Analysing the link between reproduction and women’s social status, this project explores social responses to pregnancy, birth and childrearing from the late Neolithic to the late Iron Age (c. 3000–15 BC) through case studies in central Europe.

This project focused on developping a methodology to investigate motherhood through pelvic changes in female human remains.

This interdisciplinary project explores personal relations, gender and family structures at Bronze Age communities across the Austrian and Czech border (c. 1600–800 BC).

Based on cremation cemeteries in Austria, this interdisciplinary project investigates ritual practices, gender mobility and social relations in Late Bronze Age using new bioarchaeological methods.

The early Bronze Age cemeteries Franzhausen I and II with over 2200 burials provide the data basis for this research cooperation.

The Bisamberg pilot project aims to document traces of settlement as well as antiquarian archaeological excavations on Vienna’s famous local mountain by means of geophysical prospection, and to assign the prehistoric finds to the individual sites.

CoPOWER adopts state-of-the-art archaeological and bioarchaeological approaches to investigate the transition to urban society and the rise of increasingly sophisticated social control mechanisms in Europe, c. 2000–500 BC.

Early Bronze Age communities in Central Europe buried male and female bodies differently. Bodies are placed either on the left or right body side in the grave, with the head towards the north or south, and gender-typical grave good may accompany the dead.…

SKIN explores relatedness beyond biological links in European Copper and Bronze Age societies.

Das Pilotprojekt „Alpine Interdependenzen“ analysiert die Mensch-Umwelt-Interaktionen im Dachsteingebirge über die letzten Jahrtausende. Fragen nach den Auswirkungen früher Hochweidenutzung sowie klimatischer Veränderungen werden untersucht.

Stress influences health, wellbeing and life experience. However, assessing stress in the past is challenging, as stress biomarkers in soft tissues degrade over time. Recently, the ‘stress’ hormone cortisol has been detected in teeth from living people and…

We are investigating the dietary habits of Bronze and Iron Age miners by analysing human excrements from the prehistoric salt mines of Hallstatt. The aim of the project is to create highly precise individual dietary profiles.