Humans and Resources in the Bronze and Iron Age – Anthropological and bioarchaeological analyses of food resource use and detection of mobility (B06)

This project examines how people acquired, used and valued food and health as resources. Anthropological and bioarchaeological analyses of skeletal remains allow us to look at maritime and non-maritime societies in prehistory and the early Middle Ages, because the use of food resources left specific traces in their bones. In addition, we analyse the influence that migration patterns and adaptation of the societies under consideration had on these food- and health-specific ResourceCultures.

DFG Programme Collaborative Research Centres

Subproject of SFB 1070:  Resource Cultures. Socio-Cultural Dynamics in Relation to Resources

Applicant Institution Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

Project Heads Professor Dr. Jörg Baten; Marta Diaz Zorita Bonilla, Ph.D., since 7/2021; Professor Dr. Heinrich Härke, until 6/2017; Professor Dr. Joachim Wahl, until 6/2021