Books by Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik
by Sophie Hueglin, Alexander Gramsch, Liisa Seppänen, Geoffrey Abbott, Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik, Marina Gallinaro, Thomas Reitmaier, Francesco Carrer, Kevin Walsh, Dominik Maschek, and Giorgio Verdiani Themes in Contemporary Archaeology, 2021
Petrification is a process, but it also can be understood as a concept. This volume takes the fir... more Petrification is a process, but it also can be understood as a concept. This volume takes the first steps to manifest, materialize or “petrify” the concept of “petrification” and turn it into a tool for analyzing material and social processes. The wide array of approaches to petrification as a process assembled here is more of a collection of possibilities than an attempt to establish a firm, law-generating theory. Divided into three parts, this volume’s twenty-plus authors explore petrification both as a theoretical concept and as a contextualized material and social process across geological, prehistoric and historic periods.
Topics connecting the various papers are properties of materials, preferences and choices of actors, the temporality of matter, being and becoming, the relationality between actors, matter, things and space (landscape, urban space, built space), and perceptions of the following generations dealing with the petrified matter, practices, and social relations. Contributors to this volume study specifically whether particular processes of petrification are confined to the material world or can be seen as mirroring, following, triggering, or contradicting changes in social life and general world views. Each of the authors explores – for a period or a specific feature – practices and changes that led to increased conformity and regularity. Some authors additionally focus on the methods and scrutinize them and their applications for their potential to create objects of investigation: things, people, periods, in order to raise awareness for these or to shape or “invent” categories. This volume is of interest to archaeologists, geologists, architectural historians, conservationists, and historians.
by Angela Bellia, Erica Angliker, Licia Butta, Agnès Garcia-Ventura, Audrey Gouy, Cristina Manzetti, Manolis Mikrakis, Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik, Arnaud Saura-Ziegelmeyer, Laura Gianvittorio-Ungar, and Alexandre Vincent http://www.libraweb.net/Documenti/Telestes_Depliant.pdf
TELESTES. An International Journal of Archaeomusicology and Archaeology of Sound
Rivista annuale... more TELESTES. An International Journal of Archaeomusicology and Archaeology of Sound
Rivista annuale / A Yearly Journal
Direttore / Editor-in-Chief Angela Bellia (National Research Council, Italy)
Comitato scientifico / Editorial board:
Erica Angliker, University of London; Eleonor Betts, The Open University; Sheramy D. Bundrick, University of South Florida St Petersburg; Licia Buttà (University of Tarragona); Margarita Díaz-Andreu, University of Barcelona; Ingrid Furniss, La Fayette College, Pennsylvania; Agnès Garcia-Ventura, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Laura Gianvittorio-Ungar, Austrian Archaeological Institute of Wien; Michael Given, University of Glasgow; Audrey Gouy, University of Copenhagen; Ewa Anna Gruszczynska-Ziólkowska, University of Warsaw; Raquel Jiménez Pasalodos, University of Barcelona-University of Valladolid; Cristina Manzetti, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Institute for Mediterranean Studies; Clemente Marconi, New York University - University of Milan; Tommaso Mattioli, University of Barcelona; Manolis Mikrakis, National Technical University of Athens; Steve Mills, University of Cardiff; Dimitrij Mlekuz, University of Ljubljana; Riitta Rainio, University of Helsinki; Arnaud Saura-Ziegelmeyer, University of Toulouse II Jean Jaurès; Karin Schapbach, University of Fribourg; Lamberto Tronchin, University of Bologna; Fábio Vergara Cerqueira, University of Pelotas; Alexandre Vincent, University of Poitiers.
Redazione/Associate Editors
Arnaud Saura-Ziegelmeyer (University of Toulouse II Jean Jaurès)
Daniel Sánchez Muñoz (University of Granada)
«Telestes» is an International Peer-Reviewed Journal
https://libraweb.voxmail.it/user/ws1nagy/show/jkeix4?_t=a44c59e9&fbclid=IwAR3ROScD8xY5bqPXBJaoNTdVoYFsueyPYDdAQgRb942ThCkDvVZKPj9Ul34
«TELESTES» seeks to fill the gap between existing treatments of the sub-discipline of ‘archaeomusicology’, or ‘music archaeology’ – rooted quite self-consciously in the methods of ancient music and dance scholars – and the possibilities offered by the rather different perspectives that have recently emerged within archaeology, art history, archaeology of performance, and sensory studies. Although over the last decade various scholarly disciplines have devoted increasing attention to ancient music and dance, they have done so by focusing on textual sources. However, in reconstructing features of ancient music and dance performances, the evidence offered by material culture within its archaeological context, although overlooked in previous studies, should play a critical role.
