In the original scientific article, the results of isotopic research of strontium, which included osogical material from the south-eastern Alpine region (Slovenia), were presented for the first time. This is the first published study of its kind, which includes isotope analyzes and a discussion of mobility in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages in the south-eastern Alps.
COBISS.SI-ID: 33708291
The article presents one of the first systematic studies about phenomenon of the appearance of cremation in Slovenia during Middle/Late Bronze Age as a sign of intercultural connections and mobility of humans and ideas
COBISS.SI-ID: 25352963
The article thematizes the questions on the social (in)qualities of the Late Bronze Age communities from Ljubljana as revealed by the settlement and funerary records. We can argue that social inequalities in this specific period appeared also due to the limited possession and use of the first iron products, which were extremely rare at the time, however they were found both in the settlement and in the cemetery of Ljubljana. The oldest iron objects from Slovenia, including the finds from Ljubljana, show that this territory must have had an important role in the transfer of innovations, ie. ferrous metallurgy, that appeared already in the 11th - 10th century BC. This transfer, however, was possibly connected with the mobility of individuals or certain groups of prehistoric communities, who were the agents for the spread and possession of this first iron artifacts.
COBISS.SI-ID: 70505826
In this article Early Iron Age stone tumuli with cremation burials at Kranj (Slovenia) are presented. A revision of the archive documents gave new insights about the positions of individual finds and grave good assemblages as well as burial rites at Kranj. New findings together with the analyses of the contemporaneous centimeters from Gorenjska revealed, that in the region tumulus burial appeared as early as the Early Iron Age and was practiced simultaneously with the flat cremation burial, which had been in use already in the previous period. Newly published material from Kranj reflects the influence of the S. Lucia group, what further confirms the insights of S. Gabrovec, according to which the sphere of interest of the S. Lucia group spread into the territory of Gorenjska. These findings open completely new questions regarding the mobility and migration on the regional levels in the territory of Slovenia in the Early Iron Age.
COBISS.SI-ID: 41713197
With its representative sample of more than 300 excavated graves, the cemetery in Ljubljana is among the sites that are crucial in understanding the communities that inhabited central Slovenia in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages. Combining the analyses of funerary practices and individual attires with the chronological and spatial aspects of the cemetery allows us to trace the constants and the changes through the generations. Major changes in the funerary practices occurred in the transition from the 2nd to the 1st millennium BC, though they are restricted to the east half of the cemetery. At the same time, there are observable differences in the attire of the different groups of graves. Based on these observations, we propose an interpretation of the social structure of the community that buried its dead in the Ljubljana cemetery from the 11th to the 9th century BC.
COBISS.SI-ID: 67395426