Research Associate
+386 1 47 06 396
bine.kramberger@zrc-sazu.si
Novi trg 2, Ljubljana; RP Maribor
Dr. Bine Kramberger is archaeologist and researcher at the Institute of Archaeology, ZRC SAZU. His research focuses on the archaeology of the Neolithic, Copper Age, and Bronze Age in the southeastern Alpine and pre-Alpine regions, with particular emphasis on prehistoric settlements, settlement patterns, and funerary practices. His work is oriented toward the analysis of material culture and chronology, as well as the study of prehistoric societies, their technological innovations, and paleo-economy.
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Education
- BSci, archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, 2010
- DPhil, archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, 2014
Research interests
- Archaeology of the Neolithic, Copper Age and Bronze Age in the South-Eastern Alps
- prehistoric societies, settlement and funerary ritual
- funerary practices
- material culture, chronology
- technological innovations in prehistory
- paleo-economic and social changes
Organisation of scientific meetings
- 2023−2024: D. Groß (Museum Lolland-Falster), B. Kramberger, A. Mansrud (University of Stavanger), A. Hellmuth Kramberger (Alma Mater Europea) in T. Theodoropolou (Univerza Côte dˊAzur), Fish * Forms * Functions: The Importance and Societal Role of Aquatic Resources in Prehistoric Societies. Organizacija panela na 30th EAA Annual Meeting in Rome, Italy, 28−31 August 2024.
Membership
- from 2018: member of European Association of Archaeologists
- from 2022: member of Slovenian Archaeological Society
- from 2023: member of International Comunity for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences
International cooperation before 2024
- 2018−2021: Raziskava miniaturnih keramičnih stekleničk iz 5. tisoč. pr. n. št. v jugovzhodnem alpskem prostoru in na Balkanu, v sodelovanju s Christophom Bertholdom (Univerza v Tübingenu in Competence Center Archaeometry – Baden-Wuerttemberg (CCA-BW) in Cynthianne Spiteri (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Institute of Prehistory, Early History and Medieval Archaeology). Snovalec in idejni vodja raziskovalnega projekta, ki je bil finančno podprt s strani Ministrstva za znanost in raziskave dežele Baden-Württemberg, Excellence Initiative of the Ebehard Karls University of Tübingen, Helmut Fischer Institut für Elektronik in Messtechnik GmbH.
Promotion
- European Union, European Social Fund and the Republic of Slovenia, Ministry of Education, Science and Sport, “Innovative scheme for the co-financing of doctoral studies to promote cooperation with the economy and the addressing of current societal challenges – 2010 generation, University of Ljubljana”
Monographs:
- ČREŠNAR, Matija, KRAMBERGER, Bine, Pobrežje v Mariboru. – Zbirka Arheologija na avtocestah Slovenije 123, 2024. ISBN 978-961-7169-75-1 (PDF)
- KRAMBERGER, Bine, Dolsko – Spodnje Škovce: a multi-period site at the eastern edge of Ljubljana Basin. – Monografije CPA 20, Ljubljana, 2024. ISSN 2630-208X.
- MASON, Philp, KRAMBERGER, Bine, TOŠKAN, Borut, TOLAR, Tjaša, RIŽNAR, Igor, Velike njive. – Zbirka Arheologija na avtocestah Slovenije 116, 2024. ISBN 978-961-7169-66-9.
- JANEŽIČ, Maja, KRAMBERGER, Bine, UDOVČ, Katarina, Krtina. Zbirka Arheologija na avtocestah Slovenije 112, 2023. ISBN 978-961-7169-57-7.
- MASON, Philp, KRAMBERGER, Bine, Obrežje : prazgodovina. – Zbirka Arheologija na avtocestah Slovenije 105, 2022. ISBN 978-961-7169-41-6.
- LAZAR, Evgen, ARH, Monika, KRAMBERGER, Bine, Grad Borl : arheološke raziskave v letu 2019. Monografije CPA 14, 2022. ISBN 978-961-7169-16-4.
- KRAMBERGER, Bine, Zgornje Radvanje : naselbinske ostaline in keramične najdbe. Zbirka Arheologija na avtocestah Slovenije 93, 2021. ISBN 978-961-6990-99-8.
