Mitja Brodar

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Mitja Brodar (born January 13, 1921 in Ljubljana ; † February 16, 2012 in Ljubljana) was a Slovenian prehistoric expert whose focus was the Paleolithic .

Life

View into the Divje Babe cave
Find from the Divje babe I cave

Mitja Brodar was born as the son of Srečko Brodar , who is considered to be the pioneer of paleolithic research in Slovenia. During the Italian occupation of Slovenia in World War II , Mitja Brodar was taken to the concentration camp on the island of Rab , which had been set up there in 1942. There he nearly died, but managed to escape.

After the war Brodar studied at the University of Ljubljana at the request of his father Engineering (Diploma 1949), but then Geology and Paleontology (Diploma 1953). In 1959 he received his doctorate with a thesis on his excavation campaigns. From 1951 he worked as a research assistant in the Archaeological Section of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences . From 1972 until his retirement in 1982 he headed this department, which has since been renamed the Institute for Archeology. After his retirement he continued to work on excavations and published.

Entrance to the Potok Cave in 1931

Between 1954 and 1956 and again in 1960 he carried out excavations in the Mokriška cave . He also dug at the Abri of Betalov (Betalov spodmol), but also in Montenegro ( Nikšić ). Together with his father, he wrote a publication on the Potok Cave ( Slov .: Potočka zijalka) in 1983 . Finally, in 2009 he wrote a comprehensive overview of the Paleolithic in Slovenia, in which all essential sites are listed and explained.

Brodar became known nationwide after the discovery of a bone flute in 1995 in the Divje babe I cave . The 43,000 to 45,000 year old piece was found in a cave 230 m above the valley floor in today's archaeological park Divje babe. It is made from a bear bone, 10 cm long and is now kept in the National Museum of Ljubljana . The flute is considered to be the oldest musical instrument in the world, but it is not without controversy .

Brodar was a co-founder of the Slovene Archaeological Society (Slovenskega arheološkega društva), of which he was president from 1960 to 1963.

Publications (selection)

  • Crvena Stijena, a new paleolite station from the Balkans in Yugoslavia. In: Quaternary. Vol. 10/11, 1958/1959, ISSN  0375-7471 , pp. 227-236 .
  • The high alpine Aurignac station Mokriška jama (1500 m). In: Gisela Freund (Hrsg.): Festschrift for Lothar Zotz. Stone Age issues of the old and new world. Röhrscheid, Bonn 1960, pp. 99-116.
  • La stazione paleolitica jugoslava di Crvena stijena. In: Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques (ed.): Atti del VI Congresso Internazionale delle Scienze Preistoriche e Protostoriche. Volume 2: Communicazioni. Sezioni I-IV. Sansoni editore, Florence 1965, pp. 192-194.
  • Bone tip sites of the older Upper Palaeolithic in Germany and Austria. In: Quaternary. Vol. 19, 1968, pp. 219-235 .
  • with Srečko Brodar: Potočka zijalka. Visokoalpska postaja aurignacienskih lovcev. = Potočka zijalka. A high alpine Aurignac hunting station (= Slovenska Akademija Znanosti in Umetnosti, Razred za Zgodovinske in Druzbene Vede. Dela. 24, ISSN  0489-1740 = Institut za Arheologijo. 13). Slovenska Akademija Znanosti in Umetnosti, Ljubljana 1983.
  • Potočka zijalka and Mokriška jama caves. In: Quaternary. Vol. 35/36, 1985, pp. 69-80 .
  • The culture from Divje babe I In: Arheološki vestnik. Vol. 50, 1999, ISSN  0570-8966 , pp. 9-57 ( Memento of May 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ).
  • Stara Kamena doba v Sloveniji. = Paleolithic in Slovenia. Self-published, Ljubljana 2009, ISBN 978-961-245768-6 .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Matija Turk, Lyuben Dimkaroski: Neanderthal flute from Divje babe I: old and new findings. In: Borut Toškan (ed.): Drobci ledenodobnega okolja. Zbornik ob življenjskem jubileju Ivana Turka. = Fragments of Ice Age environments. Proceedings in honor of Ivan Turk's jubilee (= Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae. 21). Inštitut za Arheologijo ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana 2011, ISBN 978-961-254-257-3 , pp. 251-265.
personal data
SURNAME Brodar, Mitja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovenian archeology
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Ljubljana
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 2012
Place of death Ljubljana