Karin Kopetzky
Senior Academy Scientist
RG »Archaeology in Egypt and Sudan«, RG »Mediterranean Economies«
Contact
Email: karin.kopetzky(at)oeaw.ac.at
Telephone: +43 1 51581-6109
Location: Dominikanerbastei 16 | 1010 Vienna
Biographical sketch
Studies of Egyptology and Classical Archaeology at the University of Vienna (2005 Ph.D.) at Vienna.
Since 1988 staff member of the Austrian excavations at Tell el-Dabca/Egypt. 1993–1995 research partner in East-West project of the Austrian ministry of Sciences. 1999–2011 researcher in the SCIEM 2000 project. From 2002 onwards co-operations with excavations in the Near East (Qatna, Ebla, Sidon, Tell Arqa, Tell Fadous-Kfarabida, Ashkelon). 2011‒2014 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship to Harvard University/USA. Since 2005 employee of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW).
Research Projects
- »Egypt in the Levant«
- »Classification of Canaanite Fabrics from Tell el-Dabʿa«
- »Tell el-Dabʿa: 13th and 15th Dynasties Tombs from Area F/I «
- »Between Land and Sea: The Chekka Region in Lebanon«
Research interests
- Egyptian and Near Eastern archaeology, focus on settlement archaeology
- Cult of the dead and burial customs
- Relations between Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean in the 2nd millennium BC (historical, economic,..)
- Relative chronology in the eastern Mediterranean in the 2nd millennium B.C. Chr.
- Ceramics research
- Petrography
- Intersections of different cultures, knowledge transfer and communication networks
- Processing of old finds in various collections