
Principal Research Associate, Assoc. prof.
+386 1 47 06 386
jana.horvat@zrc-sazu.si
/Former member/
Education and Qualifications
- B. Sc. in archaeology 1984, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
- M. Sc. in archaeology 1989, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
- Ph. D. in archaeology 1994, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
Education abroad
1989/1990 study at the (Institut für Vor- und Frühgeschichte und Provinzialrömische Archäologie in Munich (prof. Günter Ulbert).
Research interests
Roman archaeology, romanisation, army, settlement, towns, small settlements, countryside, high altitude sites, small finds
Research programme
The Romanisation processes, settlement, Poetovio, Nauportus, Roman countryside, archaeological research of the high mountains area, ceramics
Organization of conferences
- Manjše rimske naselbine na slovenskem prostoru [Small Roman settlementy in Slovenia] (2015)
- Roman army in the regions of the northern Adriatic and Eastern Alp / Rimska vojska na območju severnega Jadrana in vzhodnih Alp (2014)
- Rimska vojska na območju današnje Slovenije [Roman army in Slovenia] (2011)
Teaching
- Member of the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU and coordinator of the module Millenia between the Adriatic and the Danube.
- Course principal of Romanization and Roman Towns between the Adriatic and the Danube River
- Course principal of Romanisation
Editorial board
Monographs
- HORVAT, Jana, GROH, Stefan, STROBEL, Karl, BELAK, Mateja (ur. / eds.), Roman urban landscape. Towns and minor settlements form Aquileia to the Danube. − Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae 47, 2024.
- HORVAT, Jana, BERNARDINI, Federico, BELAK Mateja (ur. / eds.), The Roman conquest beyond Aquileia (II-I centuries BC). − Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae 45, 2023.
- HORVAT, Jana, Ptujska Panorama. Legijski tabor in antično mesto. − Umetnine v žepu 25, 2023.
- HORVAT, Jana, NESTOROVIĆ, Aleksandra. At the heart of Poetovio : Ptuj in the time of the Roman empire. − Ptuj: The Ptuj-Ormož Regional Museum, 2021. ISBN 978-961-6438-85-8. https://pmpo.si/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/OSRCJE-PETOVIONE_KATALOG_WEB_2020_ENG_PDFA.pdf. [COBISS.SI-ID 78602755]
- HORVAT, Jana, MUŠIČ, Branko, DOLENC VIČIČ, Andreja, RAGOLIČ, Anja, Arheološka najdišča Ptuja. Panorama / Archaeological sites of Ptuj. Panorama. − Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae 41, 2020.
- HORVAT Jana, LAZAR Irena, GASPARI Andrej (eds.), Manjša rimska naselja na slovenskem prostoru / Minor Roman settlements in Slovenia. − Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae 40, 2020.
- HORVAT, Jana (ur. / ed.), The Roman army between the Alps and the Adriatic. − Opera Instituti archaeologici Sloveniae 31, Studia Alpium et Adriae 1, 2016.
- HORVAT, Jana, Andreja, DOLENC VIČIČ, Arheološka najdišča Ptuja. Rabelčja vas = Archaeological Sites of Ptuj. Rabelčja vas, Opera Instituti archaeologici Sloveniae 20, Ljubljana: Znanstvenoraziskovalni center SAZU, Inštitut za arheologijo, 2010.
- HORVAT, Jana in Alma, BAVDEK, OKRA. Vrata med Sredozemljem in Srednjo Evropo = OCRA. The gateway between the Mediterranean and Central Europe, Opera Instituti archaeologici Sloveniae 17, Ljubljana: Znanstvenoraziskovalni center SAZU, Inštitut za arheologijo, 2009.
- HORVAT, Jana, Sermin : prazgodovinska in zgodnjerimska naselbina v severozahodni Istri = a prehistoric and early Roman settlement in northwestern Istria, Opera Instituti archaeologici Sloveniae 3, Ljubljana: Znanstvenoraziskovalni center SAZU, Inštitut za arheologijo, 1997.
- HORVAT, Jana, Nauportus (Vrhnika), Dela 33, Znanstvenoraziskovalni center SAZU, Inštitut za arheologijo 16. Ljubljana: Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti, 1990.
