Caroline Posch

Caroline Posch
  • Doctor of Philosophy
  • Post Doc at Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

Curator of Stone Age Collection at the Natural History Museum Vienna

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Current institution
Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
Current position
  • Post Doc
Additional affiliations
August 2011 - December 2014
University of Innsbruck
Position
  • Student research assistent

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Publications (35)
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This paper deals with the results of archaeological survey campaigns at the Carnic Crest in Eastern Tyrol, revealing archaeological remains from the Middle Stone Age to modern times.
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The use of mountain environments is a recurrent, although not universal, feature of the Mesolithic across Europe. However, synthesis of this material is rare. This means that it is difficult to assess whether regional variation in archaeological evidence is a product of different activities in the past, different research traditions, different post...
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Both chapters are inlcuded in the open access publication: A. Naso (ed.), Amber for Artemis: Amber Finds from the Artemision at Ephesos (Wien 2024); Abstract: "Nearly 700 individual amber objects were unearthed during the British and Austrian excavations in the Artemision of Ephesos, the majority of which were found in the centre of the sanctuary....
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The Northern Alps of western Austria were one of the first European landscapes to be occupied after the end of the last Ice Age. They are situated on the border between Central and Southern Europe, and during both the Boreal and Early Atlantic periods, they divided the Southwestern German Mesolithic to the north from the Southern Alpine Mesolithic...
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The paper focuses on the archaeological remains in the area of the Carnic Crest (East Tyrol, Austria) ranging from the Stone Age to the First World War.
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Archaeological systematics, together with spatial and chronological information, are commonly used to infer cultural evolutionary dynamics in the past. For the study of the Palaeolithic, and particularly the European Final Palaeolithic and earliest Mesolithic, proposed changes in material culture are often interpreted as reflecting historical proce...
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Comparative macro-archaeological investigations of the human deep past rely on the availability of unified, quality-checked datasets integrating different layers of observation. Information on the durable and ubiquitous record of Paleolithic stone artefacts and technological choices are especially pertinent to this endeavour. We here present a larg...
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In 2000, the „Wachau cultural landscape” became part of the UNESCO World Heritage List. Thus, UNESCO honours both the long history of the region and its continued active use as a living habitat between orchards and vineyards, medieval and baroque monasteries, castles, towns, and villages. However, one aspect that is often overlooked in this context...
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We would like to invite you to our Session EAA-Session # 375: How Far Would You Go? The Role of Mobility in Stone Age Hunter-Gatherer-Fisher Communities [PaM] Please distribute this information in your networks. The organizers are looking forward to your proposals. Call for contributions is open until Thursday 9 February 2023. Information and r...
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In the summers of 2020 and 2021, a team of archaeologists and palaeoecologists examined the “Flözerbändli” site, a rocky overhang located directly above the right bank of the River Muota at an elevation of 740 m a.s.l. The excavations unearthed Early Mesolithic layers which yielded charcoal fragments from the period between 9746 and 8294 BC, stone...
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The region Kleinwalsertal (Vorarlberg, Austria) represents one of the numerous little-known archaeological areas of the Austrian Alps. Here, over 90 sites were found since the 1980s, including surficial flint scatters as well as excavated sites, mainly attributable to the Mesolithic. Because of its high number of archaeological sites, the Kleinwals...
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The Atlantic is a period of severe environmental and social changes in Europe. Against the background of the Holocene thermal maximum, widespread forests were dominating the landscapes, reaching heights, where glaciers and alpine grasslands formerly dominated, whereas at the coasts the global sea-level was rising, inundating increasingly large area...
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In this article a use case is presented how a semantic network can be used to enrich the existing virtual exhibition “They Shared their Destiny. Women and the Cossacks’ Tragedy in Lienz 1945” about the fate of women during the Cossack tragedy in Lienz. By connecting via CIDOC CRM information about people, events, finds and places the goal was not o...
