Benjamin Štular
Biographic Data
| ID | 6449879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Štular |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Štular |
| SIGNATURE | ŠTULAR B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Karst Research Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1474-7183 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Archaeological LiDAR in Mediterranean Karst Landscapes. A Multiproxy Dating Method for Archaeological Landscape and a Case Study From Prehistoric Kras Plateau (Slovenia)
The case study area is a small but typical prehistoric landscape in the Kras Plateau on the north coast of the central Mediterranean. The Late Bronze and Iron Age Kras Plateau was an emblematic Mediterranean archaeological landscape dotted with numerous hillforts. Since the mid‐20th century, the landscape had been overgrown with some of the most archaeology‐hostile vegetation, severely impeding landscape archaeology until archaeological LiDAR rev…
Rethinking Ethnic Identity in the Archaeology of the Ancient Slavs
The archaeology of the ancient Slavs has advanced methodologically but remains divided between scholars who deny the Slavs’ migrations, and those linking material culture directly to ethnic identities. This paper seeks to bridge this divide by reassessing the theoretical framework for studying the ancient Slavs. It critiques the historical development of research on ethnic identity in archaeology, highlighting limitations in both primordialist an…
Executable Map Paper (EMaP) for Archaeological LiDAR
Archaeological LiDAR has evolved into an indispensable component of archaeological prospection and landscape archaeology. However, it is frequently employed as a black-box digital method, which confines it to the realm of a specialized field. Making scientific publications more accessible, transparent, and reproducible is one of the steps required to turn LiDAR into a background method for all archaeologists. This is possible, according to our pr…
Interpolation of airborne LiDAR data for archaeology
The use of topographic airborne LiDAR data has become an essential part of archaeological prospection, and the need for an archaeology-specific data processing workflow is well established. However, interpolation, an important step in which the digital elevation model is derived from the classified point cloud, has received little attention from archaeologists. This processing step has a direct impact on the accuracy and visual performance of the…
Migration of Alpine Slavs and machine learning
The rapid expansion of the Slavic speakers in the second half of the first millennium CE remains a controversial topic in archaeology, and academic passions on the issue have long run high. Currently, there are three main hypotheses for this expansion. The aim of this paper was to test the so-called “hybrid hypothesis,” which states that the movement of people, cultural diffusion and language diffusion all occurred simultaneously. For this purpos…
Grave Orientation In The Middle Ages
The aim of the book is to demonstrate the importance of grave orientation for the archaeology of Medieval death and burial. In doing this, two key points are emphasized. First, grave orientation was an important, and in some cases the most important, conduit for the symbolic meaning of burials in the Middle Ages. Second, for an archaeologist to reconstruct this meaning, the analysis must be conducted with methodological rigour, and inferences mus…
Digital Archiving in Archaeology
The articles in this special issue demonstrate significant differences in digital archiving capacity in different countries. In part these reflect differences in the history of archaeology in each country, its relationship to the state, whether it is centralised or decentralised, state-led or commercially driven. They also reflect some of the different attitudes to archaeology across the world, most recently explored in a survey conducted under t…
Archiving of Archaeological Digital Datasets in Slovenia
This article presents the archiving of archaeological digital datasets in Slovenia in its historic context. The datasets discussed have been separated into three categories: non-reproducible datasets, reproducible datasets, and registries. Several reproducible datasets created by ZRC SAZU have been freely available online since the early 2000s, but the number of users is small and those benefiting often do not adhere to clearly stated copyright l…
Srednjeveški Blejski otok v arheoloških virih / Medieval archaeology of Bled Island
Pričujoča knjiga je nastala z namenom, da odgovori na vprašanje: ali je v arheoloških virih izpričano predkrščansko svetišče na Blejskem otoku? Blejski otok je imel poseben pomen za vsako lokalno skupnost, ki je kadarkoli živela ob Blejskem jezeru. Pisanje J. V. Valvasorja in A. T. Linharta je sloves otoka poneslo širše, dokončno pa ga je usidral v kulturno zavest Slovencev France Prešeren, ki je na otok v pesmi Krst pri Savici postavil Živin hra…
Slovene Pagan Sacred Landscape Study Case
In this article the authors present the Slovene Pagan sacred landscape. Based on the case of the Bistrica plain, North of Ljubljana (Slovenia) they have tried to show the ritual sites within the sacred landscape for the period between 9th Century and the end of 10th Century. This was concluded through the oral tradition and archaeological sources. They have tried to determine the role of the individual ritual site within the landscape and the man…
Grobišče Župna cerkev v Kranju
V okviru temeljnega raziskovalnega projekta Grobišče Župna cerkev v Kranju, ki je namenjen objavi in raziskavam gradiva iz arheoloških izkopavanj istoimenskega grobišča, v digitalni obliki predstavljamo primarne arhivske vire. V prvem zvezku predstavljamo grobišče, terenske dnevnike, katalog grobov in dnevnik meritev z izkopavanj leta 1953. V pričujoči knjigi pa objavljamo drugi del arhivskega gradiva iz arheoloških izkopavanj najdišča Župna cerk…
