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Brina Škvor Jernejčič, PhD, Asst. prof.
Research Associate

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brina.skvor-jernejcic@zrc-sazu.si


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Brina Škvor Jernejčič studied archaeology at the University of Ljubljana. During her doctoral studies, she worked as a junior researcher at the National Museum of Slovenia (2009–2014). In 2011 and 2012, she undertook research stays in Germany (Munich and Berlin) and Italy (Padua). As a postdoctoral researcher within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, she led a two-year research project (2015–2017) at the Free University of Berlin and the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin. Between 2017 and 2020, she was the PI of a postdoctoral research project at the Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. Since 2020, she has been a Research Associate at the ZRC SAZU, Institute of Archaeology.
Her research focuses on Bronze Age and Early Iron Age societies in the south-eastern Alpine region, with particular emphasis on burial practices (cremation and inhumation), social structures, innovations, mobility, and migrations.


Education

  • 2008: BA in Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
  • 2010: Accomplished transition to PhD study (equivalent to MA in Archaeology), Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
  • 2014: PhD in Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana

Periods of stay abroad

  • 2018: German Archaeological Institute, Berlin, Germany (DAI, Eurasia Department)
  • 2015–2017: Postdoctoral research project DRS POINT-2015, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action, entitled Intercultural contacts between the south-eastern Alpine region and the western Carpathian area in the second half of the 2nd millennium BC, carried out at the Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology, Free University of Berlin, and the German Archaeological Institute, Eurasia Department, Berlin
  • 2016: Archaeological Institute, Nitra, Slovakia (Archeologický ústav SAV)
  • 2011: Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology, Free University of Berlin, Germany (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Svend Hansen; DAAD scholarship)
  • 2011: Research scholarship from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Università degli Studi di Padova, Department of Archaeology, Padua, Italy (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Giovanni Leonardi)
  • 2010: Ludwig-Maximilian University, Institute for Pre- and Early Historic Archaeology and Provincial Roman Archaeology, Munich (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Carola Metzner-Nebelsick; DAAD scholarship)
  • 2005/2006: International student exchange within the Socrates/Erasmus programme at Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples, Italy

