The series ›Mitteilungen der Prähistorischen Kommission‹ looks back on more than 100 years of history. Founded as the official publication of the ›Prähistorische Commission der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften‹ (Prehistoric Commission of the Imperial Academy of Sciences), the new series replaced the scientific reports in ›Denkschriften‹ and „Sitzungsberichte‹ of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. The first volume (Mittheilungen der Prähistorischen Commission Heft 1/1887) was published in 1888. Since 2013, the series has been continued at the Institute for Oriental and European Archeology (OREA) and since 2021 at the Austrian Archaeological Institute.
›Mitteilungen der Prähistorischen Kommission‹ include monographic finds publications as well as the publication of scientific results from research projects investigating at all time periods from the Palaeolithic to the Early Middle Ages. As the only nationwide Austrian monograph series for prehistoric and early historical topics, the MPK is an important publication for Central European research on prehistory and early history.
The series is edited by Barbara Horejs and coordinated by the Department of Prehistory & WANA Archaeology. An international peer-review process supervised by the Austrian Academy of Sciences guarantees the scientific quality.