Skull and Headgear from the Bronze Age

3D Model

3D scan of a skull from the Franzhausen Cemetery in Lower Austria, from the Early Bronze Age, ca. 2,000 BC. The grave of a rich woman was equipped with numerous bronze grave goods. The green colour of the skull indicates the bronze objects that were buried with the woman in the area around the head. The headgear comes from Hafnerbach (Traisen Valley, Lower Austria) and was donated to the NHM Vienna by the town Hafnerbach on the occasion of the reopening of the Prehistoric Exhibition in September 2015.

This skull and the headgear are number 32 of the NHM Top 100 can be found in Hall 11.

Specimen: Skull from Franzhausen Cemetery, Grave 785

Inventory number: Skull: NHMW-Anthro-OSTE-24144, Headgear: NHMW-Prae-130000

Collection: NHMW, Prehistory Dept., Bronze Age Coll. (contact: Karina Grömer)

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Scanned by I. Huller, D. Oberndorfer, V. Winkler & A. Haider (NHMW)

Scanner: Artec Space Spider. Infrastructure funded by the FFG.