Profile

Hannah Skerjanz is a prehistoric archaeologist. Since July 2024 she has been working as a university assistant (pre-doc) at the Department of Prehistorical and Historical Archaeology, where she also completed her B.A. and M.A. studies. She is a member of the research group 'Prehistoric Identities' at the Austrian Archaeological Institute, where she recently worked as a project assistant on Late Bronze Age cremation burial contexts. Her research interests include burial practices and cemeteries, Bronze Age material culture, chronology and typology, and a combined archaeological and bioarchaeological approach to the study of past societies.

Key Research Topics

• Prehistoric archaeology in Europe, focus on metal ages
• Mortuary and funerary archaeology
• Settlement archaeology
• Social archaeology
• Interdisciplinary bioarchaeology (osteology, aDNA, proteomics, isotope analyses)

Academic Career

Since July 2024: University Assistant (Prae-Doc) at the Department of Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology, University of Vienna

Since 2024: Team member OeAD project “From Ashes to Insights: developing standardized protocols for the study of cremated human remains in archaeology” (Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research mobility grant Nr. HR 04/2024)

2021-2024: Employee FWF Project „Unlocking secrets of cremated human remains” at the Austrian Archaeological Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences

2023: Tutor at the excavation in Százhalombatta-Földvár in Hungary, University of Vienna

2018-2023: Employee at research and rescue excavations in Austria, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Hungary and the Czech Republic

2017-2019: Tour guide, archaeological park “Römerstadt Carnuntum” in Lower Austria

2017: Tutor at the excavation Schloss Hanfelden in Styria, University of Vienna

Academic Education

2019-2024: MA, Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology, University of Vienna

2013-2017: BA, Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology, University of Vienna

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