Considering music and dance performances in the ancient world, this new international journal will explore material evidence for music and dance, and highlight the contribution of this evidence to a deeper understanding of the cultural and social meanings and functions of music and dance within activities of ritual and everyday life, reconstructing the many different ways and contexts in which they were experienced.
Thus, through an archaeological approach to performance that places musical and dance activities within an actual or symbolic space, the study of material evidence of music and dance interests constitutes a valuable investigation that can shed light on the ritual meaning and social function of sonic events, as well as on the role of musicians and dancers in antiquity.
«TELESTES» also aims to explore how the study of instruments and sound objects has involved a wide variety of disciplines within and beyond the boundaries of anthropology and archaeology, including sound and acoustics studies, archaeomusicology (such as, among others, ethnoarchaeomusicology), history of religion, classics, history, digital humanities, and digital heritage.
The range of different contexts that will be presented in this new journal will allow us to improve our knowledge with regard not only to the nature of the evidence and the different forms of documentation and sources related to instruments and sound objects, but also how sound contributed to giving a contextualised sense of ritual and social place. Investigating the role of music and dance as more than a mere accompaniment or a means of entertainment, this journal will be particularly revealing in terms of how musical and dance performances are intertwined and inseparable from ritual aspects, each serving as a structure and framework for the other and providing set forms of action that are related to the religious and social beliefs of a given culture.
Furthermore, the journal publishes papers on the study of sound and hearing along with related sensorial aspects in archaeological contexts and on past soundscapes and sonic fabrics (anthrophony, biophony, and geophony): this includes subject areas that range from the behaviour of sound in a sonic space and aural architecture to auditory experience and physical acoustics, as well as auditory archaeology and the importance of sound as a medium of social interaction in the past.
The journal welcomes research on the broadly defined Mediterranean region and from other areas of the world, such as Northern Europe, Central and South America, Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Rim. Contributions pertaining to different periods are welcome. Cross-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary approaches would be particularly appreciated. The preferred language for the contributions is English, but other languages (including German, French, Italian and Spanish) are acceptable. Special issues focused on a specific research area are also envisaged.
As a guarantee of the high scientific value of the journal, the rigorous application of these methodologies will be surveyed by an International Scientific Committee whose scholars have welcomed the initiative with approval and enthusiasm, as a guarantee of the high scientific value of the journal, and will edited in Italy by Fabrizio Serra editore, a well-established international publishing house of authoritative tradition.
Last but not least, this new international publication also aims to encourage young scholars to submit their work, thus offering a valuable opportunity to disseminate their research findings in the hope that they will respond with enthusiasm to this new editorial project.
CONTENTS
FERNANDO A. COIMBRA, The Contribution of Rock Art for Understanding the Origins of Music and Dancing
ANGELIKI LIVERI, Soundscape of Public Festivals in Athens (Panathenaia and City Dionysia)
FÁBIO VERGARA CERQUEIRA, The ‘Apulian Cithara’ on the Vase-Paintings of the 4th c. BC: Morphological and Musical Analysis
ANGELA BELLIA, Sounds of Childhood in the Ancient World
CLAUDINA ROMERO MAYORGA, Music in Mystery Cults: Towards a Comprehensive Catalogue
JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VALIÈRE, BÉNÉDICTE BERTHOLON, VASCO ZARA, DAVID FIALA, Experimenting with the Acoustic Pots Chamber of Noyon Cathedral (late 16th c.?): An Archaeoacoustic and Musicological Investigation
JOSÉ NICOLÁS BALBI, ISABELLA LEONE, GUSTAVO MANUEL CORRADO, Sound of the Stones: A Preliminary Survey in an Inka Temple of the Argentine Andes
by Matija Črešnar, Marko Mele, Anja Hellmuth Kramberger, Daniel Modl, Marta Rakvin, Sasa Kovacevic, Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik, Zoltán Czajlik, Eszter Fejér, Novinszki-Groma Katalin, László Rupnik, András Bödőcs, and Bence Soós Early Iron Age Landscapes of the Danube region, 2019
The present publication is one of the main outcomes of the Iron-Age-Danube project (Interreg DTP)... more The present publication is one of the main outcomes of the Iron-Age-Danube project (Interreg DTP). In the focus of the project, as well as of the presented papers are archaeological landscapes and their visible as well as hidden monuments of the Early Iron Age. The published research took place in four countries (Austria, Croatia, Hungary and Slovenia) and focused on some of the most iconic sites of the Eastern Hallstatt circle, namely Großklein and Strettweg near Judenburg in Austria, on Jalžabet and Kaptol in Croatia, on Százhalombatta, Süttő and Sopron in Hungary and on Poštela and Dolenjske Toplice in Slovenia.
