<a href="https://nmkv.rs/about/employees/predrag-radovic/?lang=en">Predrag Radović</a>, PhD

Predrag Radović, PhD

Paleontologist

Curator

 

Summary

Predrag Radović (1984) graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Belgrade with a bachelor’s degree in archaeology (2009). He earned his master’s degree in geology, module Palaeontology, at the Faculty of Mining and Geology of the same university (2015). He enrolled in doctoral studies at the same group (2017). From 2011 he worked as a curator of the National Museum in Kraljevo, where he became the curator of the Natural History Collection in 2015, and since 2018 he has been the head of the Group for Geology and Biology, which was formed in that year. He has completely arranged the Natural History Collection dividing it into several subcollections. He is the author and co-author of several exhibitions, workshops for chidren from primary and secondary schools and lectures held in the National Museum and other institutions. The focus of his work is on scientific research in the fields of palaeoanthropology, palaeontology of vertebrates and bioarchaeology. He stands out by his papers published in highly ranked journals as well as by his participation in a series of scientific conferences in Serbia and abroad. His work has been recognized by the award for young researcher. Within the scientific fields he deals with, he has participated in a series of field investigations, on the territories of Kraljevo and Raška and in a wider territory in Serbia. The year 2020 is marked by his transfer to the Department of Archaeology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, but he still partly manages the Group for Biology and Geology of the National Museum Kraljevo. He received his doctorate at the Faculty of Mining and Geology of the University of Belgrade in 2022.

Scientific Conferences

 

2019 – Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology 47th Annual Meeting: Banff (Alberta, Canada) / Roksandić, M., Lindal, J., Radović, P., Mihailović, D., New Middle Pleistocene material from Serbia and its implications for human evolution in Europe.

2019 – Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology 47th Annual Meeting, October 23-26: Banff (Alberta, Canada) / Lindal, J., Radović, P., Marković, Z., Alaburić, S., Roksandic, M., The first fossil of a non-human primate from Serbia.

2019 – XLII skup Srpskog arheološkog društva: Negotin; Radović, P., Lindal, J., Mihailović, D., Roksandic, M., Maxillary first molar from the Late Pleistocene of Pešturina Cave: the first Neanderthal from Serbia.

2019 – American Association of Physical Anthropologists 88th Annual Meeting: Cleveland (Ohio, USA) / Roksandic, M., Radović, P., Wu, X., Bae, C., 2019. Homo heidelbergensis: what do we need to set the question of the validity of this taxon to rest.

2018 – CAPA/ACAP 46 Annual Meeting, PASC/SCPA 3rd Annual Meeting: London (ON, Canada) / Roksandic, M., Lindal, J., Radović, P., Blackwell, B., Mihailović, D., 2018. The First Confirmed Neanderthal from the Central Balkans.

2017 – European Society for the study of Human Evolution 7th Annual Meeting: Leiden (Netherlands) / Roksandic, M., Mihailović, D., Lindal, J., Radović, P., Blackwell, B.A.B., Alex, B.A., Dimitrijević, V., Mihailović, B., Harvati, K., Đurić, M., 2017. New hominin material from Pešturina cave in Serbia.

2013 – Canadian Archeological Association Annual Meeting: Whistler (Canada) / Roksandic, M., Radović, P., Lindal., J., A re-examination of the human fossil specimen from Bački Petrovac.

2013 – XXXVI скуп Српског археолошког друштва: Нови Сад / Mihailović, D., Milošević, S., Radović, P., New evidence on peopling of Čačak-Kraljevo basin in Lower and Middle Paleolithic.

2013 – XXXVI скуп Српског археолошког друштва: Нови Сад / Radović, P., Lindal, J., Roksandic, M., A re-examination of the human fossil specimen from Bački Petrovac (Serbia).

2012 – XXXV скуп Српског археолошког друштва: Ваљево / Радовић, П., Нови резултати антрополошке анализе инхумираних скелетних остатака са античке некрополе Ланиште код Баљевца.

