Community on Fortification Research

EEA research community on fortifications, hillforts, enclosures. Fosters networks and collaborations between fortification researchers.
Run by @TanjaSchreiber_

[Community on Fortification Research @COMFORT_EAA]

Join our session "Cooperating or Competing? The Organization of Space and Power Through Networks and Systems of Fortifications" to present case studies and deliberate on analytical tools shaping archaeological understanding.
#EAA2024 #Archaeology

[Community on Fortification Research @COMFORT_EAA]

Session announcement! "Bridging the Walls: Comparative Perspectives on Fortified Settlements" Investigating societal shifts, economic changes, and landscape interactions from 3rd-1st millennia BC. Join us! #EAA2024 #Archaeology

[Tanja S. @TanjaSchreiber_]

Exciting news! Our latest research reveals groundbreaking insights in archaeology: The world's oldest forts challenge existing ideas about hunter-gatherers. Explore our paper in @AntiquityJ
https://t.co/rV86hCLnLY
@ HPiezonka #Archaeology #History #Siberia

[Community on Fortification Research @COMFORT_EAA]

https://t.co/8adjDie83k
Meeting-ID: 676 4334 8909

[Community on Fortification Research @COMFORT_EAA]

Join us for a thrilling online lecture!🚀Discover exciting updates about this summer's Viking-Age Stronghold Borgsumborg excavation on North Frisian Island of Föhr by M. Segschneider, K. Hüser, and P. L. Frederiks.
When: Nov 15th, 10 am CET! #VikingArchaeology Zoom-link below👇

[Jerzy Sikora / Jerzi Sykóra 🤍❤🤍 💙💛 @gunthera_mws]

For #HillfortsWednesday a rampart remains from Lelindricas #hillfort in #Latvia.
Excavations within the #INHILLDAUGAR German-Polish-Latvian programme.

[Jerzy Sikora / Jerzi Sykóra 🤍❤🤍 💙💛 @gunthera_mws]

Jens Schneeweiss is exploring wooden construction in Lelindricas #hillfort #Latvia
#INHILLDAUGAR

[Tanja S. @TanjaSchreiber_]

Quick reminder to submit to session #487 "Hunter-Gatherer Fortifications and Coordinated Defensive Action: A Question of Socio-Political Complexity?" at #EAABelfast
Deadline extended until Mon 13 Feb @archaeologyEAA

#Archaeology #Anthropology #complexity #EAABelfast #EAA23

[Community on Fortification Research @COMFORT_EAA]

Check out our marvelous session #607 “Linking databases for comparing research: show your fortification information system” at the #EAABelfast
@AnKaLo_ @TeamO20939659 @archaeologyEAA

Submit here👇👇👇
https://t.co/BIrdEn57fi

#Archaeology #fortifications #Hillfort #database

[Community on Fortification Research @COMFORT_EAA]

Only one week left to submit to our session #502 “Coring is not boring! Drillings in combination with other non-invasive methods for investigating archaeological monuments” #EAABelfast @TeamO20939659 @archaeologyEAA

#Archaeology #fortifications #Hillfort #Drilling #coring

[Community on Fortification Research @COMFORT_EAA]

Join session #490 “Once upon a time – Fortified sites in contemporary sources, folklore, and literature” at the #EAABelfast!

Submit here 👇
https://t.co/BIrdEn5F4Q

#Archaeology #fortifications #HillfortsWednesday
@SebMessal @Vytenis_Po @TanjaSchreiber_ @archaeologyEAA

[Community on Fortification Research @COMFORT_EAA]

We are happy to announce our new workshop publication “Fortifications in their Natural and Cultural #Landscape. From Controlling Space to the Creation of Power“. Check out the 16 diverse contributions on #fortifications from different parts of the world! #HillfortsWednesday

[Timo Ibsen @Timo_Ibsen]

@COMFORT_EAA
New book release: ‚Fotifications in their natural and cultural landscape: fromorganizing space to the creation of power‘
https://t.co/djLaVDx8dp

[Jošt Hobič @jost_hobic]

Grave mounds around #hillfort Magdalenska gora contained lost of high-status #jewellery, #weapons, #helmets, bronze vessels - #Situlae. Just a few examples of it. #HillfortsWednesday More you can find in these free access books!
https://t.co/AIKyWCVImP
https://t.co/ZalNphjqiM

[Jošt Hobič @jost_hobic]

#HillfortsWednesday First we go to #Spain - #Galicia to see this beautiful oppidum Castro de San Cibrao de Las. It was occupied from 2 century BC all to Roman period in 2 century AD. Here is a short video from @googleearth

[Durotriges Project @Durotrigesdig]

Here’s an epic photo for #HillfortsWednesday of the mutivallate Castle an Dinas #Cornwall taken on the morning of 16 June 1949; one of the many stunning #CUCAP air photos now made freely available by the wonderful @CamDigLib @theUL @Cambridge_Uni

https://t.co/wmh2EgRbJ2

[Trimontium Trust @TrimontiumTrust]

For #HillfortsWednesday we travel out of Scotland for this clip of the eastern ramparts at Stanwick St John. This village in North Yorkshire is completely enclosed within Iron Age fortifications comprising six miles (10 km) of ditches and ramparts enclosing over 700 acres of land

[Chapbook History (Ros) @Halfpennytweets]

#HillfortsWednesday just stunning

[Community on Fortification Research @COMFORT_EAA]

@eaa2019 Deadline is extended! Hurry up and join our session on #Hillforts. See below

[Community on Fortification Research @COMFORT_EAA]

Only 10 days left to answer our #CFP on best practices on #Hillfort research for @eaa2019 in #Bern. We hope to create a high engagement session #s302 with diverse participants from all over the field. Please share and retweet!

[Durotriges Project @Durotrigesdig]

A #LiDAR image of #SouthBarrule hillfort @manxheritage provided by #SteveDavis @ucdarchaeology showing some of the 70+ house platforms and a reconstruction of building form both from the excellent @CultureVannin website: https://t.co/lhodZZcLJa

#HillfortsWednesday