Articles
2023
HORVAT, Jana. Results of the existing situation analysis (ESA) and the analysis of good practices (GP). V: PERNA, Roberto (ur.). Common sustainable governance model for archaeological parks. Macerata: EUM, cop. 2023. Str. 29-32. Collana di studi di archeologia e storia del Mediterraneo, 3. ISBN 978-88-6056-839-7. https://eum.unimc.it/it/catalogo/808-common-sustaianable-governance-model-for-archaeological-parks. [COBISS.SI-ID 151983107]
HORVAT, Jana, KRAJNC, Jasmina. Management plan and pilot action for the Archaeolocial Park Poetovio. V: PERNA, Roberto (ur.). Common sustainable governance model for archaeological parks. Macerata: EUM, cop. 2023. Str. 135-141, ilistr. Collana di studi di archeologia e storia del Mediterraneo, 3. ISBN 978-88-6056-839-7. https://eum.unimc.it/it/catalogo/808-common-sustaianable-governance-model-for-archaeological-parks. [COBISS.SI-ID 151983363]
2022
GRAHEK, Lucija, HORVAT, Jana 2022, Rimsko grobišče Marof na Igu / The Roman cemetery in Marof at Ig (Slovenia). − Arheološki vestnik 73, 199−280; https://doi.org/10.3986/AV.73.07.
2021
BERNARDINI, F., LENAZ D., HORVAT, J., BAVDEK, A., VENTURA, P., De MIN, A., Provenance of late Republican Roman pottery from Caput Adriae revealed by non-invasive mineral chemistry of melanitic garnets and other igneous minerals, Periodico di Mineralogia 90, 2021, 29-43.
ŽERJAL Tina, HORVAT Jana, JANEŽIČ Maja. Ceramic contexts from the territory of present-day Slovenia. – In: P. Visentini, T. Cividini, E. Schindler-Kaudelka, P. Ventura, L'archeologia di un territorio attraverso la ceramica: abitati, produzioni, scambi e commerci nel Friuli romano (Giornata di studio, Udine 22 ottobre 2020), 123–145, Udine 2021. [COBISS.SI-ID 105778435]ški vestnik 73, 2022, 397–469. DOI: 10.3986/AV.73.11 [COBISS.SI-ID 112934915]
ŽERJAL, Tina, HORVAT, Jana, ISTENIČ, Janka. Pottery and other productions in the eastern hinterland of Caput Adriae. V: RIGATO, Daniela (ur.), MONGARDI, Manuela (ur.), VITELLI CASELLA, Mattia (ur.). AdriAtlas 4 : produzioni artiganali in area adriatica : manufatti, ateliers e attori (III sec. a.C. - V sec. d.C.) : atti della Tavola Rotonda di Bologna (23-25 maggio 2019). Bordeaux; Pessac: Ausonius, 2021. Str. 94-109. ISBN 978-2-35613-407-3, ISBN 978-2-35613-408-0. ISSN 2741-1818. [COBISS.SI-ID 72511491]
2019−2020
- HORVAT, Jana, NESTOROVIĆ, Aleksandra. Osrčje Petovione: Ptuj v rimski dobi. − Ptuj, Pokrajinski muzej Ptuj - Ormož, 2020. (spletni vir)
- BERNARDINI, Federico, VINCI, Giacomo, HORVAT, Jana, LAVRENČIČ, Lucija, SIBILIA, Emanuela. Protohistoric pastoral landscape in northern Istria revealed by airborne LiDAR: hill forts, enclosures and long linear walls in the Mali Kras plateau (southwestern Slovenia). − Archaeological and anthropological sciences 12, 2020, 1−18, doi: 10.1007/s12520-020-01121-2.
- HORVAT, Jana, Nauportus - Vrhnika. − In: Jana Horvat, Irena Lazar, Andrej Gaspari (eds.), Manjša rimska naselja na slovenskem prostoru / Minor Roman settlements in Slovenia, Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae 40, 2020, 93−112.