The studies have a broad span in their interpretative approaches; however, they all bring important new results on the Early Iron Age landscapes of the Danube region and present a fundament for further research of archaeological landscapes in the region and beyond.
The Iron-Age-Danube project — its full title is “Monumental Landscapes of the Early Iron Age in the Danube Basin” — was initiated in 2017 by 20 partners and associated partners from five countries in the Danube region. The project was co-financed within the framework of the Interreg Danube Transnational Programme with EFRE funds in the amount of € 2,169,200. One of the major focuses of the project was the exploration of the rich archaeological heritage of the Early Iron Age (i.e. Hallstatt Period) in the Danube region using modern archaeological methods. For that purpose, a new format, the Archaeological Camps, was introduced to the region. This format for the first time combined various types of activities and comprised, in addition to research campaigns, a wide variety of heritage protection activities as well as actions to promote the inclusion of Iron-Age landscapes into the touristic offers of these regions. The camps were organized in four countries at selected locations within the nine preselected micro-regions and lasted one or two months. In this period, the institutions involved had the opportunity to combine their technologies, methodologies and expertise as well as to exchange their experiences and views. These chosen sites and their surrounding landscapes are embedded in a variety of environments of the Danube region, which in fact had a strong impact on the populations settling in these areas in the Early Iron Age, as well as on the archaeological research approaches. Combining their knowledge and specific skills, the experts have in this intensive cooperation established new strategies, which are tailored to each of the micro-regions. One of the results of this cooperation is also the monograph Researching Archaeological Landscapes across Borders (Budapest: Archaeolingua, 2019), which should help other researchers and heritage experts with planning their projects on archaeological landscapes.
VOJNI UJETNIKI CARSKE RUSIJE V PRVI SVETOVNI VOJNI NA SLOVENSKEM OZEMLJU, 2018
Zbornik je obsežna publikacija s prispevki, ki predstavljajo vzroke za prihod ruskih vojnih ujetn... more Zbornik je obsežna publikacija s prispevki, ki predstavljajo vzroke za prihod ruskih vojnih ujetnikov na ozemlje današnje Slovenije, določila Haaške konvencije o spoštovanju zakonov in običajev vojne na kopnem in njeno implementacijo v vsakdanje življenje na bojišču in njegovem zaledju, infrastrukturne projekte, ki so jih izvajali ruski vojni ujetniki, spominska mesta, kot so ruska kapelica na Vršiču, ruski grob pri Triglavskih jezerih, taborišče Strnišče itd. Najobsežnejši prispevek zbornika je katalog lokacij v Sloveniji, ki so povezane z ruskimi vojnimi ujetniki, v katerem so predstavljeni vsi infrastrukturni projekti, ki so jih ruski vojni ujetniki gradili, lokacije, kjer so bivali ali se drugače zadrževali, lokacije taborišč in grobišč in drugi arhivski podatki.
