Stašo Forenbaher
Biographic Data
| ID | 106738 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stašo Forenbaher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stašo |
| FAMILY NAME | Forenbaher |
| SIGNATURE | FORENBAHER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Anthropological Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9119-4183 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 115 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Adriatic Explorations
Neolithization is one of a handful of major social and economic processes that affected the entire Mediterranean, even if in quite different ways across different periods and regions. Everywhere, however, its impact was substantial, affecting also other parts of Europe and West Asia. It is therefore with good reason that the study of Neolithization has a long and distinguished track-record going back, at least, to the work of Childe, who first ch…
Adriatic Hunters, Fishers and Herders
Excavations at Žukovica Cave (Korčula Island, Croatia) have yielded evidence of Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic occupations. A layer dated to 6400–5900 cal BC contained commingled lithics, potsherds, wild and domesticated animal bones, mollusk shells, personal ornaments and human remains attributable to the latest hunter-gatherers and the earliest farmers in the region. We argue that people who practiced these different subsistence strategies…
The time is ripe for a change. The evolution of harvesting technologies in Central Dalmatia during the Neolithic period (6th millennium cal BC)
Palagruža I Jadranski Moreplovci Trećeg Tisućljeća Prije Krista
The islet of Palagrua, located at the very centre of the Adriatic, yielded unusually rich pottery and lithic finds from the 3rd millennium BC. Prominent among them is archery equipment (arrow points and wristguards), as well as richly decorated Cetina-style pottery. During a period marked by mobility and maritime connectivity among distant regions, ancient mariners would have recognized the unique navigational importance of Palagrua. Deposition o…
Special Place, Interesting Times
Palagruža is a remote Croatian archipelago in the middle of the Adriatic Sea, unexpectedly abundant in high-grade archaeological evidence, dating precisely from the three periods of later Adriatic prehistory marked by radical change. This book explores the archaeology and history of Palagruža
Ljubljana i Cetina
Ovaj rad nudi nov sintetički pregled lončarskih stilova trećega tisućljeća prije Krista na prostoru istočnoga Jadrana, temeljen na 146 nalazišta s objavljenom karakterističnom lončarijom. Odmičući se od tradicionalnih koncepata arheoloških kultura i razdoblja, najprije se nastoji jasno definirati ljubljansko-jadranski i cetinski lončarski stil. Potom se kritički preispituje građa koja je dosad bila korištena za datiranje tih stilova: stratigrafsk…
Lithic Assemblages from Nakovana (Croatia)
A large and complex lithic collection from Pelješac, a peninsula on the eastern Adriatic seaboard of southern Croatia, provides extensive information about raw materials, formal typology, and technology of flaked stone artifacts from the Early Neolithic up to the Iron Age. Most of the evidence comes from two stratified sites: a cave named Spila and the hillfort of Grad, both located on the Nakovana Plateau. The most conspicuous characteristic of …
Five burials from Palagruža
Dating the East Adriatic Neolithic
New radiocarbon determinations from Mesolithic, Neolithic, and/or Copper Age contexts at ten sites are presented, bringing the number of absolute dates available for the East Adriatic to more than twice that of a decade ago. The dates show that, from 6000 BC onward, pottery styles (Impressed Ware, Danilo variants, Hvar, Nakovana, and Cetina) emerged, spread, and disappeared at different times, places, and rates within the region. The implications…
Adriatic Neolithic Mortuary Ritual at Grapčeva Cave, Croatia
Excavations at Grapčeva Cave in Croatia, a major eastern Adriatic Neolithic site, yielded evidence of ritual activities during the 5th millennium CAL B.C. Structured deposits in the main interior chamber consisted of large burned features containing extremely high frequencies of animal remains and artifacts, including richly decorated Late Neolithic "Hvar-style" pottery, as well as scattered human remains. We argue that Grapčeva was a mortuary ri…
Les premiers agriculteurs, pasteurs et pêcheurs en Istrie (Croatie) à travers les industries lithiques
L’auteur tente de représenter l’espace de l’Athènes antique en combinant la méthodologie mise en place par Kevin Lynch avec les interprétations savantes du paysage historique de la ville
Plant Use at Grapčeva Cave and in the Eastern Adriatic Neolithic
