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Brina Škvor Jernejčič, PhD

Research Associate, Assistant Professor

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brina.skvor-jernejcic@zrc-sazu.si


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Education

  • 2008: BA in Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
  • 2009/2014: Young Researcher (pre-Bologna reforms programme), employed at the National Museum of Slovenia, Archaeological department
  • 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
  • 2017: Junior Researcher - Assistant with PhD at the University of Ljubljana
  • 2020: Assistant Professor at the University of Ljubljana

Areas of Specialization

  • Bronze and Early Iron Age of the south-eastern Alpine region
  • Funerary archaeology, mortuary practices and rites, cremation/inhumation
  • Social structures and (in)equalities in the prehistoric societies
  • Mobility and migration in the Bronze and Iron Age Europe
  • Bio-archaeology, isotopes

Short term research stays abroad

  • 2005/2006: Socrates/Erasmus Exchange Programme at Università degli studi Suor Orsola Benincasa, Napoli, Italy
  • 2010: DAAD scholarship for doctoral candidates at the Ludwig-Maximilian Universität, Department für Kulturwissenschaften und Altertumskunde, Institut für Vor- und frühgeschichtliche Archäologie und Provinzialrömische Archäologie, München (supervisor Prof. Metzner-Nebelsick Carola)
  • 2011: DAAD scholarship for doctoral candidates at the Institut für Prähistorische Archäologie, Freie Universität, Berlin (supervisor Prof. Hansen Svend)
  • 2011: Fellowship-holder of the Italian Ministry for International Affairs at the Università degli Studi di Padova, Dipartimento di Archeologia, Padua (supervisor Prof. Leonardi Giovanni)
  • 2015: Research stay at the Institute of Archaeology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Nitra, Slovakia (Archeologický ústav SAV)
  • 2018: Research stay at the German Archaeological Institute, Berlin, Germany (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Eurasien-Abteilung)

Long term research stays abroad

2015/2017: Postdoctoral research project DRS POINT-2015, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action with a title »Intercultural contacts between the south-eastern Alpine region and the western Carpathian area in the second half of the 2nd millenium BC«, grant nr Z-COFUND-8, at the Institute for Prehistoric Archaeology, Free University Berlin (Institut für Prähistorische Archäologie, Freie Universität Berlin), cooperation with the German Archaeological Institute (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Eurasien-Abteilung), Germany

Editorial board

2018/today: Member of the editorial board of the periodical Arheo – Glasilo Slovenskega arheološkega društva

Oganization of scientific meetings

Membership

  • 2023/today: member International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP)
  • 2018/today: Member of the Archaeological Society of Slovenia
  • 2016/today: Member of the European Association of Archaeologists
  • 2015/2019: Member of the Excellence Cluster TOPOI (Berlin, Germany), within the research group B-4-4 »Shifting things and identity«

Selected research projects (before 2021)

  • 2015/2017: Project leader of the postdoctoral research project DRS POINT-2015, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action with a title »Intercultural contacts between the south-eastern Alpine region and the western Carpathian area in the second half of the 2nd millenium BC«, grant nr Z-COFUND-8, at the Institute for Prehistoric Archaeology, Free University Berlin (Institut für Prähistorische Archäologie, Freie Universität Berlin), cooperation with the German Archaeological Institute (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Eurasien-Abteilung)
  • 2017/2020: Project leader of the postdoctoral research project »Beyond Materiality: Prehistoric communities and their burial customs in the light of new scientific analyse«, grant nr Z6-8252, co-funded by the Slovenian Research Agency, at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of Archaeology

Research Programmes (before 2021)

2009/2014: »Premična kulturna dediščina: arheološke in arheometrične raziskave«, grant nr P6-0283 (C), co-funded by the Slovenian Research Agency, National museum of Slovenia

Original scientific article

 