Visualization of lidar-derived relief models for detection of archaeological features
Land-use changes in the Alps (Slovenia) in the fifteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries AD
This paper compares a high resolution, near-annual pollen record from the Šijec raised bog (1194 m a.s.l., Pokljuka, Slovenia) with historical land-use maps in order to understand how the Alpine environment has altered because of changeable economic trends in the fifteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries AD. In the fifteenth century AD the study site was surrounded by mixed forest ( Fagus, Abies, Picea, Quercus) and agricultural fields and pa…
Mali grad
The in depth archaeological research of High Medieval castle presented in this book is unique in Slovenia and among just few in this part of Central Europe. The book is based on analysis of the archaeological data gathered in more than a decade of archaeological excavations in 1980s and 1990s. In the introductory chapter written sources and interpretative models are presented. The analysis of pictorial representations follows. The focus of the re…
Posamezniki, skupnost in obred v zgodnjem srednjem veku. Primer grobiščnih podatkov z Malega gradu v Sloveniji The Individuals, the Community, and the Ritual in the Early Middle Ages. An Analysis of C…
This article examines archaeological data on an Early Medieval cemetery. Presenting new interpretations of partially known data, its author examines life stories of individuals buried at this site as well as the communitys ritual place. Although interpretations, in which the author strongly emphasizes experiental subjectivity, are the result of certain previously tested methodologies they nevertheless represent a novelty in the research of Early …
Simbolika tvarne kulture – lonček z Brezij The Symbolism of Material Culture
The author discusses in this contribution the symbolism of an Early Medieval pot from the Brezje above Zreče necropolis. The pot is exeptional due to the Greek cross impressed on the base. The impression correlates exactly with the cross-shaped brooch from Saint Lambert near Pristava. In one object, this small pot, the Slavic ritual – a small pot as an object of grave inventory - and the Vlach custom - a Christian symbol - are combined. Consequen…
Visualization of lidar-derived relief models for detection of archaeological features
Digital Archiving in Archaeology
The articles in this special issue demonstrate significant differences in digital archiving capacity in different countries. In part these reflect differences in the history of archaeology in each country, its relationship to the state, whether it is centralised or decentralised, state-led or commercially driven. They also reflect some of the different attitudes to archaeology across the world, most recently explored in a survey conducted under t…
Land-use changes in the Alps (Slovenia) in the fifteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries AD
This paper compares a high resolution, near-annual pollen record from the Šijec raised bog (1194 m a.s.l., Pokljuka, Slovenia) with historical land-use maps in order to understand how the Alpine environment has altered because of changeable economic trends in the fifteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries AD. In the fifteenth century AD the study site was surrounded by mixed forest ( Fagus, Abies, Picea, Quercus) and agricultural fields and pa…
Simbolika tvarne kulture – lonček z Brezij The Symbolism of Material Culture
The author discusses in this contribution the symbolism of an Early Medieval pot from the Brezje above Zreče necropolis. The pot is exeptional due to the Greek cross impressed on the base. The impression correlates exactly with the cross-shaped brooch from Saint Lambert near Pristava. In one object, this small pot, the Slavic ritual – a small pot as an object of grave inventory - and the Vlach custom - a Christian symbol - are combined. Consequen…
Posamezniki, skupnost in obred v zgodnjem srednjem veku. Primer grobiščnih podatkov z Malega gradu v Sloveniji The Individuals, the Community, and the Ritual in the Early Middle Ages. An Analysis of C…
This article examines archaeological data on an Early Medieval cemetery. Presenting new interpretations of partially known data, its author examines life stories of individuals buried at this site as well as the communitys ritual place. Although interpretations, in which the author strongly emphasizes experiental subjectivity, are the result of certain previously tested methodologies they nevertheless represent a novelty in the research of Early …
Mali grad
The in depth archaeological research of High Medieval castle presented in this book is unique in Slovenia and among just few in this part of Central Europe. The book is based on analysis of the archaeological data gathered in more than a decade of archaeological excavations in 1980s and 1990s. In the introductory chapter written sources and interpretative models are presented. The analysis of pictorial representations follows. The focus of the re…
Land-use changes in the Alps (Slovenia) in the fifteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries AD
This paper compares a high resolution, near-annual pollen record from the Šijec raised bog (1194 m a.s.l., Pokljuka, Slovenia) with historical land-use maps in order to understand how the Alpine environment has altered because of changeable economic trends in the fifteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries AD. In the fifteenth century AD the study site was surrounded by mixed forest ( Fagus, Abies, Picea, Quercus) and agricultural fields and pa…
Visualization of lidar-derived relief models for detection of archaeological features
Grobišče Župna cerkev v Kranju
