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outreach at kibworthOur Outreach team takes archaeology workshops and talks out to schools and colleges in the county. It also runs Masterclasses and workshops on campus and in the department. We've also worked with the army on Project Nightingale at Caerwent. Find out more on what we do! And hear about the places we have visited last year, read some testimonials, and see what we can bring to your school to help bring the past alive!

University of Leicester Archaeological Services

ULAS is an independent professional unit whose expertise covers urban, rural and buildings archaeology of all periods across the Midlands. Find out more...

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Publications

Monographs

Rebay-Salisbury, K. in prep (2014). The Human Body in Early Iron Age Central Europe.

Sørensen, M. L. S., and K. Rebay-Salisbury. in prep (2012). Changing Bodies: the Introduction of Cremation in Bronze Age Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Rebay, K. 2006. Das hallstattzeitliche Gräberfeld von Statzendorf, Niederösterreich. Universitätsforschungen zur Prähistorischen Archäologie 135. Bonn: Rudolf Habelt.  [download text] [download catalogue] [download plan]

Rebay, K. 2002. Die hallstattzeitliche Grabhügelgruppe von Zagersdorf im Burgenland. Wissenschaftliche Arbeiten aus dem Burgenland 107. Eisenstadt: Amt der Burgenländischen Landesregierung.  [download PDF]

Edited volumes

Haselgrove, C., P. S. Wells, and K. Rebay-Salisbury (eds) under contract (2013). The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Rebay-Salisbury, K., L. Foxhall, and A. Brysbaert (eds) under contract (2012). Material Crossovers: knowledge networks and the movement of technological knowledge between craft traditions. London: Routledge.

Sørensen, M. L. S. and K. Rebay-Salisbury (eds) in press (2012). Embodied Knowledge: Historical Perspectives on Technology and Belief. Oxford: Oxbow.

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

Journal articles 

(* peer reviewed)

 * Rebay-Salisbury, K. accepted (2012). It's all fun and games until somebody gets hurt: images of sport in Central European early Iron Age art. World Archaeology 44, 2.

* Rebay-Salisbury, K. accepted (2012). Respose to Gramsch, A. 2010. Different languages. An interview on archaeology in Germany with Friedrich Lüth. Archaeological Dialogues.

* Hakenbeck, S., K. Rebay-Salisbury, and R. B. Salisbury. in prep (2012). Zeitgeist. Ethnographisch-Archäologische Zeitschrift.

* Mahmud, H., E. Tuosto, L. Bocchi, and K. Rebay-Salisbury. in prep (2012). Modelling Archaeology. Archeologia e Calcolatori.

Rebay-Salisbury, K. 2010. Material networks in the ancient Mediterranean and beyond  (session report). The European Archaeologist 34: 49-50.

Rebay-Salisbury, K., and S. Hakenbeck. 2009. Zeitgeist (session report). The European Archaeologist 32: 34.

Foxhall, L., and K. Rebay-Salisbury. 2009. Tracing Networks: Craft Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond The European Archaeologist 32: 3.

* Sørensen, M. L. S., and K. Rebay-Salisbury. 2008. Landscapes of the body: burials of the Middle Bronze Age in Hungary. European Journal of Archaeology 11, 1: 49-74. [download PDF]

* Sørensen, M. L. S., and K. Rebay. 2008. Interpreting the body: burial practices at the Middle Bronze Age cemetery at Pitten. Archaeologia Austriaca 89 (2005): 153-175. [download PDF]

Sørensen, M. L. S., K. Rebay, and J. Hughes. 2008. Bodies in pieces: the changing relations between body parts and bodies whole (session report). The European Archaeologist 28, Winter 2007/2008: 17.

Rebay, K. 2008. Rechts- und Linkshänder in der Hallstattzeit. Archäologie Österreichs 19, 1: 72-77.

Sørensen, M. L. S., J. Hughes, and K. Rebay. 2007. Knowledge, Belief and the Body (session report). The European Archaeologist 26, Winter 2006/2007: 36.

Rebay, K. 2006. Das hallstattzeitliche Gräberfeld von Statzendorf in Niederösterreich. Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Interpretation von Sozialindexberechnungen. Archäologisches Nachrichtenblatt 11: 254-256.

Rebay, K. 2005. Hallstattzeitliche Grabfunde aus Donnerskirchen, Bgld. Burgenländische Heimatblätter 4: 165-210. [download PDF]

Doneus, M., and K. Rebay. 2005. Aerial archaeology above the tree line. AARGnews 31: 17-26.

Rebay, K. 2003. Genuss seit Jahrtausenden: Pannonischer Spitzenwein. Cultur 1, 3: 64-70.

Rebay, K., E. Ruprechtsberger, and O. H. Urban. 2002. Luftenberg (Urnenfelderzeit). Fundberichte aus Österreich 41: 605-607.

