Mateja Belak is a senior specialist assistant at the ZRC SAZU, Institute of archaeology. Her research is focused on Early Medieval archaeology, scientific cartography, digital archiving, and archaeological databases. She is a curator of Zbiva archaeological database since 1990s and as such among the pioneers in the field.
Research interests
Education
BA in archaeology 1984, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
Research interests and work field
Selected publications
- B. ŠTULAR, M. LEHNER, M. BELAK (ur.), Settlement of the Eastern Alps in the Early Middle Ages. − Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae 48, 2024.DOI: https://doi.org/10.3986/9789610508786
- Štular, B., Lozić, E., Belak, M., Rihter, J., Koch, I., Modrijan, Z., Magdič, A., Karl, S., Lehner, M., Gutjahr, Ch. 2022, Migration of Alpine Slavs and machine learning: Space-time pattern mining of an archaeological data set, Plos One 17/9, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274687
- Štular, B., Belak, M., Deep Data Example: Zbiva, Early Medieval Data Set for the Eastern Alps. – Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences, September 2022; https://doi.org/10.1163/24523666-bja10024.
- BELAK, Mateja. Staroslovanski žarni grob s Kapiteljske njive v Novem mestu / Early Medieval cremation grave from Kapiteljska njiva in Novo mesto, Slovenia. − Studia Praehistorica in Honorem Janez Dular. Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae 30, 2014, 397−403.
- PLETERSKI, Andrej, BELAK, Mateja. Časovno razmerje med grobiščema Lauterhofen in Altenerding. Arheo 23, 2005, 35–46.
- PLETERSKI, Andrej, BELAK, Mateja. Structures in the area of Lauterhofen in Bavaria. Studia Mythologica Slavica 7, 2004, 43–61.
- PLETERSKI, Andrej, BELAK, Mateja. Grobovi s Puščave nad Starim trgom pri Slovenj Gradcu. Arheološki vestnik 53, 2002, 233–300.
- PLETERSKI, Andrej, BELAK, Mateja. ZBIVA. Cerkve v Vzhodnih Alpah od 8. do 10. stoletja. Zgodovinski časopis 49/1, 1995, 19–43.
Selected projects
- AI4Europe (July 1, 2022 - December 31, 2025)
- Carnium and Carneola. The central settlement and its surroundings between antiquity and the Middle Ages (October 1, 2023 - September 30, 2026)
- Identifying quarries in the Roman Pannonia (October 1, 2022 - September 30, 2025)
- Poetovio - from legionary fortress to autonomous town (October 1, 2022 - September 30, 2025)
- TETRACHs (September 1, 2022 - August 31, 2025)
- Religiopolitics - the Imperium Christianum and its Commoners (REPLICO) (international research project • May 1, 2023 - April 30, 2026)
- Settlement of the south-eastern Alpine region in the Early Middle Ages (November 1, 2018 - October 31, 2022)
- ARIADNEplus (January 1, 2019 - December 31, 2022)
- Methodological Maturity of Airborne LiDAR in Archaeology - Pilot Project (MALiAp) (October 1, 2019 - September 30, 2022)
- The Župna Cerkev Cemetery in Kranj (July 1, 2011 - December 31, 2015)
- Ariadne (February 1, 2013 - January 31, 2017)
- Anthropological analysis of the Roman period archaeological sites from Slovenia (September 1, 2005 - August 31, 2008)
- The Krvavec cultural heritage - preparation of tourist product and its management (applied project • January 1, 2007 - December 31, 2009)
- Multidisciplinary investigations of the pile-dwellings in the Ljubljansko barje (applied project • January 1, 2008 - January 31, 2011)
- Relative and absolute chronology of the Neolithic and Eneolithic period in north-eastern Slovenia (July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2014)
- EAGLE - Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (April 1, 2013 - March 30, 2016)
- Social differentiation and cultural identities in the Iron Age on the territory of Slovenia (July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2014)
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