V okviru temeljnega raziskovalnega projekta Grobišče Župna cerkev v Kranju, ki je namenjen objavi in raziskavam gradiva iz arheoloških izkopavanj istoimenskega grobišča, v digitalni obliki predstavljamo primarne arhivske vire. V prvem zvezku predstavljamo grobišče, terenske dnevnike, katalog grobov in dnevnik meritev z izkopavanj leta 1953. V pričujoči knjigi pa objavljamo drugi del arhivskega gradiva iz arheoloških izkopavanj najdišča Župna cerk…
Slovene Pagan Sacred Landscape Study Case
In this article the authors present the Slovene Pagan sacred landscape. Based on the case of the Bistrica plain, North of Ljubljana (Slovenia) they have tried to show the ritual sites within the sacred landscape for the period between 9th Century and the end of 10th Century. This was concluded through the oral tradition and archaeological sources. They have tried to determine the role of the individual ritual site within the landscape and the man…
Srednjeveški Blejski otok v arheoloških virih / Medieval archaeology of Bled Island
Pričujoča knjiga je nastala z namenom, da odgovori na vprašanje: ali je v arheoloških virih izpričano predkrščansko svetišče na Blejskem otoku? Blejski otok je imel poseben pomen za vsako lokalno skupnost, ki je kadarkoli živela ob Blejskem jezeru. Pisanje J. V. Valvasorja in A. T. Linharta je sloves otoka poneslo širše, dokončno pa ga je usidral v kulturno zavest Slovencev France Prešeren, ki je na otok v pesmi Krst pri Savici postavil Živin hra…
Digital Archiving in Archaeology
The articles in this special issue demonstrate significant differences in digital archiving capacity in different countries. In part these reflect differences in the history of archaeology in each country, its relationship to the state, whether it is centralised or decentralised, state-led or commercially driven. They also reflect some of the different attitudes to archaeology across the world, most recently explored in a survey conducted under t…
Archiving of Archaeological Digital Datasets in Slovenia
This article presents the archiving of archaeological digital datasets in Slovenia in its historic context. The datasets discussed have been separated into three categories: non-reproducible datasets, reproducible datasets, and registries. Several reproducible datasets created by ZRC SAZU have been freely available online since the early 2000s, but the number of users is small and those benefiting often do not adhere to clearly stated copyright l…
Migration of Alpine Slavs and machine learning
The rapid expansion of the Slavic speakers in the second half of the first millennium CE remains a controversial topic in archaeology, and academic passions on the issue have long run high. Currently, there are three main hypotheses for this expansion. The aim of this paper was to test the so-called “hybrid hypothesis,” which states that the movement of people, cultural diffusion and language diffusion all occurred simultaneously. For this purpos…
Grave Orientation In The Middle Ages
The aim of the book is to demonstrate the importance of grave orientation for the archaeology of Medieval death and burial. In doing this, two key points are emphasized. First, grave orientation was an important, and in some cases the most important, conduit for the symbolic meaning of burials in the Middle Ages. Second, for an archaeologist to reconstruct this meaning, the analysis must be conducted with methodological rigour, and inferences mus…
Executable Map Paper (EMaP) for Archaeological LiDAR
Archaeological LiDAR has evolved into an indispensable component of archaeological prospection and landscape archaeology. However, it is frequently employed as a black-box digital method, which confines it to the realm of a specialized field. Making scientific publications more accessible, transparent, and reproducible is one of the steps required to turn LiDAR into a background method for all archaeologists. This is possible, according to our pr…
Interpolation of airborne LiDAR data for archaeology
The use of topographic airborne LiDAR data has become an essential part of archaeological prospection, and the need for an archaeology-specific data processing workflow is well established. However, interpolation, an important step in which the digital elevation model is derived from the classified point cloud, has received little attention from archaeologists. This processing step has a direct impact on the accuracy and visual performance of the…
Archaeological LiDAR in Mediterranean Karst Landscapes. A Multiproxy Dating Method for Archaeological Landscape and a Case Study From Prehistoric Kras Plateau (Slovenia)
The case study area is a small but typical prehistoric landscape in the Kras Plateau on the north coast of the central Mediterranean. The Late Bronze and Iron Age Kras Plateau was an emblematic Mediterranean archaeological landscape dotted with numerous hillforts. Since the mid‐20th century, the landscape had been overgrown with some of the most archaeology‐hostile vegetation, severely impeding landscape archaeology until archaeological LiDAR rev…
Rethinking Ethnic Identity in the Archaeology of the Ancient Slavs
The archaeology of the ancient Slavs has advanced methodologically but remains divided between scholars who deny the Slavs’ migrations, and those linking material culture directly to ethnic identities. This paper seeks to bridge this divide by reassessing the theoretical framework for studying the ancient Slavs. It critiques the historical development of research on ethnic identity in archaeology, highlighting limitations in both primordialist an…
Archaeology (12 works) · Archaeological Research and Protection (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · History (8 works) · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Geology (5 works) · Historical and Archaeological Studies (5 works) · 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage (4 works)