Websites by Erik van Rossenberg
This is a website listing academic jobs in archaeology and still running: check the link/URL: htt... more This is a website listing academic jobs in archaeology and still running: check the link/URL: http://archpostgrad.wordpress.com/
Books by Erik van Rossenberg
Most recent inventory of PhD research in archaeology at Dutch universities.
Edited volume of the first and second annual symposium for Dutch postgraduate archaeological rese... more Edited volume of the first and second annual symposium for Dutch postgraduate archaeological research. [I'm listed as first editor as initiator of the symposium] Symposium website: http://www.jongearcheologen.nl/
Poetics – both textual and visual - can express thoughts and feelings, make connections beyond or... more Poetics – both textual and visual - can express thoughts and feelings, make connections beyond ordinary ways of thinking and change our view/perspectives. The familiar becomes unfamiliar and lingering thoughts take shape. In our everyday handling of the archaeological past this poetic dimension often gets submerged in site-reports and databases. Poetic TAG tries to reinsert this dimension into our engagement with the past and will take shape as an installation of posters. The aim of this sideshow is to make creative leaps and investigate new relations but not forget about the archaeological phenomena.
The contributors integrate textual and visual imagery, taking their inspiration from archaeological experiences. These experiences range from archaeological fieldwork and visits to museums to travelling in landscapes.
Melanie Giles – “The last Wold Ranger”
Michael Given – “Fieldwalkers”
Marjolijn Kok – “This pit”
Erik van Rossenberg – “Participant observation”
Alice Samson – “Rocking through Drenthe”
Wouter Waldus – “The journey”
Aaron Watson – “Monumental images”
Come and visit this sideshow, and let the experiences captured in this installation make your mind wander in between the regular sessions.
Edited volume; Festschrift for Piet van de Velde on the occasion of his retirement as supervisor ... more Edited volume; Festschrift for Piet van de Velde on the occasion of his retirement as supervisor in archaeological theory & methods at Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University.
[if you are looking for one of the articles included in the volume, please contact me for the respective pdf's]
MA dissertation in Theory & Methods of Archaeology, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University; un... more MA dissertation in Theory & Methods of Archaeology, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University; unpublished
Papers by Erik van Rossenberg
van Rossenberg, E. (2014). As long as it lasts: keeping the tradition of publications exchange al... more van Rossenberg, E. (2014). As long as it lasts: keeping the tradition of publications exchange alive. in: "We discovered that... times are a-changin and much stays the same: contributions on the occasion of the retirement of Hans Kamermans". C. C. Bakels, K. Fennema, J. F. Porck and M. Wansleeben (eds). Leiden, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University: 132-135.
Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie (TMA), 2014
Forthcoming in: marjolijn kok & suzanne van rossenberg (eds), fragmentation of perception / perce... more Forthcoming in: marjolijn kok & suzanne van rossenberg (eds), fragmentation of perception / perception of fragmentation: a queer perspective on art and archaeology [proceedings of a session at the 17th Archaeology & Theory symposium in the Netherlands]
Reply (p. 47) to Salomons, Koert. 2011. "Erik van Rossenberg. The Early Bronze Age hoarding pheno... more Reply (p. 47) to Salomons, Koert. 2011. "Erik van Rossenberg. The Early Bronze Age hoarding phenomenon in Central Italy: a diachronic perspective with social implications", in: Arjen Heijnis, Ewoud van Meel & Sasja van der Vaart (eds), Beyond technology: re-contextualising ancient crafts. Graduate School of Archaeology workshop, 26/27 October 2010 (Graduate School of Archaeology occasional paper, 7), Leiden-Cambridge: Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University-Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, pp. 45-48.
Special treatment of the remains of children is a well-known feature in Central Italy from the Ne... more Special treatment of the remains of children is a well-known feature in Central Italy from the Neolithic onwards. Here I will focus on the evidence for the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in two adjacent Central Italian regions (Abruzzo and Lazio). It will be argued that mortuary practice involving neonates, infants and children was connected with domestic symbolism, showing the enhanced cultural significance of infant/child burials. Investing child burials with domestic symbolism, burying communities singled out fundamental values in the social reproduction of households and local communities in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age of Central Italy. Key words: Central Italy, prehistory, child burials
N.B. interpretation partly revised and updated in "Infant/child burials" (2008).
The author presents the methodology of his PhD research in progress with the same title. The proj... more The author presents the methodology of his PhD research in progress with the same title. The project advocates the appreciation of interrelationships between archaeological contexts, and several layers ofsignification within single contexts. It is argued that the (re)creation of collective identities, such as households and communities, can be recognized archaeologically in the materiality of social reproduction. The significance of the domestic cycle for the expression of wider community interests and for perceptions of landscape will be illustrated in a case study of the Final Bronze Age funerary evidence of Lazio.
This paper starts from the notion that social reproduction entails the construction of identities... more This paper starts from the notion that social reproduction entails the construction of identities on several levels, which can be studied archaeologically through the material conditions provided by the interrelationships between places within cultural landscapes. In the Bronze Age cultural landscape of the Abruzzo region (Central ltaly), the tensions between layers of sodal life were reconciled through movements between permanent sites of ritualized practice and periodically shifting sites of routine practice. The fact that ritualisation in the Early Bronze Age predominantly referred to the routines of everyday life and included collective burial practices suggests a mentalité rooted in the social reproduction of households and local communities. In the Middle Bronze Age, another ritualized field of practice related to martiality and wider social interaction was introduced into ritual praxis. Until the Final Bronze Age, the latter sites of ritualized practice were kept apart in the cultural landscape from the ones related to domestidty, and thus may have referred to a layer of social life beyond the Iocal community. The generally accepted idea of social transformation through increased individuality in the Final Bronze Age and Early Iron Age does not stand up to close scrutiny of the funerary evidence. Although seemingly related to individuals and part of a changing set of material conditions, these funerary contexts were still tied in with the construction of collective identities. In the selection of objects we can recognize the Early Iron Age burial as a locale which incorporated the movements of the Bronze Age cultural landscape into a microcosm. As such, it became a site of conflicting interest in itself and a site of reproduction for a new mentalité.
Erik van Rossenberg, Joep Hendriks, Alistair Bright & Dieuwertje Smal (red.), SOJAbundel 2002/2003. Leiden 26 oktober 2002 - Amsterdam 29 november 2003, Amsterdam/Leiden: Symposium Onderzoek Jonge Archeologen, 2005
in: Erik van Rossenberg, Joep Hendriks, Alistair Bright & Dieuwertje Smal (red.), SOJAbundel 2002/2003. Leiden 26 oktober 2002 - Amsterdam 29 november 2003, Amsterdam/Leiden: Symposium Onderzoek Jonge Archeologen, 2005
Short critique on the presentation and preliminary publication of the Early Bronze Age village bu... more Short critique on the presentation and preliminary publication of the Early Bronze Age village buried by the Avellino eruption of Somma-Vesuvius. For an updated bibliography on the site, see the website of the principal excavator: http://alborelivadie.eu/, with downloads, and at academia.edu: http://cnrs.academia.edu/ClaudeAlboreLivadie
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Websites by Erik van Rossenberg
Books by Erik van Rossenberg
The contributors integrate textual and visual imagery, taking their inspiration from archaeological experiences. These experiences range from archaeological fieldwork and visits to museums to travelling in landscapes.
Melanie Giles – “The last Wold Ranger”
Michael Given – “Fieldwalkers”
Marjolijn Kok – “This pit”
Erik van Rossenberg – “Participant observation”
Alice Samson – “Rocking through Drenthe”
Wouter Waldus – “The journey”
Aaron Watson – “Monumental images”
Come and visit this sideshow, and let the experiences captured in this installation make your mind wander in between the regular sessions.
[if you are looking for one of the articles included in the volume, please contact me for the respective pdf's]
Papers by Erik van Rossenberg
The contributors integrate textual and visual imagery, taking their inspiration from archaeological experiences. These experiences range from archaeological fieldwork and visits to museums to travelling in landscapes.
Melanie Giles – “The last Wold Ranger”
Michael Given – “Fieldwalkers”
Marjolijn Kok – “This pit”
Erik van Rossenberg – “Participant observation”
Alice Samson – “Rocking through Drenthe”
Wouter Waldus – “The journey”
Aaron Watson – “Monumental images”
Come and visit this sideshow, and let the experiences captured in this installation make your mind wander in between the regular sessions.
[if you are looking for one of the articles included in the volume, please contact me for the respective pdf's]
Bronze households.
Contemplating a contextual analysis of bronzes in Northern and Central Italy
The author discusses traditions of interpreting metalwork in the context of Italian protohistory, and introduces an alternative approach to bronze objects from Northern and Central Italy (Middle Bronze Age-Early Iron Age, c. 1700-700 BC). The proposed methodology enables one to consider the depositional patterns – i.e. the distribution between contexts of settlement, burial and hoard – of several classes of bronzes at the same time, thereby avoiding interpretative traditions that segregate reconstructions either by kind of archaeological context, or by class of bronzes. It is suggested that practices concerning the deposition of bronzes in contexts of settlement in the Middle and Late Bronze Ages, became embedded within funerary practices in the Final Bronze and Early Iron Ages."
