J. Istenič collected and edited proceedings of the worshop entitled Natural science studies of the portable archaeological heritage in Slovenia 1998-2008, held on February 17-18, 2009 at the National Museum of Slovenia. The proceedings consist of 19 papers. They provide a compact and clear survey of most of the interdisciplinary studies into the portable archaeological heritage from the territory of the present-day Slovenia that have been carried out between 1998 and 2009. Readers will thus have quick access to the themes addressed, as well as to bibliographies for further study.
C.03 Guest-associated editor
COBISS.SI-ID: 7891296Together with Prof. Dr. P. Scherrer and Prof. Dr. K. Tausend (both from the University of Graz, Austria), P. Kos organized a scientific colloquium entitled on the battle at Noreia ("Die Schlacht bei / um Noreia" ). It was held on that on the 1st of July 2010 at the Institut für Alte Geschichte, Karl-Franzens University in Graz.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
COBISS.SI-ID: 32119853At the Symposium on the metallurgy of the european Iron Age (Mannheim, 20-22 April 2010) we presented results of our research into a group of scabbards and associated swords from the transition of the Late La Tene to the Roman period. They suggest that these objects cannot be dated before c. 60 B.C., and that they are unlikely to be Celtic products, as has been generally accepted, but were probably made in a Celto-Roman milieu. In view of their distribution, North-Eastern ancient Italy seems to be the most possible area of their production.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 7890528On the international Roman military equipment conference, which main topic was the Roman military equipment from graves, we gave an overview lecture of the graves with items of Roman military equipment in Slovenia.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 7890784The results of PIXE/PIGE analysis of 80 glass beads from 7th to early 11th century graves in Slovenia indicate that some of the graves attributed to the early Köttlach culture (7th and 8th century) by Slovenian Archaeology, cannot be dated earlier than to the 9th century. In addition, the results contribute to the understanding of the development of the European medieval glass production. The source of ca. half of the glass beads analysed, which was presumably in Mesopotamia (the Kingdom of the Abbasids), namely coincides with a small group of about 700 years younger Venetian glass.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
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