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Levantine and Egyptian Histories Roman Gundacker and Felix Héflmayer — Figure 3 Levantine and Egyptian Histories Roman Gundacker and Felix Héflmayer

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ternational and interdisciplinary research in a structured team framework, which also specifically integrates and promotes young researchers. The groups are constantly evolving as a dynamic element and initiated to set new impulses in the research landscape. They are implemented for a limited period and have to undergo evaluation according to recognised quality assurance criteria.

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Susan Ackerman, ASOR President, and Andy Vaughn, ASOR Executive Director and Administrative Director, at the welcome-reception for the Session Chairs Barbara Horejs opening the member-organised workshop Connectivities in the Ancient Near East: Social impact of shifting networks The meeting took place on November 15 2017 in the afternoon and hosted an audience of round 60 to 70 participants. The focus was on connectivity and its impact from the Neolithic yeriod through the Bronze Age, covering regions from Anatolia, the Levant, and reaching Egypt. The aim was to promote the broad spectrum of archaeological research themes at OREA to our ellow researchers during a large scale meeting with international outreach. The contributions vere presented by Bettina Bader, Teresa Biirge, Felix Héfimayer, Barbara Horejs, Reinhard Jung, ~hristian Knoblauch, Christoph Schwall from OREA, our cooperation partner Katharina Streit ind other contributors with interntational background. Chronological discourse as well as a look nto material culture was presented (http://www.asor.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/ASOR- -rogram-2017-online.pdf). pon ly we 7 ai _& #& - Pa a

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Presentation and classification of the sherds according to latest results was realised together with students under guidance in the course of a seminar. The exhibition presents already pub- lished sherds from Neolithic Thessaly and Bronze Age Greece as well as from the Near East. In the framework of a bachelor thesis the presentation of Neolithic and Bronze Age pottery from the Balkans is in progress.

Table 1 Reference collection of over 200 characteristic samples

Table 2 List of analogue and digitised analogue resources from Tell el-Daba with estimated numbers (project midterm). The column ‘scans/digital objects of analogue resources’ lists the number of analogue resources of which digital copies exist — many of these copies/scans were made before the start of 4DP project, which means that there are no metadata records for them From the rescue excavations at Tell Hebwa in the Northern Sinai/Egypt carried out by Josef Dorner in the early 1990ies, 2 protocol folders are archived as copies at OREA. The originals are at the OAI in Cairo.

Table 3 List of types of digital resources from Tell el-Daba with estimated numbers (size)

Table 4 List of analogue resources from the Assasif

Table 5 List of analogue rescources from Sayala In the early 1960ies due to the construction of the high dam in Assuan, Austria was invited by the UNESCO to investigate the region of Sayala in Upper Nubia/Sudan. From this venture under the leadership of Karl Kromer tracings of rock-carvings from the area as well as the documentation of the various rescue excavations in the area are stored in OREA’s Archive. The tracings of the rock carvings have partially been digitised in the 1990ies and comprise more than 2.100 single sheets in digital format, partially reassembled to reconstruct the huge partly rock carvings (Table 5). Around 50% of the drawings are still awaiting digitisation.

Fig. 1 Schiltern, Lower Austria, core sampling (© OREA, OAW) In the cadastral community of Schiltern some whitish patinated flint tools well corresponding with Upper Palaeolithic finds were recovered in the course of survey activities in the area of a Neolithic triple-ditch roundel. The Quaternary Archaeology Research Group was com-

Fig. 2. k.M.I. Christine Neugebauer-Maresch, 5" of May 2017, symposium ,Quartararchéologie — Die Forschun- gen von Christine Neugebauer-Maresch an der OAW‘ (© OREA, OAW)

Fig. 3 Intensive Survey at Cuka/Serbia (photo: M. Bérner/OREA) Investigations on lithic raw materials of the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age artefacts from Cukurici Héytik have been continued in a broader perspective. The aim was to The essential processes of sedentism, the cultivation of animals and plants as well as all socio- economic changes that can be summarised as Neolithization, are highly debated in the regions of our focus. Modern excavated data from the early 7th millennium site Cukurigi Héyiik in Western Anatolia are currently being used for multiple interdisciplinary and far-reaching studies focus- ing on the initial starting point of first settlers in the region and their potential origin. For this approach a new collaboration with the title ‘Pathways to Late Neolithic of Central and Western Anatolia’ between the Cukuri¢i Héyiik and Catalhéytik (Arek Marciniak, Poznan University) pro- jects was initiated and should start in 2018. The aim is to bring the results of both projects together and analyse potential connections and changes during the Late Neolithic period. Important for this collaboration is the research on settlement phase VII at Cukuricgi Héyiik which is currently being prepared for publication. Invaoctroaatianae ian lithic raw, matariale anf tha: Nieankthice Ohalenlithir and Barly Branzea Aaa

