StarinarPub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.2298/STA1565091S
D. Z. Sajin
{"title":"The Roman mining legislation of the Late Empire","authors":"D. Z. Sajin","doi":"10.2298/STA1565091S","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/STA1565091S","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36206,"journal":{"name":"Starinar","volume":"1 1","pages":"91-105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68823423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
StarinarPub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.2298/STA1565197G
Nadezda Gavrilovic-Vitas, B. Popovic
{"title":"Late antique domus in Skelani (Municipium Malvesiatium)","authors":"Nadezda Gavrilovic-Vitas, B. Popovic","doi":"10.2298/STA1565197G","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/STA1565197G","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36206,"journal":{"name":"Starinar","volume":"1 1","pages":"197-220"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68823727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
StarinarPub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.2298/STA1565107M
Ilija Mikić
{"title":"Population of Viminacium during the Migration Period: Segment without artificially deformed skulls","authors":"Ilija Mikić","doi":"10.2298/STA1565107M","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/STA1565107M","url":null,"abstract":"– In the 1980s, at the site of Viminacium – Vi{e Grobalja, 31 artificially deformed skulls were discovered at the necropolis ascribed to the Gepids. These skulls attracted much attention from anthropologists as they represent the largest series of artificially deformed skulls in this part of Europe. Another 63 skulls, showing no traces of artificial deformation have, thus far, been disregarded, hence they will now be published in more detail and those best preserved, illustrated in this paper. In 2006, the published archaeological analysis confirmed that this site is, in fact, a case of two necropolises from the Migration Period, which were, however, spatially and chronologically linked. They were named as Viminacium II, specifically Vi{e Grobalja 1 and Vi{e Grobalja 2. The older necropolis (1) contained 36 skeletons, and the younger (2), 58 skeletons. This paper includes another two Viminacium necropolises from the Migration Period – the necropolis of Burdelj (i.e. Viminacium I) with 66 graves and the necropolis of Lanci (i.e. Viminacium III) with 15 graves. Simply stated, the anthropological characteristics of the skeletons from these four necropolises of Viminacium from the Migration Period – Burdelj, Vi{e Grobalja 1, Vi{e Grobalja 2 and Lanci, excluding the previously published artificially deformed skulls, demonstrate a low degree of heterogeneity.","PeriodicalId":36206,"journal":{"name":"Starinar","volume":"1 1","pages":"107-119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68823542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
StarinarPub Date : 2014-01-01DOI: 10.2298/STA1464185S
Miloš P. Spasić, Adam N. Crnobrnja
{"title":"Vinča bowls with protoma","authors":"Miloš P. Spasić, Adam N. Crnobrnja","doi":"10.2298/STA1464185S","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/STA1464185S","url":null,"abstract":"Bowls with protoma represent one of several tens of types of Vinca vessels made of baked clay which have been published as finds excavated at Vinca sites for more than a century. We are dealing here with bowls of a markedly conical profile, with angled and slightly rounded walls and with a flat or slightly annular bottom. In most cases these bowls are not decorated, with the exception of the rare finds decorated by fluting, engraving and polishing. Their most significant peculiarity is the presence of four or eight protoma on the rim, facing the inside of the vessel. Taking into consideration all stylistic-typological characteristics, it is possible to divide them into two coherent categories of finds. The first consists of bowls with four oppositely placed protoma. Within this group it is possible to single out two subtypes, bowls with all four as anthropomorphic (Pl. I/6, 7; Pl. III/34) or all four as zoomorphic representations (Pl. I/5, 8, 9; Pl. III/33, 36). Bowls with eight protoma have actually got four pairs of oppositely placed representations. It was possible to discern two subtypes based on the objects that were completely preserved. The first subtype includes a bowl from the so-called Vinca ritual set, with two pairs of zoomorphic and two pairs of anthropomorphic protoma, both oppositely placed (Pl. I/3). The second subtype includes a bowl from house 1/2010 from Stubline with four identical, paired, totally stylised and schematised representations, whose identification is impossible (Fig. 1; Pl. I/1). Taking into consideration the metric and technological data, the thesis that seems most possible is that the bowls with protoma served for the consumption of or the storing/displaying of the content during some quite specific activities. Bowls with protoma appear in almost all regions of the central Balkans