
Wolfgang NeubauerLudwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology
Wolfgang Neubauer
PD Professor Mag. Dr.
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Introduction
Additional affiliations
December 2015 - present
VIAS - Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science
Position
- Vice Director
Education
January 1994 - January 2000
University of Vienna, Austria
Field of study
- Prehistoric Archaeology, Archaeometry and Mathematics
October 1985 - February 1993
October 1984 - February 1993
Publications
Publications (340)
The free and open source desktop planetarium Stellarium is a multi-platform astronomy program that runs on a wide range of computers, from powerful desktop PCs to energy-efficient single-board computers such as the Raspberry Pi 3 and 4. The volunteer developers have finally reached their long-awaited "1.0" milestone, which marks both the completi...
As part of the activities within the Living Danube
Limes project (INTERREG PROGRAM), geophysical
research was conducted in the area of the village
of Kopačevo in Baranja. The survey was carried
out by the Ludwig Bolzman Institute from Vienna
(Austria) in collaboration with the Institute of
Archaeology. The survey covered 2.4 hectares in
and around...
The site at Velm (Lower Austria) was first documented in 2000 by aerial photographs. They showed three circular ditches with accompanying palisade rings and an adjacent prehistoric settlement. Due to its unique structure and its unusual location on a flat gravel terrace, the monument has become the object of intensive interdisciplinary research in...
The publication at hand are the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Archaeological Prospection held between March 28 and April 1, 2023, in Kiel, Germany. The content of the articles ranges from local to large-scale case studies all over the world and from various archaeological times, over methodological improvements, new processing...
U sklopu aktivnosti projekta Living Danube Limes (INTERREG PROGRAM) provedena su geofizička istraživanja na prostoru sela Kopačevo u Baranji. Snimanje je proveo Ludwig Bolzman Insitute iz Beča (Austrija) u suradnji s Institutom za arheologiju. Snimanje je provedeno na 2,4 hektara u centru i okolici Kopačeva.
In archaeology, stratigraphic units are characterised by their shape, location, and physical composition. In analysing these components, archaeological research aims to reconstruct the processes of deposition and formation. Interpretations of material analyses are typically biased by this stratigraphic information as revealed through excavation. Ne...
Vulci (Viterbo Province, Italy) was one of the most important Etruscan city-states in the 1st millennium b.c. and became a Roman city in 280 b.c. The habitation site had over 1500 years of continuous life and a very large funerary area around the volcanic plateau. An international research cooperation investigated the site in 2014–2019 using remote...
Investigating deserted medieval castles and villages in remote rural areas paired with a scarcity of meaningful written sources is a challenging task that can be significantly enhanced by the use of non-invasive archaeological prospection methods. Furthermore, the interpolation of stratigraphic relationships among maps by analysing paths and field...
The Borre Monitoring Project investigated how environmental factors, in particular, precipitation and soil moisture variation as well as different soil and sediment types, affect the quality of GPR data collected for archaeological purposes. To study these questions, regular GPR surveys were conducted over a period of 14 months across a test area c...
Middle Neolithic circular enclosures, known as Kreisgrabenanlage (KGA), are the oldest known monumental sites in Central Europe, dating roughly to 4850-4600/4500 BC. These large prehistoric monuments are mainly discovered by aerial archaeology and have been investigated by geophysical prospection and archaeological excavations since the 1960s. The...
The non-invasive detection and digital documentation of buried archaeological heritage by means of geophysical prospection is increasingly gaining importance in modern field archaeology and archaeological heritage management. It frequently provides the detailed information required for heritage protection or targeted further archaeological research...
The Roman site of Carnuntum was once a flourishing center on the frontiers of the Roman Empire. In its heyday as the capital of the province of Pannonia superior, Carnuntum probably covered an area of almost 9 km². The whole site was divided into a military settlement (castra and canabae legionis) and a civil town (municipium/colonia). Through a la...
– Usually only GPR reflection amplitudes are imaged, while GPR data contain far more information. – Multi-trace GPR coherency visualisations offer new insights into structures otherwise hardly visible. – Image fusing permits the combined display of different GPR data attributes (amplitude and coherency).
– Comparison of GPR data collected manually in 1999 with high-resolution data acquired with motorized array GPR in 2015.– Interpretation of the high-resolution GPR data with regard to excavation results from 1884.
– Comprehensive geophysical assessment of huge pits; ERT, GPR, mag and EM.– Novel approach to testing and interpreting pits via coring.– Largest pit circuit confirmed in both the Stonehenge landscape and the UK.
– Infrastructure of Roman settlement deduced from geophysical prospection.– Spatio-temporal analysis by integrated archaeological interpretation.
In the framework of an archaeological prospection case study conducted at the Swedish Iron Age site of Uppåkra near Lund, a large number of anomalies caused by buried archaeological remains were detected using extensive magnetic surveys. Written sources report that the Swedish army under Field marshal Gustav Horn had established a camp near the vil...
The Benedictine Convent of Saint John at Müstair is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in the eastern part of Switzerland close to South Tyrol’s border (Italy). Known as a well-preserved Carolingian building complex housing Carolingian and Romanesque frescoes, the convent has received much academic attention. However, all research activities so f...
Large parts of the urban layout of the abandoned Roman town of Bassianae (in present-day Serbia) are still discernible on the surface today due to the deliberate and targeted quarrying of the Roman foundations. In 2014, all of the town's intramural (and some extramural) areas were surveyed using aerial photography, ground-penetrating radar, and mag...
The Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science (VIAS) was founded within the University of Vienna in 1992 as a forward-looking transdisciplinary institution. VIAS aims to develop and integrate methods from the natural sciences in a dynamic relationship with the culture-oriented investigative frameworks of archaeology, and to provide support, knowl...