Plant macroremains were recovered during the renewed excavation at Grapčeva Špilja, a cave on the island of Hvar in Croatia. This is the first archaeoboatnical investigation on an eastern Adriatic island to use flotation samples. Samples were taken from layers dating from the Early Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 6000–1500 B.C.). Sixteen radiocarbon dates obtained from wood charcoal date the samples precisely. Detailed archaeobotanical an…
Archaeological record of the Adriatic offshore islands as an indicator of long-distance interaction in prehistory
This article explores the proposition that the archaeological record of small, remote islands with scarce resources reflects the intensity of long-distance interaction in prehistory, taking as an example the Adriatic offshore islands. The best represented periods, the early Neolithic and the end of the Copper Age, correspond to the times of large-scale stylistic unity, the former, of the Mediterranean Impressed Wares, and the latter, of Bell Beak…
Neolithic and Bronze-Age Herders of Pupićina Cave, Croatia
Pupićina Cave (Croatia) preserves an important archaeological sequence spanning 12,000 years. Here we present and discuss the results of extensive excavations in post-Mesolithic deposits.Pupićina Cave,located in NE Istria in a region rich in caves and in prehistoric settlement, has well-dated evidence from the Middle Neolithic, Late Neolithic, Middle Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Roman periods. Visitors to the cave in the Middle Neolithic ca. 5500–50…
The spread of farming in the Eastern Adriatic
The beginning of farming in the Adriatic is a topic ripe for a new discussion and synthesis. Several lines of evidence suggest that immigration played a major role in the process. It involved, however, both the actual movement of people and the active participation of the local population, and probably unfolded somewhat differently in different parts of the region. There is provocative evidence that the transition to farming occurred in a two-sta…
Nakovana Cave
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Pioneers in the Hills
In this paper, we examine the strategies used by early Mesolithic people as they moved into the karstic uplands of north-eastern Istria, Croatia. These strategies are inferred from detailed analyses of the lithic and faunal assemblages from Šebrn, a small upland rock-shelter occupied for a relatively short period of time in the early Holocene. We conclude that Šebrn's lithic assemblages are in technology and typology relatively homogeneous and ca…
Adriatic sailors and stone knappers
Small islands offer archaeologists interesting and manageable subjects for survey and excavation. The recent work on Adriatic islands reported here examines occupation during the 3rd millennium BC, showing how sailors exploited islands for trade, control and raw materials
Producción e intercambio durante el Calcolítico en Portugal
Este estudio se centra en la organización económica de las industrias líticas de talla bifacial del Neolítico Final/ Calcolítico en Portugal. Se ha defendido a menudo que las jerarquías sociales aparecieron por primera vez en el occidente de la Península Ibérica durante este periodo (ca. 3500-2500 AC). Los objetivos específicos de la investigación son: determinar el repertorio de la producción en los talleres líticos, examinar la posibilidad de u…
Neolithic/Chalcolithic Lithic Assemblage from Har Harif (Central Negev Highlands)
STAS̆O FORENBAHER, סטשאו פורנבאכר, סטאשו פורנבאכר, מכלול ליתי מסוף התקופה הניאוליתית/ראשית התקופה הכלקוליתית מהר חריף (הר הנגב) / A Terminal Neolithic/Chalcolithic Lithic Assemblage from Har Harif (Central Negev Highlands), Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך כ"ז (תשנ"ז, 1997), pp. 83-100
Bronze-casting and organization of production at Kalnik-Igrišče (Croatia)
Recent excavations at the Late Bronze Age settlement site of Kalnik-Igrišče, northwestern Croatia, have brought to light evidence of small-scale bronze-casting. From that evidence, and the pattern of similar evidence from other sites in the southwestern part of the Middle Danubian Basin, conclusions can be drawn about circulation of metal and its control by an élite
The Late Copper Age Architecture at Vučedol, Croatia
Sociocultural and economic transformations in SE Central Europe during the Late Copper Age decisively affected the course of the European Bronze Age. Few settlement sites, which could provide an insight into these changes, have survived the millennia of intensive agriculture well. Even fewer have been systematically and extensively excavated.The excavations at Vučedol, Croatia,brought to light extensive and diverse remains of a Late Copper Age se…
The Late Copper Age Architecture at Vucedol, Croatia
Radiocarbon dates and absolute chronology of the central European Early Bronze Age
