Lecture Series: Sciences of the Past – Lessons for the Future
Introduction
https://meduza.carnet.hr/index.php/media/watch/12981
Contribution of archeology, biology, genetics, geology and palaeontology
- Special place, interesting times: the island of Palagruža and the prehistory of the Adriatic
Stašo Forenbaher
08th February 2018.
Stašo Forenbaher is an anthropological archeologist at the Institute of Anthropology in Zagreb. His field of interest is prehistory in Mediterran, particularly the period of transition to agriculture, as well as the rise of the first social elites on the Adriatic.
In addition to excavating many caves, he was a participant of many years of archaeological research on the island of Palagruza. He is author of several books about prehistory, from specialist studies to popular-scientific monographs intended for a wide audience.
Lecture can be seen: https://meduza.carnet.hr/index.php/media/watch/12982
- Living on the edge: prehistoric hunters, gathers and fishermans in Dalmatia
Preston Miracle
22nd February 2018.
- East Adriatic karst confluences – the specifies and the shifts
Mladen Juračić
22nd March 2018.
Mladen Juračić is a professor at the Department of Geology at the Faculty of Science of the University of Zagreb. He teaches Geology of the Sea and Geology of Environmental Protection. He worked in Paris and Venice. He is a member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2012.
He field of interest is orientated toward sea since the love sea. He explores the river confluences, the sedimentation processes in the confluence, sediments and sedimentation in the Adriatic, the role of suspended material and sediments in circulating pollution in nature, the phenomena of the flooded karst (sea lakes, river mouths in karst, flooded caves).
He has published more than 80 scientific papers. He is the winner of the HAZU awards in the field of natural sciences for 1999.
Lecture can be seen: https://meduza.carnet.hr/index.php/media/watch/12986
- Anywhere (arheo) seeds everywhere
Sara Essert
23rd April 2018.
Sara Essert works at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb. In her scientific work she studied plants, primarily by analysing plant residues (seeds, fruits and trees) from archaeological sites, in order to better acquaint themselves with the food, agriculture, trade, ritual and other activities of the then population.
Except in the field of science, he is happy to spend her time working with students and educative workshops with children.
On Monday, 23/04/2018 in Archaeological Museum in Zagreb, 19 pupils of the 3rdgrade of elementary school „Josip Juraj Strossmayer“, attended the workshop held by Sara Essert, with the title: “Wherever you look, the seeds are everywhere”. The aim of the workshop was to familiarize students with tasks that an archaeobotanist meets in his work and to allow children to have a try at the determination of the seeds.
The first part of the workshop included a brief lecture on the Croatian Apoxiomen, which is in Croatia one of the most interesting and popular recently found Roman statues and shows in an obvious way the importance of an interdisciplinary approach when composing a complete story about some archaeological object (or site). In an interactive lecture, the children heard the story of finding and restoring that bronze statue and in presentation they saw photos of plant residues found inside the statue.
In the second part of the workshop, with the help of the lecturer, all the children had the opportunity to sort and identify some of 15 different seed species that are well known to the children (olive, cherry, rose, cucumber, etc.). The children also got to know another 15 different beautiful seeds of wild plants, watched them under magnifying glass and drew them.
- Archeogenetics: science that mend the past and genetics
Ino Čurik & Vladimir Brajković
03rd May 2018.
Ino Čurik is a full professor at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb, where he teaches the basis of animal breeding, conservation genetics and population genetics. The best scientific results have been achieved in the research of inheritance of melanoma, vitiligo and hair colour in horses and of inbreeding and negative consequences of inbreeding. The aforementioned research has been published in acknowledged scientific journals (Nature Genetics, PLoS Genetics, Heredity, Genetics Selection Evolution, etc.).
He is the winner of the State Awards for Science in Biotechnical Sciences (2013). He is currently dealing with issues related to archeogenetics of ruminants.
Vladimir Brajković is an Assistant (PhD) at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of
Zagreb where he contribute in the project Utilization of the whole mitogenome in
cattle breeding and conservation genetics (MitoTAUROmics, HRZZ: IP-11-2013-9070) and Smart Integration of Genetics with Sciences of the Past in Croatia: Minding and Mending the Gap (MindTheGap, H2020-Twinn-2015: 692249).
He specialised molecular analyses of animal mitogens using NGS techniques, mitogenome analysis on cattle production characteristics as well as animal arheogenetics (ruminants and lagomorphs).
Lecture can be seen: https://meduza.carnet.hr/index.php/media/watch/12983
- Human feeding in prehistoric times: the transition from hunting to cattle breeding on the Adriatic
Siniša Radović
24th May 2018.
Siniša Radović is an archaeologist, a scientific associate at the Institute of Palaeontology and Geology of the Quarter of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb, and a lecturer at the Department of Archeology at the University of Zadar.
He specializes in the analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites, and scientific interests include prehistoric survival strategies, the significance of animals in rituals of late Bronze and Iron Age and the taft of vertebrates.
He participated in several systematic archaeological and paleontological researches in Istria and Dalmatia. He is a co-author of several scientific projects and author and co-author of several scientific and professional papers.
Lecture can be seen: https://meduza.carnet.hr/index.php/media/watch/12988
- Origin, domestication and spreading of beans: evidence stored in DNA
Zlatko Liber
14th June 2018.
Zlatko Liber is a biologist and university professor at the Faculty of Sciences in Zagreb. His scientific field of interest is phylogeny, taxonomy and population, landscape and conservation genetics of plants with special emphasis on the development and application of new molecular markers and computer methods.
He is also a co-author of several professional books and more than 50 scientific papers from the mentioned scientific disciplines.
Lecture can be seen: https://meduza.carnet.hr/index.php/media/watch/12984
- Genetic Demographics of Healing Sage: Travel to the Past
Zlatko Šatović
20th September 2018.