populated by Vinca culture communities and we do not note them in the areas of the neighbouring Late Neolithic communities. These bowls appear in a very long and clearly defined time span and their usage lasts for exactly the same time as the Vinca culture itself, appearing at the same time and together disappearing. The first vessels with their protoma facing the inside, appear almost synchronously at the very beginning of the Vinca culture, that is the Late Neolithic of the Balkans, in the centre of its area (Vinca and Grivac), but also in its furthermost peripheral areas (Roszke-Ludvar and Anza). Such a long period of almost 700 hundred years, in which one complex iconographic pattern survives without any significant changes (with the exception of the stylistic characteristics of the protoma themselves), primarily points to a long-standing and unchanged custom/belief/ritual that can evidently be associated solely with the communities within the Vinca culture. It is important to highlight the fact that bowls with protoma show “canonic” consistency to the ut","PeriodicalId":36206,"journal":{"name":"Starinar","volume":"1 1","pages":"185-203"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68823300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
StarinarPub Date : 2014-01-01DOI: 10.2298/STA1464205V
Rastko Vasić
{"title":"Ein nachtrag zu den PBF-Bänden; Die den Zentralbalkan betreffen","authors":"Rastko Vasić","doi":"10.2298/STA1464205V","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/STA1464205V","url":null,"abstract":"Der Autor betrachtet neue Bronzefunde, Sicheln, Fibeln, Nadeln und Halsringe aus dem Zentralbalkan, die seit der Publikation von vier PBF-Banden zu diesen Themen bekannt geworden sind. Er stellt fest, dass sie grosteils mit den vorigen Zuordnungen nach Typen und Varianten korrespondieren, anders gesagt, dass die Reihe Prahistorische Bronzefunde (PBF) ein sehr nutzliches Instrument fur das Studium der Metallzeiten ist. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. OI 177020: Archaologie Serbiens: Kulturidentitat, Integrationsfaktoren, technologische Prozesse und die Rolle des Mittelbalkans in der Entwicklung europaischer Vorgeschichte]","PeriodicalId":36206,"journal":{"name":"Starinar","volume":"1 1","pages":"205-217"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68822900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
StarinarPub Date : 2014-01-01DOI: 10.2298/STA1464007R
Miljana Radivojević, Julka Kuzmanović-Cvetković
{"title":"Copper minerals and archaeometallurgical materials from the Vinča culture sites of Belovode and Pločnik: Overview of the evidence and new data","authors":"Miljana Radivojević, Julka Kuzmanović-Cvetković","doi":"10.2298/STA1464007R","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/STA1464007R","url":null,"abstract":"The Vinca culture sites of Belovode and Plocnik have been attracting scholarly attention for decades now, due to numerous discoveries indicative of copper mineral and metal use in these settlements, which are confirmed as, currently, the earliest worldwide and very likely developed independently in Eurasia.1 The authors attempt to give an overview of already published data along with new results stemming from the recently completed doctoral research of the primary author.2 All materials related to copper mineral use and pyrometallurgical activities are presented through the concept of metallurgical chaine operatoire, following the established sequence of operations,3 which is adjusted for this specific case study and divided into three categories: copper mineral processing, (s)melting debris, and the making and working of finished metal objects. The qualitative overview of available data is therefore focused mainly around the material side of the studied samples and provides an insight into the technological choices for making copper mineral ornaments and copper metal artefacts in the sites of Belovode and Plocnik. Accordingly, it provides a model for the understanding of similar material assemblages that occur in other Vinca culture sites, or beyond. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br.177012: Society, spiritual and material culture and communications in the prehistory and early history of the Balkans]","PeriodicalId":36206,"journal":{"name":"Starinar","volume":"1 1","pages":"7-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68822637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
StarinarPub Date : 2014-01-01DOI: 10.2298/sta1464161v
M. Vujović