- KRAMBERGER, Bine, Malečnik. – Zbirka Arheologija na avtocestah Slovenije 89, 2021. ISBN 978-961-6990-87-5.
- TERŽAN, Biba, ČREŠNAR, Matija, GERBEC, Teja, KAJZER CAFNIK, Mihela, KOPRIVNIK, Vesna, KRAMBERGER, Bine, LESKOVAR, Tamara, STRMČNIK-GULIČ, Mira, ŠTAMFELJ, Iztok, THOMAS, Jayne-Leigh, TOMAZO-RAVNIK, Tatjana, URANKAR, Rafko. Pohorsko Podravje pred tremi tisočletji : tradicija in inovativnost v pozni bronasti in starejši železni dobi. – Katalogi in monografije 44, 2021. ISBN 978-961-06-04181. https://www.nms.si/si/files/default/Trgovina/publikacije/KiM/KiM-44-celota.pdf
- KRAMBERGER, Bine, Slivnica 2B, Zbirka Arheologija na avtocestah Slovenije 91, 2021. ISBN 978-961-6990-83-7.
- KRAMBERGER, Bine, JANEŽIČ, Maja, NOVŠAK, Matjaž, VERBIČ, Tomaž, CULIBERG, Metka, ŠERCELJ, Alojz, PRUS, Tomaž, VRŠČAJ, Borut, Spodnje Hoče. Zbirka Arheologija na avtocestah Slovenije 90, 2021. ISBN 978-961-6990-82-0.
Articles:
2026
- PAVLIN, Primož, KRAMBERGER, Bine, DJURA JELENKO, Saša, HRUSTEL HERCIGONJA, Jožica, HEATH, David J., ZULIANI, Teja, NEČEMER, Marjan, Novoodkriti kovinski predmeti kulture žarnih grobišč iz Stranic pri Zrečah / Newly discovered metal artefacts of the Urnfield Culture from Stranice near Zreče, NE Slovenia. – Arheološki vestnik 77, 2026, 000−000. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3986/AV.77.02
2025
- KRAMBERGER, Bine, MORI, Matjaž, Reassessing the Architecture and Spatial Organization of Lasinja Culture Settlements in the Southeastern Alpine Region. Insights from Northeastern Slovenia. – Archaeologia Austriaca 109, 2025, 83−124. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1553/archaeologia109s83
- KRAMBERGER, Bine, Grobišče na Obrežju: nova odkritja o kulturno-družbenem razvoju v spodnjem Posavju in Hrvaškem Zagorju v bronasti dobi. – Arheološki vestnik 76, 2025, 000−000. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3986/AV.76.08
2024
- KRAMBERGER, Bine, TOŠKAN, Borut, TOLAR, Tjaša, Dolsko – Spodnje Škovce and a new insight into the settlement, chronology, ceramic style(s), and subsistence strategies of the Late Neolithic Sava group in Slovenia. − Documenta Praehistorica 51, 2024, 1−45. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4312/dp.51.18
- TOLAR, Tjaša, MASON, Philp, KRAMBERGER, Bine, Prehistoric to Medieval woodland management and agriculture in the westernmost Carpathian Basin and the surrounding northern Dinaric Karst : a case study of archaeobotanical analyses from the multiperiod site at the Obrežje international border crossing. – In: FUERST-BJELIŠ, Borna et al. (eds.), Environmental histories of the Dinaric Karst, Environmental history 17, 2024, 51−80. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-56089-7_3
- KRAMBERGER, Bine, Novosti o poselitvi Pohorskega Podravja v zgodnji in srednji bronasti dobi ter kronologija poselitve na najdišču Slivnica 1B pri Mariboru / New insight into the settlement of Pohorsko Podravje region in the Early and Middle Bronze Age and the chronology of Slivnica 1B near Maribor. − Arheološki vestnik 75, 2024, 551−618. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3986/AV.75.18
2023
- KRAMBERGER, Bine, LUBŠINA TUŠEK, Marija, TOLAR, Tjaša, Naselbina iz poznega neolitika in zgodnje bakrene dobe v Stopercah (Haloze) / Late Neolithic and Early Copper Age settlement at Stoperce (Haloze, NE Slovenia). − Arheološki vestnik 74, 2023, 39−124. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-56089-7_3
2022
- KRAMBERGER, Bine. The transition to the afterlife : on the formation of a special burial practise of the urnfield culture in the late bronze age at Dobova and Velika Gorica (group). − In: A. Hellmuth Kramberger, V. Perko (eds.), Kulturna formacija in kulturni spomin : jubilejna publikacija : 9. znanstvena konferenca z mednarodno udeležbo : Za človeka gre: digitalna transformacija v znanosti, izobraževanju in umetnosti : zbornik recenziranih prispevkov za področje raziskav kulturnih formacij. Maribor, 2022, 31−52.
