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Martin Bača

Martin Bača

Brief CV


  • since 2016: Assistant professor at Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava
  • 2010-2015: PhD. study at the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava, dissertation thesis "Fortified settlement at Unín and its position in the development of the Early Bronze Age in Záhorie region" (under the mentorship of Prof. PhDr. Jozef Bátora, DrSc.)
  • 2008-2010: master study at Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava, master thesis "The deposition of swords in rivers in the Bronze Age in the area of Middle Danube" (under the mentorship of Prof. PhDr. Jozef Bátora, DrSc.)
  • 2005-2008: bachelor study, at Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava, bachelor thesis "Neolithic and Bronze Age wet deposits" (under the mentorship of Prof. PhDr. Jozef Bátora, DrSc.)

Research projects

  • 2015-2019: Natura et cultura. The coevolution of mankind and nature between 6th and 2nd millenium BC in the area north of the middle Danube studied on the basis of archaeological and environmental sources, APVV-14-0550, team member
  • 2013-2015: Fortified Settlements from the Early Bronze Age in Slovakia - Centres of Production, Distribution, Exchange and Seats of Social Elite? VEGA 2/0036/13, co-solver
  • 2013: Analysis of the Archaeological Artefacts by the Methods of Laser Spectroscopy, UK 651/2013, principal investigator
  • 2012: The Resumption of the Early Bronze Age Cemetery Excavation in Senica, UK 637/2012, principal investigator
  • 2011-2012: Central Settlements from the Late Aeneolithic and the Early Bronze Age in North-Western Part of Carpathian Basin and Their Socio-Economic Background, VEGA 2/0013/10, co-solver

Field work

  • 2014-2015: Vráble, site Fidvár, excavation of the Early Bronze Age fortified settlement, site directors: J. Bátora and K. Rassmann
  • 2014: Ludanice, part Mýtna Nová Ves, excavation of the Early Bronze Age cemetery, site directors: J. Bátora, M. Schultz
  • 2012
    • Senica, site Kolónia, excavation of the Early Bronze Age cemetery, site director: P. Barta
    • Zvolen, centre, development-led excavation in urban environment
  • 2011: Senica, site Sedlička, development-led excavation, site director: J. Hoššo
  • 2010: Trnava, centre, development-led excavation in urban environment, site director: J. Hoššo
  • 2009-2015: Santovka, part Maďarovce, excavation of the Early Bronze Age fortified settlement, site director: J. Bátora
  • 2009: Levice, part Géňa, development-led excavation, site director: J. Hoššo
  • 2008
    • Rybník, excavation of the Early Bronze Age fortified settlement, site directors: J. Bátora and K. Rassmann
    • Bratislava, centre, development-led excavation in urban environment, site director: B. Lesák

Publications

  • BAČA, M. Sword and its master: the relationships between the warriors and artisans during the Early and Middle Bronze Age in the area of Middle Danube. In: 19th Annual meeting of the European association of archaeologists. - Plzeň, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, 2013, s. 151.
  • BAČA, M. The rich get richer?: some new approaches to the subject of burial mounds of Čaka and Velatice culture. In: 19th Annual meeting of the European association of archaeologists. - Plzeň, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, 2013, s. 180.
  • GROLMUSOVÁ, Z., PLAVČAN, J., HORŇÁČKOVÁ, M., RAKOVSKÝ, J., VEIS, P., BAČA, M., BARTA, P. Assigning of parts of archaeological bronze artefacts and their fragments using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS). In: WDS 2012: Proceedings of Contributed Papers: Part II Physics of Plasmas and Ionized Media. - Prague, MATFYZPRESS, 2012, s. 140-145.
  • KOCIÁNOVÁ, M., BAČA, M., GROLMUSOVÁ, Z., VEIS, P., BARTA, P. Stable isotopes in the Bronze Age human bones: two case studies from SW Slovakia. In: 6émes Journées Jeunes Chercheurs 2013., SFIS, 2013, s. 29.
  • KREKOVIČ, E., BAČA, M. Marxism, communism and Czechoslovak archaeology. In: Anthropologie, Roč. 51, č. 2 (2013), s. 261-270. 
  • KREKOVIČ, E., BAČA, M. Marxizmus v československej archeológii. Musaica 28., - Bratislava, Univerzita Komenského, 2014., s. 267-274.

Further information

Other activities

  • since 2016: member of the editorial board of the journal Musaica archaeologica
  • since 2013: member of the European Association of Archaeologists
  • since 2008: member of the Slovak Archaeological Society at Slovak Academy of Sciences in Nitra

 

Research fellowships and internships 
  • 2014: Frankfurt (Germany), Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Römisch-Germanische Kommission (two weeks)
  • 2011: Ljubljana (Slovenia), University in Ljubljana, Department of Archaeology (two months)