Osor beyond the myth
Research
The project combines studies of archaeological finds, archaeometallurgy and human remains, with a reconstruction of landscape changes (remote sensing, geophysical prospection and geology). At the same time, the methods are chosen in such a way that they allow seamless research above and below the modern sea level.
Airborne laser scanning plays a special role in the landscape-based approach, enabling a three-dimensional measurement of the relief below and above today’s sea level. This data is not only important for the reconstruction of the sea level in antiquity, but also for the evaluation of Osor as a former maritime trading centre. However, for a combined approach that takes cultural, natural and marine aspects into account, the landscape context must be combined with research into the material culture. While structures and anthropogenic / natural processes can be investigated at the macro level, humans are placed at the centre of research at the micro level. Material provenance research and the analysis of stable isotopes of human remains serve this purpose. The archaeological research concentrates, therefore on five topics:
- History of contacts and trade
- Spatial development of Osor
- Remote sensing and land use
- Landscape context: relative sea level and palaeo-coastline
- Osor in the matrix of long-distance maritime routes
In recent years, a number of studies conducted by project partners have focussed on Osor and its surroundings. These studies formed the basis of the current research. Since the beginning of the project, a number of publications have made the new findings available to the scientific community.
Material culture in context
Powell, W., Yener, K. A., Pulak, C., Mathur, R., Barjamovic, G., Kavur, B., Blečić Kavur, M., Ialongo, N., Gilman Romano, D., Stephens, J. (2026), Shifting tin imports into the broader Eastern Mediterranean region during the Bronze and Early Iron Ages (ca. 2000-900 BC). Journal of Archaeological Science 188: 106514. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2026.106514
Blečić Kavur, M. (2025), The Emergence of the Iron Age on Osor through Representative Material Culture. Studia universitatis hereditati 13(2), 63-91. https://doi.org/10.26493/2350-5443.13(2)63-91
Šmid, K. (2025), The Caryatid from Osor (Apsorus). A Provincial Reinterpretation of a Classical Motif. Studia universitatis hereditati 13(2), 109-119. https://doi.org/10.26493/2350-5443.13(2)109-119
Lazar, I. (2025), Selected glass finds from Apsorus (Osor) – reflection of wealth and prestige. Studia universitatis hereditati 13(2), 93-108. https://doi.org/10.26493/2350-5443.13(2)93-108
Ettinger Starčić, Z., Miholjek, I. (2025), The Osor Aquatorium: An Overview of Underwater Archaeological Research. Studia universitatis hereditati 13(2), 139-151. https://doi.org/10.26493/2350-5443.13(2)139-151
Mileusnić, Z. (2025), Make Osor Great Again: Accessible Archaeology Between Island and Cloud. Studia universitatis hereditati 13(2), 153-165. https://doi.org/10.26493/2350-5443.13(2)153-165
Blečić Kavur, M., Kavur, B. (eds.) 2025, Osor v fokusu znanosti / Osor in the Scientific Spotlight, Programme and Abstract Book. Koper: University of Primorska Press. https://doi.org/10.26493/978-961-293-535-1
Blečić Kavur, M. (2025), Stone Panopticum: Rethinking on the Monumental Stone Sculpture of the Iron Age Histri. World Archaeology 57/2025. in press
Šmid, K. (2025), Spinario on a limestone relief in Apsorus. Zbornik za umetnostno zgodovino 60/61, 9-23. https://www.suzd.si/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/1_Zbornik_2024_2025_Smid.pdf
Blečić Kavur, M., Kavur, B. (2025), Osor, insularity and its surroundings: The creation of a regional identity caught between the global economy and local subsistence. In F. Milivojević, V. Sarakinski, J. Tzvetkova (eds.), The Unclassical Balkans: Ancient Societies and Cultures of the Balkan Peninsula beside the Graeco-Roman World. Živa Antika/Antiquité Vivante 11, 145–166. https://doi.org/10.47054/ZIVA2511145BK
Šmid, K. (2025), A Curved Vitis or a Pair of Twisted Ropes? The Iconography of Maritime Command on the Stele of Liccaeus, Apsorus. Acta Historiae Artis Slovenica 30(1), 5–17. https://doi.org/10.3986/ahas.30.1.01
Blečić Kavur M. (2025), Herojska doba Histrov / The Heroic Age Of The Histri. Koper: University of Primorska Press. https://doi.org/10.26493/978-961-293-440-8
