Research Interests:  Archaeology of Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean

Since 1992, Dr. Voytek has been excavating at the Grotta dell’Edera near Trieste, Italy, in collaboration with the Society for the Prehistory and Protohistory of Friuli-Venezia Giulia and the University of Venice. The project had been initiated with assistance from an NSF Exploratory Grant. Subsequently, funding has been received from the Stahl Endowment of the University of California, Berkeley; the American Philosophical Society; and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. In 1997, the mesolithic levels of the cave were excavated over a broad area, providing important archaeological evidence of the so-called Sauveterrian complex and geological evidence for a Boreal horizon. The team uncovered what appears to be an intact "living floor" with wild fauna remains (including mandibles of red deer), chipped stone tools and debitage (including cores), and bone and antler tools. The mesolithic has been the focus of the 1998 and 1999 seasons as well. Dr. Voytek presented results of the ongoing research at the Society for American Archaeology meetings in April of 1998 (Seattle).

In addition to the study of the mesolithic-neolithic transition in the Mediterranean, Dr. Voytek continues to collaborate with the Institute of Archaeology, Prague, and the University of Sheffield within a project that deals with "Archaeological Landscape Reconstruction in Northern Bohemia." Her participation in the research has been funded by grants from the Stahl Endowment and the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX). In the summer of 1999, Dr. Voytek was engaged in a collaborative effort with the National Museum in Szeged, Hungary. She and a colleague from the University of Genoa, Italy, spent several weeks on the analyses of the lithic assemblage from the neolithic site of Gorsza which will be published as part of the site report.

Recent Publications

1998 "Transitioning the Mesolithic," In Harvesting the Sea, Farming the Forest: The Emergence of Neolithic Societies in the Baltic Region and Adjacent Areas. M. Zvelebil, L. Domanska, and R. Dennell, eds. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.

1997 "Some theoretical issues connected with the study of flint mining," Proceedings of the VII International Flint Symposium. Institute of Archaeology & Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, September 1995.

1997 with I. Radovanovic. "Hunters, fishers or farmers: sedentism, subsistence and social complexity in the Djerdap Mesolithic." In Ideology and Social Structure of Hunting, Gathering and Farming Communities in Stone Age Europe. Annelou van Gijn and Marek Zvelebil, eds. Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia 29:17-29.

1997 with R. Maggi and E. Starnini. Arene Candide: A Functional and Environmental Assessment of the Holocene Sequence (Excavations Bernabo Brea-Cardini 1940-50). Memorie dell’Istituto Italiano di Paleontologia Umana, ns. N. 5. Rome.

1997 with E. Starnini. "The neolithic chipped stone artefacts from the Bernabo Brea-Cardini excavations," in Arene Candide: A Functional and Environmental Assessment of the Holocene Sequence (Excavations Bernabo' Brea-Cardini 1940-50). R. Maggi, E. Starnini, and B. Voytek, eds. Memorie dell'Istituto Italiano di Paleontologia Umana, ns. N. 5. Rome. pp. 349-426.

1997 with E. Starnini. "New light on old stones," IN Arene Candide: A Functional and Environmental Assessment of the Holocene Sequence (Excavations Bernabo' Brea-Cardini 1940-50). R. Maggi, E. Starnini, and B. Voytek, eds. Memorie dell'Istituto Italiano di Paleontologia Umana, ns. N. 5. Rome. pp. 427-512.

1997 with R. Maggi and E. Starnini. "The bone tools from Arene Candide," IN Arene Candide: A Functional and Environmental Assessment of the Holocene Sequence (Excavations Bernabo' Brea-Cardini 1940-50). R. Maggi, E. Starnini, and B. Voytek, eds. Memorie dell'Istituto Italiano di Paleontologia Umana, ns. N. 5. Rome. pp. 513-572.

1996 with E. Starnini. "Favella," IN Forme e Tempi della Neolitizzazione in Italia Meridionale e in Sicilia. Istituto Regionale per le Antichita Calabresi e Bizantine-Rossano i Istituto Italiano Archeologia Sperimentale, Genova. pp. 354-363.

1995 "The microwear analysis," IN Insediamento Neolitico di Ostiano-Dugali Alti (Cremona) nel suo Contesto Ambientale ed Economico. P. Biago, ed. Brescia: Monografie di Natura Bresciana No. 22. pp. 51-86.

1995 Arene Candide Revisited. Co-editor with R. Maggi and E. Starnini. Quaternaria, Institute of Human Paleontology. Rome. 1995. (individual chapters on chipped and ground stone tools and bone tools). i.p.

1995 with E. Starnini. "The chipped and ground stone tools from the neolithic levels at Arene Candide." Archaeologia Polona, Warsaw. September.

1994 with P. Biagi and E. Starnini. "The late mesolithic and early neolithic settlement of Northern Italy: recent considerations." Porcilo o raziskovanju paleolita, neolita in eneolita v Sloveniji, Ljubljana, XXI:45-68.

1994 with L. Fasani, et al. "Stazione neolitica a Valer (Azzano Decimo - Pordenone): rapporto preliminare degli scavi 1990-1991," Atti Soc. Preist. Protost. Friuli-V.G., Trieste, 8:97-113.

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