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Lucija Grahek, PhD

Research Associate 
Deputy Head
Assistant Professor

+386 1 47 06 400

lucija.grahek@zrc-sazu.si


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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.

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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

Teaching

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

2025

  • 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.

2024

GRAHEK, Lucija, The Colapians – the Iron Age people along the Kolpa River in South Eastern Slovenia : new discoveries : case report. – Global journal of archaeology & anthropology 13/5, 2024, 1–6. DOI: 10.19080/GJAA.2024.13.555871

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

  • GRAHEK Lucija, Orehova vas pri Mariboru – Naselbina iz pozne bronaste dobe (horizont Rogoza–Orehova vas) / Orehova vas near Maribor – A settlement of the Late Bronze Age (Rogoza–Orehova vas horizon). − V: B. Teržan, M. Črešnar (ur.), 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, 31−53.

2020

  • GRAHEK Lucija, Orehova vas pri Mariboru – Naselbina iz pozne bronaste dobe (horizont Rogoza–Orehova vas) / Orehova vas near Maribor – A settlement of the Late Bronze Age (Rogoza–Orehova vas horizon). − 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, 31−53.
  • 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, Anja RAGOLIČ, Ig. − 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, 173−186.
  • 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)
  • GRAHEK Lucija,Prazgodovinske sledi na Korinjskem hribu in pri Malem Korinju / Prehistoric traces at Korinjski hrib and near Mali Korinj. − In: Slavko Ciglenečki, Zvezdana Modrijan, Tina Milavec, Korinjski hrib in poznoantične vojaške utrdbe v Iliriku / Korinjski hrib and late antique military forts in Illyricum, Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae 39, 2020, 291−326.

2018

  • 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, KOŠIR Adrijan, Analiza naselbinske keramike z Mosta na Soči z vrstičnim elektronskim mikroskopom / Scanning electron microscopy analysis of the 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, 307−320.
  • 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.

2017

2004−2015

  • 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. Slivnica pri Mariboru, Orehova vas = Slivnica near Maribor, Orehova vas. In: TERŽAN, Biba (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. 249-273, zvd., ilustr., graf. prikaz. [COBISS.SI-ID 37602349]
  • GRAHEK, Lucija. Metlika. In: TERŽAN, Biba (ur.), 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. 519-523, zvd., ilustr., graf. prikaz. [COBISS.SI-ID 37603373]
  • Pozabljene in odstrte železnodobne najdbe iz Podzemlja (Iron Age finds from Podzemelj – forgotten and found again). − Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae 30, 2014.
  • GRAHEK, Lucija. Halštatska gomila na hribu v Metliki (A Hallstatt tumulus at Hrib in Metlika). Arheološki vestnik 55, 2004, 111-206

 

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)