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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury

@rebaysalisbury.bsky.social
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archaeologist, prehistorian, enthusiastic about the European Bronze and Iron Ages, bio-archaeology, interdisciplinarity, dead people, dogs, prof @univienna tinyurl.com/msnfnxaa

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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Das Fakultätszentrum für Archäologie ist ab heute aktiv! Auf gute Zusammenarbeit! archaeologiezentrum.univie.ac.at
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Archäologiezentrum
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Funerary Practices of the Middle to Late Bronze Age Transition in Unterradlberg, Lower Austria, by Hannah Skerjanz et al. www.austriaca.at/0xc1aa5572%2...
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Archaeologia Austriaca 110/2026
„Archaeologia Austriaca“ ist eine internationale, begutachtete archäologische Zeitschrift, die einmal jährlich im Druck und online (open access) erscheint. Sie wurde 1948 als Zeitschrift zur Paläanthr...
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
CiA 2026 in Vienna: the programme is now online: uha.univie.ac.at/news-events/...
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Cremations in Archaeology 2026
Cremations in Archaeology 2026
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The invisible evidence of birth: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The invisible evidence of birth: evaluating the relationship between pelvic shape and parity with a pelvic pattern index - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
It is well known that parity affects the human skeleton through biomechanical strain during pregnancy and birth, lactation, and sexual steroid hormone expression. Pelvic features are bony exostoses an...
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
My students wrote about their fieldwork experience @univie.ac.at www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
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Graben lernen in 4000 Jahre alten Siedlungsschichten
Lehrgrabung in Ungarn: Auf den Spuren einer 700 Jahre lang bewohnten Bronzezeitsiedlung
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
CiA2026 - Cremations in Archaeology 2026. The programme is now online: uha.univie.ac.at/news-events/...
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Cremations in Archaeology 2026
Cremations in Archaeology 2026
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Look what arrived in the post today 😊
Mothering in Antiquity, edited by Giulia  
PedrucciThe Bioarchaeology of Mothers (chapter by Katharina Rebay-Salisbury)
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Check out our new paper, by Lukas Waltenberger and colleagues! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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CRISP: Cremated remains inference of sex probabilities – A software for Bayesian sex estimation in human cremated remains
Sex assessment in cremation contexts represents a key step for reconstructing funerary rituals and demographic profiles. However, the high degree of fragmentation and thermal alteration of skeletal el...
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The deadline for submitting an abstract for the Cremations Conference 2026 is coming up! Act fast if you would like to join us in Vienna this October!
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This year’s colours in the park in front of my office. I just love my workplace @univie.ac.at
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Back to the roots - the Iron Age cemetery of Statzendorf, now with all that bio-archaeological science can do: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
New exciting insights into gendered labour division in prehistoric Iberia, with Miriam Vílchez Suárez www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Gender identities in the prehistoric societies of south-eastern Iberia: New insights from non-masticatory dental wear analysis and peptide-based sex identification
Anthropological skeletal remains provide access to the embodied dimensions of daily life, allowing the exploration of how gender was shaped through cu…
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Spring is here 😊
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Frühlingsgefühle! Unsere Begleitbroschüre zur Ausstellung „Die Sprache der Göttinnen“ ist da. Wir freuen uns auf eine neue Saison @mamuz Asparn 😊
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Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie (LEIZA) @leizarchaeology.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
LJA is #DiamondOpenAccess, advancing #equity, visibility, accessibility and impact in #research and #publishing. All information on the #journal, including editorial board members, submission formats, #author guidelines and policies can be found here: www.leiza.de/forschung/pu...
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LEIZA: LEIZA Journal of Archaeology
Unsere wissenschaftlichen und populärwissenschaftlichen Publikationen aus dem hauseigenen Verlag
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Today at the snowffice.
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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
My dad and I published this paper this week in Archaeometry. It shows how you can avoid old wood effects when dating charcoal by using a bespoke Bayesian outlier model developed by my friends Mike Dee and Chris Ramsey a few years ago. We applied it to a Thai site. doi.org/10.1111/arcm.70105
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Dealing With Inbuilt Age: A Bayesian Approach to Radiocarbon Dating of Rice, Bamboo and Charcoal From Non Ban Jak, Thailand
New radiocarbon determinations from rice grains and bamboo have been obtained from Non Ban Jak, Northeast Thailand. These, along with charcoal, date a late Iron Age building sequence. The results com...
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Tracing social mechanisms and interregional connections in Early Bronze Age Societies in Lower Austria @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Tracing social mechanisms and interregional connections in Early Bronze Age Societies in Lower Austria - Nature Communications
Here, the authors present genome-wide aDNA from 138 Early Bronze Age individuals from Lower Austria. Their findings point to a patrilocal society with non-strict female exogamic practices and long-dis...
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Proud of my students Jennifer Portschy and Sofie-Kristin Schendzielorz, who both received a @oeaw.bsky.social DOC fellowship today! Congratulations!
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
No project without drama. Nice view from the Legal Medicine department 😝
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Heute findet unser Institutstag statt - ab 9:00 hier: univienna.zoom.us/j/6568884382...
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Valencina rocks! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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From bone chemistry to human demography: Uncovering copper age society at Valencina (c. 2900–2650 BC)
Until recently, the study of Iberian Copper Age society was severely hampered by the limited availability of anthropological and demographic data. Thi…
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
www.derpragmaticus.com/r/bio-archae...
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Warum die Archäologie Feuerbestattungen hasst | Der Pragmaticus
Feuer statt Grab: Vor 3.000 Jahren änderte sich die Bestattungskultur radikal. Die Archäologie und damit Katharina Rebay-Salisbury stellt das heute vor große Herausforderungen.