{"title":"Early Byzantine steelyard from Belgrade","authors":"M. Vujović","doi":"10.2298/sta1464161v","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/sta1464161v","url":null,"abstract":"The initial aim of this paper was to present scholarly circles with a detailed report about the insufficiently known Early Byzantine steelyard beam (Figs. 2-5; Pl. I/1) treasured in Belgrade City Museum (further in the text BCM) together with a small counterweight (Fig. 6; Pl. I/2) which, judging by its dimensions and weight, does not belong to it. However, after inspecting the documentation of BCM and the National Museum in Belgrade (further in the text NMB), the supposition that the steelyard beam from BCM represents a part of the same hoard with the well known counterweight (Fig. 7) in the form of a bust of a Byzantine empress, and the unpublished chain system with hooks for hanging loads (Fig. 8; Pl. IV), which are kept in NMB, was confirmed. The detailed examination of the museum inventory records shed light on the set of circumstances which led to the separation of the parts of the Belgrade steelyard. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 177007: Romanizacija, urbanizacija i transformacija urbanih centara civilnog,vojnog i rezidencijalnog karaktera u rimskim provincijama na tlu Srbije]","PeriodicalId":36206,"journal":{"name":"Starinar","volume":"1 1","pages":"161-183"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68823238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
StarinarPub Date : 2014-01-01DOI: 10.2298/STA1464231V
M. Vasic, G. Milosevic, Nadežda Gavrilović
{"title":"Excavations of Mediana in 2010 and 2011","authors":"M. Vasic, G. Milosevic, Nadežda Gavrilović","doi":"10.2298/STA1464231V","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/STA1464231V","url":null,"abstract":"Throughout 2010 and 2011, a systematic nine month archaeological exploration was conducted on the north-eastern, northwestern and south-eastern parts of the villa with peristyle, as well as the area in front of the museum building (see note 8). The envisaged area of exploration was around 1,400 m². In total, 1,230 m² of this area was thoroughly examined (Fig. 1). The excavations were performed with the aim of defining the dimensions of the north-western and south-western parts of the villa, the appearance of the villa’s entrance, as well as to explore the foundations of the museum building. In the course of the excavations, certain differences were perceived in the stratigraphy of the villa with peristyle and the part excavated outside the villa.","PeriodicalId":36206,"journal":{"name":"Starinar","volume":"43 1","pages":"231-263"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68823007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
StarinarPub Date : 2014-01-01DOI: 10.2298/sta1464031g
Mario Gavranović, Aleksandar Kapuran
{"title":"Über einige Tüllenbeilvarianten im Zentralbalkan","authors":"Mario Gavranović, Aleksandar Kapuran","doi":"10.2298/sta1464031g","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/sta1464031g","url":null,"abstract":"Im Rahmen der Vorbereitung fur die Gesamtdarstellung der bronzenen Beile aus Serbien konnten einige lokale Formen mit einem begrenzten Verbreitungsradius verzeichnet werden. Es handelt sich in erster Linie um mehrere Varianten der Tullenbeile mit einer arkadenformigen Facettierung auf dem Beilkorper, einer seitlichen Ose und einem verstarkten Tullenwulst mit horizontalen Rippen darunter. Im Bezug auf die Typologie, Verbreitung und den kultur-historischen Kontext sind die meisten der hier prasentierten Funde bislang unzureichend beschrieben. Die charakteristischen Tullenbeile lassen sich vermutlich als Produkte der Werkstatte im Zentralbalkan interpretieren. Wichtig in diesem Zusammenhang sind noch prahistorische Kupferbergwerke, die im Verbreitungsraum der umschriebenen Beile liegen. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br.OI 177020: Archaologie Serbiens: Kulturidentitat, Integrationsfaktoren, technologische Prozesse und die Rolle desMittelbalkans in der Entwicklung europaischer Vorgeschichte]","PeriodicalId":36206,"journal":{"name":"Starinar","volume":"1 1","pages":"31-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68822785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
StarinarPub Date : 2014-01-01DOI: 10.2298/STA1464057B
A. Bulatović
{"title":"New finds as a contribution to the study of the early bronze age in the southern part of the central Balkans","authors":"A. Bulatović","doi":"10.2298/STA1464057B","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/STA1464057B","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, new sites are presented which were explored throughout the protective excavations conducted along the E 75 motorway, as well as new indicative finds from the sites in north-eastern Macedonia. These results will complete the picture of life in the Early Bronze Age communities of the territory of Southern Pomoravlje and Gornja Pcinja, as well as that of their relationship with the neighbouring populations. Of particular importance are the results of the investigation of this territory’s first explored necropolis from this period, which enriched our knowledge of the spiritual life of these communities. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br.OI177020: Archaeology of Serbia: cultural identity, integration factors, technological processes and the role of the Central Balkans in the development of European prehistory]","PeriodicalId":36206,"journal":{"name":"Starinar","volume":"1 1","pages":"57-75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68822804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}