It is more than forty years now since the first radiocarbon dates began the reconciliation of conventional and absolute chronologies for later prehistory. This pioneering radiocarbon chronology for the Bronze Age sequence in Central Europe brings that process nearer to a close, by filling the last major gap in the radiocarcbon chronology of the European continent
Dating the East Adriatic Neolithic
New radiocarbon determinations from Mesolithic, Neolithic, and/or Copper Age contexts at ten sites are presented, bringing the number of absolute dates available for the East Adriatic to more than twice that of a decade ago. The dates show that, from 6000 BC onward, pottery styles (Impressed Ware, Danilo variants, Hvar, Nakovana, and Cetina) emerged, spread, and disappeared at different times, places, and rates within the region. The implications…
The spread of farming in the Eastern Adriatic
The beginning of farming in the Adriatic is a topic ripe for a new discussion and synthesis. Several lines of evidence suggest that immigration played a major role in the process. It involved, however, both the actual movement of people and the active participation of the local population, and probably unfolded somewhat differently in different parts of the region. There is provocative evidence that the transition to farming occurred in a two-sta…
Radiocarbon dates and absolute chronology of the central European Early Bronze Age
It is more than forty years now since the first radiocarbon dates began the reconciliation of conventional and absolute chronologies for later prehistory. This pioneering radiocarbon chronology for the Bronze Age sequence in Central Europe brings that process nearer to a close, by filling the last major gap in the radiocarcbon chronology of the European continent
Pioneers in the Hills
In this paper, we examine the strategies used by early Mesolithic people as they moved into the karstic uplands of north-eastern Istria, Croatia. These strategies are inferred from detailed analyses of the lithic and faunal assemblages from Šebrn, a small upland rock-shelter occupied for a relatively short period of time in the early Holocene. We conclude that Šebrn's lithic assemblages are in technology and typology relatively homogeneous and ca…
Neolithic and Bronze-Age Herders of Pupićina Cave, Croatia
Pupićina Cave (Croatia) preserves an important archaeological sequence spanning 12,000 years. Here we present and discuss the results of extensive excavations in post-Mesolithic deposits.Pupićina Cave,located in NE Istria in a region rich in caves and in prehistoric settlement, has well-dated evidence from the Middle Neolithic, Late Neolithic, Middle Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Roman periods. Visitors to the cave in the Middle Neolithic ca. 5500–50…
Archaeological record of the Adriatic offshore islands as an indicator of long-distance interaction in prehistory
This article explores the proposition that the archaeological record of small, remote islands with scarce resources reflects the intensity of long-distance interaction in prehistory, taking as an example the Adriatic offshore islands. The best represented periods, the early Neolithic and the end of the Copper Age, correspond to the times of large-scale stylistic unity, the former, of the Mediterranean Impressed Wares, and the latter, of Bell Beak…
Plant Use at Grapčeva Cave and in the Eastern Adriatic Neolithic
Plant macroremains were recovered during the renewed excavation at Grapčeva Špilja, a cave on the island of Hvar in Croatia. This is the first archaeoboatnical investigation on an eastern Adriatic island to use flotation samples. Samples were taken from layers dating from the Early Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 6000–1500 B.C.). Sixteen radiocarbon dates obtained from wood charcoal date the samples precisely. Detailed archaeobotanical an…
Lithic Assemblages from Nakovana (Croatia)
A large and complex lithic collection from Pelješac, a peninsula on the eastern Adriatic seaboard of southern Croatia, provides extensive information about raw materials, formal typology, and technology of flaked stone artifacts from the Early Neolithic up to the Iron Age. Most of the evidence comes from two stratified sites: a cave named Spila and the hillfort of Grad, both located on the Nakovana Plateau. The most conspicuous characteristic of …
Nakovana Cave
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Adriatic sailors and stone knappers
Small islands offer archaeologists interesting and manageable subjects for survey and excavation. The recent work on Adriatic islands reported here examines occupation during the 3rd millennium BC, showing how sailors exploited islands for trade, control and raw materials
Producción e intercambio durante el Calcolítico en Portugal
Este estudio se centra en la organización económica de las industrias líticas de talla bifacial del Neolítico Final/ Calcolítico en Portugal. Se ha defendido a menudo que las jerarquías sociales aparecieron por primera vez en el occidente de la Península Ibérica durante este periodo (ca. 3500-2500 AC). Los objetivos específicos de la investigación son: determinar el repertorio de la producción en los talleres líticos, examinar la posibilidad de u…
