Projects / Programmes
The zooarchaeological research of Eneolithic sites in Slovenia
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 6.02.00 |
Humanities |
Archaeology |
|
| Code |
Science |
Field |
| H340 |
Humanities |
Archaeology |
zooarchaeology, Eneolithic, taphonomy, biometry, biostatistics
Researchers (2)
| no. |
Code |
Name and surname |
Research area |
Role |
Period |
No. of publicationsNo. of publications |
| 1. |
20222 |
PhD Borut Toškan |
Humanities |
Researcher |
2005 - 2007 |
404 |
| 2. |
15155 |
PhD Anton Velušček |
Humanities |
Head |
2005 - 2007 |
357 |
Organisations (1)
Abstract
The project will deal with the zooarchaeological research of Eneolithic sites in Slovenia, focusing on pile-dwelling settlements in Ljubljana Moor.
In the framework of the research the following analyses will be performed: the determination and appropriate quantification of finds (including finding the proportion of individual anatomical regions of the main taxons), composition of the age structure of the killed animals on the tooth wear and proportion of unfused epiphyse(s) basis, estimation of the sex ratio, the analysis of the fragmentation of finds including the study of places and frequencies of appearance of cut-marks and chop-marks, quantification of burnt and gnawed fragments and analysis of pathologic deformation of cattle bones due to exploitation of the abovementioned species as draught animals. A special attention will be paid to the integration of the processing results of material obtained by probing and the material collected during the examination of the drainage trenches, when sampling the wood for the dendrochronological research; the advantage of the first is the representativeness of individual species and skeleton elements in the probe-trench area, the other is important because of the intra-site variability estimation. The final interpretation will include the findings in the context of a wider area and set the cultural – historic framework. The research will therefore have an archaeological implication, since it will help us become aware of the spectre of activities inside the settlement and/or group of settlements and contribute to the understanding the archaeological settling pattern changes.
