We are happy and grateful for this informative and interesting conference! After the long break due to Covid, a reunion with many dear colleagues was finally possible again. Thus, the conference was not only...
We are happy to present the programme of our final conference “Celtic Gold: Society – Technology – Archaeometry” 12-14 May 2022 at the Landesmuseum Mainz. The conference will be broadcasted live on YouTube under...
This analysis session focused on the Baden finds from the Landesmuseum in Karlsruhe. We used this opportunity to investigate some exciting gold finds from the Hallstatt period as well, which could not yet be...
À la mosaïque de peuples “barbares” qui formaient la Gaule, les Romains comme les Grecs attribuaient un point commun : le goût de l’or. Les sources antiques décrivent à l’excès leur inextinguible soif pour...
October 2019 9 & 10th – Maison de la recherche, University of Toulouse – Jean Jaurès Study days co-organized by RHAdAMANTE & METAL teams of the TRACES laboratory (Toulouse, France) Coordination : Marilou Nordez, Sandrine...
After the past annual meetings took place in France, namely in Saint-Germain-en-Laye (2017) and in Orléans (2018), this year it was the turn of a meeting in Germany. Thus, all project members met from...
Our project coordinators, Barbara Armbruster and Roland Schwab, offer a brief, but diverse overview in the well-known German popular science journal Spektrum der Wissenschaft on the Celtic Warriors with Gold ornaments („Krieger mit Goldschmuck“)....
Bern Historisches Museum – Celtic gold and silver objects study (25th to 30th of August 2019) We (Barbara Armbruster, Marilou Nordez & Sebastian Fürst) spent a week at the Bern Historisches Museum to study...
Although the temperatures were almost 40° C, the auditorium of the Keltenwelt am Glauberg museum was filled to capacity on the 25th of July, when our project coordinators Barbara Armbruster and Roland Schwab reported...
Since May 2019 Mrs. Svenja Simon is writing her master thesis on “Granulation in the Central European Iron Age – Archaeological and Experimental Investigations” at the Saarland University. This topic was developed in close...
After having already examined many small earrings at the end of 2018, we continued in a similar fashion in 2019. This time we were able to examine the earrings from the Landesamt für Denkmalpflege...
For our third and final analyses session for 2018 in Mannheim, we were focussing on rather unpretentious, small objects: undecorated finger and earrings from Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate and some coins. Due to their high...
“The Power of Gold” is an international and transdisciplinary symposium (History, Archaeometry, Physics, Chemistry, Classics, Numismatics) bringing together 50 scientists from France, Belgique, United Kingdom, Austria, Germany, Italy and United States, between 12th and...
The bracelet from Bad Dürkheim – Eye to eye with strange creatures One of the most interesting gold ornaments of the late 5th century BC surely is the bracelet from the elite burial of...
On the occasion of the publication of the third volume of the “Glauberg Studies” (July 2018), a colloquium in the Glauberg museum took place with many interesting contributions to the investigations of the extraordinary...
It was in February 2018, when we started to promote our Session “Precious materials and fine metal work in the European Iron Age – function, aesthetic, and technology” at the EAA 2018 in Barcelona....
Torc from Lasgraïsses (Tarn) A complex closing system This torc with “efflorescences” comes from Lasgraïsses (Tarn), in South-Western France. With a gold armlet, they were deposited in hoard during the third century BC. Discovered...
SCHWAB R. et al. 2018 – Early Iron Age Gold in Celtic Europe: Society, Technology and Archaeometry SCHWAB R., MILCENT P.-Y., ARMBRUSTER A., PERNICKA E. (eds) – Early Iron Age Gold in Celtic Europe: Society, Technology and Archaeometry, Proceedings...
Sometimes a heated head is not caused by a heated discussion or some difficult tasks, but simply by the so-called “summer of the century”. And it was exactly during this heat wave that Barbara...
