Projects of the Slovak Research and Development Agency (APVV)
Project title: Early medieval centres of power (central Danubian region)
Responsible person: Karol Pieta
Project duration: 1.5.2011 / 30.4.2014
Registration number: 0553-10
Coordinator: Institute of Archaeology of Slovak Academy of Science
Annotation: The field research, progresive natural scientific analysis (as geophysic, micromorphology, dendrodating) as well as the theoretical studies contributed considerably to broadening our knowledge about the historical roots and establishment mechanisms of the centres of production and power. The time and reasons that led to the establishment and extinction of large agglomerations were specified; the economic, strategic and political reasons of their establishment were investigated, as well. To the remarkable contributions belongs the discovery of a new Early Medieval centre of power in upper Nitra valley region. It was determined that also the centres of power of the previous periods of the Celtic and Germanic occupation of the Middle Danubeian region, with remarkable concentration at the territory of Slovakia, originated according to the same principals of demographic and economic growth. The main sites of interest of the research within the project – particularly Nitra and Bojná, with many new finds of material culture, as well as theirpresentation in the form of audiovisual and exhibition projects and model reconstructions – gained considerable response in the society home and abroad in favour of Slovak science. For the large scope of the researched topic, discoveries of new sites and emersion of new problems it was not possible to conclude the research completely and it will be necessary to continue the in-depth investigation on the qualitatively higher level.
Project title: Contribution of Slovakia for Economic and Social Development of European Metal Age
Responsible person: Václav Furmánek
Project duration: 1.7.2012 / 30.6.2015
Registration number: APVV-0736-11
Coordinator: Institute of Archaeology of Slovak Academy of Science
Annotation: Results of the project evaluation have showed enormous potential in the source base of Slovakia for solving the main issues of the dynamics of the historical development in Europe during the Neolithic, Aeneolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages. Large systematic archaeological excavations were followed by their scientific evaluation and publication. Predictive value of this material has been enganced by adequate co-operation with the natural sciences, mainly metallography, anthropology and archaeobotany. These results were published in monographs, proceedings contributions, published home and abroad (see “ the most significant publications”). The significance and contribution of the past populations inhabiting the territory of Slovakia was clearly demonstrated for economic and social development of prehistoric Europe. It was a particularly important for development of non-ferrous metallurgy and the related development of other crafts in the period of the beginning of the earliest occurrence of metal artefacts, through the massive occurrence to the period of metallurgy. The subject cannot be assessed as definitively closed. While solving new issues of prehistory, production, exchange, social structures and more have occurred that need further evaluation in future.
Projects of the Scientific Grant Agency of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Education (VEGA)
Project title: Central settlements of the Final Aeneolithic and the Early Bronze Age in the north-western part of the Carpathian basin and their social and economic background)
Responsible person: Jozef Bátora
Project duration: 1.1.2010 / 31.12.2012
Registration number: 2/0013/10
Coordinator: Institute of Archaeology of Slovak Academy of Science
Project title: Personal ornaments and clothing fittings as a source of archaeologically perceivable cloth, production and distribution activities and mobility of Iron Age communities on the territory of Slovakia
Responsible person: Gertrúda Březinová
Project duration: 1.1.2010 / 31.12.2012
Registration number: 2/0061/10
Coordinator: Institute of Archaeology of Slovak Academy of Science
Project title: Surroundings and economic background of Lengyel-culture circular enclosures in Western Slovakia
Responsible person: Ivan Cheben
Project duration: 1.1.2010 / 31.12.2012
Registration number: 2/0164/10
Coordinator: Institute of Archaeology of Slovak Academy of Science
