Institute for Oriental and European Archeology
The Institute for Oriental and European Archeology (OREA) is a research facility of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) in Vienna. OREA, together with the Institute for Cultural History of Antiquity (IKAnt) and the Austrian Archaeological Institute (ÖAI), forms the Archeology and Classics (CLAC) cluster at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
tasks and goals
The institute is one of Austria's leading research institutions for basic archaeological research and covers the essential cultural area of prehistoric and early historical developments from the Orient to Europe.
The areas of the Orient and Occident, which are often viewed and researched separately, are not understood as counterpoints in different worlds, but rather as a cultural bracket for decisive cultural developments in human history. The focus of basic research lies in the time horizon from the Quaternary around 2.6 million years ago to the transformation of societies into historical epochs in the 1st millennium BC. Chr.
The methods of research include archaeological field research (excavations and surveys) and material studies with a variety of archaeometric analyzes. There are also interdisciplinary collaborations in numerous disciplines, such as archeozoology and botany , anthracology , anthropology , paleogenetics , climatology , geoarchaeology and landscape modeling . The fundamental evaluation and interpretation of early cultures forms the core of all research, in which all sources are included. This also includes studies on chronologies, art, early writing cultures and on a socio-cultural spectrum such as religion, ideologies and identities.
history
The institute was created in 2013 through the merger of three long-established commissions: the Prehistoric Commission, the Commission for Egypt and Levant and the Mycenaean Commission . Research into the past was one of its central concerns when the Academy of Sciences was founded in 1847. Accordingly, the “Commission for the Promotion of Prehistoric Research and Excavations on Austrian Territories” (later the Prehistoric Commission) set up by the mathematics and natural science class in 1878 was one of the oldest research units at the academy. The "Egyptological Commission" formed in 1907 (later Commission for Egypt and Levant) and the "Commission for Mycenaean Research" (later Mycenaean Commission) founded in 1971 were significantly younger.
Research priorities
The researchers covered a range of subjects from the Egyptology , Sudan Archeology , Balkan archeology , prehistory / prehistoric archeology, Near Eastern and early Greek archeology and philology different covers. Focussed research on various priorities is concentrated in research groups that can be structured across regions and diachronically. Research groups are continuously developed and initiated in order to set or take up new impulses in the research landscape.
Events
In addition to the OREA lecture series, OREA organizes conferences and workshops on current research issues at home and abroad at irregular intervals as a sole or co-organizer. The UK talks , which take place twice a year, are a discussion forum for research on the late Bronze Age / Urnfield culture (13th-8th centuries BC) in Europe.
Publications
Magazines
- Archaeologia Austriaca Journal on the Archeology of Europe / Journal on the Archeology of Europe. ISSN 0003-8008
- Egypt and the Levant. International Journal for Egyptian Archeology and Related Disciplines. ISSN 1015-5104
Rows
- Communications from the Prehistoric Commission
- Oriental and European Archeology
- Mycenaean Studies
- Contributions to the Archeology of Egypt, Nubia and the Levant
- Contributions to the Chronology of the Eastern Mediterranean in the Second Millennium BC
- Investigations by the Cairo branch of the Austrian Archaeological Institute
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mission Statement. Retrieved October 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Review. Retrieved October 12, 2017 .
- ^ Research. Retrieved October 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Current events. Retrieved October 12, 2017 .
- ↑ kruiss: Archaeologia Austriaca. Retrieved October 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Egypt and Levant. Retrieved October 17, 2017 .
- ↑ rows. Retrieved October 17, 2017 .