Research Associate

'Tracing Networks' Project Manager

MA, PhD (Vienna)

Tel: 0116 252 2101

Email:kcrs1@le.ac.uk

 

Katharina joined the School of Archaeology and Ancient History in 2009 as Project Manager and Research Associate within the Leverhulme funded project 'Tracing Networks: craft traditions in the ancient Mediterranean and beyond'. After completing her PhD on Early Iron Age social structures in Lower Austria at the University of Vienna in 2005, she worked as a research associate in the Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, within the project 'Changing beliefs of the human body: A comparative social perspective.' Together with Marie Louise Sørensen she investigated changing burial rites in the European Bronze Age, in particular focusing on the introduction of cremation. In addition, she is involved in the EU funded Framework 7 project ‘Identity and Conflict: Cultural Heritage and the Re-construction of Identities after Conflict’. Her research at Leicester centres on studying human representations, identities and social relations in the Late Bronze and Iron Age of Central Europe. Her project both investigates image content as well as associated materials and technologies, and examines networks of connections across and beyond the study area. This approach will provide insights into the mechanisms of transmission of knowledge, technology and beliefs.

Research 

• Research interests
• Publications

Teaching

• AR3067 Later European Prehistory: perspectives on the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages
• AR3071 The Archaeology of Death and Burial 

Selected Recent Publications

Sørensen, M. L. S., and K. Rebay-Salisbury. in preparation. Changing Bodies. The Introduction of Cremation in Bronze Age Europe. To be submitted to Cambridge University Press.

Rebay-Salisbury, K., M. L. S. Sørensen, and J. Hughes (eds) 2010. Body Parts and Bodies Whole: Changing Relations and Meanings. Oxford: Oxbow.

Rebay-Salisbury, K. 2010. "Cremations: Fragmented Bodies in the Bronze and Iron Ages," in K. Rebay-Salisbury, M.L.S. Sørensen, and J. Hughes (eds) Body Parts and Bodies Whole: Changing Relations and Meanings. 64-71. Oxford: Oxbow.

Rebay K. 2006. Das hallstattzeitliche Gräberfeld von Statzendorf, Niederösterreich. Universitätsforschungen zur Prähistorischen Archäologie 135. Bonn: Rudolf Habelt.