Sabina Cveček, PhD
Visiting Scholar, Field Museum
Anthropology, Archaeology
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My interdisciplinary research explores the socio-political organization of non-state societies in eastern Mediterranean prehistory from socio-cultural anthropological perspectives. Based on a qualitative, controlled comparison of archaeological and ethnographic material, I aim at uncovering shared patterns and drawing new insights into prehistoric social organization. My research interests comprise household and socio-political organization, kinship, gender, and cross-cultural perspectives. I am the author of Çukuriçi Höyük 4: Household Economics in the Early Bronze Age Aegean (2022).
I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at the Field Museum of Natural History and the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2023–2026). I hold PhD in socio-cutlural anthropology from the University of Vienna, Austria (2021). Previously, I was a junior researcher at the University of Vienna (2016–2020), visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, Germany (2019), and an IFK_Junior Fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna (2020/21).
Selected Grants
2023 - European Commission, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship, X-KIN: Exploring patterns of prehistoric kinship from socio-cultural anthropological perspectives, PI
2023 - Gerda Henkel Foundation, So close, yet so far: Contextualizing non-biological relations in Anatolian and Balkan Neolithic from socio-cultural anthropological perspectives, PI
2020 - Austrian Academy of Sciences, Post-DocTrack Fellowship, Households at the dawn of the Bronze Age: Anthropological contextualizations of local social organization within the Aegean basin, PI
2016 - Austrian Academy of Sciences, DOC-team Fellowship, The Role of Households at the Dawn of the Bronze Age: Contextualizing Social Organization, PI
Selected Publications
Books
Cveček, Sabina
2022 Çukuriçi Höyük 4: Household economics in the Early Bronze Age Aegean, Oriental and European Archaeology 25, Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. https://doi.org/10.1553/978OEAW87332
Refereed Journal Articles
Cveček, Sabina
2023 No Place Like Home for Metalworkers: Household-based Metal Production at Early Bronze Age Çukuriçi Höyük and Beyond, History and Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2023.2248169
Cveček, Sabina and Christoph Schwall
2022 Ghost Children: Delayed Personhood and Culture-Specific Models of Infancy in Western Anatolia, Praehistorische Zeitschrift 97(2), 544–570. https://doi.org/10.1515/pz2022-2044
Cveček, Sabina
2020 Throwing their Weights around? Anthropological Perspectives on Commodity and Gift Exchange at the Dawn of the Early Bronze Age in Western Anatolia, Ägypten und Levante/Egypt and the Levant 30, 283–300. http://doi.org/10.1553/AEundL30s283
Book Chapters
Cveček, Sabina and Barbara Horejs
2021 A View from Çukuriçi: Multiple, Co-Existing Models of Socio-Political Organization in Early Bronze Age Western Anatolia. In: Akkaş, I.; Karakoç, M. (Eds.), Anadolu’da Ethnoarkeoloji Araştırmaları: Prehistorik Dönem’den Günümüze Kadar. Ethnoarchaeological Studies in Anatolia: From the Prehistoric Period to the Present; Istanbul: Duruk Publishing, 466–496.
Conference Proceedings
Cveček, Sabina and Stephanie Emra
2021 Rhythms of Seasonal ‘Taskscapes’ at Early Bronze Age Çukuriçi Höyük, In: Rom, I.; Turner, D.; Filioglou, D.; Slim, F.; Beld, Y. van den (Eds.), Breaking Boundaries: Connecting the Aegean Bronze Age: Proceedings of the 3rd Scapecon Conference, TMA Supplement 2. The Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie (Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology), 42–49.
Professional Leadership
Co-Chair (2023-2026), Archaeology and Gender in Europe (AGE) network of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA)
Notable Honors
2022, Elected Fellow, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
2021, Best PhD Thesis, University of Vienna, Vienna School of Social Sciences
Education
Ph.D. Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria, 2021. Thesis Title: Households at the dawn of the Bronze Age: Anthropological contextualizations of local social organization within the Aegean basin. Adviser: Prof. Dr. Andre Gingrich.
M.A. Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria, 2015.
B.A. Department for Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2012.
Professional Memberships
Since
2023 SAA – Society for American Archaeology, Member
2023 AIA – American Institute of Archaeology, Member
2022 RAI – Royal Anthropological Institute, Elected Fellow
2021 AAA – American Association of Anthropologists, Member
2021 EAA – European Association of Archaeologists, Member
2020 SIEF – International Society for Ethnology and Folklore, Member
2016 EASA – European Association of Social Anthropologists, Member
Selected Presentations
2023 X-KIN: Exploring Patterns of Prehistoric Kinship from Socio-Cultural Anthropological Perspectives, American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting 2023, November 15–19, Toronto, Canada.
2023 Kinship from Cross-Cultural Perspectives: A Mixed Methods Approach to the Seemingly Quantitative Issue, European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) Annual Meeting 2023, August 30–September 2, Belfast, United Kingdom.
2023 Matrilineal/Patrilineal: Diversities within a Single Kinship Model, Kiel Conference 2023 – Scales of Social, Environmental and cultural Change in Past Societies, March 13–18, Kiel, Germany.
2022 Egalitarian, Hierarchical, or Heterarchical Society? Competition and Sharing at the Dawn of the Bronze Age in Western Anatolia, European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Annual Meeting 2022, July 26–29, Belfast, United Kingdom.
2022 Kinship and Relatedness in Socio-Cultural Anthropology: Yesterday and Today, WAC-9: World Archaeology Congress, July 3–8, Prague, Czech Republic.
2021 Tiny world and Neolithic society: New insight from the house model of Platia Magoula Zarkou/Western Thessaly, Greece, (with Eva Alram-Stern), European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) 2021, September 6 –11, Kiel, Germany (virtual).
2021 Mr. or Mrs. Smith? Metalworking as Gendered Craft in (pre)History?, SIEF 2021: International Society for Ethnology and Folklore, June 19–24, Helsinki, Finland, (virtual).
2021 Ghost Children: Fluid Identities of Children in Prehistoric western Anatolia (with Christoph Schwall), Theoretical Archaeology Group, TAG-Turkey III, May 6–9, Ankara, Turkey (virtual).
2020 Negotiation and Interaction in EBA Çukuriçi Höyük: Differing Solutions to Competing ‘Scapes' with the Beginning of Rising Inequality (with Stephanie Emra), Scapecon 2020. No (E)Scape? Relational Archaeology in the Aegean Bronze Age, September 22, 29, and October 6, Groningen, Netherlands (virtual).
2020 Toxic Households: Arsenical Copper Production at the Centre of the House, Royal Anthropological Institute, Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future, September 14–18, London, United Kingdom (virtual).
2018 Social Dynamics at the Dawn of the Bronze Age: Archaeo-anthropological Insights from Western Anatolia (with Maria Röcklinger), VANDA: Vienna Anthropology Days, September 19–21, Vienna, Austria..
2017 Two EBA Trade Models between Anatolia and Aegean in late Early and Middle Bronze Age: Some Analyses of Finds through Cross-Cultural Comparison, Graduate Archaeology at Oxford, March 10–11, Oxford, United Kingdom.