Blečić Kavur M. (2025), Herojsko doba Histra / The Heroic Age Of The Histri. Sarajevo: Zemaljski muzej Bosne i Hercegovine. Download PDF
Blečić Kavur, M., Kavur, B. (2024), Death in Osor: rituals and practices of prehistoric burials. Studia universitatis hereditati 12(1), 13-34. https://doi.org/10.26493/2350-5443.12(1)13-34
Blečić Kavur M. (2024), Херojското доба на Хистрите / The Heroic Age Of The Histri. Skopje: Monograph Series Book 3. Download PDF
Blečić Kavur M. (2024), L’Età eroica degli Histri / Herojsko doba Histra. Pula: Monografije i katalozi Arheološkog muzeja Istre 39. Download PDF
Blečić Kavur, M. (2024), There Is a Light that Never Goes out! New and Old Hoards from the Northern Adriatic. In M. Maciejewski, J. G. Tarbay, K. Nowak (eds.), Hoards from the European Bronze and Iron Ages Current Research and New Perspectives. New Approaches in Archaeology, 4. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 41-52. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.NAA-EB.5.142436
Blečić Kavur M. (2024), Thinking globally and acting locally: Adriatic Hellenistic situlae. In M. Ugarković, A. Konestra, M. Čelhar, M. Korić (eds.), Between Global and Local Adriatic Connectivity from Protohistory to the Roman Period. Zagreb: Zbornik Instituta za arheologiju 21, 33-46. https://www.iarh.hr/media/publikacije/ZIA21web.pdf
Blečić Kavur M. (2022), Inside fashion fusion: Fibulae from Crikvenica. In G. Lipovac Vrkljan, A. Konestra, A. Eterović Borzić (eds.), Roman Pottery and Glass Manufactures. Production and trade in the Adriatic region and beyond. Oxford: Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 94, 3-19. Download PDF
Blečić Kavur M. (2021), Kvarner in the Early Iron Age of the northern Adriatic. Arheološki vestnik 72, 57-74. https://doi.org/10.3986/AV.72.18
Blečić Kavur, M. (2020), Medium and Motif: Goat in the Bestiary of the Iron Age Caput Adriae. Vera Bitrakova Grozdanova – Годишник на Истражувачкиот центар за културно наследство, „Цветан Грозданов“ при МАНУ. Skopje: Monumenta V, 125-149. Download PDF
Blečić Kavur M. (2017), Small bodies in a big world: anthropo-ornithomorphic Iron Age pendants from Caput Adriae. Prilozi Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu 34, 123-142. https://hrcak.srce.hr/189320
Blečić Kavur M. (2015), A coherence of perspective: Osor in cultural contacts during the Late Iron Age. Koper – Mali Lošinj: University of Primorska Press. https://zalozba.upr.si/ISBN/978-961-6963-38-1.pdf
Blečić Kavur M. (2014), At the crossroads of worlds at the turn of the millennia: The Late Bronze Age in the Kvarner region. Zagreb: Musei Archaeologici Zagabriensis catalogi et monographiae 11. Download PDF
Blečić Kavur M. (2014), Get the balance right! Osor in the balance of European cultures and civilisations in the last centuries BC. Koper: University of Primorska Press Download PDF
Blečić Kavur M. (2014), The Lady from Čikat. Koper: University of Primorska Press. Download PDF
Blečić Kavur M, Busuladžić A., David W., Ettinger Starčić Z., Guštin M., Kavur B. (2014), Mjesta susretanja / Places of contact / Mesta srečevanja. Koper: University of Primorska Press. Download PDF
Blečić Kavur M., Kavur B. (2013), The Amphora from Osor. Hortus Artium Medievalium 19, 351-356. DOI: 10.1484/J.HAM.1.103589 Download PDF
Blečić Kavur M. (2012), Ornamented bronze phalerae with a thorn: ornament as an emblem / Ukrašene brončane falere s trnom: ornament kao amblem. Godišnjak Centra za blakanološka ispitivanja 41, 43-66. Download PDF
Blečić Kavur M. (2009), Universal and Original. Transformations of Style in The North-Adriatic Region. In G. Tiefengraber, B. Kavur, A. Gaspari (eds.), Keltske študije II – Studies in Celtic Archaeology. Papers in honour of Mitja Guštin. Montagnac: Protohistoire Européenne 11, 197-208. Download PDF
Blečić Kavur M. (2007), Osor on Cres. In A. Durman (ed.) One Hundred Croatian Archeological Sites. Zagreb: Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža, 200-201. Download PDF
Roman Osor and historical landscapes in archaeological prospection
Doneus, M., Doneus, N. (in press), The search for Roman landscapes. In: Heinrich-Tamáska, O., Rummel, C., Sfameni, C., Goddard, C. J., Moreau, D. (Eds.), Late Antique villae in the Balkans (3rd-7th c.AD). Current Research Questions and Perspectives. HAEMUS´ Companions to Late Antique Balkans 1. (Ser. Rome and After in Central and Eastern Europe (ROMA)). Brepols Publishers
