Early Career Achievement Prize of the Oscar Montelius Foundation has been awarded to Constanze Schattke!

On August 31, 2022, VDSEE member and doctoral candidate Constanze Schattke received the Early Career Achievement Prize of the Oscar Montelius Foundation during the opening ceremony of the 28th annual meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists in Budapest.

Constanze Schattke is an anthropologist and bioarchaeologist and conducts research in the Anthropological Department of the Natural History Museum Vienna (NHM Vienna) on the origin of human remains, for example in the course of the project Koloniale Kontexte (KolTex), funded by the Austrian Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, Öffentlicher Dienst und Sport. Since 2021, Constanze is a PhD candidate in the Vienna Doctoral School of Ecology and Evolution. Her interdisciplinary dissertation focuses on structural, epistemic, and interpersonal contexts of violence found in osteological museum collections at the NHM Vienna, Department of Anthropology. Here she is combining bioarchaeological and forensic methods with historical approaches to create a comprehensive picture of collections with diverse provenance. She has worked together closely with source communities from New Zealand and Tierra del Fuego, Chile. One of her main objectives is to help strengthen Indigenous’ identities through the careful study and analysis of ancestral human remains. Her project is being supervised by Sabine Eggers (NHM Vienna) and Harald Wilfing (University of Vienna).

For her excellent early career work, Constanze Schattke was awarded the Early Career Achievement Prize of the Oscar Montelius Foundation in 2022 by the European Association of Archaeologists, with Elin Dalen giving the laudation.