Kristina Penezić

Position:Research assistant

Academic Rank: Research assistant in the field of humanities - archeology.

Kristina Penezić obtained her diploma in Archaeology from the University of Belgrade and is currently a PhD student at Heidelberg University, Germany. Her interests include Balkan Prehistory, paleoenvironmental reconstruction, settlement archaeology, site-catchment analyses, and employment of physical and chemical analyses and methods in Archaeology. She has a vast experience in both field and lab work, and was awarded several international scholarships for studies abroad (Ljubljana, Bratislava, Frankfurt, Heidelberg). She was involved in several ERC and FP7 projects, both as a scientific collaborator and local partner administrator; did work as a consultant in the field of heritage management for international companies; and is a promoter and communicator of science for general public. She is employed at the BioSense institute and is a research associate at the ERC funded BIRTH project investigating prehistoric lifestyles and biocultural mechanisms which led to prehistoric fertility increase.

Center:

CBS

Themes:

1. Bioarchaeology

2. Dental Histology

Projects:

1. BIRTH- Births, mothers and babies: prehistoric fertility in the Balkans between 10000-5000 cal BC

Publications:

1. Penezić, K., Porčić, M., Jovanović, J., Urban, P. K., Wittwer-Backofen, U., Stefanović, S. 2019. Quantifying prehistoric physiological stress using the TCA method: Preliminary results from the Central Balkans. Documenta Praehistorica 46, 284-295. https://doi.org/10.4312/dp.46.17
2. Stefanović S., Petrović B., Porčić M., Penezić K., Pendić J., Dimitrijević V., Živaljević I., Vuković S., Jovanović J., Kojić S., Starović A., Blagojević T. 2019. Bone spoons for prehistoric babies: Detection of human teeth marks on the Neolithic artefacts from the site Grad-Starčevo (Serbia), PLoSONE 14(12): e0225713, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0225713
3. Tasić, N., Marić, M., Penezić, K., Filipović, D., Borojević, K., Russell, N., Reimer, P., Barclay, A., Bayliss, A., Borić, D., Gaydarska, B., Whittle, A., 2015, The end of the affair: formal chronological modelling for the top of the Neolithic tell of Vinča-Belo Brdo, Antiquity / Volume 89 / Issue 347, pp. 1064 – 1082
4. Tasić, N., Marić, M., Filipović, D., Penezić, K., Dunbar, E., Reimer, P., Barclay, A., Bayliss, A., Gaydarska, B., Whittle, A., 2016, Interwoven strands for refining the chronology of the Neolithic tell of Vinča – Belo Brdo, Serbia, Radiocarbon, Vol 58, Nr 4, pp. 795–831 DOI:10.1017/RDC.2016.56
5. Tripković, B., Penezić, K., 2017, On-site and off-site in western Serbia: A geoarchaeological perspective of Obrovac-type settlements, Quaternary International Volume 429, Part A, Pages 35-44, DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.12.004