Doneus, N., Sironić, A. (2025), The Roman urbanisation of the northern Adriatic Island of Cres: re-evaluation of archaeological sources from Osor, Cres and Beli. Studia universitatis hereditati 13(2) https://doi.org/10.26493/2350-5443.13(2)121-138 Appendix
Doneus, N., Fera, M., Doneus, M., Branković, D., Benvin, V. (2025), Up and down the hill: Hillforts and dry stonewall enclosures on the Kvarner Islands of Cres and Lošinj in remote sensing data. Studia universitatis hereditati 13(2) https://doi.org/10.26493/2350-5443.13(2)41-62 Appendix
Doneus, M., Doneus, N. (2025), What you see is what you get: Lidar applications in the northern Adriatic coastal regions. Journal of Greek Archaeology 10, 215-229. Available at: https://www.archaeopresspublishing.com/ojs/index.php/JGA/article/view/3353/2912
Doneus, N., Doneus, M., Kinnaird, T., Turner, S., Fera, M., Jetzinger, D., Verhoeven, G. J. (2024), Lost and found: Roman surveying of municipal territories on the northern Adriatic islands, Croatia. Izgubljeno-nađeno: rimsko mjerenje municipalnih zemljišta na sjevernim otocima hrvatskog Jadrana. Prilozi Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu 41(2), 87–117. https://doi.org/10.33254/piaz.41.2.4
Doneus M., Doneus N., Cowley D. (2022), Confronting Complexity: Interpretation of a Dry Stone Walled Landscape on the Island of Cres, Croatia. Land 11(10), 1672. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land11101672
Doneus M., Mandlburger G., Doneus N. (2020), Archaeological filtering of airborne laser scan derived point-clouds in difficult environments, Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology 3(1), 92-108. https://doi: 10.5334/jcaa.44
Doneus N., Doneus M., Ettinger Starčić Z. (2017), The ancient city of Osor, northern Adriatic, in integrated archaeological prospection. Hortus Artium Medievalium 23 (2), 761-775. https://doi.org/10.1484/J.HAM.5.113761
Doneus M., Doneus N., Briese C., Pregesbauer M., Mandlburger G., Verhoeven G. (2013), Airborne Laser Bathymetry – Detecting and recording submerged archaeological sites from the air. Journal of Archaeological Science 40, 2136-2151. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.12.021
Landscape context: relative sea level and palaeo-coastline
Miko S., Doneus, N., Brunović D., Hasan O., Doneus, M., Kinnaird, T., Hus, P., Šegović, F., Ilijanić N., Šparica Miko M., Fera, M. (2025), Dip your finger in the sea… Geoarchaeological view on coastal setting and maritime accessibility of the coastal town of Osor, northern Adriatic. Studia universitatis hereditati 13(2) https://doi.org/10.26493/2350-5443.13(2)13-40 Appendix
Brunović D., Miko S., Hasan O., Papatheodorou G., Ilijanić N., Miserocchi S., Correggiari A., Geraga M. (2020), Late Pleistocene and Holocene paleoenvironmental reconstruction of a drowned karst isolation basin (Lošinj Channel, NE Adriatic Sea). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 544, 109587. https://doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109587
Brunović D., Miko S., Ilijanić N., Peh Z., Hasan O., Kolar T., Šparica Miko M., Razum I. (2019), Holocene foraminiferal and geochemical records in the coastal karst dolines of Cres island, Croatia. Geologia Croatica, 72(1), 19-42. https://doi:10.4154/gc.2019.02
Draganits E., Gier S., Doneus N., Doneus M. (2019), Geoarchaeological evaluation of the Roman topography and accessibility by sea of ancient Osor (Cres Island, Croatia). Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences 112/1, 1-19. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17738/ajes.2019.0001
Miko S., Mesić S., Miko M. S., Hasan O. (2008), A record of anthropogenic pb deposition in a Mediterranean karst catchment (lake Vrana, Cres island, Croatia). Mineralogical Magazine, 72(1), 455-460. https://doi:10.1180/minmag.2008.072.1.455 Appendix
Scientific conference contribution
2026
Blečić Kavur, M. (2026), Archaeology of food and drinking culture as a creative resource: ritual, body, and reinterpretation. In: Medin, D. (ed.). International multidisciplinary conference “Cultural and Creative Industries and Heritage: ecoexperience”: Petrovac na Moru, 4-8. 3. 2026. godine, book of abstracts. Petrovac na Moru: Društvo za kulturni razvoj „Bauo“, 2026, 31-32.
