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

对位于奥斯塔布克雷斯劳赫海姆·瓦瑟福切的中世纪早期墓地的几乎完全的发掘，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抬起来保存在它们原来的环境中。附近的中世纪早期聚落也被广泛挖掘。因此，劳赫姆遗址对德国西南部这一时期的考古研究具有重大意义。该项目自2009年起由德国基金会(DFG)资助，旨在通过应用更有效的方法和创新技术加快公布埋葬地点。3DX光计算机断层照相术发挥着核心作用，它在DFG资助的一个试点项目中进行了测试，现在被用作快速、可靠、数字和三维记录在土块中发现的物体的标准方法。在时间以及分析和财务方面，这种方法与传统的保管人清理相比是一个令人信服的改进。对劳赫海姆墓地的分析将允许对古人口和社会历史进行实质性的解释。此外，它还提供了比较墓地和聚居地的罕见可能性。随着对保存完好的有机材料的系统分析，此次发掘也为考古纺织品的研究提供了良好的条件。为此，墓地的大量发现都以数字方式记录下来，并输入到专门开发的数据库中。这允许在分析期间询问不同的信息。以后，可以使用该数据库来编制出版物的目录。为了确保大量数字数据的存档，已经制定了一个特殊的概念。该数据库还可以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.