Conference proceedings

  • TOŠKAN, Borut, ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ, Brina, PRESSLEE, Samantha, ORTON, David, Zooarchaeology by mass spectrometry (ZooMS) : an innovative approach to taxonomic identification of subfossil animal remains. − In. KOPRIVNIK, Vesna (ed.), SALECL, Dunja (ed.). Srečanja tisočletij / The convergence of millennia : Museoeurope : the collected volume of the symposium 19.-21. 10.2023 : [= Zbornik mednarodnega simpozija, 19.-21.10.2023. Zbirka Museoeurope, 8, Maribor 2023, 111−122. https://museum-mb.si/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/MuseoEurope_2023.pdf
  • 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. Olle - oval pots with a short everted rim from the cemeteries at Frattesina (I) and Ljubljana (SI). The same shape yet different use within the funerary practices?. V: Frattesina cinquant'anni dopo. Il Delta del Po tra Europa e Mediterraneo nei secoli attorno al 1000 a.C. = Frattesina fifty years later. The Po Delta between Europe and the Mediterranean in the centuries around 1000 BC. Berlin: Centro polesano di studi storici archeologici ed etnografici (Cpssae), 2018. https://frattesina50.jimdo.com/posters/. [COBISS.SI-ID 67321954]
  • 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]
  • ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ, Brina, VINAZZA, Manca. Burial rites in the western and central Slovenia in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age. A case study of Urnfield Cemeteries from Tolmin and Ljubljana (Slovenia). 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.785-790, ilustr., zvd. [COBISS.SI-ID 69348706]
  • ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ, Brina, VINAZZA, Manca. Burial practices and burial rites between the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in Slovenia. A comparative analysis of Ljubljana and Tolmin cemeteries. V: CIVIDINI, Tiziana (ur.), TASCA, Giovanni (ur.). Il funerario in Friuli e nelle regioni contermini tra l'età del ferro e l'età tardoantica. Atti del Convegno Internazionale = The funerary in Friuli and surrounding regions between Iron Age and Late Antiquity. Proceedings of the International Conference, San Vito al Tagliamento, 14 febbraio 2013, (BAR International series, ISSN 0143-3067, 2795). Oxford: BAR Publishing. 2016, str. 41-62, ilustr., zvd., graf. prikazi. [COBISS.SI-ID 9223008]

 

Independent scientific component part or a chapter in a monograph

  • ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ, Brina. Razmislek o poznobronastodobnih skupnostih iz Ljubljane na podlagi njihovih pogrebnih običajev in noše = Considerations about the Late Bronze Age communities in Ljubljana as revealed by their funerary practices and attires. In: M. Črešnar, M. Vinazza (eds.). Srečanja in vplivi v raziskovanju bronaste in železne dobe na Slovenskem. Zbornik prispevkov v čast Bibi Teržan. 1. izd. Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani. 2018, str.163-186, ilustr. [COBISS.SI-ID 67395426]
  • ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ, Brina. Grobovi iz starejšega halštatskega obdobja na Molniku. In: Tecco Hvala, Sneža. Molnik pri Ljubljani v železni dobi = The iron age site at Molnik near Ljubljana, (Zbirka Opera Instituti archaeologici Sloveniae, 36). 1. izd. Ljubljana: ZRC SAZU, Inštitut za arheologijo, Založba ZRC. 2017, str. 89-108, 140-153, tabele, zvd. [COBISS.SI-ID 41869357]
  • TECCO HVALA, Sneža, ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ, Brina. Raztresene najdbe v gomilah in njihov značaj. In: Tecco Hvala, Sneža. Molnik pri Ljubljani v železni dobi = The iron age site at Molnik near Ljubljana, (Zbirka Opera Instituti archaeologici Sloveniae, 36). 1. izd. Ljubljana: ZRC SAZU, Inštitut za arheologijo, Založba ZRC. 2017, str. 119-123, 161-165, risbe. [COBISS.SI-ID 41869613]
  • TECCO HVALA, Sneža, ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ, Brina. Kulturna in družbena identiteta. In: Tecco Hvala, Sneža. Molnik pri Ljubljani v železni dobi = The iron age site at Molnik near Ljubljana, (Zbirka Opera Instituti archaeologici Sloveniae, 36). 1. izd. Ljubljana: ZRC SAZU, Inštitut za arheologijo, Založba ZRC. 2017, str. 125-130, 166-170, risbe. [COBISS.SI-ID 41869869]
  • ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ, Brina. Ljubljana, Dvorišče SAZU. In: B. Teržan (ed.), et al. Absolutno datiranje bronaste in železne dobe na Slovenskem = Absolute dating of Bronze and Iron Ages in Slovenia, (Katalogi in monografije, 40). Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete: Narodni muzej Slovenije. 2014, str. 363-385, zvd., ilustr., graf. prikaz. [COBISS.SI-ID 8872800]