Doneus, N., Fera, M., Doneus, M., Blečić Kavur, M. (2026), How do you deal with an entire city? The Iron Age and Roman city of Osor on the northern Adriatic coast. In: 20. Österreichischer Archäologietag, 25. bis 27. 2. 2026. Universität Wien, Historisch-Kulturwissenschafttliche Fakultät, Institut für Klassische Archäologie, 2026, 60.
2025
Blečić Kavur, M., Kavur, B. (2025), Osor – in and out of myth. In: Celts Across the Alps: International Workshop Organised by the FWF Project CATA – Celts Across the Alps and the University of Innsbruck: November 26-28, 2025, Department of Archaeology, University Innsbruck.
Kavur, B., Blečić Kavur, M., Dima, S., Gaza, O. Ilie, M. Manailescu, C. (2025), Dating the beginning of the Late Bronze Age. In: Mileusnić, Z. (ed.). 3rd Annual Conference of the Slovenian Node of the European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science: E-RIHS Slovenia: Koper, 18-19 November 2025: book of abstracts. Koper: University of Primorska Press, 2025, 31.
Blečić Kavur, M., Cwaliński, M., Kavur, B., Novak, M., Powell, W. (2025), Inside ancient Osor (Cres Island, Croatia). In: Mileusnić, Z. (ed.). 3rd Annual Conference of the Slovenian Node of the European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science: E-RIHS Slovenia: Koper, 18-19 November 2025: book of abstracts. Koper: University of Primorska Press, 2025, 49.
Blečić Kavur, M., Kavur, B., Čuka, M., Novak, M., Cwaliński, M., Powell, W. (2025), On the tin islands along the amber route: the island exclusivity of Osor. In: Blečić Kavur, M., Kavur, B. (eds.). Osor in the Scientific Spotlight: scientific conference, Koper, 4–5 November 2025: programme and abstract book. Koper: University of Primorska Press, 2025, 26-27.
Brunović, D., Miko, S., Hasan, O., Ilijanić, N. (2025), Submerged landscapes of the Lošinj Channel. In: Blečić Kavur, M., Kavur, B. (eds.). Osor in the Scientific Spotlight: scientific conference, Koper, 4–5 November 2025: programme and abstract book. University of Primorska Press, 2025, 14-15.
Doneus, N., Fera, M., Doneus, M. (2025), Osor Beyond the Myth’ Project: The Roman city, its maritime setting, and past land use across the Cres-Lošinj Archipelago in archaeological prospection. In: Blečić Kavur, M., Kavur, B. (eds.). Osor in the Scientific Spotlight: scientific conference, Koper, 4–5 November 2025: programme and abstract book. Koper: University of Primorska Press, 2025, 12-13.
Ettinger Starčić, Z., Blečić Kavur, M. (2025), The Osor aquatorium: an overview of underwater archaeological research. In: Blečić Kavur, M., Kavur, B. (eds.). Osor in the Scientific Spotlight: scientific conference, Koper, 4–5 November 2025: programme and abstract book. Koper: University of Primorska Press, 2025, 22-23.
Lazar, I. (2025), Glass Finds as an Indicator of Wealth and Prestige in Osor. In: Blečić Kavur, M., Kavur, B. (eds.). Osor in the Scientific Spotlight: scientific conference, Koper, 4–5 November 2025: programme and abstract book. University of Primorska Press, 2025, 38-39.
Miholjek, I., Dugonjić, P. (2025), Osor 2023: Underwater Archaeological Research. In: Blečić Kavur, M., Kavur, B. (eds.). Osor in the Scientific Spotlight: scientific conference, Koper, 4–5 November 2025: programme and abstract book. University of Primorska Press, 2025, 24-25.
