Showing papers in "Current Archaeology in 2003"

The boundary stone between Aquileia and Emona

Abstract: In the summer of 2001, a boundary stone between Aquileia and Emona, made of Aurisina/Nabreiina limestone, was discovered in the bed of the Ljubljanica River below Bevke. some 13 km to the southwest of Ljubljana. It is most probably dated to the Augustan period and is certainly pre-Claudian. According to other similar boundary stones, neither of the two communities involved could be subordinate to the other and both belonged to the same administrative unit. This means that both towns belonged to Italy and that Emona had never been part of Illyricum (or, later, of the province of Pannonia).

Dogs from the Ig pile dwellings in the National Museum of Slovenia

Abstract: Eight skull fragments from dogs as well as the lower carnassials (M 1 ) of 37 dogs and 4 wolves were measured in order to reconstruct the size and physical type of these ancient animals during the evaluation of prehistoric animal bone artifacts from the 19th century excavations in the Ljubljana Marshes near lg. The complete ulnae of two additional individuals were used in estimating the withers height of dogs kept at this site. In addition to comparing the dog carnassials to those of coeval waives, cranial dimensions and withers heights were both compared to similar measurements of Roman period urban dogs, known for their remarkable variability in size. Finally, the results from Ig were studied in light of Neolithic to Bronze gage dog remains from lacustral settlements in Switzerland and northern Italy. These calculations reconfirm that the dogs found at 1g were of the turbary dog type (C. familiaris splustris), a from evaluated within a broader context in this article.

Sodobna sociologija o problemih etnicnosti, narodov (nacionalizmov) in danasnja arheologija

Abstract: Izvlecek Clanek obravnava vlogo sodobne socioloske teorije o narodih in nacionalizmih oziroma dva izrazita predstavnika med teoretiki - socialnega antropologa Ernesta Gellnerja in sociologa Anthonyja Davida Smitha - in njuno vlogo pri razumevanju kolektivnih identitet v arheologiji, opozarja na nedoslednosti povezane s slabim poznavanjem socioloskih teorij o nacionalizmih in nakazuje novo pot k razumevanju etnicnosti, ki jo v arheologijo uvaja Siân Jones.