Projects
Ongoing Projects
•"Metal exchange networks and hoard biographies in Late Bronze Age Romania" (more...)
•"HallMetals-Archaeometallurgical analyses of metals from the Iron Age graveyard of Hallstatt, Austria (more...)"
• " Excavations at the medieval fortification of Neudegg, Lower Austria" (more...)
• "Archaeometallurgical and mining archaeological studies on Late Bronze Age metallurgy in the Western Balkans" (more..)
• "Beginnings of metallurgy in Western Asia Minor - Archaeometallurgical research on Çukuriçi Höyük" (mehr...)
• "Vălčitrăn - Studies on production techniques of Late Bronze Age gold working" (more...)
• "Investigations on Metal Circulation in Early Medieval Austria" (more...)
• "War and peace between Mycenaean Greece and Bronze Age Italy" (more...)
Academia
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Selection of completed projects
• "Wheel making and agriculture: Two Roman hoards from Mannersdorf am Leithagebirge, Lower Austria"
Head: Dr. Marianne Pollak, HR. Dr. Christa Farka, Federal Monuments Office Vienna
scientific editing: Cand. Phil. Karolin Kastowsky, Mag. Mathias Mehofer, VIAS
funded by: Federal Monuments Office Vienna, Department of archaeological monument conservation
• "Migration movements in the La Téne period"
Head: Dr. Anton Kern, Prehistoric Department - Natural History Museum Vienna
scientific editing: Cand. Phil. Karolin Kastowsky, Mag. Mathias Mehofer, VIAS
Funded by: FWF - Austrian Science Fund
• "Archaeometric investigations of six early medieval gold plaques from Bojna / Slovakiai"
Head: Dr. Karol Pieta, Archaeological Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, o. Univ. Prof. Dr. Herwig Friesinger, Institute for Prehistoric and Historic Archaeology, University of Vienna
scientific work: Mag. Mathias Mehofer, VIAS, Mag. Verena Leusch, VIAS
funded by: Austrian Academy of Sciences
• "Living and economic area Burg"
Head: Univ. Dr. Doz. Sabine Felgenhauer, Institute for Prehistoric and Historic Archaeology, University of Vienna
scientific work: Mag. Mathias Mehofer, VIAS, Mag. Matthias Kucera, VIAS
Funded by: FWF - Austrian Science Fund
• "The early Hungarian warrior grave from Gnadendorf, Lower Austria" (more...)
Head: Univ. Dr. Doz. Falko Daim, Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz, Dr. med. Ernst Lauermann, Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum
scientific work: Mag. Mathias Mehofer, VIAS
Funded by: Land Niederösterreich, Kultur und Wissenschaft
Literature: Mehofer, Mathias, Metallurgische Untersuchungen, Falko Daim - Ernst Lauermann (Hg.), Das frühungarische Kriegergrab aus Gnadendorf, Niederösterreich (Monographie des RGZM), publication in print.
Mehofer, Mathias, Greiff, Susanne, Archäologische Untersuchungen und Metallgegenständen aus dem ungarischen Reitergrab von Gnadendorf, in: Falko Daim - Ernst Lauermann (Hg.), Das fru¨tungarische Kriegergrab aus Gnadendorf, Niederösterreich (Monographien des RGZM), publication in print.
• "Archaeometallurgical analysis of the Holy Lance of the Treasury of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien" (more...)
Head: Dir. HR Dr. Helmut Trnek and Dr. Franz Kirchweger Weltliche und Geistliche Schatzkammer - Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
Literature: Mehofer, Mathias, Verena Leusch, Birgit Bühler, Die Schmiedetechnik der "Heiligen Lanze", in: Franz Kirchweger(Hg.), Die Heilige Lanze in Wien; Schriften des Kunsthistorischen Museums 9, Wilfried Seipel (Hg.), Wien - Mailand, 2005.
• "Metallographic investigations on medieval defensive and offefnsive weapons"
Head: Univ. Prof. Dr. Arik Szameit, Institute for Prehistoric and Historic Archaeology, University of Vienna
Funded by: ÖNB (Anniversary Fund of the Austrian National Bank)
Literature: Mehofer, Mathias, Szameit, Erik, Technologische Untersuchungen an Waffen des Frühmittelalters aus Oberösterreich. Jahrbuch des Oberösterreichischen Musealvereines. Band 147/1, 127 - 169, Linz 2002.
• "Research approaches to economic bases and social structures of the La Tène population of the Traisental, Lower Austria"
Head: J.-W. Neugebauer, Federal Monuments Office Vienna
Funded by: FWF - Austrian Science Fund
Literature: Ramsl, Peter, Das eisenzeitliche Gräberfeld von Pottenbrunn: Forschungsansätze zu wirtschaftlichen Grundlagen und sozialen Strukturen der latènezeitlichen Bevölkerung des Traisentales, Niederösterreich / Mit Beitr. von J. Peter Northover und Hannes Herdits, Fundberichte aus Österreich: Materialhefte: Reihe A; 11, Horn 2002.
• "The treasure trove of Fuchsenhof"
Head: HR Dir. Günther Dimt, Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum Linz
Funded by: FWF - Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research, ÖNB (Anniversary Fund of the Austrian National Bank), Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum
Literature: Prokisch, Bernhard [Hrsg.], Der Schatzfund von Fuchsenhof, Studien zur Kulturgeschichte von Oberösterreich 15, Weitra 2004.
• "Prehistoric blacksmith's graves in Central Europe"(more...)
Head: Univ. Dr. Doz. Falko Daim, Institute for Prehistorc and Historic Archaeology, University of Vienna
Cooperation partners: Natural History Museum - Prehistoric Department (Dir Dr. Anton Kern), Museum Brno (Director PhDr Petr Šuléř), Móra Ferenc, Múzeum Szeged (Head of Department: Mag. Gábor Lörinczi)
Literature: Mehofer, Mathias, Die langobardischen Schmiedegräber von Poysdorf und Brünn- Ein archäometallurgischer Zwischenbericht, Soester Beiträge zur Archäologie 5, Soest 2004, 17 - 24.
• "The Avar Cemetery and the settlement of Zillingtal, Burgenland. Discussion: Studies on Material and Results"
Head: Dr. Falko Daim, Institute of Archeology Vienna
Funded by: FWF - Austrian Science Fund
Literature: Mehofer, Mathias, Archäometallurgische Studien zur Eisenverarbeitung in der awarischen Siedlung Zillingtal / Burgenland, Dipl. - Arb. Wien 2004. (Publication in preparation)
• "Archaeometallurgical investigations on a riveted dagger from Wilfersdorf"
Head: Dr. des. Mathias Mehofer