Miko, S., Brunović, D., Hasan, O., Doneus, N., Ilijanić, N., Hus, P., Šegović, F., Razum, I., Doneus, M., Šparica Miko, M. (2025), Five Millennia of Human Influence Recorded in the Geochemical Composition of Marine Sediments from Osor Bay. In: Blečić Kavur, M., Kavur, B. (eds.). Osor in the Scientific Spotlight: scientific conference, Koper, 4–5 November 2025: programme and abstract book. University of Primorska Press, 2025, 16-17.
Mileusnić, Z. (2025), Make Osor Great Again: Accessibility of Osor’s archaeological
Heritage – Between the Island and the Cloud. In: Blečić Kavur, M., Kavur, B. (eds.). Osor in the Scientific Spotlight: scientific conference, Koper, 4–5 November 2025: programme and abstract book. University of Primorska Press, 2025, 54-55.
Novak, M., Blečić Kavur, M., Kavur, B., Carić, M., Lugli, F., Cavalli, F. (2025), New insights into life and death in Iron Age Osor: preliminary results from the bioarchaeological study of human remains. In: Blečić Kavur, M., Kavur, B. (eds.). Osor in the Scientific Spotlight: scientific conference, Koper, 4–5 November 2025: programme and abstract book. Koper: University of Primorska Press, 2025, 28-29.
Powell, W., Mathur, R., Blečić Kavur, M., Kavur, B. (2025), Tin imports to Osor in the Early Iron Age (900–700BCE). In: Blečić Kavur, M., Kavur, B. (eds.). Osor in the Scientific Spotlight: scientific conference, Koper, 4–5 November 2025: programme and abstract book. University of Primorska Press, 2025, 30-31.
Sironić, A., Doneus, N. (2025), The Influence of the Marine Environment on Mortar Degradation in Archaeological Remains: A Case Study of the Island of Cres. In: Blečić Kavur, M., Kavur, B. (eds.). Osor in the Scientific Spotlight: scientific conference, Koper, 4–5 November 2025: programme and abstract book. University of Primorska Press, 2025, 46-47.
Šmid, K. (2025), Old Discoveries, New Insights: Reconsidering the Sculpture of Apsorus. In: Blečić Kavur, M., Kavur, B. (eds.). Osor in the Scientific Spotlight: scientific conference, Koper, 4–5 November 2025: programme and abstract book. University of Primorska Press, 2025, 36-37.
Kavur, B. (2025), Dating the beginning of the Early Iron Age in the northern Adriatic. In: RoAMS Radiocarbon PAC Online Meeting (3rd-4th of November 2025), RoAMS Laboratory, Applied Nuclear Physics Department, Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Romania.
Kavur, B. (2025), New sight at old things: archaeology again, and again, and again ..: Institute of Archaeology SAIGE 3rd year international conference, Arheološki institut Beograd, 19. 8. 2025.
Kavur, B., Blečić Kavur, M. (2025), The big, the small … and none of them ugly: eyed beads in the Iron Age. International Conference Glass Ties: Between Tradition and Innovation, Dolenjski muzej Novo mesto, Jakčev dom, 10 – 12. April 2025.
2024
Blečić Kavur, M. (2024), Myths and metals of Osor. In: International conference “100 years Archaeological Museum in Skopje: insights and perspectives”: 25-27 November 2024, Skopje: program, book of abstracts. Skopje: NI Archaeological Museum of the Republic of North Macedonia, 2024, 11.
Kavur, B. (2024), One more round boy… In: International conference “100 years Archaeological Museum in Skopje: insights and perspectives”: 25-27 November 2024, Skopje: program, book of abstracts. Skopje: NI Archaeological Museum of the Republic of North Macedonia, 2024, 12.
Blečić Kavur, M., Kavur, B. (2024), The myth and magic of Osor’s metals. In: Saccara, M. (ed.). 6. dan kaštelirjev/gradišč : 1. izvedba v okviru projekta KAŠTellieri : čezmejna strokovno-znanstvena konferenca : Koper, 22.-23. novembra 2024 : program in povzetki. Koper: Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče, Annales ZRS, 2024, 26-27.
