Mario Gavranović
Biographic Data
| ID | 4185078 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mario Gavranović |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mario |
| FAMILY NAME | Gavranović |
| SIGNATURE | GAVRANOVIĆ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6249-1819 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Middle Bronze Age axes from the eastern Adriatic
This study presents chemical (ED-XRF) and lead isotope (HR-MC-ICP-MS) analyses of 29 bronze axes recovered along the eastern Adriatic coast, offering new insights into the metallurgical background of archaeological types with distinct distribution patterns. The analysed axes date from the Middle to the early Late Bronze Age (17th − 14th centuries BC), a crucial period marked by intensified copper production in emerging Alpine mining districts and…
Dreischleifige Bogenfibeln vom Typ Zenica
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Ostava metalnih predmeta s kraja brončanog i početka željeznog doba iz Markovišta, Husino kod Tuzle
Ostava s oko 50 metalnih predmeta pronađena je 2021. godine na izduženome grebenu Markovište iznad naselja Husino u sjeveroistočnoj Bosni. U neposrednoj blizini mjesta pronalaska na površini nisu primjećeni tragovi naselja ili nekropole. Ostava sadrži nekoliko kronološki indikativnih predmeta poput jednopetljastih fibula tipa Golinjevo, ukrašene narukvice tipa Lučica te male šuplje sjekire s nisko postavljenom ušicom, koji upućuju na vrijeme 9. i…
Workingman’s death – Burials of Bronze Age copper producers in Eastern Serbia
This paper discusses metal-producing Bronze Age societies in East Serbia with a particular focus on the associated urn cemeteries of local copper producers. As recent investigations have revealed, copper production sites and the associated urn cemeteries are significantly older (EBA-MBA) than previously assumed. The study delves into the complexity of resource exploitation, technological processes, and socio-economic implications associated with …
The pattern of settlement occupation during the bronze age in eastern Serbia
Over the past fifteen years, systematic studies of prehistoric settlements and necropolises in north-eastern Serbia have substantially expanded our understanding of regional occupation during the Bronze Age. Collaborative research with the Austrian Archaeological Institute has yielded a large number of absolute dates, refining the Bronze Age chronology. Provenance analyses of copper from metallurgical sites have further clarified patterns of reso…
Absolute dating of Bronze Age urn burials in the central Balkans
Ever since the first discovery of urn burials in eastern Serbia during the 1980s, their dating has been uncertain and based on distant analogies and typological parallels. In this paper, we present radiocarbon dates from five urn cemeteries and three associated settlement sites, showing that the initial dating (Late Bronze Age; 14th–11th BCE) is highly questionable. Instead, radiocarbon dating and modeling presented here connect the urn cemeterie…
Keramik mit Basarabi und basarabi-artiger Ornamentik in Bosnien
Zu den wichtigsten Merkmalen der beginnenden Eisenzeit im Raum der mittleren und unteren Donau gehort die im sog. Basarabi-Stil verzierte Keramik. Ihr Verbreitungsschwerpunkt kann durch den Morava Zusammenfluss im Suđen, den Fluss Bosut im Westen sowie durch Siebenbiirgen im Norden und die untere Moldau im Osten umrissen werden. Dieser Raumwird auch als Kerngebiet der Basarabi-Kultur bzw. Basarabi. Komplexes / Gruppe aufgefasst. Neben der Kernzon…
Gräberfeld Kopilo bei Zenica – Neue Erkenntnisse zur Bestattungsweise während der Spätbronze- und Früheisenzeit in Zentralbosnien
Istraživanje arheoloških lokaliteta na području Zenice u saradnji JU Gradskog Muzeja Zenica i Austrijskog arheološkog instituta (Austrijska akademija nauka) rezultiralo je otkrićem prve dokumentirane nekropole kasnog brončanog i ranog željeznog doba na području centralne Bosne. Prahistorijsko groblje na lokalitetu Kopilo nalazi se na jednoj od terasa koje se pružaju zapadno od već poznate istoimene gradine na kojoj su vršena istraživanja u više n…
Kopilo
Excavations of the Kopilo cemetery in central Bosnia in 2021 and 2022 have provided the first insights into Bronze and Iron Age burial practices in this part of Europe. We documented a total of 46 inhumation graves, with the variety of finds indicating supra-regional contacts of this population
Nova istraživanja lokaliteta brončanog i željeznog doba na području Zenice
The paper present results of the investigations on the prehistoric sites in the vicinity of the city of Zenica conducted during 2018 and 2019. Based on the cooperation between the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and City Museum of Zenica we applied geophysical prospection, air-borne laser scanning and excavations in order to get a better understanding of the Bronze and Iron Age developments in this specific p…
