Abstract
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, knowledge and partnership in multidisciplinary research programmes and projects. VIAS functions as a core facility and is conducting research in the fields of archaeobotany, archaeozoology, bioarchaeology, archaeometry and archaeometallurgy, analysis of precious metals, ceramology, geophysical archaeological prospection on land and underwater, geoarchaeology, digital archaeological documentation methods, and experimental archaeology. VIAS reaches out beyond the university by developing and collaborating in projects together with the Austrian Academy of Sciences and regional museums and cultural heritage administrations as well as many international partners. VIAS has substantially contributed to the development of efficient high-resolution prospection methods as a founding partner in the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology.
Highlights
The Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science (VIAS) was founded in 1992, when the University of Vienna took the initiative for the first time in Austria to establish an „Interdisciplinary Institution for Archaeology” within the Faculty of Humanities
The management of VIAS was initially headed by the classical archaeologist Fritz Krinzinger, in 1999, the medieval archaeologist Falko Daim took over the leadership until 2004 and pushed forward many new research impulses
IANSA 2021 ● XII/1 ● 91–103 Irmgard Hein, Birgit Bühler, Maria Ivanova-Bieg, Günther-Karl Kunst, Mathias Mehofer, Gabriele Scharrer-Liska, Wolfgang Lobisser, Wolfgang Neubauer, Immo Trinks: VIAS – the Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science disciplines to VIAS
Summary
VIAS’ fields of research cover archaeobotany, archaeozoology, bioarchaeology, archaeometry and archaeometallurgy, analysis of precious metals, ceramology, digital archaeological documentation methods, geophysical archaeological prospection on land and underwater, geoarchaeology, and experimental archaeology. This wide-ranging combination of natural science-oriented subjects together with technically-oriented disciplines in association with a research institute for archaeology forms a dynamic basis for answering a wide range of archaeological questions. In the course of its research projects, various current issues and developments in archaeology form focal points, often in cooperation with regional museums and local authorities, which find solutions in the field of cultural heritage management.
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