I am an archaeologist, working at the intersection between Archaeology, History, Geosciences and Digital Humanities with a special emphasis on diachronic approaches and comparative studies. My major research topics have recently been men and water, the archaeology of the Anthropocene, traffic networks and mobility, consumption and resource cultures, violence and social inequality, central places and settlement hierarchies. Concerning methodology I have a strong record in Geoarchaeology, archaeological Geophysics, Landscape Archaeology, Dendroarchaeology, GIS and various fields of Digital Humanities. My geographical focus ranges from the British Isles to the Mediterranean and from the Pyrenees to the Black Sea.
Several of my ongoing and finished projects contribute to these fields of research:
"On the way to the fluvial anthroposphere", DFG Priority Research Program SPP 2361, funded by DFG (https://www.physgeo.uni-leipzig.de/en/spp-2361-fluviale-anthroposphaere/#c540964).
"SFB 1070 ResourceCultures", sub-project B03 "Medieval Castles and Monasteries", funded by DFG (https://uni-tuebingen.de/forschung/forschungsschwerpunkte/sonderforschungsbereiche/sfb-1070/)
„Buried landscapes of the Avon Riverside and the Mesolithic of the Stonehenge Area”, funded by AHRC
“Data integration for European Harbour Research”, funded by DFG (http://www.spp-haefen.de/de/das-schwerpunktprogramm-1630/datenzusammenfuehrung/)
"The Early Medieval Royal Palace of Salz", funded by local authorities and EU LEADER (http://www.pfalz-salz.de/)
"Direct push applications in wetland (geo)archaeology", funded by DFG
"Imprints of Rapid Climate Changes and human activity on Holocene hydro-sedimentary dynamics in Central Europe (loess-covered Weiße Elster model region)", funded by DFG
"Climate, Famine, and Plague: A Pilot Study of the 14th-century Mass Graves of Erfurt from an Interdisciplinary Perspective", funded by DFG
"Lost places, lost memories? The legacy of Nazi terror along the Swabian Alb", CIVIS Open Lab
„MULTIPP – Detecting and understanding hydro-climatic, ecological and socio-ecological tipping points: A multi-scale study at the Moroccan desert margin”, BMBF Programme Maroc-Allemand de Recherche Scientifique
„Shedding New Light on the Dark Ages in Kosovo. A Pilot Study to Explore the Late Antique and Early Korisha Fortress and its Hinterland“, Binational German-Kosovar Project
Several of my ongoing and finished projects contribute to these fields of research:
"On the way to the fluvial anthroposphere", DFG Priority Research Program SPP 2361, funded by DFG (https://www.physgeo.uni-leipzig.de/en/spp-2361-fluviale-anthroposphaere/#c540964).
"SFB 1070 ResourceCultures", sub-project B03 "Medieval Castles and Monasteries", funded by DFG (https://uni-tuebingen.de/forschung/forschungsschwerpunkte/sonderforschungsbereiche/sfb-1070/)
„Buried landscapes of the Avon Riverside and the Mesolithic of the Stonehenge Area”, funded by AHRC
“Data integration for European Harbour Research”, funded by DFG (http://www.spp-haefen.de/de/das-schwerpunktprogramm-1630/datenzusammenfuehrung/)
"The Early Medieval Royal Palace of Salz", funded by local authorities and EU LEADER (http://www.pfalz-salz.de/)
"Direct push applications in wetland (geo)archaeology", funded by DFG
"Imprints of Rapid Climate Changes and human activity on Holocene hydro-sedimentary dynamics in Central Europe (loess-covered Weiße Elster model region)", funded by DFG
"Climate, Famine, and Plague: A Pilot Study of the 14th-century Mass Graves of Erfurt from an Interdisciplinary Perspective", funded by DFG
"Lost places, lost memories? The legacy of Nazi terror along the Swabian Alb", CIVIS Open Lab
„MULTIPP – Detecting and understanding hydro-climatic, ecological and socio-ecological tipping points: A multi-scale study at the Moroccan desert margin”, BMBF Programme Maroc-Allemand de Recherche Scientifique
„Shedding New Light on the Dark Ages in Kosovo. A Pilot Study to Explore the Late Antique and Early Korisha Fortress and its Hinterland“, Binational German-Kosovar Project
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Books by Lukas Werther
Im vorliegenden ersten Band der Reihe „Interdisziplinäre Forschungen zur Königspfalz Salz“ fi nden sich neben einer diachronen Betrachtung des gesamten Pfalzgebiets und einem Überblick zur Burgenlandschaft im Saaleraum, neue Forschungsergebnisse und Materialvorlagen, die wichtige Bausteine liefern, um das Gesamtkonstrukt „Pfalz Salz“ zu
rekonstruieren und besser zu verstehen. Neben kleineren archäologischen Einzeluntersuchungen in Salz, Brend und der Flur Mühlstatt wird vor allem auch den naturwissenschaftlichen Nachbarfächern Raum gegeben, ihre Forschungsergebnisse
zu präsentieren. Die große Bedeutung der Interaktion von Mensch und Umwelt bereits im frühen Mittelalter wird etwa durch Arbeiten
der physischen Geographie, Geoarchäologie und Palynologie greifbar, die Veränderungen der Landnutzung und damit einhergehende langfristige Landschaft sveränderungen beleuchten. Vielfältige wirtschafts- und sozialgeschichtliche Aspekte werden im archäobotanischen und archäozoologischen Material sichtbar, in dem sich beispielsweise
Unterschiede der Ernährungsgewohnheiten und Haustierhaltung niederschlagen. Großes Forschungspotential bietet auch der bislang wissenschaft lich noch kaum erschlossene Salzforst, der in diesem Band ebenfalls thematisiert wird.
