Laboratory for Bioarchaeology

Amalia Sabanov

Research Assistant

E-mail: amaliasabanov@gmail.com

Address: Čika Ljubina 18-20, 11000 Beograd

Research interests: archaeobotany, early agriculture, diet, plant use, neolithic

EDUCATION

2019-ongoing – PhD candidate, Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia

2018 – MSc in Archaeological materials science, Erasmus Mundus Masters programme (ArchMat), Department of Ambiental Biology, Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences, The Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Mobility: University of Évora, Portugal; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Master thesis title: Food and fodder from the Early Bronze Age I village at Arslantepe (Malatya, Turkey): an archaebotanical approach

2016 – BA in Archaeology – Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia

TEACHING ACTIVITIES
  • Environmental archaeology, graduate student instructor (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade)
  • 2021 Guest lecturer at the course Archaeology between nature and culture (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade)
PROJECTS

2021-ongoing – The Holocene History of Human-Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence: Archaeozoological, Archaeobotanical, Isotopic, Ancient DNA, Iconographic and Written Evidence from the Central Balkans. Laboratory for Bioarchaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia

2020-ongoing – Savremeni bioarheološki pristup istraživanju bronzanog doba u Srbiji: nekropola u Mokrinu 50 godina kasnije (Contemporary Bioarchaeological Approach in the Research of Bronze Age in Serbia: Mokrin Necropolis 50 Years Later). Laboratory for Bioarchaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia

2019-2020 – Bioarchaeology of Ancient Europe: humans, animals, and plants in the prehistory of Serbia. Laboratory for Bioarchaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Antolín, F., Sabanov, A., Naumov, G., Soteras, R. (2020). ‘Crop choice, gathered plants and household activities at the beginnings of farming in the Pelagonia Valley of North Macedonia’, Antiquity, 94(376) [Advance online publication]. Available at: https:// doi:10.15184/aqy.2020.119

Antolín, F., Sabanov, A., Soteras, R., Dimitrijević, V., Naumov, G. (in press). House taskscapes in the early Neolithic of the Pelagonia Valley: micro-refuse analyses. Campaign 2019: first results. eDAI-F, 2021(2) [online]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.34780/81da-4u1g

Mazzucco, N., Fidanoski, Lj., Naumov, G., Sabanov, A., Antolín, F., Gibaja, J., F. (in press). ‘The Spread of Agriculture in South Eastern Europe: new data from North Macedonia’ Antiquity.

Naumov, G., Gulevska, J., Antolín, F., Penezić, K., Mitkoski, A., Sabanov, A., Soteras, R. (2020). ‘Ревидирана стратиграфија на локалитетот Велушка Тумба кај Породин’, Arheološki informator, 4, p9-20.

Naumov, G., Gulevska, J., Penezić, K., Antolín, F., Mitkoski, A., Sabanov, A., Soteras, R. (2020). ‘Multidisciplinary research on Veluška Tumba in 2019’ in Fidanoski Lj. and Naumov G. (eds.) Neolithic in Macedonia. In honor of Dragica Simoska. Skopje: Center for Prehistoric Research, pp. 29-59.

Naumov, G., Mitkoski, A., Talevski, H., Anvari, J., Przybyla, M., Stojanovski, D., Antolín, F., Sabanov, A., Živaljević, I., Dimitrijević, V., Gibaja, J. F., Mazzucco, N., Milevski, G., Dumurđanov, N., Pendić, J., Blažeska, Z., Stefanović, S. (2021). ‘The Early Neolithic tell of Vrbjanska Čuka in Pelagonia’, Praehistorische Zeitschrift 96(2) [Advance online publication]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1515/pz-2021-0007

Sabanov, A., Antolín, F., Naumov, G., Soteras, R. (in press). ‘The use of plants and domestic spaces in the Early Neolithic Pelagonia Valley. Preliminary results of the integrated archaeobotanical and micro-refuse approach’ in Fidanoski, Lj. and Naumov, G. (eds.) Prehistory in the Balkans: conference proceedings on archaeology and archaeological science. Skopje: Center for Prehistoric Research. Online, 23rd December, 2020.