Bogdana Milic
I received my BA and MA degree in Prehistoric archaeology from Belgrade University, and carried out additional studies at the Institute for Pre- and Proto History and the Near Eastern Archaeology in Heidelberg. I defended my PhD in 2018 at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen (Thesis title: Lithics and Neolithisation. Çukuriçi Höyük in Anatolia and the Aegean).
From 2013-2016 I was working as an Early Stage Researcher within a Marie Curie ITN – BEAN project (Bridging the European and Anatolian Neolithic) at Istanbul University, at the Department of Prehistory. From 2016-2020 I was employed as a researcher at OREA Institute, at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, with the research focus on the Neolithisation processes in the Near East, Aegean and Balkans. My main research is based on lithic technologies, as well as on the correlation between technological aspect of production and raw materials, obsidian in particular. I am investigating the spread of pressure blade making outside of the Near East, by using different methodologies and case studies from western Anatolia, Northern Greece and Central Balkans.
I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at Koç University, Archaeology and History of Art Department in Istanbul, where I am working on the project focusing on understanding connections and boundaries amongst first farmers of western Anatolia based on stone tool production and use of obsidian.
From 2013-2016 I was working as an Early Stage Researcher within a Marie Curie ITN – BEAN project (Bridging the European and Anatolian Neolithic) at Istanbul University, at the Department of Prehistory. From 2016-2020 I was employed as a researcher at OREA Institute, at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, with the research focus on the Neolithisation processes in the Near East, Aegean and Balkans. My main research is based on lithic technologies, as well as on the correlation between technological aspect of production and raw materials, obsidian in particular. I am investigating the spread of pressure blade making outside of the Near East, by using different methodologies and case studies from western Anatolia, Northern Greece and Central Balkans.
I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at Koç University, Archaeology and History of Art Department in Istanbul, where I am working on the project focusing on understanding connections and boundaries amongst first farmers of western Anatolia based on stone tool production and use of obsidian.
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the backbone for the creation of spatio-temporal models and the formation of an SQL database, all with the goal of creating the interpretative basis for the study of local paleo-economies, long-distance connections, and social networks in the Central Balkans during the Copper and Bronze Age
http://journals.ed.ac.uk/lithicstudies/article/view/3093
The focus of this paper are the stone tools of Çukuriçi Höyük, a prehistoric site situated at the central Aegean coast of Anatolia. The settlement was inhabited from the Neolithic, through the Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age 1 periods, a period lasting from the early 7th to the early 3rd millennium BCE. A long-term interdisciplinary study of the excavated lithics with different scientific methods on various stone materials (thin section analysis, pXRF, NAA, LA-ICP-MS) offer new primary data about the procurement strategies of prehistoric societies from a diachronic perspective. The results will be presented for the first time with an overview of all source materials and their distinct use through time.
The lithic assemblages from Çukuriçi Höyük consist of a considerable variety of small finds, grinding stones and chipped stone tools. The high variability of raw materials within the different categories of tools is remarkable. In addition to stone tools manufactured from sources in the immediate vicinity of the settlement (i.e., mica-schist, limestone, marble, amphibolite, serpentinite), others are of rock types such as chert, which indicate an origin within the broader region. Moreover, volcanic rocks, notably the exceptionally high amount of Melian obsidian found at Çukuriçi Höyük, attest to the supra-regional procurement of distinct rock types. Small stone axes made of jadeite presumably from the Greek island of Syros, also indicate these far-reaching procurement strategies.
The systematic and diachronic analyses of the stone tools found at Çukuriçi Höyük has demonstrated that as early as the Neolithic period extensive efforts were made to supply the settlement with carefully selected raw materials or finished goods procured from distinct rock sources.
Challenges encountered by ECRs typically include job insecurity, imposed mobility, as well as a lack of research freedom, independence and results ownership. Employment precarity is being exacerbated by a trend of casualisation and short fixed-term contracts in academia, as well as a culture of publish-or-perish even during periods of under- or un-employment. Pressures on ECRs working in archaeology are compounded by the fact that archaeology is a small, competitive field, with no standard ethical practices regarding, for instance, recognition of contribution to archaeological fieldwork and authorship. As a result of these worsening trends, ECRs feel increasingly under-represented and under-supported in archaeology. The European Association of Archaeologists wishes to address these troubling trends with the establishment of the ERCA Task Force.