Radiocarbon dates and absolute chronology of the central European Early Bronze Age
It is more than forty years now since the first radiocarbon dates began the reconciliation of conventional and absolute chronologies for later prehistory. This pioneering radiocarbon chronology for the Bronze Age sequence in Central Europe brings that process nearer to a close, by filling the last major gap in the radiocarcbon chronology of the European continent
The Late Copper Age Architecture at Vučedol, Croatia
Sociocultural and economic transformations in SE Central Europe during the Late Copper Age decisively affected the course of the European Bronze Age. Few settlement sites, which could provide an insight into these changes, have survived the millennia of intensive agriculture well. Even fewer have been systematically and extensively excavated.The excavations at Vučedol, Croatia,brought to light extensive and diverse remains of a Late Copper Age se…
The Late Copper Age Architecture at Vucedol, Croatia
Bronze-casting and organization of production at Kalnik-Igrišče (Croatia)
Recent excavations at the Late Bronze Age settlement site of Kalnik-Igrišče, northwestern Croatia, have brought to light evidence of small-scale bronze-casting. From that evidence, and the pattern of similar evidence from other sites in the southwestern part of the Middle Danubian Basin, conclusions can be drawn about circulation of metal and its control by an élite
Neolithic/Chalcolithic Lithic Assemblage from Har Harif (Central Negev Highlands)
STAS̆O FORENBAHER, סטשאו פורנבאכר, סטאשו פורנבאכר, מכלול ליתי מסוף התקופה הניאוליתית/ראשית התקופה הכלקוליתית מהר חריף (הר הנגב) / A Terminal Neolithic/Chalcolithic Lithic Assemblage from Har Harif (Central Negev Highlands), Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך כ"ז (תשנ"ז, 1997), pp. 83-100
Producción e intercambio durante el Calcolítico en Portugal
Este estudio se centra en la organización económica de las industrias líticas de talla bifacial del Neolítico Final/ Calcolítico en Portugal. Se ha defendido a menudo que las jerarquías sociales aparecieron por primera vez en el occidente de la Península Ibérica durante este periodo (ca. 3500-2500 AC). Los objetivos específicos de la investigación son: determinar el repertorio de la producción en los talleres líticos, examinar la posibilidad de u…
Adriatic sailors and stone knappers
Small islands offer archaeologists interesting and manageable subjects for survey and excavation. The recent work on Adriatic islands reported here examines occupation during the 3rd millennium BC, showing how sailors exploited islands for trade, control and raw materials
Pioneers in the Hills
In this paper, we examine the strategies used by early Mesolithic people as they moved into the karstic uplands of north-eastern Istria, Croatia. These strategies are inferred from detailed analyses of the lithic and faunal assemblages from Šebrn, a small upland rock-shelter occupied for a relatively short period of time in the early Holocene. We conclude that Šebrn's lithic assemblages are in technology and typology relatively homogeneous and ca…
Nakovana Cave
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Neolithic and Bronze-Age Herders of Pupićina Cave, Croatia
Pupićina Cave (Croatia) preserves an important archaeological sequence spanning 12,000 years. Here we present and discuss the results of extensive excavations in post-Mesolithic deposits.Pupićina Cave,located in NE Istria in a region rich in caves and in prehistoric settlement, has well-dated evidence from the Middle Neolithic, Late Neolithic, Middle Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Roman periods. Visitors to the cave in the Middle Neolithic ca. 5500–50…
The spread of farming in the Eastern Adriatic
The beginning of farming in the Adriatic is a topic ripe for a new discussion and synthesis. Several lines of evidence suggest that immigration played a major role in the process. It involved, however, both the actual movement of people and the active participation of the local population, and probably unfolded somewhat differently in different parts of the region. There is provocative evidence that the transition to farming occurred in a two-sta…
Les premiers agriculteurs, pasteurs et pêcheurs en Istrie (Croatie) à travers les industries lithiques
L’auteur tente de représenter l’espace de l’Athènes antique en combinant la méthodologie mise en place par Kevin Lynch avec les interprétations savantes du paysage historique de la ville
Plant Use at Grapčeva Cave and in the Eastern Adriatic Neolithic