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
New article out! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
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Moving to Stay in (a Woman’s) Place
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Ca’ Foscari - great place for a conference!
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Call for papers: Cremation in Archaeology 2026 🔥
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Happy to announce that reflections on our workshop about non-biological kinship in Vienna last year is already published! @anahcorral.bsky.social @sabinacvecek.bsky.social www.sciepublish.com/article/pii/...
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Beyond Genetics: Exploring Aspects of Non-Biological Kinship in Prehistoric Times
This article explores alternative ways of conceptualizing kinship in prehistoric contexts beyond the confines of genetic reductionism. While ancient DNA research has revitalized interest in the archae...
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
www.newscientist.com/article/2488...
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Archaeologists are unearthing the most powerful women who ever lived
Astonishing new archaeological finds and ancient DNA analysis leave no doubt that throughout prehistory women were rulers, warriors, hunters and shamans
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Colours of Szàzhalombatta
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Back in the field #szazhalombatta #excavation #bronzeage
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
A short film about our exhibition in Asparn/Zaya: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YDt...
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Die Sprache der Göttinnen im MAMUZ Schloss Asparn/Zaya
YouTube video by MAMUZ
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Just published! @anahcorral.bsky.social Gendered burial practices in Copper Age non-adults of Iberia: Evidence from peptide-based sex identification at Humanejos (Madrid, Spain) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Redirecting
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Early career researchers @oeai.bsky.social present their poster @univie.ac.at this week! Great way to show students the next step in their archaeology careers! uha.univie.ac.at/news-events/...
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Posterausstellung der Early Career Researchers Group des Österreichischen Archäologischen Instituts
Die Posterausstellung der Early Career Researchers Group des Österreichischen Archäologischen Instituts ist noch bis Mittwoch in der Aula der Franz-Klein-Gasse 1 zu sehen!
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Come work with me! I am looking for a new prae-doc assistant: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
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University assistant predoctoral
University assistant predoctoral
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Children at Ulrichskirchen, presented by @dverdianu.bsky.social
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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Child Space 2025 | International Conference
Child Space 2025 International Conference "Child Space 2025 - Narratives and New Perspectives on the Bioarchaeology of Children and Their Biosocial Complexity" Budapest, Hungary 4-6 June 2025
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Mining & dining kick-off @nhmwien.bsky.social. Buona fortuna!
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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Wie die Venus die moderne Kunst inspirierte
Als die Venus von Willendorf 1908 in der Wachau gefunden worden ist, hat die männlich geprägte Wissenschaft sie als Spielzeug abgetan, später als Fruchtbarkeitsgöttin. Ihre Wirkung auf die moderne Kun...
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Damals wie heute.... www.derstandard.de/story/300000...
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Zähne verraten, wie stressig das Leben vor 10.000 Jahren war
Zähne überdauern oft Jahrtausende. Ihre Analyse gibt Einblicke ins Leben in der Urgeschichte. Sie erzählen von Krisen, Krankheiten und Geschlechterrollen
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Österreichischer Wissenschaftsfonds FWF @fwf-at.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Demnächst bei den #UraniaLectures des FWF & VHS Urania: 📆: 29.4., 18:00h „Urania Lectures“: Familiengeschichten und Heiratssachen aus der österreichischen Bronzezeit mit Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @oeai.bsky.social @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social Jetzt anmelden 👉 www.fwf.ac.at/aktuelles/de...
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„Urania Lectures“: Familiengeschichten und Heiratssachen aus der österreichischen Bronzezeit
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Prettiest workplace competition. Paste yours below 😊
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
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Schlechte Laune? Diese Kunstausstellungen können Abhilfe schaffen
Bildende Kunst gilt als Stimmungsaufheller. Man kann sich davon in Schauen über prähistorische Frauendarstellungen, Egon Schiele oder Umweltaktivismus überzeugen
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Celebrating the opening of "The language of the goddesses" at Mamuz Asparn. It was a wonderful day!
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Archaeology meets modern art in the exhibition’The language of the goddesses’, curated by Elisabeth von Samsonov and I. Looking forward to the opening on Saturday #MAMUZ Asparn!
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
One more week and we will open the exhibition “The language of the goddesses” at #Mamuz #Asparn. Elisabeth von Samsonov and I can’t wait to show how prehistoric figurines inspired modern art.
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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
We are happy to share our pre-print on dating bone using a novel non-destructive protocol we developed. The paper is on the Biorxiv here (Luftensteiner et al. 2025): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Non-destructive radiocarbon dating of bone
Since the 1950s, radiocarbon measurements have anchored archaeological chronologies dating back to 50,000 years, with bone collagen being a commonly dated material. Despite advances in collagen extrac...
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
New book “Mothering in archaeology” has arrived, with the chapter “Iron Age Motherhood as Social Institution and Lived Practice” by yours truly. Check it out here: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Another piece of the puzzle: here, we use peptide-based sexing for insights into gendered mobility. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Fresh insights into sex-specific mobility in Copper Age Perdigões (Reguengos de Monsaraz, Portugal) provided by amelogenin peptide analysis - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
Sex estimation based on amelogenin peptides in dental enamel has opened up possibilities to study prehistoric demography in a new light. The application of this technique is of particular importance f...
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Katharina Rebay-Salisbury @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Just a tiny bit envious of the Kiel university’s very own megalith grave on campus.
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Levke Harders @levkeharders.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Bitte weiterleiten! Das Center Interdisziplinäre Geschlechterforschung Innsbruck #CGI besetzt eine Dissertationsstelle im Doktoratskolleg "Geschlechter und Geschlechterverhältnisse", Bewerbungsfrist ist 17. 4.2025: lfuonline.uibk.ac.at/public/karri...
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