Blečić Kavur, M., Kavur, B. (2024), Kids with (super)powers. In: Bulatović, A. (ed.). International Conference Interactions-Transmission-Transformation: Long-distance Connections in Metal Ages of South-eastern Europe: Viminacium archaeological site and Domvs Scientarivm, October 31st to November 3rd 2024: book of abstracts. Belgrade: Institute of Archaeology, 2024, 25.
Blečić Kavur, M. (2024), Trajna poveznica osorskih grobova. “Arheološka baština Osora u kulturnim mrežama staroga svijeta: obilježavanje Dana Europske baštine”, 17. 10. 2024, Arheološka zbirka Osor, Lošinjski muzej, Osor.
Kavur, B. (2024), Arheološki predmeti iz Osora kao odraz mnogih mreža prošlosti. “Arheološka baština Osora u kulturnim mrežama staroga svijeta: obilježavanje Dana Europske baštine”, 17. 10. 2024, Arheološka zbirka Osor, Lošinjski muzej, Osor.
Blečić Kavur, M., Kavur, B., Doneus, N., Fera, M. (2024), Osor u matrici proteklog vremena. In: Vrata Jadrana kroz stoljeća: arheologija južnog Jadrana. Znanstveni skup Hrvatskog arheološkog društva, Korčula, 07. – 11. listopada 2024.: program, sažeci. Zagreb: Hrvatsko arheološko društvo, 2024, 30-31.
Blečić Kavur, M. (2024), Svi putevi vode u Osor!: vabljeno predavanje, “Ciklus događanja Jučer, danas, sutra”. Prinosi poznavanju protopovijesti na istočnoj obali Jadrana u čast jubileja Dunje Glogović, Zagreb, Institut za arheologiju, 3. 10. 2024.
Fera, M., Doneus, N., Blečić Kavur, M., Kavur, B. (2024), The city of Osor in the matrix of the Adriatic sea routes. In: Persisting with change: abstract book: 30th EAA Annual Meeting, Rome, Italy, 28th – 31st August 2024. Rome: European Association of Archaeologists, 2024, 1727.
Blečić Kavur, M. (2024), Mutvoran, prapovijesno gradinsko naselje. In: Višnjić, J. (ed.), Iz arheološkog dnevnika: in honorem Tihomir Percan. Znanstveni skup, Rakalj, Mjesni dom, 7. lipnja 2024. [Zagreb]: Hrvatski restauratorski zavod, 2024. 6-7.
Blečić Kavur, M., Kavur, B., Doneus, N., Fera, M. (2024), Osor onkraj mita. In: Novaković, P. (ed.). Arheologija v letu 2023: dediščina za javnost. Zbornik povzetkov: strokovno srečanje Slovenskega arheološkega društva 11. in 12. junija 2024 v Mestnem muzeju v Ljubljani. Ljubljana: Slovensko arheološko društvo, 2024, 56.
Šmid, K. (2024), Spinario on a limestone relief in Apsorus. in: Gavrilović-Vitas, N., Kosanović, I., Jović, M. (eds.). Borders in provinces – cultural borders: 18th International Colloquium on Roman Provincial art: Belgrade-Viminacium, May 20-25th 2024: book of abstracts. Belgrade: Institute of Archaeology, 2024.
Mileusnić, Z. (2024), Medieval imported pottery in monastic and urban contexts in the North Adriatic. in: Vuković, J., Bikić, V. (eds.). Pots and society: relationships, identities, and prestige/status: BECAP – Belgrade Conference on Archaeological Pottery; BECAP 24: Belgrade, May 16-17th, 2024: book of abstracts. Belgrade: University of Belgrade: Institute of Archaeology, 2024, 45.
Blečić Kavur, M. (2024), Wine, situlae, and diplomacy. In: Medin, D. (ed.). International multidisciplinary conference “Cultural and Creative Industries and Heritage: gastroheritage”: Reževići – Petrovac na Moru, 14-17. mart 2024. godine: knjiga sažetaka. Petrovac na Moru: Društvo za kulturni razvoj “Bauo”, 2024, 29-30.
2023
Kavur, B., Blečić Kavur, M. (2023), The fast and the furious, the use of XRF in archaeology. In: Anžur, L. N., Mahgoub, H. (eds.). 1st conference of the Slovenian node of the European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science: book of abstracts: 22nd November, 2023, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Ljubljana, Faculty of Chemistry 2023, 33-34.