Fig. 4 3D scan of the house model found at Platia Ma- goula Zarkou showing the position of the figurines (photo M. Borner/© OREA)

Fig. 5 Illustration and sherd of a ‘Talioti’ bowl (sample 39), alongside it’s macroscopic fabric and an image of the petrographic sandstone fabric (photo: C. Burke/O OREA)

Fig. 6 Michaela Spannagl-Steiner and Doris Pany-Kucera recording skeletal remains of the multiple burial from Schleinbach (photos: K. Rebay-Salisbury) The research group Prehistoric Identities emerged from Urnfield Culture Networks and was estab- lished as an independent group on 14.12.2017. It is based on Katharina Rebay-Salisbury’s ERC Current research

Fig. 7 Walther Parson, Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, Doris Pany-Kucera and Michaela Spannagl-Steiner at the Legal Medicine department of the Innsbruck Medical University

Events Fig. 8 Hands-on discussions of dental thin sections at the microscope during the conference ‘New Approaches to Burnt Human Bones and Teeth’ (Fabian Kanz, Vicky Wedel) (photo: K. Rebay-Salisbury)

Fig. 9 DEFC project website https://defc.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/defedb/ (© OREA, OAW) ical finds for a period and region (e.g. characteristic pottery) has been defined as another research objective during the project. The DEFC dataset contains 3D models of typical pottery sherds of the Schachermeyr collection, which are also linked to the dataset through the archaeological and technical metadata.

Fig. 10 Handling photographs for digitisation (photo: M. Simon © OREA, OAW)

Fig. 11 A Puzzle in 4D website, view of a fielddrawing from area F-I, square trench j21 with metadata (© OREA, OAW) Aspock, Edeltraud; Stuhec, Seta; Zaytseva, Ksenia; Andorfer, Peter (10. 11. 2017) DEFC app. Presentation at: CHNT 22, ,App-Session‘, Vienna, Austria. http://www.chnt.at/program-2017-abstracts/

Fig. 12 Visitors at the open dig day of the 2017 season at Tel Lachish. From left to right: Zvika Zuk (Nature and Parks Authority), Ambassador Martin Weiss, Felix Héfimayer (Austrian Academy of Sciences), Katharina Streit (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), David Ussishkin (Tel Aviv University), Yehuda Dagan (Israel Antiquities Authority), Eli Yannai (Israel Antiquities Authority) in front of the Assyrian rampart (photo: Jared Dye)

Fig. 13 Tel Lachish Area S at the end of the 2017 season (photo: Jared Dye)

Fig. 15 Bread mould fragments from Sounding 1, Ehnasya el-Medina (© Museo Arqueologico Nacional, photo: Bettina Bader) Fig. 14 Pottery from the excavations at Lisht with frag- ments from the late Middle and the New Kingdoms © Uni- versity of Alabama, Birmingham, photo: Bettina Bader)

Fig. 16 Sounding 1 in the Hery-shef temple (Hypostyle), Ehnasya el-Medina (© Museo Arqueoldgico Nacional, photo: Antonio Gomez)

Fig. 17 Poster of the Round table meeting Second Intermediate Period Assemblages: Building Blocks of Local Relative Sequences of Material Culture, in June 2017

Fig. 18 Scarab of the Hykos period from Tell el-Daba (© OAI/OAW archives)

Fig. 19 Tell Mirhan: south section of E-W cut through the site (graphics: M. Borner, Ch. Schwall/ © OREA)

Fig. 20 Pottery vessels from the Valley of the Kings © University of Basel Kings’ Valley Project, photo: D. Aston, es, not present in the random sample in order to build up a complete corpus of all pottery forms and types found at that site. These additional sherds will be classified as a “purposive sample’ and will play no part in any statistical analyses planned for this material. At present the random sample from the first excavation season has been recorded and drawn in full, whilst the random sample from the second excavation season is well under way to completion.

Fig. 21 Golden kantharos (4.395 kg of gold) from the assemblage of Val¢itran as shown in the Vienna exhibition ‘Das erste Gold. Ada Tepe: Das alteste Goldbergwerk Europas‘ (photo and ©: F. Ostmann) For her contribution to the Bulgarian-Austrian relations, the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture awarded B. Horejs the price ‘Zlaten vek’.

