PhD
Constanze Schattke
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Debates
about the colonial acquisition context and the restitution of objects from mainly ethnographic collections are currently being
debated in both the public and science. The questions of what colonial acquisition contexts are, and how objects were acquired
do also concern collections in natural history museums like the NHM Vienna.
PhD
Located at the Vienna Doctoral School of Ecology and Evolution, VDSEE.
Supervisors: Prof. Harald Wilfing (Universität Wien), Prof.
Sabine Eggers (NHM Wien)
Education:
2025: PhD
about violence in the acquisition contexts of osteological museum collections (Vienna Doctoral School of Ecology and Evolution,
VDSEE)
2021:
Evolutionary Anthropology (Master of Science), University of Vienna, Austria. Graduation with Honours.
Miscellaneous
2023: Research stay Laboratory of Forensic Anthropology LFA, University of Coimbra, Portugal
2022: Early Career Achievement Award of the European Association of Archaeologists EAA
2019: Durham Paleopathology Summer School
Since 2018: various project collaborations on repatriation and provenance
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Constanze-Schattke
Selection:
Schattke, C., Eggers, S., Wilfing, H. (2025). Using Content and Bibliometric Network Analysis to Understand the Development and Study of "Violence" in Bioarchaeology. Bioarchaeology International, early view. https://doi.org/10.5744/bi.2024.0010
Olivares, F., Schattke, C., Molina, H., Berner, M., & Eggers, S. (2023). Re-telling the story of Selk’nam ancestors: From Karokynká/Tierra del Fuego to Austria. Human Remains and Violence, 9(1), 49–69. https://doi.org/10.7227/HRV.9.1.4
Schattke, C., Olivares, F., Molina, H., Menéndez, L., & Eggers, S. (2023). Osteobiographical re-individualisation of the Selk’nam human remains at the Natural History Museum Vienna. Human Remains and Violence, 9(1), 28–48. https://doi.org/10.7227/HRV.9.1.3
Lazaridis, I., Alpaslan-Roodenberg, S., Acar, A., Aç, A., Andreeva, D., Andrija, G., Badalyan, R., Bakardzhiev, S., Balen, J., Bejko, L., Bernardos, R., Bertsatos, A., Biber, H., Bilir, A., Bodru, M., Callan, K., Candilio, F., Cari, M., Ciobanu, I., …
Çavusog, R. (2022). A genetic probe into the ancient and medieval history of Southern Europe and West Asia. Science, 377, 940–951.
Eggers, S., Herewini, T. H., Mamaku, T. A., Schattke, C., Buttinger, K., Eggers Gorab, M., & Berner, M. (2021). Māori and Moriori Human Reamins in the Natural History Museum Vienna. Exhumed, Shipped, Traded and Inventoried. In P. Schölnberger (Ed.), Das Museum im kolonialen Kontext (pp. 281–303). Czernin.
Fernandes, D. M., Sirak, K. A., Ringbauer, H., Sedig, J., Rohland, N., Cheronet, O., Mah, M., Mallick, S., Olalde, I., Culleton, B. J., Adamski, N., Bernardos, R., Bravo, G., Broomandkhoshbacht, N., Callan, K., Candilio, F., Demetz, L., Carlson, K. S. D., Eccles, L., … Reich, D. (2021). A genetic history of the pre-contact Caribbean. Nature, 590(7844), 103–110. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-03053-2
- Forensic Anthropology
- Paleopathology
- Provenance Research
- History of Anthropological Sciences
- Human Rights
