Integration of Complementary Archaeological Prospection Data from a Late Iron Age Settlement at Vesterager—Denmark

The complementary use of various archaeological prospection data sets offers a series of new possibilities for the investigation of prehistoric settlements. In addition to the separate interpretations of the single methods, the implementation of image fusion provides an additional tool to obtain an even higher degree of data integration during the interpretation process. To investigate some possibilities and risks of image fusion, a procedure frequently used in the medical field but rarely applied in archaeology, various algorithms inside a dedicated MATLAB toolbox TAIFU (Toolbox for Archaeological Image FUsion) were tested on the geophysical prospection data from an Iron Age settlement near Vesterager in West Jutland, Denmark. The Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology had conducted large-scale, high-resolution ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and magnetometry surveys at the site in 2014, based on its discovery by the Ringkøbing Museum through aerial photos and the results of a follow-up excavation in 2009. The aim was to determine if, and to what extent, geophysical prospection together with a novel integrative interpretational approach was able to add more detailed information to an already known prehistoric settlement. Results yielded a variety of deeper insights into the separate farms (dated to around AD 400), including the discovery of several new structures and more information about the construction of the longhouses, as well as a first suggestion on how to implement image fusion into the process of analysis and archaeological interpretation of geophysical data sets.     

从国家的到全球性的:变迁中的欧洲认同?

<正>毋庸置疑,1989年从根本上改变了欧洲:不仅改变了它的政治景观,而且尤其改变了其文化上的自我认识。一些观察者甚至声称:1989年实际上创造了一个"新的"欧洲!他们的话有两方面的指涉:第一、对于跨国的(transnational)空间和统一体的共识;第二、重建的各种国家认同的不同模式。     

“A Man of Fashion Never Has Recourse to Proverbs”: Lord Chesterfield's Tilting at Proverbial Windmills

Many scholars have claimed that proverbs largely dropped from polite speech during the eighteenth century in England. Often quoted in this context is Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son that proverbs are merely the "rhetoric of the vulgar man" and "a man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs and vulgar aphorisms." This article challenges the former assumption and shows that Chesterfield himself regularly used proverbs in his letters, and used them to great effect.     

Regionale Energieversorgung Chance für eine zukunftsf?hige Ziel- und Ressourcensteuerung in der Energiewirtschaft

In einem ersten Teil (Hoppenbrock/Moser) werden auf Basis eines entwickelten Systemmodells „Dezentrale Energieversorgung“ ?konomische Prozesse für ein regionales Energiesystem diskutiert, welches im BMU-Forschungsvorhaben „Entwicklungsperspektiven für nachhaltige 100 %-EE-Regionen in Deutschland“ erarbeitet wurde. In einem zweiten Teil (Bonow/George) werden der Begriff „Regionale Energieversorgung“ und seine Leitkriterien hergeleitet. Anschlie?end wird eine den Verfassern des Beitrages geeignet erscheinende „Balanced Scorecard“ vorgestellt – ausgehend von der Vision, dass eine Region in Bezug auf ihre Energieversorgung nachhaltig und wettbewerbsf?hig entwickelt werden kann.     

Erratum to: Analyzing and dating the structure of the Phaistos Disk

This paper offers an analysis and dating of the structure of the “Phaistos Disk”, made from clay, imprinted with undeciphered symbols, grouped in roughly 30 boxes per disk side, and found in the ruins of the Phaistos Palace on the Greek Island of Crete by Luigi Pernier in 1908. The author suggests that the disk side A containing a petal in the center box shows astronomical eclipse information, which belong to a complete Saros cycle beginning −1377 and valid for the Phaistos Palace location only.     

Stapedial footplate fixation in a 4000-year-old temporal bone from Franzhausen II,Austria

In one of 185 temporal bones from 100 individuals excavated from the Bronze Age cemetery Franzhausen II in Lower Austria, stapedial footplate fixation was detected, in a 16–20-year-old male. Examination by surgical microscope, flexible endoscope and computed tomography revealed that the stapes footplate is almost completely fixed into the oval window, with abnormal bone formation in its anterior end. As shown by computed tomographic imaging there were no radiolucent zones around the cochlea, which can sometimes be seen in modern patients with cochlear otosclerosis. Most findings lead to the conclusion that this case of a stapes ankylosis nearly 4000 years ago is probably due to otosclerosis.