Lauchheim. Documentation, analysis and publication of the features and finds from the most important early medieval cemetery in South-West Germany

在奥斯塔布县劳赫海姆-瓦瑟富尔切的中世纪早期墓地的几乎完全的挖掘，产生了许多高质量的物品和有机材料，以及大量的人类学，植物学，树木年代学和动物学数据。300多个复杂的特征可以通过在土块中提升而保留在其原始环境中。附近的中世纪早期定居点也被广泛挖掘。因此，劳赫海姆遗址是德国西南部这一时期考古研究的主要兴趣所在。该项目自2009年以来由德国研究共同体（DFG）资助，旨在通过应用更有效的方法和创新技术加速公布埋葬地点。3D X射线计算机断层摄影术发挥了核心作用，在DFG资助的一个试点项目期间进行了测试，现在被用作快速、可靠、数字和三维记录土块中回收物体的标准方法。在时间和分析和财务方面，这种方法是一个令人信服的改进相比，传统的清洗由conservators.The分析劳赫海姆墓地将允许大量的古人口和社会历史的解释。此外，它提供了比较埋葬地点和定居点的罕见可能性。通过对这些保存完好的有机材料的系统分析，也为考古纺织品的研究提供了良好的条件。为此目的，对埋葬地点的大量发现都进行了数字记录，并输入了专门开发的数据库。这允许在分析期间询问差异化信息。以后，该数据库可用于编辑出版物的目录。为了确保大量数字数据的存档，制定了一个特殊的概念。该数据库还可作为在线出版物的基础，使科学界能够控制结果并进行自己的分析。

The nearly complete excavation of the early medieval cemetery at Lauchheim Wasserfurche, Ostalbkreis, produced a lot of high-quality objects and organic material as well as a multitude of anthropological, botanical, dendrochronological and zoological data. More than 300 complex features could be conserved in their original context by lifting them in soil blocks. The nearby early medieval settlement was also extensively excavated. For that reasons the Lauchheim site is of major interest for the archaeological research of this period in southwestern Germany. The project, which is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) since 2009, aims for an accelerated publication of the burial site possible by the application of more efficient methods and innovative techniques. A central role plays the 3D x-ray computed tomography, which was tested during a DFG funded pilot project and is now used as a standard method for the quick, reliable, digital and threedimensional documentation of objects recovered in soil blocks. In terms of time and the analytical and financial aspects this method is a convincing improvement compared to the conventional cleaning by conservators.The analysis of the Lauchheim cemetery will allow substantial palaeodemographic and social historical interpretations. Moreover, it offers the rare possibility to compare burial site and settlement. With the systematic analysis of the well preserved organic material the excavation also provides good conditions for the research on archaeological textiles. For this purpose the extensive finds of the burial site are all digitally documented and are fed into a specially developed data base. This allows interrogating differentiated information during the analysis. Later on the database can be used to compile the catalogue for the publication. To ensure archiving of the large amount of digital data a special concept has been developed. The database could also serve as a basis for an online publication, which should enable the scientific community to control the results and to carry out own analysis.