OREA: The Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Abstract

The Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology is one of Austria’s leading research facilities for archaeological research and covers essential prehistoric and early historical cultural developments from the Near East to Europe. The orient and occident are frequently understood as counterpoints in different worlds and explored separately. In this research institute, these areas are deliberately considered a common cultural bracket for crucial advances of human (pre)history and are therefore explored together. The focus of basic research lies in the time horizon from the Quaternary, about 2.6 million years ago, to the transformation of societies into historical epochs in the first