Interests and methodology of research

Dr Slaviša Perić has been researching the Neolithic of the Balkans for more than 30 years, with a focus on the process of the neolithisation of the Central Balkans. Analysing archaeological material, Dr Perić has also studied the cultural-chronological relationship of the Mesolithic Lepenski Vir culture and the Starčevo culture in the locality of Lepenski Vir, as well as the questions related to the cultural and population basis on which the first Central Balkan Neolithic settlements were formed. For the last 20 years, Dr Perić has conducted intensive multidisciplinary research and, with the analyses of the results of previous excavations, has striven to understand the role of middle Pomoravlje in the Neolithisation of south-eastern Europe.

Education

1993 – Doctoral thesis in Archaeology. Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, PhD: Kakanj and Butmire cultures

1989 – Master’s thesis in Archaeology. Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. MA: Bronze and Iron Age in the upper course of the Bosna river

1981 – Bachelor’s degree in Archaeology. Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade

Employment

2017 – Faculty of Philosophy, University of East Sarajevo, full-time professor

2012 – Institute of Archaeology, Senior Research Associate

2005 – Faculty of Philosophy, University of East Sarajevo, associate professor

2000 – Faculty of Philosophy, University of East Sarajevo, assistant professor

1996 – Institute of Archaeology, Research Associate

1994 – Institute of Archaeology, Research Assistant

1991 – National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, curator for the Neolithic and Eneolithic

1989 – National Museum in Valjevo, curator for prehistory collection

1982 – Homeland Museum in Visoko, curator archaeologist

Languages: Russian

Director of projects

(2012-) Permanent archaeological workshop – middle Pomoravlje in the Neolithisation of south-eastern Europe – Drenovac Neolithic megalopolis, Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia

(2010-2019) Archaeology of Serbia: cultural identity, integration factors, technological processes and the role of Central Balkans in the development of European prehistory, Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia

(2012-2014) Cultural and economic relationships of eastern Europe and the Balkans region (based on archaeological material) co-director, project of the Archaeological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Institute of Archaeology Belgrade (as the representative of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts)

(2002–2011) Permanent archaeological workshop – middle Pomoravlje in the Neolithisation of south-eastern Europe, Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia

(2009-2010) Curriculum reform of heritage sciences in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIHERIT), coordinator of the project

(2000-2010) Culture of Lepenski Vir: cultural processes and transformations from the 9^th to the 6^th millennium B. C., Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia

(2005-2006) Cultural changes of hunter-gatherer societies in the Carpathian-Danubian region in the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene, Faculty of Philosophy Belgrade, National Museum of Serbia, University of Kansas (as the representative of the Institute of Archaeology, one of the four directors of the project)

Memberships

– Serbian Archaeological Society

– European Association of Archaeologists (EAA)

– Archaeological Society of the Republic of Srpska (president of the Board)

– German Archaeological Institute (DAI), corresponding member

– National Archaeological Institute with Museum of the Bulgarian Academy of Science, honorary member

International conferences

• 1st Conference on the Early Neolithic of Europe, Barcelona 6-8 November 2019.
•  US-Serbia & West Balkan Data Science Workshop, Belgrade, Serbia, August 26-28, 2018.
•  Prehistoric Houses in the Balkans: Profane and Sacred Contexts (sixth to fifth millennium BC); Stara Zagora, 14–17 May 2015.
•  Northern Greece and the Southeastern Europe during the Neolithic. An interaction zone, Thessaloniki, 26–29 June 2014.
•  Salt and Gold: The Role of Salt in Prehistoric Europe. International Symposium (Humboldt Kolleg) in Provadia, Bulgaria 30 September – 4 October, Sofia 2010.
• Ch. jusqu’aux guerres daciques: Koloquium in Kladovo – Drobeta – Turnu Severin(september – oktober 1998), Beograd 1999.

