Forschungen im Kastell Mautern-Favianis

The subject of the manuscript "Researches in the fort of Mautern-Favianis. The 1996-1997s excavations" is the interdisziplinary work on the results of several small scale excavations in the town of Mautern on the Danube in Lower Austria. Although the work focussed on the roman period from the 1st to the 5th century AD, the early medieval and modern archaeological evidences were considered too. As Mautern has a long tradition in producing ceramics, another emphasis was shifted to the analysis of the archaeological finds mainly the ceramic material. The interpretation of the archaeological evidences was based on the interpretation of the single stratigraphical units, documented on excavations. Therefore not only the chronology of the single periods or finds but also the formation processes were discussed. Zoological, botanical and sedimentolocical findings were integrated in the cooperation on the excavation features, the results of this work offer us new evidences on the ecologic, climatic and economic conditions from roman times to nowadays. As one of the main results of this work, we are now able able to divide the traces of human activities on the site of Mautern into detailed periods, especially those in Roman times, beginning with the planning of the first timber fort in the 1st century to the presence of the holy Severin in late antiquity.