We are deeply affected by the terrible tragedy in Prague. We express our sincere condolences to the parents, relatives, teachers and students of Charles University.
staff of the Institute of Archaeology of the SAS
‘At the ‘Danubius Awards 2023,’ several researchers from regions traversed by the Danube River were honoured for their academic achievements. On October 19, researchers who significantly contributed to the development of the Danube region were recognized. Our colleague, Mgr. Dominika Oravkinová, PhD., received the ‘Danubius Young Scientist Award.’
The ‘Danubius Award’ assessment was established in 2011 to commend individuals who have excelled in their dedication to the Danube region through their academic work or cultural creations.
This award is open to all disciplines and, among other things, helps promote the involvement of young scientists in research and cultural creation related to the Danube River basin. The awards are granted by an independent expert jury. These awards also contribute to the implementation of the European Union strategy for the Danube Region, adopted by the European Parliament in 2011.
We warmly congratulate Dominika!
PhD studies topics starting in 2023. For further information, you can find it here: https://www.ff.ukf.sk/23-studium/doktorandske-studium
PhD studies topics starting in 2023, the exact date of the admission procedure will be specified. It will probably take place in June 2023. For further information, you can contact us at: nrausekr@savba.sk or here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/102557
On September 27–29 2022 the 41st international conference Questions of the Neolithic and Eneolithic of our countries will take place in Palárikovo.
V dňoch 27.–29. septembra 2022 sa v Poľovníckom kaštieli Palárikovo uskutoční 41. medzinárodná konferencia Otázky neolitu a eneolitu našich krajín.
The international research team of archaeologists composed of the experts from the Institute of Archaeology (SAS) and the Christian Albrecht’s Universität zu Kiel has researched one of the biggest Central-European settlement agglomerations dated to the Neolithic. The team has been excavating the site for 7 seasons. The settlement existed between 5250–4950 B. C. The three discovered settlements spread over the area of around 50 ha. One of them was fortified with one, maybe even two ditches in the last phase of settlement. This situation is very rare in Central Europe during the Neolithic. Geophysical research has revealed more than 300 long houses. The archaeologists estimate that 50-70 houses were used contemporarily in individual chronological phases.
Already in the past seasons, regular graves around and in the ditch were discovered, but the archaeologists also unearthed skeletons thrown in the bottom of the ditch. This year, an accumulation of human bones was uncovered in the trench near one of the entrances, from which at least 35 skeletons were recovered. The bodies lay in different positions – on the back, on the stomach, on the side, some were found in the stretched “frog position.” All individuals were without head, only one child skull and one mandible were discovered. Peri-mortem fractures were recorded on some of the bones.
Only few accompanying findings were found at the bodies. An interesting found is represented by drilled human teeth, which could have been a component part of some amulets. So far it seems that there were many adolescents and young individuals buried in the trench.
Now, the international interdisciplinary team is about to perform a set of additional analyses which will help us to solve issues such as whether the individuals were intentionally killed, if they were victims of an epidemic event, represent the remains of cult ceremonies, whether they had some mutual genetic links to each other, if their heads were severed intentionally (cut off, chopped off) or post-mortem. Consequently, we will be able to solve other questions regarding social classification and emerging social differentiation in the conditions of early agricultural societies. And maybe we will be able to reconstruct the way the Neolithic society worked and reveal the reason of the fall of this extensive agglomeration.
Authors of text: Ivan Cheben, Zuzana Hukeľová, Matej Ruttkay (Archeologický ústav SAV, v. v. i.), Martin Furholt, Maria Wunderlich (Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel)
Head of archaeological research representing the Institute of Archeology (SAS), Nitra: PhDr. Ivan Cheben, CSc.
Head of archaeological research representing the Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology, Christian Albrecht’s Universität zu Kiel: Prof. Dr. Martin Furholt.
The research is carried out in the framework of projects DFG (CRC 1266), APVV a VEGA and with support of the Institute of Archeology (SAS)
On 30th of June 2022, a ceremony was held at the SAS Congress Centre in Smolenice, where the Slovak Academy of Sciences awards for outstanding achievements in scientific research, international scientific and technical cooperation and popularisation of science were presented.
The Slovak Academy of Sciences award for popularization of science and social applications of science was awarded by prof. RNDr. Pavol Šajgalík, DrSc., the President of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, to: PhDr. Karol Pieta, DrSc., doc. PhDr. Matej Ruttkay, CSc., Mgr. Tereza Štolcová, PhD., Mgr. Zbigniew Robak, PhD., from the Institute of Archaeology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, and to Róbert Benkovits, Marína Juríčková and Jozef Chudík from RTVS (Radio and Television of Slovakia) for the series of popular scientific documentary films “Slovak Archaeologists,” which in an accessible way brought to the public significant Slovak and foreign archaeological sites mapped by Slovak experts.
All documentaries about Slovak Archaeologists can be viewed in the RTVS archive:
Bojná hillfort
https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/14735/201018
Princely grave from Poprad
https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/14735/201677
https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/14735/202258
Excavation of Slovak team in Guatemala
https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/12595/136059
https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/12595/137242
https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/12595/139063
https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/12595/140372
https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/12595/142089
Archaelogists in Sudan (Duwejm Wad Hadž)
https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/18253/300110
https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/18253/300149
https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/18253/300224
https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/18253/300814
On July 6–9 2022 the 4th international conference Early Iron Age in Central Europe will take place in Nitra.
4th international conference Early Iron Age in Central Europe
V dňoch 6.–9. júla 2022 sa v Nitre uskutoční 4. medzinárodná konferencia Early Iron Age in Central Europe (Staršia doba železná v strednej Európe).
4. medzinárodná konferencia Early Iron Age in Central Europe
The Institute of Archaeology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (founded in 1939) is a modern workplace that currently employs more than 70 professional and scientific staff – archaeologists, but also colleagues from several collaborating natural science disciplines. For more information about the department, see www. sav.sk/Science groups/Historical sciences/Institute of Archaeology; www. archeol.sav.sk.
The Institute is an independent education centre for three (Constantine The Philosopher University in Nitra) and four-year (Comenius university, Bratislava) studies in external and internal mode in the field of archaeology in conjunction with several Slovak universities. Upon successful graduation, the doctoral student receives the title “Philosophiae doctor” (PhD.) Currently, internal doctoral students receive a tax-free scholarship of 807 € per month during the first part of study and 940 € per month after a successful dissertation examination. Doctoral students supervised by renowned supervisors have good working conditions at the institute and are usually immediately involved in research projects, which improves their communication in the research area, work mobility and material and technical equipment.
The thesis topics offered are based on the needs of contemporary archaeological research in the Central European area and can be a good start to systematic scientific work for their future researchers.
More information about study:
Constantine The Philosopher University in Nitra
Comenius university, Bratislava
Call for Papers EAA 2020 Budapest 26th-30th August
Session: #261 Archaeology of Central Places in Europe: Power, Christianity and Funeral Rituals
Theme & Session Format
Theme:
6. Embedded in European archaeology: the Carpathian Basin
Session format:
Regular session
Title & Content
Title:
Archaeology of Central Places in Europe: Power, Christianity and Funeral Rituals