National conferences

• (2011-2013,2018) Godišnji skup: Rezultati istraživanja Arheološkog Instituta, Viminacijum
• (2017) Srpsko arheološko društvo XL skupština i godišnji skup i proslava 70 godina arheološkog instituta (MNEMOSYNON FIRMITATIS) Beograd, 5-7. Jun 2017
• (2006) Memorijal Dragoslava Srejovića, Kragujevac, 28. – 29. novembar 2006
• (1997) Rad Dragoslava Srejovica na istrazivanju praistorije centralnog Balkana, Kragujevac, 27 – 29. Novembar 1997

Bibliography

Monographs

• Perić, S., Nikolić, D. 2016. Lepenski Vir: Stratigraphy, Chronology and Periodizacion: (Excavations 1966, Arheološki institut,  Beograd 2016. ISBN 978-86-6439-001-9
• Перић, С. 1995. Бутмирска култура, Београд 1995, ISBN 86/80093-05-X; 86-80093-08-4.

Chapters in monographs and edited volumes

• Перић, С.  Бајчев, O. Обрадовић, Ђ., Стојановић, И. 2016. Неолитско насеље Павловац – Гумниште: резултати заштитних ископавања 2011. године, у (С. Перић, А. Булатовић ед.) Археолошка ископавања на аутопуту Е75 (2011-2014), Београд 2016, 221-274.
• Perić, S. 2004.Problem of Neolithization in Central Pomoravlje, in The Neolithic in the Middle Morava Valley 1, Belgrade 2004, 11-34.
• Perić, S. Nikolić, D. 2004. Stratigraphic, Cultural and Chronological Characteristics of the pottery from Lepenski Vir – 1965 Excavations, The Neolithic in the Middle Morava Valley 1, Belgrade 2004, 157-217.
• Perić S. 2006. The Gradac Period in the Neolithic Settlements in the Middle Morava Valley, in Homage to Milutin Garašanin, Begrade 2006,235-250.
• Perić, S. Rummel C. Schafferer G. Winger D. Wendling H. 2016,  Geomagnetic survey of Neolithic settlements in the middle Morava Valley – preliminary results, in Perić S., The Neolithic in the Middle Morava Valley, No 2: new insights into settlements and economy, Belgrade 2016, 9-25.

Papers in scientific journals

• Perić S. 2017. Drenovac: a Neolithic settlement in the Middle Morava Valley, Serbia, Antiquity Volume 91, Issue 357, e4(2017) 1-7.
• Perić S. and Nikolić D. 2011. A Contribution to Understanding Stratigraphy of Lepenski Vir, Старинар LXI/2011, Beograd 2011, 33-59.
• Perić, S. 2009. The Oldest Cultural Horizon of  Trench XV at Drenovac, Старинар LVIII/2008, Belgrade 2009, 29-44.
• Perić S. and  Nikolić D. 2008. On the Issue of an Ossary – Pit Dwelling Z in the Oldest Horizon at Vinča, Starinar LVI/2006, Beograd 2008, 47-72.
• Perić, S. 2004. Topografija i kulturno-hronološke karakteristike naselja bronzanog i gvozdenog doba u gornjem toku reke Bosne, Zbornik za istoriju Bosne i Hercegovine 4, Beograd 2004, 1-41.
• Perić, S. 2003. Hronologija, mehanizam prodora i kulturno-stratigrafski položaj keltske keramike u okviru srednjobosanske grupe, Radovi Filozofskog fakulteta 3-4, Pale 2003, 354-370.
• Perić, S. 2002. O problemu nacina sahranjivanja u gornjem toku reke Bosne tokom bronzanog i gvozdenog doba, 179 – 198, Godisnjak/Jahrbuch, Knjiga/Band  XXXII, Centar za balkanoloska ispitivanja/Zentrum für Balkanforschungen, Knjiga/Band 30, Sarajevo-Frankfurt am Main – Berlin – Heidelberg 2002.
• Perić, S. 2001. Die kulturele Charakter und die Chronologie der Starcevo-Elemente im Neolithikum der westlichen Balkanregionen, 9 – 39, Starinar LI/2001, Beograd 2001.
• Perić, S. 1999. Višeslojna neolitska naselja i problem kulturne stratigrafije neolita na teritoriji Srbije, 11 – 33, Starinar XLIX (1998), Beograd 1999.
• Perić, S. Kult – Rhytone der neolithischen Viehzüchter der Balkanhalbinsel, Starinar  XLVII (1996), Beograd 1996, 21 -66.
• Perić, S.  1995. Celtic Pottery in Setlements of the Central Bosnian Culture Group, Starinar XLV – XLVI (1994/1995), Beograd 1995, 113 – 131.