Constance von Rüden - The Wall Paintings of Tell el-Dab'a

Current Projects
                       Stucco-Reliefs
                       Large-Scale Animals

Research Interests
                       The Eastern Mediterranean in the 3rd and 2nd Millennium BCE
                       Prehistory of Sardinia
                       Knowledge and Materiality
                       Landscape Archaeology

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Publications
Monographs:

• Die Wandmalereien von Tall Mishrife/Qatna im Kontext einer ägäisch-syrischen Kommunikation, Qatna-Studien II (Wiesbaden 2011).
  

• Co-authorship together with A. Georgiou, A. Jacobs and P. Halstead, Feasting and Depositional Practice in Late Bronze Age Palaepaphos. The Well-Fillings from Evreti, Bochumer Forschungen zur Ur-und Frühgeschichtlichen Archäologie 8 (Rhaden 2016).
  

Edited Volumes

• Edited together with W. Gauß and G. Klebinder-Gauß, The Transmission of Technical Knowledge in the Production of Ancient Mediterranean Pottery. Proceedings of the International Conference at the Austrian Archaeological Institute at Athens, 23rd-25th November 2012, ÖJh Sonderschriften 54 (Vienna 2016).
  

• Edited together with A. Lichtenberger, Multiple Mediterranean Realities. Spaces, Resources and Connectivity. Proceedings of the International Conference held 26th-28th April 2012 at the University Bochum (Paderborn 2015).
  

• Edited together with J. Becker and J. Jungfleisch, Tracing Technoscapes in the Production of Eastern Mediterranean Wall Paintings. Proceedings of a Workshop Held During the 10th ICAANE, Vienna, 29 April 2016 (in print).
  

Articles in Volumes

• Reconsidering the Alalakh Frescoes within their Levantine Context, in: A. Yener et al. (eds.), Alalakh 15th Anniversary. Conference held at New Hatay Archaeological Museum, Antakya. Ancient Near Eastern Studies (in print).
  

• “Minoan” and “Minoanizing” Paintings in the Eastern Mediterranean, in: The Encyclopedia of Ancient History (in print).
  

• Co-authorship together with J. Becker and J. Jungfleisch, Introduction. Tracing Technoscapes in the Production of Eastern Mediterranean Wall Paintings, in: J. Becker, J. Jungfleisch and C. von Rüden (eds.), Tracing Technoscapes in the Production of Eastern Mediterranean Wall Paintings. Proceedings of a Workshop Held During the 10th ICAANE, Vienna, 29 April 2016 (in print).
  

• Co-authorship together with T. Skowronek, Between Common Craft Tradition and Deviation. The Making of Stucco Reliefs in the Eastern Mediterranean, in: J. Becker, J. Jungfleisch and C. von Rüden (eds.), Tracing Technoscapes in the Production of Eastern Mediterranean Wall Paintings. Proceedings of a Workshop Held During the 10th ICAANE, Vienna, 29 April 2016 (in print).
  

• Producing Aegeanness. An Innovation and Its Impact in Middle and Late Bronze Age Syria/Northern Levant, in: S. Burmeister and R. Bernbeck (eds.), The Interplay of People and Technologies. Archaeological Case Studies on Innovation (Berlin 2017) 223–247.
  

• Co-authorship together with J. Jungfleisch, Incorporating the Other. A Transcultural Perspective on some Wall Painting Fragments from Hattusha, in: A. Schachner (ed.), Innovation versus Beharrung. Was macht den Unterschied des hethitischen Reichs im Anatolien des 2. Jahrtausends v. Chr.?, Byzas 23 (Istanbul 2017) 61–84.
  

• From mechanics to embodiment. Some theoretical considerations on techniques, in: P. Eisenach, T. Stöllner and A. Windler (eds.), The RITaK (Raw Materials, Innovation, Technology of Ancient Cultures) conferences 2013–2014 (Bochum 2017) 71–79.
  

• Ins Meer gebettet. Einblicke in die nachpalastzeitlichen Bestattungssitten Kretas, in: A. Berner, J.-M. Henke, A. Lichtenberger, B. Morstadt and A. Riedel (Hrsg.) Das Mittelmeer und der Tod. Mediterrane Mobilität und Sepulkralkultur (Paderborn 2016) 447–472.
  

