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ARCHAEOBOTANICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF SEDIMENT SAMPLES FROM ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES IN SLOVENIA

Unpublished reports are stored in the Archives of the institute.

• Eneolithic pile dwelling sites from Ljubljansko barje
  • TOLAR, Tjaša, MATIKA; Dolores, Archaeobotanical analysis of the judgement samples from research of Stare gmajne, an Eneolithic pile-dwelling site: mosses, vessel contents and the analysis of the wooden artefacts / Arheobotanična analiza po presoji odvzetih vzorcev z eneolitskega kolišča Stare gmajne: mah, polnila posod in leseni artefakti. − Arheološki vestnik 75, 2024, 411–440.
  • VELUŠČEK, A., HORJAK ŠUŠTARŠIČ, M., TOLAR, T., TOŠKAN, B., MERELA, M., ČUFAR, K. 2023, Verd – novoodkrito kolišče iz 5. tisočletja pr. Kr. na Ljubljanskem barju /Verd – newly discovered pile-dwelling from the 5th millennium BC in Ljubljansko barje, Slovenia. − Les/Wood, 72(2), 18−36. https://doi.org/10.26614/les-wood.2023.v72n02a01.
  • VELUŠČEK Anton, PODPEČAN Blaž, TOLAR Tjaša, TOŠKAN Borut, TURK Janez, MARELA Maks, ČUFAR Katarina, Črnelnik in Devce, novoodkriti najdišči iz bakrene dobe na Ljubljanskem barju / Črnelnik and Devce, Newly discovered Copper Age sites at Ljubljansko barje. − Arheološki vestnik 69, 2018, 9−68.
  • TOLAR, Tjaša, Primerjava različnih metod vzorčenja in priprave arheobotaničnih vzorcev z eneolitskih kolišč Strojanova voda in Maharski prekop na Ljubljanskem barju / Comparison of different sampling and treatment methods in order to reconstruct plant economies at the Eneolithic pile-dwellings of Strojanova voda and Maharski prekop at Ljubljansko barje. − Arheološki vestnik 69, 2018, 461−498.
  • TOLAR, Tjaša, JACOMET, Stefanie, VELUŠČEK, Anton, ČUFAR, Katarina. Plant economy at a late Neolithic lake dwelling site in Slovenia at the time of the Alpine Iceman. – Veg. Hist. Archaeobot.20/3, 2011, 207–222.
  • TOLAR, Tjaša, JACOMET, Stefanie, VELUŠČEK, Anton, ČUFAR, Katarina. Recovery techniques for waterlogged archaeological sediments: a comparison of different treatment methods for samples from Neolithic lake shore settlements. – Veg. hist. Archaeobot. 19/1, 2010, 53–67.
• Late Bronze age and Iron Age sites in Slovenia
  • KRAMBERGER Bine, LUBŠINA TUŠEK Marija, TOLAR Tjaša, Naselbina iz poznega neolitika in zgodnje bakrene dobe v Stopercah (Haloze) / Late Neolithic and Early Copper Age settlement at Stoperce (Haloze, NE Slovenia). − Arheloški vestnik 74, 2023, 39-124; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3986/AV.74.02
  • TOLAR, Tjaša 2022, Rastlinski makro ostanki. − In: P. Turk, V. Svetličič, D. Pavlovič, Dragomelj, Zbirka Arheologija na avtocestah Slovenije 106, 146−151
  • TOLAR, Tjaša 2021, Rastlinski makroostanki. − In: B. Kramberger, Malečnik, Zbirka Arheologija na avtocestah Slovenije 89, 91.
