Scientific Projects

Of OR Lektor Privatdozent Mag. Dipl.Ing. DDr. Peter Stadler

 

Past participation in scientific projects:

 

Liese Meitner scholarship for Nadja Kotova:  Neolithization:  The Austrian-Ukrainian perspective.  (2006-2007) 

 

Within the framework of the FWF project we plan together with Nadja Kotova and Eva Lenneis the collection of all Austrian published finds of Linear Ceramics, then in the Ukraine and in intermediate areas, at least for the oldest Linear Ceramics, in an image data bank Montelius.  This data base shall be expanded then. 

 

In addition the Abstract: 

 

And the statements of the referees:

 

 

 

Evaluation of the oldest Linear Ceramics settlement of Brunn am Gebirge, site Wolfholz: funded by ÖNB, as principal investigator, from 1992-1994. The first volume with ceramics is in preparation. More information for the excavation under:

http://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/NHM/Prehist/Stadler/Brunn/index.html

 

The gold treasure of Nagyszentmiklós: P10256-HIS as principal investigator, together with Univ. Professor Dr. Falko Daim, grant was approved 1994, provisionally locked 1999. Since only 12 of the 21 bottles be worked on (due to financial shortening in relation to the project request), a continuation request planned. This was submitted by Falko Daim and runs since 2002. To the conclusion an international conference is to take place. There is some information in addition here:

http://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/NHM/Prehist/Stadler/Halbturn96/Nagyszentmiklos/Nagyszentmiklos.html

 

 

Absolute Chronology for Early Civilisations in Austria and central Europe using 14C Dating with accelerator mass Spectrometry: P12253-PHY as co-investigator and a spiritus rector spirit, principal investigator at first Univ.Prof. Dr. Herwig Friesinger, then Professor Walter Kutschera, granted 1997. More than 1500 14C-samples of numerous archaeologists in Central Europe (Austria, Hungary Slovakia, and Czech Republic etc.) have been collected. The project is already finished, 1000 samples could be measured. 2 emphases are set:

1) The Early bronze-age cemetery of Franzhausen.

2) The absolute chronology of the Avar time.

In both cases relative chronologies are available with assistance of quantitative evaluations by means of Seriation. By means of associated 14C-dates the correlation of 14C dates and relative chronology in both cases has to be examined.  If this correlation is given, then the radiocarbon dates have to be calibrated by means of "wiggle matching" to obtain a still finer absolute chronology. Further information in addition under: Results are already in several articles, see publication list on CD-ROM and

http://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/NHM/Prehist/Stadler/14C_Project/Index.html

 

 

 

The gold treasure of Vrap in Albania: P13142-ARS as principal investigator, grants 1998. Provisionally finished March 2001. Some scientific investigations of the Metropolitan museum are still pending; afterwards a monographic publication is planned.

 

European project TOMBA, an initiative of the Roman Germanic Central Museum in Mainz for the production of an image data bank of the rich grave finds from the urn field culture and Hallstatt time, participating countries: England, France, Italy, Denmark, Greece and Austria, since 1998, locked 2000. I was allowed to coordinate the work for the Department of Prehistory in the NHMW. The associated image data bank is on-line under:

http://www.rgzm.de

 

 

 

 

till 2004 Special Research Programme „The Synchronization of Civilizations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 2nd Millennium B.C.” together with Professor Bietak et al. Principal Investigator of the sub-project: „Data Management, Electronic Communication and Application of Quantitative Methods“, in the Internet under:

http://www.sciem2000.info/Pr02main.html

 

 

Participation with Professor Walter Kutschera as Principal Investigator in the sub-project: "14C Dating for Absolute Chronology of Eastern Mediterranean Cultures in the Second Millennium BC with Accelerator Mass Spectrometry", in the Internet under:

http://www.sciem2000.info/Pr08main.html

 

The project runs since 1999. Since March 2000 this project is under the Patronage of the UNESCO. One finds an overview of this project here:

http://www.sciem2000.info

 

Aims of these projects are to produce an Absolute chronological network in the eastern Mediterranean area in the second millennium before Christ. Point of discussion is after as before the scientific dating of the volcanic eruption of Thera/Santorin in the second Millennium before Christ and the contradiction with the Egyptian absolute Chronology.

