Dr. Nataša Šarkić
Archaeologist with a PhD in Physical Anthropology and founder of Aita Bioarchaeology. She graduated in Archaeology from the University of Belgrade and completed both her master’s degree and doctorate in Physical Anthropology at the Autonomous University of Madrid.She has extensive experience in field excavation and laboratory analysis, working with inhumations, cremations, mummifications, and ossuaries spanning a wide range of periods—from the Paleolithic to the Spanish Civil War. To date, Natasa has participated in numerous international projects (in Egypt, Spain, Palestine, Portugal, Croatia, Italy, Greece, Macedonia and Serbia), presented her research at more than 50 conferences, and published multiple book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles. She also co-initiated the project Novo Lice Ćele-kule.
https://uam.academia.edu/NSarkic
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Natasa_Sarkic2
ORCID: 0000-0003-3286-5538
E-mail: nsarkic@gmail.com, aitabioarch@gmail.com
Dr. Laura González-Garrido
Graduated in Biology in her hometown (University of León) and obtained a master's degree in Physical Anthropology and Human Evolution in Madrid (interuniversity master's degree of Autonomous University, Complutense, and Alcalá de Henares). She obtained her doctoral thesis on dental and maxillofacial paleopathology in northwest Spain in the Department of Physical Anthropology of the University of León. She is a researcher at the Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde (CIAS) at the University of Coimbra (Portugal) and Forensic Anthropologist at the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory (Ponferrada, León).
www.researchgate.net/profile/Laura_Gonzalez-Garrido
unileon.academia.edu/LauraGonzalezGarrido
ORCID: 0000-0002-8442-9124
E-mail: lgonzg08@estudiantes.unileon.es
Dr. Sofia Zdral
A biologist with a master’s degree in Physical Anthropology. Her work is focused on childhood paleopathology and studying the growth and development of non-adult skeletons of different chronologies and regions (Serbia, England, Portugal, and Spain). She has also worked on the genetic diagnosis of skeletal dysplasia. Sofia earned her PhD in Developmental Genetics from the Institute of Biomedicine and Biotechnology of Cantabria (IBBTEC) and is currently pursuing her postdoctoral research at the same institution.
ORCID : 00-0001-6928-3529
E-mail: sofia_zn22@hotmail.com
Dr. Mislav Čavka
Mislav is a radiology specialist with European (ESSR) diploma in musculoskeletal imaging at the University Hospital Centre „Zagreb“, the largest hospital in Croatia. He has been publishing articles in paleoradiology for past 13 years starting with the project of Radiological analysis of mummified parts from Egyptian Collection of Archeological Museum in Zagreb. He published 49 scientific articles, 88 scientific abstracts and 3 book chapters on radiology, paleoradiology and history of medicine so far. He is also co-founder of Paleoradiology workshop and organizer of International scientific multidisciplinary conference Archaeology meets paleoradiology
https://kbc-zagreb.academia.edu/Mislav%C4%8Cavka
ORCID: 0000-0003-2748-1193
E- mail: mislav.cavka@yahoo.com
Dr. Álvaro Monge Calleja
Graduated in Biology from the University of Salamanca, Master in Evolution and Human Biology and PhD in Biological Anthropology, both from the University of Coimbra (Portugal). He is a researcher at the Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde (CIAS) of the same University, developing studies on the historiographic and paleopathological evaluation of the fetus-infant-juvenile (up to 6 years). His research focuses on microscopic, optical and scanning differentiation, attributed to pathophysiological porosity, as well as other interdisciplinary approaches that help to enhance the study of the fetus-infant-adolescent in the anthropological discipline.
Recently, he has been involved in several studies related to diets of the past, through the microscopic identification of plant starches in dental calculus.
http://cias.uc.pt/team_member/alvaro-calleja/
https://coimbra.academia.edu/ÁlvaroMongeCalleja
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alvaro_Monge3
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3345-5082
E-mail: alvaromonge23@gmail.com
Ana Smuk
Graduated in Archaeology from the University of Belgrade, where she obtained her master’s degree as well. Studies were focused on Archaeobotanical investigations of the medieval monastery and settlement in Hungary, mainly dealing with the questions of agricultural practices and crop processing. The second master was done at the University of Sheffield (program MSc Environmental Archaeology and Palaeoeconomy) where the Archaeobotanical research included sites of Eastern Croatia and questions of agricultural development through the Middle Ages. Currently involved in the PhD program at the University of Groningen which includes the use of several archaeobotanical proxies (pollen, phytoliths, microcharcoal, and macroremains) to investigate the beginnings of agriculture and human-environment relationship in the low-lying areas of the Netherlands.
https://sheffield.academia.edu/AnaSmuk?from_navbar=true
https://rug.academia.edu/
ORCID: 0000-0002-5941-3729
E-mail: ana.smuk5@gmail.com
Dr. Sonja Vuković
Assistant professor and lecturer in Archaeozoology at the Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, and the Principal Investigator of the Ideas Science Fund (Serbia) Grant - ARCHAEOWILD. Her research is focused on various aspects of human-animal interactions in the Holocene past, while she is particularly engaged with the questions of human-wildlife interactions, the introduction of exotic animals, animal burials, as well as on questions of a meat diet, animal husbandry, and hunting in the Roman times in the Central Balkans.
