Dr. Lucija Grahek is a Deputy Head of the Institute of Archaeology at ZRC SAZU and a specialist in Late Bronze Age and Iron Age ceramic finds. She researches the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in the southeastern Alpine region and the Late Iron Age in Slovenia, with a focus on the Bela krajina region. She leads successful Slovenian and bilateral projects and participates in unraveling the enigma of the of the stećci tombstones in an ERC project.
Research interests
Education
- B. Sc. in archaeology 2002 Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
- Ph. D. in archaeology 2010, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
Research interests
- Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in the South-eastern Alpine region
- pottery finds
- Late Iron Age in Slovenia
Selected publications
Monographs
- GRAHEK, Lucija, Pezdirčeva njiva v Podzemlju. Železna doba od Podzemlja do Vinice / Pezdirčeva njiva in Podzemelj. Iron Age from Podzemelj to Vinica. − Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae 50, 2025. doi:10.3986/9789610510734
- GRAHEK, Lucija. Stična. Železnodobna naselbinska keramika / Iron Age Settlement Pottery. − Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae 32, 2016.
- GRAHEK, Lucija, Orehova vas. − Zbirka Arheologija na avtocestah Slovenije 46, 2015.
Articles
- PETRIČ, Mitja, SMOLE, Jurij, GRAHEK, Lucija, NEMEČEK, Nataša, MUCK, Deja, BLEČIĆ KAVUR, Martina, ŽUŽEK, Borut, ŠETINA, Barbara, FAJFAR, Peter 202, Izdelava lite replike Negovske čelade / Production of cast replica of Negova helmet. − Livarski vestnik: glasilo Društva livarjev Slovenije 72/2, 78−85.
- 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.
- GRAHEK Lucija, KOVAČ Otmar: Podzemelj – železnodobno središče v Beli krajini v luči novih raziskav (Podzemelj – an Iron Age centre in Bela krajina, in the light of new research). − Arheološki vestnik 71, 2020, 435–467.
- GRAHEK Lucija, Naselbinska keramika z Mosta na Soči / Pottery from the settlement at Most na Soči. − In: Janez Dular, Sneža Tecco Hvala (eds.), Železnodobno naselje Most na Soči. Razprave / The Iron Age settlement at Most na Soči. Treatises. Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae 34, 2018, 249−306.
- GRAHEK, Lucija. Prispevek k poznavanju Selške doline v (starejši) železni dobi / A contribution to the study of the valley of the Selška dolina in the (Early) Iron Age. − In: Matija Črešnar, Manca Vinazza (eds.). Srečanja in vplivi v raziskovanju bronaste in železne dobe na Slovenskem : zbornik prispevkov v čast Bibi Teržan, 2018, 263−274.
- GRAHEK, Lucija, Nova odkritja grobov iz starejše in mlajše železne dobe na Viru pri Stični / Newly discovered graves from the Early and Late Iron Age at Vir pri Stični. − Arheološki vestnik 68, 2017, 197-244.
- GRAHEK, Lucija. Iška Loka in grob iz Matene : nova odkritja o pozni bronasti dobi na Ljubljanskem barju = Iška Loka and the grave from Matena : New findings on the Late Bronze Age in the Ljubljana marshes. Prilozi Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu, ISSN 1848-6371, 2017, no. 1, vol. 34, str. 101-121, tabela, zvd., fotogr., risbe. http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=toc&id_broj=15290. [COBISS.SI-ID 42205229]
- GRAHEK, Lucija. Early La Tène Graves from Orehova vas near Maribor = Zgodnjelatenski grobovi iz Orehove vasi pri Mariboru. Arheološki vestnik, ISSN 0570-8966, 2015, [Št.] 66, str. 293-316, ilustr. [COBISS.SI-ID 38850605]
- GRAHEK, Lucija. Halštatska gomila na hribu v Metliki (A Hallstatt tumulus at Hrib in Metlika). Arheološki vestnik 55, 2004, 111-206
Selected projects
- PROGRAMME: Archaeological research (2022−2027) (research programme • January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2027)
- "Unde venis?" Unravelling the enigma of the stećci tombstones (May 1, 2024 - April 30, 2029)
- Colapians – the Iron Age people along the river Kolpa (September 1, 2020 - August 31, 2023)
- Land of stećci: multiculturality in the medieval Herzegovina (November 1, 2021 - October 31, 2024)
- PROGRAMME: Archaeological research (2015−2021) (research programme • January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2021)
- Iron Age settlement at Most na Soči – the beginnings of urbanism in the southeastern Alps (October 1, 2014 - February 28, 2018)
- TIP − Tradition and innovation in prehistory (February 1, 2011 - January 31, 2014)
- PROGRAMME: Archaeological investigations (2004-2008) (January 1, 2004 - December 3, 2008)
Other
Teaching
- Assistant Professor at the Podiplomska šola ZRC SAZU: the Archaeological module Millenia between the Adriatic and the Danube