Sara Popović

Publicly available airborne laser scanning (ALS) data offers considerable potential for archaeological research, yet remains extending across modern borders are often divided among national and regional datasets. This paper presents a cross-border approach to ALS data from Croatia, Slovenia and the Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia. The datasets were harmonised, rasterised at a resolution of 0.5 m and integrated into a single Web Map Service designed for archaeological interpretation. This integrated dataset has significant research potential, as demonstrated by a case study of Roman land division across the Gulf of Trieste and the Istrian Peninsula, which covers an area of approx. 4000 km². At a macro level, the analysis identifies four distinct land divisions, suggesting their boundaries and their landscape context. Examining these systems within a continuous geographical framework allows for a fresh perspective on Roman territorial organisation. At a finer scale, the study focuses on patterns of subdivision within individual centuriae. ALS data enable a more detailed analysis of Roman land use, offering a new interpretation of these subdivisions. Thus, the study demonstrates how harmonised, cross-border ALS data can connect broader questions of Roman territorial organisation with a detailed analysis of the physical remains.

Rad donosi rezultate istraživanja dosad nepoznate antičkepodjele zemljišta na širemu području Zagreba. Brojni ostatcilinearnih struktura identificirani su pregledom dostupnoga digitalnogmodela reljefa (DMR) izrađenoga za područje Grada Zagreba2012. i državnoga zračnog laserskog snimanja 2023. (ALS iliLiDAR). Kartiranjem u GIS-u utvrđeno je da se prepoznate strukturepodudaraju s rimskim metričkim sustavom podjele zemljištaod 20 x 20 aktusa, odnosno približno 710 x 710 metara, te jetime omogućena rekonstrukcija orijentacije rimskoga katastra.Pregledan je ALS područja od 1080 km2, a ostatci limita utvrđenisu na površini od otprilike 700 km2. Mogu se prepoznati dvijepodjele zemljišta različite orijentacije. Paralelno uz osi centurijacije,na brojnim lokacijama uočeni su pravilni nizovi tumulanoričko-panonskoga tipa. Ukupno je prepoznato 575 tumula.Tumuli su, osim uz osi podjele zemljišta, uočeni i uz antičke komunikacijekoje nužno ne prate podjelu zemljišta. InterpretacijomALS-a zabilježeno je i oko 7,2 km antičkih magistralnih cestana prostoru Turopolja, oko 4 km na području Sesveta te oko 30km vicinalnih putova na čitavome području. Terenskim pregledomobuhvaćen je tek manji dio prostora pregledanoga ALS-a.Tumuli su prepoznati u morfologiji terena, a ostatci centurijacijetek su u rijetkim slučajevima mogli biti uočeni kao visinska razlikau odnosu na okolni teren. Istraživanjem je nadopunjena slikaantičkoga krajolika toga prostora.

Whilst much global research takes place in universities, many researchers in the sciences and humanities do not work within these institutions. Some citizen researchers run their own companies or provide independent consultancy, having left their roles in universities through a conflict of values, where they experienced hostile, hierarchical, or restrictive practices. In a world where many postdigital and biodigital challenges do not sit neatly under one discipline or sector, collaboration with community experts to research potential solutions is crucial, as demonstrated during the Covid-19 pandemic. Universities count knowledge exchange partnerships as a key part of their activities, linked to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, yet a closer look at how this works in practice reveals different forms of ‘lockdowns’ that prevent equitable research collaborations. In this collective article, we offer a postdigital perspective on citizen science and humanities research from the ground. This includes a provocation to knowledge-producing institutions via recommendations that emerged from our collective citizen researcher workshop held in Zagreb in Spring 2024. There is now a pressing need to review institutional policies and practices around citizen research, towards more inclusive knowledge exchange partnerships, if we are to collaborate successfully to address many global challenges.

U radu su predstavljena prva arheološka istraživanja na gradiniGračišće u centralnom dijelu otoka Hvara, koja su provedena usklopu uspostavnoga istraživačkog projekta Instituta za arheologiju,Transformiranje jadranskog kozmosa: otočnost, povezanosti glokalni identiteti predrimske Dalmacije (AdriaCos, HRZZUIP 2020-02-2419), a u suradnji s Muzejom Staroga Grada i Javnom potenustanovomAgencijom za upravljanje Starogradskim poljem. Prilikomistraživanja dokumentirani su ostaci prapovijesnog bedemate su u dvije sonde prikupljeni ulomci lončarije, kamenihizrađevina i životinjskih kosti. Iako malobrojni, pokretni nalazipružaju vrijedan uvid u malo poznatu brončanodobnu fazu životana otoku Hvaru, koja je radiokarbonskim datumom preciziranana srednje brončano doba i početak kasnoga brončanog doba.

Archaeological investigations are usually focused on areas with the highest concentration of the remains of the material culture of a community, such as the settlements and cemeteries, while landscapes, including the industrial ones, often remain on the margins of research. This is the case with quarries, which testify to the industrial past of an area and provide an insight into social organization of a society in a given period. In the Mediterranean region, including our coast and islands, ancient quarries are numerous, which extend over large areas of landscape, but since many are used in subsequent periods, traces of extraction of raw material from antiquity are often destroyed. Similar is the case with the quarries found in Stari Grad Bay. Along the northern side of the bay there are six locations with visible traces of stone extraction. Extremely large contour lines of the rock suggested that these are ancient quarries from which large blocks were extracted and used in construction of city walls of the Greek Pharos. Multidisciplinary approach to the study of the quarries included using multiple methods of research. Surface surveys were conducted on all six locations, as well as aerial prospection and analysis of historical imagery and cadastral maps. A comparative analysis of the technology of extraction of raw material and micropaleontological analysis of samples from the quarries and city walls were also conducted, and everything was mapped in geographic information system (GIS).