Project title: Neolithic and Eneolithic upland settlements in the northern part of the Carpathian basin
Responsible person: Gabriel Nevizánsky
Project duration: 1.1.2010 / 31.12.2012
Registration number: 2/0007/10
Coordinator: Institute of Archaeology of Slovak Academy of Science
Project title: Daily life of the castle in the Middle Ages and at the beginning of Modern Period
Responsible person: Peter Bednár
Project duration: 1.1.2011 / 31.12.2013
Registration number: 2/0186/11
Coordinator: Institute of Archaeology of Slovak Academy of Science
Project title: Characteristic properties of components of the material culture from medieval settlements and burial places
Responsible person: Milan Hanuliak
Project duration: 1.1.2011 / 31.12.2013
Registration number: 2/0034/11
Coordinator: Institute of Archaeology of Slovak Academy of Science
Project title: Mobility of hunters-gatherers comunities in the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic on the territory of Slovakia as evidenced by lithic raw materials usage
Responsible person: Ľubomíra Kaminská
Project duration: 1.1.2011 / 31.12.2013
Registration number: 2/0027/11
Coordinator: Institute of Archaeology of Slovak Academy of Science
Project title: Advancement in technologies of glass-crystalline substances in relation to culture and economy of Slovakia in prehistory, protohistory and Early Middle Ages
Responsible person: Klára Marková
Project duration: 1.1.2011 / 31.12.2013
Registration number: 2/0152/11
Coordinator: Institute of Archaeology of Slovak Academy of Science
Project title: Monasteries of the Early Middle Ages
Responsible person: Bibiana Pomfyová/ IA Marián Samuel
Project duration: 1.1.2011 / 31.12.2014
Registration number: 2/0023/11
Coordinator: Institute of Art History
Project title: Courtyards in the 9th – 15th centuries in the mid-Danubian region and their social and economic functions
Responsible person: Alexander T. Ruttkay
Project duration: 1.1.2011 / 31.12.2013
Registration number: 2/0136/11
Coordinator: Institute of Archaeology of Slovak Academy of Science
Project title: Civilization of the Urnfield Cultures in Slovakia
Responsible person: Václav Furmánek
Project duration: 1.1.2012 / 31.12.2015
Registration number: 2/0098/12
Coordinator: Institute of Archaeology of Slovak Academy of Science
Project title: From a Detail to a Whole. Reflexion of Current Needs of Archaeological Research in the Early Middle Ages
Responsible person: Gabriel Fusek
Project duration: 1.1.2012 / 31.12.2014
Registration number: 2/0050/12
Coordinator: Institute of Archaeology of Slovak Academy of Science
Project title: Diversification of settlement in Šarišské podolie and Košice Basin from
Prehistory to Early Period
Responsible person: Eva Horváthová
Project duration: 1.1.2012 / 31.12.2014
Registration number: 2/0047/12
Coordinator: Institute of Archaeology of Slovak Academy of Science
Project title: Contribution of East European nomadic groups to shaping of cultural-historical development of Slovakia in the Hallstatt period
Responsible person: Elena Miroššayová
Project duration: 1.1.2012 / 31.12.2014
Registration number: 2/0051/12
Coordinator: Institute of Archaeology of Slovak Academy of Science
Project title: Between the Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Ethnic-Cultural Relations in the Middle Danubian Region from the Celtic Occupation till the Beginning of the Middle Ages
Responsible person: Karol Pieta
Project duration: 1.1.2012 / 31.12.2014
Registration number: 2/0117/12
Coordinator: Institute of Archaeology of Slovak Academy of Science
Project title: Creating databases and e-publishing archaeological sources from the Roman kastel in Iža
Responsible person: Ján Rajtár
Project duration: 1.1.2012 / 31.12.2014
Registration number: 1/0058/12
Coordinator: Trnava University, Classical Archaeology
Project title: Migration – Acculturation – Mobility – Trade in the Late Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages in the Area of Slovakia
Responsible person: Matej Ruttkay
Project duration: 1.1.2012 / 31.12.2015
Registration number: 2/0189/12
Coordinator: Institute of Archaeology of Slovak Academy of Science
Project title: Archeo Genetic research of the contact zone of the 10th century in Slovakia
Responsible person: Alexander T. Ruttkay
Project duration: 1.1.2012 / 31.12.2014
Registration number: 1/0897/12
Coordinator: Institute of Archaeology of Slovak Academy of Science
Project title: Fortified settlements in the Early Bronze Age in Slovakia – centers of production, distribution, exchange, cult and residence of social elite?