 

Project Avar time image data bank

 

This project could be brought with my Habilitation to a provisional conclusion. See 2004a in the publication list. In total about 100% (approx. 150,000 single illustrations) of the entire published Avar time find material in the Carpathian basin could be entered into an image data bank. More than that, 250 films with 6x6 photographs, which have been taken in the course of the last of 12 years in Austria, in Slovakia and Hungary, shall be digitized likewise. Thereby published, in addition, to a large part unpublished find material, was entered into the graphic data bank. The data base should be usable then - protected in different safety levels - in the Internet for the professional colleagues, who helped at the production. Meanwhile this data base is not yet on-line.

 

 

Project planning:

 

European project in co-operation with Hungary, Croatia, Germany, Slovakia and Czech Republic. Early Neolithics in Central Europe: The site of Brunn Wolfholz is currently the oldest (?) site of linear ceramics Culture with roots in a "Proto linear Ceramics", which shows strong connections to the south Hungarian Starčevo area. In this project further excavations should be accomplished in Brunn am Gebirge, in addition, in south Hungary at several sites. Perhaps then the long houses of Linear Ceramics, which can be postulated, can be finally proven also in south Hungary. Because the type of long house, which exists in Brunn - at present - at the beginning, exhibits already a finished, probably perfect ground plan, so that it is to be assumed that it was not invented on the site at Brunn, but was already brought from southern Hungary.

 

 

Early Bronze Age grave fields: together with Alexandra Krenn Leeb we plan a project for the collection of the cemeteries in Eastern Austria in an image data bank. Thereby the Unterwölblinger group has already been finished.

 

Project image data bank for Linear Ceramics Culture: Together with Eva Lenneis we plan at first the collection of all Austrian published finds of Linear Ceramics. This data base has to be expanded then.

 

Project image data bank "Protohistory": This image data bank is an extension of our Avar time data base to the entire Protohistory. In total 300000 objects till now could be entered, some 100.000 still have to be done, to complete the whole find material from the Carpathian basin.

 

Status

Culture in Protohistory

Till 27.05.2004 entered objects

Percentage

Number of types

Number of entered complexes

Complexes in all

Sites

Complexes

Alamans

7406

 

 

 

 

 

Complexes

Alans

1815

 

 

 

 

 

Complexes

Anglosaxons

78

 

 

 

 

 

Complexes

Arpads

42

 

 

 

 

 

Typoloy

Avars

145451

93,97

7087

24093

61110

4000

Complexes

Avars

13600

 

 

 

 

 

Typoloy

Bajuvars

11299

 

500

 

 

 

Complexes

Bajuvars

8730

 

 

 

 

 

Complexes

Burgunds

26

 

 

 

 

 

Complexes

Byzance

3550

 

 

 

 

 

Complexes

China

7

 

 

 

 

 

Complexes

Franks

2264

 

 

 

 

 

Complexes

Gepids

9861

 

 

 

 

 

Complexes

Germans

3665

 

 

 

 

 

Complexes

Goths

4394

 

 

 

 

 

Complexes

Huns

13539

 

 

 

 

 

Complexes

Irish

50

 

 

 

 

 

Complexes

Carolingians

215

 

 

 

 

 

Complexes

Khazars

75

 

 

 

 

 

Complexes

Copts

33

 

 

 

 

 

Complexes

Kumans

19

 

 

 

 

 

Complexes

Longobards

21503

 

 

 

 

 

Typoloy

Lomovatovo

2580

 

 

 

 

 

Complexes

Magyars

30032

 

 

 

 

 

Complexes

Merovingians

14507

 

 

 

 

 

Complexes

Middelages

1379

 

 

 

 

 

Complexes

Mongols

40

 

 

 

 

 

Complexes

Recent

294

 

 

 

 

 

Complexes

North Germans

103

 

 

 

 

 

Complexes

Romanic

73

 

 

 

 

 

Complexes

Romans

2530

 

 

 

 

 

Complexes

Saxons

21

 

 

 

 

 

Complexes

Saltovo Majaki

132

 

 

 

 

 

Complexes

Sarmats

63

 

 

 

 

 

Complexes

Sasanides

193

 

 

 

 

 

Complexes

Skires

140

 

 

 

 

 

Complexes

Slaves

10798

 

 

 

 

 

Complexes

Tartars

1

 

 

 

 

 

Complexes

Thuringeans

29

 

 

 

 

 

Complexes

Turks

741

 

 

 

 

 

Complexes

Unknown

111

 

 

 

 

 

Complexes

Vandals

92

 

 

 

 

 

Complexes

Vikings

343

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ingesamt

311824