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Borut Toškan, PhD, Asst. prof.
Senior Research Associate

+386 1 47 06 398

borut.toskan@zrc-sazu.si


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Borut Toškan is an archaeozoologist who studies the relationship between humans and animals from the Early Stone Age to the modern era. His research focuses on domestication, the development of livestock farming, dietary habits (also) in relation to social and functional differentiation in society, animals as elements of ritual practices, and the paleoenvironment.


Education

  • B. Sc. in biology 1999, Department of Biology at Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana
  • M. Sc. in biology 2002, Department of Biology at Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana
  • Ph. D. in geology 2004, Department of Geology at Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, University of Ljubljana

Research interests

  • 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. Poročilo o raziskovanju paleolitika, neolitika in eneolitika v Sloveniji. Neolitske študije= Neolithic studies 51, 2024, 1−45. DOI: 10.4312/dp.51.18
  • PREDOVNIK, Katarina Katja, TOŠKAN, Borut (927). Die früh- bis hochmittelalterlichen Funde aus Nevlje, Slowenien : Spuren eines verschwundenen Herrenhofs?. Beiträge zur Mittelalterarchäologie in Österreich. 2023, bd. 39, str. 43-73, ilustr. ISSN 1011-0062. [COBISS.SI-ID 170066179]
  • TOŠKAN, Borut, RAGOLIČ, Anja. The economic role of animals amid the chaos of the crumbling Roman Empire : a look at the South-Eastern Alpine Region in Late Antiquity based on archaeozoology and ancient literary sources. Environmental archaeology. str. 1-17, zvd., ilustr. ISSN 1461-4103. DOI: 10.1080/14614103.2023.2222978. [COBISS.SI-ID 159627523]
  • TOŠKAN, Borut, KOVAČ, Mateja, TOLAR, Tjaša 2022, Bioarheološke raziskave rimskodobnega grobišča Marof na Igu: antropologija, arheozoologija, arheobotanika / Bioarchaeological investigations of the Roman cemetery in Marof at Ig (Slovenia): anthropological, archaeozoological and archaeobotanical evidence. − Arheološki vestnik 73, 281−312; https://doi.org/10.3986/AV.73.08.
  • JAMNIK, Pavel, BLAŽINA, Bruno, TOŠKAN, Borut, POLAK, Slavko, JOSIPOVIČ, Draško. Uršnja luknja v Podtaborski steni pri Šembijah. Ostanki moustérienskega planega tabora, naplavljeni v jamo z drobirskim tokom. − Annales : anali za istrske in mediteranske študije. Series historia et sociologia. [Tiskana izd.]. 2021, 31, 3, 367-390. ISSN 1408-5348. https://zdjp.si/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/ASHS_31-2021-3_Jamnik.pdf, DOI: 10.19233/ASHS.2021.24. [COBISS.SI-ID 90673923]
  • TOŠKAN Borut, Konjski ostanki iz Velike gomile nad Razvanjem / Horse remains from the Velika gomila tumulus above Razvanje. − In: B. Teržan, M. Črešnar (eds.), Pohorsko Podravje pred tremi tisočletji : tradicija in inovativnost v pozni bronasti in starejši železni dobi = Pohorsko Podravje three millennia ago : tradition and innovation in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages. Katalogi in monografije 44, 2021, 481−491.
  • JANŽEKOVIČ, Franc, KLENOVŠEK, Tina, MLÍKOVSKÝ, Jiři, TOŠKAN, Borut, VELUŠČEK, Anton. Eneolithic pile dwellers captured waterfowl in winter : analysis of avian bone remains from two pile dwellings in Ljubljansko barje (Slovenia). International journal of osteoarchaeology. [Print ed.]. 2021, 1−10. DOI: 10.1002/oa.3012.
  • ZVER, Lars, TOŠKAN, Borut, BUŽAN, Elena. Phylogeny of Late Pleistocene and Holocene Bison species in Europe and North America. Quaternary international 595, 2021, 30−38. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2021.04.022.