2021
- KRAMBERGER, Bine, BERTHOLD, Christoph, SPITERI, Cynthianne. Fifth millennium BC miniature ceramic bottles from the south-eastern Prealps and Central Balkans: A multi-disciplinary approach to study their content and function. − Journal of archaeological science : reports 38, Aug. 2021 [article no.] 102993, 1−20. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.102993
- KRAMBERGER, Bine, ČREŠNAR, Matija, Pobrežje v Mariboru - naselbina iz mlajše kulture žarnih grobišč. − In: TERŽAN, Biba et al., Pohorsko Podravje pred tremi tisočletji : tradicija in inovativnost v pozni bronasti in starejši železni dobi. Ljubljana, 2021, 55−107. https://ebooks.uni-lj.si/ZalozbaUL/catalog/view/253/368/5968
- STRMČNIK GULIČ, Mira, KAJZER, Mihela, KRAMBERGER, Bine, Gomile iz starejše železne dobe pod Poštelo: II. Velika gomila nad Razvanjem. − In: TERŽAN, Biba et al., Pohorsko Podravje pred tremi tisočletji : tradicija in inovativnost v pozni bronasti in starejši železni dobi. Ljubljana, 2021, 411−421. https://ebooks.uni-lj.si/ZalozbaUL/catalog/view/253/368/5973
- TERŽAN, Biba, ČREŠNAR, Matija, KRAMBERGER, Bine, Gomile iz starejše železne dobe pod Poštelo: IV. Gomila 13 iz Pivole. − In: TERŽAN, Biba et al., Pohorsko Podravje pred tremi tisočletji : tradicija in inovativnost v pozni bronasti in starejši železni dobi. Ljubljana, 2021, 347−399. https://ebooks.uni-lj.si/ZalozbaUL/catalog/view/253/368/5977
- KRAMBERGER, Bine, A highway into our past : new data on the Early − and Late − Iron Age lowland settlement in the Maribor area (NE Slovenia). − Śląskie sprawozdania archeologiczne, 2021, 63, 47−74. DOI: 10.34616/ssa.2021.63.47.74
2020
- KRAMBERGER, Bine, OGRINC, Nives, POTOČNIK, Doris, GRDADOLNIK, Jože, The multi-disciplinary study of early Copper Age lamps from Zgornje Radvanje (NE Slovenia). − Quaternary international 569/570, 20. dec. 2020, 102−119, DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2020.09.027
- KRAMBERGER, Bine, Sledovi poselitve iz zgodnje bakrene dobe v Hočah = Settlement remains from the Early Chalcolithic period in Hoče (Slovenia). − Arheološki vestnik 71, 2020, 77−132. DOI: 10.3986/AV.71.02
- KRAMBERGER, Bine, Zur relativen und absoluten Chronologie des späten Neolithikum und frühen Äneolithikums im kontinentalen Teil Sloweniens. − In: Ch. Gutjahr, G. Tiefengraber (eds.), Beiträge zur Kupferzeit am Rande der Südostalpen : Akten des 4. Wildoner Fachgesprächs am 16. und 17. Juni 2016 in Wildon/Steiermark (Österreich). Rahden/Westf., 2020, 53−89. ISSN 2700-1946.
