Laboratory for Bioarchaeology

Jelena Bulatović

Research Associate

E-mail: jelena.bulatovic@f.bg.ac.rs / j.bulatovic@yahoo.com

Address: Čika Ljubina 18-20, 11000 Beograd

Research interests: archaeozoology; human-animal relationships; animal remains; animal economy; Balkan prehistory


EDUCATION

2018 – Ph.D. degree in Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia. (Dissertation title: Archaeozoological Aspects of Social and Cultural Changes in the Central Balkans during the Fifth Millennium BC)

2010 – Master degree in Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia (Dissertation title: Animals Remains from Closed Eneolithic Features at the Site of Bubanj near Niš)

2009 – Bachelor degree in Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia (Dissertation title: Secondary Products Revolution)

NATIONAL (SERBIAN) PROJECTS

2020 –  Archaeozoologist on PROMIS project Regional Absolute Chronology of the Late Neolithic in Serbia – RACOLNS, Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia for the Program for excellent projects of young researchers (PROMIS), (PI: Miroslav Marić, Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Science and Arts, Belgrade)

2017 – Archaeozoologist/specialist consultant on project Archaeological Systematic Investigations of the Prehistoric Site of Velika Humska Čuka near Niš (PI: Aleksandar Bulatović, Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade)

2013 Archaeozoologist on Vinča Project (PI: Nenad Tasić, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade)

2012 Archaeozoologist/specialist consultant on project Systematic Archaeological Investigations of the Late Vinča Site of Crkvine at Stubline near Obrenovac (PI: Miloš Spasić, Belgrade City Museum)

2011–2019 Archaeozoologist on project Bioarchaeology of Ancient Europe: Humans, Animals and Plants in the Prehistory of Serbia funded by Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia (PI: Sofija Stefanović, Laboratory for Bioarchaeology, Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade)

2010 Researcher on project Transitional Processes in the Neolithic of the Southeastern Europe funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia (PI: Nenad Tasić, Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade)

2009–2014 Archaeozoologist/specialist consultant on project Archaeological Systematic Investigations of the Prehistoric Site of Bubanj near Niš (PI: Aleksandar Bulatović, Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade)

INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS

2020 – Collaborator on project Five thousand years of history of domestic cat in Central Europe. Interdisciplinary study of paleogenetics and archaeozoology (PI: Danijela Popović, Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Poland)

2020 – Collaborator/lecturer in archaeozoology on project HERISTEM strategic partnership project (Erasmus+) (Leading partner: University of Belgrade)

2019 – Collaborator on project Ancient genomic reconstruction of convergent evolution to agriculture (AGRICON) (PI: Pontus Skoglund, Francis Crick Institute, London, UK)

2019 – Principal Investigator on project Exploitation of Animals and Animal Resources at the Site of Treštena Stena (co-PI: Aleksandar Mitkoski, NI Institute for Protection of Monuments of Culture and Museum Prilep, North Macedonia)

2018 – Archaeozoologist on project Pusta Reka Research NEOTECH Project (PI: Barbara Horejs, Austrian Archaeological Institute, Vienna, Austria)

2014 – Archaeozoologist on project Borderlands: ARISE (Archaeological Research of Iđoš Site and Environment) (co-PIs: Neda Mirković-Marić, Intermunicipal Institute for Protection of Cultural Monuments Subotica, Serbia, and Barry Molloy, School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Ireland)

2014–2018 Principal Investigator on project Economic Strategies of the Late Bronze/Early Iron Age Communities from Northern Bosnia (co-PI: Aleksandar Jašarević, Museum in Doboj, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

2014–2017 Collaborator/specialist advisor on project Cultural and Scientific Perspectives of Human-Chicken Interactions (PI: Dr Mark Maltby, University of Bournemouth, UK)

2012–2018 Collaborator on project Decoding Domesticate DNA in Archaeological Bone and Manuscripts (CODEX) (PI: Daniel Bradley, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

2012–2015  Archaeozoologist (supervisor: David Orton, University of York, UK) on project The Rise of Metallurgy in Eurasia (PI: Thilo Rehren, University College London, UK)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

In press Bulatović, J. Ostaci životinja sa nalazišta Gornje Polje. Kolubara 7.

2021 Bulatović, J., Marković, N., Krstić, N., Bulatović, A., Mitrović, M., Marinković, D. Animal diseases in the Central Balkan Eneolithic (ca. 4500 – 2500 BC) – A diachronic perspective from the Bubanj site, south-eastern Serbia. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3065

2021 Gillis, R., Bulatović, J., Penezić, K., Spasić, M., Tasić, N., Makarewicz, C. Of herds and societies—Seasonal aspects of Vinča culture herding and land use practices revealed using sequential stable isotope analysis of animal teeth. PLOS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258230

2021 Gavranović, M., Antić, S., Meyer, C., Petschko, I., Bulatović, J., Waltenberg, L. A multi-phased burial mound in Novo Selo near Bijenjina. Prilozi Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu 38 (1): 33–74.

