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£0.5m for archaeological research in Serbia
Belgrade,
9 July 2012
Minister of Culture, Media and Information Society Predrag Markovic attended today the signing of a cooperation agreement between the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, and the national museums in Belgrade, Prokuplje and Priboj on research of the sites Belovode, Plocnik and Jarmovac where the earliest traces of metallurgy in Europe were discovered.
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Fonet
Markovic said at the National Museum in Belgrade that the project is funded by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council, and specified that £500,000 will be invested in this three-year study.
The Minister added that the excavations will be conducted during this and next summer, while the data processing and publication will be completed by the end of 2014.
He said that the project is based on many years of research and the facts upon which the researchers argued.
He explained that it is indisputable that the oldest mine found is located in the area of the present-day Serbia, but it is uncertain whether that mine was the only one at that time and whether smelting and metallurgy existed only in this area.
According to him, it is important that the answers will be sought by a team that brings together multidisciplinary experts from Germany, Serbia and Great Britain, while the funds provided will allow for the results of the work on the ground to be further valorised through laboratory work.
Director of the National Museum in Belgrade Tatjana Cvjeticanin welcomed the cooperation of seven institutions from three countries on a project that should provide definite answers to questions that have been opened since 1927 when the locality Plocnik near Priboj was discovered, and the works were resumed in late 60s of the last century, but the results have not been published systematically.
The Minister added that the excavations will be conducted during this and next summer, while the data processing and publication will be completed by the end of 2014.
He said that the project is based on many years of research and the facts upon which the researchers argued.
He explained that it is indisputable that the oldest mine found is located in the area of the present-day Serbia, but it is uncertain whether that mine was the only one at that time and whether smelting and metallurgy existed only in this area.
According to him, it is important that the answers will be sought by a team that brings together multidisciplinary experts from Germany, Serbia and Great Britain, while the funds provided will allow for the results of the work on the ground to be further valorised through laboratory work.
Director of the National Museum in Belgrade Tatjana Cvjeticanin welcomed the cooperation of seven institutions from three countries on a project that should provide definite answers to questions that have been opened since 1927 when the locality Plocnik near Priboj was discovered, and the works were resumed in late 60s of the last century, but the results have not been published systematically.
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