• Co-authorship together with T. Stöllner, E. Hanning, J. Lutz and Sabrina Kluwe, The Enmeshment of Eastern Alpine Mining Communities in the Bronze Age. From Economic Networks to Communities of Practice, in: G. Körlin, M. Prange, T. Stöllner and Ü. Yalcin (eds.), From Bright Ores to Shiny Metals. Festschrift for Andreas Hauptmann on the Occasion of 40 Years Research in Archaeometallurgy and Archaeometry (Bochum 2016) 75–108.
  

• Die Landschaften des Mittelmeerraumes, in: A.-M. Wittke, Frühgeschichte der Mittelmeerkulturen. Der Neue Pauly, Suppl. 10, 2015, 35–52.
  

• Co-authorship together with W. Gauß and G. Klebinder-Gauß, Introduction, in: W. Gauß, G. Klebinder-Gauß and C. von Rüden (eds.), The Transmission of Technical Knowledge in the Production of Ancient Mediterranean Pottery. Proceedings of the International Conference at the Austrian Archaeological Institute at Athens, 23rd-25th November 2012, ÖJh Sonderschriften 54 (Vienna 2016) 7–16.
  

• Approaching Ancient Techniques. Embodied Knowledge, Skill and Materiality, in: W. Gauß, G. Klebinder-Gauß and C. von Rüden (eds.), The Transmission of Technical Knowledge in the Production of Ancient Mediterranean Pottery. Proceedings of the International Conference at the Austrian Archaeological Institute at Athens, 23rd-25th November 2012, ÖJh Sonderschriften 54 (Vienna 2016) 35–50.
  

• A Touch of Luxury from the Western Fringe of the Ancient World. The Aegean Impact on the Qatna Wall Paintings, in: P. Pfälzner and M. Al-Maqdissi (eds.), Qatna and the Networks of Bronze Age Globalism. Proceedings of an International Conference, Stuttgart and Tübingen, October 2009, Qatna Studien Suppl. 2 (Wiesbaden 2015) 249–261.
  

• Transmediterranean Knowledge and Minoan Style Reliefs in Tell el-Dab'a. An Attempt at Paradigm Shift, in: S. Cappel, U. Günkel-Maschek and D. Panagiotopoulos (eds.), Minoan Archaeology. Perspectives for the 21st Century. Proceedings of the International PhD and Post-Doc Conference, Heidelberg, 23.-27. March 2011 (Leuven 2015) 355–365.
  

• Co-authorship together with A. Lichtenberger, Introduction, in: A. Lichtenberg and C. von Rüden (eds.), Multiple Mediterranean Realities. Current Approaches to Spaces, Resources, and Connectivities (Paderborn 2015) 9–16.
  

• Making the Way through the Sea. Experiencing Mediterranean Seascapes in the Second Millennium B.C.E., in: A. Lichtenberg and C. von Rüden (eds.), Multiple Mediterranean Realities. Current Approaches to Spaces, Resources, and Connectivities (Paderborn 2015) 31–66.
  

• Minoische Moderne, Thalassokratie und orientalische Despoten. Die Archäologie des östlichen Mittelmeerraums zwischen Orientalismus und Globalisierung, in: T. Kienlin, Fremdheit – Perspektiven auf das Andere, Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie 264 (Bonn 2015) 135–151.
  

• Beyond the East-West Dichotomy in Syrian and Levantine Wall Paintings, in: B. Brown and M. Feldman (eds.), Critical Approaches to Ancient Near Eastern Art (Berlin 2013) 55–78.
  

• In collaboration with P. Pfälzner, Between the Aegean and Syria. The Wall Paintings from the Royal Palace of Qatna, in: D. Bonatz, R. M. Czichon und F. Janoscha-Kreppner (eds.), Fundstellen. Gesammelte Schriften zur Archäologie und Geschichte Altvorderasiens ad honorem Hartmut Kühne (Berlin 2008) 95–118.
  

• Exchange of Goods and Ideas between Cyprus and Crete in the ‚Dark Ages’?, in: M. Bietak and E. Czerny (eds.), The Synchronisation of Civilisations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Second Millennium B.C., vol. III. Proceedings of the SCIEM 2000 - 2nd EuroConference, 28. May – 1. June 2003 (Vienna 2007) 595–601.
  

• Güteraustausch der frühdynastischen Stadtstaaten: Fernhandel und andere Deutungsmöglichkeiten, in: M. Heinz and D. Bonatz (eds.), Der Garten Eden im dritten Jahrtausend, Freiburger Universitätsblätter 156, Juni 2002, 142–151.
  

• Kraggewölbetechnologie und ihre Verbreitung in der ägäischen Bronzezeit, in: M. Novák and J. Schmid (eds.), Gewölbearchitektur im Orient, Alter Orient und Altes Testament (in print).
  