Sava Valley (Posavina) – a heritage of communication Some examples from the Late Bronze Age
Dolina na Savi is a settlement and cemetery dated to the younger phase of the Late Bronze Age and the transition to the Early Iron Age. It is situated across the well-known site of Donja Dolina in northern Bosnia. Ten years of excavations in Dolina yielded numerous traces of communication between the communities along and across the river Sava through the centuries. A similar concentration of Late Bronze Age sites on the Sava can be observed near…
Early Iron Age in Central Bosnia – an overview and research perspectives
This paper discusses the state of the research and general interpretation models of the Early Iron Age period in Central Bosnia. The Mid-Bosnian Schist Mountains and the surrounding river valleys of Vrbas, Lašva, and Bosna together with their tributaries characterise the landscape of this region. In terms of evidence from the Early Iron Age period (800–500 BC), the majority comes from the long-term excavations in the hillfort site Pod near Bugojn…
Neue Schwertfunde aus Bosnien - ein Beitrag zur Erforschung der bronzezeitlichen Bewaffnung im westlichen Balkan
In der Arbeit werden erstmalig drei bronzezeitliche Schwerter aus Bosnien präsentiert. Zwei der Waffen stammen aus Ilijaš und Jajce in Zentralbosnien und wurden im Zuge von Baumaßnahmen zwischen 1995 und 2005 entdeckt. Das dritte Schwert befindet sich in der Sammlung des Franziskanerkloster Tolisa im nördlichen Bosnien und wurde schon 1982 aus einer Kiesgrube an der Save bei Orašje geborgen, blieb jedoch bislang unbeachtet. Auch wenn die Kontexte…
Bronze age burials within the Morava, Nisava and Timok basins
Following more than seven decades of research on the Bronze Age cremation burial grounds in the territory of Serbia, the new absolute dates provide us with an opportunity to determine a more precise chronological sequence of different local cultural manifestations. Although the pioneers of the Serbian archaeology after WWII defined the main cultural trajectories that led to the establishment of cremation as the main burial rite during the 2nd mil…
The First ‘Urnfields’ in the Plains of the Danube and the Po
Archaeological research is currently redefining how large-scale changes occurred in prehistoric times. In addition to the long-standing theoretical dichotomy between ‘cultural transmission’ and ‘demic diffusion’, many alternative models borrowed from sociology can be used to explain the spread of innovations. The emergence of urnfields in Middle and Late Bronze Age Europe is certainly one of these large-scale phenomena; its wide distribution has …
Višeslojni tumul u Novom Selu kod Bijeljine
The first step of the investigations in Novo Selo near Bijeljina (Republic of Srpska), in the northeastern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina known as Semberija, took place between 2016 and 2019 in the frame of the project “Visualizing the Unknown Balkans,” initiated by the Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology (now Austrian Archaeological Institute) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the Museum of Semberija in Bijeljin…
Copper production and supra-regional exchange networks – Cu-matte smelting in the Balkans between 2000 and 1500 BC
Rezension - Gábor V. Szabó, Bronze Age Treasures in Hungary
Barbara Horejs, Ulrike Schuh Editorial Artikel / Articles Oliver Schmitsberger, Michael Brandl, Viola C. Schmid Ressourcen der Neandertaler im Burgenland (à sterreich). Die Csaterberge bei Kohfidisch als Limnosilizit-Rohmaterialquelle vom Mittelpaläolithikum bis in die Kupferzeit Viola C. Schmid, Oliver Schmitsberger, Thomas Einwögerer Erster Nachweis mittelpaläolithischer Steintechnologie im Burgenland (à sterreich). Eine techno-typologische Ana…
Bronze age settlement and necropolis of Trnjane, near Bor - revision and new research results
In archaeological literature, the site of Trnjane, near Bor in eastern Serbia is known as an urn necropolis, with 43 discovered urn graves. The excavations in Trnjane took place between 1985 and 1987-1989, and continued in 1998. The investigations also included an excavation of a nearby settlement, but the results of this research were never published. In most of the previous studies, Trnjane was assigned to the Middle and Late Bronze Age, while …
Local Forms and Regional Distributions. Metallurgical Analysis of Late Bronze Age Objects from Bosnia
This paper discusses the first results of the archaeometallurgical investigation conducted in cooperation between the institutes OREA (Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology, Austrian Academy of Sciences) and VIAS (Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science, University Vienna) and the regional museums in Doboj and Travnik (Bosnia-Herzegovina). The 76 sampled artefacts are dated between the 13th and 9th centuries BC (Ha A1–Ha B3). The sp…
