Elke Kaiser u. Wolfram Schier, Time and Materiality: Periodization and Regional Chronologies at the Transition from Bronze to Iron Age in Eurasia (1200-600BCE)

• Applicant: Professorin Dr. Elke Kaiser
• Subject Area: Prehistory and World Archaeology
• Term: from 2021 to 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 462825415

The collection volume contains several contributions by the participants of the first international conference on the topic 'Time and Materiality: Periodization and Regional Chronologies at the Transition from Bronze to Iron Age in Eurasia (1200-600 BCE)' at Freie Universität Berlin from March 19-21, 2018. During these three days, in 18 sessions covering different regions within Eurasia (10° W - 70° E) the following aspects were discussed: • Concepts and principles underlying the respective regional periodization and temporal systematics;• Different academic traditions were discussed, against the background of which the existing classifications in the individual large region are to be understood; • The validity of relative and regional chronologies and their applicability across national borders.The lively discussions and the extremely positive assessment of the conference participants encouraged us to publish the contributions in a printed form. About 15 colleagues have accepted our invitation to publish their manuscripts, so that a total of 13 articles on chronological studies of major regions on the transition from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age are available. Being brought together in a collection volume for the first time, these articles provide a supra-regional overview of this transition horizon as well as an insight into the theoretical and material foundations on which the chronological subdivisions in the individual large regions are based. Thus, for an important cultural-historical period such as the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, traditionally considered a caesura in many areas, more specific consideration and better assessment of the cultural-historical processes within certain regions become possible. A successful comparison within the Eurasian perspective, from the Iberian Peninsula in the West to Southern Siberia in the East, from Greece to Scandinavia including the numerous large spaces lying between these two transects, forms the special character of this volume.In order to ensure the scientific quality, each contribution was peer reviewed by an external expert and revised by the authors in accordance with the expert opinions. Since the publication aims at an international readership, all manuscripts are in English, proofread regarding the language. At present, 80% of the articles already passed review and proof-reading. The article by Ch. Pare (Chapter 03) shows the actual layout in which all articles will appear in the book.

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