2012 – XXXV скуп Српског археолошког друштва: Ваљево / Радовић, П., Остеолошки материјал у музејском контексту: пример Народног музеја у Краљеву.

Lectures

May 17, 2019 – Neanderthals – First Find from Serbia, Faculty of Mining and Geology.

2016/2017/2018/2019 – Meteorites, National Museum Kraljevo; Cultural Center “Gradac” Raška; Petnica Research Station; Faculty of Mining and Geology of the University of Belgrade etc.

May 12, 2017 – Jovan Cvijić – Geologist, National Museum Kraljevo.

2015/2017/2018 – Fossils: Traces of the Past, National Museum Kraljevo; Cultural Center “Gradac” Raška.

Field Research

2018-2020 – Paleoanthropological research in the caves Mala and Velika Balanica in Sićevo Gorge, Pešturina in Jelašnica Gorge and Šalitrena Cave near Gornji Lajkovac, Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Belgrade, Department of Archeology; team member.

2017 – Paleontological research in Bogutovac (Miocene epoch), National Museum Kraljevo; manager in the reconnaissance phase.

2014-2016 – Bioarchaeological research at the site of the church Malo Delo in Paklenje, Baljevac near Raška, National Museum Kraljevo; team member.

2016 – Paleontological research in Gledić (Cretaceous period), National Museum Kraljevo; manager in the reconnaissance phase.

2016 – Archaeological excavations at the sites of Crkvina in Konarevo and Lojanik in Mataruška Banja, National Museum Kraljevo, National Museum in Belgrade; team member.

2010-2015 – Archaeological research of open-air Paleolithic sites in the Čačak-Kraljevo basin, National Museum Kraljevo, Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Belgrade, Department of Archeology; team member.

2008-2013 – Paleoanthropological research in the caves Mala Balanica in Sićevac Gorge, Pešturina in Jelašnica Gorge, Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Belgrade, Department of Archeology; team member.

2008 – Paleoanthropological research in the Šalitrena Cave near Gornji Lajkovac, Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Belgrade, Department of Archeology; team member.

2005-2006 – Archaeological excavations at the Belo Brdo site in Vinča near Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Belgrade, Department of Archeology; team member.

Exhibitions

2015-2016 – Geological Time Machine, Permantent Exhibition of the Natural History Center of Serbia, Svilajnac; associate: Predrag Radović.

2013 – Giants of Kraljevo, exhibition on fossil proboscidean, National Museum Kraljevo; author: Predrag Radović.

2013 – Growing Up in Kraljevo in the 19th and 20th Centuries; National Museum Kraljevo; authors: Dragan Drašković, Mirjana Savić, Silvija Krejaković, Tijana Šibalić, Violeta Cvetanoska, Jasmina Dražović, Suzana Novčić, Predrag Radović.

Tour of the exhibition – 2013/2014: Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade.

Editorial Work

2013 – Bioarchaeology in the Balkans – Balance and Perspectives. Papers of the Bioarchaeological Section of the Serbian Archaeological Society, Belgrade / Sremska Mitrovica (Editor)

Awards

2019 – Award of the fund “Milan Milićević, Geological Engineer” for the best scientific research work of a young scientist published in the field of geology in 2018.

Membership in Professional Associations

  • Since 2020 – Member of the International Council of Museums.
  • Since 2017 – Member of the Serbian Geological Society.
  • Since 2011 – Member of the Serbian Archaeological Society.

