4 - 5 pm (CET)

Dr. Robert Schumann 

The distant past is perceivable in written and oral history, but is also omnipresent in the material world. People always encountered relics of the past in material form and had to react to their specific implications. Ancient monuments perceivable on the surface and spare finds of older times do not only attract archaeologist but more generally fascinate. Communities in later prehistoric and early historic Europe interacted with different relics of the distant past they encountered in the cultural landscape. I will discuss how societies in the Late Bronze age and Iron Age of Central Europe engaged with the distant past and how it was integrated into their present age.

In cooperation with Freie Universität’s Institute for Prehistoric Archaeology: