Pontos
Welcome to the Danish National Research Foundation's Centre for Black Sea Studies
December 2009
NEW
Public Defence
Birgitte Secher Bøgh
defends her dissertation
Mother of the Gods: The reception and transformation of an Anatolian goddess in the Western Black Sea area
Friday the 4th of December, 13.15-16.15
Auditorium 2, building 1441, Faculty of Theology, University of Aarhus
http://www.teo.au.dk/nyheder/arrangementer/boegh
There is now an index of authors with links for Black Sea Studies and Sortehavsstudier
Three new volumes in the Centre's series Black Sea Studies have appeared
BSS 8: Meetings of Cultures - Between Conflicts and Coexistence BSS 8
Meetings of cultures arouse strong feelings. In this volume, ninteen scholars from Denmark, France, Georgia, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Russia, and Ukraine present a profound discussion covering various topics from the physical arena of the colonial encounters, to the layout of land and protection of cities, to the dynamics of the cultural exchange, to the perception of how it was to be Greek in the Pontic realm, and finally, to the reciprocal strategies exerted by the Greeks and Scythians in Olbia as described in Herodotos's Skythian Tale. Through the many-sided contributions it is revealed how the self and the other are two sides of the same coin - yesterday, today and tomorrow.
BSS 9: Mithridates VI and the Pontic Kingdom
(available as pdf)
Mithridates VI Eupator, the last king of Pontos, was undoubtedly one of the most prominent figures in the late Hellenistic period. Throughout his long reign (120-63 BC), the political and cultural landscape of Asia Minor and the Black Sea area was reshaped along new lines. The authors present new archaeological research and new interpretations of various aspects of Pontic society including its contacts with the Greek world and its eastern neighbours, and investigate the background for the expansion of the Pontic Kingdom that eventually led to the confrontation with Rome.
BSS 10: Die Einführung der Eisentechnologie in Südkaukasien und Ostanatolien während der Spätbronze- und Früheisenzeit
(available as PDF)
Im Hochland Ostanatoliens treffen im späten 2. Jahrtausend v. Chr. drei Lebenswiesen aufeinander und sind denselben ungünstigen Klimabedingungen unterworfen: Die orientalischen Hochkulturen der Hethiter und Assyrer sind im Rückzug begriffen. Südkaukasische Adelsgefolgschaften mussten ihre angestammten Siedlungskammern verlassen. Sie treffen auf traditionelle Nomadengesellschaften. Aus der folgenden Akkulturation wird gegen Ende der Früheisenzeit das Urartäische Reich entstehen. Gleichzeitig verdrängt Eisen die im 'Erzgebirge' Kaukasus reichlich vorhandene, identitätsstiftende Bronze. In einem interdisziplinären archäologisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Ansatz wird vorgelegt, zu welchen Leistungen die frühen Metallurgen in der Lage waren und welche Forschungsmeinungen als überholt gelten müssen.