Rebay, K. 2002. Ein neolithisches Steinbeil aus Velia. Jahreshefte des Österreichischen Archäologischen Institutes 71: 265-267.

Rebay, K. 2002. Auf den Inhalt kommt es an - Berechnungen des Fassungsvermögens hallstattzeitlicher Grabkeramik am Beispiel von Zagersdorf (Burgenland). Archäologie Österreichs 13, 1: 56-59.

Grömer, K., S. Moser, P. Nigst, and K. Rebay. 1998. Eine spätbronzezeitliche Urne mit Beigaben aus Lungitz, OÖ. Archäologie Österreichs 9, 1: 47-50.

Book chapters  

(* peer reviewed)

Rebay-Salisbury, K. under contract (2013). "Monumental burials and funerary status expression," in C. Haselgrove, P.S. Wells, and K. Rebay-Salisbury (eds) The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Haselgrove, C., P. S. Wells, and K. Rebay-Salisbury. under contract (2013). "Introduction," in C. Haselgrove, P.S. Wells, and K. Rebay-Salisbury (eds) The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Haselgrove, C., P. S. Wells, and K. Rebay-Salisbury. under contract (2013). "Chronological outline," in C. Haselgrove, P.S. Wells, and K. Rebay-Salisbury (eds) The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Haselgrove, C., P. S. Wells, and K. Rebay-Salisbury. under contract (2013). "Geographical outline, environment, soils, climate and landscape " in C. Haselgrove, P.S. Wells, and K. Rebay-Salisbury (eds) The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Rebay-Salisbury, K. in press (2013). "Constructing difference through the body: burial practices in the East Hallstatt area," in B. Arnold (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Continental Celts. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Foxhall, L., K. Rebay-Salisbury, S. Krmnicek, and A. Quercia. in press (2013). "Communicating things: material culture and the transmission of information and ideas," in R. Talbert and F.S. Naiden (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Communications in the Ancient World. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Rebay-Salisbury, K. in prep (2013). "Materials make people: how technologies shape figurines in early Iron Age Central Europe," in K. Rebay-Salisbury, L. Foxhall, and A. Brysbaert (eds) Material Crossovers: knowledge networks and the movement of technological knowledge between craft traditions.

Foxhall, L., K. Rebay-Salisbury, A. Brysbaert, J. Fiadeiro, A. Harding, C. Haselgrove, E. Tuosto, P. van Dommelen, I. Whitbread, et al. in press (2012) "Tracing Networks: technological knowledge, cultural contact and knowledge exchange in the Ancient Mediterranean and beyond," in E. Barker, S. Bouzarovski, C. Pelling, and L. Isaksen (eds) New Worlds out of Old Texts: Developing Techniques for the Spatial Analysis of Ancient Narratives. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Foxhall, L., K. Rebay-Salisbury, R. B. Salisbury, A. Brysbaert, J. Fiadeiro, A. Harding, C. Haselgrove, E. Tuosto, P. van Dommelen, I. Whitbread, et al. in press (2012) "Tracing Networks: tracking objects, modelling movements," in D. Peterson and J. Dudgeon (eds) The Past in Motion.

* Rebay-Salisbury, K. in press (2012). "Zur Archäologie des Körpers. Körper und Geschlecht in der Hallstattzeit des Nordostalpenraumes," in S. Wefers (ed.) Eisenzeit und Geschlechterforschung. Bilder – Räume – Rollen, Beiträge zur Ur- und Frühgeschichte Mitteleuropas. Langenweissbach: Beier und Beran.

* Rebay-Salisbury, K. in press (2012) "Neither fish nor fowl: burial practices between inhumation and cremation," in Z.L. Devlin and E.-J. Graham (eds) Death Embodied: archaeological approaches to the treatment of the corpse. Oxford: Oxbow.

Rebay-Salisbury, K. in press (2012) "Inhumation and Cremation: how burial practices are linked to beliefs," in M.L.S. Sørensen and K. Rebay-Salisbury (eds) Embodied Knowledge: Historical Perspectives on Technology and Belief. Oxford: Oxbow.

* Rebay-Salisbury, K. in press (2012) "Menschenbilder, Identitäten und soziale Relationen in der späten Bronze und frühen Eisenzeit Mitteleuropas," in J.K. Koch (ed.) Technologieentwicklung und -transfer in der Eisenzeit Europas. Langenweissbach: Beier und Beran.

* Gregor, M., and K. Rebay-Salisbury. in press (2012) "Preliminary results from the analysis of Kalenderberg pottery from the Braunsberg (Austria): an archaeometric characterisation," in J.K. Koch (ed.) Technologieentwicklung und -transfer in der Eisenzeit Europas. Langenweissbach: Beier und Beran.

