The proposed project will address topics concerning absolute and relative chronology of Neolithic and Eneolithic period in eastern Slovenia, as well as its cultural connections to other regions of Central Europe, especially to neighbouring Croatia, Hungary and Austria. The earliest studies carried out in north-eastern Slovenia as well as explanations concerning these archaeological finds were, until recently, burdened with 50 years old national interpretations. Already from the beginning they were isolated from the international research and explanations that resulted in cultural and chronological interpretations with no scientific basis for wider European region. 

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The research topic are the internal burdens of population after political turning points – conflicting, concealed collective memories of people of different nationalities of coexistence and mass migrations – especially the departure of the mostly Italian speaking population of Istria and immigration of new people, a special kind of “homeless”. The title also hints to wider national burdens, which can be called “places of oblivion”, in contrast to lieux de mémoire (Nora 1986). Oblivion is not only an absence of memory, but presents censorship that enables that a group constructs a satisfactory image of itself (Candau 2005).

Today’s Mediterranean towns along the Eastern Adriatic Coast are “ghost towns”. With the 19th century rise of nationalism, social-linguistic-class differences in Istria became increasingly defined through ethnic-national identifications. People established differences between “us” and “them” on deeply rooted constructs, such as civilian/barbarian, urban/rural, West/East, fascist/communist. In 20th century, national-ethnic differences deepened with the fascist rule, World War II, and introduction of the new socialist system. Istria was not only affected by the changes of political borders, but also became the dividing line between two ideological realities that divided Europe to the eastern and western block.

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Projekt je sestavljen iz dveh delov. V prvem so bile opravljene etnološke raziskave in arhitekturno dokumentiranje makedonske vasi Govrlevo. V drugem delu pa bodo zaključene revizijske analize starih najdb in dokončana arheološka izkopavanja na neolitskem najdišču Cerje pri Govrlevu.

V okviru projekta se pripravlja etnološka študija pastirskega življenja ob Skadarskemu jezeru.
Še do nevadvnega so ob Skadarskem jezeru živele albanske družine, ki so se sezonsko selile s čredami med vasmi v hribovitem zaledju ter plodnimi ravnicami ob Skadarskem jezeru.
Študija zgodbe pastirskega stana je zanimiva vzporednica za prva bivališča slovanskih priseljencev v Prekmurju v 6. stol.

V okviru slovenskega dela projekta sta izvedeni prvi kampanji intenzivnega podvodnega pregleda izbranih lokacij v strugi Ljubljanice pri Rakovi Jelši in Bevkah.
Projekt vključuje še raziskavi srednjeveškega pristaniškega prostora na reki Charente pri Taillebourgu v Franciji ter območja rimske utrdbe na donavskem limesu pri Kunszigetzu na Madžarskem.

Namen projekta je ocena vplivov Beneške republike v mestih in njihovih zaledjih na vzhodni jadranski obali. Cilj projekta je dokumentacija trgovskih in kulturnih smernic, ki so oblikovale kulturni prostor na področju med vplivoma Beneške republike in Osmanskega cesarstva. Opravljene so bile analize arheoloških najdb iz Pirana v Sloveniji, Svetega Ivana, Gnalića in palače na Hrvaškem ter Starega Bara v Črni gori; v pripravi pa so analize arheoloških najdb in stavbne analize srednjeveških ostankov iz Kopra, Izole in Pirana.