  • TOLAR, Tjaša, GALIK, Alfred, LE BAILLY, Matthieu, DUFOUR, Benjamin, CAF, Nina, TOŠKAN, Borut, BUŽAN, Elena, ZVER, Lars, JANŽEKOVIČ, Franc, VELUŠČEK, Anton. Multi-proxy analysis of waterlogged preserved Late Neolithic canine excrements. − Vegetation history and archaeobotany 30, no. 3, 2021, 107−118. DOI: 10.1007/s00334-020-00805-y.
  • PAVLOVIČ Daša, VOJAKOVIĆ Petra, TOŠKAN Borut, Cerklje ob Krki: novosti v poselitvi Dolenjske v zgodnjem srednjem veku (Cerklje ob Krki: new findings on the early medieval settlement of Dolenjska). − Arheološki vestnik 72, 2021, 137−186. https://doi.org/10.3986/AV.72.06
  • TOŠKAN, Borut, ACHINO, Katia Francesca, VELUŠČEK, Anton. Faunal remains mirroring social and functional differentiation? : the Copper Age pile-dwelling Site of Maharski prekop (Ljubljansko barje, Slovenia). − Quaternary international 539, 2020, 62−77. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2019.01.028.
  • TOŠKAN, Borut, ACHINO, Katia Francesca. Arheozoološka razmatranja društvene složenosti na brončanodobnom nalazištu Monkodonja = Archaeozoological insights into the social complexity at the Bronze Age settlement of Monkodonja. − In: TERŽAN, Biba (ed.), Monkodonja : istraživanje protourbanog naselja brončanog doba Istre = Forschungen zu einer protourbanen Siedlung der Bronzezeit Istriens. Knj. 3. = Teil 3, Nalazi od metala, gline, kosti i kamena te ljudskih i životinjskih kostiju=Die Funde aus Metall, Ton, Knochen und Stein sowie die menschlichen und tierischen Knochen. 1. internetsko izd. Pula: Arheološki muzej Istre: = Archäologisches Museum Istriens, Monografije i katalozi, 34, 2020, 476−516.
  • TOŠKAN, Borut. Živalski ostanki. − In: et al. Severno emonsko grobišče - raziskave na najdišču Kozolec, Situla 45, 2020, 244−261.
  • TOŠKAN Borut, Živalski ostanki z železnodobnega grobišča Most na Soči: ledini Pucarjev rob in Repelc / Archaeozoological evidence from the Iron Age cemetery at Most na Soči: the Pucarjev rob and Repelc sites. Most na Soči. − Arheološke raziskave v letih 2000–2016 na levem bregu Idrijce / Most na Soči. The 2000–2016 archaeological investigations on the left bank of the Idrijca. Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae 43, 2020, 191−242.
  • TOLAR Tjaša, GALIK Alfred, LE BAILLY Matthieu, DUFOUR Benjamin, CAF Nina, TOŠKAN Borut, BUŽAN Elena, ZVER Lars, JANŽEKOVIČ Franc, VELUŠČEK Anton, Multi‑proxy analysis of waterlogged preserved Late Neolithic canine excrements. − Vegetation History and Archaeobotany (https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-020-00805-y.
  • ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ, Brina, TOŠKAN, Borut, Ritual use of dogs and wolves in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age in the South-Eastern Alpine region. New evidence from the archaeo(zoo)logical perspective. − V: Costamagno, Sandrine (ur.), Animal symbolisé, animal exploité : du Paléolithique à la Protohistoire, (Actes des congrès nationaux des sociétés historiques et scientifiques), 2018, 249−277.
Teaching
  • Archaeozoology, Podiplomska šola ZRC SAZU
  • Archaeozoology, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of Archaeology
  • Archaeozoology, University of Primorska, Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies
Awards and recognitions
  • 2017: Recognition of the Slovenian Archeology Society for the book 'Okoljska arheologija in paleoekologija. Palinologija, arheobotanika in arheozoologija' (Environmental archaeology and palaeoecology. Palynology, archaeobotany and archaeozoology) (2016)
Professional memberships
  • member of the Editorial Committee of the Arheološki vestnik
Links
Archaeozoology