Western Germania in Transition from the 1st to the 4th Century
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Scholarly research assigns great importance to northwestern Germany for the reconstruction of Roman–Germanic interactions. The region between the Weser, the Rhine, and the North Sea serves as a paradigmatic case for the social and economic development of “Germanic” societies that were in interaction with the Roman Empire during the first half of the first millennium CE.
In recent years, large-scale excavations in this area have uncovered and secured a substantial body of new source material. While the few historical written sources relating to the region have long been the subject of scholarly debate, the archaeological objects and structures known from the area have to date been scarcely published or systematically analyzed.
Multidisciplinary and IT-Based Analysis of Archaeological Sources
As part of the Academy project “Western Germania in Transition”, an edition of this previously largely overlooked cultural heritage is being produced. At the same time, the newly acquired findings and archaeological sources will be made available for further research through a digital database.
The project is supported by a range of cooperation partners from universities, research institutions, and heritage conservation authorities. The sources, which have not yet been evaluated, are being analyzed in a multidisciplinary and IT-supported manner by scholars from the fields of archaeology, archaeobiology, mining archaeology, archaeometallurgy, history, and geoinformatics.
Western Germania in Transition from the 1st to the 4th Century
Host Academy
Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts
Location and federal state
Göttingen, Lower Saxony; Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia
Type
Editions: Art History and Archeology
Project number
II.E.22-1/-2