Research interests
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.
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Education
BA in archaeology 1984, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
Research interests and work field
- Early Medieval archaeology
- maintenance of Zbiva, Early Medieval database of sites, graves and objects
- maintenance of Libera, database of archaeological literature
- editing
- desktop publishing
- charts, maps, plans
- plates of archaeological artefacts
- counseling on preparing e-graphics
- counseling on constructing database
- web pages
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)
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)