The UMMAA Brown Bag Lecture Series is pleased to present a lecture by Erina Baci, PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan. Her lecture, Re-examining the “hillfort” in Balkan Prehistory: A Case Study from Western Kosova, will be held on Friday, February 16, 12-1 p.m. in Room 2327 in the School of Education Building.
Baci will present the results of three fieldwork seasons at Lubozhdë and Syriganë hillfort sites in Western Kosova. She argues that a re-examining and redefining of the conventional understanding of hillforts is greatly overdue, especially in the Balkan context. Drawing on surface collections and magnetometry surveys conducted in July 2021, along with excavations conducted in 2022 and 2023 at the sites of Lubozhdë and Syriganë, this talk presents the preliminary attempt to synthesize the results of her dissertation research in the Dukagjin Plains and bring these findings in conversation with border questions of settlement, mobility, and landscape interactions in the region. Moreover, this presentation focuses on the very different artifact profiles produced by these two hillforts and begins to explore the varying roles they filled within their landscape over time.
The Museum's Brown Bag Lecture Series is free and open to the public.