ORCID: 0000-0003-2731-2146
E-mail: sonja.vukovic@gmail.com
Dr. Roberto Cighetti
Roberto holds a master’s degree and a PhD in Industrial Biotechnology from the University of Milano-Bicocca, as well as a master’s degree in Biological Anthropology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. During his doctoral research, he developed novel compounds aimed at limiting the uncontrolled innate immune response to bacterial infections. For his master’s thesis, he focused on detecting red blood cells in histological sections of human bones exhibiting perimortem trauma.
He has taught Natural Sciences and Anatomy in an Italian high school for ten years. He is also a science communicator on social media (Instagram and YouTube). In 2015, he began working with Osteoarc (Italy) on human skeletal remains, and since then, he has participated in numerous archaeological excavations and contributed to both excavation and skeletal inventory. In 2016, he began offering osteology classes and practical workshops to the general public. He is currently collaborating with the Catalan Museum of Archaeology (Barcelona) to study a paleopathology collection.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Roberto-Cighetti
ORCID: 0000-0001-6116-1316
E-mail: cighetti.roberto@gmail.com
Dr. Ivana Živaljević
An archaeozoologist and a assistant professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. Her research has been focused on various aspects of human-animal relations in the past, mainly from an archaeozoological perspective but also incorporating stable isotope and ancient DNA analysis, as well as novel approaches developed within the environmental humanities. She is particularly engaged with the questions of fishing, hunting, and the origins of animal husbandry and dairying in the Mesolithic and Neolithic in Southeastern Europe.
ORCID: 0000-0002-0873-7950
E-mail: ivana.zivaljevic@biosense.rs
Dr. Dimitrije Marković
Dimitrije Marković is an archaeozoologist at the Laboratory for Bioarchaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. His research mainly focuses on Roman period archaeozoology, with the emphasis on roman army diet and supply strategies on the Danube Limes in today's Serbia. Apart from that, he has worked on faunal material from different contexts dated from the Eneolithic to the Late Roman period. He is also actively promoting archaeology and cultural heritage through Neozoik Foundation, which he co-founded this year.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9339-9898
E-mail: markovicdika@gmail.com
Dr. Fabio Cavalli
MD, PhD, Fabio Cavalli, is a director of a research unit of Paleoradiology in Trieste, as a University professor. Degrees in Medicine and Surgery in 1978 and post degrees in General Radiology in 1980 at the University of Siena (Italy).
Fabio teaches Forensic Anthropology and Radiology, History of Medicine and Paleopathology at the Department of Medical Surgical and Health Sciences of the University of Trieste (Italy).
Responsible for the Research Unit of Paleoradiology and Allied Sciences, LTS – SCIT – ASUGI, Trieste and after retirement is an Honorary Consultant.
Cofounder and President of the Academy “Jaufre Rudel” of Medieval Studies in Gradisca d’Isonzo (Italy) and is responsible for its Bioarchaeology and Medieval Archaeology study group.
He also teaches “Facial Traits Reconstruction” at the courses of Mummiology at the University of Pisa and the Seminars of Facial Reconstruction at the VEKAM - Koç University in Ankara.
ORCID: 0000-0003-3286-1844
Radoš
The archeodog - 10 years of age, 9 years of experience. An expert in digging all kinds of holes and distinguishing animal (yum yum) from human (better not to touch) bones. He compensates for the lack of methodology with incredible enthusiasm.
ORCID: 0000-0002-6115-819X
Email: aitabioarch@gmail.com
ORCID: 0000-0001-9339-9898
Michela Amendola
Michela is a PhD student in Forensic Anthropology at the University of Coimbra. Her research combines machine learning and anthropology to improve forensic identification, with a focus on skeletal analysis. She holds a Master’s in Forensic Biology from the University of Florence. Apart from forensic, she is also interested in archaeology and she has done fieldwork across Italy, Spain, Serbia, and Croatia, working on excavations and studying ancient bones. She’s also researched Egyptian mummies, recently publishing an article on a CT analysis of a cat mummy. Since 2022, Michela has shared her expertise through workshops and seminars, bringing the science of osteology and anthropology to diverse audiences.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michela-Amendola
ORCID: 0009-0008-1856-7298
Email: amendola.michela98@gmail.com
Andjela Gacevic
Anđjela graduated in archaeology at University of Belgrade and is currently getting a master’s degree at the same University, focusing on settlement patterns and continuity between Late Avar period and the Hungarian conquest in the region of Banat, Serbia. Besides medieval archaeology, she is interested in physical anthropology and implementation of digitalization in archaeological research. Experienced in ceramics and skeletal analysis, but mostly in fieldwork, since she is actively working as a crew member on different archaeological sites across Serbia.
Email: gacevic.andjela01@gmail.com