 

Doctoral dissertation

ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ, Brina. Žarna nekropola v Ljubljani in preobrazba ljubljanske skupine na prehodu iz bronaste v železno dobo. Doktorska disertacija. University of Ljubljana, 2014, [COBISS.SI-ID 8903520]

Undergraduate degree

ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ, Brina. Pusti Gradac v starohalštatskem obdobju. Diplomsko delo. University of Ljubljana, 2008, [COBISS.SI-ID 37035874]

Archeological Exhibition

ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ, Brina, ŽELEZNIKAR, Janja. Pogrebni ritual v pozni bronasti dobi. O grobu iz Ulice Toma Brejca v Kamniku. Kamnik: Medobčinski muzej, 2018, [COBISS.SI-ID 297042688]

 

Selected lectures

2025

  • ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ, Brina, HAMANN, Christian, Radiocarbon dating of calcined bones with high calcite content : research potentials and limitations : new absolute dates from Ljubljana, Slovenia. − In. 31st EAA Annual Meeting : 2-6 September 2025 : Belgrade virtual : abstract book. [Praha]: European Association of Archaeologists, cop. 2025, 374−375. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q9IG_LuJRkYHwwHawe7IpIEqAqT7Vtuh/view
  • TOŠKAN, Borut, ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ, Brina. Kozorog je naš! Zgodba o kosteh, upodobitvah in politiki. − In. ANDRIČ, Maja (ed.), CAF, Nina (ed.). Znanstveno srečanje Dolgoročne spremembe okolja 2025, Ljubljana 2025. https://iza2.zrc-sazu.si/sites/default/files/DSO_2025_povzetki.pdf
  • ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ, Brina, KRAMBERGER, Bine, Nove radiokarbonske datacije za kronologijo bronaste dobe. − Gabrovčev dan 2025 "Naravoslovne discipline v raziskavah pozne prazgodovine. Doprineski o bronasti in železni dobi", Ljubljana 2025.

2024

2023

  • KUNSTELJ, Miha, ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ, Brina, Nove radikarbonske datacije z žarnega grobišča v Dobovi. − Gabrovčev dan 2023 "Bronasta doba v osrednji Sloveniji - na Gorenjskem in Dolenjskem". Ljubljana 2023.
  • ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ, Brina, HAMANN, Christian, Absolute dating of the Middle and Late Bronze Age cremations in Slovenia. Research potentials and limitations of calcined bones with high calcite content. − "Absolute Chronologies of the European Middle and Late Bronze Ages: Challenges and Perspectives", ÖAW, Seminarraum, Wien (AUT), 1. dec. 2023, Wien 2023.
  • ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ, Brina, KRAMBERGER, Bine, Deviations, relicts and innovations? Late Bronze Age Inhumations within the Urnfields from the south-eastern Alpine Region. − UISPP Interdisciplinarity in archaeology, September 5-9, 2023, West University of Timişoara, Timişoara 2023.

2022

  • ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ, Brina, Networks and mobility at the beginning of the Late Bronze Age : new perspectives from the south-eastern Alpine Region (Slovenia) : predavanje po videopovezavi za doktorske študente Univerze v Plznu in Českih Budějovicah (nosilec Petr Květina) v sodelovanju z Arheološkim inštitutom, Praha (CZE), 14. apr. 2022.

