Interests and methodology of research

The research of Dr Đurđa Obradović is directed towards economic and social aspects of the production and preparation of food of vegetative origin in the Neolithic. Dr Obradović’s work is based on archaeobotanical analysis of carpological remains from Neolithic localities in the Central Balkans.

Education

2020 – Doctoral thesis in Archaeology. Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, PhD: Archaeobotanical research of the Late Neolithic period of Pomoravlje: social and economic aspects of the production and preparation of food

2009 – Bachelor’s degree in Archaeology. Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade

Employment

2020 – Institute of Archaeology, Research Associate

2013 – Institute of Archaeology, Research Associate

2011 – Institute of Archaeology, Research Trainee

Languages: English, German

Director of Projects

(2019) Research of the Neolithic settlements in the localities of Stubline in Supska and Kraljevo Polje near Ćuprija

Participation in projects

(2004-) Permanent archaeological workshop – Middle Pomoravlje in the neolithization of south-eastern Europe, Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia

(2020-2022) Palaeo-landscape reconstruction of Neolithic Drenovac and its environs in the middle Morava Valley, Serbia, Institute of Archaeology (Belgrade), University of Cambridge, Ghent University, University of St Andrews, University of Southampton

(2011-2019) Archaeology in Serbia: cultural identity, integration factors, technological processes and the role of the Central Balkans in the development of European prehistory, Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia

(2019) Deciphering the origins of the sediment complex at the Neolithic settlement site of Drenovac in the Morava Valley, Serbia, Institute of Archaeology (Belgrade), McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Charles McBurney Laboratory for Geoarchaeology (Cambridge)

Memberships

– Serbian Archaeological Society

– European Association of Archaeologists (EAA)

International Conferences

• 19th Conference of the International Workgroup for Palaeoethnobotany, České Budějovice, 13 – 17 June 2022.
• 28th EAA Annual Meeting, Budapest, Hungary, 31 August – 3 September 2022.
• 27th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Kiel, 6-11 Septembar 2021
• 18^th Conference of the International Workgroup for Palaeoethnobotany, Lecce, 3-8 June 2019
• 1st Conference on the Early Neolithic of Europe – ENE2019, Barcelona, 6 – 8 Novembar 2019
• NSF US-Serbia  & West Balkan Data Science Workshop, Belgrade, 26-28 August 2018
• 17^th Conference of the International Workgroup for Palaeoethnobotany, Paris, 4-9 July 2016.
• Social Dimensions of Food in the Prehistory of the Eastern Balkans and Neighbouring Areas, Heidelberg, 30^th April –2^nd May 2015
•  Northern Greece and the Southeastern Europe during the Neolithic. An interaction zone, Thessaloniki, 26–29^th June 2014
• 16^th Conference of the International Work Group for Palaeoethnobotany, Thessaloniki, 17–22^nd  June 2013
• Die Donau-Balkan-Region als Kontaktzone zwischen Ost-West und Nord-Süd, 16–18. Маi 2012., Frankfurt, Deutschland

National Conferences

• Annual meetings of the Serbian Archaeological Society (2011-2013, 2015-2019, 2021, 2022)
• Annual Meeting: Research Results of the Archaeological Institute (2012-2013, 2019)

