Katharina Rebay-Salisbury
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr.
Katharina Rebay-Salisbury
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr.
- Group Leader
- RG »Prehistoric Identities«
- +43 1 51581-6132
- katharina.rebay-salisbury(at)oeaw.ac.at
- Dominikanerbastei 16, 1010 Vienna
Biographical sketch
Prehistoric archaeologist with a research focus on the European Bronze and Iron Ages, leader of the research group »Prehistoric Identities«. After gaining her PhD at the University of Vienna in 2005, Katharina Rebay-Salisbury was a post-doc at the Universities of Cambridge and Leicester in the UK, where she participated in research programmes on the human body and networks, researching the introduction of cremation in Late Bronze Age Europe and Iron Age networks of human representations. Her monograph »The Human Body in Early Iron Age Central Europe« was published with Routledge in 2016. In 2015 she was awarded the ERC Starting Grant for the project »The value of mothers to society« In this project, she investigates social reactions to pregnancy, childbirth and early parenthood as well as the relationship between women’s reproductive and social status with an interdisciplinary team. Projects on the study of cremated human remains, gender-specific childhoods as well as mobility and migration round off her portfolio.
2016 she was elected member of the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In 2017, she gained the teaching rights at the University of Vienna for the subject Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology with the Habilitation thesis »Bodies, identities and social relations in Bronze and Iron Age Central Europe«. In February 2023, she was appointed to the professorship of Prehistory of Humanity at the University of Vienna.
Research Projects
- »The Social Status of Motherhood in Bronze Age Europe«
- »The Value of Mothers to Society: Responses to Motherhood and Child Rearing Practices in Prehistoric Europe«
- »Together in Life – Together in Death: Adults and Children in Bronze Age Graves«
- »Unlocking the Secrets of Cremated Human Remains: Temporality, Gendered Mobility and Family Relations in late Bronze Age Austria«
- »Early Bronze Age Burials at Franzhausen«
- »Archaeology at the Danube: Pilot Study Bisamberg«
- »Cremation Bronze Age Burials«
- »Investigating Sex-Based Differences in Bronze Age Childcare«
- »The Middle/Late Bronze Age Cremation Cemetery of Plaika, Lower Austria«
Research interests
- Prehistoric Archaeology
- Europe in the Bronze and Iron Ages
- Archaeology of the human body and social identities
- Gender archaeology, archaeology of motherhood, kinship analyses
- Interdisciplinary bioarchaeology (anthropology, DNA, proteomics, isotope analyses)
Publications
- Social Relations, Deprivation and Violence at Schleinbach, Lower Austria. Insights from an Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Early Bronze Age Human Remains. / Pany-Kucera, Doris; Spannagl-Steiner, Michaela; Waltenberger, Lukas et al.
In: Archaeologia Austriaca, Vol. 104, 15.12.2020, p. 13-52. - Methodological implications of intra- and inter-facet microwear texture variation for human childhood paleo-dietary reconstruction: Insights from the deciduous molars of extant and medieval children from France. / Bas, Marlon; Luyer, Le; Kanz, Fabian et al.
In: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, No. 31, 09.04.2020, p. 102284. - Disciplinarity in Archaeology: 4th Annual Central Europe TAG (Theoretical Archaeology Group: ). Vienna, 16–17 October 2017. Conference Report. / Salisbury, Roderick; Rebay-Salisbury, Katharina; Weiss-Krejci, Estella.
In: TEA - The European Archaeologist, Vol. 55, No. Winter, 08.02.2018, p. 14-16.
- Archaeology at the Danube. Using non-invasive ground and aerial prospection methods to document prehistoric settlement traces at the Bisamberg near Vienna, Austria. / Reiner, F; Gallistl, J; Salisbury, R et al.
N/A. Heidelberg, 2022. (Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies). - Vielversprechende Ansätze und kleine Irrwege: die Interpretationsgeschichte frühbronzezeitlicher Bestattungen am Beispiel Schleinbach. / Rebay-Salisbury, Katharina; Pieler, Franz (Editor); Trebsche, Peter (Editor).
Tag der Niederösterreichischen Landesarchäologie 2018, Asparn. 2018. p. 45-56.
- Sustainability in archaeology and heritage preservation – the importance of context. / Mirnig, Nina; Rebay-Salisbury, Katharina; Gingrich, S (Editor) et al.
Science Day: Sustainability. Diverse perspectives on the role(s) of research in mastering socio-ecological challenges. Wien: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2023. p. 27-36 (Akademie im Dialog - Forschung und Gesellschaft). - Tracing mother-child relations in Austrian Early Bronze Age communities through mitochondrial DNA. / Rebay-Salisbury, K; Pany-Kucera, D; Spannagl-Steiner, M et al.
Kinship, Sex, and Biological Relatedness. The contribution of archaeogenetics to the understanding of social and biological relations. Halle/Saale, 2023. p. 213-226. - Ages and life stages at the Middle Bronze Age cemetery of Pitten, Lower Austria. With contributions by Patrik Galeta, Walther Parson, Doris Pany-Kucera, Michaela Spannagl-Steiner and Christina Strobl. / Rebay-Salisbury, Katharina; Rebay-Salisbury, Kahtarina (Editor); Pany-Kucera, Doris et al.
