Mobilität und soziale Dynamik in Südbayern und im Nordtiroler Inntal in der Urnenfelderzeit (13.-9. Jh. v. Chr.)

• Applicant: Professorin Dr. Carola Metzner-Nebelsick
• Subject Area: Prehistory and World Archaeology
• Term: from 2012 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 191679530

TP 4As explained in the interim report, TP 4 was newly adjusted to permit an extension of the scientific topic addressed in the course of phase I to the Salzach-Inn-Danube area. In analogy to the situation during the older Urnfield Culture in the catchment area of the ore district Schwaz-Brixlegg in the upper Inn valley, settlement formations seemingly occur in the Salzach valley, starting in the the younger and lasting until the late Urnfield Culture (periods HaB1-HyB3, or 10th to 9th century BC). While the settlement processes are still insufficiently investigated, new foundations of necropoles are evidenced independently. Grave furnishings reveal close parallels to the lower Bavarian Danube area. This poses the assumption that ore districts located in the vicinity of the Mitterberg region were responsible for these connections. Isotopic analyses of selected burial inventories shall reveal whether these exchange contacts had happened in the course of metal trade including migration phenomena, or in terms of an adoption of a new ceramic style through diverse migration processes without any long-lasting presence of immigrants at a site.TP 5In the 5th century BC, the Fritzens-Sanzeno-Culture (FSK), characterized by several parameters (property ownerships, house constructions, iron technology, religious notions) developed as a uniform culture in north and south Tyrole and the Trentino by way of the Inn-Eisack-Etsch passage. As a reason, both migratory events of population groups and acculturation phenomena are discussed. The migration hypothesis shall be tested by stable isotope analysis of human cremations and some uncremated skeletons dating to the formation time of the FSK and its immediate precursors. Material is available from the regions in question (north Tyrole: Kundl, Wörgl; south Tyrole: Moritzing, Brixen, Pfatten, Latsch). Potential regions of origin will be defined by the isotopic fingerprint consisting of stable strontium and lead isotopes. Since isotopic ratios of these heavy elements are thermally stable, cremated material is suitable for analysis. Cremated and uncremated remains of game and domesticates have been excavated both from the graves and the settlements, and will be analyzed as well to support the evaluation of local isotopic signatures, which will be compared with the isotopic ratios of human remains of members of the FSK.

• DFG Programme: Research Units
• Subproject of: FOR 1670: Transalpine Mobility and Culture Transfer
• Co-Investigator: Professorin Dr. Amei Lang