Marko Dizdar
Dr Marko Dizdar was born in Vinkovci in 1971. He graduated from the Department of Archaeology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb in 1996. He received his Master's degree in Archaeology from the Department of Archaeology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb in 2000 and his PhD in Archaeology from the same Department in 2004.He worked at the Vinkovci Municipal Museum as a curator in the Archaeology Department from 1997 to 2000. He joined the Institute of Archaeology in 2000 and in 2010 he was appointed to the academic title of senior research associate. He led the research project ''Development and mobility of the protohistoric communities settled on the territory of continental Croatia'' from 2007 to 2013. From 2000 to 2006 he was an associate on the research project “The Prehistoric Identity of Northern Croatia“ led by Dr. Kornelija Minichreiter. From 2007 to 2013 he was an associate on the research project “Bronze Age and Iron Age elites on the territory of Croatia“, led by Prof. Hrvoje Potrebica.He has been managing the investigations of the La Tène and Bijelo Brdo culture cemeteries in Zvonimirovo since 2006. He managed the investigations of the sites: Virovitica-Kiškorija North, Gornji Vukojevac, Poljana Križevačka 1, Grabrić. He participated in investigations in Vinkovci, Županja, Slavonski Brod, Ilok, Sotin, Batina, Osijek and Dolina.In the academic year 2012/2013 he led a course entitled “The La Tène Culture in Northern Croatia“ in the graduate program of the Department of Archaeology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. He participates in the work of the doctoral program in Archaeology at the Department of Archaeology of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. He was a member of the scientific committee of the conference “The Beginning of the Late Bronze Age between the Eastern Alps and the Danube“, held in Osijek in 2011 and “Late Urnfield Culture between the Eastern Alps and the Danube“, held in Zagreb in 2013.He is co-author of the exhibition “Vinkovci in the World of Archaeology“, presented in 1999 at the Vinkovci Municipal Museum. He is co-author of the exhibition “Early Urnfield Culture in Northern Croatia - New Challenges“ presented at the Archaeological Museum in Osijek in 2011. He participated in devising the exhibition “Slavonia, Baranja and Syrmia – origins of European civilization (Iron Age)“ in 2009. He participated in developing the permanent displays in Ilok, Vukovar and Vinkovci. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal “Contributions of the Institute of Archaeology in Zagreb“, and has been its editor-in-chief since 2012. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal “Arheološki Vestnik“ (Ljubljana). He has been a member of the Croatian Archaeological Society since 1992 and is a member of the European Association of Archaeology.
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discovered in cremation burials of women, which can be dated at the end of LT C1 and in LT C2. Regarding their shape, there are three basic variants of lyre-shaped segments, often decorated with enamel filled depressions. Belts with lyre-shaped segments of the Surčin variant, as a characteristic part of the Middle La Tène Scordiscan female costume, were probably produced in their workshops. Bronze belts of the Scordiscan type represent some of the more recognisable manifestations of visual identity
and provide a valuable insight into the way in which Scordiscan women decorated their bodies, as well as into their public presentation.
of jewellery in the territory of the Scordisci. Even though the circumstances of
discovery are unknown for most finds, the knobbed rings and armrings found
in the richly furnished grave 1 in the cemetery of Sotin — Zmajevac showed that
they were popular and frequently worn items of jewellery, which seems to be
confirmed by numerous finds from La Tène settlements around Vinkovci. Based
on size differences, some knobbed rings are assumed to have served as pendants, while those of larger diameter are believed to be arm jewellery. Parallels
for knobbed rings and armrings from Scordiscan sites have been found in Transylvania and central Europe, confirming the intensive cultural contacts and involvement of the Scordisci in the complex communication networks of the Late
La Tène. Among the finds from Scordiscan sites, many knobbed rings belong to
the Szárazd — Regöly type, which is characteristic for the south-eastern Carpathian Basin, but their function is still unclear. On the other hand, the presence
of triple knobbed rings and rings with zoomorphic representations indicates
a connection between the Scordisci and contemporary communities in central
Europe. The finds from grave 1 in Sotin show that knobbed rings and armrings
could have been worn by women of high status in the community, who used body
ornamentation to display various aspects of their visual identity.
Project research tried to answer questions about how the female body was perceived, what influenced female visual identity in the Iron Age, what was the role of women in the Iron Age society, and whether the funerary customs and jewellery reflect the status of the buried women. The exploration of the Danube area cemeteries of Batina and Sotin led to interdisciplinary research of cremated anthropological remains and archaeological analyses and interpretations that resulted in papers on the material traces for the reconstruction of the costume, status and roles of women in these communities and how different female identities were created by costume and jewellery. An important research question was whether a significant change in personal social identities can be observed in costume and jewellery, and how we can recognize the relationships between the body and different costume items by studying the items.
