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Osor beyond the myth

December 2023: IMSW Vienna

On 1st and 2nd December 2023 the 45th International Mediterranean Survey Workshop took place at the Institute of Classical Archaeology at the University of Vienna. In two lectures, we presented different examples of Roman land use, which in the Mediterranean regions are mainly recognisable by means of […]

8. December 2023

October 2023: Open Osor 2023

On 24th October, a public event for residents of the islands of Cres and Lošinj took place at the Archaeological Collection in Osor. Zrinka Ettinger Starčić, in her role as project partner and director of the Lošinj Museum, hosted the evening. The Slovenian and Austrian projects were […]

6. November 2023

September 2023: AARG Zagreb

On 21st and 22nd September 2023, the annual meeting of the Aerial Archaeology Research Group took place in Zagreb, Croatia. Over two days, almost 30 presentations were given on the application of remote sensing techniques. Peripheral land use around Osor was presented in the lecture “Spatio-Temporal Interpretation […]

8. October 2023

September 2023:  Die Alpen im 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr., Innsbruck

On 30 September 2023, Boris Kavur and Martina Blečić Kavur gave a lecture entitled Eyes to the Mountains: prehistoric Osor in the networks of long-distance trade as part of the international conference The Alps in the 1st Millennium BC, which was organised at the Institute of Archaeology […]

30. September 2023

April 2023: UP Faculty of Humanities, Koper

In April 2023, the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Primorska in Koper, Slovenia, hosted a large exhibition entitled UP FH Research Paths. It presented the two institutes under the umbrella of the faculty – the Institute of Archaeology and Heritage and the Institute for Intercultural […]

15. April 2023

February 2023

Osor has been at the centre of infrastructural modernisation since the summer of 2022, resulting in all local roads being opened up for new sewerage system. Construction work is accompanied by large-scale rescue excavations, led by the Croatian Conservation Institute, as the historic Osor remains are visible […]

3. March 2023