2021

  • TOŠKAN, Borut, ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ, Brina, Not to chicken out! In the footsteps of the elusive Early Iron Age Gallus gallus domesticus in the south-eastern Alpine region. − In. ARZARELLO, Marta (ed.), et al., LVI Riunione Scientifica Le scienze della Preistoria e Protostoria: Paleoecologia, Archeobiologia, Applicazioni digitali e Archeometria, Ferrara, 20-23 Ottobre 2021 : comunicazioni e poster = 56th Scientific Conference Sciences of Prehistory and Protohistory: Palaeoecology, Archaeobiology, Digital applications and Archaeometry, Ferrara, 20-23 October 2021 : abstract book. Firenze: Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria, [2021]. Firenze 2021, 64. https://www.iipp.it/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Abstract-Book_IIPP-Ferrara-FINALE.pdf
  • TOŠKAN, Borut, ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ, Brina, The chickens have hatched! : early evidence of Gallus gallus domesticus from the South Eastern Alpine region as indicator of connectivity between Apennine Peninsula and Central Europe during the Iron Age. − 10° Convegno Nazionale di Archeozoologia, tematski sklop "Visioni d’insieme: L’integrazione dei dati archeozoologici a livello sovraregionale: opportunità, modalità e problematiche", Siena – Santa Chiara Lab (ITA), 5. nov. 2021, Siena 2021.
  • ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ, Brina, LEGHISSA, Elena, BREZIGAR, Barbara, Dinamiche di insediamento e produzione ceramica nella Slovenia centrale nel Bronzo Medio e Recente. − "Modelli di insediamento e paesaggi antropici delle regioni costiere nord-adriatiche tra Medio e Tardo Bronzo", Universita' degli Studi di Udine - Dipartimento di studi umanistici e del patrimonio culturale, Udine (ITA), 7. maj 2021, Udine 2021.
  • ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ, Brina, VOJAKOVIĆ, Petra, Ljubljana: grobovi starejše železne dobe na grobišču na dvorišču SAZU in na Kongresnem trgu. − Gabrovčev dan 2021 "Halštatske kulturne skupine na območju Slovenije/Hallstatt cultural groups in Slovenia. Gorenjska kulturna skupina/Cultural group of Gorenjska". Ljubljana 2021.
  • ŽELEZNIKAR, Janja, ŠKVOR JERNEJČIČ, Brina, ŠTIBERNIK, Gregor, Mengeš z okolico, grobovi. − Gabrovčev dan 2021 "Halštatske kulturne skupine na območju Slovenije/Hallstatt cultural groups in Slovenia. Gorenjska kulturna skupina/Cultural group of Gorenjska". Ljubljana 2021.
  • Online lecture »Dinamiche di insediamento e produzione ceramica nella Slovenia centrale nel Bronzo Medio e Recente« at the international conference »Modelli di insediamento e paesaggi antropici delle regioni costiere nord-adriatiche tra medio e tardo Bronzo«, Università degli Studi di Udine, 7.5.2021 (with co-authors E. Leghissa and B. Brezigar)
  • Online lecture »Vloga živali v pogrebnih običajih pozne bronaste dobe v jugovzhodoalpskem prostoru« at the international conference »Od morja do morja. Življenje in smrt v pozni bronasti dobi med »Panonskim« in Jadranskim morjem«, Koper – Ptuj, 20.-21.5.2021 (with a co-author B. Toškan)

 

2020

  • Lecture for postgraduate students (subject: Archaeology of the Metal Ages) »Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Necropolis at Dvorišče SAZU in Ljubljana. New potentials in the research of the prehistoric cemeteries« at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of Archaeology
  • Online lecture »Na obronkih Ljubljanskega barja. Ljubljana v pozni bronasti in zgodnji železni dobi«, Društvo Fran Govekar Ig

 

