The Formation and Transformation of Space and
Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations
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  • About
  • Research
    • Topoi I (2007-12)
      • Spatial Environment
      • Historical Spaces
      • Perception and Representation
      • Theory and Science
      • Transformations
    • Topoi II (2012–2019)
      • Spatial Environment
      • Historical Space
      • Perception and Representation
      • Theory and Science
      • Topoi Plus
      • Key Topics
      • Topoi Lab
      • Forum – Spatial Data Analysis
      • TOPOImap und TOPOIorganon
    • Early Career and professorships
  • Knowledge Transfer
    • Publications
      • Publication Database
    • Edition Topoi
      • Open Access
      • Book Series
      • eTopoi
      • Data Publication
    • Events
    • Teaching
    • Dialog
      • Spotlight on …
      • Journalist in Residence
      • Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften
    • Exhibitions
      • KTESIPHON
      • LIENZO SELER II
      • The Soul is an Octopus
      • THRAKISCHE MÜNZEN
      • Forum Romanum 3.0.
      • MUSEUMSVISIONEN
      • ANTIKE BAUFORSCHUNG
      • IRON METALLURGY
      • Jenseits des Horizonts
      • Auf den Kopf gestellt!
      • Antike Welten
      • Research and Concepts
    • Media
      • News Archive
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  • Dissertations

  • Archaeological and Geoarchaeological Research in Kazachstan
  • Archaeological and geoarchaelogical investigation of the Aleppo hinterland
  • At the Transition from Late Antiquity to Islam - Resafa in Syria – Cult Site and Center of Power in Relation to Landscape
  • Felix Romuliana - A Late Ancient Imperial Palace and Its Surroundings
  • Geoarchaeological Case Studies in the Bakırçay Valley – Paleogeography and Human-environmental Interactions in the Chora of Pergamon in Western Turkey
  • Geoarchaeological and sedimentological investigations in the hinterland of the Bay of Taganrog – A case study on the Holocene landscape development in the northeast Black Sea Region
  • Gesellschaftliche Bedingungen technologischer Entwicklungen im Neolithikum und frühen Chalkolithikum Turkmenistans
  • Integrated Tomb Complexes in Petra and the Mediterranean Funerary Architecture of the Roman Age
  • Parametrisierung natürlicher Standorteigenschaften Zentraler Orte und ihres Umlandes: Standortmodellierung
  • Prehistoric mobility and palaeodiet in Western Eurasia. Stable isotope analysis of human populations and domesticated animals between 3500 and 300 cal BC.
  • Taganrog und sein Umland zwischen Bronze- und früher Eisenzeit. Eine Regionalstudie
  • The Western Globular Amphora Culture. Investigations into Differentiation in Space and Time and Cultural and Anthropological Identity
  • Research Projects

  • Lossow bei Frankfurt (Oder) – Eine früheisenzeitliche Kultstätte in der antiken Randzone
  • Raumwirksame Innovationen und mobile Lebensweise im Nordpontikum (3.500–2.000 v. Chr.) und Siebenstromland
  • The emplacement of innovations in prehistoric southern Turkmenistan
  • Third-party Funded Project

  • Resafa – Rusafat Hisham. The residence of Caliph Hisham b. Abd al-Malik (rgn. 724 – 743 AD)
  • Additional Project

  • Interactive atlas of the ancient Near East

Spokespersons

Wolfram Schier
Brigitta Schütt

Coordinator

Jan Krause

Groups

(A-I) Central Places
(A-I-1) Pyramids of the Steppe
(A-I-2) Taganrog, Black Sea
(A-I-3) Resafa, Syria
(A-I-4) Felix Romuliana, Serbia
(A-I-6) The Aleppo hinterland
(A-I-7) Egypt Lies in Africa
(A-I-8) Pergamon
(A-I-9) Monti Navegna e Cervia
(A-I-10) South Harz Mountains
(A-I-11) Lossow, Germany
(A-I-15) Northern Mesopotamia
(A-I-16) Petra, Jordan
(A-I-17) Daschur, Egypt
(A-I-18) Punic Settlements
(A-I-20) Oasis Walls, Uzbekistan
(A-I-21) Systemic Analysis
(A-II) Innovations
(A-III) Archaeometry/Archaeoinformatics
(A-III-1) Climate Modeling
(A-III-2) Geophysical Forum
(A-III-3) Economic Spaces
(A-III-4) GIS-Based Analysis
(A-III-6) Archaeoinformatics
(A-III-7) Physical Geography

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