Present-day people from England and Wales harbour more ancestry derived from Early European Farmers (EEF) than people of the Early Bronze Age1. To understand this, we generated genome-wide data from 793 individuals, increasing data from the Middle to Late Bronze and Iron Age in Britain by 12-fold, and Western and Central Europe by 3.5-fold. Between 1000 and 875 BC, EEF ancestry increased in southern Britain (England and Wales) but not northern Britain (Scotland) due to incorporation of migrants who arrived at this time and over previous centuries, and who were genetically most similar to ancient individuals from France. These migrants contributed about half the ancestry of Iron Age people of England and Wales, thereby creating a plausible vector for the spread of early Celtic languages into Britain. These patterns are part of a broader trend of EEF ancestry becoming more similar across central and western Europe in the Middle to Late Bronze Age, coincident with archaeological evidence of intensified cultural exchange2–6. There was comparatively less gene flow from continental Europe during the Iron Age, and Britain’s independent genetic trajectory is also reflected in the rise of the allele conferring lactase persistence to ~50% by this time compared to ~7% in central Europe where it rose rapidly in frequency only a millennium later. This suggests that dairy products were used in qualitatively different ways in Britain and in central Europe over this period.
horse gear. However, the latest analyses, greatly helped by the discovery of a Late La Tène sanctuary in Osijek, have shown that it is a large and exceptionally heterogeneous group of objects that can include bronze buckles with a simple zoomorphic prong and corner protrusions of the Karaburma type. The discovery of buckles in rare funerary complexes – the most important of which is the richly equipped warrior grave 92 from the Karaburma cemetery – allows their dating to LT D1. Aside from the sites associated with the Scordisci, bronze buckles with protrusions at the corners were found in neighbouring areas and had been assumed to be belt buckles. On the other hand, bronze buckles of the Sisak type with a zoomorphic prong were found more to the west; they are considered to be the predecessor of the belt buckles from the Noricum-Pannonian female belt sets. The large number of items of Late La Tène horse gear at the sites of the Scordisci and in the distribution area of Padea-Panagjurski Kolonii group indicates the existence of a warrior horsemen elite which was the leading social and economic force in the Late La Tène, regardless of their affiliation to different communities; their identity in the graves was emphasised not only by weaponry and prestigious items, but also by items of horse gear.
discovered in cremation burials of women, which can be dated at the end of LT C1 and in LT C2. Regarding their shape, there are three basic variants of lyre-shaped segments, often decorated with enamel filled depressions. Belts with lyre-shaped segments of the Surčin variant, as a characteristic part of the Middle La Tène Scordiscan female costume, were probably produced in their workshops. Bronze belts of the Scordiscan type represent some of the more recognisable manifestations of visual identity
and provide a valuable insight into the way in which Scordiscan women decorated their bodies, as well as into their public presentation.
of jewellery in the territory of the Scordisci. Even though the circumstances of
discovery are unknown for most finds, the knobbed rings and armrings found
in the richly furnished grave 1 in the cemetery of Sotin — Zmajevac showed that
they were popular and frequently worn items of jewellery, which seems to be
confirmed by numerous finds from La Tène settlements around Vinkovci. Based
on size differences, some knobbed rings are assumed to have served as pendants, while those of larger diameter are believed to be arm jewellery. Parallels
for knobbed rings and armrings from Scordiscan sites have been found in Transylvania and central Europe, confirming the intensive cultural contacts and involvement of the Scordisci in the complex communication networks of the Late
La Tène. Among the finds from Scordiscan sites, many knobbed rings belong to
the Szárazd — Regöly type, which is characteristic for the south-eastern Carpathian Basin, but their function is still unclear. On the other hand, the presence
of triple knobbed rings and rings with zoomorphic representations indicates
a connection between the Scordisci and contemporary communities in central
Europe. The finds from grave 1 in Sotin show that knobbed rings and armrings
could have been worn by women of high status in the community, who used body
ornamentation to display various aspects of their visual identity.
Project research tried to answer questions about how the female body was perceived, what influenced female visual identity in the Iron Age, what was the role of women in the Iron Age society, and whether the funerary customs and jewellery reflect the status of the buried women. The exploration of the Danube area cemeteries of Batina and Sotin led to interdisciplinary research of cremated anthropological remains and archaeological analyses and interpretations that resulted in papers on the material traces for the reconstruction of the costume, status and roles of women in these communities and how different female identities were created by costume and jewellery. An important research question was whether a significant change in personal social identities can be observed in costume and jewellery, and how we can recognize the relationships between the body and different costume items by studying the items.
