In the ancient Jordanian city of Gerasa new research has revealed that a so-called “golden river” enabled the city’s population to exploit the hinterland, which increased productivity and created more robust social and economic networks. The sustainable administration of ancient land can be an…

Ny forskning viser, at indbyggerne i oldtidsbyen Jerash i Jordan forvaltede og kontrollerede det omkringliggende opland og landbrugsressourcer på en sådan måde, at byen i lange perioder var miljømæssig bæredygtig.

New publication by Professor Rubina Raja, Professor Achim Lichtenberger (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster) and Carmen Ting (University of Cyprus).

Congratulations, Lina Diers!

The Centre for Urban Network Evolutions (UrbNet) and the School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, invite applications for an associate professorship (tenured position) in the archaeology of urban societies.

Conference summary by Research assistants Olympia Bobou, Rikke R. Thomsen, and Jesper V. Jensen.

New publication by Assistant professor Thomas Birch, former Postdoc Vana Orfanou, Achim Lichtenberger (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster), Professor Rubina Raja, Assistant professor Gry Barfod, Professor Charles E. Lesher, Independent scholars Ingrid Schulze and Wolfgang Schulze.

New publication by Professor Rubina Raja, Professor Achim Lichtenberger (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster), Professor Eivind Seland (University of Bergen), Tim Kinnaird (University of St Andrews) and Professor Ian Simpson (University of Stirling).

The UrbNet annual report for the year 2018 is now available. You can read it here.

Nu kan forskere fra Society for Combat Archaeology, Konservatorskolen og Aarhus Universitet afsløre, at et af de mest velbevarede vikingeskjolde både har garvet kalveskind rundt om kanten og er beklædt med garvet lamme- eller hjorteskind på forsiden og bagsiden.