Ralf Gleser Bücher

The volume is dedicated to Rudolf Echt for his 65th birthday and contains a eulogy, a bibliography of the honoured, eleven papers, and a list of authors. The contributions deal with types of figurines from the Late Neolithic pit sanctuary at Kapitan Andreevo in south-eastern Bulgaria [Nikolov], solar barks as a contribution to the transfer of ideas during the Late Bronze Age and Urnfield Period in Europe [Holenweger], the origin and distribution of “zoomorphic junctures” in Scythian art [Becker], the Lt A chariot from Anloo in the Netherlands discovered in 1938 [Megaw], the population of Trier before and after the Roman conquest [Gleser], Asterix’s helmet [Adler], the cremation cemetery at Eiweiler-Hinterm Cleffwald and the villa at Reinheim as examples of Gallo-Roman sites in northern Saarland [Fritsch], the equestrian mask from Reinheim [Sărăţeanu-Müller], inconspicuous perforated discs of bronze, tin, iron, antler, bone or minerals as amulets, mostly in women’s graves of the 5th/6th century [Stein], a 19th / 20th-century horse head sculpture from Gehweiler, distr. St. Wendel, and remarks on halters [Loew] as well as traces of tobacco consumption at Kirkel Castle [Bernard].