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Dr. Vesna Tratnik

Curator and Researcher


Address: National Museum of Slovenia, Prešernova c. 20, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

E-mail: vesna.tratnik@nms.si
Tel: +386 (0)1 24 14 447

Academic Career

Ph.D. in Late Antiquity at University of Ljubljana, 2020.
Subject of the thesis: The hilltop settlement at Zidani gaber above Mihovo and the Late Antique settlement dynamics in Dolenjska Region (published articles).

Master in Roman Provincial Archaeology at University of Ljubljana, 2012
Subject of the thesis: Vipava – naselbina na obrobju akvilejskega agra (The Roman cemetery at Laurinova ulica in Vipava, published article)

Employment

Between 2009 and 2014, employed at the Centre for Preventive Archaeology of the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia. Between 2014 and 2020, employed as a young researcher at the National Museum of Slovenia. Since 2022, employed at the National Museum of Slovenia as a curator.

Research Interests

Her principal research interests include Roman settlements, burial sites, and, more recently, a Late Roman conflict site, as well as the dynamics of Late Antique settlement in Slovenia. Her work is characterized by a strong interdisciplinary approach and extensive interinstitutional collaboration. She has directed or participated in archaeological excavations and has published several scholarly studies on Roman settlements and small finds from western Slovenia (personal Academia.edu page). Since 2014, her research has focused on the characteristics of Late Antique settlement dynamics in southeastern Slovenia. This work includes the archaeological interpretation of airborne LiDAR data, archaeological topography, excavation, and the analysis of small finds (Tratnik 2024). Since 2022, she has been part of the research programme Research of Archaeological Heritage (ARIS P6-0283), within which she has been directing investigations at a Late Roman conflict site near Ajdovščina in western Slovenia (Tratnik, Istenič 2025).


Recent publications

Monographs:
  • TRATNIK Vesna, KARO Špela 2018, Miren: grobišče iz obdobja preseljevanja ljudstev. Ljubljana, Zavod za varstvo kulturne dediščine Slovenije. PDF
  • FABEC Tomaž, TRATNIK Vesna, VINAZZA Manca 2022, Puče: arheološke raziskave v letih 2012 in 2013. Ljubljana, Zavod za varstvo kulturne dediščine Slovenije. PDF
Articles:
  • TRATNIK Vesna, ISTENIČ Janka 2025, Late Roman Conflict Near Ajdovščina (Castra, Slovenia). In: M. Lovenjak, A. Cedilnik, A. Gaspari, J. Horvat (eds), Omnia Tempus Revelat. Studieas on Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. In Memory of Jaroslav Šašel. Razprave I. Razreda 45, 219–238, Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti, Ljubljana. PDF
  • TRATNIK Vesna, DOLINAR Nejc 2024, Farming and Resilience on Late Antique Hilltop Site Zidani gaber, Slovenia. In: S. Berrica, J. Olivé-Buson (eds), Mirroring Worlds. Rural Domestic Spaces trough Multidisciplinarity in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages, Archeopress Access Archaeology, 43–56, Archeopress Publishing LTD, Oxford. PDF
  • TRATNIK Vesna 2024, Poznoantična višinska naselbina Zidani gaber nad Mihovim. / The Late antique hilltp settlement on Zidani gaber above Mihovo. – Arheološki vestnik 75, 355–389, Založba ZRC, Ljubljana. PDF
  • TRATNIK Vesna, KARO Špela 2023, Ostrogoths in Slovenia?: case study of a Late Antique cemetery in Miren, western Slovenia (Vzhodni Goti v Sloveniji? : raziskave grobišča iz obdobja pozne antike v Mirnu, zahodna Slovenija). – Arheološki vestnik 74, 201–240, Založba ZRC, Ljubljana. PDF
  • HORVAT Jana, TRATNIK Vesna 2022, Hinterland of Tergeste : countryside cemeteries in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD.  In: V. Perna, R. Carmenati, M. Giuliodori (eds), Roma e il mondo adriatico : dalla ricerca archeologica alla pianificazione del territorio. : Adriatico centrosettentrionale, centromeridionale e orientale : atti del Convegno Internazionale (Macerata 18-20 maggio 2017), vol. II, tomi 1-2. Roma: Edizioni Quasar, Tomo 1, 483–502. PDF
  • TRATNIK Vesna 2021, Col v rimski dobi. – Goriški letnik: zbornik Goriškega muzeja št. 45, 153–174, Goriški muzej Kromberk – Nova Gorica. PDF
  • ŽERJAL Tina, TRATNIK Vesna 2020, Fluvio Frigido, Castra - Ajdovščina. – In: J. Horvat, I.  Lazar, A. Gaspari (eds.) Manjša rimska naselja na slovenskem prostoru / Minor Roman settlements in Slovenia. Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae 40, Založba ZRC, 9–46. PDF
  • TRATNIK Vesna 2020, Vipava. – In: J. Horvat, I. Lazar, A. Gaspari (eds.). Manjša rimska naselja na slovenskem prostoru / Minor Roman settlements in Slovenia. Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae 40, Založba ZRC, 113–121. PDF

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