Hungarian National Museum

Head of Department, National Heritage Protection Centre

head of the department

About

Attila Kreiter
Hungarian National Museum
National Heritage Protection Centre
Laboratory for Conservation and Applied Research
H-1113 Budapest
Daróci út 3.
kreiter.attila@mnm-nok.gov.hu
www.mnm-nok.gov.hu

Attila Kreiter is head of laboratory and ceramic specialist. Ha has been taking part in the Százhalombatta Archaeological Expedition and in the Benta Valley projects in Hungary. Currently he takes part in an Iron Age ceramic technological analysis project and he has recently directed the 'Understanding the relationship between Neolithic communities through ceramic analysis in Hungary' project. He focuses on the utilization of interdisciplinary analysis in archaeological interpretation and the combination of interdisciplinary research with archaeological theory. His Bronze Age work is summarized in Technological choices and material meanings in Early and Middle Bronze Age Hungary: understanding the active role of material culture through ceramic analysis (2007, BAR International Series 1604. Oxford: Archaeopress).