Present-day people from England and Wales harbour more ancestry derived from Early European Farmers (EEF) than people of the Early Bronze Age1. To understand this, we generated genome-wide data from 793 individuals, increasing data from the Middle to Late Bronze and Iron Age in Britain by 12-fold, and Western and Central Europe by 3.5-fold. Between 1000 and 875 BC, EEF ancestry increased in southern Britain (England and Wales) but not northern Britain (Scotland) due to incorporation of migrants who arrived at this time and over previous centuries, and who were genetically most similar to ancient individuals from France. These migrants contributed about half the ancestry of Iron Age people of England and Wales, thereby creating a plausible vector for the spread of early Celtic languages into Britain. These patterns are part of a broader trend of EEF ancestry becoming more similar across central and western Europe in the Middle to Late Bronze Age, coincident with archaeological evidence of intensified cultural exchange2–6. There was comparatively less gene flow from continental Europe during the Iron Age, and Britain’s independent genetic trajectory is also reflected in the rise of the allele conferring lactase persistence to ~50% by this time compared to ~7% in central Europe where it rose rapidly in frequency only a millennium later. This suggests that dairy products were used in qualitatively different ways in Britain and in central Europe over this period.
horse gear. However, the latest analyses, greatly helped by the discovery of a Late La Tène sanctuary in Osijek, have shown that it is a large and exceptionally heterogeneous group of objects that can include bronze buckles with a simple zoomorphic prong and corner protrusions of the Karaburma type. The discovery of buckles in rare funerary complexes – the most important of which is the richly equipped warrior grave 92 from the Karaburma cemetery – allows their dating to LT D1. Aside from the sites associated with the Scordisci, bronze buckles with protrusions at the corners were found in neighbouring areas and had been assumed to be belt buckles. On the other hand, bronze buckles of the Sisak type with a zoomorphic prong were found more to the west; they are considered to be the predecessor of the belt buckles from the Noricum-Pannonian female belt sets. The large number of items of Late La Tène horse gear at the sites of the Scordisci and in the distribution area of Padea-Panagjurski Kolonii group indicates the existence of a warrior horsemen elite which was the leading social and economic force in the Late La Tène, regardless of their affiliation to different communities; their identity in the graves was emphasised not only by weaponry and prestigious items, but also by items of horse gear.
primarily various forms of iron and bronze belts – which can offer answers to many questions about the different aspects of the Scordiscan social identities, their position in the communication networks of the Carpathian Basin during the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, and their established contacts with the area of central Europe. This will increase our knowledge about the complex cultural landscape of the south-eastern Carpathian Basin during the Late Iron Age.
end of the Late Iron Age. Therefore, the Late Hallstatt period was a time of dynamic changes with the appearance of a new material expression, which did not emerge only through cultural transfers, but also probably through certain mobility of women who came to the southeastern Carpathian Basin from the neighbouring areas. This assumption is based on the incorporation of entire sets of finds into the local repertoire, which are seemingly different from those previously known in this area. The beginning of the Late Hallstatt period was a time of cultural and social reconfiguration, expressed through the formation of a recognisable local visual code and identity. This paper will, therefore, focus on the process of creation of a characteristic Late Hallstatt female costume in the southeastern Carpathian Basin.
witness to the process of social differentiation of local communities. Typical female burials consist of costume and jewellery items, while rare male graves feature weaponry. The female costume includes bronze astragal belts and various types of fibulae, the most frequent among them being Certosa types V and XIII, but there also appear other types that originated in the Central Balkan region. One of the best examples of the transfer of ideas from the Central Balkan region and their local adoption into a distinct style, except for fibulas, can be seen in the bronze astragal belts which very often appear in female graves in the Syrmian, Eastern Slavonian and southeasternTransdanubian cemeteries, where they were dated at the late 6th and 5th centuries BC. New finds from the Vinkovci region, together with some other previously collected items, indicate an earlier appearance of the astragal belts which have direct analogies in the area of spreading of the Glasinac cultural complex, testifying to a firmly connectivity between the southeastern part of the Carpathian Basin and the Central Balkans at the beginning of the Late Hallstatt period.
It is supposed that the finds come from a destroyed female grave from the end of 5th and beginning of 4th cent. BC attributable to the south Pannonian Late Hallstatt group which was distributed between Lake Balaton and the Sava river and characterized by smaller cemeteries with a predominantly inhumation burial. The closest analogies have been documented in Osijek and on the northern side of the Drava river at the contemporaneous cemetery in Szentlőrinc.
of fluted pottery, while the Virovitica and Barice-Gređani groups belong to the southernmost expressions of the central European Urnfield culture. In the forging of contacts and exchange of ideas and knowledge between the groups a particularly important role was played by the communications that followed the courses of the Drava and the Danube rivers (Belegiš II – Virovitica), as well as the Sava river (Belegiš II – Barice-Gređani). One of the key concerns in the definition of a group’s identity is the typological-statistical analysis of ceramic
finds, necessary for the recognition and distinction of forms and decorations characteristic for each group, which would provide the means to identify in the case of each site or region the prevailing influences over time, even for distinct chronological phases of the earlier phase of the Late Bronze Age. Distinct groups share identical forms of metal objects and the cremation burial method, albeit with evident differences in the burial rite. All these groups cease to exist during Ha A1 as a result of successive developments unfolding throughout the Carpathian Basin.
