Spheres of Interaction –
Contacts and Relationships
between the Balkans and adjacent regions in the Late Bronze / Iron Age (13/12th – 6/5th BCE)
15 – 17 September 2017, Institute of Archaeology Belgrade
(Photos by Mario Gavranović, Daniela Heilmann)
Program
Friday, 15 September 2017
Chairs: Prof. Dr. Miloš Jevtić, Prof. Dr. Mitja Guštin
08:45 Get-together
09:00 Welcome – Dr. Miomir Korać (Director of the Archaeological Institute Belgrade)
09:15 Introduction – Prof. Dr. Miloš Jevtić
09:30 Mario Gavranović (Vienna) / Daniela Heilmann (Munich) Introduction to the Conference
09:50 Alberta Arena (Rome/Berlin) / Vedran Barbarić (Split) / Irena Radić (Zadar)
The desegregation of former networks and the emergence of new ones.
The interaction between the Apennine Peninsula and Western Balkan between
MBA and the beginning of LBA
10:10 Sabine Pabst (Marburg)
Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Central Dalmatia in the sphere of
interaction between Carpathian Basin, Apennine Peninsula and Aegean
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Maja Gori (Bochum/Heidelberg) / Tobias Krapf (Athens)
Are we all well connected? Challenges and potentiality of Social Network
Analysis in exploring interactions in the south-western Balkans during Middle
and Late Bronze Age
11:20 Aleksandra Papazovska (Skopje)
Early Iron Age settlements and their relations with cemeteries in Macedonia –
Social, economic and cultural relationships between regions
11:40 Tanya Hristova (Sofia)
The settlement near Chepintsi, Sofia (Bulgaria) in the context of the Final Bronze
Age in Central Balkans and Lower Danube regions
12:00 Lunch Break
14:00 Anne-Zara Chemsseddoha (Toulouse)
Connections between the Balkans and the Aegean: the case of the Iron Age burial
customs in Northern Greece
14:20 Ioannis Xydopoulos (Thessaloniki)
Macedonians east of the Axios River: When, how, why?
14:40 Athanasia Kyriakou (Thessaloniki)
Investigating the interregional influences and life cycle of two metal vessels used
as urns in a 4th c BC intra muros burial at Vergina / Aegae
15:00 Denis Topal (Kishinev)
Western frontiers of European Scythia: A case-study on panoply
15:20 Coffee Break
16:00 Martina Blečić Kavur (Koper) / Aleksandar Jašarević (Doboj)
The brand new hoard – The brand new heavies
16:20 Katarina Dmitrović (Čačak) / Marija Ljuština (Belgrade)
Some Light in Dark Ages: Remarks on Cultural Continuity between Late Bronze
and Early Iron Age in West Morava Basin
16:40 Blagoje Govedarica (Berlin)
The grave of the “priest of Glasinac”: A forgotten fateful find of West Balkan
archaeology
17:00 Katarina Dmitrović (Čačak)
The Earliest Iron Keepers in Western Serbia – notes from Kalakača graves
Résumé: Prof. Dr. Mitja Guštin
Final panel discussion: Uncovering Networks: Methods and Approaches
Saturday, 16 September 2017
Chairs: Dr. Rastko Vasić, Prof. Dr. Carola Metzner-Nebelsick
08:30 Get-together
08:45 Introduction – Dr. Rastko Vasić
09:00 Aleksandar Kapuran (Belgrade) / Aleksandar Bulatović (Belgrade)
Similarity and differences between the material cultures of Belegiš II – Gava
group from the southern Pannonian Basin and the Morava river Basin
09:20 Aca Đorđević (Belgrade) / Milijan Dimitrijević (Belgrade)
Burials in the Late Prehistory of Djerdap: Sepucral Practice and Cultural Change
in the Case of Archaeological Site Konopište
09:40 Hrvoje Kalafatić (Zagreb)
Eastern Slavonia and Western Srijem – contact zone during early phase of the
Late Bronze Age
10:00 Katalin Jankovits (Budapest)
Contacts between Transdanubia, the Balkans, northern Italy and Greece in the
Late Bronze as reflected by protective weaponry
10:20 Coffee Break
11:00 Marko Dizdar (Zagreb)
The Late Hallstatt connections between the southeastern Carpathian Basin and
the Central Balkans – The beautiful ladies coming from the South
11.20 Daria Ložnjak Dizdar (Zagreb)
Connections between the southern Carpathian Basin and the Central Balkans in
the 8th century BC – Female attire
11:40 Vojislav Filipović (Belgrade)
Chronology and Classification of Open- work Belts in Southeastern Europe
12:00 Rovena Kurti (Tirana)
Common trends and regional particulari- ties in western Balkan Iron Age:
the composite belts of the 7th-6th centuries B.C from north Albania
12:20 Lunch Break
14:20 Saša Kovačević (Zagreb)
At the crossroads – An introduction to a new beginning of Jalžabet project
14:40 Snježana Karavanić (Zagreb) / Andreja Kudelić (Zagreb)
Late Bronze Age Settlement Kalnik-Igrišče (NW Croatia) in the context of
southern part of Pannonia plain
15:00 Dragan Božič (Nova Gorica)
Pottery with indented walls between Dolenjska in the South-eastern Alpine
Region, the northern Balkans, Pannonia, and the Middle Danube region
15:20 Coffee Break
16.00 Uroš Matić (Münster) / Filip Franković (Heidelberg)
The Sea Peoples and the discourse of balkanism in archaeology of the
Late Bronze Age
16:20 Mitja Guštin (Piran)
The formatting of Early Iron Age elites between the Mediterranean civilisations
and Middle Europe
Résumé: Prof. Dr. Carola Metzner-Nebelsick
Final panel discussion: From Cultural Contacts to Cultural Change?
Poster Presentations
Pero Ardjanliev (Skopje) / Petra Tušlová (Prague) / Marek Verčík (Prague) / Barbora Weissová (Bochum)
Trebenishte, Ohrid and the Region with Golden Masks – a Survey Project (working title)
Laura Burkhardt (Vienna)
Regional Connectivity and Diversity in Late Bronze Age Tableware Assemblages. The Case Study Adatepe, SE Bulgaria
Ivan Ninčić (Belgrade)
Scythian Weapons and Horse Harness in the Territory of Serbia
Anna Panti (Thessaloniki)
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