- HORVAT, Jana, Primerjalni pregled manjših rimskih naselij / Minor Roman settlements – comparative overview. − In: Jana Horvat, Irena Lazar, Andrej Gaspari (eds.), Manjša rimska naselja na slovenskem prostoru / Minor Roman settlements in Slovenia, Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae 40, 2020, 403−420.
- TURK, Matija, VELUŠČEK, Anton, PAVLIN, Primož, TECCO HVALA, Sneža, GRAHEK, Lucija, HORVAT, Jana, ŠAŠEL KOS, Marjeta, MODRIJAN, Zvezdana, PLETERSKI, Andrej. The history of Slovenia : archaeological evidence from prehistory to the Slavs. − In: PERKO, Drago, CIGLIČ, Rok, ZORN, Matija (eds.). The geography of Slovenia : small but diverse. Cham: Springer Nature, cop. 2020, 27−141. (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-14066-3_8)
- ČUFAR Katarina, HORVAT Jana, TOLAR Tjaša, BERDEN Tina, MERELA Maks, Raziskovalni potencial lesa sodov iz rimskih vodnjakov / Research potential of wood of barrels from Roman water wells, Les/Wood 68/1, 2019, 47−60.
- HORVAT Jana, Inhabiting the high mountains of the south-eastern Alps. Slovenia, Forschungsberichte der ANISA für das Internet 1, 2019 (ANISA FB 1, 2019) www.anisa.at
2016−2018
- HORVAT, Jana. Statuettes from Ravelnik near Bovec in the Soča Valley (Slovenia). In: BOUET, Alain (ed.). Bibere, ridere, gaudere, studere, hoc est vivere : hommages à Francis Tassaux, (Aquitania, ISSN 0991-5281, Supplément, 40), (Mémoires, ISSN 1283-2995, 53). Bordeaux: Ausonius. 2018, str. 337−351.
- HORVAT, Jana, SAGADIN, Milan. Emonsko podeželje = Emona´s countryside. In: Vičič, Boris, Županek, Bernarda (eds.). Emona MM : [urbanizacija prostora - nastanek mesta = urbanisation of space - beginning of a town]. Ljubljana 2017, 201−223.
- HORVAT, Jana, PETERLE UDOVIČ, Pavla, TOLAR, Tjaša, TOŠKAN, Borut. Območje pristanišča v Navportu = The port area of Nauportus. Arheološki vestnik, ISSN 0570-8966, 2016, 67, str. 177-258, ilustr., zvd., tabele. [COBISS.SI-ID 40151597]
- HORVAT, Jana, ŽBONA-TRKMAN, Beatriče. The 3rd century military equipment in south-western Slovenia. In: HORVAT, Jana (ed.). The Roman army between the Alps and the Adriatic, (Opera Instituti archaeologici Sloveniae, ISSN 1408-5208, ISSN 2464-0131, Studia Alpium et Adriae, 31, 1). 1. izd. Ljubljana: Inštitut za arheologijo ZRC SAZU: Založba ZRC, 2016, str. 99-120, zvd., risbe, fotogr. [COBISS.SI-ID 40231469]
2013−2015
- HORVAT, Jana. The consolidation of Roman authority in the hinterland of the northern Adriatic. In: MARION, Yolande, TASSAUX, Francis (eds.). AdriAtlas et l´histoire de l´espace adriatique du VIe s. a.C. au VIIIe s. p.C. : actes du colloque international de Rome (4-6 novembre 2013), (Scripta antiqua, ISSN 1298-1990, 79). Bordeaux: Ausonius, 2015, str. 273-291, ilustr., zvd. [COBISS.SI-ID 38823981]
- HORVAT, Jana. The storehouses and river port of Nauportus. Römisches Österreich : Jahresschrift der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Archäologie, ISSN 1012-5833, Akten des Symposiums "Horrea" am Institut für Archaölogie des Universität Graz, 1.-2. oktober 2015, 2017, [Jg.] 40, 1−11.