Antique period. The remains of the prehistoric and Antique settlement found during rescue excavation at AN 7A Jagodnjak – Napuštene njive suggest the extraordinary position of south Baranja in the communication network of the wider Carpathian Basin area.
vessels decorated with tin slats, two ceramic spindle whorls, small bronze fragments (clothing parts), glass beads with three protrusions and golden ring-shaped beads.
The findings suggest the burial of a distinguished woman in the late 8th c. BC. There was a fence along the edge of the tumulus, of which a series of postholes remains. South of the tumulus, a prehistoric cremation grave was found, along with three Roman cremation graves. Roman cremation grave 100 stands out in terms of the quality and quantity of findings (fig. 7), which include ceramic lamp, coin, hook, ceramic beads, fragments of a glass bowl and an object made of iron. In grave 98 a knee fibula was found. The results of the research conducted so far have confirmed
Batina as an exceptional archaeological site that keeps offering valuable
information about the end of the Late Bronze and beginning of the Early Iron Age, as well as insight into the life along the Limes in Antiquity.
Rescue excavations also suggested that the large river valleys such as the Danube and Drava valleys enabled natural communication routes that are still visible today, but that even between them there was communication on a smaller scale that was also exceptionally important for communication between prehistoric and medieval communities populating this area, which is certainly more difficult to identify and study without this type of research.
potsherds and was confirmed by a geomagnetic survey conducted in 2014. Trench 1, located in the eastern part of the western ridge, was excavated in 2015 and 2016. The archaeological excavations of the location of Babine Grede – Tukovi in 2018 determined that the settlement on the east ridge was partly contemporary in Ha A2, i.e. in the first half of the 11th cent. BC. Trench 2 included younger horizons than those recorded in Trench 1. The excavations conducted in the spring of 2019 opened
Trench 3, which is a smaller trench on the western part of the eastern ridge. Trench 3 is located south of the settlement on the western ridge. This trench was excavated with the aim of locating a flat cemetery, but it located a peripheral part of the
settlement with a large buried structure. The new excavation results have supplemented the findings about the borders of the settlement and the directions of its expansion, as well as the assumptions about the position of the flat cemetery. According to the published findings, the Bronze Age settlement of Donja Dolina on the other side of the river was at least partly contemporary with the settlement at Babine Grede, and this fact raises a number of new questions about the specific use of landscape along the River Sava in the Late Bronze Age, especially during the younger phase of the Urnfield culture.
of pottery fragments, and it was confirmed by a geomagnetic survey in 2014. Trench 1, in the eastern part of the western elevation, was excavated in 2015 and 2016. Archaeological research undertaken on the site of Babine Grede – Tukovi in 2018
was intended to determine the exact dating of the settlement standing on the eastern elevation. The discovered bronze and ceramic objects show that the settlement on the position of the eastern elevation was partly contemporaneous with the part of the settlement included in the excavations of trench 1 in the western part of the elevation, during Ha A2, that is, in the first half of the 11th century BC. Trench 2 contained even younger settlement horizons than the ones identified in trench 1. The results of the research from 2018 have changed the assumptions about the horizontal settlement stratigraphy in Dolina, that is, about how the Late Bronze Age settlement spread from east to west, where the settlement is the closest to the cemetery under the tumuli at the position of Glavičice. The research has proven that the settlement spread towards the east, too, on the higher places which were not directly exposed to sudden changes in the water level of the Sava. In future years, research will focus on locating the flat cemetery and considering the horizontal stratigraphy of the Late Bronze Age settlement on the site of Babine Grede.
graves that confirm the assumption of the existence of Late La Tène cemetery were discovered on the highest, southern part of the ridge. Only the bottom parts of grave pits were preserved. In grave 2 a part of the bronze pin was found, probably a part of a fibula, and in addition a S-shaped bowl and fragments of another vessel, probably
kantharoi. The smaller pile of burned bones was deposited south of the bowl (Fig. 5). Only few ceramic fragments were preserved in the grave 3. Trial excavations have confirmed the former knowledge about the chronological picture of the cemetery in Mali Bilač, which, according to the findings from a ruined grave, belongs to LT D1 period, i.e. to the second half of the 2nd and the beginning of 1st century BC.
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u četvrtak, 18. svibnja 2017. godine u 11.30 sati u knjižnici
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