Ivana started following the work of Rob Hedge, Cambridge Alumni, Alumnus.
Ivana added a talk.
Ivana started following the work of Frances McIntosh, Newcastle University, School of History, Classics and Archaeology.
Graduate Student, Department of Archaeology
Researcher at the Laboratory for Bioarchaeology
Faculty of Philosophy
Thesis Title: Fishing in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Danube Gorges
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Dr Vesna Dimitrijevic
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About
My interests include cultural perceptions of humans and animals in prehistory, the manner in which their bodies were treated after death and represented in the media, and the very nature of the human-animal interrelationship. I find especially interesting the question of fluidity of the concept of a human being and person: is it universal and stable, or can it be more flexible and include other beings and things.
My previous Mlitt research at Newcastle University focused on comparative treatment of human and animal remains in the Mesolithic-Neolithic sites of Padina, Lepenski Vir and Vlasac in the Danube Gorges. My PhD focuses on the role of fish and fishing in formation of semi-permanent settlements on these sites, with special emphasis on species selection (freshwater and anadromous), the treatment and context of deposition of fish remains, modification of their bodies (especially teeth) in order to dress and adorn human bodies, as well as concepts of fluid boundaries of personhood and humanness manifested by hybrid human-fishlike sculptures from Lepenski Vir.
I base my approach on the combination of the archaeozoological method and social theory. I have acquired training in archaeozoology under supervision of Professor dr Vesna Dimitrijević, by assisting in the analysis of faunal material from several prehistoric sites in Serbia, and by working on the faunal material from the site of Vlasac. At the same time, I became acquainted with studies on the ’Non-Western’ perspectives of the body and person, and with the ideas of the body as a cultural construct, borrowed from cultural anthropology. Although it may seem that the ’scientific’ method of osteology and cultural constructivism are mutually exclusive and irreconcilable in contemporary archaeology, I believe there are great advantages to their combining – which can shed more light on roles and boundaries of the human and animal body, and the instability and fluidity of such boundaries.