Across the River. The Cemetery in Dolina and New Aspects of the Late Urnfield Culture in Croatian Posavina and Northern Bosnia
The site of Dolina in the Croatian region of Posavina has been investigated since 2009 under the leadership of the Institute of Archaeology in Zagreb. In previous excavations five tumuli with one or two cremation deposits of different types (urned, scattered cremation remains, or with an organic container) could be detected. On the basis of characteristic grave goods (bronze pins and fibulae, helmet parts), the burials are dated to the 9th-8th ce…
Über einige Tüllenbeilvarianten im Zentralbalkan
Im Rahmen der Vorbereitung f?r die Gesamtdarstellung der bronzenen Beile aus Serbien konnten einige lokale Formen mit einem begrenzten Verbreitungsradius verzeichnet werden. Es handelt sich in erster Linie um mehrere Varianten der T?llenbeile mit einer arkadenf?rmigen Facettierung auf dem Beilk?rper, einer seitlichen ?se und einem verst?rkten T?llenwulst mit horizontalen Rippen darunter. Im Bezug auf die Typologie, Verbreitung und den kultur-hist…
The First ‘Urnfields’ in the Plains of the Danube and the Po
Archaeological research is currently redefining how large-scale changes occurred in prehistoric times. In addition to the long-standing theoretical dichotomy between ‘cultural transmission’ and ‘demic diffusion’, many alternative models borrowed from sociology can be used to explain the spread of innovations. The emergence of urnfields in Middle and Late Bronze Age Europe is certainly one of these large-scale phenomena; its wide distribution has …
Copper production and supra-regional exchange networks – Cu-matte smelting in the Balkans between 2000 and 1500 BC
Absolute dating of Bronze Age urn burials in the central Balkans
Ever since the first discovery of urn burials in eastern Serbia during the 1980s, their dating has been uncertain and based on distant analogies and typological parallels. In this paper, we present radiocarbon dates from five urn cemeteries and three associated settlement sites, showing that the initial dating (Late Bronze Age; 14th–11th BCE) is highly questionable. Instead, radiocarbon dating and modeling presented here connect the urn cemeterie…
Bronze age burials within the Morava, Nisava and Timok basins
Following more than seven decades of research on the Bronze Age cremation burial grounds in the territory of Serbia, the new absolute dates provide us with an opportunity to determine a more precise chronological sequence of different local cultural manifestations. Although the pioneers of the Serbian archaeology after WWII defined the main cultural trajectories that led to the establishment of cremation as the main burial rite during the 2nd mil…
Local Forms and Regional Distributions. Metallurgical Analysis of Late Bronze Age Objects from Bosnia
This paper discusses the first results of the archaeometallurgical investigation conducted in cooperation between the institutes OREA (Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology, Austrian Academy of Sciences) and VIAS (Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science, University Vienna) and the regional museums in Doboj and Travnik (Bosnia-Herzegovina). The 76 sampled artefacts are dated between the 13th and 9th centuries BC (Ha A1–Ha B3). The sp…
Bronze age settlement and necropolis of Trnjane, near Bor - revision and new research results
In archaeological literature, the site of Trnjane, near Bor in eastern Serbia is known as an urn necropolis, with 43 discovered urn graves. The excavations in Trnjane took place between 1985 and 1987-1989, and continued in 1998. The investigations also included an excavation of a nearby settlement, but the results of this research were never published. In most of the previous studies, Trnjane was assigned to the Middle and Late Bronze Age, while …
Über einige Tüllenbeilvarianten im Zentralbalkan
Im Rahmen der Vorbereitung f?r die Gesamtdarstellung der bronzenen Beile aus Serbien konnten einige lokale Formen mit einem begrenzten Verbreitungsradius verzeichnet werden. Es handelt sich in erster Linie um mehrere Varianten der T?llenbeile mit einer arkadenf?rmigen Facettierung auf dem Beilk?rper, einer seitlichen ?se und einem verst?rkten T?llenwulst mit horizontalen Rippen darunter. Im Bezug auf die Typologie, Verbreitung und den kultur-hist…
Across the River. The Cemetery in Dolina and New Aspects of the Late Urnfield Culture in Croatian Posavina and Northern Bosnia
The site of Dolina in the Croatian region of Posavina has been investigated since 2009 under the leadership of the Institute of Archaeology in Zagreb. In previous excavations five tumuli with one or two cremation deposits of different types (urned, scattered cremation remains, or with an organic container) could be detected. On the basis of characteristic grave goods (bronze pins and fibulae, helmet parts), the burials are dated to the 9th-8th ce…
