•First published isotopic tracing of humans in Slovenia.•Baseline measurements on small archaeological animals.•Out of 32 analysed samples a few of the highest/lowest values might be ...non-local.•Individual with one of the earliest LBA iron objects was very likely a foreigner.•The majority of non-locals can be dated to the very beginning of the EIA period.
The cemetery at Dvorišče SAZU in Ljubljana, Slovenia, was in use for a long period, continuously from the Late Bronze Age into the Early Iron Age. More than 300 excavated graves offer a great potential for the analysis and discussion of chronological issues, demography, social inequalities, funeral attires, as well as burial customs within the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age societies. This site was thus chosen as a reference point for our pilot study on mobility and migration in prehistoric Slovenia. The article presents results of the analysis of strontium isotopes (87Sr/86Sr) performed on the 32 cremated petrous part of the temporal bone (pars petrosa) from the cemetery Dvorišče SAZU in Ljubljana and 9 animal bones of small mammals from other sites in the region for baseline information. The stable isotope analysis and the study of mobility in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age presented here is one of the first such investigations involving the osteological material from the south-eastern Alpine region.
Richard Klemen was the first teacher of enzymology at the University of Ljubljana. His early career in Ljubljana ended in January 1942 when he moved to Vienna, Austria. During the war he conducted ...experiments that led him to describe the so-called Hofmann-Klemen effect in clay. Later he was a research assistant and titular associate professor in the field of biochemical technology at the Vienna Technical University and finally a lecturer at the University of Natural Resources in Vienna. His life is an interesting example of a scientist and educator whose Gottscheer German origin would probably prevent him from continuing his career in post-war Yugoslavia. At the same time, he did not achieve in Austria the positions and status that his former colleagues and students had achieved in Slovenia. Although he was almost forgotten, he remains important as the first trained enzymologist and teacher of enzymology in Slovenia. This article also presents his full bibliography.
The 14 April 1895 (Mw 6.1, in the area of Ljubljana, Slovenia) earthquake is still not fully understood. The aim of this work is to derive information about its source from the inversion of an ...updated dataset of intensities (evaluated with EMS-98). This was done via automatic non-linear geophysical inversion
KF-NGA
, which was performed using a Niching Genetic Algorithm and has been presented in other articles. The distribution of damage caused by this earthquake is not homogeneous and often shows significant intensity differences between neighbouring sites. Statistical analysis of the intensities, epicentral distances and geologic nature of the sites suggests some site effects. Nevertheless, the resulting solution is consistent with regional seismotectonics, i.e. an almost pure dip-slip mechanism: strike 282° ± 5°, dip 38° ± 7°, rake 86° ± 9° (± 180° because of the intrinsic ambiguity of the
KF-NGA
-inversion). Since the rake angle is close to 90°, there is an almost perfect ambiguity between the two planes of the focal mechanism. Therefore, our solution has a Dinaric direction and could be associated either with a fault plane that dips NE or with one that dips SW.
The study area is located in cental Slovenia, and geologically located at the junction between the Alps and the Dinarides. The Middle Triassic of this region is characterised by intense rifting ...manifested by differential subsidence and volcanism. This led to a major paleogeographic reorganisation of the region, where three paleogeographic domains formed in the Upper Triassic: The Julian Carbonate Platform in the north, the intermediate Slovenian Basin, both parts of the Southern Alps, and the Dinaric (Adriatic, Friuli) Carbonate Platform in the south, which today is a part of the External Dinarides that host the area of investigation. Prior to the installation of the Dinaric Carbonate Platfrom, i.e. in the Ladinian, the entire area of the preset-day External Dinarides broke up into numerous tectonic blocks that were exposed to either erosion or continental, shallow-marine, and deep-marine sedimentation. In this study, we analyse at small scale a complex transitional area between a local carbonate platform and the Kobilji curek basin (depositional area dominated by deeper marine sediments), located in the Rute Plateau in central Slovenia south of Ljubljana. During enhanced subsidence, the basin was filled with volcanic material (tuffs and volcanogenic clays and subordinate extrusive material), while the adjacent platform aggraded. The slope was positioned above active paleofaults. During relative sea level lowstand, the platform prograded across the basin. The study area is divided into four major tectonic paleoblocks. The NW paleoblock experienced the most enhanced subsidence, and the platform prograded twice in this area and was submerged again by the rejuvenated subsidence and/or sea-level rise. The second and third paleoblocks subsided only during discrete major subsidence events, and the carbonates of the platform and slope were soon reinstated therein. In the fourth paleoblock to the east the platform persisted during the Ladinian. In the Carnian, the entire study area became emerged, and continental clastics were deposited. These were then replaced by a uniform shallow marine/intertidal Hauptdolomit (Dolomia Principale) formation at the onset of the Norian. This study provides the first detailed reconstruction of the sedimentary evolution of small-scale Ladinian basin and platforms system in the northern External Dinarides.
The contribution presents the results of a comprehensive study of the Late Copper Age Deschmann’s pile-dwelling sites near Ig in the Ljubljansko barje, central Slovenia. It opens with a history of ...research and goes on to tackle the main topics associated with the cultural attribution of the sites. A re-examination of the recovered pottery and available archival records, coupled with a new typological and chronological analysis of the small finds has enabled a cultural and chronological redefinition of the Ljubljana culture and its characteristic pottery. In addition to the typical vessel forms, usually decorated with whipped-cord impressions, the newly-defined Ljubljana culture includes common ware that reveals influences primarily from the Somogyvár-Vinkovci culture in the Carpathian Basin. Some of the vessels of the Ljubljana culture also follow the tradition of the Vučedol culture, while others reflect the influences and maybe contacts with the Corded Ware, Globular Amphora and Bell Beaker cultures.
The article examines how the policies of international cultural exchange of socialist Yugoslavia are reflected at the level of biennial crossroads, using the example of the Ljubljana International ...Biennial of Graphic Arts (IBGA). Our research is based on the analysis of archival materials, existing literature, and interviews with the participants of the Biennial in the studied period. The Cuban example is highlighted in this paper to examine the example of the renowned designer and graphic artist Félix Beltrán to show that there was no firm international cultural policy on the Yugoslavian institutional level. With the transition to market socialism and the liberalization with which Yugoslavia began to approach the Western capitalist economy, something similar happened at the level of international cultural policy. The West held the leading position in global cultural politics, which managed to preserve capitalism and make it part of the culture with its hegemonic cultural code. This also announced the beginning of the decline of international socialist history, which was very noticeable in the field of cultural crossings, such as biennials.
“The Disappearing Tombstone and Other Stories from Emona” is a collection of ten stories about real people, who once lived in Emona or the surrounding countryside. These stories shed light on the ...everyday lives and often highly unusual fates of these people. The eleventh story reveals why the Romans believed that Emona had been founded by Jason and his Argonauts. The myth would lead later historians to believe that Emona was older than Rome.The stories are based on the inscriptions from Roman funerary and other monuments, which are kept the lapidarium of the National Museum of Slovenia and in the City Museum of Ljubljana (MGML). The booklet is partly a result of the EAGLE project (“Europeana Network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy”) and partly of the programme “Archaeological Investigations” of the Institute of Archaeology ZRC SAZU.