Wall, the area also raised Roman interest in the late Iron Age and was brought under Roman control very early. The project studies evidences of the local and the Roman population along a stretch of the Roman Road between the Roman Forts of Birrens and Ladyward. Thus, it seeks to understand the spatial and consequent social interactions between locals and within the showcase area.

The Hill of Tara (Co. Meath, Ireland) holds a fascination as one of the preeminent icons of Irish culture and identity. Its 5,000 years of history seem to be preserved eternally within the burials, embankments and enclosures visible in the landscape, well known to every Irishman from myths and history. But underneath its topsoil more monuments are currently being discovered by modern nondestructive survey methods in a joint programme of the Romano- Germanic Commission, the Discovery Programme Dublin and the National University of Ireland Galway. More than 50 ha of the Tara area have been surveyed geomagnetically and hundreds of new archaeological structures have been detected in the area. The analysis of the data will bring new insights into the vivid history of the site, and comparison with further sites in the surrounding landscape will highlight the tight network of the sacred site.

The Early ‘Celtic’1 hillfort of the Glauberg in Central Germany, some 40 km northeast of Frankfurt, is renowned for its richly furnished burials and particularly for a wholly preserved sandstone statue of an Early Iron Age chief, warrior or hero with a peculiar headgear – one of the earliest life-size figural representations north of the Alps. Despite a long history of research, the basis for the apparent prosperity of the place (i.e., of the people buried here) is still debated, as is the meaning of the settlement site as part of its surrounding landscape. The phenomenon known as ‘princely sites’ is paralleled in the area north and west of the Alps, though each site has a unique set of characteristics. This paper focusses on investigations and new excavations that put the Glauberg with its settlement, burial and ceremonial features into a wider landscape context, including remote sensing approaches (geophysics and LiDAR) as well as viewshed analyses which define the surrounding are...

Diorama-Inszenierung-Modell: eine archäologische Begriffsbestimmung Dioramen sind oft genutzte Instrumente zur Veranschaulichung in archäo-logischen Museen. Als Diorama werden in diesem Artikel maßstäbliche drei-dimensionale Darstellungen von Szenen auf der Basis von archäologischen Funden und Befunden 1 bezeichnet. Die Abgrenzung des Dioramas zur Re-konstruktion beziehungsweise zum Modell wird in diesem Zusammenhang mit der zusätzlichen Modellierung von Umwelt/Landschaft/Hintergrund und/oder Menschen vorgenommen. Rekonstruktionen und Modelle sind in archäologischen Präsentationen wesentlich häufiger anzutreffen als Diora-men.2 Oftmals fällt eine Unterscheidung schwer, zumal in der archäologi-schen Literatur der Begriff »Modell << oder »Rekonstruktion<< bevorzugt wird. Während bei Modellen und Rekonstruktionen eher technisch strukturelle Merkmale beziehungsweise spezifische Konstruktionen von Bauwerken oder Geräten im Vordergrund stehen und ihnen damit eine reduktionistische Funktion zukommt, nimmt das Diorama eine Kontextualisierung der ar-chäologischen Objekte und der Bauwerke vor. Diese weist häufig einen Landschaftsbezug auf,3 kann aber ebenso eine historisch-chronologische Entwicklung" oder auch soziale Zusammenhänge5 darstellen. In Richtung der musealen Inszenierungen sind Dioramen mithin ebenfalls schwer ab-zugrenzen, und die Terminologie in der Literatur ist nicht immer stringent; gemeint sind in diesen Fällen vornehmlich Szenen im Maßstab I: 1. Im Rah-men des vorliegenden Beitrags wurden solche Großinszenierungen zu den Dioramen gezählt, die über eine entsprechende Gestaltung mit inhaltlichen

The Hill of Tara (Co. Meath, Ireland) holds a fascination as one of the preeminent icons of Irish culture and identity. Its 5,000 years of history seem to be preserved eternally within the burials, embankments and enclosures visible in the landscape, well known to every Irishman from myths and history. But underneath its topsoil more monuments are currently being discovered by modern nondestructive survey methods in a joint programme of the Romano-
Germanic Commission, the Discovery Programme Dublin and the National University of Ireland Galway. More than 50 ha of the Tara area have been surveyed geomagnetically and hundreds of new archaeological structures have been detected in the area. The analysis of the data will bring new
insights into the vivid history of the site, and comparison with further sites in the surrounding landscape will highlight the tight network of the sacred site.

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