Susanne Reichert

Susanne Reichert is a visiting researcher, funded by a Feodor Lynen-scholarship of the German Alexander von Humboldt-foundation with the Art History Department of UMich LSA. Trained in Prehistory and Early Historical Archaeology of Europe with a focus on the early medieval period, she widened her field of study to East Asian Archaeology with her dissertation thesis on the craftspeople quarter in the middle of Karakorum, the first capital of the Mongol Empire. Her current work seeks to combine these two research areas through a cross-cultural comparison between the Empire of Charlemagne of the 8^th and 9^th centuries CE in Western Europe and the Mongol World Empire founded by Chinggis Khan in the 13^th century in order to overcome the hackneyed cliché of the Nomad-sedentary dichotomy. Her research will explore the areas of economy, military, ideology, and administration through intensive comparisons between the two case studies. In recent years, Susanne led several field research campaigns around Karakorum, the first capital of Mongol Empire in the Orkhon Valley, Central Mongolia, as well as Khar Khul Khaany Balgas, a contemporaneous habitation site in Central Mongolia, to arrive at a better understanding of city–hinterland relations and the nature of pastoralist city foundations.

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Highlighted Publications:

Book

S. Reichert, Craft Production in the Mongol Empire. Karakorum and its Artisans. Bonn Contribution to Asian Archaeology 9 (Bonn 2020).

Journal Articles

J. Bemmann/S. Linzen/S. Reichert/Lkh. Munkhbayar, Mapping Karakorum, the Capital of the Mongol Empire. Antiquity 2021 Early View. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2021.153

J. Bemmann/S. Reichert, Karakorum, the first capital of the Mongol World Empire: An imperial city in a non-urban society. Asian Archaeology 4, 2021, 121–143. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41826-020-00039-x