PhD project |
Maritime networks: Formation, development and significance of Neolithic networks in areas adjacent to the North Sea
The European Neolithic is characterized by diverse archaeological complexes which influence and supersede each other within a constantly changing environment. The most massive environmental changes happened in the North Sea area. For more than a century of archaeological investigations it is renown that contacts across the North Sea exited, but in the last decades many studies has been carried out which – when evaluated synoptically – testify that cultural contact has been present in massively changing intensities. Recent natural science moreover shows that similar complex natural processes took place in distant regions which provoked comparable cultural developments. These studies thus reinforced discussions about potential interconnection of large-scale cultural phenomena.
The PhD project attempts to explain the mechanisms behind social processes in the entire Neolithic period (c. 4000 – 2000 BC) in the North Sea region. Several cultural large-scale phenomena occur on both the continent and the British Islands approximately at the same time (e.g. adoption of the Neolithic lifestyle, early Neolithic long barrows and pottery styles, Late Neolithic Bell Beakers and associated finds, etc.). To this day, a synoptic evaluation of all so far known attributes indicating contact in the North Sea area is lacking. This means that neither a diachronological nor a super-regional examination has been done concentrating on the Neolithic period in this specific region. Such a synoptic evaluation is planned to be fulfilled within this PhD project. Focusing on cultural relations of the Cimbrian Peninsula and the British Islands, all relevant finds and contexts will be compiled that indicate or clearly demonstrate that prehistoric communication happened across the North Sea – that the sea didn’t function as a border but rather favoured cultural relations under certain circumstances.
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Work experience |
2017 Scientist in CRC 1266 – Scales of Transformation, subproject C1: Late Mesolithic and Neolithic Transformations on the Northern and Central European Plain.
2015 - 2016 Scientific assistant of Dr. Christian Horn in the GSHDL project: Material culture/ Bronze Age.
2013 - 2014 Student assistant of Dr. Christian Horn in the GSHDL project: Material culture/ Bronze Age.
Fieldwork
2018 Geomagnetic survey on Late Neolithic/Copper Age site Monte da Contenda, Alentejo region, Portugal Geomagnetic survey at UNESCO heritage site Boyne Valley in Ireland.
2017 Geomagnetic surveys on Neolithic sites in Westre and Oldenburg (attached to the CRC 1266, subproject C1). Excavation Neolithic (PPNA) settlement in Sharara, southern Jordan.Excavation Neolithic settlement in Brodersby-Schönhagen (attached to the CRC 1266, subproject C1). Survey, geomagnetic survey, gpr and geoelectric on Neolithic settlements in southwestern Slovakia (attached to the CRC 1266, subproject C2).
2016 Excavation Neolithic settlement in Vrable, Slowakia (attached to the CRC 1266, subproject C2). Geomagnetic survey on Chalcolithic Tel (Tel Tsaf) in Israel.
2015 Geomagnetic survey of Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Bronze Age settlements in Bordjos, Nove Becej, Serbia.
2014 Excavation Neolithic settlement in Vrable, Slowakia. Geomagnetic survey of Neolithic settlements in Vrable, Slowakia.
Geomagnetic survey at the Neolithic causewayed enclosure at Sarup, Denmark. Geomagnetic survey of Neolithic settlements in Dennewitz, Brandenburg, Germany.
2013 Excavation of a megalithic tomb in Wangels, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Geomagnetic survey at the Limes, Bavaria, Germany.
2012 Excavation of a megalithic tomb in Wangels, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Survey on Neolithic sites in Altmark and Olbetal, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
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Selected publications |
2018
Schultrich 2018: S. Schultrich, Flint and Bronze in Late Neolithic Schleswig-Holstein:
Distribution, contexts and meanings. In: Journal of Neolithic Archaeology
20, 2018, (https://doi.org/10.12766/jna.2018.2)
Schultrich 2018: S. Schultrich, Das Jungneolithikum in Schleswig-Holstein.
W. Kirleis/ J. Müller (eds.), Scales of Transformations in Prehistoric and
Archaic Societies, vol. 1. Sidestone Press (Leiden 2018).
expected in 2018
In prep.: Late Neolithic Deposition Practices in Schleswig-Holstein. Sidestone press.
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