Univ.-Prof. Timothy Taylor, MA PhD FSA FRSA

Univ.-Prof. Timothy Taylor, MA PhD FSA FRSA
Universität Wien
Institut für Urgeschichte und Historische Archäologie
Franz-Klein-Gasse 1
A-1190 Wien

Tel.: 0043-1-4277-40470
Mobil: 0043-664-60277-40470
E-Mail: timothy.taylor@univie.ac.at

• Timothy Taylor im Personalverzeichnis der Universität Wien 
• Lehrveranstaltungen im laufenden Semester
• Lebenslauf
• Publikationen

 Aktueller Fokus

• Within Austria: Sociocultural dynamics of the 5th and 4th millennium BC with a special focus on a) the "Kreisgrabenanlagen"-phenomenon and b) the "Pfahlbau"-phenomenon.
• Current fieldwork outside of Austria: Iron Age Scythian cultural phenomena in Eastern Ukraine, with a focus on the “superoppidum”-site of Belsk.
• Another project for 2013–2015 is the production (as part of an international team of four co-authors) of a new major introductory textbook for students of archaeology.
• In addition, I am working on the sequel to The Artificial Ape.

Schwerpunkte und Interessen

• archaeological history and theory, including materiality theory
• gender and identity studies
• the origins of visceral and death-related behaviours
• prehistoric Eurasian aesthetics and symbolism
• world prehistory
• later prehistory of Eurasia with special reference to Eastern Europe and the steppes

 Ausgewählte Funktion

• Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science (VIAS), Director.
• Journal of World Prehistory, Editor-in-Chief.
• The ‘Invisible Dead’ and the Development of Early Human Beliefs about the Body, Advisory board member.
• Tom Austen Brown Book Series (Sydney University Press), Advisory board member.
• Anthropologische Gesellschaft in Wien, Ausschussrat.
• Krahuletz-Gesellschaft Eggenburg, Ausschussmitglied.
• Österreichische Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Ausschussmitglied.