- HORVAT, Jana. Early Roman military finds from prehistoric settlements in the Gorenjska region = Zgodnjerimske vojaške najdbe s prazgodovinskih naselbin na Gorenjskem. In: ISTENIČ, Janka, LAHARNAR, Boštjan, HORVAT, Jana (eds.). Evidence of the Roman army in Slovenia = Sledovi rimske vojske na Slovenskem, (Katalogi in monografije, ISSN 1318-4407, 41). Ljubljana: Narodni muzej Slovenije, 2015, str. 171-209, zvd., risbe. [COBISS.SI-ID 38808877]
- BERNARDINI, Federico, VINCI, Giacomo, HORVAT, Jana, DE MIN, Angelo, FORTE, E., FURLANI, Stefano, LENAZ, Davide, PIPAN, Michele, ZAO, Wenke, SGAMBATI, Alessandro, POTLECA, Michele, MICHELI, Roberto, FRAGIACOMO, Andrea, TUNIZ, Claudio. Early Roman military fortifications and the origin of Trieste, Italy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, ISSN 1091-6490. [Online ed.], March 2015, vol. 112, no. 13, str. E1520-E1529, ilustr., zvd., doi: 10.1073/pnas.1419175112. [COBISS.SI-ID 38337069]
- HORVAT, Jana. Roman sites in the high altitude areas of Slovenia. In: MAGNANI, Stefano), MIOR, Paola), GREGORATTI, Leonardo (eds.). Le aree montane come frontere : spazi d'interazione e connettività : atti del convegno internazionale, Udine, 10-12 dicembre 2009, (Studi di frontiera, 1). 1 ed. [Roma]: Aracne, cop. 2013, str. 141-153, ilustr. [COBISS.SI-ID 36886317]
2010−2012
- HORVAT, Jana. Zgodnjerimska utrjena naselbina na Dolgih njivah na Vrhniki = Early Roman fortified settlement at Dolge njive in Vrhnika. In: GASPARI, Andrej, ERIČ, Miran (eds.). Potopljena preteklost : arheologija vodnih okolij in raziskovanje podvodne kulturne dediščine v Sloveniji : zbornik ob 128-letnici Dežmanovih raziskav Ljubljanice na Vrhniki (1884-2012). Radovljica: Didakta, 2012, str. 287-292, ilustr. [COBISS.SI-ID 34695725]
- Horvat, Jana, Skupek keramike iz prve polovice 1. stoletja iz Navporta (Assemblage of ceramic ware from the first half of the 1st century AD from Nauportus). – In: I. Lazar, B. Županek (eds.) Emona med Akvilejo in Panonijo, Koper, 2012, 273–299.
- ANDRIČ Maja, JAECKS VIDIC Nataša, OGRIN Marija, HORVAT Jana, Paleoekološki podatki o človekovem vplivu ob gozdni meji na planini Klek v Julijskih Alpah (Palaeoecological evidence for human impact at the forest line at Klek in the Julian Alps), Arheološki vestnik 62, 2011, 375–392.
- Horvat, Jana, Zupančič, Nina, Raziskave amfor s Serminanbsp;(Analysis of the amphorae from Sermin) &, Argo 53/1, 2010, 82-83.
- Horvat, Jana, Kmetič, Dimitrij, Metalografske preiskave železnih predmetov: primer rimskega orožja z Gradu pri Šmihelu (Metallographic analysis of iron objects: the case of the Roman weapons from Grad near Šmihel) , Argo 53/1, 2010, 60-62.
- Horvat, Jana, First century BC Roman fortifications in the Eastern Alps, In: P. Herz, P. Schmid, O. Stoll (eds.), Zwischen Region und Reich. Das Gebiet der oberen Donau im Imperium Romanum, Region im Umbruch 3, Berlin 2010, 135-159.
- Horvat, Jana, The archaeology of Velika planina, In: F. Mandl, H. Stadler (eds.), Archäologie in den Alpen. Alltag und Kult, Forschungsberichte der ANISA 3, Nearchos 19, Haus i. E. 2010, 89-100.
2006−2009
- Horvat, Jana, Selected Aspects of Romanisation in Western and Central Slovenia, In: G. Cuscito (ed.), Aspetti e problemi della romanizzazione. Venetia, Histria e arco Alpino orientale, Antichità Altoadriatiche 68, Trieste 2009, 355-381.
- Horvat, Jana, Early Roman horrea at Nauportus, Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome, Antiquité 120/1, 2008, 111-121.
