Rajna Sosic KlindzicUniversity of Zagreb · Department of Archaeology
Rajna Sosic Klindzic
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We studied the use of archaeological scholarly knowledge for supporting and promoting national identity by global non-professional communities. The data collection consisted of asynchronous online text-based Facebook focus group discussions in Croatia, Cyprus, Finland, Greece, Lithuania, and Spain. After, we conducted a qualitative content analysis...
Methodology and Archaeometry (MetArh) is an annual scientific conference organized since 2013 by the Department of Archaeology of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb, and the Croatian Archaeological Society. The goal of the conference is to entice interdisciplinarity, critical thinking, new insights and approac...
By combining several methods that include the use of predictive modeling in GIS, remote interpretation and field survey, several
settlement structures from the late Neolithic of circular and oval layout and one rectangular layout belonging to the late Middle Ages were discovered south of Bračevci at the Bašćina site. This is one of the first known...
• Several Neolithic Sopot culture enclosure sites were identified.
• Conclusions regarding spatial and temporal settlement dynamics were made based on the data.
Methodology and Archaeometry (MetArh) is an annual scientific conference organized since 2013 by the Department of Archaeology of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb, and the Croatian Archaeological Society. The goal of the conference is to entice interdisciplinarity, critical thinking, new insights and approac...
Between 2014 and 2019 several geophysical prospection campaigns on archaeological sites in Northern and Eastern Croatia were realised. Survey layout, data and interpretation from the Hallstatt site of Jalžabet (Varaždin), from the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age site of Dolina (Nova Gradiška), and from several prehistoric and Roman sites in Slavonia a...
The process of archaeological inference begins prior to the beginning of interpretation or even the actual discovery of a particular object. Certain objects, materials, or groups of finds raise more intense interest among researchers and general public alike. Object made of precious materials and minerals are particularly attractive, especially if...
Archeological excavations and field survey of Neolithic sites during the last 100 years have formed a certain framework within which we developed an interpretation of Neolithic life in this area. Even though researchers have stressed the importance of sites, region, or period in their publications, most of the results revealed very modest remains o...
The paper presents the results of archaeological research at eight sites of Sopot culture in the area north of the town of Đakovo. The sites are
in various stages of investigation – from aerial remote sensing and reconnaissance, to archaeological excavation and the application of the
magnetic survey. It has been established through recent research...
The field of archeology with its traditional and digital environment presents a complex field that is not only influenced by the advancement of technology but also dependent on the cultural context. Although technology made a huge difference with the time needed for excavations and data gathering it has created a whole array of the new challenges....
U radu se prikazuju rezultati arheoloških istraživanja na osam nalazišta sopotske kulture na području sjeverno od Đakovštine. Nalazišta su u raznim stupnjevima istraženosti – od zračne daljinske prospekcije i rekognosciranja, do arheološkoga iskopavanja te primjene magnetometrijske metode. Istraživanjima se ustanovilo kako su nalazišta sopotske kul...
The Adriatic Sea and Balkan Peninsula were an important corridor for the spread of agriculture northwards and westwards from the Near East into Europe. Therefore, the pace and nature of the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition along the Adriatic coastline has important implications for the movement of new peoples and/or ideas during one of the most even...
Barice-Gređani group was first defined on a basis of cemetery finds from cemetery Barice near Gornja Orahovica and it was long known in literature as a group of Barice-Gređani type cemeteries. That was supported by a number of excavated and published cemeteries and lack of settlement research in Slavonian and Bosnian Posavina was present at that ti...
The paper reports on the activities and preliminary results of archaeological research of Middle Palaeolithic sites in Dalmatia and geological research consisting of drilling at potential sites. The activities were carried out within the framework of the second and third years of the research project Late Mousterian in the Eastern Adriatic - toward...
This chapter presents some new data on, and interpretations of the Croatian Middle and Early Upper Paleolithic. Alternative interpretations of the Middle/Upper Paleolithic interface in Vindija cave (situated in the Zagorje region of northwestern Croatia) are reported, together with preliminary results of research on the early Upper Paleolithic site...
Pojmovnik kamenoga doba rezultat je rada na projektu Od stijene do riječi – izgradnja hrvatskog strukovnog nazivlja za kameno doba koji je financirala hrvatska zaklada za znanost, a nositelj je bio Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu. Pojmovnik je namijenjen stručnjacima i studentima, ali i široj zainteresiranoj javnosti. Pojmovnik uz ustalje...
Lithic technology of Mujina pećina
Članak donosi izvještaj prve godine istraživanja na projektu Kasni musterijen na istočnom Jadranu – temelj za razumijevanje identiteta kasnih neandertalaca i njihovog nestanka koji financira Hrvatska zaklada za znanost. Provedena su probna iskopavanja Matetine pećine kod Kaštela, rekognosciranja zaleđa Kaštela, a nastavljena su ranije započeta istr...
