Project team
Dušan Mihailović
Dušan Mihailović
Principal investigator of NEEMO. He led projects of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development in two project cycles and numerous national and international projects of archaeological research of Paleolithic sites in Serbia. Member of the Committee for Karst and Speleology of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Upper Palaeolithic of Eurasia Commission of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP). President of the Serbian Archaeological Society from 2008 to 2011. Chair of the Department of Archeology since 2018.
Vesna Dimitrijević
Vesna Dimitrijević
She participated in a number of projects of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, and other domestic and international projects, within which she led archaeozoological and paleontological research Member of the Committee for Karst and Speleology of SANU, ICAZ (International Council for Archaeozoology, ICAZ Archaeomalacology Working group), EAA (European Association of Archaeologists), Serbian Archaeological Society and Serbian Geological Society. Dean of UBFZF 2009-2012.
Katarina Bogićević
Katarina Bogićević
Participated in several projects of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development in two project cycles and numerous national and international projects of archaeological research of Paleolithic sites in Serbia and Montenegro. Member of the Committee for Karst and Speleology of SANU аnd the member of the Serbian Geological Society since 2006, President of the Stratigraphy, Pаlеоntоlogy and Tectonics Division since 2017. As part of the project work, K. Bogićević will study the micromammals from all of the excavated sites.
Draženko Nenadić
Draženko Nenadić
Is an expert in Pleistocene biostratigraphy and in particular, Early and Middle Pleistocene mollusks. He works in various kinds of Quaternary deposits, both terrestrial and aquatic - fluvial, lacustrine and palustrine, cave sediments, loess etc. His main research interests are Pleistocene fluvial deposits in northern Serbia (Vojvodina) and the correlation of such deposits with higher river terraces of the Danube and Morava Rivers. He will contribute his expertise to the paleoenvironmental reconstruction of Pleistocene terraces of Zapadna and Južna Morava.
Ana Majkić
Ana Majkić
She obtained her doctorate in prehistory at the University of Bordeaux in 2017 on the topic of the emergence of symbolic behavior in Eastern Europe during the Middle Paleolithic. She has published on the archaeological material from the Balkans and Crimea in the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory and PLoSOne. Ana Majkić will work on the archaeological material that has relevance for understanding the evolution of human cognitive abilities.
Stefan Milošević
Stefan Milošević
He is a specialist in archaeozoology of large mammals. He received his doctorate in 2016, and published a book about competition between humans and large carnivores during the late Middle and Upper Paleolithic of the Central Balkans in the BAR series of monographs. He also participated in the publication of several papers on Paleolithic sites in Serbia. Together with V. Dimitrijević, Milošević will work on the taphonomic reconstruction of faunal remains from the investigated sites.
Predrag Radović
Predrag Radović
He completed his undergraduate studies in archaeology at UBFZF, and his Master's studies at UBFMG, where he enrolled in doctoral studies in 2017. He has published several papers on paleoanthropological remains from Serbia as the first author in the leading journals in the field including the Journal of Human Evolution. P. Radović will work on the paleoanthropological remains recovered from sampling, surveys, and excavations, and will be included in the evaluation of paleontological remains.
Senka Plavšić
Senka Plavšić
Senka Plavšić obtained her doctorate at UBFZF in 2022. The topic of her dissertation was behavioral modernity in the spatial organization of habitats. She was an exchange student at the University of Wyoming (R. Kelly) during her bachelor studies. In 2018 she received the Hugo Obermaier Research Grant and thus had the opportunity to independently excavate the Paleolithic site of Meča Dupka near Cerje. She published the paper about the results of the Meča Dupka excavations and the paper about the spatial distribution of artifacts from the Aurignacian layer in Šalitrena Cave.
Sofija Dragosavac
Sofija Dragosavac
She obtained her doctorate in 2022. The topic of her dissertation was on laminar technology at the transition from the Middle to the Upper Paleolithic in the Balkans. She has participated in the research of almost all Paleolithic sites in Serbia and Montenegro, as well as the Stelida project on Naxos (T. Carter). She has participated in the analysis and publication of several relevant papers, including a paper on the spatial analysis of artifacts from the Aurignacian layer in Šalitrena Cave.