Research interests

  • Bronze Age and Early Iron Age archaeology in the south-eastern Alpine region
  • Chronology and typology
  • Burial practices, cremation vs. inhumation
  • Social structures and (in)equality in prehistoric communities
  • Mobility and migrations during the Bronze and Early Iron Ages
  • TERŽAN, Biba, ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ, Brina. Bronasta doba v osrednji Sloveniji – na Gorenjskem in Dolenjskem ter v Posavju : uvodnik in kratek oris / The Bronze Age in Central Slovenia – in the Gorenjska, Dolenjska, and Posavje regions : an introduction and brief outline. − Arheološki vestnik 76, 289−319. DOI: 10.3986/AV.76.20
  • ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ, Brina, KUNSTELJ, Miha. Nove radiokarbonske datacije skeletnih in žganih grobov s prazgodovinskega grobišča Dobova – Gomilice / Prehistoric cemetery of Dobova – Gomilice : new radiocarbon dating evidence on inhumationand cremation burials. − Arheološki vestnik 76, 545−594. DOI: 10.3986/AV.76.13
  • ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ Brina, ŠTIBERNIK Gregor, GRUŠKOVNJAK Luka, Biritualna nekropola starejše železne dobe v Mengšu (A bi-ritual necropolis from the Early Iron Age in Mengeš). − Arheološki vestnik 74, 2023, 483−504; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3986/AV.74.17
  • ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ Brina, VOJAKOVIĆ Petra, Grobišča iz starejše železne dobe v Ljubljani. Različni načini pokopa kot kazalci heterogenih prazgodovinskih družbenih identitet (Early Iron Age cemeteries in Ljubljana. Different burial rites as an indication of heterogeneous social identities in prehistory). − Arheološki vestnik 74, 2023, 591−632; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3986/AV.74.20
  • ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ, Brina. Towards an absolute chronology at the beginning of the Late Bronze Age. − Archaeologia Austriaca : beiträge zur Ur- und Frühgeschichte Mitteleuropas. 2021, bd. 105, str. 117-148, ilustr., zvd. ISSN 0003-8008. DOI: 10.1553/archaeologia105s117. [COBISS.SI-ID 90034179]
  • ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ, Brina, PRICE, Theron Douglas. Isotopic investigations of human cremations from the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age cemetery of Ljubljana - Dvorišče SAZU, Slovenia. Journal of archaeological science. Reports, ISSN 2352-4103, 2020, vol. 34, article no. 102594, 14 str., ilustr. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102594, doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102594. [COBISS.SI-ID 33708291]
  • ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ, Brina. The earliest cremation burials in the South-Eastern Alpine region from the Middle Bronze Age - signs of intercultural connections with the Northern Carpathian Basin. Praehistorische Zeitschrift, ISSN 0079-4848. [Printausg.], 2020, ilustr. https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/prhz/ahead-of-print/article-10.1515-pz-2020-0024/article-10.1515-pz-2020-0024. xml?rskey=IIeWLU&result=1, doi: 10.1515/pz-2020-0024. [COBISS.SI-ID 25352963]
  • ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ, Brina, VOJAKOVIĆ, Petra. Understanding social relations through settlement vs cemetery records. Late Bronze Age social (in)equalities in the case of Ljubljana (Slovenia). Quaternary international, ISSN 1040-6182. [Print ed.], 2020, 539, str. 138-157, ilustr. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618218303240?via%3Dihub, doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2018.12.033. [COBISS.SI-ID 70505826]
  • ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ, Brina. Starejšeželeznodobne gomile na Gorenjskem. Žgani grobovi pri Vili Prah in na Koroški cesti v Kranju = Early Iron Age tumuli in the Gorenjska region. Cremation burials at Vila Prah and Koroška cesta in Kranj. Arheološki vestnik, ISSN 0570-8966. [Tiskana izd.], 2017, 68, str. 117-196, ilustr., zvd. [COBISS.SI-ID 41713197]
  • ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ, Brina. Contributo alla conoscenza degli inizi dell'età del Ferro tra la penisola italiana e l'area alpina sud-orientale. Analisi degli spilloni con capocchia conica e ad ombrellino nell'area del Caput Adriae. Padusa. Bollettino del Centro polesano di studi storici, archeologici ed etnografici, Rovigo, Nuova serie, ISSN 0393-0149, anno 50, 2014, str. 141-166, ilustr. [COBISS.SI-ID 9213792]
  • ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ, Brina. Starejšeželeznodobno grobišče Veliki Nerajec pri Dragatušu v Beli krajini = The early Iron Age cemetery of Veliki Nerajec near Dragatuš in Bela krajina. Arheološki vestnik, ISSN 0570-8966. [Tiskana izd.], 2011, 62, str. 165-230, ilustr. [COBISS.SI-ID 33419053]
  • ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ, Brina, LEGHISSA, Elena, BREZIGAR, Barbar, Settlement patterns in the Eastern and Central Slovenia during the Middle and the Late Bronze Age (the Oloris - Podsmreka horizon). − Ipotesi di preistoria, Modelli di insediamento e paesaggi antropici delle regioni costiere nord-adriatiche tra medio e tardo Bronzo, Seminario Internazionale, Udine, 7 maggio 2021. 2022, vol. 15, 93−120. DOI: 10.6092/issn.1974-7985/15721 ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ, Brina, Considerazioni su alcuni aspetti cronologici e funerari dellʼetà del Bronzo Recente in Slovenia e in Italia. − In. DANCKERS, Jonas (ed.), CAVAZZUTI, Claudio (ed.), CATTANI, Maurizio (ed.). Facies e culture nellʼetà del Bronzo italiana?. Bruxelles: Belgisch Historisch Instituut te Rome; = Brussel: Institut Historique Belge de Rome; Roma: Istituto Storico Belga di Roma 2019, 183−196.
  • ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ, Brina. Considerazioni su alcuni aspetti cronologici e funerari dellʼetà del Bronzo Recente in Slovenia e in Italia. V: DANCKERS, Jonas (ur.), CAVAZZUTI, Claudio (ur.), CATTANI, Maurizio (ur.). Facies e culture nellʼetà del Bronzo italiana?. Bruxelles: Belgisch Historisch Instituut te Rome = Brussel: Institut Historique Belge de Rome; Roma: Istituto Storico Belga di Roma. 2019, str. 183-196, ilustr. [COBISS.SI-ID 72033634]
  • 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, ISSN 1764-7355). Paris: Éditions du CTHS. 2018, str. 249-277, ilustr., zvd. http://cths.fr/ed/edition.php?id=7402#. [COBISS.SI-ID 43590957]
  • ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ, Brina. Il rituale e il costume funerario nella tarda età del bronzo e nella prima età del ferro nella Slovenia centrale e nell´Italia nordorientale. V: BORGNA, Elisabetta (ur.), CÀSSOLA GUIDA, Paola (ur.), CORAZZA, Susi (ur.). Preistoria e protostoria del Caput Adriae, (Studi di preistoria e protostoria, 5). Firenze: Istituto italiano di preistoria e protostoria. 2018, str. 537-550, ilustr., zvd. [COBISS.SI-ID 69349218]
Teaching
  • PhD student Anja Ipavec (1 October 2025 – 30 September 2029)
Professional memberships
  • 2023→: member International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP)
  • 2018→: Member of the editorial board of the periodical Arheo – Glasilo Slovenskega arheološkega društva
  • 2018→: Member of the Archaeological Society of Slovenia
  • 2016→: Member of the European Association of Archaeologists
  • 2015–2019: Member of the Excellence Cluster TOPOI (Berlin, Germany)
Other
  • 2022→: co-organiser of scientific meetings Gabrovčev dan
Links
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