M-CPA 8: Minimalni standardi izvedbe predhodnih arheoloških raziskav, 2018
Arheološka dediščina je že po svoji definiciji fragmentirana, zakrita in slabo prepoznavna. Za ra... more Arheološka dediščina je že po svoji definiciji fragmentirana, zakrita in slabo prepoznavna. Za razliko od drugih vrst dediščine, prepoznavanje, dokumentiranje in varovanje arheološke dediščine zahteva vrsto zahtevnih tehničnih postopkov, ki dediščino prepoznajo, dokumentirajo, overdnotijo in varujejo. Prav zato je razvoj metodologij in postopkov arheološkega dela ključen za uspešno varovanje arheološke dediščine.
V novem zvezku Monografij Centra za preventivno arheologijo predstavljamo minimalne standarde izvedbe raziskovalnih metod, ki so na področje preventivne arheologije pri nas vključene v vskodnevni procesa dela.
M-CPA 8: MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS , 2018
Archaeological heritage is, by its very definition, fragmented, hidden, and not easily recognizab... more Archaeological heritage is, by its very definition, fragmented, hidden, and not easily recognizable. The identification, documentation, evaluation, and protection of archaeological heritage – unlike other types of heritage – demand a series of complex technical procedures. Hence, the development of the methodologies and procedures of archaeological work is paramount for the successful protection of archaeological heritage.
In the new volume of the Monographs of the Centre for Preventive Archaeology, we present the minimum standards for the implementation of the research methods, which have been incorporated into daily work process on the field of preventive archaeology in our Institute.
Rediscovering the Great War - Archaeology and Enduring Legacies on the Soča and Eastern Fronts
Rediscovering the Great War - Archaeology and Enduring Legacies on the Soča and Eastern Fronts, 2019
The Great War was a turning point of the twentieth century, giving birth to a new, modern, and in... more The Great War was a turning point of the twentieth century, giving birth to a new, modern, and industrial approach to warfare that changed the world forever. The remembrance, awareness, and knowledge of the conflict and, most importantly, of those who participated and were affected by it, altered from country to country, and in some cases has been almost entirely forgotten.
New research strategies have emerged to help broaden our understanding of the First World War. Multidisciplinary approaches have been applied to material culture and conflict landscapes, from archive sources analysis and aerial photography to remote sensing, GIS and field research. Working within the context of a material and archival understanding of war, this book combines papers from different study fields that present interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches towards researching the First World War and its legacies, with particular concentration on the central and eastern European theatres of war.
Between Worlds: Understanding Ritual Cave Use in Later Prehistory, 2019
Recent research has led to a resurgence of academic interest in caves, in particular the place of... more Recent research has led to a resurgence of academic interest in caves, in particular the place of these enigmatic sites in the worldviews of later prehistoric communities. Many caves were used not only for daily subsistence practices, but as arenas for ritual, ceremony and performance. The recurrent use of caves as the arenas for such performances tells us much about their role in the cosmology of later prehistoric communities.
Caves represent a very particular type of archaeological site and thus require specific approaches to their recording, interpretation and presentation. This is especially true when studying the ritual use of caves, during which the more intangible and experiential aspects of these environments are likely to have been fundamental to the practices taking place within them. Theoretical frameworks must include consideration of the agency of these ‘natural’ places, for example, and the interplay between environment, taphonomy and human activity. Meanwhile, the development and increasing use of innovative technologies, such as 3D laser-scanning and acoustic modelling, is providing new and exciting ways of capturing the experiential qualities of these enigmatic sites and allowing not only for more nuanced understandings of the role of caves in prehistoric ritual, but also for more effective communication of cave archaeology to academic and public audiences alike.
This edited volume draws together papers presented at the 20th annual conference of the European Association of Archaeologists, and additional contributions from outside of Europe, showcasing the application of cutting-edge theoretical frameworks, methodologies and audio-visual techniques in a variety of cave environments from around the globe. The title aims to reflect caves as liminal places- places that were literally ‘between worlds’; the world of the living and the dead, of above and below, of dark and light. It also serves to recognise caves as specific kinds of archaeological site which require the combination of a broad range of theoretical and recording methods.
