Roswitha Thomas

Roswitha Thomas
- Project Fellow
- RG »Quaternary Archaeology«
- +43 1 51581-6137
- roswitha.thomas(at)oeaw.ac.at
- Dominikanerbastei 16 | 1010 Vienna
Biographical sketch
Studied prehistory and early history, geology and art history at the University of Cologne. 1991-1993 scientific officer at the Rhenish Office for the Preservation of Archaeological Monuments in Bonn. Until 2004, excavation management of Neolithic to modern archaeological measures in the Rhineland, then archaeological specialist in Lower and Upper Austria, freelance assignments for various museums and the Prehistoric Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Since 2010, project-related scientific employee of the Quaternary Archaeology Research Group of the Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology.
Research interests
- Palaeolithic
- LMP, Gravettian, Late Palaeolithic
- Investigations of Palaeolithic to Mesolithic surface sites, typological and morphological evaluation of flint artefacts, microchronological-spatial settlement dynamics of Palaeolithic open-air settlements