The main topics of the research programme were: 1) archaeological research on the Adriatic islands in Croatia using geographical information systems (GIS) and techniques of remote sensing; 2) social and cultural anthropological research in Papua New Guinea; 3) archaeological and archaeoastronomical research in Mexico. Ad 1. During our research on the islands of middle Dalmatia (Z. Stančič, K. Oštir, T. Podobnikar, T. Veljanovski, K. Zakšek) we developed new methods for quantitative processing of archaeological data. Our research was focused on the use of spatial statistics, GIS, and remote sensing in the analyses of archaeological settlements and utilization of space. In addition we analysed changes in social and cultural landscape, bringing in this way the methods of GIS and remote sensing closer to scholars in humanities and social sciences. In 1999 we conducted archaeological fieldwork in the coastal region of Makarska and published the results of the island of Brač (Z. Stančič et al., 1999, The Adriatic Islands Project, vol. 2: The Archaeological Heritage of the Island of Brač, Croatia. Bar International Series 803, Oxford). In 2000 and 2001 we prepared publications based on our research on the islands of Vis, Palagruža, Svetac and Šolta and improved and modernized archaeological database. Spatial data (digital relief model, vegetation, geology, archaeological sites) were homogenized into a single coordinate system, into a uniform grid of cells. By using GIS we created spatial analysis of a whole islands' region. We looked for a visual connection between individual archaeological sites and economic landscape. Using Landstat satellite imaginary we produced a map of the land use. Moreover, we used this map to analyse distribution of sites in relation to the quality of soil. Ad 2. In our research on illness, death and post-mortem rituals in Papua New Guinea (B. Telban) we used processual ethnography and introduced a new concept: "ethnography of absence". We analysed treatments, dying, post-mortem initiation and divination, and following comparative approach revealed differences in symbolic perception of time between Europeans and Melanesians. The results were published in books in Slovenia ("Andaypa: Essays on Death in a New Guinean Community", 2001; "Dance of Life, Dance of Death", 2003) and in international anthropological journals. Additional fieldwork was conducted in 2001 in the Arafundi River area of Papua New Guinea. An article about cultural history of this previously under-researched region is in press in "Ethnology" (co-authored by Paul Roscoe, University of Maine). We also produced an extensive "Bibliography of fieldwork, research methods, and ethnography in sociocultural anthropology" (AnthroGlobe Journal, 2001). Amongst more than 150 units at the "Social Science Information Gateway: Anthropology, Methods and Techniques" it has been recommended as editor's choice. Ad 3. In 1999 and 2000 we analysed radar satellite images of the southeast part of Mexican state Campeche (I. Šprajc, K. Oštir) and identified characteristic indicators of archaeological sites. In 2001 and 2002 we conducted fieldwork on Yucatan peninsula and registered over 40 previously unknown archaeological sites from a classical Mayan period. Fieldwork was funded by Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, USA, and we continued to cooperate with the National Institute for Anthropology and History in Mexico. On bigger sites we conducted geodetic survey and took photographs, on the basis of which we prepared digital models. Archaeoastronomical measurements that were completed in 2000 revealed that Mesoamerican architectonic orientations were mainly solar and that they enabled the use of complex calendars for regulation of activities in agricultural cycle and related rituals. The results were published in a monograph: I. Šprajc, 2001, "Orientaciones astronomicas en la arquitectura prehispanica del centro de Mexico".