Responsible person: Jozef Bátora
Project duration: 1.1.2013 / 31.12.2015
Registration number: 2/0036/13
Coordinator: Institute of Archaeology of Slovak Academy of Science
Project title: Polished industry of Slovakia´s Neolith and Eneolith in the Context of Central Europe´s Raw Material Resources
Responsible person: Ivan Cheben
Project duration: 1.1.2013 / 31.12.2015
Registration number: 2/0147/13
Coordinator: Institute of Archaeology of Slovak Academy of Science
Project title: Edition of archaeological sources from the Neolithic and Eneolithic periods in Slovakia
Responsible person: Gabriel Nevizánsky
Project duration: 1.1.2013 / 31.12.2015
Registration number: 2/0063/13
Coordinator: Institute of Archaeology of Slovak Academy of Science
Project title: Medieval burials in Nitra region
Responsible person: Peter Bednár
Project duration: 1.1.2014 / 31.12.2017
Registration number: 2/0156/14
Coordinator: Institute of Archaeology of Slovak Academy of Science
Project title: Life in the border region. Settlement patterns in the foreground and background of the Pannonian limit from the younger Iron Age after the end of antiquity
Responsible person: Gertrúda Březinová
Project duration: 1.1.2014 / 31.12.2016
Registration number: 1/0045/14
Coordinator: Trnava University, Classical Archaeology
Project title: Material culture and its contribution to reconstruction of life and burial practices in medieval society
Responsible person: Milan Hanuliak
Project duration: 1.1.2014 / 31.12.2016
Registration number: 2/0044/14
Coordinator: Institute of Archaeology of Slovak Academy of Science
Project title: Technology and economics of raw materials in the context of the Palaeolithic in the Middle Danube region
Responsible person: Bibiána Hromadová
Project duration: 1.1.2014 / 31.12.2017
Registration number: 2/0181/14
Coordinator: Institute of Archaeology of Slovak Academy of Science
Registration number: 2/0032/15
Project duration: 01/2015 – 12/2017
Project title: Profiling of settlement enclaves on long distance communications in the northern part of the Carpathian Basin
Responsible person: PhDr. Elena Miroššayová, CSc.
Annotation:
The project focuses on solving the topic of creation of settlement enclaves on the routes of arterial roads in the regions with different parametres of natural environment, cultural development and various contacts. it evaluates their position on the basis of available resources within a wider cultural-chronological context of the northern part of the Carpathian Basin in the time period from the end of the Bronze Age to the late La Tene period.
Registration number: 2/0030/15
Project duration: 01/2015 – 12/2017
Project title: Structure and determinants of settlement of the Eastern Slovakia on the background of natural, cultural and social conditions in the Prehistoric Times to the Early Modern Period
Responsible person: PhDr. Eva Horváthová, CSc.
Annotation:
The project focuses on solving the topic of creation of settlement enclaves on the routes of arterial roads in the regions with different parametres of natural environment, cultural development and various contacts. it evaluates their position on the basis of available resources within a wider cultural-chronological context of the northern part of the Carpathian Basin in the time period from the end of the Bronze Age to the late La Tene period.
Registration number: 2/0121/15
Project duration: 01/2015 – 12/2017
Project title: Power structures of the Early History and Early Medieval archaeological sources
Responsible person: PhDr. Karol Pieta, DrSc.
Registration number: 2/0170/15
Project duration: 01/2015 – 12/2017
Project title: New findings of Numismatic heritage in relation to Archaeological and Historical sources
Responsible person: PhDr. Ján Hunka, CSc.
Registration number: 2/0150/15
Project duration: 01/2015 – 12/2017
Project title: Raw materials and technology in the early historical period in Slovakia
Responsible person: PhDr. Ján Rajtár, CSc.