Fig. 22 Hala Sultan Tekke, City Quarter 1, Stratum 3, Room 67 with storage facilities (photo and ©: P. M. Fischer) PI: Peter Fischer, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; co-researcher: Teresa Burge, recipient of a Post-DocTrack fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2017, guest researcher at OREA. A major task of the project The Collapse of Bronze Age Societies in the Eastern Mediterranean: Sea Peoples in Cyprus? (The Swedish Research Council [Vetenskapsradet], ) was the continu-

Fig. 23 Late Minoan II/IIIA piriform jar from Hala Sul- tan Tekke, Area A, Tomb LL (photo and ©: P. M. Fischer)

Fig. 24 The Early to Middle Bronze Age settlement layers at Pheneos in the Korinthia revealed a pithos, which was half-filled with pebbles (photo courtesy of the Institute of Archaeology, University of Graz) Hi. iViivliadvld 4avVaAUIL M. Zavadil continued studying the MH pottery from the acropolis excavations at Pheneos (Ko- rinthia/Peloponnese) in the museum at Pheneos, and in 2017 her work focused on the abundant MH III pottery. Macroscopic analysis suggests a change in the main (local or broadly local?) fabrics between the earlier Middle Bronze Age and MH II. While schist characterises the main fabric of the earlier pottery, mudstone temper seem to have been favoured in MH III. After the pertinent permission of the Greek Ministry of Culture had been received, Clare Burke took samples of 147 sherds for petrographic analysis in September 2017. The samples cover the chronological span from EH III/MH I to LH II with emphasis on the early and late Middle Bronze Age.

Fig. 25 Geo-archaeological and geodetic investigations took place in Kleidi-Samikon in the coastal area of Triphyliz (photo: B. Eder)

Fig. 26 Pottery kiln of settlement phase 1b at Aigeira in Achaea (photo: T. Rémer; © OAT) Pl: Eva Alram-Stern; project staff: Mario Borner Excavations in the sett Achaia have revealed 12" and early 11™ cen ury BCE. ement at Aigeira on the coast of the Corinthian Gulf in the ancient region an important phase covering the Mycenaean post-palatial period of the Excavations have taken place from 1975 until 1981 under the auspices of the Austrian Archaeological Institute (director: Wilhelm Alzinger). E. Alram-Stern has been working on the publica palatial habitation on t the analysis of the stra he acropo ion of the stratigraphy and architecture of the Mycenaean post- is of Aigeira that will be presented in a single volume. In 2017, igraphic units have produced a stratigraphic matrix that allows drawing a detailed picture of the three Mycenaean settlement phases. Especially settlement phase 1b (Late Helladic HIC Early — Developed ated within the settlement and were closely connected to houses of craftsmen. An updraft kiln may be interpreted as pottery ki ) has left significant remains. Workshops were apparently situ- n (Fig. 26), and another oven was used for casting of tools of metal. Fruits were stored in two storage rooms that are characterised by bins of unfired clay as well as containers of perishable material. In contrast, pithoi of fired clay appear only as individual pieces in these storage rooms or in other houses in the settlement. The pithoi of settlement phase

Fig. 27 M. Gavranovic during the geomagnetic prospection of the site Hajducka Cesma, eastern Serbia (photo: I. Jovanovic)

Fig. 28 M. Griebl and B. Biederer working on finds from Still- fried in the depot of the Lower Austria Museum in Hainburg (photo: M. Lochner)

Fig. 29 The DEEPDEAD-Team (S. Becker, K. Mandl and E. Weiss-Krejci) conducting research at the Natural History Museum, Vienna (photo: M. Teschler-Nicola)

Fig. 30 Burials in chamber 6 (photo and ©: J. Budka) The 2017 field season on Sai Island lasted from December 30 2016 to March 11 2017. Excava- tions were carried out in two areas in the Pharaonic town (SAV1 East and SAV1 West) and in the New Kingdom cemetery SAC 5 in Tomb 26. The latter was the focus of the FWF project. During the excavations in Tomb 26 (December 31 to March 04), a new chamber (Feature 6) was

Fig. 31 Diagram illustrating the 8 Research Tracks and the objectives

Fig. 33 Nina Maaranen checking samples (photo: © The Enigma of the Hyksos) Fig. 32 Sarah Vilain examining ceramic material (photo: © The Enigma of the Hyksos) Silvia Prell (RT3) progressed with the compilation and analyses work on equid burials in Egypt and the Levant, she also started work on analyses of warrior burials in the same area. Rosa Matic (Project Manager) co-ordinated, supported the team in all administrative tasks, necessary travel arrangements and assisted with the acquisition of literature. She also continues to act as the interface between the bio-archaeological team at Bournemouth University under Holger Schut- kowski and the team in Vienna, supplying updates and disseminating the communication between various research tracks, when and where relevant.

Fig. 34 Map of regions covered by Coprpus F.E.R.C.AN. Vol. 1, findspots beyond Noricum (© M. Hainzmann)

Fig. 37 ‘Géttergleichungen’ (IGRI) of the Lucan scholiasts (© M. Hainzmann) Fig. 36 Postamentum CF-Nor-099 ) Landesmuseum Ka4rnten; photo: U. P. Schwarz)

Fig. 35 Scematic map of findspot of CF-Nor- 099 (© M. Hainzmann)

Fig. 38 A block of the earliest Temple of Isis is being moved onto Agilkia Island

Fig. 39 The new block exhibition at the Temple of Hathor on Agilkia; the Temple of Isis is seen in the background

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