Ages and Abilities. The Stages of Childhood and their Social Recognition in Prehistoric Europe and Beyond. Oxford, 2020. p. 69-84 (Childhood in the Past Monogrpah Series 9). - Intoduction. Children's developmental stages from biological, anthropolocial and archaeological perspectives. / Rebay-Salisbury, Katharina; Pany-Kucera, Doris; Rebay-Salisbury, Kahtarina (Editor) et al.
Ages and Abilities. The Stages of Childhood and their Social Recognition in Prehistoric Europe and Beyond. Oxford, 2020. p. 1-9 (Childhood in the Past Monogrpah Series 9). - Tod während Schwangerschaft und Geburt in der Eisenzeit. / Rebay-Salisbury, Katharina; Wendling, Holger (Editor); Augstein, Melanie (Editor) et al.
Übergangswelten – Todesriten: Forschungen zur Bestattungskultur der europäischen Eisenzeit. Beiträge zur internationalen Tagung der AG Eisenzeit in Hallein 2015 und zur Sitzung der AG Eisenzeit während des 8. Deutschen Archäologiekongresses in Berlin 2014. Langenweißbach: Beier und Beran, 2019. p. 91-107 (Beiträge zur Ur- und Frühgeschichte Mitteleuropas 86). - Lebensbilder prähistorischer Mütter zwischen 1870 und 1950. / Rebay-Salisbury, Katharina; Rams, Peter (Editor); Rebay-Salisbury, Katharina (Editor) et al.
Schichtengeschichten. Festschrift für Otto H. Urban. Bonn: Dr. Rudolf Habelt, 2019. p. 353-364 (Universitätsforschungen zur Prähistorischen Archäologie 328). - Processes of theory: from production sequences and process to chaînes opératoires and object biographies. / Salisbury, Roderick B; Rebay-Salisbury, Katharina; Gorgues, Alexis (Editor) et al.
Material chains in late prehistoric Europe and the Mediterranean: time, space, and technologies of production. Bordeaux: Ausonius Editions, 2017. p. 15-29. - Material chains in late prehistoric Europe and the Mediterranean: time, space and technologies of production. An introduction. / Gorgues, A; Rebay-Salisbury, Katharina; Salisbury, Roderick et al.
Material Chains in Late Prehistoric Europe and the Mediterranean. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2017. p. 9-13 (Mémoires). - Tracing Networks: technological knowledge, cultural contact and knowledge exchange in the Ancient Mediterranean and beyond. / Foxhall, L; Rebay-Salisbury, K; Brysbaert, A et al.
New Worlds out of Old Texts: Developing Techniques for the Spatial Analysis of Ancient Narratives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. p. 281-300. - Materials make people: how technologies shape figurines in early Iron Age Central Europe. / Rebay-Salisbury, Katharina; Rebay-Salisbury, Katharina (Editor); Brysbaert, Ann (Editor) et al.
Knowledge Networks and Craft Traditions in the Ancient World: Material Crossovers. London: Routledge, 2014. p. 160-181. - Zur Archäologie des Körpers. Körper und Geschlecht in der Hallstattzeit des Nordostalpenraumes. / Wefers, S (Editor); Fries, J (Editor); Fries-Knoblach, J (Editor) et al.
Bilder – Räume – Rollen. Beiträge zur gemeinsamen Sitzung der AG Eisenzeit und der AG Geschlechterforschung während des 7. Deutschen Archäologenkongresses in Bremen 2011. Langenweissbach: Beier und Beran, 2013. p. 81-92 (Beiträge zur Ur- und Frühgeschichte Mitteleuropas 72). - Personal relationships between co-buried individuals in the central European early Bronze Age. / Rebay-Salisbury, Katharina; Murphy, Eileen (Editor); Lillehammer, Grete (Editor).
Across the Generations: The Old and the Young in Past Societies. Stavanger: Museum of Archaeology, University of Stavanger/Society for the Study of Childhood in the Pa, 2018. p. 35-48 (AmS-Skrifter 26).
- Jana Esther Fries and Doris Gutsmiedl-Schümann, eds., Ausgräberinnen, Forscherinnen, Pionierinnen: Ausgewählte Porträts früher Archäologinnen im Kontext ihrer Zeit (Frauen − Forschung − Archäologie 10, Münster: Waxmann, 2013, 288pp., 30 b/w illustr., pbk, ISBN 978-3-8309-2872-0). / Rebay-Salisbury, Katharina; Weiss-Krejci, Estella (Editor).
In: European Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 18, No. 3, 01.08.2015, p. 537–540. - Review: Peter Anreiter, Eszter Bánffy, László Bartosiewicz, Wolfgang Meid and Carola Metzner-Nebelsick (eds), Archaeological, Cultural and Linguistic Heritage. Festschrift for Erzsébet Jerem in Honour of her 70th Birthday. / Rebay-Salisbury, Katharina.
In: European Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 16, No. 3, 22.10.2013, p. 569-573.