Academy Members

Dr Radović Siniša

Academic titles:

• PhD (2011 – …)

Institutions:

• Senior research associate – Institute for Quaternary Palaeontology and Geology of CASA (2022)
• Affiliate assistant professor – Department of Archaeology of the University of Zadar (2019)
• Affiliate assistant professor – Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities of the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula (2020)

Functions in Academy:

• Director – Institute for Quaternary Palaeontology and Geology of CASA (03/01/2023 – …)

---

Curriculum Vitae

Education, Academic and Scientific Degrees

2020 Senior research associate (humanities, archaeology)
2019 Affiliate assistant professor (humanities, archaeology) (University of Zadar)
2013 Research associate (humanities, archaeology)
2012 Affiliate lecturer (natural sciences. biology, archaeozoology) (University of Zadar)
2011 PhD in Archaeology (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb)
2003 BA in Archaeology (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb)

Work experience

2023 – … Director; Institute for Quaternary Palaeontology and Geology, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb
2022 – … Senior research associate; Institute for Quaternary Palaeontology and Geology, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb
2014 – 2022 Research associate; Institute for Quaternary Palaeontology and Geology, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb
2011 – 2014 Senior assistant; Institute for Quaternary Palaeontology and Geology, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb
2004 – 2011 Assistant (Junior researcher); Institute for Quaternary Palaeontology and Geology, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb

Participation in research projects

2019 – … Project collaborator Subsistence and human resilience to sudden climatic events during MIS3 in Europe (SUBSILIENCE) (ERC Consolidator Grant; ref. 818299) (Principal Investigator A. B. Marin Arroyo, University of Cantabria)
2019 – … Project collaborator Prehistoric hunter gatherers in Istria and adjacent regions: patterns of Late Pleistocene lifestyle and mobility (PREHISTRIA) (HRZZ; IP-2019-01-7821) (Principal Investigator I. Janković, Institute for Anthropological Research)
2019 – … Project collaborator Epigravettian Communities of Northern Dalmatia (EpiC) (HRZZ; IP-2019-04-6115) (Principal Investigator D. Vujević, University of Zadar)
2018 – 2022 Project consultant Application of NGS in assessment of genomic variability in ruminants (ANAGRAMS) (HRZZ; IP-2018-01-8708) (Principal Investigator V. Čubrić Čurik, University of Zagreb)
2016 – 2019 Member of the Management committee, WP 4 Leader and Mobility manager on the project Smart Integration of Genetics with Sciences of the Past in Croatia: Minding and Mending the Gap (MendTheGap) (EU H2020-TWINN-2015; no 692249) (Principal Investigator I. Čurik, University of Zagreb)
2016 – 2018 Project collaborator Transition and tradition in Vlakno cave: Modelling the Palaeolithic-Mesolithic transition in Northern Dalmatia (HRZZ; UIP-2014-09-1545) (Principal Investigator D. Vujević, University of Zadar)
2015 – 2017 Project consultant Late Bronze Age mortuary practices and society in southern Carpathian Basin (BAMPICa) (HRZZ; UIP 11-2013-5327) (Principal Investigator D. Ložnjak Dizdar, The Institute of Archaeology)
2007 – 2013 Project collaborator (Junior researcher) Correlation of the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic of the Continental and Coastal Regions of Croatia (MZOS; 101-2690680-2270) (Principal Investigator D. Brajković, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts)
2004 – 2005 Project collaborator (Junior researcher) Palaeolithic and Mesolithic of Croatia: settlement of the eastern Adriatic in Pleistocene (MZOS; 0101018) (Principal Investigator V. Malez, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts)

Study visits and professional training

2019 Visiting scholar at the Department of Anthropology (Franklin College of Arts & Sciences, University of Georgia, USA) (13-31 May 2019)
2018 Visiting scholar at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research (Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, UK), realised as a short-term mobility within the MendTheGap project (21 June – 20 July 2018)
2017 Participant of the workshop Introduction to Functional Morphology and Geometric Morphometrics, held at the Department of Animal Science (Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb) (3-7 July 2017)
2001 Visiting student at the Grahame Clark Laboratory for Zooarchaeology (Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, UK) (3 weeks)