- Horvat, Jana, The beginning of Roman commerce along the main route Aquileia - Emona, In: R. Auriemma, S. Karinja (eds.), Terre di mare, Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Trieste 2008, 444-453.
- Mušič, Branko, Horvat, Jana, Nauportus - an Early Roman trading post at Dolge njive in Vrhnika. The results of geophysical prospecting using a variety of independent methods / Nauportus - zgodnjerimska trgovska postojanka na Dolgih njivah na Vrhniki, Rezultati geofizikalne raziskave z več neodvisnimi metodami, Arheološki vestnik 58, 2007, 219-283.
- HORVAT, Jana, Arheološki sledovi v slovenskem visokogorju. In: Tone Cevc (ed.), Človek v Alpah. Desetletje (1996-2006) raziskav o navzočnosti človeka v slovenskih Alpah. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2006.
2002−2005
- HORVAT Jana, Poselitev na Pivškem in v zgornjem toku Reke od pozne bronaste dobe do pozne antike / Settlement in the Pivka area and along the upper course of the Reka river from the Late Bronze Age to the Late Antique period, in: Kras. Poselitev in raba zakraselega sveta zahodne Slovenije v preteklosti / Settlement and the land usage of the karstic world in western Slovenia in the past (Ljubljana 2005) 220−248.
- Kmetič, Dimitrij, Horvat, Jana, Vodopivec, Franc, Metallographic examinations of the Roman Republican weapons from the hoard from Grad near Šmihel / Metalografske preiskave rimskega republikanskega orožja iz zaklada z Gradu pri Šmihelu, Arheološki vestnik 55, 2004, 291-312.
- HORVAT, Jana et al., Poetovio. Development and Topography. − In: M. Šašel Kos, P. Scherrer (eds.), The Autonomous Towns of Noricum and Pannonia, Pannonia I, Situla 41, Ljubljana 2003, 153-190.
- HORVAT, Jana, The Hoard of Roman Republican Weapons from Grad near Šmihel. / Zaklad rimskega republikanskega orožja z Gradu pri Šmihelu pod Nanosom, Arheološki vestnik 53, 2002, 117-192.
- HORVAT Jana, Archäologische Zeugnisse im slowenischen Alpengebiet, in: T. Busset, L. Lorenzetti, J. Mathieu (eds.), La culture matérielle - sources et problèmes, Die Sachkultur - Quellen und Probleme, Histoire des Alpes, Storia delle Alpi, Geschichte der Alpen 7, 2002, 117−133.
- HORVAT, Jana, Arheološki sledovi v slovenskem visokogorju, Kamniški zbornik 16, 2002, 193−202.
Before 2000
- HORVAT, Jana, Roman provincial archaeology in Slovenia following the year 1965: settlement and small finds, Arheološki vestnik 50, 1999, 215-257.
- HORVAT Jana, Colonizzazione preistorica e romana sulle Alpi di Kamnik (Slovenia), in: Studio e consevazione degli insediamenti minori romani in area alpina (Imola 1999) 63−69.
- HORVAT Jana, Vorgeschichtliche und römische Besiedlung der Kamniške Alpe (Slowenien), in: Ph. Della Casa (ed.), Prehistoric alpine environment, society, and economy, Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie 55 (Bonn 1999) 183−188.
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PROGRAMME: Archaeological research (2015−2021) (research programme • January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2021)
Poetovio - from legionary fortress to autonomous town (October 1, 2022 - September 30, 2025)
Identifying quarries in the Roman Pannonia (October 1, 2022 - September 30, 2025)
Colonia Ulpia Traiana Poetovio - genesis and evolution of the town (July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2022)
5000 years of grazing and mining activities in the Julian Alps (Slovenia): climate-human interactions as reflected in lake sediments, man-modified landscape and archaeological findings (July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2022)
At the contact between the Alps and Mediterranean – continuity and turning points (July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2022)
The role of Nauportus in the Romanization process in the Southeastern Alpine region (applied project • February 1, 2008 - January 31, 2011)
PROGRAMME: Archaeological investigations (2004-2008) (January 1, 2004 - December 3, 2008)