The volume is organised into two complementary parts. The first concerns the theoretical considerations that must be borne in mind when working in dynamic subterranean environments; concepts such as agency and liminality, and the particular taphonomic phenomena which play an active role in the human use of these spaces. The second part of the volume showcases new digital methods of recording, interpreting and presenting cave archaeology. Digital capture and presentation technologies are on the rise in all aspects of archaeology, but are particularly effective and have some of the greatest potential in cave archaeology. Though traditionally seen as part of the spectrum of more scientific methods of analysis, the qualitative aspects of digital capture technologies are in fact unlocking the more experiential aspects of cave use, particularly in relation to ritual activity.
by Bernarda Zupanek, Boris Vičič, Iris Bekljanov Zidansek, Petra Vojaković, Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik, Alenka Miškec, igor rižnar, bojan djuric, Kaja Stemberger Flegar, Jana Horvat, Lucija Grahek, and Anja Ragolic This book represents the last chapter in the story unfolding in 2014 and 2015 that commemorated t... more This book represents the last chapter in the story unfolding in 2014 and 2015 that commemorated the
bimillenary of the foundation of Emona (Colonia Iulia Emona), the Roman-period predecessor of the
modern Ljubljana. The territory of Emona has witnessed numerous archaeological investigations over the last two
decades, both in the urban areas, the suburbs and the adjacent cemeteries.
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Topics connecting the various papers are properties of materials, preferences and choices of actors, the temporality of matter, being and becoming, the relationality between actors, matter, things and space (landscape, urban space, built space), and perceptions of the following generations dealing with the petrified matter, practices, and social relations. Contributors to this volume study specifically whether particular processes of petrification are confined to the material world or can be seen as mirroring, following, triggering, or contradicting changes in social life and general world views. Each of the authors explores – for a period or a specific feature – practices and changes that led to increased conformity and regularity. Some authors additionally focus on the methods and scrutinize them and their applications for their potential to create objects of investigation: things, people, periods, in order to raise awareness for these or to shape or “invent” categories. This volume is of interest to archaeologists, geologists, architectural historians, conservationists, and historians.
Rivista annuale / A Yearly Journal
Direttore / Editor-in-Chief Angela Bellia (National Research Council, Italy)
Comitato scientifico / Editorial board:
Erica Angliker, University of London; Eleonor Betts, The Open University; Sheramy D. Bundrick, University of South Florida St Petersburg; Licia Buttà (University of Tarragona); Margarita Díaz-Andreu, University of Barcelona; Ingrid Furniss, La Fayette College, Pennsylvania; Agnès Garcia-Ventura, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Laura Gianvittorio-Ungar, Austrian Archaeological Institute of Wien; Michael Given, University of Glasgow; Audrey Gouy, University of Copenhagen; Ewa Anna Gruszczynska-Ziólkowska, University of Warsaw; Raquel Jiménez Pasalodos, University of Barcelona-University of Valladolid; Cristina Manzetti, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Institute for Mediterranean Studies; Clemente Marconi, New York University - University of Milan; Tommaso Mattioli, University of Barcelona; Manolis Mikrakis, National Technical University of Athens; Steve Mills, University of Cardiff; Dimitrij Mlekuz, University of Ljubljana; Riitta Rainio, University of Helsinki; Arnaud Saura-Ziegelmeyer, University of Toulouse II Jean Jaurès; Karin Schapbach, University of Fribourg; Lamberto Tronchin, University of Bologna; Fábio Vergara Cerqueira, University of Pelotas; Alexandre Vincent, University of Poitiers.
Redazione/Associate Editors
Arnaud Saura-Ziegelmeyer (University of Toulouse II Jean Jaurès)
Daniel Sánchez Muñoz (University of Granada)
«Telestes» is an International Peer-Reviewed Journal
https://libraweb.voxmail.it/user/ws1nagy/show/jkeix4?_t=a44c59e9&fbclid=IwAR3ROScD8xY5bqPXBJaoNTdVoYFsueyPYDdAQgRb942ThCkDvVZKPj9Ul34
«TELESTES» seeks to fill the gap between existing treatments of the sub-discipline of ‘archaeomusicology’, or ‘music archaeology’ – rooted quite self-consciously in the methods of ancient music and dance scholars – and the possibilities offered by the rather different perspectives that have recently emerged within archaeology, art history, archaeology of performance, and sensory studies. Although over the last decade various scholarly disciplines have devoted increasing attention to ancient music and dance, they have done so by focusing on textual sources. However, in reconstructing features of ancient music and dance performances, the evidence offered by material culture within its archaeological context, although overlooked in previous studies, should play a critical role.
