Gert Goldenberg
University of Innsbruck
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Vegetation History and Archaeobotany | 2013
Elisabeth Breitenlechner; Gert Goldenberg; Joachim Lutz; Klaus Oeggl
The exploitation of copper ore deposits of the northern Greywacke Zone was initiated by the implementation of metallurgic technologies in the Eastern Alps thousands of years ago. This multi-proxy study aimed to detect prehistoric mining phases in the vicinity of a prominent copper ore deposit in the Lower Inn Valley. Therefore we studied a peat core from a fen using pollen, micro charcoal and geochemical analyses. In the same fen, an archaeological investigation revealed an ore beneficiation site, well dated by dendrochronological analysis to the Late Bronze Age (9th century b.c.). First hints of mining activities reflected by the occurrence of anthropogenic indicators in the pollen diagram, associated with elevated metal values, at the beginning of the Bronze Age might result from early mineral prospecting and metallurgical experiments around the use of fahlore. The local ore deposit was then abandoned until during the Bronze Age mining activities started to increase. This is reflected by an expansion of the pioneer species Pinus and Larix on mine spoil heaps in the proximity. Concomitantly metal ratios and micro charcoal increase. From about 1000 to 850 b.c. a strong impact of mining activities is displayed in the multi-proxy data. The local forest was partly cleared on and in the vicinity of the fen. According to dendrochronological data the ore beneficiation plant was in use from about 900 to 870 b.c. Until about 700 b.c. another period with moderate impact by mining activities in the further vicinity of the fen shows up.
Antiquity | 2011
Jörg Schibler; Elisabeth Breitenlechner; Sabine Deschler-Erb; Gert Goldenberg; Klaus Hanke; Gerald Hiebel; Heidemarie Hüster Plogmann; Kurt Nicolussi; Elisabeth Marti-Grädel; Sandra Pichler; Alexandra Schmidl; Stefan Schwarz; Barbara Stopp; Klaus Oeggl
The extraction and processing of metal ores, particularly those of copper and tin, are regarded as among the principal motors of Bronze Age society. The skills and risks of mining lie behind the weapons, tools and symbols that drove political and ideological change. But we hear much less about the miners themselves and their position in society. Who were these people? Were they rich and special, or expendable members of a hard-pressed workforce? In this study the spotlight moves from the adits, slags and furnaces to the bones and seeds, providing a sketch of dedicated prehistoric labourers in their habitat. The Mauken miners were largely dependent on imported meat and cereals, and scarcely hunted or foraged the resources of the local forest. They seem to be the servants of a command economy, encouraged to keep their minds on the job.
Praehistorische Zeitschrift | 2018
Karina Grömer; Gert Goldenberg; Johanna Banck-Burgess; Margarita Gleba; Regina Hofmann-de Keijzer; Maarten R. van Bommel; Ineke Joosten; Matthias Mehofer; Kurt Nicolussi; Ulrike Töchterle
Zusammenfassung: Im traditionsreichen Bergbaugebiet von Schwaz/Brixlegg im Nordtiroler Unterinntal fand während der späten Bronzezeit und frühen Eisenzeit ein umfangreicher Bergbau auf Kupfererze statt, der zahlreiche Spuren im Gelände hinterlassen hat. Montanarchäologische Forschungsprojekte der Universität Innsbruck, gefördert vom österreichischen Wissenschaftsfonds FWF und vom Tiroler Wissenschaftsfonds TWF, untersuchen seit den 1990er Jahren das prähistorische Montanwesen in diesem Raum. Zu den Forschungszielen gehören die Rekonstruktion der metallurgischen Produktionskette vom Erzabbau über die Aufbereitung bis hin zur Erzverhüttung und Gewinnung von Rohkupfer sowie der Arbeits- und Lebenswelt der prähistorischen Berg- und Hüttenleute. Die bislang prospektierten und in Ausschnitten archäologisch untersuchten Befunde belegen einen zeitlichen Schwerpunkt der Bergbauaktivitäten im 12. bis 8. Jh. v. Chr. Auf einem Verhüttungsplatz bei Radfeld (Mauk A) fanden sich 1997 bei der Freilegung einer „Waschrinne“ zur nassmechanischen Aufbereitung von Schlacken einige gut erhaltene Textilfragmente. Der archäologische Befund sowie die Textilfunde, Analysen zu Textiltechnik, Fasermaterial und Farbstoffen werden im folgenden Beitrag vorgestellt. Zudem werden die funktionelle Interpretation und kulturgeschichtliche Einordnung der Textilfunde diskutiert.
Dendrochronologia | 2009
Thomas Pichler; Kurt Nicolussi; Gert Goldenberg
Journal of Archaeological Science | 2013
Thomas Pichler; Kurt Nicolussi; Gert Goldenberg; Klaus Hanke; Kristóf Kovács; Andrea Thurner
Virtual Archaeology Review | 2010
Michael Moser; Simon Hye; Gert Goldenberg; Klaus Hanke; Kristóf Kovács
Archive | 2007
Klaus Hanke; Michael Moser; Albert Grimm-Pitzinger; Gert Goldenberg; Ulrike Toechterle
Archaeometry | 2013
Matthias Krismer; U. Töchterle; Gert Goldenberg; Peter Tropper; Franz Vavtar
Archive | 2010
Klaus Oeggl; Gert Goldenberg; Thomas Stöllner; Mario Prast
Archaologisches Korrespondenzblatt | 2009
Thomas Pichler; Gert Goldenberg; Michael Klaunzer; Kurt Nicolussi