Paul Yule

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Paul A. Yule

Paul Alan Yule (born August 18, 1947 in Minneapolis ) is an archaeologist and professor in Heidelberg .

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Paul Alan Yule studied at the University of Minnesota , New York University , Philipps University Marburg and completed his habilitation at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . He has been teaching there since 1990. His work focuses on Arabia and South Asia , using scientific methods, especially geoinformatics .

Yule's dissertation Early Cretan Seals (1981) classifies and dates the seals of the Early and Middle Bronze Age in Crete.

In the 1980s, with the support of Swami Oman and Saraswati, he cataloged and assessed metallic artifacts of the so-called copper hydrangea culture using European methods and models for the first time, with numerous finds particularly in the Kanya Gurukul (Kanya Gurukul) in Narela (Narela) / Haryana. These artifacts appear to be non-functional objects that are likely to be used in rituals or simply deposited in hoards to infer a lack of signs of use. Far away in Orissa (Odisha), Yule published a find from a metal age cemetery in Sankarjang (Sankarjang) that may be the earliest musical instrument (musical instrument) in India. He documented the early historical fortress at Sisupalgarh (Sisupalgarh) using a laser scanner, ground penetrating radar and hand-held receiver (GPS).

Together with Corinna Borchert , Yule discovered illegal building (illegal building in India) development in this nationally protected Maurya period site

From 2001 to 2004 in Yule documented so-called mud fortresses and other archaeological sites for the first time, especially in Orissa (Odisha) along the Mahanadi and in Chhattisgarh . Pictures from his work, especially in Odisha, appear in the heidICON image database of the University Library of Heidelberg University.

Yule's study of the prehistory of Oman began 1982–1987 as a volunteer at the German Mining Museum in Bochum together with Gerd Weisgerber . Yule concentrated on cataloging the metal hoarding finds from Ibri-Selme (and others too), which he published with Gerd Weisgerber. This typological study catalogs the greatest treasure trove of metallic artifacts in the Middle East. Hidden in a clan grave from the Umm an Nar period, these date back to the Early Iron Age . In 1987 Yule began his habilitation on the archaeological site of Samad al-Shan , which sheds light on the late pre-Islamic, proliterate, late Iron Age population of central Oman. Thereafter, new excavations should date from the early Iron Age. New was the introduction of alphanumeric abbreviations for classes of sites and artefacts to enable computer processing. In the mid-1990s Yule and Weisgerber first mapped and studied the tower tombs near Jaylah in the eastern part of Jebel Akhdhar , which probably date to the Bronze Age Umm an-Nar period , i.e. H. mid to late 3rd millennium BC During his excavation in the oasis of Izki / al-Yemen , Yule searched unsuccessfully for late antique settlement. Yule updated its thoughts on Oman in 2014. In 2012, the Ministry of Heritage and Culture asked him to document and publish an early Melting site for metals that is located in the Empty Quarter in Wadi Ḍank, Uqdat al-Bakrah .

In the place of the famous Zafar Zafar, Yemen , capital of the Himyar Himyarite Tribal Federation , in the Yemeni highlands, field operations continued from 1998 to 2010 with a budget that eventually amounted to 5,300,000 euros. This project focuses on the material culture of the himjarite period (110 BC - 525 AD). Yule was especially excavated with a 1.70 m high relief statue wearing a crown, which probably represents a Christian (Aksumite?) King. Yule argues that Himyarian culture is not really alien to the Islam that follows, but in fact is a father who passed on his genes. One wonders what the Islamic religion and culture would look like without this influence. Excavated finds contradict the characterization of Himyarian culture, especially the fine arts, as decadent - a term that can be understood in different ways. Yule considered late pre-Islam in Yemen to be his most important scientific contribution, due to the possibility of working for several years and the large number of contextual finds.

In 2013, Steffen Wenig asked him to take part in an excavation project for a church near Mifsas Bahri in the southern Tigray region . This work was made possible in 2014 by a grant from the DFG. It focuses on the excavation of a late Sakumite church ruin from the 7th century.