  • TOLAR, Tjaša 2021, Arheobotanične analize. − In: B. Kramberger, Zgornje Radvanje. Naselbinske ostaline in keramične najdbe, Zbirka Arheologija na avtocestah Slovenije 93, 109−110.
  • TOLAR, Tjaša 2016, Poročilo o arheobotanični analizi oglja/lesa z najdišča Čadrg - Laze I. − In: M. Mlinar, M. Turk, Prapoti skozi praproti : arheološka topografija dolin Tolminke in Zadlaščice, 84−85.
  • TOLAR Tjaša, Ostanki prehranskih rastlin iz hiš 6 in 15A z Mosta na Soči / Edible plant remains from Houses 6 and 15A at Most na Soči. In: Janez Dular, Sneža Tecco Hvala (ed.), Železnodobno naselje Most na Soči. Razprave / The Iron Age settlement at Most na Soči. Treatises. Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae 34, 2018, 445−452.
  • TOLAR, Tjaša, Rastlinski makroostanki z grobišč na Molniku / Botanical macroremains from the cemeteries at Molnik. − In: Sneža Tecco Hvala, Molnik pri Ljubljani v železni dobi / The Iron Age site at Molnik near Ljubljana, Opera Instiruti Archaeologici Sloveniae 36, 2017, 205−210.
  • TOLAR, Tjaša. Analiza rastlinskih makroostankov. − In: Grahek Lucija, Orehova vas, Zbirka SAAS 46, 2015, 341-345.
• Roman period sites in Slovenia
  • TOŠKAN, Borut, KOVAČ, Mateja, TOLAR, Tjaša 2022, Bioarheološke raziskave rimskodobnega grobišča Marof na Igu: antropologija, arheozoologija, arheobotanika / Bioarchaeological investigations of the Roman cemetery in Marof at Ig (Slovenia): anthropological, archaeozoological and archaeobotanical evidence. − Arheološki vestnik 73, 281−312; https://doi.org/10.3986/AV.73.08.
  • TOLAR, Tjaša 2022, Paleobotanična analiza. − In: P. Vojaković, M. Novšak, Drnovo 2, Zbirka Arheologija na avtocestah Slovenije 104, 109−110.
  • TOLAR Tjaša, Rastlinski makroostanki. − In: Kramberger B., Malečnik, Arheologija na avtocestah Slovenije 98, 2020, 91.
  • TOLAR Tjaša, Arheobotanične analize. − In: T. Žerjal, M. Novšak, Školarice pri Spodnjih Škofijah, Arheologija na avtocestah Slovenije 86, 2020, 243−248.
  • HORVAT Jana, PETERLE UDOVIČ Pavla, TOLAR Tjaša, TOŠKAN Borut. Območje pristanišča v Navportu / The port area of Nauportus. − Arheološki vestnik 67, 2016, 177-258.
• Late Antique and Medieval sites in Slovenia
  • TOLAR, Tjaša 2023, Arheobotanična preiskava vzorca žganine iz srednjeveškega gradu na Kašči. − In: A. Gaspari, A. Vičar (eds.), “... alle drew Purchstal”: arheološke raziskave gradov vitezov Jeterbenških v pogorju Jeterbenka nad Medvodami. Documenta Archaeologica 1, 279−280.
  • TOLAR, Tjaša 2023, Paleobotanična analiza. − In: D. Pavlovič, Pržanj pri Ljubljani, Zbirka Arheologija na avtocestah Slovenije 107, 51−56.
  • TOLAR; Tjaša, Analiza oglja. In: Štular, Benjamin (ur.) 2013. Grad Smlednik : raziskave 2011-2012, (Monografije CPA, 2). Ljubljana: Zavod za varstvo kulturne dediščine Slovenije, 91−95.

