Bioarchaeological research in Croatia--a historical review.

A Bioarchaeological Perspective on the History of Violence

■ Abstract Traumatic injuries in ancient human skeletal remains are a direct source of evidence for testing theories of warfare and violence that are not subject to the interpretative difficulties posed by literary creations such as historical records and ethnographic reports. Bioarchaeological research shows that throughout the history of our species, interpersonal violence, especially among m...

ARE Empusa pennata AND Bolivaria brachyptera REALLY PRESENT IN CROATIA? A REPLY TO KRANJČEV (2013) WITH A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE MANTID TAXA FOUND IN CROATIA

Radovan Kranjčev (2013) published a paper on Croatian Mantodea containing a considerable number of data that need to be discussed. In this reply corrections of mantid misidentifications, as well as of some given statements, are presented, certain doubtful records are discussed and comments on a number of overlooked papers are given. Also, a critical review of some further problems concerning Cr...

Bone traumas in late antique populations from Croatia.

We present the results of the analyses of traumatic bone injuries in two Late Antique (3r to 5th century AD) skeletal samples from Croatia: Zadar--located on the eastern Adriatic coast, and a composite skeletal series from continental Croatia consisting of skeletons from Osijek, Vinkovci, Strbinci, and Zmajevac. The osteological series from continental Croatia are related to settlements located...

Bioarheološka istraživanja srednjovjekovnih populacija Hrvatske Bioarchaeological research of mediaeval Croatian populations

Towards a Shared Reference Thesaurus for Studies on History of Zoology, Archaeozoology and Conservation Biology

This paper describes an ongoing work on the construction of a SKOS thesaurus to support multi-disciplinary studies on the transmission of zoological knowledge throughout historical periods, combining the analysis of ancient literature, iconographic and archaeozoological resources. We first describe the I2AF, a national archaeozoological and archaeobotanical inventory database integrating data f...