Plant macroremains were recovered during the renewed excavation at Grapčeva Špilja, a cave on the island of Hvar in Croatia. This is the first archaeoboatnical investigation on an eastern Adriatic island to use flotation samples. Samples were taken from layers dating from the Early Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 6000–1500 B.C.). Sixteen radiocarbon dates obtained from wood charcoal date the samples precisely. Detailed archaeobotanical an…
Archaeological record of the Adriatic offshore islands as an indicator of long-distance interaction in prehistory
This article explores the proposition that the archaeological record of small, remote islands with scarce resources reflects the intensity of long-distance interaction in prehistory, taking as an example the Adriatic offshore islands. The best represented periods, the early Neolithic and the end of the Copper Age, correspond to the times of large-scale stylistic unity, the former, of the Mediterranean Impressed Wares, and the latter, of Bell Beak…
Adriatic Neolithic Mortuary Ritual at Grapčeva Cave, Croatia
Excavations at Grapčeva Cave in Croatia, a major eastern Adriatic Neolithic site, yielded evidence of ritual activities during the 5th millennium CAL B.C. Structured deposits in the main interior chamber consisted of large burned features containing extremely high frequencies of animal remains and artifacts, including richly decorated Late Neolithic "Hvar-style" pottery, as well as scattered human remains. We argue that Grapčeva was a mortuary ri…
Dating the East Adriatic Neolithic
New radiocarbon determinations from Mesolithic, Neolithic, and/or Copper Age contexts at ten sites are presented, bringing the number of absolute dates available for the East Adriatic to more than twice that of a decade ago. The dates show that, from 6000 BC onward, pottery styles (Impressed Ware, Danilo variants, Hvar, Nakovana, and Cetina) emerged, spread, and disappeared at different times, places, and rates within the region. The implications…
Five burials from Palagruža
The time is ripe for a change. The evolution of harvesting technologies in Central Dalmatia during the Neolithic period (6th millennium cal BC)
Palagruža I Jadranski Moreplovci Trećeg Tisućljeća Prije Krista
The islet of Palagrua, located at the very centre of the Adriatic, yielded unusually rich pottery and lithic finds from the 3rd millennium BC. Prominent among them is archery equipment (arrow points and wristguards), as well as richly decorated Cetina-style pottery. During a period marked by mobility and maritime connectivity among distant regions, ancient mariners would have recognized the unique navigational importance of Palagrua. Deposition o…
Special Place, Interesting Times
Palagruža is a remote Croatian archipelago in the middle of the Adriatic Sea, unexpectedly abundant in high-grade archaeological evidence, dating precisely from the three periods of later Adriatic prehistory marked by radical change. This book explores the archaeology and history of Palagruža
Ljubljana i Cetina
Ovaj rad nudi nov sintetički pregled lončarskih stilova trećega tisućljeća prije Krista na prostoru istočnoga Jadrana, temeljen na 146 nalazišta s objavljenom karakterističnom lončarijom. Odmičući se od tradicionalnih koncepata arheoloških kultura i razdoblja, najprije se nastoji jasno definirati ljubljansko-jadranski i cetinski lončarski stil. Potom se kritički preispituje građa koja je dosad bila korištena za datiranje tih stilova: stratigrafsk…
Lithic Assemblages from Nakovana (Croatia)
A large and complex lithic collection from Pelješac, a peninsula on the eastern Adriatic seaboard of southern Croatia, provides extensive information about raw materials, formal typology, and technology of flaked stone artifacts from the Early Neolithic up to the Iron Age. Most of the evidence comes from two stratified sites: a cave named Spila and the hillfort of Grad, both located on the Nakovana Plateau. The most conspicuous characteristic of …
Adriatic Explorations
Neolithization is one of a handful of major social and economic processes that affected the entire Mediterranean, even if in quite different ways across different periods and regions. Everywhere, however, its impact was substantial, affecting also other parts of Europe and West Asia. It is therefore with good reason that the study of Neolithization has a long and distinguished track-record going back, at least, to the work of Childe, who first ch…
Adriatic Hunters, Fishers and Herders
Excavations at Žukovica Cave (Korčula Island, Croatia) have yielded evidence of Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic occupations. A layer dated to 6400–5900 cal BC contained commingled lithics, potsherds, wild and domesticated animal bones, mollusk shells, personal ornaments and human remains attributable to the latest hunter-gatherers and the earliest farmers in the region. We argue that people who practiced these different subsistence strategies…
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