The research group »Quaternary Archaeology« studies in an interdisciplinary fashion Palaeolithic societies up to the gradual sedentism of humans at the transition from the Pleistocene to the Holocene periods. The emphasis is on the adaptation and innovation of technological and socio-economic concepts of Upper Palaeolithic hunters and gatherers against the background of the climatic and environmental developments of the Pleistocene era. Geographically, the focus lies on open air sites in the mid-Danubian region and north-eastern Romania in the time covering 40,000 up to 15,000 years before today.

Gobelsburg-Rossgraben

Gobelsburg-Rossgraben

Kammern-Grubgraben
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Kammern-Grubgraben

Success, Boundaries and Failures of Subsistence Strategies in eastern Central Europe during the early Gravettian and the Last Glacial Maximum
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Success, Boundaries and Failures of Subsistence Strategies in eastern Central Europe during the early Gravettian and the Last Glacial Maximum

Krems-Wachtberg
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Krems-Wachtberg

Comparing Upper Palaeolithic sequences across the Carpathians

Comparing Upper Palaeolithic sequences across the Carpathians

MAMBA

MAMBA

The Red Ochre Project
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The Red Ochre Project

Raw material project

Raw material project

Austrian Quaternary Sites
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Austrian Quaternary Sites

Gog & Magog

Gog & Magog

Radiolarite mining in Vienna before the Neolithic?
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Radiolarite mining in Vienna before the Neolithic?

Tschatter Stones

Tschatter Stones

Gravettian open-air site with fireplace in Gösing am Wagram
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Gravettian open-air site with fireplace in Gösing am Wagram

Großweikersdorf-Kogel
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Großweikersdorf-Kogel

Stratzing
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Stratzing

Stone technology in South Africa in MIS 5

Stone technology in South Africa in MIS 5