Christine Neugebauer-Maresch

Christine Neugebauer-Maresch (born July 5, 1956 in Vienna ) is an Austrian prehistorian with a research focus on the Palaeolithic .

Life

Christine Maresch spent childhood and youth in Vienna. After studying prehistory , anthropology and classical archeology at the University of Vienna (1974–1981), she worked for several years as a freelance research assistant, excavation and project manager. The projects included the design of the Weinstadtmuseum in Poysdorf and the Urzeitmuseum in Nussdorf ob der Traisen . In 1981, she was with the thesis "Archaeological finds of the excavations 1975-78 from the Neolithic fortifications Falkenstein -Schanzboden, Lower Austria " to Dr. phil. PhD.

She has been a lecturer at the Institute for Anthropology since 1988 and at the Institute for Pre- and Protohistory at the University of Vienna since 1994.

In 1999 she became a scientific employee and head of the Paleolithic Working Group of the Prehistoric Commission at the Austrian Academy of Sciences , today she is the head of the Quaternary Archeology research group at the Institute for Oriental and European Archeology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Since 2002 she has been a committee member of the Austrian Society for Prehistory and Early History . From 2008 to 2011 she was President of the Hugo Obermaier Society . 2010 habilitation they are with the work "spirit world of the Stone Ages" in Pre- and Early History, since she is a university lecturer at the University of Vienna. She has been a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Germany since 2012.

She is the widow of the prehistorian Johannes-Wolfgang Neugebauer, who died in 2002 .

Research priorities

The main focus of Christine Neugebauer-Maresch's excavation work was initially in the Neolithic , the Bronze Age and the archeology of the Middle Ages . From 1986 to 2003 she was responsible for the excavation of the Federal Monuments Office at the Stratzing site , where settlement structures from the Aurignacia period were examined over an area of ​​1200 m² . In 1988 the Venus vom Galgenberg was found, a human relief sculpture and at the same time the oldest work of art in Austria.

From 1999 to 2004 she was in charge of the project and the archaeological rescue excavations at the Upper Paleolithic Hundssteig site in Krems an der Donau . From 2005 to 2014, further excavations followed on the nearby Krems-Wachtberg site . Important Gravettian burials were found here in 2005 and 2006 . Since 2000, Christine Neugebauer-Maresch has been in charge of setting up a database “Quaternary Finds of Austria” with interdisciplinary links and coordinates most of the activities on Pleistocene archeology in eastern Austria.

Prizes and awards

• Gold medal for services to the state of Lower Austria
• Silver medal for services to the State of Vienna
• Ring of honor of the market town of Stratzing
• Medal of Honor in gold of the market town of Nussdorf ob der Traisen
• Culture award of the city of Klosterneuburg

Fonts (selection)

• On the new discovery of a female statuette at the Aurignac station in Stratzing / Krems-Rehberg, Lower Austria. In: Germania. Volume 67, 1989, pp. 551-559.
• On the Paleolithic settlement history of the Galgenberg from Stratzing / Krems - Rehberg. In: Archeology of Austria. Communications from the Austrian Society for Prehistory and Early History. Volume 18/4, 1993, p. 10 ff. ISSN  1018-1857
• with Eva Lenneis and Elisabeth Ruttkay : New Stone Age in Eastern Austria. Verlag Niederösterreichisches Pressehaus, 1995.
• as publisher: Krems-Hundssteig - Mammoth Hunter Camp of the Ice Age. An area used by paleolithic hunters and gatherers 41,000–27,000 years ago. with contributions by Christine Neugebauer-Maresch, Ernst Bauernfeind, Otto Cichocki, Thomas Einwögerer, Florian Fladerer, Christa Frank, Marc Handel, Monika Krammer, Robert Peticzka, Gernot Rabeder, Tina Salcher-Jedrasiak, Ulrich Simon, Peter Stadler, Leif Steguweit and Brigitte Urban. (= Communications of the Prehistoric Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Volume 67). Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-7001-3881-5 .
• with Linda Owen (Ed.): New Aspects of the Central and Eastern European Upper Palaeolithic - methods, chronology, technology and subsistence. (= Communications of the Prehistoric Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Volume 72). Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6762-4 .
• with Thomas Einwögerer, Ulrich Simon and Marc Händel: The “excavation cellar” from Wachtberg in Krems - a unique specimen for research. In: Archeology of Austria. 23/1, 2012, pp. 2-7.
• with Eva Lenneis: Kleinhadersdorf, Introduction. In: P. Bickle, A. Whittle (Eds.): The first farmers of central Europe. Oxbow Books, Oxford 2013, pp. 170-180.
• with Thomas Einwögerer, Marc Händel, Ulrich Simon and Anja Masur: Upper Palaeolithic occupation in the Wachtberg area of ​​Krems: The evidence of surveys, sections and core samples. In: Quaternary International. Volume 351, 2014, pp. 50-66. doi: 10.1016 / j.quaint.2014.01.011

Web links

• Doz. Christine Neugebauer-Maresch Website at the Institute for Oriental and European Archeology in Vienna
• Personal details Private homepage