Darko Maricevic
- dmaricevic at bournemouth dot ac dot uk
- Demonstrator in Field Archaeology and Collections
- PH
Biography
Darko is a Demonstrator in Field Archaeology and Collections with responsibilities for:
- management, curation, use, and return of archaeological and anthropological collections;
- supporting fieldwork implementation, field-based teaching and post-excavation activities;
- assisting and supervising students in the practical elements of their projects and assignments;
- demonstrating a range of equipment and techniques;
- developing practical exercises and learning materials.
Prior to joining BU, Darko worked in commercial, academic, and voluntary sectors on numerous archaeological research projects across Britain and abroad stretching from Palaeolithic to the recent industrial past. He specializes in the application and teaching of archaeological field techniques (excavation, geophysical prospection, digital survey, building recording) and the post-excavation activities including processing, interpretation and visualisation of digital data, processing of material culture and environmental assemblages, stratigraphic analysis and archaeological illustration...
His research interests lie in landscape approaches to the study of long durée development of cultural landscapes, including the application of archaeological prospection and remote sensing. His research is primarily based in western Scotland with projects in Tiree, Coll, Mull, Islay and Arran. He was Director of Archaeology for Islay Heritage (2017-21) and during this time he directed the excavations of a Neolithic chambered cairn (Slochd Meseach (Giant’s Grave), Nereabolls), an Iron Age crannog (Loch nan Deala) and a medieval castle (Dunyvaig) on Islay. He has worked at the University of Reading as a Post-Doctoral Researcher on large post-excavation projects such as Pre-Pottery Neolithic WF16 Project in Wadi Faynan, Jordan and the Early Medieval royal centres at Lyminge in Kent and Old Windsor in Berkshire, England. Previously, he was part of CinBA Project (Creativity and Craft production in Middle and Late Bronze Age Europe) at the University of Southampton.
moreJournal Articles
- FSAScot, D.M., FSAScot, S.M., Berg-Hansen, I.M., Elliott, S., Fry, R., Pelling, R. and FSAScot, A.S., 2023. Excavation and survey at the Giant’s Grave, Slochd Measach, Nereabolls, a Neolithic chambered cairn on the Isle of Islay, Argyll & Bute: chronology, architecture, reuse and demise. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 152, 9-52.
- Regan, R., Maričević, D., Barnett, C. and Mithen, S., 2022. Dun Fhinn, Islay: excavation, woodland exploitation and building an Iron Age chronology for Argyll. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 151, 75-102.
- Mithen, S., Maričević, D. and Regan, R., 2020. The seal matrix of Sir John Campbell and the struggle for Dunyvaig Castle on the Isle of Islay. Antiquity, 94 (374), 1-8.
- Wicks, K., Finlayson, B., Maričević, D., Smith, S., Jenkins, E. and 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, 73-123.
- Finlayson, B., Mithen, S.J., Najjar, M., Smith, S., Maričević, D., Pankhurst, N. and 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), 8183-8188.
- Mithen, S.J., Finlayson, B., Smith, S., Jenkins, E., Najjar, M. and Maričević, D., 2011. An 11 600 year-old communal structure from the Neolithic of southern Jordan. Antiquity, 85 (328), 350-364.
Books
- Mithen, S., Finlayson, B., Maricevic, D., Smith, S., Jenkins, E. and Najjar, M., 2018. WF16 Excavations at an Early Neolithic Settlement in Southern Jordan: stratigraphy, chronology, architecture and burials. Oxford: Council for British Research in the Levant.
Chapters
- 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. Creativity in the Bronze Age Understanding Innovation in Pottery Textile and Metalwork Production. 177-189.
- Maricevic, D., 2017. 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. Croatia at the Crossroads A Consideration of Archaeological and Historical Connectivity Proceedings of Conference Held at Europe House Smith Square London 24 25 June 2013 to Mark the Accession of Croatia to the European Union. 91-108.
Invited Lectures
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Old Windsor: A reassessment, Schoold of Archaeology, Oxford, 24 Feb 2025 more
Oxford University, School of Archaeology, Medieval Archaeology seminar -
Unlocking Old Windsor, University of Reading, 12 Dec 2024 more
University of Reading's Department of Archaeology Research Seminars -
Unlocking Old Windsor, Woosehill Community Centre, 28 Nov 2024 more
Talk for Wokingham Archaeology Group -
Unlocking Old Windsor, St. Nicholas church hall, Newbury, 05 Oct 2024 more
Lecture as part of Archaeology in Berkshire day meeting organised by Berkshire Archaeological Society
Grants
- Mapping Drumadoon: Geophysical survey of the Neolithic cursus and succedent prehistoric landscape (Society of Antiquaries of London, 19 Mar 2024). Completed
- Prehistoric Drumadoon landscape and cursus, Isle of Arran, Scotland (National Environmental Isotope Facility (NEIF), 01 Aug 2023). In Progress
- Loch nan Deala - artificial islet settlement on Islay (Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 01 Apr 2020). Completed
- The Radiocarbon dating of Slochd Measach, the Giants Grave Neolithic Chambered Cairn, Nereabolls, Isle of Islay (National Environmental Isotope Facility (NEIF), 01 Feb 2020). Completed
- Loch nan Deala - artificial islet settlement on Islay (Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 01 Apr 2019). Completed
- Slochd Measach (Giant’s Grave), Islay – excavation and survey of a Neolithic chambered cairn (Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 01 Apr 2017). Completed
Qualifications
- PhD in Archaeology (University of Reading, 2010)
Memberships
- Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Fellow (2018-), https://www.socantscot.org/
- Prehistoric Society, Member (2006-), https://www.prehistoricsociety.org/