Blečić Kavur, M. (2023), More i predmeti koji život znače, “Dan otvorenih vratiju arheološkog lokaliteta Osor: prezentacija novih arheoloških istraživanja grada Osora”, Arheološka zbirka Osor, Lošinjski muzej, Osor, 24. 10. 2023.
Kavur, B., Blečić Kavur, M. (2023), –— eyes to the mountains —: prehistoric Osor in the networks of long-distance trade. Internationale Konferenz: Die Alpen im 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr., Innsbruck, 28.9.-1.10.2023, Universität Innsbruck, Institut für Archäologie.
Doneus, N., Blečić Kavur, M. (2023), City of Osor in the matrix of long-distance maritime routes. In: 40 AARG: Aerial Archaeology Research Group 1983-2023, September 21-23, 2023, Zagreb, Croatia: AARG 2023 Conference programme and abstracts., 2023, 17.
Blečić Kavur, M. (2023), Archaeology: from exclusive science to inclusive heritage. In: Medin, D.(ed.). International multidisciplinary conference “Cultural and Creative Industries and Heritage: new technologies”, Petrovac na Moru, 24-26. mart 2023. godine: knjiga sažetaka. Petrovac na Moru: Društvo za kulturni razvoj “Bauo”, 2023. 22.
Invited lecture at a foreign university
2026
Blečić Kavur, M. (2026), Željeznodobna umjetnost i ekspresija osorske materijalne kulture, “Univerzitet Donja Gorica, Fakutet za kulturu i turizam”, Donja Gorica, Podgorica, 5. 3. 2026.
Blečić Kavur, M. (2026), Kompleksnost i dinamika kulturnih procesa u kasnom brončanom dobu na istočnoj jadranskoj obali : predavanje v Dolnji Gorici, 3. 3. 2026.
Blečić Kavur, M. (2026), Monumentalna kamena skulptura željeznodobnih Histra : predavanje v Dolnji Gorici, 5. 3. 2026.
Kavur, B. (2026), Osor – beyond the myth in the Northern Adriatic: gostujoče predavanje, ARHEOTIM conference, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara; Facultatea de Litere, Istorie şi Teologie, 14. 1. 2026.
2025
Blečić Kavur, M., Kavur, B. (2025), Osor – makro i mikro (pret)povijest mjesta : predavanje na “Univerzitet u Beogradu, Filozofski fakultet, Odeljenje za arheologiju”, Beograd, 5. 12. 2025.
Doneus. N. (2025), Archaeological Prospection: Methods and Results, with a Focus on Roman Landscapes. Univerza na Primorskem, Fakulteta za humanistične študije, Koper, 3. 11. 2025.
Blečić Kavur, M. (2025), Smrt u Osoru : između pogrebnog rituala i komemorativne prakse : gostujoče predavanje, Sveučilište u Zadru, Odjel za arhelogiju, 22. 5. 2025.
Blečić Kavur, M. (2025), Svoje ne damo, tuđe hoćemo : statusni simboli histarske aristokracije : gostujoče predavanje, Sveučilište u Zadru, Odjel za arhelogiju, 22. 5. 2025.
Kavur, B. (2025), Dating the big change: from trade to thought in the second millennium BC: gostujoče predavanje, Applied Nuclear Physics Department, Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering, DFNA Seminar, Magurele, Romania, 27. 4. 2025.
Blečić Kavur, M. (2025), Kvarner, njegove međusobne veze i kulturne promjene tijekom posljednjeg tisućljeća stare ere : predavanje, Univerzitet u Sarajevu, Filozofski fakultet, Odsjek za arheologiju, 4. 2. 2025.
2024
Blečić Kavur, M. (2024), Osor u kontekstu željeznodobnih kulturnih dinamika staroga svijeta : predavanje, Univerzitet u Sarajevu, Filozofski fakultet, Odsjek za arheologiju, 22. 11. 2024.
Kavur, B. (2024), The role of Osor in the cultural networks of the northern Adriatic: gostujoče predavanje, Babeș-Bolyai Tudományegyetem, Koloszvári Magyar Történeti Intézet, Történelem és Filozófia Kar, Cluj-Napoca, 28. 10. 2024.
Blečić Kavur, M. (2024), Moderna vizija ljubavi u vizualnoj umjetnosti željeznog doba : predavanje, “Univerzitet Donja Gorica, Fakutet za kulturu i turizam”, Donja Gorica, Podgorica, 23. 3. 2023.