Considering music and dance performances in the ancient world, this new international journal will explore material evidence for music and dance, and highlight the contribution of this evidence to a deeper understanding of the cultural and social meanings and functions of music and dance within activities of ritual and everyday life, reconstructing the many different ways and contexts in which they were experienced.
Thus, through an archaeological approach to performance that places musical and dance activities within an actual or symbolic space, the study of material evidence of music and dance interests constitutes a valuable investigation that can shed light on the ritual meaning and social function of sonic events, as well as on the role of musicians and dancers in antiquity.
«TELESTES» also aims to explore how the study of instruments and sound objects has involved a wide variety of disciplines within and beyond the boundaries of anthropology and archaeology, including sound and acoustics studies, archaeomusicology (such as, among others, ethnoarchaeomusicology), history of religion, classics, history, digital humanities, and digital heritage.
The range of different contexts that will be presented in this new journal will allow us to improve our knowledge with regard not only to the nature of the evidence and the different forms of documentation and sources related to instruments and sound objects, but also how sound contributed to giving a contextualised sense of ritual and social place. Investigating the role of music and dance as more than a mere accompaniment or a means of entertainment, this journal will be particularly revealing in terms of how musical and dance performances are intertwined and inseparable from ritual aspects, each serving as a structure and framework for the other and providing set forms of action that are related to the religious and social beliefs of a given culture.
Furthermore, the journal publishes papers on the study of sound and hearing along with related sensorial aspects in archaeological contexts and on past soundscapes and sonic fabrics (anthrophony, biophony, and geophony): this includes subject areas that range from the behaviour of sound in a sonic space and aural architecture to auditory experience and physical acoustics, as well as auditory archaeology and the importance of sound as a medium of social interaction in the past.
The journal welcomes research on the broadly defined Mediterranean region and from other areas of the world, such as Northern Europe, Central and South America, Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Rim. Contributions pertaining to different periods are welcome. Cross-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary approaches would be particularly appreciated. The preferred language for the contributions is English, but other languages (including German, French, Italian and Spanish) are acceptable. Special issues focused on a specific research area are also envisaged.
As a guarantee of the high scientific value of the journal, the rigorous application of these methodologies will be surveyed by an International Scientific Committee whose scholars have welcomed the initiative with approval and enthusiasm, as a guarantee of the high scientific value of the journal, and will edited in Italy by Fabrizio Serra editore, a well-established international publishing house of authoritative tradition.
Last but not least, this new international publication also aims to encourage young scholars to submit their work, thus offering a valuable opportunity to disseminate their research findings in the hope that they will respond with enthusiasm to this new editorial project.
CONTENTS
FERNANDO A. COIMBRA, The Contribution of Rock Art for Understanding the Origins of Music and Dancing
ANGELIKI LIVERI, Soundscape of Public Festivals in Athens (Panathenaia and City Dionysia)
FÁBIO VERGARA CERQUEIRA, The ‘Apulian Cithara’ on the Vase-Paintings of the 4th c. BC: Morphological and Musical Analysis
ANGELA BELLIA, Sounds of Childhood in the Ancient World
CLAUDINA ROMERO MAYORGA, Music in Mystery Cults: Towards a Comprehensive Catalogue
JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VALIÈRE, BÉNÉDICTE BERTHOLON, VASCO ZARA, DAVID FIALA, Experimenting with the Acoustic Pots Chamber of Noyon Cathedral (late 16th c.?): An Archaeoacoustic and Musicological Investigation
JOSÉ NICOLÁS BALBI, ISABELLA LEONE, GUSTAVO MANUEL CORRADO, Sound of the Stones: A Preliminary Survey in an Inka Temple of the Argentine Andes
The studies have a broad span in their interpretative approaches; however, they all bring important new results on the Early Iron Age landscapes of the Danube region and present a fundament for further research of archaeological landscapes in the region and beyond.
