Saša Čaval

Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts | ZRC SAZU · Institute of Anthropological and Spatial Studies

This chapter examines a gender dimension within the healthcare for labor migration in Mauritius and, to some extent, Réunion. The archaeological research conducted in the last decade shows how public health management developed during the slavery and indenture periods of European colonialism in the Indian Ocean World, often in relation to emerging...

The Bois Marchand Cemetery in Mauritius was established in 1867 in response to the massive death toll exerted by a disastrous malaria epidemic that swept the island between 1866 and 1868. As all the aspects of Mauritian society are represented in the cemetery’s necrogeography, the still-active burial ground offers an ideal setting to examine life a...

This article presents an integrated approach used in archaeology and heritage studies to examine health and disease management during the colonial period in the Indian Ocean. Long-distance labor migrations had dire health consequences to both immigrants and host populations. Focusing on the quarantine station on Flat Island, Mauritius, this study a...

Stećci are medieval tombstones. Scattered across the landscapes of the Western Balkans in their thousands, they amalgamate the historical, cultural and religious components of medieval societies in the region, and are expressions of identity, social systems, politics and religious belief. Through these monuments, a diverse spectrum of identities wa...

Slavery, colonialism and emancipation are important aspects of archaeological research in the Atlantic region, but the lifeways of colonial populations remain understudied in the Indian Ocean World. Here, we help to redress this imbalance by undertaking stable isotope analysis (C, N and O) on human remains from Mauritius, a location which played an...

Župnijska cerkev sv. Lenarta v Volčah ima zelo zanimivo in mistično zgodovino, kot je razvidno iz prispevkov v publikaciji, ki je pred vami. Predstavila bom še en znanstveni podatek o tej volčanski cerkvi, ki se na prvi pogled ne zdi zelo pomemben, a skriva v sebi informacije o pomembnih političnih in verskih zadevah v preteklosti, o vgradnji pomen...

Arheologi ponavadi pridobivamo informacije in podajamo interpretacije iz tal, a ker so del našega sveta tudi sonce, luna, zvezde in nenazadnje celotno vesolje, se moramo ozreti tudi v nebo. Nebo, nebesna telesa, ciklično gibanje zvezd in planetov so že od nekdaj žgečkali domišljijo prednamcev. In našo tudi! Svetloba je imela velik pomen v preteklos...

The astronomical cycles and occurrences of the Sun, Moon, planets and certain star constellations were well known to prehistoric, Roman and medieval communities. Archaeoastronomy studies how ancient societies incorporated this knowledge into various aspects of past cultures. The discipline draws on modern astronomy, geodesy, physics, statistics, an...

In 2009, part of a ‘slave shackle’ was recovered from archaeological investigations at Trianon, an indentured labourer site on Mauritius dated from the beginning of the nineteenth century. This paper presents the results of a metallurgical assessment of the artefact, thought to represent colonial ironwork, a category that has hitherto remained unde...

Arheologija v letu 2016 – dediščina za javnost Stečki so srednjeveški kamniti nagrobni spomeni-ki, razpršeni po pokrajinah Srbije, Hrvaške, Črne gore, Kosova in najštevilčnejši na ozemlju Bosne in Hercegovine (BiH). Predstavljajo obsežno in neiz-koriščeno zbirko (arheoloških) podatkov, ki pričajo o družbeni dinamiki med 12. in 16. stoletjem v tem d...

Course Syllabus, Winter Quartes 2015 and 2016, Stanford Archaeology Center, Stanford University

A course syllabus, Spring Quarter 2016, Stanford Archaeology Center, Stanford University

Cultural Astronomy investigates social aspects of astronomical knowledge and its manifestations in an economy, religion, and politics. By attempting to explain the dependence of the cosmological and other astronomically-derived concepts on the natural and cultural context, Cultural Astronomy offers a significant contribution to our understanding of...

This is the test data for the project on stećci.

The high number of churches built during the Romanesque period in Slovenia provides a unique dataset from which to study church orientation using archaeoastronomical methods. An innovative methodology revealed a specific pattern of motivation for church alignment, ultimately revealing a greater depth of thought, process, and intentionality than has...

This article reports on the first genetic assessment of the contemporary Mauritian population. Small island nodes such as Mauritius played a critical role in historic globalization processes and revealing high-resolution details of labour sourcing is crucial in order to better understand early-modern diaspora events. Mauritius is a particularly int...

Algunas de las lagunas más grandes en el mapa arqueológico del área maya se extendían, hace apenas dos décadas, en las partes centrales de la península de Yucatán, particularmente en el sureste del estado mexicano de Campeche. Durante los trabajos de reconocimiento arqueológico, realizados en esta región a partir del año 1996, hemos podido localiza...

Despite its greatness and power, Christianity could not fully counteract older traditional beliefs. The paper will present the Roman holidays, dates of which remained incorporated in the orientation of medieval churches built on the Roman period sites or near them. An archaeoastronomical survey highlighted and emphasised various dates that marked i...

The article presents a detailed typology and chronology of the Late Antique decorative pins of the stylus type found in Slovenia. This pin type derives from Roman toilet implements. The pins can be divided into five types with variants and appear across central and south-eastern Europe with a concentration in south-eastern Hungary, Slovenia and nor...

The cemetery of Le Morne in Mauritius dates from the 1830s and is thought to contain the remains of slaves, freed slaves or potentially free Madagascans, which in itself has economic and social implications and makes the cemetery all the more intriguing. During 2010, excavations recovered the remains of 11 individuals, of which six were children. A...

Modern Mauritius was born in the early eighteenth century when a group of French colonists named it Île-de-France. The island has seen waves of colonial intervention both previously and subsequently, resulting in a contemporary population that is diverse and a past that is highly turbulent and infinitely interesting. The archaeological potential th...

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The PhD thesis falls within the discipline of archaeoastronomy. It analyses the astronomical orientation of medieval churches in Slovenia using novel methodologies, modified from previous studies and based on principles of physics (astronomy and geodesy) and results converted into Julian dates. The study focuses on the significance of prominent dec...

In Slovenia, the transition from pagan belief systems to Christianity is noted to have reached its conclusion by the 10th century; for all intents and purposes the medieval inhabitants of the southeastern Alpine region were Christians. However, both archaeological and historic sources are calling these commonly held notions into question. What is...

Churches are ubiquitous throughout the landscape of Slovenia, and their sheer number (estimated at more than 2300 (Record of the real-estate cultural heritage, January 2007)) lays testament to the cultural significance of this ecclesiastic architecture. The oldest churches date back to the end of the first millennium. On-going research on the orien...