2021 Živaljević, I., Dimitrijević, V., Jovanović, J., Blagojević, T., Pendić, J., Putica, A., Uzelac, V., Bulatović, J., Spasić, M., Jončić, N., Penezić, K., Anđelić, D., Bajčeta, M., Stefanović, S. Revealing the ‘hidden’ Pannonian and Central Balkan Mesolithic: new radiocarbon evidence from Serbia. Quaternary International 574: 52–67.

2020 Petković, S., Gojković, D., Bulatović, J. Early Medieval Burial of Woman and Fox at the Slog Necropolis in Ravna (Timacum Minus) in Eastern Serbia. Starinar 70: 239–255.

2020 Penezić, K., Radičević, D., Bulatović, J., Tasić, N. Prvi rezultati zaštitnih arheoloških istraživanja na Belom Brdu u Vinči. Glasnik Srpskog arheološkog društva 36: 261–281.

2020 Filipović, D., Bulatović, J., Bulatović, A. Food economy during and after the Neolithic-Eneolithic transition in the central Balkans: contextualising crops and domestic animals from Eneolithic Bubanj, southeastern Serbia. Glasnik Srpskog arheološkog društva 36: 27–56.

2020 Bergström, A., Frantz, L., Schmidt, R., Ersmark, E., Lebrasseur, O., Girdland-Flink, L., Audrey, L., Storå, J., Sjörgen, K.-G., Anthony, D., Antipina, E., Amiri, S., Bar-Oz, G., Bazaliiskii, V., Bulatović, J., Brown, D., Carmagnini, A., Davy, T., Fedorov, S., Fiore, I., Fulton, D., Germonpré, M., Haile, J., Irving-Pease, E., Jamieson, A., Janssens, L., Kirilova, I., Horwitz Kolska, L., Kuzmanović-Cvetković, J., Kuzmin, Y., Losey, R., Ložnjak Dizdar, D., Mashkour, M., Novak, M., Onar, V., Orton, D., Pasarić, M., Radivojević, M., Rajković, D., Roberts, B., Ryan, H., Sablin, M., Shidlovskiy, F., Stojanović, I., Tagliacozzo, A., Trantalidou, K., Ullén, I., Villaluenga, A., Wapnish, P. Dobney, K., Götherström, A., Linderholm, A., Dalén, L., Pinhasi, R., Larson, G., Skoglund, P. Origins and genetic legacy of prehistoric dogs. Science 370: 557–564.

2020 Molloy, B., Jovanović, D., Bruyere, C., Marić, M., Bulatović, J., Mertl, P., Horn, C., Milašinović, L., Mirković-Marić, N. A New Bronze Age Mega-fort in Southeastern Europe: Recent Archaeological Investigations at Gradište Iđoš and their Regional Significance. Journal of Field Archaeology 45 (4): 293–314.

2019 Bulatović, J., Spasić, M. Životinjski ostaci sa neolitskog nalazišta Grabovac-Đurića vinogradi. Zbornik radova Narodnog muzeja 24 (1):  63–84.

2019 Horejs, B., Bulatović, A., Bulatović, J., Brandl, M., Burke, C., Filipović, D., Milić, B. 2019. New Insights into the Later Stage of the Neolithisation Process of the Central Balkans. First Excavations at Svinjarička Čuka 2018. Archaeologia Austriaca 103: 175–226.

2019 Pereira Verdugo, M., Mullin, V., Scheu1, A., Mattiangeli, V., Daly, K., Maisano Delser, P., Hare, A., Burger, J., Collins, M., Kehati, R., Hesse, P., Fulton, D., Sauer, E., Mohaseb, F., Davoudi, H., Khazaeli, R., Lhuillier, J., Rapin, C., Ebrahimi, S., Khasanov, M., Vahidi, F., MacHugh, D., Ertuğrul, O., Koukouli-Chrysanthaki, C., Sampson, A., Kazantzis, G., Kontopoulos, I., Bulatović, J., Stojanović, I., Mikdad, A., Benecke, N., Linstädter, J., Sablin, M., Bendrey, R., Gourichon, L., Arbuckle, B., Mashkour, M., Orton, D., Kolska Horwitz, L., Teasdale, M., Bradley, D. 2019. Ancient cattle genomics, origins, and rapid turnover in the Fertile Crescent. Science 365 (6449): 173–176.