Exploration of connections between art on the cover of books on archaeological theory and their contents as an alternative form of (recent) history of archaeology . [incorporating a book review of Renfrew's "Figuring it out" (2003)]
The contributors integrate textual and visual imagery, taking their inspiration from archaeological experiences. These experiences range from archaeological fieldwork and visits to museums to travelling in landscapes.
Melanie Giles – “The last Wold Ranger”
Michael Given – “Fieldwalkers”
Marjolijn Kok – “This pit”
Erik van Rossenberg – “Participant observation”
Alice Samson – “Rocking through Drenthe”
Wouter Waldus – “The journey”
Aaron Watson – “Monumental images”
Come and visit this sideshow, and let the experiences captured in this installation make your mind wander in between the regular sessions.
Vollgriffdolche forged relationships that highlight the articulation (followed by integration) of two distinctive Early Bronze Age metallurgical spheres in the region of Central Italy itself and, in a second stage, reached even further to bring continental European and Mediterranean metallurgical traditions together. These network changes at the Early-Middle Bronze Age transition resulted in a structure of land-based and seaborne connectivity in Central Italy that fully integrated this region within the Italian peninsula at large. This coincided with a peak in copper mining in Tuscany and included metalwork-related and cross-cultural exchanges with Bronze Age Greeks (so-called Mycenaeans) in the Bay of Naples. The multi-dimensional and cross-cultural connotation of Vollgriffdolche in the context of these particular network changes goes to the very heart of grand narratives in Bronze Age studies, so much so that a historically specific, network-based notion of creativity (in terms of tournaments of value and boundary work) can substitute for generalising, ‘black box’ notions of technological innovation, exchange networks and social interaction."
Deposition can be regarded as a flow of substances in itself, directed at the subsurface. More precisely, flows of ‘cultural’ and ‘natural’ substances were exchanged at particular places, thereby (re)creating the underground as a cosmological entity in the act of deposition. Taken together, depositional practices at a range of natural places, often classified as distinctive by archaeologists, betray the existence of Bronze Age cosmological knowledge about interconnections between flows of substances above and underground in physical landscapes, hence cultural landscapes.
A conceptualisation of Bronze Age deposition in terms of flows of substances and cosmological placemaking could reverberate in the study of religious practices in later phases of historical trajectories in Central Italy. In particular, the ‘prehistoric’ time depth of many a cult place in the region raises the question to what extent place continuity equals religious or cosmological continuity over centuries if not millennia (which is often presumed despite obvious gaps in site trajectories). In this paper I argue that Bronze Age notions of the underground as a cosmological entity were different from later cosmologies, but nonetheless followed similar cosmological principles, thus explaining later reuse of prior sites of religious practice.
This paper substantiates the emergence of an Early Bronze Age 'metal-work' in Central Italy, focused on southern Tuscany where copper mining, bronze production and hoarding spatially coincided. It brings spatial, contextual and composition analyses of ingots and finished pieces of metalwork together in a diachronic account of Copper through Middle Bronze Age networks. This leaves us with an unusually clear impression of exchange networks in Central Italy that bridges the gap in object biographies between production and (re)use and/or deposition. A network approach to metallurgy as a 'metal-work' creates the opportunity to explore the position of craftspeople in social networks and their role in exchange, as well as its intersections with Early Bronze Age cosmology and sociality.
In this paper I will focus on continuities in religious practice in Southern Etruria at the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age. I will argue that the creation of new places for existing religious practices was a crucial element in the trajectories of community formation at that time. The key element in this trajectory of social transformation of protohistoric communities in Central Italy would have been the incorporation of several religious practices with a Bronze Age ancestry, previously connected with several places dispersed throughout the cultural landscape, providing for a sense of rootedness in the context of Early Iron Age cemeteries.
In this paper I will argue that in order to overcome the ‘black-box’ character of concepts such as exchange and social interaction, we have to start thinking in terms of meeting places in later prehistory. Embedded in a highly structured annual cycle connecting a series of locations in cultural landscapes, meeting places represented locales that engendered condensed temporalities in object biographies. I will illustrate this with a case-study, adopting the concept of ‘tournament of value’ to suggest that contexts of production, exchange and/or deposition of early metalwork would have shown considerable overlap in the social reproduction of personhood, collective identities and ancestorhood in Copper Age and Early Bronze Age communities in Central Italy.
domestic practice. It will be argued that these ‘houses’ provided a focus for structured deposition of a range of objects with a domestic connotation, such as pottery, spindlewhorls, quernstones, portable cooking-stands, foodstuffs, and disarticulated human remains. Only in the final phase of the Bronze Age a clear-cut tradition of house-building can be recognised, i.e. a reasonable number of houses of similar plan have been excavated. In the context of these houses more detailed patterns of structured deposition can be recognised, in connection with phases of rebuilding and abandonment. In the same period, a tradition of cremation burials emerged as complementary acts of structured deposition. This double focus in domestic depositional practices in the Final Bronze Age highlights that houses and burials provided a material context for social
reproduction. Moreover, it provided the context for the introduction of the well-known Central Italian ‘house urns’, epitomising the central role of the house as a material metaphor in social reproduction and in Early Iron Age community formation.
