Coastal archeology

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The Coastal Archeology examines the landscape development, environmental history and urban history at the coasts . Events such as storm surges and the search for traces of culture play a major role.

In Schleswig-Holstein , the first systematic coastal archaeological investigations on the North Sea coast have been carried out by Albert Bantelmann from the former department of marshland research at the State Archaeological Office since the first half of the 20th century . From 1947 he resumed his investigations with various excavations on Wurten. Since the 1970s, the landscape development and settlement history of entire coastal landscapes have increasingly been investigated. Long-term investigations have been carried out since 1988, for example, by the coastal archeology group at the West Coast Research and Technology Center of the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel under the direction of Dirk Meier. Coastal research was carried out in Lower Saxony by the Institute for Historical Coastal Research .

In a working group between 2011 and 2013 the traces of culture in the North Frisian Wadden Sea were newly recorded on a GIS-supported basis and presented in a large-format coastal atlas.

Objects

Of particular importance for research are built-up coasts on which new areas have been attached to the shoreline over longer periods of time. Cultures that use the immediate shore area, for example as coastal fishermen, leave their artefacts or cultural traces in such places in the course of time at places that extend further and further , which can thus be differentiated according to period and relatively dated.

An example of such a site is Cape Krusenstern in Alaska, where the development of Eskimo cultures over 5000 years can be traced.

An important object of coastal archeology are the changes in the coastline on the German North Sea coast, where numerous flood disasters resulted in large land losses. The effects of historical storm surges are examined here, such as

In today's North Frisian Wadden Sea numerous cultural tracks as form mounds , Soden fountain, dike residues corridor forms or traces of Salztorfabbaus, important witnesses of the past cultural landscape, which was back to nature by the forces of storm surges.

literature

  • Heiko Steuer, Wolf-Dieter Tempel: The pottery / The combs from the prehistoric Wurt Elisenhof , Peter Lang Verlag, 1979, ISBN 978-3261024350 .
  • Dirk Meier : Landscape development and settlement history of the Eiderstedter and Dithmarscher coastal areas as sub-regions of the North Sea coastal area. Part 1: The Settlements, Part 2: The Settlement Area. Investigations of the AG Coastal Archeology of the FTZ West Coast = University Research on Prehistoric Archeology 79, Habelt Verlag, Bonn 2001
  • Dirk Meier: The North Sea Coast: History of a Landscape , Boyens-Buchverlag, Heide 2006, ISBN 978-3804211827 .
  • Hans Egidius: Sunken land and submerged parishes: storm surges created the southern North Sea coast, Komregis, 2007, ISBN 978-3938501139 .
  • Dirk Meier, Hans Joachim Kühn, Guus J. Borger: The coastal atlas. The Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea in the past and present , Boyens-Buchverlag, Heide 2013, ISBN 978-3804213814 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Dirk Meier: Storm surges and traces of culture - coastal archeology in Schleswig Holstein | Dr. Dirk Meier. Retrieved February 4, 2020 .
  2. ^ Dirk Meier: Storm surges and traces of culture - coastal archeology in Schleswig Holstein | Dr. Dirk Meier. Retrieved February 4, 2020 .