The final publication of the CRC 1070 ResourceCultures offers interdisciplinary insights into the questions of how resources are created, how resources are utilised, how resources are influenced by social processes and how resources in turn affect societies. Using concrete case studies from spatially and chronologically different contexts, these dynamics and processes of resource becoming and utilisation are discussed in an exemplary and application-oriented manner.
This book offers an in-depth exploration of the interplay between resources and societies, bridging insights from the humanities and natural sciences. Drawing on a robust theoretical framework, it extends the conventional understanding of resources to include their socio-cultural constructions across diverse temporal and spatial contexts. Through a series of compelling case studies ranging from prehistory to the present, the book explores material and immaterial resources, the infrastructures and networks in which they are embedded, and the complex dynamics of their use. It draws on the concepts of ResourceComplexes and ResourceAssemblages and provides innovative tools for analysing these interdependencies. By framing resources as cultural phenomena, this work unravels the multifaceted ways in which societies have been shaped by
and have reshaped their resource landscapes – culminating in the notion of ResourceCultures.
Martin Bartelheim, born 1964, studied prehistoric archaeology at the Free University of Berlin and the Charles University in Prague. Since 2008 Professor of Later Prehistory at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. His research focusses on the Bronze and Iron Ages in Central Europe and the Mediterranean, currently mainly on the Iberian Peninsula.
Roland Hardenberg (born 1967) has been researching in Odisha, India, since 1995. His first research was on the Gajapati kingship and the renewal (nabakalebara) of the main deities of the Jagannatha temple in Puri, Odisha. From 2001 to 2003, he carried out further research among the Dongria Kond in the Niamgiri mountains of the Rayagada district of Odisha, focussing in particular on the complex marriage rituals and the buffalo sacrifices to the earth goddess. Since 2006, Roland Hardenberg's research has also focussed on Central Asia, in particular the burial culture in northern Kyrgyzstan. From 2009 to 2016, Roland Hardenberg was Director of the Institute of Ethnology in Tübingen and succeeded Karl-Heinz Kohl as Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Goethe University Frankfurt in 2016 and as Director of the Frobenius Institute from 2017. In recent years, Hardenberg has primarily focussed on religious resources in South and Central Asia in the context of the Collaborative Research Centre 1070. Since 2018, he has also been intensively researching cereals (millet and rice) in the highlands of Odisha together with Peter Berger and René Cappers from the University of Groningen and is a co-founder of the ‘Cereal Cultures’ network.
https://cerealcultures.com/Irmgard Männlein (*1970) studied Classical Philology and German Philology in Würzburg and London (UCL). She recieved her doctorate in 2000 with a thesis on the Platonist Longinus (published München/Leipzig 2001). Following her Habilitation in 2005 in (Stimme, Schrift und Bild: Zum Verhältnis der Künste in der hellenistischen Dichtung, Heidelberg 2007), she was appointed to the Chair of Classics/Greek Philology at the University of Tübingen in 2006. Her research focuses on literary and philosophical aspects in Plato and Late Antique Platonism, especially Porphyry, on ancient Religion, but also on Hellenistic and Late Antique poetics, ecphrastics and aesthetics.
Tobias Schade (born 1985) received his doctorate in Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology from the University of Kiel. His research interests include the archaeology of the Viking Age and questions relating to concepts of authenticity and historical culture. He is currently the scientific coordinator of the CRC 1070 ResourceCultures at the University of Tübingen.
Simone Riehl (*1966; PhD, University of Tübingen, 1998) is a researcher at the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, where she teaches archaeobotany and environmental archaeology at the Institute of Archaeological Science.
Her main areas of interest are Near Eastern archaeology and palaeoclimatology, which she studied at the Universities of Basel, Tübingen, Sheffield and Madison-Wisconsin. Riehl has worked as a project archaeobotanist on several archaeological excavations in the Near East, including Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan and Iran. Her main research interests include the emergence and development of agriculture and stable isotopes in plant remains as palaeoenvironmental proxies.
Thomas Scholten (born 1960) is Professor of Soil Science and Physical Geography at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and Director of the Institute of Geography. His research focuses on the development and protection of soils, the understanding of processes that govern soil erosion and soil ecology, as well as the formation and transformation of landscapes. Over the course of his academic career, he has held positions at the University of Münster, the University of Giessen, and the University of Jena. From 2012 to 2015, he served as President of the German Soil Science Society. Since 2016, he has been a full member of acatech, the German Academy of Science and Engineering.
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