The aim of this task force will be to work in close collaboration with the EAA Executive Board on the elaboration of a series of recommendations to improve early research careers in archaeology and address their consequences, including on mental health and life quality, with a view to provide support, level the playing field and make ECRs feel heard and empowered.
Posters by Bogdana Milic
the backbone for the creation of spatio-temporal models and the formation of an SQL database, all with the goal of creating the interpretative basis for the study of local paleo-economies, long-distance connections, and social networks in the Central Balkans during the Copper and Bronze Age
http://journals.ed.ac.uk/lithicstudies/article/view/3093
The focus of this paper are the stone tools of Çukuriçi Höyük, a prehistoric site situated at the central Aegean coast of Anatolia. The settlement was inhabited from the Neolithic, through the Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age 1 periods, a period lasting from the early 7th to the early 3rd millennium BCE. A long-term interdisciplinary study of the excavated lithics with different scientific methods on various stone materials (thin section analysis, pXRF, NAA, LA-ICP-MS) offer new primary data about the procurement strategies of prehistoric societies from a diachronic perspective. The results will be presented for the first time with an overview of all source materials and their distinct use through time.
The lithic assemblages from Çukuriçi Höyük consist of a considerable variety of small finds, grinding stones and chipped stone tools. The high variability of raw materials within the different categories of tools is remarkable. In addition to stone tools manufactured from sources in the immediate vicinity of the settlement (i.e., mica-schist, limestone, marble, amphibolite, serpentinite), others are of rock types such as chert, which indicate an origin within the broader region. Moreover, volcanic rocks, notably the exceptionally high amount of Melian obsidian found at Çukuriçi Höyük, attest to the supra-regional procurement of distinct rock types. Small stone axes made of jadeite presumably from the Greek island of Syros, also indicate these far-reaching procurement strategies.
The systematic and diachronic analyses of the stone tools found at Çukuriçi Höyük has demonstrated that as early as the Neolithic period extensive efforts were made to supply the settlement with carefully selected raw materials or finished goods procured from distinct rock sources.
Challenges encountered by ECRs typically include job insecurity, imposed mobility, as well as a lack of research freedom, independence and results ownership. Employment precarity is being exacerbated by a trend of casualisation and short fixed-term contracts in academia, as well as a culture of publish-or-perish even during periods of under- or un-employment. Pressures on ECRs working in archaeology are compounded by the fact that archaeology is a small, competitive field, with no standard ethical practices regarding, for instance, recognition of contribution to archaeological fieldwork and authorship. As a result of these worsening trends, ECRs feel increasingly under-represented and under-supported in archaeology. The European Association of Archaeologists wishes to address these troubling trends with the establishment of the ERCA Task Force.
The aim of this task force will be to work in close collaboration with the EAA Executive Board on the elaboration of a series of recommendations to improve early research careers in archaeology and address their consequences, including on mental health and life quality, with a view to provide support, level the playing field and make ECRs feel heard and empowered.
public and scientific perception of archaeological research in the region.
The geo-chronological frame of this session is intentionally broad, including the first farming societies from the Caucasus to the Mediterranean region, covering the span from the 10th to the 6th mill. BC. These communities shared almost the same kind of lifestyle, in particular, concerning the significance of agriculture and animal breeding. Yet the environmental and cultural background differed in many ways, which has influenced the access to obsidian. We tend to compare, at a large scale, the strategies employed by the farmers to exploit obsidian in different socio-cultural and environmental settings. The session aims to identify the main parameters that conditioned the exploitation of this raw material.
We invite scholars to present their approaches to these archaeological questions, particularly when utilising multidisciplinary methods. Papers presenting case studies are also welcomed. The contributions and the up-to-date discussion will be published in an internationally peer reviewed volume.
This paper introduces the assemblage of arrowheads from the PPNB levels of Kharaysin, located in the Zarqa Valley in Jordan, to investigate the tool function through macro- and microscopic observations and standard use-wear analyses involving the examinations of impact stigmata and other use traces. Newly obtained data will be used to compare this Southern Levantine dataset with the evidence from the Northern Levant, in particular with Dja’de el-Mughara, in order to inspect whether similar practices in the use of projectiles are encountered in both regions.
This study is an attempt to address issues concerning the primary and secondary use of “hunting tools” and their implications on socio-economic strategies during the PPN period. The outcomes of this talk regard the very first results of the ARROWFUNC project, a new research framework designed to study hunting at the onset of farming in SW Asia, where major economic, cultural and symbolic changes decisively reshaped lithic toolkits.