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Month: April 2025

We invite you to the International Conference Neolithic and Eneolithic of Our Countries 2025

Registration for the 44th International Conference on the Neolithic and Eneolithic of Central Europe is open. We would like to welcome all those who wish to share their findings from rescue or systematic archaeological investigations, material culture studies, thematic syntheses, and finally student theses.

In its 44th year, the conference returns to Slovakia. It is organised by the Institute of Archaeology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the Zemplín Museum in Michalovce in cooperation with the Slovak Archaeological Society. It will take place from 23rd September to 25th September 2025 in the premises of the Zemplín Museum in Michalovce (map). The programme will consist of two days of lectures, a social evening and a full-day excursion, during which we will present the area of Zemplín with its rich Neolithic and Eneolithic settlement.

We welcome either topic-specific talks accompanied by a *.ppt presentation with a maximum length of 15 min, or colour-printed posters in DIN A0 format (841 x 1189 mm). Talks can be presented in Slovak, Czech and Polish, or in English or German.

Registration is a prerequisite for participation, the registration form in PDF form can be downloaded here. The application form can be sent to the email address neolit.eneolit2025@gmail.com until 31st May 2025. Participation is also conditional on sending an abstract of the presentation/poster in your native language and in English (recommended length 300-500 words). These abstracts will be published in book form, both in print and electronic versions.

Registered participants will receive a preliminary conference and field trip programme during July 2025. The final version of the programme will be published on the website in August 2025 and circulated to registered participants.

The conference fee was set at 65 €, discount for students (Bc., Mgr., PhD) at 30 €. The amount covers the cost of conference room and equipment rental, refreshments during breaks, a social evening, as well as travel costs and entrance fees during the excursion. Further information on the method of payment will be provided to registered participants.

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PhD studies (2025)

PhD studies topics starting in 2025, the exact date of the admission procedure will be specified. It will probably take place in June 2025.

Faculty of Arts, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra,  3 years

Historical sciences,

study programme: Archaeology

For further information, you can contact us at: https://ff.ukf.sk/studium/doktorandske-studium/

Closing date for applications: 31.5.2025

 

1. FF UKF Nitra (3-ročné štúdium denné)

Topic:  Social structure of Germanic communities in the old Roman period on the basis of graves and burial sites in western Slovakia

Supervisor: prof. PhDr. Eduard Droberjar, PhD. (droberjar@seznam.cz)

Date of admission: Juny 2025

Annotation: 

The aim of the dissertation will be to create a model of the structure of Germanic society based on analyses (typological-chronological, chorological, anthropological and sociological) of large burial sites (Abrahám, Kostolná pri Dunaji, Sládkovičovo), other smaller necropolises and isolated graves from the older Roman period in western Slovakia. An integral part will be a comparison of the findings with the results of research at other burial sites within the Elbe-Germanic cultural circle (Moravia, Bohemia, Central Germany).

 

2. FF UKF Nitra

Topic: Animal husbandry in the Roman period in western Slovakia

Supervisor: Mgr. Branislav Kovár, PhD.

Consultant: Mgr. Zora Bielichová

Date of admission: Juny 2025

Annotation:

The dissertation project deals with the part of the Roman period economy related to animal husbandry, livestock production, and food of animal origin in the Germanic and Roman Provincial milieu north of the Danube. The main aim is to contribute to the debate on animal husbandry strategies in the context of changing Roman-Germanic relations and the differentiated structure of Germanic society in the Central Danube area. The work also intends to capture the manifestations of the Romanization of the Quadi, e.g., in animal husbandry techniques or in the diet of the “barbarians”. The animal bone remains are the main sources of knowledge, considering the available archaeological, historical, and archaeobotanical sources. One of the contributions of the thesis is the processing of extensive, previously unpublished, bone assemblages from key Quadi sites in western Slovakia using modern analytical methods of archaeozoological research.

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