As part of the Open Access movement, Yule emphasizes archiving its research materials and publications as quickly as possible in order to make them available to the public. He does this mostly with the help of the heidICON picture bank and the virtual library [Propylaeum-Dok] of the Heidelberg University Library. Since 2005 Yule has been experimenting in 3D in India and Oman with the Mainz University of Applied Sciences ( i3mainz ) and with the architect Laura Pecchioli .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Yule: Early Cretan Seals. A Study of Chronology. (= Marburg studies on prehistory and early history. Volume 4). von Zabern, Mainz 1981, ISBN 3-8053-0490-0 . urn: nbn: de: bsz: 16-diglit-30446 .
  2. ^ P. Yule: Metalwork of the Bronze Age in India. (= Prehistoric bronze finds. XX, 8). Munich 1985, ISBN 3-406-30440-0 .
    P. Yule, A. Hauptmann, M. Hughes: The Copper Hoards of the Indian Subcontinent: Preliminaries for an Interpretation. In: Yearbook of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum Mainz. 36, 1989, 1992, ISBN 1-881094-03-0 , pp. 193-275. (archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de)
  3. ^ P. Yule: Early Historic Sites in Orissa. Delhi 2006, ISBN 81-89645-44-7 .
  4. ↑ P. Yule, W. Böhler: Sisupalgarh: an Early Historic Fortress in Coastal Orissa and its Cousins. In: Contributions to general and comparative archeology. 24, 2004, ISBN 3-8053-2518-5 , pp. 15-29. (archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de)
  5. ^ P. Yule, C. Borchert: Sisupalgarh / Orissa: Illegal building operations in the North-West Area. 2005, (archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de)
  6. ↑ heidicon.ub.uni-heidelberg.de in the pool SAI South Asian Archeology
  7. ^ P. Yule, G. Weisgerber: The Metal Hoard from ʿIbrī / Selme, Sultanate of Oman . (= Prehistoric bronze finds. XX.7). Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-515-07153-9 .
  8. ↑ P. Yule: The grave fields in Samad al Shan (Sultanate of Oman) Materials for a cultural history. (= Orient Archeology. Volume 4). Rahden 2001, ISBN 3-89646-634-8 . (digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de)
  9. ^ P. Yule (Ed.): Studies in the Archeology of the Sultanate of Oman. (= Orient Archeology. Volume 2). Rahden 1999, ISBN 3-89646-632-1 . (archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de)
  10. ^ P. Yule, G. Weisgerber: The Tower Tombs at Shir, Eastern Hajar, Sultanate of Oman. In: Contributions to general and comparative archeology. 18, 1998, ISBN 3-8053-2518-5 , pp. 183-241. (archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de)
  11. ^ P. Yule: Cross-roads - Early and Late Iron Age South-eastern Arabia. (= Treatises of the German Orient Society. Volume 30). Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-447-10127-1 .
  12. ^ P. Yule: Ẓafār, Capital of Ḥimyar, Rehabilitation of a 'Decadent' Society, Excavations of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg 1998–2010 in the Highlands of the Yemen. (= Treatises of the German Orient Society. Volume 29). Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-447-06935-9 , p. 136 Fig. 7.3.
  13. ↑ P. Yule: Himyar – The Late Antique in Yemen / Late Antique Yemen. Aichwald 2007, ISBN 978-3-929290-35-6 .
  14. ↑ P. Yule (Ed.): Late antique Arabia: Ẓafār, Capital of Ḥimyar, Rehabilitation of a 'Decadent' Society, Excavations of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg 1998–2010 in the Highlands of the Yemen. (= Treatises of the German Orient Society. Volume 29). Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-447-06935-9 . (heidicon.ub.uni-heidelberg.de)
  15. ↑ Paul A Yule. Retrieved January 23, 2018 .
  16. ↑ M. Gaudiello, P. Yule (Ed.): Mifsas Baḥri, a Late Aksumite Frontier Community in the Mountains of Tigray, Survey, Excavation and Analysis 2013‒6. (= BAR International Series. S2839). Oxford 2017, ISBN 978-1-4073-1579-9 .
  17. ^ P. Yule: Salt Dough and a Laser Scanner. In: Hans Georg Bock , Willi Jäger , Michael J. Winckler (Eds.): Scientific computing and cultural heritage: contributions in computational humanities. Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-28020-7 , pp. 283-290.

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SURNAME Yule, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yule, Paul Alan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Minneapolis