This pit……. 1
marjolijn kok
Colofon & redactioneel.…. 2
Voor Marjolijn: enkele gedachten over verwantschap… 4
piet van de velde
Hunebedden, September 2004……. 8
alice samson
Zaaiden de Oerlese boeren geluk? Of hoe het kleine kan inspireren…. 9
johan verspay
kettingbrief#1…… 13
elles besselsen
Short story no.199. Hamburg, October 1-3 2063……. 14
suzanne van rossenberg
Dis-covering art/archaeology. Kunst op de kaft van archeologischtheoretische
boeken (en tussendoor een boekrecensie)…… 16
erik van rossenberg
Nieuwe foto’s in een oud jasje….. 26
karsten wentink
Critiquing the archaeological diary…… 29
william anderson & damjan krsmanovic
participant observation…… 41
erik van rossenberg
Afscheid van een oude bekende? Een gesprek met emeritus-hoogleraar
Bloemers….. 42
joep hendriks (met tom bloemers)
The english connection … no reply?…… 49
leon van hoof
Het leven na onderzoek: beroepsdeformatie op Sardinië……. 51
benoît mater
Maalwater: hoe een verhaal ontstaat en wordt verbeeld…… 52
silke lange & elles besselsen
auteurs…….. 59
Hunebed D27, Borger, 1999….. 60
aaron watson
Voorbij .... 3
daphne cara
Peter Greenaway was here. "Hel en hemeI" in het Groninger Museum... 4
erik van rossenberg
Archeologische gevoeligheden ... 11
marjolijn kok
Gevoelloze krachttermen in Archaeological Sensibilities (2000) .... 12
erik van rossenberg
More of the same: evolutionary archaeologies..... 16
josara de lange
Smaakloze vernieuwing - een pleidooi voor constante verandering...... 30
suzanne van rossenberg
Evolutie-Ieren: zoek de verschillen!...................... 34
erik van rossenberg
Over landschappen en agenda's ........ 35
joep hendriks
Queer archaeologies: World archaeology ........... 38
marjolijn kok
Het Limburgs Museum in Venlo: archeologie in zachte g....... 42
erik van rossenberg
Spolia .. 43
erik van rossenberg
Wetenschap als kunst......................................... 44
marjolijn kok
redaction eel..... 46
colofon .... 47
auteurs..... 47
.........3
lisette brouwer
Borrelpraat met zouijes.... 4
erik van rossenberg
bot... 6
maaike van steenbergen
De archeologische context van Romeins importmateriaal; een aanzet tot patroon-analyse in Noord-Holland....... 9
sander gerritsen
D 50, Een hunebed om van te houden... .... 34
line kramer, marjolijn kok
colofon ..... 39
auteurs...... 39
een man van een vrouw van een man..... 1
elles besse/sen
r.i.p. .... 3
erik
Meneer Innocentio schrikt van de archeologie in de achteruitkijkspiegel.... 4
alexander verpoorte
Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh: De nieuwe nationale trots van Schotland.. 6
erik van rossenberg
alles is interpretatie, maar interpretatie is niet alles..... 17
marjolijn kok
sprekende gezichten ... 18
elles besselsen
een teleac-cursus Nederlandse prehistorie......... 37
marjolijn kok, gre kok, anoniem, petra van tiel, terry van druten
TRAC 2000: A Party without Beer... .. 40
ivo hermsen, joep hendriks
coIofon.... 43
auteurs.... 43
van een boom ....... 1 en 52
elles besselsen
this pit is not my pit ......... 3
marjolijn kok
stichting archeologische ervaringen .... 4
marjolijn josara erik elles
de oudste tekening van nederland, een produkt 'in de markt gezet' .. ... 6
leo verhart
huilen naar de rnaan...... .. 8
marco langbroek
preconstructie..... 14
josara de lange
SOJA: surrogaat of gewoon anders........ 14
slichting archeologische ervaringen
flag fen een bezoek..... 15
marjolijn kok
huisje, boompje, beestje........ 19
erik van rossenberg
asterix ontmanteld................ 36
marcel muller
chinees avontuur.... 37
marco langbroek
TAG 1999: multipel. .......42
martin schabbink, marjolijn kok, sandergee, anonymus, elles besselsen
colofon ..........51
auteurs ...51