Center for Biosystems

<p>The main goal of the project is understanding settlement and mobility patterns of pioneering farmers and their successors in the Southern Carpathian Basin during the Neolithic. One of the most significant human migrations took place around 8,000 years ago, in the Neolithic, a period marked by major changes in the way of life of prehistoric communities: in their economy, way of living, and social organization. The MOVE project will study the movements of the first farmers and herders in the area of the Pannonian Plain during the Neolithic period, i.e., the time of the Starčevo and Vinča cultures (ca. 6200-4500 years BC). These agricultural pioneers came from the Near East, bringing new economic strategies and social organization. We will try to find out more about their settlement patterns: how they organized the settlements, how long they stayed in one place, and how they adapted to the new natural environment. We will apply state-of-the-art macroscopic and biogeochemical methods used in archaeology, such as digital anthropology, contextual analysis of settlements, stable isotope analysis, and archeozoological analysis. This multidisciplinary approach will help us gain new knowledge on important questions about the movements of people and their way of life during this important period. With this approach, we will attempt to gain a deeper understanding of the mechanisms that allowed people to establish permanent settlements, where they predominantly relied on agriculture and animal husbandry, providing a foundation for life as we know it today.</p>


ssistant professor in the field of social humanities - archeology

Jelena Jovanović

 Research Associate

Tamara Blagojević

Maja Kokanović is a Junior Research Assistant at the BioSense Institute (Project title: MOVE - Moving across the plain: reconstructing the lifetime movements of farming pioneers and their successors during the Neolithic in the Southern Carpathian Basin; funded by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia - Program PRISMA). She obtained her BA (2018) and MA (2022) degrees from the Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, in the field of Zooarchaeology. Currently attending the second year of her doctoral studies at the same university. The area of her research is the study of the archaeozoological aspects of the dietary patterns of the population during the prehistoric and historical periods.

Maja Kokanović

Nejra Omerović is a Research Assistant at the BioSense Institute. She received her BSc and MSc degree in 2015 and 2017, respectively, from the Faculty of Technology, University of Novi Sad, Serbia, where she is currently a PhD student at the Department of Materials engineering. From October 2015 to September 2016 she did an internship at AGFA-Gevaert NV, Mortsel, Belgium, where she worked at the Inkjet Ink Development Department. Her current research activities are focused on biopolymers and their nanocomposites.

Nejra Omerović

Tamara Blagojević works as a Research associate at the Center for Biosystems at the BioSense Institute, University of Novi Sad. She received a PhD in archaeology in 2022 at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Archaeology. Her field of interest is mostly directed towards research on the European Neolithic, with a focus on southeastern Europe and different topics regarding population dynamics, settlement patterns, and human-environment interaction, as well as the application of different quantitative analyses in archaeology. She has a profound knowledge of the mechanisms of population dynamics and different approaches (both theoretical and methodological) to reconstructing population size through time.

Tamara Blagojević has been involved in several national and international scientific projects, one of them being the ERC-funded project BIRTH: Births, mothers and babies: Prehistoric fertility in the Balkans between 10000-5000 cal BC, from 2015 until 2020. She is currently a team member and a work package coordinator on the project MOVE: Moving across the plain: reconstructing the lifetime movements of farming pioneers and their successors during the Neolithic in the Southern Carpathian Basin, funded by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia, program Prisma.

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Dr Jelena Jovanović is a Senior Researcher at the BioSense Institute. She received her BA (2010), MA (2011), and PhD (2017) degrees from the Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia, in the field of Physical Anthropology. Starting from 2013 she has been working as Teaching Assistant, and from 2018 as Assistant Professor at the Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. She was engaged as a researcher on various national and international projects (such as fp7, bilateral), including H2020 project BIRTH (Births, mothers and babies: prehistoric fertility in the Balkans between 10,000-5000 BC), the first project in Serbia supported by the European Research Council (ERC). Through several internships in LAMPEA laboratory (Aix-Marseille University, France), she was trained in the field of stable isotope analysis, while as a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany) she gain knowledge in analysis of ancient dental calculus. Jelena’s area of expertise is physical anthropology, with a special emphasis on the reconstruction of diet and health of the Balkans Mesolithic-Neolithic communities. In her research, she is combining macroscopic physical anthropological methods with state-of-the-art methods, such as stable isotopes and chemical analyses of food microparticles entrapped in dental calculus, as a tool for understanding ancient dietary practices and disease. Her research interests also include the role of carbohydrates in the diet of Balkans prehistoric communities and the impact of food on overall wellbeing, health and fertility.

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MOVE – Moving across the plain: reconstructing the lifetime movements of farming pioneers and their successors during the Neolithic in the Southern Carpathian Basin

Centar za Biosisteme

<p>Ciljn projekta je istraživanje mobilnosti i obrazaca naseljavanja prvih zemljoradničkih zajednica i njihovih naslednika tokom neolita na teritoriji južnog Karpatskog basena. Jedna od najznačajnijih migracija ljudi desila se pre oko 8000 godina, u neolitu, periodu koji su obeležile velike promene u načinu života ljudskih zajednica: njihovoj ekonomiji, načinu stanovanja, društvenoj organizaciji. Projekat MOVE bavi se proučavanjem kretanja prvih zemljoradnika i stočara na prostoru Panonske nizije, odnosno njihovih putanja kroz novo okruženje, u periodu neolita, odnosno, tokom trajanja starčevačke i vinčanske kulture (između oko 6200 i 4500 god. pre naše ere). Ovi pioniri poljoprivrede dolaze sa prostora Bliskog istoka, donoseći nov način privređivanja i društvene organizacije. Probaćemo da bliže saznamo na koji način su organizovali svoja naselja, koliko dugo su se zadržavali na jednom mestu i kako su se prilagodili novoj prirodnoj sredini. Upotrebićemo najsavremenije makroskopske i biogeohemijske metode koje se koriste u arheologiji, poput digitalne antropologije, kontekstualne analize naselja, analiza stabilnih izotopa, kao i arheozooloških analiza. Ovaj multidisciplinarni pristup pomoći će nam da se pozabavimo odgonetanjem značajnih pitanja o kretanjima ljudi i njihovom načinu života tokom ovog važnog perioda. Na ovaj način, pokušaćemo da bolje razumemo procese koji su ljudima omogućili da uspostave život u trajnim naseljima u kojima su svoju ekonomiju pre svega zasnivali na zemljoradnji i stočarstvu i time postavili osnove za život kakav danas poznajemo.</p>