2019 Frantz, L., Haile, J., Lin, A., Scheu, A., Geörg, C., Benecke, N., Alexander, M., Linderholm, A., Mullin, V., Daly, K., Battista, V., Price, M., Gron, K., Alexandri, P., Arbogast, R.-M., Arbuckle, B., Bălăşescu, A., Barnett, R., Bartosiewicz, L., Baryshnikov, G., Bonsall, C., Borić, D., Boroneanţ, A., Bulatović, J., Çakirlar, C.,  Carretero, J.-M., Chapman, J., Church, M., Crooijmans, R., De Cupere, B., Detry, C., Dimitrijević, V., Dumitraşcu, V., du Plessis, L., Edwards, C., Merih Erek, C., Erim-Özdŏgan, A., Ervynck, A., Fulgione, D., Gligor, M., Götherström, A., Gourichon, L., Groenen, M., Helmer, D., Hongo, H., Horwitz, L., Irving-Pease, E., Lebrasseur, O., Lesur, J., Malone, C., Manaseryan, N., Marciniak, A., Martlew, H., Mashkour, M., Matthews, R., Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, G., Maziar, S., Meijaard, E., McGovern, T., Megens, H.-J., Miller, R., Fatemeh Mohaseb, A., Orschiedt, J., Orton, D., Papathanasiou, A., Parker Pearson, P., Pinhasi, R., Radmanović, D., Ricaut, F.-X., Richards, M., Sabin, R., Sarti, L., Schier, W., Sheikhi, S., Stephan, E., Stewart, J., Stoddart, S., Tagliacozzo, A., Tasić, N., Trantalidou, K., Tresset, A., Valdiosera, C., van den Hurk, Y., Van Poucke, S., Vigne, J.-D., Yanevich, A., Zeeb-Lanz, A., Triantafyllidis, A., Gilbert, T., Schibler, J., Rowley-Conwy, P., Zeder, M., Peters, J., Cucchi, T., Bradley, D., Dobney, D., Burger, J., Evin, A., Girdland-Flink, L., Larson, G. 2019. Ancient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe. PNAS 116 (35): 17231–17238. 

2019 Borić, D., Borovinić, N., Đuričić, Lj., Bulatović, J., Gerometta, K., Filipović, D., Vušović-Lučić, Z., Cristiani, E. Spearheading into the Neolithic: Last Foragers and First Farmers in the Dinaric Alps of Montenegro. European Journal of Archaeology 22 (4): 470–498.

2019 Ignjatović, M., Filipović, D., Penezić, K., Bulatović, J. Arheologija između Dunava i Tamiša: multidisciplinarna istraživanja aluvijalne ravni Pančevačkog Rita kod Beograda. Arhaika 6 (2018): 49–81.

2019 Filipović, D., Marić, M., Challinor, D., Bulatović, J., Tasić, N. Natural environment and resources, and the long life of the Neolithic settlement at Vinča, southeast Europe. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11 (5): 1939–1960.

2018 Borić, D., Hanks, B., Šljivar, D., Doonan, R., Kočić, M., Bulatović, J., Griffiths, S., Jacanović, D. Enclosing the Neolithic World: A Vinča Culture Enclosed and Fortified Settlement in Balkans. Current Anthropology 59 (3): 336–346.  

2017 Bugar, M., Bulatović, J. Skelet fetusa konja sa nalazišta Bedem kraj sela Maskare. Glasnik Srpskog arheološkog društva 33: 323–334.

2016 Bulatović, J., Marković, N., Stevanović, O., Marinković, D., Stojanović, I., Krtić, N. Spavin in red deer: A case study from the Early Neolithic Blagotin, Serbia. International Journal of Paleopathology 14: 31–35. 

2015 Jašarević, A., Bulatović, J., Vitezović, S. Osteological finds from Early Iron Age hillfort of Vis: faunal remains and bone artefacts. GODIŠNJAK / JAHRBUCH (Centar za balkanološka ispitivanja / Zentrum für Balkanforschungen) 44: 95–104.

2014 Bulatović, J., Bulatović, A., Marković, N. Paleopathological changes in an Early Iron Age horse skeleton from the Central Balkans (Serbia). International Journal of Paleopathology 7: 76–82. 

2013 Marković, N., Bulatović, J. Ploughing in the Medieval Times on the Territory of Present-day Serbia. Archeometriai Műhely 10/3: 225–230. 

2013 Bulatović, J., Marković, N. Ostaci životinja iz srednjevekovnog utvrđenja Gradina-Trešnjevica kod Ivanjice. Zbornik radova Narodnog muzeja 21 (1): 293–300.

2013 Vitezović, S., Bulatović, J. Managing raw materials in Vinča culture: a case study of osseous raw materials from Vitkovo. Documenta Praehistorica 40: 279–289. 

2012 Bulatović, J. Eksploatacija domaćih životinja u kasnom neolitu i eneolitu na području centralnog Balkana. Studije slučaja: Vitkovo i Bubanj. Glasnik Srpskog arheološkog društva 28: 281–302. 

2011 Bulatović, J. Ostaci životinja iz kasnovinčanske jame na nalazištu Vitkovačko Polje. Kruševački zbornik 15: 237–271.