Communities of the dead
Societies of the living
Late Bronze Age of Eastern Slovenia
On a relatively small and in appearance geographically homogeneous territory of north-eastern Slovenia, were excavated numerous settlements, cemeteries and hoards demonstrating in the same period different material culture and different practices of ritual manipulation of items. Today are in the regional (Slovenian, Croatian, Austrian, Hungarian…) archaeological literature definitions of burial rites in the Urnfield Culture quite inaccurate and generalizing – similar as the descriptions of depositions of items in hoards.
Modern studies of Late Bronze Age brings forward the great variability of relations to items and the variability of manipulations with material culture. Consequently, will the project address questions why was in the Late Bronze Age of north-eastern Slovenia documented so much variability in material culture, the organization of landscape/space use and in the structural compositions of hoards.
The project will focus on:
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analyzes of cemeteries and manipulations with the ancestors and material culture in the graves,
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spatial organization of settlements and manipulations with the material culture within buildings and sites,
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analyses of material culture illustrating long-distance trade and mobility of individuals between societies, a question of continuity and abandonment of settlement complexes and burials on cemeteries,
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questions regarding the adequacy of suggested and enforced cultural periodization and absolute chronologies.
01. 10. 2018 – 30. 09. 2021
Tin isotope characterization
of bronze artefacts in Slovenia
ARRS
Bilateral Co-operation Slovenia – United States of America
Project partner:
The City University of New York
Brooklyn College
01. 01. 2019 – 31. 12. 2021
A troubled relation
ARRS
Bilateral Co-operation Slovenia – Bosnia and Hercegovina
Project partner:
University of Banja Luka
Faculty of Philosophy
01. 10. 2019 – 30. 09. 2022
Social elites in the Late Bronze Age
ARRS
Bilateral Co-operation Slovenia – United States of America
Project partner:
The City University of New York
Brooklyn College
01. 10. 2019 – 30. 09. 2022
Difference in unity:
Material world of the
Late Bronze Age
ARRS
Bilateral Co-operation Slovenia – Croatia
Project partner:
The Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb
15. 12. 2019 – 30. 04. 2022
Ad hoc
Erasmus+ KA203 action – Strategic Partnership for higher education
Project partners:
Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, North Macedonia
University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia
University of Rome “Tor Vergata” Italy
NGO Artifactory, Athens, Greece
01. 01. 2021 – 31. 12. 2022
A modern vision of our ancient past:
collaboration between research and presentation of Archaeological heritage
ARRS
Bilateral Co-operation Slovenia – Montenegro
Project partner:
University of Donja Gorica
Faculty of Arts
03. 2021
Skoraj vsa arheologija Zavrča
Exhibition in cooperation: University of Primorska, Municipality of Zavrč
Zavrč, Slovenia
10. 05. 2021
Egejski poslanci in njihovi darovi faraonu: korak k zgodovinski ikonografiji
Gostujoče predavanje dr. Uroš Matić
Österreichische Archäologische Institut, Wien
Koper, Slovenia