Rebay-Salisbury, K. in press (2012) "Leben mit Erinnerung. Die Performanz von Identität, Status und Prestige in Totenritualen der Bronze- und Eisenzeit Mitteleuropas," in B. Christiansen and U. Thaler (eds) Ansehenssache. Formen von Prestige in Kulturen des Altertums, Münchner Studien zur Alten Welt. München: Utz.

Rebay-Salisbury, K. in press (2012) "Bodies in metal, clay and stone: material cross-over in Early Iron Age human imagery " in S. Kohring (ed) Representation, image, and the materiality of technology.

Rebay-Salisbury, K. 2011. "Thoughts in circles: Kulturkreislehre as a hidden paradigm in past and present archaeological interpretations," in B. Roberts and M. Vander Linden (eds) Investigating archaeological cultures: cultural transmission and material culture variability. New York: Springer.

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

Rebay-Salisbury, K., M. L. S. Sørensen, and J. Hughes. 2010. "Body Parts and Bodies Whole: Introduction," in K. Rebay-Salisbury, M.L.S. Sørensen, and J. Hughes (eds) Body Parts and Bodies Whole: Changing Relations and Meanings. 1-5. Oxford: Oxbow.

Sørensen, M. L. S., and K. Rebay. 2008. "From substantial bodies to the substance of bodies: analysis of the transition from inhumation to cremation during the Middle Bronze Age in Central Europe," in D. Borić and J. Robb (eds) Past Bodies. Body-Centred Research in Archaeology. 59-68. Oxford: Oxbow.

Sørensen, M. L. S., and K. Rebay. 2008. "The impact of 19th century ideas on the construction of ‘Urnfield’ as chronological and cultural concept: tales from Northern and Central Europe," in A. Lehoërff (ed.) Construire le temps. Histoire et méthodes des chronologies et calendriers des derniers millénaires avant notre ère en Europe occidentale. Actes du XXXe colloque international de Halma-Ipel, UMR 8164 (CNRS, Lille 3, MCC), 7-9 décembre 2006, Lille, Bibracte 16. 57-67. Glux-en-Glenne: Bibracte. [download PDF]

* Rebay, K. 2007. "Das Gräberfeld von Statzendorf in Niederösterreich – Soziale Differenzierung und Wandel der Bestattungssitten in der frühen Eisenzeit " in P. Trebsche, I. Balzer, C. Eggl, J. Koch, H. Nortmann, and J. Wiethold (eds) Die unteren Zehntausend - auf der Suche nach den Unterschichten der Eisenzeit. Beiträge zur Tagung der AG Eisenzeit in Xanten 2006., Beiträge zur Ur- und Frühgeschichte Mitteleuropas 47. 49-56.

Rebay, K. 2007. "Plotting social change: the Cemetery of Statzendorf Austria as an example of changing burial rites at the beginning of the Early Iron Age in Central Europe," in R. Salisbury and D. Keeler (eds) Space - Archaeology's Final Frontier? An Intercontinental Approach. 134-156. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [download PDF]

Sørensen, M. L. S., and K. Rebay. 2007. "Changing Social Practices of Death in Later European Prehistory," in R. Karl and J. Leskovar (eds) Interpretierte Eisenzeiten Studien zur Kulturgeschichte von Oberösterreich 19. 119-123. Linz: Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum.

Rebay, K. 2005. "Statzendorf – Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Sozialinterpretation eines Gräberfeldes " in R. Karl and J. Leskovar (eds) Interpretierte Eisenzeiten, Studien zur Kulturgeschichte von Oberösterreich 16. 83-85. Linz: Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum.

Rebay, K. 2003. "Wein in der Eisenzeit," in J. Leskovar, G. Schwanzar, and G. Winkler (eds) Worauf wir stehen: Archäologie in Oberösterreich. 289-297. Linz: Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum.

Reviews

Rebay-Salisbury, K. 2011. Review: Bronze Age Settlements in the Low Countries, By S. Arnoldussen and H. Fokkens (eds.). European Journal of Archaeology 14, 1-2: 309-313.

Rebay-Salisbury, K. 2011. Review: Die linke Hand: Wahrnehmung und Bewertung in der griechischen und römischen Antike, By H. Wirth. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2011. http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2011/2011-06-57.html.

Rebay, K. 2008. Review: House urns. A European Late Bronze Age Trans-cultural Phenomenon, By S. Sabatini. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. [link to review].

Rebay, K. 2007. Rezension: Karl Kaus: Burgenland. Archäologie und Landeskunde, Opera selecta. Wissenschaftliche Arbeiten aus dem Burgenland (WAB) 114, 2006. Burgenländische Heimatblätter 69, 1: 55-57.

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