Peter Christoph Ramsl

University of Vienna | UniWien · Institute for Prehistory and Historical Archaeology

Osteometric data and morphological observations on cattle bones from Roman period sites from present-day Austria suggest the arrival of a new large-sized cattle population, which has been connected with the conquest of this area by the Romans and subsequent import of a Mediterranean population. Therefore, recent documentation of some large-sized ca...

Being able to digest milk sugar beyond the age of weaning is a rather new trait in humans. The calculated age of the responsible mutations largely coincides with the introduction of dairy farming. Recent European populations exhibit a gradient of high levels of lactose tolerance in the north and lower numbers in the south. Lactase persistence is be...

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) has been infecting humans for millennia and remains a global health problem, but its past diversity and dispersal routes are largely unknown. We generated HBV genomic data from 137 Eurasians and Native Americans dated between ~10,500 and ~400 years ago. We date the most recent common ancestor of all HBV lineages to between ~...

In the paper the new Early La Tène type of fibula is defined, named Oberndorf–Sisak type. The main criterion for defining this new type, comprised of limited number of typologically rather heterogeneous objects, was particular technical detail in which the pin is connected with a rivet to the headplate of the fibula. Although the number of the know...

Résumé. Cet article présente la tombe laténienne de guerrier de Grabelsdorf/Grabalja vas (Carinthie) et les circonstances de sa découverte. Dans son mobilier figure un fourreau richement décoré dans le Style des épées, dont l’ornementation est comparée à celle, proche,des exemplaires découverts à Pottenbrunn, tombe n° 562 (Basse-Autriche) et Ižkovc...

La Tène "Warrior grave" with stamp decorated sword blade from Plešivec, Rožava District. A unique find of artifacts deposited in collections of the Slovak National Museum-Archaeological Museum in Bratislava was discovered in the territory of Plešivec. The items were grave goods from a "warrior" cremation burial from the Middle La Tène period. The f...

P. C. Ramsl, P. Trebsche, K. Rebay-Salisbury (Hg.), Schichtengeschichten - Festschrift für Otto H. Urban. Universitätsforschungen zur Prähistorischen Archäologie 328. Bonn 2019.

Three graves from the Latène period were uncovered in Schrattenberg (political district Mistelbach, Lower Austria) in 1913 and 1914. The material from the graves has been housed in the Departments of Prehistory and Anthropology at the Natural History Museum Vienna but had not been properly scientifically analysed before now. The three graves consis...

The material presented in this study comes from one of the most interesting funerary complexes in the Palárikovo cemetery. Objects used for medical purposes are not frequent find from the La Tène period. This study explores social standing indicated by the variability in the burial rite. is there a connection between this object and the social stat...

Based on the theme of the Conference the paper presents basic reflections related to war and violence during the Central European Iron Age. Next to some definitions and concepts issues addressed include an analysis of several La Tène period cemeteries of North-Eastern Austria, Slovakia and Moravia.

Bei der Aufarbeitung von Gräberfeldern in Nordostösterreich wird die Lage der bronzezeitlichen und eisenzeitlichen Nekropolen zueinander betrachtet. Pottenbrunn und Mannersdorf/Leithagebirge liegen praktisch übereinander und überschneiden sich zumindest teilweise, die Nekropolen von Franzhausen respektieren sich größtenteils. Strukturen wie Umfassu...

This paper deals with the transition phase from Late Hallstatt to Early La Tène Period. Based on the example of Grave 31 (1982) from Oberndorf in der Ebene the questions surrounding this transition are discussed.

The archaeology of personal identities has firmly established age, gender and status as relevant categories of investigation. Beyond the recognition that not all women and men led identical lives, however, there has been little effort to unravel the diversity of gendered lives. Women's lives may have differed significantly according to their reprod...

1 Riassunto. Durante l'età del ferro, specialmente nell'età di La Tène, i rapporti tra l'Austria orientale e l'Italia settentrionale si sono manifestati in modi differenti. Possiamo ad esempio da una parte seguire lo sviluppo del bucchero etrusco nella sua penetrazione lungo la valle del Rodano, la Heuneburg ed il Danubio fino all'area austriaca ce...

The conference volume assemble 19 papers dealing with routes and transport during the European Iron Age. These papers were given at the annual meeting of the "AG Eisenzeit" during the 80. conference of the West- und Süddeutscher Verband für Altertumsforschung e.V. in Nürnberg, 2010. Please see for details the attached pdf-file. For ordering the bo...

This conference volume assemble 33 contributions discussing Technology Transfer and technological development in the European Iron Age. These papers were presented at the international conference of the "AG Eisenzeit" and the Museum of Natural History, Wien, in Hallstatt, Austria, 2009. Please see for Details the attached pdf-file. For ordering th...

Modern, ultra-trace, analytical methods, coupled with magnetic sector ICP-MS (HR-ICP-MS), were applied to the determination of a large suite of major and trace elements in Iron Age bones. The high sensitivity and un-paralleled signal-to-noise characteristics of HR-ICP-MS enabled the accurate measurement of Ag, Al, As, Ba, Ca, Cd, Ce, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe...

The contents of a woman's grave excavated at Mannersdorf in 1980, one of nearly 100 forming an extensive early La Tène cemetery, included two armlets of fine gold wire. A detailed metallur- gical examination of the armrings as well as a typological and stylistic study relates them to a number of gold finger-tings from as far west as the Marne and a...

In the cemetery Mannersdorf on the Leitha mountains, eight pairs of hollow bangles with larval and ribbed decoration have been discovered with eight burials. The contribution first deals with the differentiation of the single types of bracelets, with forms of decoration and fastening. The bangles with larval decoration were examined in order to fin...