The Iron-Age-Danube project — its full title is “Monumental Landscapes of the Early Iron Age in the Danube Basin” — was initiated in 2017 by 20 partners and associated partners from five countries in the Danube region. The project was co-financed within the framework of the Interreg Danube Transnational Programme with EFRE funds in the amount of € 2,169,200. One of the major focuses of the project was the exploration of the rich archaeological heritage of the Early Iron Age (i.e. Hallstatt Period) in the Danube region using modern archaeological methods. For that purpose, a new format, the Archaeological Camps, was introduced to the region. This format for the first time combined various types of activities and comprised, in addition to research campaigns, a wide variety of heritage protection activities as well as actions to promote the inclusion of Iron-Age landscapes into the touristic offers of these regions. The camps were organized in four countries at selected locations within the nine preselected micro-regions and lasted one or two months. In this period, the institutions involved had the opportunity to combine their technologies, methodologies and expertise as well as to exchange their experiences and views. These chosen sites and their surrounding landscapes are embedded in a variety of environments of the Danube region, which in fact had a strong impact on the populations settling in these areas in the Early Iron Age, as well as on the archaeological research approaches. Combining their knowledge and specific skills, the experts have in this intensive cooperation established new strategies, which are tailored to each of the micro-regions. One of the results of this cooperation is also the monograph Researching Archaeological Landscapes across Borders (Budapest: Archaeolingua, 2019), which should help other researchers and heritage experts with planning their projects on archaeological landscapes.
V novem zvezku Monografij Centra za preventivno arheologijo predstavljamo minimalne standarde izvedbe raziskovalnih metod, ki so na področje preventivne arheologije pri nas vključene v vskodnevni procesa dela.
In the new volume of the Monographs of the Centre for Preventive Archaeology, we present the minimum standards for the implementation of the research methods, which have been incorporated into daily work process on the field of preventive archaeology in our Institute.
New research strategies have emerged to help broaden our understanding of the First World War. Multidisciplinary approaches have been applied to material culture and conflict landscapes, from archive sources analysis and aerial photography to remote sensing, GIS and field research. Working within the context of a material and archival understanding of war, this book combines papers from different study fields that present interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches towards researching the First World War and its legacies, with particular concentration on the central and eastern European theatres of war.
Caves represent a very particular type of archaeological site and thus require specific approaches to their recording, interpretation and presentation. This is especially true when studying the ritual use of caves, during which the more intangible and experiential aspects of these environments are likely to have been fundamental to the practices taking place within them. Theoretical frameworks must include consideration of the agency of these ‘natural’ places, for example, and the interplay between environment, taphonomy and human activity. Meanwhile, the development and increasing use of innovative technologies, such as 3D laser-scanning and acoustic modelling, is providing new and exciting ways of capturing the experiential qualities of these enigmatic sites and allowing not only for more nuanced understandings of the role of caves in prehistoric ritual, but also for more effective communication of cave archaeology to academic and public audiences alike.
This edited volume draws together papers presented at the 20th annual conference of the European Association of Archaeologists, and additional contributions from outside of Europe, showcasing the application of cutting-edge theoretical frameworks, methodologies and audio-visual techniques in a variety of cave environments from around the globe. The title aims to reflect caves as liminal places- places that were literally ‘between worlds’; the world of the living and the dead, of above and below, of dark and light. It also serves to recognise caves as specific kinds of archaeological site which require the combination of a broad range of theoretical and recording methods.
The volume is organised into two complementary parts. The first concerns the theoretical considerations that must be borne in mind when working in dynamic subterranean environments; concepts such as agency and liminality, and the particular taphonomic phenomena which play an active role in the human use of these spaces. The second part of the volume showcases new digital methods of recording, interpreting and presenting cave archaeology. Digital capture and presentation technologies are on the rise in all aspects of archaeology, but are particularly effective and have some of the greatest potential in cave archaeology. Though traditionally seen as part of the spectrum of more scientific methods of analysis, the qualitative aspects of digital capture technologies are in fact unlocking the more experiential aspects of cave use, particularly in relation to ritual activity.
bimillenary of the foundation of Emona (Colonia Iulia Emona), the Roman-period predecessor of the
modern Ljubljana. The territory of Emona has witnessed numerous archaeological investigations over the last two
decades, both in the urban areas, the suburbs and the adjacent cemeteries.