Articles in Journals:

• Tracing Diversities in Eastern Mediterranean Wall Paintings, Mycenean Seminar 2014/2015, January 2015, BICS 59, 2016, 137–38.
  

• Co-authorship together with W. Krauß, R. Lenz and S. Weber, Can the Postdoc Speak? Ein Erfahrungsbericht aus den Grauzonen universitärer Drittmittelwelten, in: Die Hochschule. Journal für Wissenschaft und Bildung 2015/2, 129–142.
  

• Synthesis compiled together with S. Pollock, R. Bernbeck, C. Jauß, J. Greger and S. Schreiber, Entangled Discussions. Talking with Ian Hodder About His Book Entangled, Berlin, 14. December 201. Forum Kritische Archäologie 3, 2014, 156–161. [Again published by I. Hodder within his book 'Studies in Human-Thing Entanglement' (2016) in a slightly altered version as 'Chapter 9 Afterward: A response to my Critics' (S.129–150)].
  

• Co-authorship together with M. Bietak, J. Becker, J. Jungfleisch, L. Morgan and E. Peintner, The Tell el-Dab'a Wall Paintings Project. Preliminary Report 2011/2012, Ä&L 22/23, 2012/2013, 131–147.
  

• Co-authorship with J. Becker and J. Jungfleisch, From Small Fragments to Large Animals. A Large-Size Animal Fight in Tell el-Dab'a, Ä&L 22/23, 2012/2013, 149–166.
  

• Der Tigersprung ins Vergangene – ein Plädoyer für eine Kritische Archäologie, in Forum für kritische Archäologie, 2012. (http://www.kritischearchaeologie.de/fka/article/view/9/9)
  

• Contribution to H. Dohman-Pfälzner and P. Pfälzner, Ausgrabungen und Forschungen in Tall Mishrife - Qatna 2004 und 2005. Vorbericht der deutschen Komponente des internationalen Kooperationsprojektes, MDOG 138, 2006, 57–107.
  

• Co-authorship with M: Heinz et al., Kamid el-Loz in the Beqa’ a plain/Lebanon Excavations in 2001, 2002 and 2004, Bulletin d’ Archéologie et d’ Architecture Libanaise 8, 2004, 83–119.
  

• Producing Aegeaness. An Innovation and its Impact in Middle and Late Bronze Age Syria/northern Levant, in: S. Burmeister and R. Bernbeck, The Dialectics of Innovations, TOPOI (in print to appear in 2013).
  

• Co-authorship together with E. Kozal, S. Kulemann and M. Novak, Vorbericht zu den Ausgrabungen von Sirkeli Höyük/Kilikien. Istanbuler Mitteillungen (in print to appear in 2013).
  

Reviews

• Review of 'Tobias Mühlenbruch, Baubefunde und Stratigraphie der Unterburg und des nordwestlichen Stadtgebiets (Kampagnen 1976 bis 1983). Teil 2: Die mykenische Nachpalastzeit' (Wiesbaden 2013) 448S', Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaften 17, 2014, 1241–1248.
  

Articles in Exhibition Catalogues

• Co-authorship together with M. Bietak, Contact Points: Avaris and Pi-Ramesse. In: Egypt and Greece, The Getty publications (in print).
  

• Co-authorship together with J. Becker and J. Jungfleisch, The Tell el-Dab‘a Wall Paintings. Aegean Artists in Egypt, in: Egypt and Greece, The Getty publications (in print).
  

• Jenseits des reinen Gebrauchs. Das Dekor zyprischer Keramik, in: B. Morstadt – A. V. Siebert (eds.), Zyprische Altertümer im Museum August Kestner, Museum Kestnerianum 18 (Hannover, 2013) 82–181.
  

• Ein Hauch westlicher Luxus im Palast von Qatna, in: Schätze des Alten Syrien. Die Entdeckung des Königreichs Qatna, Ausstellungskatalog des Landesmuseums in Stuttgart (Stuttgart 2009) 176–181.
  

• Leben in der Planstadt Enkomi, in: Zeit der Helden. Die „dunklen Jahrhunderte“ Griechenlands 1200-700 v. Chr. Katalogue des Badischen Landesmuseums Karlsruhe (Karlsruhe 2008) 301–319.
  

• Co-authorship with P. Pfälzner, The Wall Paintings of Qatna, in: J. Aruz, K. Benzel and J. Evans (eds.) Beyond Babylon. Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium, Catalogue of the Metropolitan Museum in New York (New York, 2008) 126–127.