Biographie
Dr. Gabriele Puschnigg is an archaeologist specialized in ceramic analysis and the interpretation of archaeological assemblages with a focus on Iran and Central Asia. She has extensive experience working with ceramic material from multi-period sites, including the Merv - and the Bukhara oases. Furthermore, she has worked with survey material from the Sirvan valley, Iran, and has recently started to study Sasanian and early Islamic material from the Shirvan Regional Project (Prof. Claudia Glatz) in Iraqi Kurdistan. As part of her ongoing FWF-funded project “Rural Spaces through a Ceramic Lens”, Dr. Puschnigg is collaborating with archaeological projects in Iraqi Kurdistan, the excavations in Gird-i Qalrakh and Gird-i Kazhaw in the Shahrizor Plain (Dr. Alexander Tamm, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and Professor Dirk Wicke, University of Frankfurt) as well as southern Uzbekistan, the Kulal Tepa Archaeological Project (Dr. Lauren Morris, Charles University Prague).
Dr. Puschnigg completed her PhD at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, where she was a post-doctoral fellow from 2000 to 2007 and had an honorary affiliation from 2007 until 2023.
Together with Dr. Agnese Fusaro and Dr. Jacopo Bruno, Dr. Puschnigg started an initiative in 2024 to develop a network of ceramic researchers specialised on material from Central Asia and neighbouring territories and to promote a common agenda as well as minimum standards for recording and classifying ceramics from these areas (https://www.unistrasi.it/1/798/1111953/CAPN_-_Central_Asian_Pottery_Network.htm).
Forschungsschwerpunkte
- Archaeology of Iran and Central Asia from antiquity to the Islamic period
- Archaeology of everyday life, household practices and patterns of consumption
- Ceramic analysis, including quantitative approaches to assemblage comparison and methods of behavioural archaeology
- Archaeology of urban and rural spaces and their wider social, economic and political environments.
Laufende Projekte
Rural Spaces through a Ceramic Lens. Subsistence and economic integration in Sasanian to early Islamic borderlands.
Ausgewählte Publikationen
- 2024 - G. Puschnigg and J. Bruno, “Pottery”. In R. Rante (ed.) The Oasis of Bukhara. Vol. 3, Material Culture, Socio-territorial Features, Archaeozoology and Archaeometry, 94-235. Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World 21. Brill. doi.org/10.1163/9789004693999_006
- 2022 - “Ceramics of the Merv Oasis – The other side”. Archaeological Research in Asia 31. doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2022.100387
- 2022 - J. Bruno and G. Puschnigg, “Bukhara and its neighborhood. Reassessing the cultural links of the oasis from new ceramic evidence”. Archaeological Research in Asia 31. doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2022.100372
- 2022 - “Sirvan Ceramics: Local Communities and Interregional Networks in the Central Zagros”, IN L. Rembart – A. Waldner (eds.) Manufacturers and Markets. The Contributions of Hellenistic Pottery to Economies Large and Small. IARPotHP Vol. 4, 317-127. ISBN 978-3-85161-277-6
- 2021 - Puschnigg, G., “Before the great conformity. Remarks on the development of the ceramic industry in the territories of greater Khorasan from late Sasanian to early Islamic times.” In M. Labbaf-Khaniki (ed.) Korasan-Namak. Essays on the Archaeology, History, and Architecture of Khorasan in Honour of Rajabali Labbaf-Khaniki, 53-66. Tehran. Part of ISBN 978-622-95707-5-3
- 2020 - ‘Merv and Margiana’ in R. Mairs Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek Worlds, 335-356. London: Routledge. ISBN 9781138090699; doi.org/10.4324/9781315108513
- 2019 - ‘Functional Variation in Pottery Repertoires from the Parthian and Sasanian period’ In Proceedings of the 8th European Conference of Iranian Studies, volume 1. St. Petersburg, 330-349. ISBN 978-5-93572-866-3
- G. Puschnigg and J.-B. Houal, ‘Regions and regional variations in Hellenistic Central Asia: what pottery assemblages can tell us.’ Afghanistan 2.1 (2019), 116-141. doi.org/10.3366/afg.2019.0028
- 2019 - G. Puschnigg, M. Daghmehchi and J. Nokandeh, ‘Correlated Change: Comparing Modifications to Ceramic Assemblages from Qizlar Qal’ah, Iran, and Ancient Merv, Turkmenistan, during the Seleucid and Parthian Periods.’ BASOR 381, 21-40. https://doi.org/10.1086/703394
- 2013 - 'The dynamics of exchange and innovation in the oasis city of Merv.' In Networks in the Hellenistic World – According to the Pottery in the Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond. N. Fenn - Ch. Römer-Strehl (eds). BAR. International Series 2539, 339 – 349. ISBN: 978-1-4073-1157-9
- 2006 - Ceramics of the Merv oasis: recycling the city ISBN-13: 978-1-59874-225-1. Reprinted 2017: Paperback edition ISBN 9780367605759; E-Book ISBN 9781315432335.