TEAM

Participation in archaeological investigation. After excavation - analysis, interpretation, and publication of archaeological finds of slag from all sites. On the basis of the discovered archaeological situation in situ - interpretation of the process of obtaining iron in various historic periods. Time dedicated to the project: 20%.

Curriculum vitae

Ivan Marija Hrovatin was born on the 14th of August 1977 in Trieste, Italy.

In 2006 he obtained a MSc in Archeology at the University of Ljubljana with a MA thesis on “The History of Archaeological Research into the Period between the 6th and 11th cent. in the region between Natisone, Isonzo, Dragonja and Javorniki mountain” (SW Slovenia and E Friuli Venezia Giuglia (ITA)) with a catalogue of EM archaeological sites in the region. From 1996 he has worked on archaeological field investigations (on land and underwater) in Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, and the Czech Republic.

From 2006 – 2011 he was employed at the Institute of Archaeology, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts as a Research Assistant.

I. M. Hrovatin is currently completing a PhD in Archaeology at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, on the topic of Pržanj, a excavated early medieval settlement near Ljubljana (Slovenia), with traces of iron production. In this framework, he has started to study archaeological traces of iron production at the Restoration Laboratory of the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (CZ) (between 2007 and 2008). In 2009, he attended the International Meeting of Archeometallurgy at Huttenberg in Austria. From 2009, he has regularly attended the Annual International Meeting of Early Iron Production organized by the Technical Museum of Brno, where he also participates in the experimental smelting and in 2014 he was invited to hold a speech on “The results of macroscopic analysis of archaeological slag in Slovenia and Croatia in the years 2009-2014”.

From 2011-2014, he has worked as a free-lance researcher, especially collecting information on iron processing sites in eastern central Europe, and he has analyzed slag from more than 20 sites. His research activity aims to reconstruct the early medieval history of the area between the Middle Danube and the Adriatic Sea with particular focus on the settlement pattern and the economic and technological development of the area. In particular, I. M. Hrovatin is specialized in the archaeometallurgy of iron (production, manufacturing, and trade). The international nature of his area of interest has led him to collaborate with several scholars in Central- and Eastern-European academic institutes, such as Charles University in Prague (CZ), the Technical Museum of Brno (CZ), the Restoration Laboratory of the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (CZ), the Institute of Archaeology in Zagreb (CRO), the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences in Moscow (RUS), and elswhere.

Research associate in research projects

• In 2005 – 2008 he was a research associate in the “I siti costieri dell’Alto Adriatico” Interreg project (University of Trieste)

Last publication:

KRAMAR, Sabina, TRATNIK, Vesna, HROVATIN, lvan Marija, MLADENOVIC, Ana, PRISTACZ, Helmut, ROGAN SMUC, Nastja. Mineralogical and chemical characterization of Roman slag from the archaeological site of Castra (Ajdovscina, Slovenia). Archaeometry, 2014 / 16, doi: 10.1111/arcm.12116.