 Docent u oblasti društveno-humanističkih nauka –arheologija

Naučni saradnik

Maja Kokanović diplomirala je arheologiju na Odeljenju za arheologiju, Filozofskog fakulteta, Univerziteta u Beogradu. Tokom 2022. godine odbranila je master tezu pod naslovom Arheozoološki aspekti ishrane stanovnika dunavskog predgrađa Beogradske tvrđave tokom srednjeg veka i ranog novog doba. Trenutno je studentkinja doktorskih studija na istoimenom fakultetu i istraživač - pripravnik na Institutu BioSens (Naziv projekta: MOVE - Moving across the plain: reconstructing the lifetime movements of farming pioneers and their successors during the Neolithic in the Southern Carpathian Basin; finansiran od strane Fonda za nauku Republike Srbije – Program PRIZMA). Oblast njenog istraživanja predstavlja odnos između ljudi i životinja tokom prošlosti, kao i proučavanje obrazaca ishrane stanovništva posredstvom arheozoologije.

Nejra Omerović je zaposlena na Institutu BioSens kao istraživač saradnik. Osnovne i master studije završila je 2015., odnosno 2017. godine na Tehnološkom fakultetu, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Srbija, gde je trenutno sudent doktorskih studija na Katedri za Inženjerstvo materijala. Od oktobra 2015. do septembra 2016. godine obavljala je stručnu praksu u kompaniji AGFA-Gevaert NV, Mortsel, Belgija, gde je radila na Departmanu za razvoj inkdžet mastila. Njene trenutne istraživačke aktivnosti usmerene su na biopolimere i njihove nanokompozite.

Tamara Blagojević je zaposlena kao naučni saradnik u Centru za biosisteme Instituta BioSens, Univerziteta u Novom Sadu. Doktorirala je 2022. godine na Odeljenju za arheologiju, Filozofskog fakulteta, Univerziteta u Beogradu. Oblast njenog interesovanja pre svega obuhvata istraživanja neolita Evrope, sa posebnim fokusom na jugoistočnu Evropu i različite teme koje se tiču populacione dinamike, obrazaca naseljavnja, odnosa ljudi sa životnom sredinom u prošlosti, kao i na primenu različitih kvantitativnih analiza u arheologiji. Poseduje bogato znanje o mehanizmima populacione dinamike kao i o različitim pristupima (teorijskim i metodološkim) u rekonstrukciji veličine populacija kroz vreme.
Tamara Blagojević učestvovala je na više domaćih i internacionalnih projekata, među kojima je i projekat finansiran od Evropskog istraživačkog saveta (ERC) BIRTH: Births, mothers and babies: Prehistoric fertility in the Balkans between 10000-5000 cal BC (u periodu od 2015. do 2020.). Trenutno je član tima i rukovodilac radnog paketa na projektu koji finansira Fond za nauku Republike Srbije, u okviru programa Prizma, MOVE: Moving across the plain: reconstructing the lifetime movements of farming pioneers and their successors during the Neolithic in the Southern Carpathian Basin.

Dr Jelena Jovanović je stariji istraživač u Institutu Biosens. Osnovne (2010), master (2011) i doktorske (2017) studije arheologije završila je na Filozofskom fakultetu Univerziteta u Beogradu, u oblasti fizičke antropologije. Od 2013. godine radila je kao doktorand-saradnik u nastavi, a od 2018. kao docent na Odeljenju za Arheologiju, Filozofskog fakulteta, Univerziteta u Beogradu. Bila je angažovana kao istraživač na raznim domaćim i međunarodnim projektima (fp7, bilateralni), uključujući i H2020 projekat BIRTH (Births, mothers and babies: prehistoric fertility in the Balkans between 10,000-5000 BC), prvi projekat u Srbiji koji je podržao Evropski istraživački savet (ERC). Tokom nekoliko naučnih poseta, Jelena je prošla obuku u ekstrakciji kolagena i analizi stabilnih izotopa u LAMPEA laboratoriji, na Eks Marsej Univerzitetu u Francuskoj, a bila je i gostujući istraživač na Maks Plank Institutu za evolucionu antropologiju (Lajpcig, Nemačka) gde je stekla znanje u oblasti analiza zubnog kamenca. Jelenina oblast istraživanja je fizička antropologija, sa posebnim fokusom na rekonstrukciju ishrane i zdravlja mezolitsko-neolitskih stanovnika Balkana. U svojim istraživanjima, ona kombinuje makroskopske fizičko antropološke metode sa biohemijskim metodama, kao što su analize stabilnih izotopa i okamenjenih ćelija hrane u zubnom kamencu radi boljeg razumevanja drevne ishrane i bolesti. Pored toga, njena istraživanja usmerena su i na proučavanje uloge ugljenih hidrata u ishrani neolitskih ljudi Balkana i uticaju hrane na fertilitet i opšti zdravstveni status.

MOVE – Kretanje kroz ravnicu: rekonstrukcija životnih kretanja pionira zemljoradnje i njihovih naslednika tokom neolita u basenu južnih Karpata

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