Felix Höflmayer
Mag. Dr.
Felix Höflmayer
Mag. Dr.
- Group Leader
- RG »Archaeology of the Levant«
- +43 1 51581-6107
- felix.hoeflmayer(at)oeaw.ac.at
- Dominikanerbastei 16 | 1010 Vienna
Biographical sketch
Studied Egyptology and Classical Archaeology at the University of Vienna, Master's degree 2005, PhD 2010. Collaborator in the Special Research Area SCIEM 2000 at the Austrian Academy of Sciences from 2006 to 2009, collaborator at the Orient Department of the German Archaeological Institute in Amman (Jordan) and Berlin from 2009 to 2013, postdoctoral researcher at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago from 2013 to 2015, APART fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences from 2015 to 2017. START Prize of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) 2016 for the project "Tracing Transformations in the southern Levant from collapse to consolidation in the mid-second millennium BC". Research stays at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem. Lecturer at the Institute of Egyptology, the Institute of Old Testament Studies and Biblical Archaeology and the Institute of Oriental Studies at the University of Vienna. Member of the editorial board of the journal Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research and co-editor of the series Archaeology of Egypt, Sudan and the Levant. Since 2017 excavation director Tel Lachish, Israel (together with Katharina Streit).
Research Projects
Research interests
- Archaeology of the Southern Levant in the Bronze and Iron Ages
- Intercultural relations in the Eastern Mediterranean region during the Bronze and Iron Ages
- Chronology, radiocarbon dating and Bayesian statistics
Publications
- Beyond Egypt: Bissing's Involvement in the Austrian Excavations at Shechem 1913-1914. / Höflmayer, Felix; Woitzuck, Agnes.
The Bissing Link: The Collections and Network of Egyptologist F. W. von Bissing (1873-1956). ed. / Lars Petersen; Ben J. L. van den Bercken. Sidestone Press, 2025. p. 87-98. - Österreich und die Biblische Archäologie: Ein (fast) vergessenes Kapitel österreichischer Forschung im Vorderen Orient. / Höflmayer, Felix.
Archäologie und Republik. Reflexionen zur Archäologie in Österreich in der Ersten und Zweiten Republik. ed. / Michaela Zavadil. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2024. p. 463–487 (Oriental and European Archaeology; Vol. 28). - Radiocarbon Dates for the Middle Bronze Age Palace: an Update. / Höflmayer, Felix; Manning, Sturt W.
Excavations at Tel Kabri III. The 2013 to 2019 Seasons. ed. / E. H. Cline; A. Ratzlaff; A. Yasur-Landau. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2024. p. 287-297 (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East). - "On Vultures' Wings ...". A Recent Find from Tel Lachish (Israel) Displaying a Vulture, a Caprid, a Sake and a Twig. / Ben-Marzouk, Nadia; Biermann, Bruno; Fahrni, Renate et al.
"Trinkt von dem Wein, den ich mischte!" / "Drink of the wine which I have mingled!" Festschrift für Silvia Schroer zum 65. Geburtstag. ed. / S. Münger; N. Rahn; P. Wyssmann. Leuven: Peeters, 2023. p. 50-69 (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis). - Die assyrische Eroberung der Südlevante und Ägyptens. Ein Vergleich textlicher und archäologischer Evidenzen von Niederlage und ihrer Rezeption. / Streit, Katharina; Höflmayer, Felix.
Ägypten und Altes Testament. Fachtagung "40 Jahre ÄAT", München, 6.-7. Dez. 2019. ed. / S. J. Wimmer; W. Zwickel. Münster: Zaphon, 2022. p. 181-209 (Ägypten und Altes Testament). - The Date of the Middle Bronze Age Monumental Building. / Höflmayer, Felix; Dee, Michael W; Riehl, Simone.
Tell el-Burak I. The Middle Bronze Age. With Chapters Related to the Site and to the Mamluk-Ottoman Periods. ed. / J. Kamlah; H. Sader. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2019. p. 124-140 (Abhandlungen des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins). - Radiocarbon Dates from Pits Inst. 2236 and 2346. / Höflmayer, Felix; Burke, Aaron A; Damiata, Brian N et al.
Der Königspalast von Qaṭna Teil 2: Architektur, Stratigraphie, Keramik und Funde des westlichen Zentralbereiches. ed. / E. Geith; T. Abd el-Hay; J. Schmid. Harrassowitz, 2019. p. 165-168 (Qatna-Studien). - The Impact of Radiocarbon Dating and Absolute Chronology in the Holy Land: A Social Archaeological Perspective. / Höflmayer, Felix; Streit, Katharina.
The Social Archaeology of the Levant. From Prehistory to the Present. ed. / A. Yasur-Landau; E. H. Cline; Y. M. Rowan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. p. 573-593. - An Early Date for Khyan and Its Implications for Eastern Mediterranean Chronologies. / Höflmayer, Felix.