Zlatko Šatović is an agronomist and university professor at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb. It is concerned with conservation and sustainable use of herbal genetic resources, molecular diversity and phylogenetics analysis and molecular herbicides. He has authored more than 100 scientific papers from the above mentioned scientific fields.
Lecture can be seen: https://meduza.carnet.hr/index.php/media/watch/12994
- Analysis of human remains from the Illyrian necropolis of Kopila
Davorka Radovčić
11th October 2018.
Davorka Radovčić graduated Archeology in 2004 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb, defend master thesis in 2008 and defend doctoral thesis in 2011 anthropology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, USA (The Implication of Variation in Late Pleistocene Levantine Crania for Understanding the Pattern of Human Evolution) .
Since 2012 she has been employed at the Croatian Natural History Museum where she is the collector of the Collection of Krapina Diligents, the Collection of fossil and recent pongid and hominid casts and the Anthropological Collection.
The scientific interests of Davorka Radovcic include the evolution of man, the evolution of symbolic behavior and the prehistoric archeology of Croatia and the Mediterranean.
Lecture can be seen: https://meduza.carnet.hr/index.php/media/watch/12995
- The largest and smallest mammals of Quarter Croatia
Jadranka Mauch Lenardić
25th October 2018.
Jadranka Mauch Lenardić is a paleontologist and works at the Department of Paleontology and Geology of Kvartar of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb. For many years she has been involved in researches of proboscis and small mammals, especially volcanoes, from many Croatian localities.
She studies the paleoecological, paleobiogeographic, microevolution and other relationships of these animal groups. Research is often based on morphometric analyzes, and the results have been presented in many scientific papers as well as at numerous international and domestic scientific conferences.
Lecture can be seen: https://meduza.carnet.hr/index.php/media/watch/12996
- Domestication of cattle: new discoveries that reveal genomics
Vlatka Čubrić Čurik
08th November 2018.
Vlatka Čubrić Čurik is an associate professor at the Department of Molecular Genetics of Animals at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb. Animal genomics research started in 2000, and in recent years it has been intensively involved in the study of the genomes of domestic animal ancestors, in order to discover the genetic basis of domestic animals.
- Domestication of cattle: new discoveries that reveal genomicsPeople, animals and caves facing a rising sea-level
Marta Pappalardo & Giovanni Boschian
22nd November 2018.
Marta Pappalardo is a full professor of Physical Geography and Geomorphology at the Department of Earth Sciences of the University of Pisa (Italy). In the scope of her interest is the geomorphology of coastal areas as a pattern of human settling through time.
He worked more closely on the reconstruction of paleogeographic scenarios within the ancient urban contexts and on the use of geoarchaeological markers to change the sea level with the purpose of studying coastal shapes. The areas of her research are on the north coast of the central Mediterranean, the Atlantic coast of northern Spain and Argentine Patagonia.
Giovanni Boschian is a geologist and associate professor of anthropology at the Department of Biology of the University of Pisa (Italy). He teaches anthropology, archeology of the environment, human ecology and geo-arheology.
The main topic of his research is the interaction between hominine and natural environment that leads to the adaptation of cultural behavior to environmental change. His work is predominantly – albeit not exclusively – related to cave sites and processes of their origin, ie by studying natural and anthropogenic deposits using geo-archeological techniques and micro-morphological studies of the soil.
It has recently been dealing with the effects of the cold phase of the late Pleistocene on the Mediterranean natural environment and population, by shifting neanderthals to early modern humans in Italy, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, using caves by neolithic cattle farmers on the Mediterranean and copper-clad settlements in the southern Caucasus. Stratigraphic and geo-archaeological expertise contributes to the study of Paranthropus robustus sites in South Africa and the paleoanthropological researches of Laetoli and Olduvai sites in Tanzania.
In addition to linking diverse scientific specialist, one of the most important goals of the Premises project is to raise public awareness of the importance of science and the value of new knowledge emerging from scientific research. The cycle of lectures is designed to overlay the gap between the specialized world of scientists, whose work is often misunderstood, and the wider public. All lecturers are prominent experts dealing with various scientific problems related to the study of the past: archeologists, archeozoolos, archeobotanists, archeogenetics, paleontologists, geomorphologists and others. Each of them will present some of the most attractive results of their research in an accessible way.
Project # 692249 from H2020-TWINN-2015 funded by the European Union. Full Name of the Project: Smart Integration of Genetics with the Sciences of the Past in Croatia: Minding and Mending the Gap / Smart Integration of Genetics with the Science of the Past in Croatia: Premostiti jaz
Abbreviated name: MendTheGap. The science of the past covers a number of disciplines that deal with physical, biological and cultural circumstances and processes that have created and changed our planet and its living world, including the human species, in the past. These scientific disciplines form the backbone of an international project titled Intelligent Integration of Genetics with the Science of the Past: Observing and Bridging the Gap. The project is based on the collaboration of scientists from the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), the University of Pisa (Italy) and the Croatian East-Trans-Archaeological Multi-Interdisciplinary Initiative (CrEAMA). The CrEAMA initiative brings together Croatian experts from different scientific profiles, archeologists, biologists, genetics, geologists and paleontologists, as well as six institutions: Faculty of Agriculture, Faculty of Science, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute of Anthropology, Croatian Natural History Museum and Vela Luka Cultural Center. The purpose of the CrEAMA initiative is to tighten the linkage of various instances in different ways dealing with the past. Its ultimate goal is to create a research group capable of implementing an integrated approach to the sciences of the past. Such a group will have a significant innovative strength and ability to contribute to solving the issues that make us present.
http://www.amz.hr/media/305702/mendthegap_amz_knjizica_web.pdf