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Delgado Rosa, Frederico and Han F. Vermeulen (eds.): Ethnographers Before Mali- nowski. Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870–1922. EASA Book Series, 44
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Roman pottery from Viminacium
No full textThe Roman conquests of these regions, in addition to a
different structure of government, led to great changes,
reflected in many aspects of life. The process of Romanisation,
which implies the acceptance of various Roman
customs, took place most rapidly in the cities, and
Viminacium, as the capital of the province of Moesia Superior
and the statio of the VII Legio Claudia, certainly
represents a good indicator of the situation in other parts
of Moesia Superior, mainly places located along the Iron
Gates part of the Limes.
The area investigated in Viminacium is negligible compared
to its total surface area, but the long-term excavations
of the city, military fort, suburban areas and necropoles,
in addition to the discovery of architectural
remains, have also yielded a large amount of archaeological
material. Bearing in mind that the Roman Empire
was a single political and trading area with an extensive
network of land and water routes, products from different
centres were distributed throughout the empire. The
study of numerous objects of a utilitarian and ritual character
allows for a rather faithful reconstruction of life in
this city and its surroundings during almost four centuries
of Roman domination.
Ceramic vessels, as the most numerous type of finds, not
only in Viminacium but also on most other sites, help us
see the picture more clearly, not only in terms of the local
production and import of vessels to Viminacium, but also
of economic and trade relations with other areas. They
enable us to follow the routes by which the products arrived,
as well as to determine the time of their arrival. Vessels
also represent one of the important indicators of the
changes caused by the arrival of the Roman army in the
area where a population at a significantly lower level of
development lived, organised into several tribal communities.
Vessels bear testimony not only of the adoption of
new technologies for their production, but also of changes
in eating habits. Thanks to them, we learn that with the
arrival of military units and their supporting structures,
food products that were unknown in these parts began to
be consumed in Viminacium. The first to bring and use
these goods were soldiers and the newly arrived population,
but the new products were also accepted by the local
population, in different dynamics
First Half of the FLOW Project - Methods, Practices and First Results
Get PDFThe paper summarises the results achieved during the first 18 months of the project THE FLOW (Interactions-Transmission-Transformation: Long-distance connections in Copper and Bronze Age of the Central Balkans). The project team has visited 12 museums in the territory of Central Serbia and accumulated a total of 5,000 km of road trips. More than 400 pottery samples from 67 archaeological sites were collected for provenance analyses, thermoluminescence and optically stimulated luminescence dating. Samples have also been collected from more than 150 bronze and 64 copper artifacts, as well as more than 25 samples from clay pits and ore deposits. A total of 30 samples from obsidian artifacts have been collected. Following the collection of samples, procurement procedures were conducted for AMS and TL/OSL dating, as well as calls for isotopic analyses of copper and tin provenance. Contracts for TL/OSL analyses have been signed with Instituto Universitario de Geología “Isidro Parga Pondal” from La Coruña (Spain), and for AMS analyses with Isotoptech Zrt. from Debrecen (Hungary), and Rutgers University in New Jersey (USA). Laboratory research within the project has so far brought many important results, among which are those on the origin of the raw materials for making the analysed ceramic vessels, as well as the pigments used for their decoration. Extremely significant data was obtained on the composition of the analysed items made of metal - weapons and jewellery, on the basis of which preliminary conclusions were made about the technology of their production, and them belonging to a certain region or workshop. The project initiated the creation of a network of scientific collaborations that can be continued through future joint projects and applications on international calls. The following project activities will be aimed towards the consolidation of already established methodological procedures as well as the interpretation of the awaited outcomes and their integration into explanatory models of complex processes in the societies in later prehistory
Case of the Wounded Beast: a Red Deer Tibia with Projectile Trauma from Viminacium
Get PDFDuring the excavations of
Viminacium in 2016, a red deer tibia, with what seemed like a trauma caused by a weapon, was found in the vicinity of the amphitheatre. Consequently, the aim of this research was to determine whether that was the case and to attempt to reconstruct the potential hunting moment. The analysis of the wound suggested that the animal was hit from its right side with a deltoid or leaf-type long-range weapon, such as throwing spears or arrows. The irregular shape of the trauma on the lateral side of the bone was due to the socket that went through it along with the tip of the weapon. Since this wound is located just beneath the knee of the deer, it would not have been enough to kill the animal instantly, but there are no indications of any bone healing, which leads to an assumption of multiple hits, and thus multiple huntsmen involved in the hunt, which was a common practice. There is also a possibility that this particular animal took part in a