The Hyksos Ruler Khyan and the Early Second Intermediate Period in Egypt: Problems and Priorities of Current Research. ed. / I. Forstner-Müller; N. Moeller. Wien: Holzhausen, 2018. p. 143-171 (Ergänzungshefte zu den Jahresheften des Österreichischen Archäologischen Institutes in Wien 17). - Introduction: The Late Third Millennium BC in the Ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean - A Time of Collapse and Transformation. / Höflmayer, Felix.
The Late Third Millennium in the Ancient Near East: Chronology, C14 and Climate Change. Papers from the Oriental Institute Seminar Held at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago 7-8 March 2014. ed. / Felix Höflmayer. Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2017. p. 1-29 (Oriental Institute Seminars). - Egypt's "Empire" in the Southern Levant During the Early 18th Dynasty. / Höflmayer, Felix.
Policies of Exchange. Political Systems and Modes of Interaction in the Aegean and the Near East in the 2nd Millennium B.C.E.. ed. / Birgitta Eder; Regine Pruzsinszky. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2015. p. 191–206 (Oriental and European Archaeology). - Carbone-14 Comparé: Middle Bronze Age I (IIA) Chronology, Tell el-Dab'a and Radiocarbon Data. / Höflmayer, Felix.
There and Back Again - the Crossroads II. Proceedings of an International Conference Held in Prague, September 15-18, 2014. ed. / Jana Mynarova; Pavel Onderka; Peter Pavuk. Prag: Charles University in Prague, 2015. p. 265-295. - The Southern Levant, Egypt, and the 4.2 ka BP Event. / Höflmayer, Felix.
2200 BC - Ein Klimasturz als Ursache für den Zerfall der Alten Welt? 2200 BC - A Climatic Breakdown as a Cause for the Collapse of the Old World?. ed. / Harald Meller; Helge W. Arz; Reinhard Jung; Roberto Risch. Halle (Saale): Landesdenkmalamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt, 2015. p. 113–130 (Landesdenkmalamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt). - Dating Catastrophes and Collapses in the Ancient Near East: The End of the First Urbanization in the Southern Levant and the 4.2 ka BP Event. / Höflmayer, Felix.
Overcoming Catastrophes. Essays on Disastrous Agents Characterization and Resilience Strategies in Pre-classical Southern Levant. ed. / Lorenzo Nigro. Rom: Università di Roma "La Sapienza", 2014. p. 117-140 (Rome "La Sapienza" Studies on the Archaeology of Palestine & Transjordan). - Radiocarbon Data for Aegean Pottery in Egypt: New Evidence for Saqqara (Lepsius) Tomb 16 and its Importance for LM IB/LH IIA. / Höflmayer, Felix; Hassler, Astrid; Kutschera, Walter et al.
Radiocarbon and the Chronologies of Ancient Egypt. ed. / A. J. Shortland; C. Bronk Ramsey. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2013. p. 110–20. - Ein neues 14C-Datum aus Saqqara (Lepsius) Grab 16 und seine Bedeutung für die absolute Chronologie von SM IB und SH IIA. / Höflmayer, Felix.
Akten des 13. Österreichischen Archäologentages. Klassische und Frühägäische Archäologie Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg vom 25. bis 27. Februar 2010. ed. / C. Reinholdt; W. Wohlmayr. Wien: Phoibos Verlag, 2012. p. 47–54. - Egyptian Pots, Aegean Chronology and Radiocarbon Dating: Recent Research on Egypt and the Aegean Early Late Bronze Age. / Höflmayer, Felix.
Current Research in Egyptology 2010: Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Symposium Which Took Place at Leiden University, The Netherlands, January 2010. ed. / Maarten Horn; Joost Kramer; Daniel Soliman; Nico Staring; Carina van den Hoven; Lara Weiss. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2011. p. 62-70. - Aegean-Egyptian Synchronisms and Radiocarbon Chronology. / Höflmayer, Felix.
Time's up! Dating the Minoan eruption of Santorini. Acts of the Minoan Eruption Chronology Workshop, Sandbjerg, November 2007. ed. / D. A. Warburton. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2009. p. 187–95 (Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens). - Introduction: High and Low Chronology. / Bietak, Manfred; Höflmayer, Felix.
The Synchronisation of Civilisations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Second Millennium BC. III. Proceedings of the SCIEM 2000 – 2nd EuroConference, Vienna, 28th of May–1st of June 2003. ed. / Manfred Bietak; Ernst Czerny. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2007. p. 13-23 (Contributions to the Chronology of the Eastern Mediterranean; Vol. 9).
- The Late Third Millennium in the Ancient Near East: Chronology, C14 and Climate Change. Papers from the Oriental Institute Seminar Held at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago 7-8 March 2014. / Höflmayer, Felix (Editor).
Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2017. (Oriental Institute Seminars).
- Review of "The Late MBA and LBA Pottery Horizons at Qatna: Innovation and Conservation in the Ceramic Tradition of a Regional Capital and the Implications for Second Millennium Syrian Chronology" by Marco Iamoni. / Höflmayer, Felix.
In: American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 118, No. 2, 2014.