Building on the results of the ClaReNet project, from 1st January 2025 a new research project called ‘De retibus nummorum’ will investigate the emergence and development of the Celtic monetary economy from the 3rd to 1st century BC. Type and die studies, supported by methods of artificial intelligence such as deep learning, and feature detection algorithms will be incorporated into a social network analysis.
In this way, the connections and dependencies of individual actors – in this case find spots and coins – can be researched in a social system. The results of the network analysis will be presented in a geographical information system in order to capture the spatial dimension of coin circulation in selected time slices. In addition, the virtual union catalogue Online Celtic Coinage will be further developed to present the coin series being studied.
‘De retibus nummorum’ is conducted as a collaborative project at the Chair for Digital Archaeology of Central Europe at Leipzig University and the Big Data Lab at Goethe University Frankfurt, and is funded by the German Research Foundation. Project leader at Leipzig University is Caroline von Nicolai, at Goethe University Frankfurt Karsten Tolle. Markus Möller (Leipzig University) and Sebastian Gampe (GU Frankfurt) are involved as research assistants.
A new blog will shortly present the work and results of the project.
Online Celtic Coinage 