Mario Gavranovic
Deputy Head Dpt. of Prehistory & WANA-Archaeology
Group Leader
RG »Urnfield Culture Networks«
Contact
Email: mario.gavranovic(at)oeaw.ac.at
Telephone: +43 1 51581-6139
Location: Georg-Coch-Platz 2 | 1010 Vienna
Biographical sketch
Studied Prehistoric Archaeology, Ethnology and Eastern European History at the Free University in Berlin (1997-2004). 2004-2005 research assistant at the Institute for Prehistoric Archaeology at the Free University of Berlin. 2006-2009 Junior researcher support of the Federal State of Berlin for doctoral students, PhD 2010. 2011-2012 Collaboration on research projects in Germany and Southeast Europe. 2013-2014 Staff member of the Landesmuseum Brandenburg, coordination of exhibition projects. 2015 JESH Programme of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. 2015-2017 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship of the European Commission at the Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences with the project »Burial«. From 2017 deputy director of the long-term research project of the ÖAW »Urnfield Culture Networks« (UCN). Since February 2018 Deputy Director of OREA and Head of UCN.
Research Projects
- »New Insights in Bronze Age Metal Producing Societies«
- »Burial: Forming Identities in a Transitional Area«
- »Forming Identities in a Transitional Area: Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Communities between Carpathian Basis and Western Balkan«
- »Late Bronze Age Metallurgy in the Western and Central Balkans«
- »Cremation Bronze Age Burials (CBAB)«
- »A Cemetary of the Early Urnfield Culture from Inzersdorf ob der Traisen«
- »The Late Urnfield Culture Cemetery of Franzhausen-Kokoron«
- »Thunau am Kamp – Eine befestigte Höhensiedlung der Urnenfelderkultur«
- »Visualizing the unknown Balkans«
- »South Connection: Spreading of the Urnfield Phenomena and Mobility in the Bronze Age«
Research interests
- Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in Central and South-Eastern Europe, Chronology and Typology
- Burial rites and social dimensions of the graves
- Resource use and environmental impact on prehistoric societies
- Social organisation and comparative ethnological studies
- Public perception of archaeology