Dr Darko Maricevic
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Research Assistant
- Post-excavation analysis
- Teaching archaeological field techniques
Areas of interest
- Landscape archaeology
- Archaeological field techniques and archaeological prospection
- Prehistoric and Medieval Britain and Ireland
- Coastal erosion and heritage protection
- Craft production and processes
- Public archaeology
Research centres and groups
Landscape, Climate and Lived Environment cluster
Research projects
- Lyminge Archaeological Project https://www.lymingearchaeology.org/
- Unlocking Old Windsor Project https://research.reading.ac.uk/middle-thames-archaeology/projects/old-windsor/
- Awaking the Sleeping Giants Project, Arran
Background
Darko worked in the commercial archaeology sector with Oxford Archaeology (1999-2005) between his undergraduate and PhD degrees at Reading. His PhD was on the application of geophysical techniques in the investigation of cultural landscapes in the Hebrides, western Scotland. Over the last 20 years he has worked on numerous research projects on the islands of Tiree, Coll, Mull, Islay and Arran, as well as abroad in Jordan, Turkey and across southeast and central Europe. He was Director of Archaeology for Islay Heritage (2017-2021), delivering a range of research and community projects including University of Reading’s Dunyvaig Castle Field School. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and a Co-lead on the Awakening the Sleeping Giants Project on Arran. His current role in the department is focused on the research and analysis of the excavation archives from the Early Medieval royal centres at Lyminge, Kent and Old Windsor, Berkshire.
Publications
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Regan, R.
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Maričević, D.
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Barnett, C.
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Mithen, S.
ORCID: 0000-0002-3391-7443
(2022)
Dun Fhinn, Islay: excavation, woodland exploitation and building an Iron Age chronology for Argyll.
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
, 151
pp.
75-102.
ISSN:
2056-743X
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doi:
https://dx.doi.org/10.9750/PSAS.151.1329
- Mithen, S. , Maričević, D. , Regan, R. (2020) The seal matrix of Sir John Campbell and the struggle for Dunyvaig Castle on the Isle of Islay. Antiquity , 94 (374). ISSN: 0003-598X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.15
- Mithen, S. , Finlayson, B. , Maricevic, D. , Smith, S. , Jenkins, E. , Najjar, M. (2018) WF16: excavations at an early Neolithic site in southern Jordan. Stratigraphy, chronology, architecture, burials. Council for British Archaeology in the Levant , London. pp 738. ISBN: 9780953910236
- Maričević, D. and Sofaer, J. (2018) Creativity in Middle and Late Bronze Age bird-shaped and bird-ornamented ceramic objects in the Carpathian Basin and the Lower Danube region. In: Jørgensen, L. , Sofaer, J. , Sørensen, M. , (eds.) Creativity in the Bronze Age. Understanding Innovation in Pottery, Textile, and Metalwork Production. Cambridge University Press , Cambridge. pp. 177-189. ISBN: 9781108421362 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108344357.023
- Maricevic, D. (2016) Clay birds as religious objects and works of craft in the Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age of the Balkans and the Carpathian Basin. In: Davison, D. , Gaffney, V. , Miracle, P. , Sofaer, J. , (eds.) In Croatia at the Crossroads: A consideration of archaeological and historical connectivity.. Archeopress , Oxford. pp. 91-108. ISBN: 9781784915308
- Wicks, K. , Finlayson, B. , Maricevic, D. , Smith, S. , Jenkins, E. , Mithen, S. (2016) Dating WF16: exploring the chronology of a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A settlement in the Southern Levant. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , 82 pp. 73-123. ISSN: 0079-797X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ppr.2015.21
- Mithen, S. , Finlayson, B. , Maricevic, D. , Smith, S. , Jenkins, E. , Al-Najjar, M. (2015) Death and architecture: the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A burials at WF16, Wadi Faynan, South Jordan. In: Renfrew, C. , Boyd, M. , Morley, I. , (eds.) Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World: 'Death Shall Have No Dominion'. Cambridge University Press , Cambridge. pp. 82-110. ISBN: 9781107082731 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316014509.007
- Finlayson, B. , Mithen, S. , Najjar, M. , Smith, S. , Maricevic, D. , Pankhurst, N. , Yeomans, L. (2011) Architecture, sedentism, and social complexity at Pre-Pottery Neolithic A WF16, Southern Jordan. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , 108 (20). pp. 8183-8188. ISSN: 0027-8424 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1017642108
- Mithen, S. , Finlayson, B. , Smith, S. , Jenkins, E. , Najjar, M. , Maricevic, D. (2011) An 11,600 year old communal structure from the Neolithic of southern Jordan. Antiquity , 85 (328). pp. 350-364. ISSN: 0003-598X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00067806 27941