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Katharina
Katharina is a prehistoric archaeologist working at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Her main research interests include the archaeology of the human body, gender, identity and personhood as expressed through funerary practices and art. She specialises in the Bronze and Iron Ages of Europe. As a mother of two young boys, she gathered some practical experience in addition to her theoretical interest in motherhood.
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Category Archives: project progress
Bony changes at the sacrum – can they give evidence on past pregnancies and parturition?
written by Doris Pany-Kucera, 12.9.2019 in Vienna Physical anthropologists have long desired to assess past pregnancies and births on human skeletal remains. They developed different methods, building on features of the pelvis that differ between male and female skeletons. However, … Continue reading
Posted in birth, methods, pelvic features, pregnancy, project progress
Tagged birth, childbirth, pelvic features, pregnancy
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AMELX or AMELY? Analysing sex-specific peptides in prehistoric tooth enamel
A new method of sexing juvenile human remains has recently been described in the literature (Parker et al. 2019, Stewart et al. 2017, Stewart et al. 2016), and it sounds almost too good to be true: sexually dimorphic amelogenin protein … Continue reading
Posted in project progress
Tagged amelogenin, Bronze Age, children, enamel, research, sex determination
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Did we find Richard III’s maternal ancestor in a Bronze Age grave?
Recently, the results of our DNA analysis from the early Bronze Age site Schleinbach came in. We have been working on Schleinbach a bit longer than intended. It is an exciting site, as it includes single graves, a double and … Continue reading
Posted in burials, DNA, project progress, Uncategorized
Tagged haplogroup, J1c2, mitrochondrial DNA, Richard III, Schleinbach
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The pig must burn
written by Michaela Fritzl, Asparn an der Zaya, 10 July 2018 Flames at least two meters high, a smoke column thrice that height, and a so much radiating heat that it’s impossible to go close – a pyre truly is … Continue reading
Posted in project progress
Tagged Asparn an der Zaya, Bronze Age, cremation, experimental archaeology, pig, pyre
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Indiana Jones in France
written by Marlon Bas, Bibliothèque Universitaire des Sciences du Vivant et de la Santé, Bordeaux, France, 04/07/2018 As anybody involved in archaeological science knows there are times when, like the great Indiana Jones, you must hop on a plane and … Continue reading
The necessary stuff: project meetings
Today’s attempt to capture our project meetings with a panoramic photograph makes my office appear much larger than it is! The team gathers once a month for what we call the ‘timesheet party’ – in this meeting, timesheets that record … Continue reading
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Tagged common approach, ERC, meetings, project progress, research
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Marlon Bas joins the research team
In September of 2017, Marlon Bas joined the ‘motherhood in prehistory’ research team at the OREA Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences as a PhD student. Despite currently reading a truly fascinating long-winded account of the history of Rye … Continue reading
Hunting for molecules in feeding vessels
Small vessels with spouts, from which liquid can be poured, are sometimes found in Bronze and Iron Age graves and settlements. They come in many sizes, shapes and decorations; although they generally fit the period-specific style, each piece is unique. … Continue reading
Posted in childrearing, feeding, methods, project progress
Tagged Bristol, feeding, feeding vessels, milk, organic residues, Vienna
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A new addition to our research team
The ‘motherhood in prehistory’ research team at the OREA Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences welcomes a new team member: PhD student Lukas Waltenberger. Lukas in an energetic young anthropologist who will develop his PhD project on physical changes … Continue reading
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Tagged new team member, physical anthropology, project progress
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Cold Case Schleinbach: why it makes sense to preserve skeletons in situ
We have recently been re-examining an interesting early Bronze Age site called Schleinbach in Lower Austria. In the manner typical of the Únětice Culture, people were buried in a small cemetery next to a settlement, and some bodies were found … Continue reading
Posted in archaeothanatology, burials, project progress
Tagged archaeothanatology, Austria, burials, children, graves, Schleinbach, taphonomy
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