2019
- KRAMBERGER, Bine. Zgornje Radvanje lowland settlement (Maribor, NE Slovenia). − In: M. Črešnar et al. (eds.), Plants - Animals - People : lively archaeological landscapes of Styria and Northeastern Slovenia. Graz, 2019, 53−58. ISSN 2078-0141. http://www.interarch-steiermark.eu/fileadmin/interarch/Publikationen/Katalog_Plants_Animal_People-web.pdf
- KRAMBERGER, Bine. The oldest lamp of Slovenia : oval-shaped ceramic find from the Settlement Zgornje Radvanje (last third of the 5th millennium BC). − In: L. Chrzanovski, A. Nestorović, V. Perko (eds.). Ancient lamps from Balkans and beyond : acts of the 4th International Lychnological Congress (Ex Oriente Lux, Ptuj, 15th-19th of May, 2012) : in memory of Jean Bussière. Drémil Lafage, 2019, 253−264. ISSN 1278-3846
2018
- KRAMBERGER, Bine, Najdbe in sledovi poselitve iz bakrene dobe pod gomilo v Brezju pod Brinjevo goro (Funde und Besiedlungsspuren aus der Kupferzeit unter dem Grabhügel in Brezje unterhalb der Brinjeva gora). − Arheološki vestnik 69, 2018, 69−133. ISSN 0570-8966. https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/av/article/view/7642/7122
- KRAMBERGER, Bine, HELLMUTH KRAMBERGER, Anja, Von neolithischen ʺGroßen Mütternʺ bis zu sumerischen Königen : ein Überblick zum Nachweis des Transports auf dem Kopf in der Vor- und Frühgeschichte. − In: B. Nessel, D. Neumann, M. Bartelheim (eds.). Bronzezeitlicher Transport : Akteure, Mittel und Wege. Tübingen, 2018, 33−58. ISBN 978-3-947251-04-9, ISBN 3-947251-04-1. https://publikationen.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/handle/10900/85332
Before 2018
- KRAMBERGER, Bine, Svetilka iz zgodnjeeneolitske naselbine Zgornje Radvanje v Mariboru / Eine Lampe aus der früh-äneolithischen Siedlung von Zgornje Radvanje in Maribor. − Arheološki vestnik 66, 2015, 249−273. ISSN 0570-8966. https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/av/article/view/7861/0
- KRAMBERGER, Bine, Forms, function, and use of early eneolithic pottery and settlement structures from Zgornje Radvanje, Slovenia. − Documenta Praehistorica 42, 2015, 231−250. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4312/dp.42.16
- KRAMBERGER, Bine, The neolithic-eneolithic sequence and pottery assemblages in the fifth millennium BC in north-eastern Slovenia. − Documenta Praehistorica 41, 2014, 237−282. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4312/dp.41.13
- KRAMBERGER, Bine, Evaluation of Dimitrijevićʼs definition of the Sopot Culture in the light of radiocarbon dates. − Opvscvla archaeologica 37/38, 2013/2014, 359−370. https://doi.org/10.17234/OA.37.15
- KRAMBERGER, Bine, Zgornje Radvanje, cluster 10 : a Late Neolithic pit with a structure and smaller pits. − Documenta Praehistorica 37, 2010, 311−337. DOI: 10.4312/dp.37.27
Selected lectures:
- KRAMBERGER, Bine, Burial rituals, grave goods and connections in the south-eastern Alpine region: New data from Obrežje. – In: “The Things of Life: Resources and Religion in the Metal Ages in Southeastern Europe”, The 4th PeBA Conference September 25−28, 2024, Varna.
- KRAMBERGER, B. 2024, Boleráz, Baden or Stare gmajne? : first settlements from the second half of the 4th millennium in north-eastern Slovenia. – In: “Persisting with change”, 30th EAA Annual Meeting, 28th – 31st August 2024, Rome. [COBISS.SI-ID 210234371]
- KRAMBERGER, Bine, HELLMUTH, Anja, Who was the fisher(man) within the bronze- and iron age communities? : review of iconographic and archaeological data. – In: “Persisting with change”, 30th EAA Annual Meeting, 28th – 31st August 2024, Rome. [COBISS.SI-ID 209874179]
- KRAMBERGER, Bine, Archaeological heritage in the 21st century: From pick and shovel to 3D scanning and multidisciplinary research. – In: “Archeologie liniových staveb - aplikace přírodovědných metod a informačních technologií; jejich postupy, výsledky a interpretace”, 4. – 6. června 2024,Východočeské muzeum v Pardubicah, Univerza Hradec Kralove in Masarykova univerza v Brnu, Pardubice.
- ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ, Brina, KRAMBERGER, Bine, Deviations, relicts and innovations? Late Bronze Age Inhumations within the Urnfields from the south-eastern Alpine Region. – In: “Interdisciplinarity in archaeology”, UISPP, Sept. 5−9, 2023, Timişoara. [COBISS.SI-ID 169854723]
- KRAMBERGER, Bine, Where are the problems? : the mismatch between radiocarbon dates and archaeological data based on the case studies from Slovenia. – In: “Weaving narratives", 29th EAA Annual Meeting, 30th Aug−2nd Sept. 2023, Belfast. [COBISS.SI-ID 169284355]
- TOLAR, Tjaša, TOŠKAN, Borut, KRAMBERGER, Bine, Not every pit is a pit-house: Late Neolithic depositional practices at the site Dolsko – Spodnje Škovce in Slovenia. – In: “Weaving narratives", 29th EAA Annual Meeting, 30th Aug - 2nd Sept. 2023, Belfast. [COBISS.SI-ID 163906307]
- KRAMBERGER, Bine, TOŠKAN, Borut, TOLAR, Tjaša 2023, Reassessment of the Neolithic Sava group in Slovenia after 20 years: new data on the chronology, settlement features, ceramic style(s) and economy from Dolsko – Spodnje Škovce. – In: “Eurasian Neolithics : How Cultures and Societies Evolve and Why It Matters”, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, 26th Neolithic Seminar, 9−11th Nov. 2023, Ljubljana. [COBISS.SI-ID 180918019]
- KRAMBERGER, Bine, BERTHOLD, Christoph, SPITERI, Cynthianne 2022, Fifth Millennium BC miniature ceramic bottles from the south-eastern Prealps and central Balkans: the results of the multi-disciplinary study. – In: “(Re)integration”, 28th EAA Annual Meeting, 31 Aug. - 3 Sept. 2022, Budapest. [COBISS.SI-ID 169600771]
- KRAMBERGER, B. 2021, The transition to the afterlife: on the formation of a special sepulchral culture of the late bronze age Dobova-Velika Gorica group. – In: “All about people: digital transformation in science, education and arts”, 9th Scientific Conference with International participation, 12. - 19.3.2021, Maribor [COBISS.SI-ID 63940355]
- MASON, Philip, KRAMBERGER, Bine 2021, Obrežje. – In: “Od morja do morja: Življenje in smrt v pozni bronasti dobi med "Panonskim" in Jadranskim morjem”, 20. – 21. 05. 2021, Koper – Ptuj. [COBISS.SI-ID 63938051]
- KRAMBERGER, Bine, Circular arrangement of space at the eneolithic settlement of Lasinja culture at Zgornje Radvanje (NE Slovenia). – In: “Virtual Networking”, 26th EAA Virtual Annual Meeting, 24−30 Aug. 2020. [COBISS.SI-ID 48229635]
- KRAMBERGER, Bine, BERTHOLD, Christoph, SPITERI, Cynthianne 2019, Ceramic miniature bottles at the beginning of the Copper age in the south-eastern Alpine region: prestigious containers revealing unexpected content. – In: “Jahrestagung Archäometrie und Denkmalpflege 2019”, 11.−14. Sept. 2019, Wien. [COBISS.SI-ID 98123777] https://metalla.org/index.php/METALLA/issue/view/201/30
- KRAMBERGER, Bine, Between tradition, innovation and interaction : early copper age in the South-Eastern Prealps and in the Western Pannonian basin. – In: "Beyond paradigms”, European Association of Archaeologist (EAA)", 25th EAA Annual Meeting, 5−7 Sept. 2019, Bern. [COBISS.SI-ID 98132993]
- KRAMBERGER, Bine, BERTHOLD, Christoph, SPITERI, Cynthianne 2018, Miniature bottles, prestigious containers for prestigious goods at the beginning of the copper age in the southeastern Alpine region. – In: “Reflecting futures”, 24th EAA Annual Meeting, Barcelona, 5−8th Sept. 2018 [COBISS.SI-ID 98136065]
- KRAMBERGER, Bine 2018, About the copper age ceramic lamp from Zgornje Radvanje and similar finds in the central and southeastern Europe. – In: “Reflecting futures”, 24th EAA Annual Meeting, Barcelona, 5−8th Sept. 2018 [COBISS.SI-ID 98135809]