This article presents the results of analysis of finds from the
Epigravettian stratigraphic units of Šandalja II at Pula. Technology,
tool typology, the petrographic composition of samples and the
origin of the raw materials are analyzed based on the lithics. Bone artifacts are also typologically classified. Differences between
the typology of tool...
This paper analyses the production processes of chipped stone artefacts from ten Starčevo culture sites in the area between the rivers Sava, Drava and Danube. The aim was to compare the results of assemblages analysis from individual settlements to reconstruct the existence and extent of relationships between settlements and their inhabitants. The...
The paper presents the results of the lithic analysis of chipped stone artefacts from a Starčevo culture site at Zadubravlje. Blanks for tool production (flakes, blades and bladelets) were produced at the site itself, mostly on the surface, although pit 19 probably functioned as a working area. It was established that the blades were produced by in...
This paper will give a short overview on the problems concerning terminology of siliceous rocks in archaeological context in Croatian language. Short history of the use of specific terms will be presented, as well as some discrepancies in use of certain terms in archaeological and geological context.
Mujina Pećina in Dalmatia, Croatia is the only systematically excavated and well-dated Middle Paleolithic cave site in the eastern Adriatic. Its stratigraphie sequence covers the period between 45 and 39 uncalibrated years ka. Results of sedimentological, lithic, faunal, and paleobotanical analyses of the upper levels (Levels B, C, D1, and D2) show...
This article contains the results of typological, technological and petrographic analysis of lithics gathered during research conducted from 1995 to 2000 and an overview of chert deposits in the nearer and farther vicinity of the cave called Mujina Pećina at Kaštela. All lithics found in the layers of Mujina Pecina belong to the Mousterian material...
This article contains the results of typological, technological and petrographic analysis of lithics gathered during research conducted from 1995 to 2000 and an overview of chert deposits in the nearer and farther vicinity of the cave called Mujina Pećina at Kaštela. All lithics found in the layers of Mujina Pećina belong to the Mousterian material...
This paper presents the research history of the Middle Paleolithic cave sites in Croatia traced on the basis of investigations
of three sites: Krapina, Vindija (both in northwestern Croatia) and Mujina Pećina (southern Croatia). The first Middle Paleolithic
site to be discovered was Krapina. It was excavated by Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger. His e...
This paper presents the preliminary results of examination of the Pavlova pećina site in the Hrvatsko zagorje region. At the site, numerous archeological and animal remains were found in a very small surface, dating from prehistory, Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The most interesting finds include a Roman lamp dated to the end of the firs...
This paper will give a short overview on the problems concerning terminology of siliceous rocks in archaeological context in Croatian language. Short history of the use of specific terms will be presented, as well as some discrepancies in use of certain terms in archaeological and geological context. Kivonat A cikk rövid összefoglalást ad a régésze...
SUMMARY TECHNOLOGICAL AND TYPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CHIPPED STONE ARTIFACTS FROM THE PREHISTORIC SITE OF SLAV^A, NOVA GRADI[KA The site of Slav~a is situated on the south flanks of Psunj Mountain, in the town of Nova Gradi{ ka, Western Slavonia. The site has been continuosly excavated since 1997 by the City Museum of Nova Gradi{ka. A total number...
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The main goal of the project is to understand the social dynamic in the late Neolithic Slavonia through computational simulations and the development of social and cultural relations and change models which will be built using data collected by field and laboratory research within the project, as well as the results of the previously conducted research. The existing framework of archaeological interpretations relies on theoretical models and concepts developed by other social and humanistic disciplines, formed during the first half of the 20th century and as such proved inadequate for a comprehensive understanding of social dynamics in the past. Paradigmatic changes in the 21st century archeology require new theories and explanatory models for the interpretation of life in the past. As part of the project, agent-based modelling (ABM) will be used, because it produces results that reflect stochastic complexity, similar to the history of human activities, thus exceeding the traditional limitations of interpretation and analysis of the past. This project will involve experts from 4 scientific fields: archaeology, geology, biology and sociology. Each of the team members is an expert in specific research issues and analysis of specific data sets: analysis of material culture, spatial data analysis, data science, agent-based modelling, social dynamics, field research and remote sensing, geological and geo-archaeological analysis, and analysis of fauna and plant residues. Large and heterogeneous data sets collected during the project will be analysed and modeled by computational methods through new ways of conceptualization, scale and resolution in social complexity and change research. Through the application of ABM, mutual relations of different variables in a spatial environment populated by agents that mimic social behavior will be investigated in order to build models of possible causes and reasons of social dynamics and social change in the Neolithic Slavonia.