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We report on a virtual workshop aimed at advancing a new synthesis of techno-cultural patterns at the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary in Europe. We respond to the growing need of developing meta-analytical frameworks for comparing and eventually integrating disparate regional datasets and stress the opportunities of collaborative approaches. We propo...
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The Kleinwalsertal in the Vorarlberg region of Western Austria represents one of the numerous little-known archaeological areas of the Northern Alps. With more than 90 sites of various sizes and functions mainly dating to the Mesolithic, it embodies a rich mosaic of an interesting early Holocene landscape. However, most of these sites and artefacts...
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Schon während des Paläo- und Mesolithikums sind Depots mit verschiedenen Gütern im europäischen Raum überliefert. Unter diesen finden sich auch Hinterlegungen von Rohmaterialien für die Produktion von Steinartefakten. Diese werden als Hinweis auf das logistische Verhalten der überaus mobilen Wildbeutergruppen des späten Pleistozäns und frühen Holoz...
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At the end of the last ice age, vast territories along the coasts of Europe were lost due to a dramatic rise of sea levels. However, with the melting of the glaciers, new areas became accessible. One of these were the Alps, a landscape of 200.000 km2, formerly covered almost entirely by ice, now again inhabitable for plants, animals and humans alik...
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Die im Juni 2016 durchgeführten Prospektions- und Ausgrabungstätigkeiten auf der Alpe Fresch bildeten die Fortsetzung der bereits 2014 begonnenen Forschungsarbeiten (siehe zuletzt FÖ 54, 2015, 425–426). Die Ziele der diesjährigen Kampagne waren zum einen ein weiteres Abtiefen innerhalb des am Abri 1 geöffneten Suchschnittes und zum anderen Begehung...
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The 26th Annual Meeting of the German Mesolithic Workgroup took place in Wuppertal from 10-12 March 2017 and was organised and hosted by Annabell Zander (University of York) and Birgit Gehlen (CRC 806, University of Cologne). In sum, more than 70 academics, students and amateur archaeologists from 8 different countries attended this conference. The...
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Bei der aktuellen archäologischen Geländebegehung im Bereich der Alpe Fresch im hintersten Silbertal am Übergang zum Nordtiroler Schönverwall gelangten ein überhängender Felsblock mit anthropogenen Strukturen (Abri 5) und eine Holzkohlekonzentration auf dem Wanderweg zur Dokumentation. Weiters konnte auf dem Weg im Bereich des Langen Sees eine in d...
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Ziel der vorläufig letzten Grabungskampagne am Krahnsattel war es, den Schnitt C (Steg) auf das Schichtniveau des Vorjahres abzutiefen sowie in Schnitt B im letzten vorhandenen Zwickel bis auf den anstehenden Fels zu graben, um möglichst alle Nutzungsphasen des Unterstandes erfassen zu können (siehe zuletzt FÖ 52, 2013, 367). Auch in der Grabungska...
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Als Abschluss des 2011 begonnenen Interreg-IV-Projektes »Pfitscherjoch grenzenlos. Geschichte und Zukunft eines zentralen Alpenüberganges« fanden auf beiden Seiten des Pfitscherjoches erneut archäologische Untersuchungen statt. Gegenstand der Forschungen auf Südtiroler Seite war eine leicht erhöhte Hügelkuppe auf ca. 2.080 m Seehöhe, etwa 20 bis 40...
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Im Zuge des Interreg-IV-Projektes »Pfitscherjoch grenzenlos. Geschichte und Zukunft eines zentralen Alpenüberganges« finden seit 2011 archäologische Untersuchungen im Einzugsgebiet des Pfitscherjoches auf Nordtiroler und Südtiroler Gebiet statt. Die Forschungen werden vom Institut für Archäologien, Fachbereich Ur- und Frühgeschichte, der Universitä...
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Die archäologischen Ausgrabungen des Berichtsjahres fanden wie schon in den letzten Kampagnen (siehe zuletzt FÖ 51, 2012, 333–336) im Rahmen einer Lehrgrabung des Institutes für Archäologien, Fachbereich Ur- und Frühgeschichte sowie Mittelalter- und Neuzeitarchäologie, der Universität Innsbruck statt (Gst. Nr. 285/1).
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Im Zuge des Interreg-IV-Projektes Pfitscherjoch grenzenlos. Geschichte und Zukunft eines zentralen Alpenüberganges finden seit 2011 unter anderem auch archäologische Untersuchungen im Einzugsgebiet des Pfitscherjoches auf Nordtiroler (Gst. 1862) und Südtiroler Gebiet statt. Die Forschungen werden vom Institut für Archäologien der Universität Innsbr...
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Nach den Grabungskampagnen 2009 und 2010 (siehe zuletzt FÖ 49, 2010, 425) konnten im Juli 2011 die vorhandenen Grabungsschnitte weiter abgetieft werden. Im Bereich der bereits ergrabenen ovalen Feuerstelle (Bef. 20, 33; ca. 50/30 cm) in Schnitt B wurde die Fläche nach Westen um 1 m erweitert. An dieser Stelle kamen einige flach und eng aneinanderge...

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