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SPECIAL ARCHAEOBOTANICAL FINDS FROM ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES IN SLOVENIA

• The earliest finds of millet
  • TOLAR, Tjaša, PAVLIN, Primož 2022, The earliest finds of millet and possible associated changes in material culture in Slovenia. − In: KIRLEIS, Wiebke (ed.), DAL CORSO, Marta (ed.), FILIPOVIĆ, Dragana (ed.). Millet and what else? : the wider context of the adoption of millet cultivation in Europe. Leiden, 107−126.
  • FILIPOVIĆ, Dragana M., MEADOWS, John, DAL CORSO, Marta, KIRLEIS, Wiebke, ALSLEBEN, Almuth, AKERET, Örni, BITTMANN, Felix, BOSI, Giovanna, CIUTǍ, Beatrice, DRESLEROVÁ, Dagmar, EFFENBERGER, Henrike, GYULAI, Ferenc, HEISS, Andreas G., HELLMUND, Monika, JAHNS, Susanne, JAKOBITSCH, Thorsten, KAPCIA, Magda, KLOOSS, Stefanie, KOHLER-SCHNEIDER, Marianne, KROLL, Helmut, MAKAROWICZ, Przemysław, MARINOVA, Elena, MÄRKLE, Tanja, MEDOVIĆ, Aleksandar, MERCURI, Anna Maria, MUELLER-BIENIEK, Aldona, NISBET, Renato, PASHKEVICH, Galina, PEREGO, Renata, POKORNÝ, Petr, POSPIESZNY, Łukasz, PRZYBYŁA, Marcin S., REED, Kelly, RENNWANZ, Joanna, STIKA, Hans-Peter, STOBBE, Astrid, TOLAR, Tjaša, WASYLIKOWA, Krystyna, WIETHOLD, Julian, ZERL, Tanja 2020. New AMS 14C dates track the arrival and spread of broomcorn millet cultivation and agricultural change in prehistoric Europe. Scientific reports. 2020, vol. 10, art. no. 13698, str. 1-17. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-70495-z
• Textile remains
  • Karina GRÖMER, Klara KOSTAJNŠEK, Tjaša TOLAR, Gojka PAJAGIČ BREGAR, Tekstilna najdba iz železnodobne naselbine Most na Soči: konservacija, analiza, primerjava / Textile find from the Iron Age settlement at Most na Soči: conservation, analysis and comparisons. In: Janez Dular, Sneža Tecco Hvala (ed.), Železnodobno naselje Most na Soči. Razprave / The Iron Age settlement at Most na Soči. Treatises. Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae 34, 2018, 453−465.
  • Karina GRÖMER, Tjaša TOLAR, Klara KOSTAJNŠEK, Ostanki tkanine in živalskih dlak (krzna) v grobu 6 gomile 1 v Pleški hosti na Molniku / Textile and fur remains in Grave 6, Tumulus 1, from Pleška hosta at Molnik. In: Sneža Tecco Hvala, Molnik pri Ljubljani v železni dobi / The Iron Age site at Molnik near Ljubljana, Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae 36, 2017, 211−219.
  • Velušček Anton, Tolar Tjaša, A Superb Product of a Spinning Spindle. − PRETEKLOST POD MIKROSKOPOM. Naravoslovne raziskave v muzeju, 2017, Ljubljana, 77−81.
  • PAJAGIČ BREGAR, Gojka, VELUŠČEK, Anton, TOLAR, Tjaša, STRLIČ, Matija, BUKOŠEK, Vili, KOLAR, Jana, RAVBAR, Igor. Raziskave in konserviranje preje z Ljubljanskega barja = Analysis and conservation of the Ljubljansko barje yarn. – In: VELUŠČEK, Anton (ed.). Koliščarska naselbina Stare gmajne in njen čas : Ljubljansko barje v 2. polovici 4. tisočletja pr. Kr. : the Ljubljansko barje in the 2nd half of the 4th millennium BC, (Opera Instituti archaeologici Sloveniae, 16). Ljubljana, 2009, 309–318
• Grapevine seeds
  • TOLAR, Tjaša, JAKŠE, Jernej, KOROŠEC–KORUZA, Zora, The oldest macroremains of Vitis from Slovenia. – Veg. hist. archaeobot. 17/1, 2008, 93–102.
• Coprolites
  • TOLAR, Tjaša, GALIK, Alfred, LE BAILLY, Matthieu, DUFOUR, Benjamin, CAF, Nina, TOŠKAN, Borut, BUŽAN, Elena, ZVER, Lars, JANŽEKOVIČ, Franc, VELUŠČEK, Anton. Multi-proxy analysis of waterlogged preserved Late Neolithic canine excrements. − Vegetation history and archaeobotany 30, no. 3, 2021, 107−118. DOI: 10.1007/s00334-020-00805-y.
  • Tolar Tjaša, Galik Alfred, A Study of Dog Coprolite from Late Neolithic Pile-Dwelling Site in Slovenia. − Archaeological Discovery 7, 2019, 20−29.
  • VELUŠČEK Anton, PODPEČAN Blaž, TOLAR Tjaša, TOŠKAN Borut, TURK Janez, MARELA Maks, ČUFAR Katarina, Črnelnik in Devce, novoodkriti najdišči iz bakrene dobe na Ljubljanskem barju / Črnelnik and Devce, Newly discovered Copper Age sites at Ljubljansko barje. − Arheološki vestnik 69, 2018, 9−68.
• Wooden artefacts from pile-dwellings
  • TOLAR, Tjaša, ZUPANČIČ, Martin. Novoodkrite lesene najdbe s Starih gmajn pri Verdu = Newly discovered wooden finds from Stare gmajne near Verd. – In: VELUŠČEK, Anton (ed.). Koliščarska naselbina Stare gmajne in njen čas : Ljubljansko barje v 2. polovici 4. tisočletja pr. Kr. : the Ljubljansko barje in the 2nd half of the 4th millennium BC, (Opera Instituti archaeologici Sloveniae, 16). Ljubljana, 2009, 235–243.
  • TOLAR, Tjaša, ČUFAR, Katarina, VELUŠČEK, Anton, Leseno toporišče kladivaste sekire s kolišča Stare gmajne na Ljubljanskem barju (The wooden handle of a stone hammer–axe from the Eneolithic pile–dwelling settlement Stare gmajne near Verd in the Ljubljansko barje, Slovenia). – Arheološki vestnik 59, 2008, 49–56.
• Sediment in a loam weight
  • TOLAR, Tjaša, VELUŠČEK, Anton, DIRJEC, Janez, JACOMET, Stefanie. Cereal chaff used as a temper in a loam-weight: new evidence from a Slovenian Late Neolithic pile-dwelling site, Veget Hist Archaeobot (2016), 25:291–301.
• Use of red dogwood berries
  • Tjaša TOLAR, Irena VOVK,Urška JUG, The use of Cornus sanguinea L. (dogwood) fruits in the Late Neolithic. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany (2021) 30:347–361

Dogwood oil and dogwood soap, made according to the archaeolobotanical research

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