Every volume of the Data Repository is authored by one or several specialists. Therefore, the spatial and chronological focus, as well as the size of the datasets, differ significantly. Given the spatial and chronological scale and the diversity of sources, this Data Repository does not aim to be exhaustive. The different databases are available as Excel-file as well as .csv to allow for long-term reusability. Further information and specific critical comments are available in an accompanying pdf for each database.
Vol. 1: L. Kröger, Within the network of fluvial ports. In: L. Werther/H. Müller/M. Foucher (ed.), European Harbour Data Repository, vol. 01 (Jena 2018). https://doi.org/10.22032/dbt.35240
Vol. 2: T. Bendschus, S. Feuser, Images and imaginations of roman ports. In: L. Werther/H. Müller/M. Foucher (ed.), European Harbour Data Repository, vol. 02 (Jena 2018). https://doi.org/10.22032/dbt.35243
Vol. 3- : forthcoming 2018/2019
Vol. 3: T. Schmidts, The Thracian harbour city Ainos. In: L. Werther/H. Müller/M. Foucher (Hrsg.), European Harbour Data Repository, vol. 03 (Jena 2019). https://doi.org/10.22032/dbt.38381
Vol. 4: A. Ginalis/D. Heher/A. Külzer/J. Preiser-Kapeller/G. Simeonov, Harbours and landing places on the Balkan coasts of the Byzantine empire (4th to 12th centuries. In: L. Werther/H. Müller/M. Foucher (Hrsg.), European Harbour Data Repository, vol. 04 (Jena 2019). https://doi.org/10.22032/dbt.38384
Vol. 5: G. H. Jeute, Harbours as factors in the settlement of the Bremen Basin between the Roman Iron Age and the Middle Ages. In: L. Werther/H. Müller/M. Foucher (Hrsg.), European Harbour Data Repository, vol. 05 (Jena 2019). https://doi.org/10.22032/dbt.38387
Vol. 6: S. Kalmring, The Leiruvogur harbor research project. Interdisciplinary archaeological examination of a Viking harbor and its hinterland in Iceland. In: L. Werther/H. Müller/M. Foucher (Hrsg.), European Harbour Data Repository, vol. 06 (Jena 2019). https://doi.org/10.22032/dbt.38390
Vol. 7: B. Majchczack Trading terps and Geest boundary harbours medieval trading ports on the German North Sea coast. In: L. Werther/H. Müller/M. Foucher (Hrsg.), European Harbour Data Repository, vol. 07 (Jena 2019). https://doi.org/10.22032/dbt.38393
Vol. 8: J. Trachet/D. de Ruijsscher Medieval Bruges and its outports. A landscape-archaeological contribution to the Zwin-debate. In: L. Werther/H. Müller/M. Foucher (Hrsg.), European Harbour Data Repository, vol. 08 (Jena 2019). https://doi.org/10.22032/dbt.38396
Der Band versammelt 13 Beiträge, die im Jahre 2015 im Rahmen einer Plenartagung zu den Leitthemen »Netzwerke: Die Rolle der Häfen bei Produktion und Güteraustausch« sowie »Standortbedingungen und Entwicklungsmodelle« gehalten wurden.
Der geographisch weit gespannte Rahmen reicht vom Nordatlantik bis in den östlichen Mittelmeerraum. Thematisiert werden See- und Binnenhäfen sowie künstliche Wasserstraßen. Der Band vereint Ergebnisse interdisziplinärer (geo-)archäologischer und geophysikalischer Feldforschungen, schriftquellenbasierter Untersuchungen und überregionaler Studien.
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Inland harbours in Central Europe: Nodes between Northern Europe and the Mediterranean Sea
Dijon, 1./2. Dec. 2016
The international symposium organized in Dijon forms part of the SPP1630 European project “Harbours” on inland harbours from roman period to middle ages, in which the Burgundy University cooperates with the Friedrich Schiller University from Jena.
The SPP1630 offers a structural and diachronic comparative analysis of the harbours networks on inland waterbodies. Its goals are the study of the harbours settled on lakes or rivers as a complex phenomenon, and the assessment of their respective significance as hubs in the communication and exchange network between Mediterranean Sea and Northern Europe. The project relies on the analysis of archaeological (from roman period) and historical sources, and integrates the waterbodies navigability (watersheds, dynamics, flow, land cover,…), as the characteristics of naval architecture (adaptation of boats to specific river dynamics…), the presence of crossings between fluvial and terrestrial pathways (transhipment points), or the tolls (socio-economic evolutions, borders, etc.). These two days gather German, French and European researchers from the different fields required on such a research problem (history, archaeology, geography, palaeoenvironmental analysis, geomatics), in the aim to present recent discoveries and results. The present book contains the 27 abstracts in three languages (French, German, English). A collection of articles will be published from the communications presented during the symposium.
Papers by Lukas Werther