Hannah SKERJANZ

I am a prehistoric archaeologist and PhD candidate at the Department of Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology at the University of Vienna, where I am currently also involved in teaching as Katharina Rebay-Salisbury’s University Assistant. I am affiliated with the Prehistoric Identities group at the Austrian Archaeological Institute, where I have been involved in past projects and have gained laboratory experience in osteological analysis, peptide-based analysis, and strontium isotope analysis.
My research focuses on funerary archaeology, material culture and chronology of the Central European Metal Ages. In the framework of my dissertation project “In the midst of change” I investigate the transformation from inhumation to cremation and changes in funerary behaviour during the Middle Bronze Age (c. 1600-1300/1200 BCE) in Upper and Lower Austria. I follow an interdisciplinary approach by combining archaeological and bioarchaeological data in order to gain insights into past communities and their lives.