Lectures by prominent archaeologists at the Historical Institute




Lectures by prominent archaeologists at the Historical Institute

Lectures by prominent scientists and archaeologists will be held on Tuesday, April 12, 2022, at 11 am in the library of the Historical Institute.

Gilliane Monnier, Gilbert Tostevin The lives of the Neanderthals at Crvena Stijena

Blagoje Govedarica, Sacral symbolism of the circle and ideological significance of grave tumuli

 

Prof. Dr. Gilliane Monnier is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. She has published over 25 articles and book chapters and received a Fulbright Scholarship to stay in Israel 2016-17 and Montenegro 2020-21 (postponed to 2021-22). Her research was supported by the National Science Foundation and the Minnesota Historical Society. Her research interests are focused on the evolution of Neanderthals; in particular, it seeks to elucidate the evolution of Neanderthal behavior through analysis of their stone tools and other evidence of their activities at Paleolithic sites across Europe. Since 2018, he has been jointly managing (with Gil Tostevin and Goran Pajović from the National Museum of Montenegro) archaeological research on Crvena Stijena in Montenegro. This site records the most enduring human habitat in the Balkans and contains important information for our understanding of Neanderthal adaptations in Southeast Europe. At the University of Minnesota, Monnier teaches Introduction to Archeology, Introduction to Human Evolution, Neanderthals, Experimental Archeology, Microarchaeology, and Anthropological Research Design.

Prof. Dr. Gilbert Tostevin is also a professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. He has published the book Seeing Lithics: A Middle-Range Theory for Testing for Cultural Transmission in the Pleistocene (2012, Oxbow Press & Peabody Museum, Harvard University), and over 30 articles and book chapters. His archaeological research at Paleolithic sites in the Czech Republic and Montenegro has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Leakey Foundation. His research interests include a comparative study of the evolution of Neanderthal and early modern human behavior, particularly through the study of cultural transmission and other adaptive processes involving lithic technology.

Prof. Dr. Blagoje Govedarica graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade in 1973 with a degree in archeology and Illyrian studies, where he received his master's degree in 1980. He received his doctorate from the same faculty in 1988. He defended his habilitation at the University of Heidelberg in 2000, with which he received a license for higher education (venia legendi). In 1973, he began working at the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo in the fields of archeology, protection and preservation of cultural monuments. The subject of his research is the Eneolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages in Eurasia. Since 1992, he has been working in Germany, where, in addition to scientific research, he is also engaged in pedagogical work, as a professor at the universities of Heidelberg and Berlin. He conducted archeological excavations at more than 50 archeological sites in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, FR Germany, Moldova and Ukraine. So far, he has published about 120 scientific papers, as well as three monographs. Since 2001, he has been the editor-in-chief of the magazine Godišnjak / Jahrbuch in Sarajevo. He is a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of BiH and the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin. Although he retired in 2016, Blagoje Govedarica is still active as a part-time professor at the Free University of Berlin and as the Director of the Center for Balkan Studies of ANUBiH in Sarajevo.

The lectures are open to the public.

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