"Bread and Wine" – Archaeobotanical and historico-cultural preparation of the topics bread and wine for the Federal Exhibition of Lower Austria in Asparn/Zaya 2013
Abstract
The Federal Exhibition 2013, topic "Bread and Wine", illustrates the central role of these two foods which they have been playing since the earliest days. Not only that they were (and are) a basis to human nutrition, but they also shaped cultural achievements and identities. On the Weinviertel ("wine quarter"), in the heart of which the exhibition takes place, bread and wine have left their very special marks: since the Linear Pottery culture, ca. 7,000 years before present, when the first agronomic settlements formed, the landscape was shaped continuously by agriculture. In this Neolithic revolution cereals and bread, symbols for nutrition par excellence, together with animal husbandry caused fundamental - and not always positive - changes in ecology, society, and human health. During the following periods, more and more new plants were introduced from remote regions, both intentionally and unintentionally, and ever new forms of husbandry were established. Viticulture entered the Weinviertel rather late, but contrary to earlier research, the grapevine was possibly already cultivated in the region in pre-Roman times (250 BC). The exhibition's goal is to make these prehistoric aspects of bread and wine accessible to the visitors, and also shed light on the developments of later periods, but with their role today always in mind.
archaeobotany historical botany nutrition history of agriculture cultural history bread beer Weinviertel ("wine quarter") Lower Austria wine fermented food landscape development cereals animal husbandry viticulture
Publikationen
Korn und Mehl, Brei und Brot — Besonderheiten der Getreide und ihre Spuren in der Vergangenheit
Autoren: Heiss, A.G. Jahr: 2013
Chapter in collected volumes
Getreide, Götter, Glaubenswelten — Brot- und Getreidemythen rund um den Globus
Autoren: Heiss, A.G. Jahr: 2013
Chapter in collected volumes
NÖ Landesausstellung 2013, Freigelände Asparn. Bepflanzungs- und Pflegeplan, basierend auf den Entwürfen der grünplan GmbH vom 14.02.2012
Autoren: Heiss, A.G., Kohler-Schneider, M. Jahr: 2012
Expertengutachten (extern. Auftraggeber)
NÖ Landesausstellung 2013: Ideensammlung Arbeitsgruppe Archäobotanik — ergänzende Ideen und Fragestellungen für das Konzept (Stand 12.09.2011)
Autoren: Heiss, A.G. Jahr: 2011
Expertengutachten (extern. Auftraggeber)
NÖ Landesausstellung 2013: Empfehlungen für einzubeziehende NÖ Fundstellen mit archäobotanischem Fundmaterial (20.09.2011)
Autoren: Heiss, A.G. Jahr: 2011
Expertengutachten (extern. Auftraggeber)
NÖ-Landesausstellung 2013 "Brot und Wein" — Was kann die Arbeitsgruppe Archäobotanik beitragen?
Autoren: Kohler-Schneider, M. Jahr: 2011
Expertengutachten (extern. Auftraggeber)
NÖ Landesausstellung 2013: Literaturempfehlungen (Auszüge; 09.11.2011)
Autoren: Heiss, A.G., Kohler-Schneider, M. Jahr: 2011
Expertengutachten (extern. Auftraggeber)
NÖ Landesausstellung 2013: Ergänzungsvorschläge zum Konzept (28.11.2011)
Autoren: Heiss, A.G. Jahr: 2011
Expertengutachten (extern. Auftraggeber)
Seeds from the Ivory Tower — How Archaeobotany goes Public at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Austria
Autoren: Heiss, A.G., Kohler-Schneider, M., Szunyogh, I., Klement, M., Sperl, I., König, M., Sam, S., Zingerle, M.-C., Schretzmayr, B., Lauermann, E., Pacher, M.W. Jahr: 2013
Conference & Workshop proceedings, paper, abstract
Nearly forgotten cereals re-activated for today's slow food production in south-western Germany and eastern Austria
Autoren: Stika, H,.P., Heiss, A.G., Rützler, H. Jahr: 2013
Conference & Workshop proceedings, paper, abstract
Vom Brot: ein Streifzug durch die Urgeschichte des Brotes
Autoren: Kohler-Schneider, M. Jahr: 2013
Newspaper / Magazine article
Ackerbau und Landnutzung im Frühneolithikum
Autoren: Kohler-Schneider, M. Jahr: 2017
Chapter in collected volumes
Ackerbau und Landnutzung im Mittelneolithikum
Autoren: Kohler-Schneider, M. Jahr: 2017
Chapter in collected volumes
Project staff
Andreas Heiss
Priv.-Doz. Mag. Dr. Andreas Heiss
andreas.g.heiss@boku.ac.at
Project Leader
01.12.2013 - 30.11.2013
Heinrich Grausgruber
Ao.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Heinrich Grausgruber
heinrich.grausgruber@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-95711
Project Staff
01.10.2011 - 30.11.2013
Marianne Kohler-Schneider
Ao.Univ.Prof. Dr.phil. Marianne Kohler-Schneider
marianne.kohler-schneider@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-83120
Project Staff
01.10.2011 - 30.11.2013
BOKU partners
External partners
rapp&wimberger Kultur- und Medienprojekte
Dr. Christian Rapp, MMag. Astrid Göttche
partner
Baukultur
Bmst. Ing. Renate Scheidenberger
partner
Schallaburg Kulturbetriebsges.m.b.H & Federal Exhibitions of Lower Austria
Kurt Farasin, Mag. Birgit Schretzmayr
partner
Studio Exhibit
Dr.in Maria Christina Zingerle
partner
Christof Cremer
Mag. Christof Cremer
partner
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien: Collections of Arms and Armour
Dr. Matthias Pfaffenbichler
partner
Museum of Prehistory of Lower Austria
Dr. Ernst Lauermann, Mag. Matthias W. Pacher
partner
Ernst Hofer
none
partner
Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science (VIAS), Archäobotanik
Ao.Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Ursula Thanheiser M.Sc.
partner
grünplan gmbh
Ing. Werner Sellinger
partner
zunder zwo conceptual exhibition design
Mag.a DI (FH) Martina Schönherr, Renate Woditschka, BA, DI (FH) Konrad Zirm
partner
althaler + oblasser neue medien entwicklungs und beratungs og
Angela Althaler, Wolfgang Oblasser
partner
University of Hohenheim, Institute of Botany
Dr. Hans-Peter Stika
partner