The Eastern Eurasian Steppe was home to historic empires of nomadic pastoralists, including
the Xiongnu and the Mongols. However, little is known about the region's population …

ABSTRACT: Not even a dozen burials are known from Neolithic times in the area of modern-day
Mongolia. This period is of utmost interest as it constitutes the transitional phase from …

Today, adaptive mobile applications use mobile sensing and user tracking, allowing for
adaptation to the users' context and needs. This raises several privacy concerns. Privacy …

Mobile sensing technologies enable adaptive and context-aware applications. At the same
time, they raise a range of privacy concerns. Thus, to reduce privacy concerns today apps are …

… The second project, ‘KAR-2’, previously headed by H. Roth and now by his successor J.
Bemmann of the University of Bonn, is concerned with excavations which were undertaken in …

The international project "Geo-Archaeology in the Steppe - Reconstruction of Cultural
Landscapes in the Orkhon valley, Central Mongolia" was set up in July 2008. It is headed by the …

Cities within a steppe environment and in societies based on pastoral nomadism are an often
overlooked theme in the anthropological literature. Yet, with Karakorum, the first capital of …

The Orkhon Valley in the Central Mongolia was included in the World Heritage list in 2004. It
hosts multiple archaeological sites from Palaeolithic to recent times, which can contribute to …

The discussion of ethnicity and the shaping of ethnic identities is much on the minds of
medievalists, especially those focusing on Europe of late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages1. …

… This article was written during Jan Bemmann’s term as Gerda Henkel Stiftung Member at the
Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. The English translation was edited by S. Marzinzik…