Bibliography

Chapters in international monographs and collections

• Filipović, D. Obradović, Đ. de Vareilles, A. 2022.The first five millennia of plant food production in the central and western Balkans: archaeobotanical evidence from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age, in: S.M. Valamoti, A. Dimoula, M. Ntinou (eds), Cooking with Plants in Ancient Europe and Beyond: interdisciplinary approaches to the Archaeology of Plant Foods, Leiden: Sidestone Press, 151-170.
• Perić, S., Bajčev, O., Arsenijević, R., Obradović, Đ., Popović, V., Dimitrijević, I. 2021. Arheološka istraživanja na nalazištu Slatina – Turska Česma u Drenovcu u 2018. godini, u: Arheologija u Srbiji: projekti Arheološkog instituta u 2018. godini, ur. S.Vitezović, M. Radišič, Đ. Obradović, Arheološki institut, Beograd.
• Obradović, Đ. 2020. Storage practice and problems with pests in the Late Neolithic: two examples from the central Balkans, in: N. Marković, J. Bulatović (eds.) Animal Husbandry and Hunting in the Central and Western Balkans Through Time, Archaeopress, Oxford, 51-60.
• Perić, S., Bajčev, O., Stojanović, I., Obradović, Đ. 2020. The Neolithic Settlement at Drenovac, Serbia: Settlement History and Spatial Organisation, in: Making Spaces into Places. The North Aegean, the Balkans and Western Anatolia in the Neolithic, eds. N. Tasić, D. Urem-Kotsou, M. Burić. BAR International Series 3001, Oxford, pp. 181 – 189.
•  Perić, S., Bajčev, O., Arsenijević, R., Obradović, Đ., Dimitrijević, I. 2019. Iskopavanja i konzervacija neolitskih kuća i keramičkih posuda na nalazištu Slatina – Turska česma u Drenovcu u 2017. godini, u: Arheologija u Srbiji: projekti Arheološkog instituta u 2017. godini, ur. I. Bugarski, V. Filipović, N. Gavrilović Vitas, Arheološki institut, Beograd: 62 -69.
•  Обрадовић, Ђ. 2017. Археоботаничка истраживања, у: Mnemosynon firmitatis: седамдесет година археолошког института (1947-2017), ур. Весна Бикић, Јосип Шарић, Археолошки институт, Београд: 257-258.
• Obradović, Đ., Bajčev, O. 2016. Neolithic land use in Central Pomoravlje – arable potential of soils and agriculture, in: The Neolithic in the Middle Morava Valley: new insights into settlments and economy, eds. S. Perić, M. Korać, B. Stojanović, The Neolithic in the Middle Morava Valley no. 2, Belgrade, 61 – 78.
• Stojanović, I., Obradović, Đ. 2016. Integrating archaeozoological and archaeobotanical data: different perspectives on past food practices. Case study: The Early Neolithic context from Drenovac, central Serbia, in: The Neolithic in the Middle Morava Valley: new insights into settlments and economy, eds. S. Perić, M. Korać, B. Stojanović, The Neolithic in the Middle Morava Valley no. 2, Belgrade, 79-102.
• Перић, С., Бајчев, О., Обрадовић, Ђ., Стојановић, И. 2016. Неолитско насеље Павловац-Гумниште: резултати заштитних археолошких ископавања 2011. године, у: Археолошка истраживања на аутопуту Е-75 (2011 – 2014), ур. С. Перић, A. Булатовић, Београд, 221-274.
•  Perić, O., Obradović, Đ., Stojanović, I. 2015. A new perspective on Neolithic settlement and economic patterns in the Middle Morava Valley emerging from revised archaeological research, Kontaktzone Balkan: Beiträge des Internationalen Kolloquiums “Die Donau-Balkan-Region als Kontaktzone zwischen Ost-West und Nord-Süd” vom 16–18. Mai 2012 in Frankfurt a. M.; Kolloquien zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte, 33–44.
•  Obradović, Đ., Stojanović, I. 2014. Mikroprospekcija terena na neolitskom nalazištu Slatina – Turska česma, Drenovac, u: Arheologija u Srbiji: projekti Arheološkog instituta u 2012. godini, ur. V. Bikić, S. Golubović, D. Antonović, Arheološki institut, Beograd: 12–15.
• Filipović, D., Obradović, Đ. 2013. Archaeobotany at Neolithic Sites in Serbia: A Critical Overview of the Methods and Results, in: Bioarchaeology in Balkans. Balance and Perspectives. Papers of the Bioarchaeological section of The Serbian Archaeological Society (Bioarheologija na Balkanu. Bilans i perspektive. Radovi Bioarheološke sekcije Srpskog arheološkog društva), еds. N. Miladinović-Radmilović and S. Vitezović, Srpsko arheološko društvo, Blago Sirmijuma, Beograd-Sremska Mitrovica, 25–55.
• Perić, S., Obradović, Đ. 2012. Arheološka radionica: istraživanja u Drenovcu 2011. godine, u: Arheologija u Srbiji: projekti Arheološkog instituta u 2011. godini, ur. V. Bikić, S. Golubović, D. Antonović, Arheološki institut, Beograd: 17–18.

Papers in scientific journals

• de Vareilles, A., Filipović, D., Obradović, Đ, Vander Linden M. 2022. Along the Rivers and into the Plain: Early Crop Diversity in the Central and Western Balkans and Its Relationship with Environmental and Cultural Variables, Quaternary 5(1), 6.  https://doi.org/10.3390/quat5010006
• Filipović, D. Obradović, Đ., Tripković , B. 2018. Plant storage in Neolithic southeast Europe: synthesis of the archaeological and archaeobotanical evidence from Serbiа, Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, Volume 27, Issue 1, 33 – 41.
• Marinova, E., Filipović, D., Obradović, Đ., Allue, E. 2012/2013. Wild Plant Resources and Land Use in Mesolithic and Early Neolithic South-East Europe – Archaeobotanical Evidence from the Danube Catchment of Bulgaria and Serbia, Offa 69/70, 2012/13, 467–478.