Local Forms and Regional Distributions. Metallurgical Analysis of Late Bronze Age Objects from Bosnia
This paper discusses the first results of the archaeometallurgical investigation conducted in cooperation between the institutes OREA (Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology, Austrian Academy of Sciences) and VIAS (Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science, University Vienna) and the regional museums in Doboj and Travnik (Bosnia-Herzegovina). The 76 sampled artefacts are dated between the 13th and 9th centuries BC (Ha A1–Ha B3). The sp…
Bronze age settlement and necropolis of Trnjane, near Bor - revision and new research results
In archaeological literature, the site of Trnjane, near Bor in eastern Serbia is known as an urn necropolis, with 43 discovered urn graves. The excavations in Trnjane took place between 1985 and 1987-1989, and continued in 1998. The investigations also included an excavation of a nearby settlement, but the results of this research were never published. In most of the previous studies, Trnjane was assigned to the Middle and Late Bronze Age, while …
Višeslojni tumul u Novom Selu kod Bijeljine
The first step of the investigations in Novo Selo near Bijeljina (Republic of Srpska), in the northeastern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina known as Semberija, took place between 2016 and 2019 in the frame of the project “Visualizing the Unknown Balkans,” initiated by the Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology (now Austrian Archaeological Institute) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the Museum of Semberija in Bijeljin…
Copper production and supra-regional exchange networks – Cu-matte smelting in the Balkans between 2000 and 1500 BC
Rezension - Gábor V. Szabó, Bronze Age Treasures in Hungary
Barbara Horejs, Ulrike Schuh Editorial Artikel / Articles Oliver Schmitsberger, Michael Brandl, Viola C. Schmid Ressourcen der Neandertaler im Burgenland (à sterreich). Die Csaterberge bei Kohfidisch als Limnosilizit-Rohmaterialquelle vom Mittelpaläolithikum bis in die Kupferzeit Viola C. Schmid, Oliver Schmitsberger, Thomas Einwögerer Erster Nachweis mittelpaläolithischer Steintechnologie im Burgenland (à sterreich). Eine techno-typologische Ana…
Nova istraživanja lokaliteta brončanog i željeznog doba na području Zenice
The paper present results of the investigations on the prehistoric sites in the vicinity of the city of Zenica conducted during 2018 and 2019. Based on the cooperation between the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and City Museum of Zenica we applied geophysical prospection, air-borne laser scanning and excavations in order to get a better understanding of the Bronze and Iron Age developments in this specific p…
Sava Valley (Posavina) – a heritage of communication Some examples from the Late Bronze Age
Dolina na Savi is a settlement and cemetery dated to the younger phase of the Late Bronze Age and the transition to the Early Iron Age. It is situated across the well-known site of Donja Dolina in northern Bosnia. Ten years of excavations in Dolina yielded numerous traces of communication between the communities along and across the river Sava through the centuries. A similar concentration of Late Bronze Age sites on the Sava can be observed near…
Early Iron Age in Central Bosnia – an overview and research perspectives
This paper discusses the state of the research and general interpretation models of the Early Iron Age period in Central Bosnia. The Mid-Bosnian Schist Mountains and the surrounding river valleys of Vrbas, Lašva, and Bosna together with their tributaries characterise the landscape of this region. In terms of evidence from the Early Iron Age period (800–500 BC), the majority comes from the long-term excavations in the hillfort site Pod near Bugojn…
Neue Schwertfunde aus Bosnien - ein Beitrag zur Erforschung der bronzezeitlichen Bewaffnung im westlichen Balkan
In der Arbeit werden erstmalig drei bronzezeitliche Schwerter aus Bosnien präsentiert. Zwei der Waffen stammen aus Ilijaš und Jajce in Zentralbosnien und wurden im Zuge von Baumaßnahmen zwischen 1995 und 2005 entdeckt. Das dritte Schwert befindet sich in der Sammlung des Franziskanerkloster Tolisa im nördlichen Bosnien und wurde schon 1982 aus einer Kiesgrube an der Save bei Orašje geborgen, blieb jedoch bislang unbeachtet. Auch wenn die Kontexte…
Bronze age burials within the Morava, Nisava and Timok basins
Following more than seven decades of research on the Bronze Age cremation burial grounds in the territory of Serbia, the new absolute dates provide us with an opportunity to determine a more precise chronological sequence of different local cultural manifestations. Although the pioneers of the Serbian archaeology after WWII defined the main cultural trajectories that led to the establishment of cremation as the main burial rite during the 2nd mil…