The potential of large-scale, non-invasive prospection methods has been widely recognized in archaeology in recent years. Their outstanding possibilities for the exploration of urban centres have been realised early on and applied at selected sites. The ‘ArchPro Carnuntum’ project stands out for its extensive investigation of a Roman provincial cap...
Schönwerth Castle. Archaeological Re-prospection of a Deserted Medieval Lowland Castle in Volders, Tyrol
Schönwerth Castle, a deserted late medieval castle in Volders, Tyrol, has completely disappeared today and is only known from some early modern maps and illustrations. As long ago as 1997, however, it was possible to document its remains by mean...
This is not the final version of the supplementary data files. Copy editing was undertaken on the digital files. To access the final supplementary files visit - https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue55/4/supp-text.html
A series of massive geophysical anomalies, located south of the Durrington Walls henge monument, were identified during fluxgate gradiometer survey undertaken by the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project (SHLP). Initially interpreted as dewponds, these data have been re-evaluated, along with information on similar features revealed by archaeological...
Borre in Norway is famous for its Late Nordic Iron and Viking Age (AD 400–1050) monumental burial mounds. Recently, ground-penetrating radar (GPR) surveys have revealed three large structures close to the mound cemetery. Their unusual layout and size, and location within such a prominent burial site, suggest that they were halls—high-status buildin...
Archaeological research is dealing with the documentation and analysis of archaeological entities in space and time. During this process information is linked with a specific location and a time stamp. An archaeological Information System (AIS) organizes archaeological entities and associated information according to their specific location using a...
Between 2016 and 2018, two large-scale geophysical survey campaigns were conducted at Pliska, the first Early Medieval capital of Bulgaria (7th – 11th century AD). The aim was to document yet unknown archaeological remains, mainly in the central Inner City of Pliska, to achieve a better understanding of the urban layout and the successive construct...
The technical advancements of the past decade have rendered motorised, high-resolution ground-penetrating radar (GPR) investigations increasingly popular for archaeological research and cultural heritage management in Norway. However, the agricultural use of most survey areas limits the time available for fieldwork in spring and autumn and thus red...
Neubauer, W., Bornik, A., Wallner, M. and Verhoeven, G.J.J. (2019), “Novel volume visualisation of GPR data inspired by medical applications”, in Bonsall, J. (Ed.), New global perspectives on archaeological prospection: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Archaeological Prospection, 28 August – 1 September 2019, Sligo - Ireland, Arc...
p>This paper describes developments in virtual archaeology that started in a research project about the possible astronomical entrance orientation of Neolithic circular ditch systems (German Kreisgrabenanlagen, KGA) of Lower Austria. Starting from data analysis in a Geographical Information System (GIS), we will cover a simple way of modelling, and...
Survey and sampling at the classic single-entranced henge monument at Castle Dykes, in North Yorkshire, has revealed traces of circular timber structures, interpreted as later prehistoric roundhouses, in the immediate vicinity and within the henge. Coring of the waterlogged silts of the internal ditch has produced considerable environmental data: p...
In the last few years, the open-source desktop planetarium program Stellarium has become ever more popular for research and dissemination of results in Cultural Astronomy. In this time we (LBI ArchPro and TU Wien) have added significant capabilities for applications in Cultural Astronomy to the program, in particular a way to allow virtual 3D explo...
Poster presented at the EGU General Assembly 2018 in Vienna
Over the course of four years (2012–2015) the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archeology (LBI ArchPro), in collaboration with the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG) and on behalf of the provincial government of Lower Austria, has conducted the comprehensive, non-invasive archaeological pro...
The Harris Matrix (HM) is the fundamental diagrammatic representation of relative time for an archaeological site and the de facto standard for the representation of a stratigraphic sequence-the backbone for archaeological stratigraphy. It displays all uniquely identified units of stratification in a sequential diagram representing their relative t...
The non-invasive prospection of our archaeological heritage is one of the main tasks of modern archaeology and often provides the necessary bases for further activities, such as special protection or intensified research. Geophysical prospections using ground-penetrating radar (GPR) are an invaluable tool for the non-destructive exploration of arch...
Since 2010 the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project (SHLP) has undertaken extensive archaeological prospection across much of the landscape surrounding Stonehenge. These remote sensing and geophysical surveys have revealed a significant number of new sites and landscape features whilst providing new information on many previously known monuments. T...
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The complementary use of various archaeological prospection data sets offers a series of new possibilities for the investigation of prehistoric settlements. In addition to the separate interpretations of the single methods, the implementation of image fusion provides an additional tool to obtain an even higher d...
Traditionally, ground‐penetrating radar (GPR) measurements for near‐surface geophysical archaeological prospection are conducted with single‐channel systems using GPR antennae mounted in a cart similar to a pushchair, or towed like a sledge behind the operator. The spatial data sampling of such GPR devices for the non‐invasive detection and investi...
In September 2010, an exceptionally large cooking-pit site was discovered by means of geophysical prospection at Lunde in Vestfold County, Norway. The site contains in excess of 1000 cooking-pits and is, to date, one of the largest of its kind discovered in Scandinavia. Features known as cooking-pits are ubiquitous on Northern European archaeologic...
A geophysical survey done by ground penetrating radar (GPR) of a middle-Neolithic triple ditch circular enclosure (German: "Kreisgrabenanlage") and its environs showed high reflections at 1.3 to 1 .7-meter depth, which could not be explained by geophysical methods alone. These reflections especially occur at the locations of the posts belonging to...
Thirty years ago the integrated archaeological survey of Roman sites was unusual. The villa rustica at Halbturn was the first Roman site in Austria to be extensively surveyed. After three decades of methodological and technical advances, archaeologists are now able to apply non-invasive archaeological survey techniques on a landscape scale. Since 2...