Daria Ložnjak Dizdar

Daria Ložnjak Dizdar is research advisor at the Institute of Archaeology in Zagreb, Croatia. Her research interests are prehistoric archaeology, especially communities and identities of Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in Carpathian Basin, mortuary practices, age groups and ceramics. She has participated in numerous archaeological investigations in continental Croatian and several research projects. She takes part in the teaching of graduate courses of the Department of Archaeology of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Zagreb. Her publications focus on topics from the Bronze Age and the Beginning of Early Iron Age in southern Carpathian Basin. 

The research project Childhood in protohistory in the southern Carpathian Basin (ARHKIDS) (RP 2019-04-2520), funded by Croatian Science Foundation, is a multidisciplinary study of children and child-related material traces found in graves, settlements, and other archaeological contexts in the period from the Late Bronze Age to the Late Iron Age. The combined multidisciplinary approach, which includes archaeological and anthropological analyses, residue analyses of ceramic vessels, and analyses of the stable isotopes of anthropological samples, study the biological and social ages of children, the everyday activities undertaken by children – playing, adopting skills, working, interacting with the environment, and child-related rituals. The project was conducted at the Institute of Archaeology in Zagreb, Croatia with cooperation with researches from different institutions across the Europe. 

Project's web-site: http://arhkids.iarh.hr/