The First ‘Urnfields’ in the Plains of the Danube and the Po
Archaeological research is currently redefining how large-scale changes occurred in prehistoric times. In addition to the long-standing theoretical dichotomy between ‘cultural transmission’ and ‘demic diffusion’, many alternative models borrowed from sociology can be used to explain the spread of innovations. The emergence of urnfields in Middle and Late Bronze Age Europe is certainly one of these large-scale phenomena; its wide distribution has …
Gräberfeld Kopilo bei Zenica – Neue Erkenntnisse zur Bestattungsweise während der Spätbronze- und Früheisenzeit in Zentralbosnien
Istraživanje arheoloških lokaliteta na području Zenice u saradnji JU Gradskog Muzeja Zenica i Austrijskog arheološkog instituta (Austrijska akademija nauka) rezultiralo je otkrićem prve dokumentirane nekropole kasnog brončanog i ranog željeznog doba na području centralne Bosne. Prahistorijsko groblje na lokalitetu Kopilo nalazi se na jednoj od terasa koje se pružaju zapadno od već poznate istoimene gradine na kojoj su vršena istraživanja u više n…
Kopilo
Excavations of the Kopilo cemetery in central Bosnia in 2021 and 2022 have provided the first insights into Bronze and Iron Age burial practices in this part of Europe. We documented a total of 46 inhumation graves, with the variety of finds indicating supra-regional contacts of this population
Keramik mit Basarabi und basarabi-artiger Ornamentik in Bosnien
Zu den wichtigsten Merkmalen der beginnenden Eisenzeit im Raum der mittleren und unteren Donau gehort die im sog. Basarabi-Stil verzierte Keramik. Ihr Verbreitungsschwerpunkt kann durch den Morava Zusammenfluss im Suđen, den Fluss Bosut im Westen sowie durch Siebenbiirgen im Norden und die untere Moldau im Osten umrissen werden. Dieser Raumwird auch als Kerngebiet der Basarabi-Kultur bzw. Basarabi. Komplexes / Gruppe aufgefasst. Neben der Kernzon…
Dreischleifige Bogenfibeln vom Typ Zenica
.
Ostava metalnih predmeta s kraja brončanog i početka željeznog doba iz Markovišta, Husino kod Tuzle
Ostava s oko 50 metalnih predmeta pronađena je 2021. godine na izduženome grebenu Markovište iznad naselja Husino u sjeveroistočnoj Bosni. U neposrednoj blizini mjesta pronalaska na površini nisu primjećeni tragovi naselja ili nekropole. Ostava sadrži nekoliko kronološki indikativnih predmeta poput jednopetljastih fibula tipa Golinjevo, ukrašene narukvice tipa Lučica te male šuplje sjekire s nisko postavljenom ušicom, koji upućuju na vrijeme 9. i…
Workingman’s death – Burials of Bronze Age copper producers in Eastern Serbia
This paper discusses metal-producing Bronze Age societies in East Serbia with a particular focus on the associated urn cemeteries of local copper producers. As recent investigations have revealed, copper production sites and the associated urn cemeteries are significantly older (EBA-MBA) than previously assumed. The study delves into the complexity of resource exploitation, technological processes, and socio-economic implications associated with …
The pattern of settlement occupation during the bronze age in eastern Serbia
Over the past fifteen years, systematic studies of prehistoric settlements and necropolises in north-eastern Serbia have substantially expanded our understanding of regional occupation during the Bronze Age. Collaborative research with the Austrian Archaeological Institute has yielded a large number of absolute dates, refining the Bronze Age chronology. Provenance analyses of copper from metallurgical sites have further clarified patterns of reso…
Absolute dating of Bronze Age urn burials in the central Balkans
Ever since the first discovery of urn burials in eastern Serbia during the 1980s, their dating has been uncertain and based on distant analogies and typological parallels. In this paper, we present radiocarbon dates from five urn cemeteries and three associated settlement sites, showing that the initial dating (Late Bronze Age; 14th–11th BCE) is highly questionable. Instead, radiocarbon dating and modeling presented here connect the urn cemeterie…
Middle Bronze Age axes from the eastern Adriatic
This study presents chemical (ED-XRF) and lead isotope (HR-MC-ICP-MS) analyses of 29 bronze axes recovered along the eastern Adriatic coast, offering new insights into the metallurgical background of archaeological types with distinct distribution patterns. The analysed axes date from the Middle to the early Late Bronze Age (17th − 14th centuries BC), a crucial period marked by intensified copper production in emerging Alpine mining districts and…
Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies (18 works) · Archaeology (14 works) · Bronze Age (14 works) · Ancient history (13 works) · History (13 works) · Bronze (12 works) · Geography (12 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (9 works) · Marine and environmental studies (9 works) · Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts (9 works)