Mitteilungen der Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte / Mitteilungen der Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte

The volume begins with a report on the progress of the society for the period between January and December 2014 and a list of members. This is followed by eight academic papers dealing with Gonur-Depe, a fortified royal city of the Bronze Age with mud brick architecture and necropoleis with waggon graves in Turkmenistan, the mutual interaction between space and social practices by the example of prefabricated cement-slab buildings at Pinar del Río, Cuba, the 172 pottery small finds from the Late Neolithic fortified tell settlement at Uivar, Romania, the comparative method in studies by Adolf Bastian, the director of the Ethnological Museum in Berlin since 1876, the life and works of Hans Nevermann [1902-1982], the work of skull collectors on behalf of Rudolf Virchow in Australia on the basis of 19 skulls in the collection of the BGAEU, exostoses of the auditory canal as evidence for possible activities in or near water as well as with modern research of mummies by the examples of the iceman “Ötzi” and eleven members of the royal family of Tutankhamun whose family tree has been entirely reconstructed by genetical methods.