Term

The Burial Mounds of Central Tibet, II
01.10.2017-30.09.2021
financed by the FWF (FWF Project P 30393)

The Burial Mounds of Central Tibet
1.1.2013-31.10.2016
financed by the FWF (FWF Project P 25066-G19)

Project Team

The project was based at the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia (IKGA) and the Institute for Social Anthropology (ISA) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and carried out in cooperation with the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology (LBT ArchPro, i.e. national cooperation partner). The team of Burial Mound II is significantly enlarged by three experts and includes altogether seven researchers (incl. the project leader) plus one technical expert for Information and data processing:

• Univ-Doz. Dr. Guntram Hazod (IKGA): project leader
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• Dr. Hubert Feiglstorfer (ISA): architectural study, material study
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• BA Jürgen Schörflinger (ISA): maintenance and development of the project website and especially the tumuli- and toponym databases, documentation work
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• MA Martin Gamon (LBI ArchPro): recording of prospective-archaeological data
• Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Georg Zotti (LBI ArchPro): archaeo-astronomical contributions
• Dr.phil. Joanna Bialek (HU Berlin): studies of old Tibetan documents
• Dr. Shawo Khacham (Tibet University, Lhasa): archaeologist

Further collaborations

• Prof. Per Sørensen, MA Hou Haoran (Institute of Indology and Central Asian Studies, Leipzig University): textual studies
• Dr. Cecilia Dal Zovo (Spanish National Research Council): landscape archaeologist with the focus on Bronze Age mounds of early Mongolia