IARH – Newsletter Instituta za arheologiju br. 54 (PRESS)

Dear colleagues!
We kindly invite You to participate in the round table entitled Roads and rivers, pots and potters in Panonnia; Interactions, analogies and differences, organized by the Institute of Archaeology (project Life on the Roman road, UIP-05-2017-9768 ) and City museum Sisak. The round table will be held on 11-22th November 2019.

Excavations at the site Pakrac-Old Town
During June and July 2019, the Institute for Archeology (Juraj Belaj) continues archaeological research of Pakrac – the Old Town in the very center of the town of Pakrac. This year’s research once again focuses on the previously discovered Gothic church in the yard of the Old town. According to the previous indicators, the church was built in the 13th century and the walls were significantly thickened around the year 1500. In the first phase, it was made of precisely chiselled stone. The spindle-shaped staircase, entrance threshold, base of some semi-columns  have been preserved …
Everybody interested is welcome to visit us, and after the excavations there will be a public presentation of the result.

From the 10th to the 22nd of June 2019 Institute of Archaeology, under the leadership of Dr K. Botić, carried out the excavation of the Early Neolithic Slavonski Brod – Galovo site. With financial support of the Ministry of Culture about 30 m² was explored; an average thickness of the layers was about 1.20 m. This year’s excavation continued at the southern side of the site and included northern parts of a large pit, shallowly dug in and belonging to the youngest phase of the settlement, partially explored in 2017 and 2018.

From the 6th to 27th of May 2019 Institute of Archaeology, under the leadership of Dr K. Botić, carried out the excavation of Bršadin – Pašnjak pod selom site. The site is situated south of the village Bršadin near Vukovar. This year’s excavation was a continuation of the 2016 research. With financial support of the Ministry of Culture Probe 1 was explored to the virgin soil, i.e. to the relative depth of about 2 m. The explored layers contained the remains of houses and layers that probably served as drainage and were located on a sterile virgin soil. According to the movable finds this year’s layers and structures can also be dated to the late Neolithic, i.e. the late Sopot culture with the visible influences of Vinča C-D/D1 phases.

From 17 June to 6 July 2019, a new cycle of Research and Education Workshops of the Department of Art History of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb and the City parish of Our Great Lady was held in Dubrovnik from June 16th to July 6th. At the workshop, the Department of Art History (FFZG) and the Department of Conservation and Restoration of Art (ALU, Zagreb) students at the cathedral of Our Lady were dealing with material from archaeological research (1981-1986) below the cathedral and nearby Bunić’s field where the first early medieval (the so-called Byzantine) cathedral and the other (Romanesque) cathedral, destroyed in a great earthquake in 1667 are located. Like every year, in addition to regular work, a series of lectures and sightseeing of monuments have been organized by renowned experts from various institutions. As a part of the whole event, the Ceramics Workshop was led by Dr.sc. Ivana Ožanić Roguljić from the Institute of Archeology from Zagreb in collaboration with dr. Sc. Marina Šiša Vivek from Dubrovnik.
The workshop is being conducted in continuity since 2015 in partnership of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb and the City parish of Our Great Lady with the support of the Dubrovnik Diocese, and in 2018 this cooperation was joined by experts from the Institute of Art History, the Institute of Archeology and the Academy of Visual Arts of the University of Zagreb. The next cycle of the workshop is scheduled for the second half of September this year.