Publication of the largest prehistoric votive hoard from the territory of Slovenia, Mušja jama near Škocjan (W Slovenia) discovered at the bottom of a cave abyss, was published as the 42nd volume of the Catalogi et Monographiae series of the National Museum of Slovenia. The extensive monograph (762 pages) includes numerous articles on all object types represented in the hoard. More than 800 bronze and iron objects are discussed by the three main authors and further eleven collaborators: offensive and defensive weapons, tools, recipients and attire. Speleological characteristics of the abyss, a thorough research history and a study of the elemental composition of the deposited bronzes are also part of the monograph. An extensive conclusive synthesis places the site of Mušja jama within the frames of the Mediterranean and central European areas during the Late Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age (13th-8th cent. BC) as one of the central places of long duration votive offerings.
C.02 Editorial board of a national monograph
COBISS.SI-ID: 286914816The book (207 pages) accompanies the new Roman part of the permanent exhibition in the nation Museum of Slovenia. It is centered on the objects and the stories these tell. These form a narrative of the past at the territory of present-day Slovenia between the last decades of the 1st century BC. and the 5th century. AD. Extensive photographs and descriptions of objects (some of which are published for the first time) make this book interesting for the academic audience as well.
F.27 Contribution to preserving/protecting natural and cultural heritage
COBISS.SI-ID: 279945472The last two decades of archaeological investigation in Slovenia, much of which was of a rescue nature, have revealed numerous traces of Roman military activities, ranging from forts to small fragments of military equipment. Concurrently with field investigations, knowledge has also been gained from the study of previously recovered archaeological evidence, all of which sheds new light on events taking place on the territory of Slovenia at the end of prehistory and in the Roman period. New insights are now published in a monograph edited by J. Istenič, B. Laharnar and J. Horvat.
C.02 Editorial board of a national monograph
COBISS.SI-ID: 280118528At the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century several early Slavic settlements from dated in the period between the 6th to 9th century were excavated in Prekmurje (NW Slovenia). Analysis of material culture and 14C dating suggest that the earliest Slavic groups settled in Prekmurje in the first half of the 6th century. This view is supported by the borders of the Lombard settlement area in the Pannonian plain (before they left for Italy in 568). It seems that the Slavic and Lombard communities in NW Pannonian plain ineracted and respected borders of each other’s settlement areas.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 9470816In two invited talks (archaeometry conference in Sinaia, Romania, and CAARI conference in Fort Worth, USA), we presented advances on the analysis of glass using the PIXE-PIGE methods. On the instrumental point, we stressed a procedure of fitting the gamma spectra, selection of X-ray absorbers and controlling the surface roughness effects. We further presented the method of automatic classification of Roman glasses according to the accepted elemental concentration intervals. For the early medieval glass, we suggested that the halophytic plants providing the alkaline flux came from the Near East deserts.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 30177063