2018

  • Poster presentation »Red deer (Cervus elaphus) and roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) in funerary practices and rituals. Some remarks on the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age graves from Slovenia« at the international conference »7th PZAF Postgraduate ZooArchaeology Forum«, Palermo, 27.-29.6.2018 (with a co-author B. Toškan)
  • Poster presentation »Olle – oval pots with a short everted rim from the cemeteries at Frattesina (IT) and Ljubljana (SI). The same shape yet different use within the funerary practices?« at the international conference »Frattesina cinquant'anni dopo. Il Delta del Po tra Europa e Mediterraneo nei secoli attorno al 1000 a.C.«, Rovigo, 13.-15.4.2018

 

2017

Lecture »First cremation burials in south-eastern Alpine region. A short reflection« at the international conference »Late Bronze Age mortuary practices and society in the Carpathian Basin«, Zagreb, 9.-10.2.2017

 

2016

  • Lecture »L'usage rituel des chiens et des loups au Bronze récent et a l'âge du Fer dans les Alpes orientales (Slovénie). Nouvelles données issues des études archéo(zoo)logiques et de l'analyse des isotopes stables« at the international conference »L'animal et l'homme. 141e congrès national des sociétés historiques et scientifiques«, Rouen, 11.-16.4.2016
  • Lecture »O povezavah med jugovzhodno alpskim prostorom in severno Karpatsko kotlino v času pozne bronaste dobe. Keramična perspektiva« at the Institute of archaeology, Zagreb
  • Lecture »Intercultural contacts and their impact on the burial customs. The ceramic perspective from the South-Eastern Alpine Region and Northern Carpathian Basin« at the »XIV. mezinárodní konference Doba popelnicových polí a doba halštatská«, Kutná Hora, 4.-7.10.2016
  • Lecture »Il ferro: dalle armi agli oggetti d'ornamento. Sui collegamenti tra l'Italia meridionale e l'area alpina sud-orientale nel Bronzo Finale e Primo Ferro« at the international conference »LI Riunione scientifica Italia tra Mediterraneo ed Europa: mobilità, interazioni e scambi«, Forlì, 12.-15.10.2016 (with a co-author M. Kunstelj)
  • Lecture »(In)visible traces of the exogamous mobility in Late Bronze Age? Interpreting urnfield cemeteries« at the international conference »22nd Annual Meeting of the EAA«, Vilnius, 31.8.-4.9.2016
  • Lecture »Burial rites between the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age in the cemetery of Ljubljana, Slovenia« at the international conference »Let the dead speak for the living. Late Bronze and Early Iron Age burials in Southeast Europe - theoretical perspectives in Balkan archaeology«, OREA, Vienna, 30.11-2.12.2016

 

2015

  • Lecture for the doctoral candidates »Intercultural contacts between the south-eastern Alpine region and the western Carpathian area in the second half of the 2nd millenium BC« at the Institute for Prehistoric Archaeology, Free University Berlin
  • Lecture for postgraduate students (subject: Archaeology of the Metal Ages) »New insides of the Bronze Age in the central Slovenia – a case study of the urnfield necropolis at Ljubljana« at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of Archaeology
  • Lecture »Iron makes the world go round. Female adornment in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age in the South-eastern Alpine region« at the conference »Être et paraître en Europe. Identité et parures féminines aux âges du Bronze et du Fer. To be and to be seen in Europe. Identity and female adornment in the Bronze Age and the Iron Age«, Université libre de Bruxelles, 17.-19.9.2015
  • Lecture »Un confronto delle "facies" dell'età del Bronzo Finale in Italia e Slovenia« at the international conference »Facies e culture nell’età del Bronzo italiana?«, Academia Belgica, Rome, 3.-4.12.2015

 

2014

Lecture »Comparative analysis of the urnfield necropolis from Ljubljana (Slovenia), Korošci/St. Barbara and San Vito al Tagliamento (Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy) in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age (Bronzo finale-Primo Ferro)« at the international conference »Preistoria e protostoria del Caput Adriae. XLIX Riunione Scientifica, dell'Istituto di Preistoria e Protostoria«, Udine/Pordenone, 8.-12.10.2014

PROGRAMME: Archaeological research (2022−2027) (research programme • January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2027)
PROGRAMME: Archaeological research (2015−2021) (research programme • January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2021)