Fieldwork

2006 – 2018 Vela spila, Korčula (Dalmatia, Croatia) – systematic archaeological excavations (Principal Investigator D. Radić, Cultural Centre Vela Luka)
2013 – 2015 Žukovica, Korčula (Dalmatia, Croatia) – systematic archaeological excavations (Principal Investigator D. Radić, Cultural Centre Vela Luka)
2006 – 2014 Marlera I (Istria, Croatia) – systematic palaeontological excavations (Principal Investigator D. Brajković, Institute for Quaternary Palaeontology and Geology, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts)
2010 – 2012 Spila nad Procjepom, Mljet (Dalmatia, Croatia) – systematic archaeological and palaeontological excavations (Principal Investigator D. Brajković, Institute for Quaternary Palaeontology and Geology, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts)
2004 Pavlova pećina (Hrvatsko Zagorje, Croatia) – test archaeological excavation (Principal Investigator R. Šošić, Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb)
2002 – 2003 Mujina pećina (Dalmatia, Croatia) – systematic archaeological excavations (Principal Investigator I. Karavanić, Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb)
2000 Chao Samartin (Asturias, Spain) – systematic archaeological excavations at the prehistoric hillfot (Principal Investigator Ángel Villa Valdés, University of Oviedo)
1998 – 2005 Participated in systematic and test archaeological excavations on a larger number of cave and open-air sites in Istria (Croatia), within the research project Pupićina Cave Project (Principal Investigator P. T. Miracle, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge): Pupićina peć (1998-2001), Vela peć (1998-2001), Vešanska peć (1998), Kotle (1998), Lokve (2002), Ovčja peć (2002), Abri (2002), Trdačina (2002), Pećina na Brehu kod Sluma (2003 – 2004)

Organisation of scientific meetings, sessions and workshops

2018 Session organiser Measuring and Modeling Time in Science of the Past: Perspectives from archaeology, genetics and geology, as part of the Summer School 2018 of the MendTheGap project (Vela Luka, 17.-18.9.2018.)
2018 Session organiser Exploitation of animal resources in the prehistory of the South-East Europe, at the ICAZ 2018 conference (Ankara, 2.-7.9.2018.)

Participation in scientific and professional conferences

Author and co-author of 36 oral and 22 poster presentations held at 46 national and international scientific and professional conferences.

Guest lectures

Gave several guest lectures at foreign universities (2018, University of Pisa; 2017, University of Cambridge; 2016, University of Ljubljana; 2016, The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)

Participation in teaching on the undergraduate, graduate i postgraduate studies

2020 – … Associate in teaching at the postgraduate doctoral study of archaeology (Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb)
2020 – … Course instructor for Introduction to archaeozoology at the undergraduate study of archaeology (Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula)
2019 – … Course instructor for Bioarchaeology (archaeozoology and archaeobotany) at the graduate study of archaeology (Department of Archaeology, University of Zadar)
2012 – 2019 Lecturer for Bioarchaeology (archaeozoology and archaeobotany) at the graduate study of archaeology (Department of Archaeology, University of Zadar)
2011 – 2019 Teaching assistant for Zooarchaeology at the graduate study of geology (Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb)

As a mentor/co-mentor, supervised several graduate theses, and currently supervises several doctoral students at the University of Zagreb and University of Zadar.

Popularisation of science

Gave several professional lectures for the general public. Appeared in television and radio shows and in two documentaries, and published three popular scientific texts in the special edition of Večernji list titled Neandertalci.

Editorial activities

2020 – … Editorial board member of the peer-reviewed journal Open Quaternary (Athens, UGA, Georgia, USA)
2020 Editorial board member of the edited volume Animal Husbandry and Hunting in the Central and Western Balkans Through Time (Archaeopress, Oxford, UK)
2013 – … Editorial board member of the monographic series Bioarchaeology in the Balkans (Serbian Archaeological Society, Belgrade, Serbia)

Membership in Professional Organisations and Associations

• National INQUA Committee (International Union for Quaternary Research – for Croatia)
• International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ)
• European Associations of Archaeologists (EAA)
• Croatian Archaeological Society (HAD)

Research Interests

archaeozoology, vertebrate taphonomy, hunter-gatherer subsistence strategies, herd management in prehistory, animals in burial contexts, stable isotope analysis

---

Bibliography

Siniša Radović – Croatian Scientific Bibliography CROSBI