venatio, that is, the beast hunt in the arena, since it was found in a trench related to the amphitheatre, alongside a large number of other wild animals, which undoubtedly participated in the spectacles
A hoard of denarii and antoniniani from the village of Glibovac near Smederevska Palanka
Get PDFThe Glibovac hoard was discovered in the eponymous village in the Bubanja
area near Smederevska Palanka. In 1919, 375 pieces were purchased for the National
Museum of Serbia. After the conservation treatment and review, it was established that
the hoard contained 339 denarii and antoniniani, spanning the period from Septimius
Severus (195 AD) to Trebonianus Gallus and Volusian (252/253)
Средовековна некропола Брсково–Догањице – прелиминарни резултати палеодемограске анализе
Get PDFУ близини Мојковца, налази се средњoвековни град Брсково који jе представљао значајни рударски центар на Балкану, током 13. и 14. века. Према историјским изворима, за њега се везују и сами почеци рударства
у средњовековној Србији. Средњовековна некропола Брсково – Догањице
формирана око Сашке цркве истраживана је у периоду од 2019. до 2022. године. Истражен је само њен мали део, простор некрополе који се налазио испод сакристије и део некрополе истражен у оквиру сонде постављене уз северни зид саме сакристије. На том малом простору констатовано је 149 гробова (од којих су два била двојна, слика 1), као и гробница која се налазила уз унутрашње лице северног зида апсиде Сашке цркве
Paulje, mound XI (mound K): new absolute dates and provenience of the earliest amber finds in Serbia
Get PDFThis paper presents three new absolute dates for the central grave of mound XI (K) at the Paulje necropolis in the lower Drina valley. Also, we present the results of FTIR spectroscopy for the amber finds from the 4 mounds in the necropolis, including mound XI (K). In general the results confirm the earlier assumed chronology of the site - the 14C AMS dates fit the timeframe – the central grave fits ideally the previous timeframe for the Brezjak culture, i.e. the 15th and 14th century BC, and all of the amber samples are definitely of Baltic origin. These two facts clearly suggest that the amber finds from the lower Drina could mark one of the earliest appearances of Baltic amber in the Central Balkans
Silvanov kult na području istočnog dela rimske provincije Dalmacije
Get PDFNa prostoru istočnog dela rimske provincije Dalmacije kult rimskog boga
Silvana se u najvećoj meri javlja na votivnim arama i votivnim reljefima. U jednom
slučaju se javlja kao mladi Silvan u vidu bronzane statuete, a u drugom na epistilnoj
gredi u kultnoj simbiozi sa genijem civitasa, koja se može datovati u period cara
Hadrijana. Svi ostali spomenici mogu se datovati u širi hronološki period od sredine
II do u III vek
Београдска тврђава са старих фотографија - читања и истраживања Марка Поповића
Get PDFОД ОТКРИЋА 1839. ГОДИНЕ, фотографија је брзо прихваћена међу ентузијастима, уметницима и научницима широм света. Исте године и јавност у Србији сазнаје о том важном и савршеном откровенију; да и најтеже и најнежније предмете особитим савршенством и јасноћом изобразити може. Буди какав предел, поља, шуме, слику (портре)
без икакве човечије помоћи и Художества представити можесе с овим откровенијем, и с особитом верношћу, које никакво художество надвисити неможе. Већ наредне године обављено је и прво снимање Београда. Године 1852. у граду кратко бораве Карло Поп де Сатмари [Karlo Popp de Szathmari] и Тома Пацал [Toma Pacal], а након њих долази још неколико других путујућих фотографа који се такође задржавају кратко, због слабог интересовања за снимање портрета. Међутим, већ за непуних десет година у Србији се отварају фотографски атељеи и фотографија постаје важан чинилац у српској култури. Утемељивач фотографије у Србији и први српски фотограф био је Анастас Јовановић (1817–1899), који се 1858. године из Беча враћа у Србију, да би се бавио фотографским портретом
(сл. 1). Иако портрети чине највећи део Јовановићевог опуса, он упоредо снима ведуте градова и детаље архитектуре пре свих Беча, Београда, Крагујевца, Смедерева. Убрзо потом се оснивају први фотографски атељеи (око 1860. године), најпре у Београду, потом и у већим српским градовима. До краја века њихов број расте, па 1901. године Михаило
Валтровић оцењује, у говору који је одржао поводом Прве аматерске изложбе фотографије
у Београду, да тридесет пет излагача представља тек једну четвртину правог броја (фотографа) аматера у Србији и закључује да је фотографија веома важан и значајан проналазак који има перпективу примене у науци, уметности и штампи
The appearance of ulcer on one skeleton from Viminacium and the possibility of its' treatment in antiquity
Get PDFViminacium (Stari Kostolac) was the largest and the most important city in Moesia Superior (Upper Moesia). It was the provincial capital, administrative, religious, military and trade centre. It was built on a strategic location at the confluence of the river Mlava and the Danube, on the crossroad of both land and river routes with large military and trade potential. In one of the necropoles of Viminacium, Pirivoj, in grave no. 325, skeletal remains of a juvenile female individual were discovered. The burial is dated into the first half of the 3rd century. The deceased juvenile was laid on the back with hands clasped on her stomach. The orientation of the grave was North–South.
Anthropological analyses revealed traces of osteomyelitis or cancer with proliferative periostitis on the left tibia and left fibula. The source of infection was related to a large ulcer on the left tibia. The current appearance of the bone shows poor health treatment of the ulcer and active inflammation at the time of death. In this text, we will also focus on the ulcer aetiology and possibility of its’ treatment in Antiquity. Treatments will also be briefly discussed, with preparations based on silver and lead, vinegar, honey, etc