Registration number: 1/0346/15
Project duration: 01/2015 – 12/2017
Project title: Kastel in Iža – part of Limes Romanus in Slovakia
Responsible person: PhDr. Ján Rajtár, CSc.
Registration number: 1/0208/15
Project duration: 01/2015 – 12/2017
Project title: Man and Mountains over the time- from the Prehistoric fortification to the Medieval Castles
Responsible person: PhDr. Ján Beljak, PhD.
Projects of SAS Centres of Excellence
Project title: Ancient Slovakia: History of Slovakia from its prehistory to the High Middle Ages
Responsible person: Václav Furmánek
Project duration: 1 February 2009 / 31 January 2013
Registration number: 166/E/075/2009
Coordinator: Institute of Archaeology of Slovak Academy of Science
Number of co-solving institutions: 8 – Austria: 2, Czech Republic: 3, Hungary: 3
The project was focused on presentation and summarization of exceptional achievements of Slovak archaeology within terrain research as well as in the theoretical field. Nine project teams were created to separately elaborate and publish results of key investigations from the territory of Slovakia in numerous monographs and studies. They cover the time span from prehistory, through early history through the Middle Ages to the beginning of early modern history.
National projects supported by EU Structural Funds
Project title: Centre for the Research into the Oldest history of the Middle Danube River Basin
Responsible person: Matej Ruttkay
Project duration: 28 October 2010 / 31 March 2015
Registration number: 26220120059
Coordinator: Institute of Archaeology of Slovak Academy of Science
Number of co-solving institutions: 0
The project was focused on investigation, preferentially non-destructive surveys of archaeological sites of Slovakia and rescue of cultural heritage. ISAU – an information system containing information on archaeological investigations in Slovakia since 1939 when the Institute was founded – was created. A technological centre for detection of archaeological sites by means of modern methods was established. Extensive series of non-destructive surveys were carried out as a base for elaboration of detailed archaeological maps (Spiš, Zemplín, lower Hron region, Ipeľ region, upper Žitava region). For the first time, LIDAR scans were intensely used to make multiple new discoveries. A new discipline was developed – 3D archaeology, restoration and conservation laboratories were updated. Successful solving of the project was a break point in the material and technical equipment of the Institute which was promoted to the top European level. Simultaneously, numerous new investigation methods were tested involving interdisciplinary domestic as well as international research. Our knowledge of the ancient development of selected regions was considerably changed. A collection of monographs and scientific studies as well as new international research cooperations are the results.
Project title: Completion of the state-of-the-art workplace for research and development in the field of protection and rescue of the cultural heritage of Slovakia
Responsible person: Ivan Cheben
Project duration: 15. January 2014 / 30 Jun 2015
Registration number: NFP 26210120123
Coordinator: Institute of Archaeology of Slovak Academy of Science
Number of co-solving institutions: 0
The goal of the project was to improve quality of the technical infrastructure and thus, increase the ability of the insitution to effectively cooperate with research institutios in the European Union. During the project, it was possible to reconstruct and modernize laboratories, ICT networks and equipment. New scientific depositories were built where archaeological cultural heritage is safely deposited. New software was purchased to support non-destructive surveys and demanding processing of 3D data. Within this project, a programme for collecting information on archaeological finds (find situation, depositing, chemical interventions, restoration, lendings, principles of protection, etc.) was developed and is now integrally connected with the Information system of the Institute of Archaeology of SAS.
Project title: Preservation and revitalization of cultural and natural heritage and Supporting diversity in culture and art within the European cultural heritage
Responsible person: Matej Ruttkay
Project duration: 15 October 2014 / 29 February 2016
Registration number: SKOS – CLT02004
Coordinator: Bratislava, the capital of SR
Number of co-solving institutions: 3
In close cooperation with Bratislava as the capital of the Slovak Republic, we participate in the scientific research, renovation and revitalization of one of the most eminent monuments in Slovakia – the castle of Devín.