Bibliography

  • Roksandić, M., Radović, P., Wu, X.-J., Bae, C.J., 2022. Homo bodoensis and why it matters. Evolutionary Anthropology 31(5): 240–244.
  • Antić, A., Mihailović, D., Radović, P., Tomić, N., Marjanović, M., Radaković, M., Marković, S.B., 2022. Assessing speleoarcheological geoheritage: Linking new Paleolithic discoveries and potential cave tourism destinations in Serbia. International Journal of Geoheritage and Parks 10(2): 289–307.
  • Roksandić, M., Radović, P., Lindal, J., Mihailović, D., 2022. Early Neanderthals in contact: The Chibanian (Middle Pleistocene) hominin dentition from Velika Balanica Cave, Southern Serbia. Journal of Human Evolution 166: 103175.
  • Roksandić, M., Radović, P., Wu, X.-J., Bae, C.J., 2022. Resolving the “muddle in the middle”: The case for Homo bodoensis nov. Evolutionary Anthropology 31(1): 20–29.
  • Mihailović, D., Kuhn, S.L., Bogićević, K., Dimitrijević, V., Marín–Arroyo, A.B., Marković, J., Mercier, N., Mihailović, B., Morley, M.W., Radović, P., Rink, W.J., Plavšić, S., Roksandić, M., 2022. Connections between the Levant and the Balkans in the late Middle Pleistocene: Archaeological findings from Velika and Mala Balanica Caves (Serbia). Journal of Human Evolution 163: 103138.
  • Dragosavac, S., Plavšić, S., Radović, P., 2021. The impact of the Campanian Ignimbrite (CI) eruption on Palaeolithic settlement patterns in the Central Balkans. In: Babić, S. (Ed.), Archaeology of Crisis. Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade.
  • Lindal, A.J., Roksandić, M., Radović, P., 2021. What’s in a name? When it comes to human fossils, it’s complicated. The Conversation.
  • Radović, P., Mayda, S., Alaburić, S., Marković, Z., 2021. Percrocuta miocenica (Percrocutidae, Carnivora) from the middle Miocene of Brajkovac (Central Serbia). Geobios 65: 41-49.
  • Radović, P., Radonjić, M., Billia, E.M.E., 2020. Pleistocene rhinoceros from Bogovina Cave: The first report of Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis Toula, 1902 (Mammalia, Rhinocerotidae) from Serbia. Palaeontologia Electronica 23(2): a34.
  • Mihailović, D., Milošević, S., Blackwell, B.A.B., Mercier, N., Mentzer, S.M., Miller, C.E., Morley, M.W., Bogićević, K., Đurić, D., Marković, J., Mihailović, B., Dragosavac, S., Plavšić, S., Skinner, A.R., Chaity, I.I.C., Huang, Y.E.W., Chu, S., Nenadić, D., Radović, P., Lindal, J., Roksandic, M., 2022. Neanderthal settlement of the Central Balkans during MIS 5: Evidence from Pešturina Cave, Serbia. Quaternary International 610: 1–19.
  • Lindal, J., Radović, P., Mihailović, D., Roksandić, M., 2020. Postcranial hominin remains from the Late Pleistocene of Pešturina Cave (Serbia). Quaternary International 466: 9–14
  • Radović, P., Lindal, J., Marković, Z., Alaburić, S., Roksandić, M., 2019. First record of a fossil monkey (Primates, Cercopithecidae) from the Late Pliocene of Serbia. Journal of Human Evolution 137: 102681.
  • Radović, P., Lindal, J., Mihailović, D., Roksandić, M., 2019. The first Neanderthal specimen from Serbia: Maxillary first molar from the Late Pleistocene of Pešturina Cave. Journal of Human Evolution 131: 139–151.
  • Mennecart, B., Radović, P., Marković, Z., 2018. New data on the earliest European ruminant (Mammalia, Artiodactyla): A revision of the fossil mandible from Rusce in the Pčinja basin (late Eocene, Southeastern Serbia). Palaeontologia Electronica3.38A: 1–12.
  • Radović, P., Bradić-Milinović, K., 2018. A new elephantoid dental specimen from the Miocene of Kruševac Basin in Central Serbia. Geološki anali Balkanskoga poluostrva 79(2): 1–10.
  • Gol’din, P., Radović, P., 2018. A Middle Miocene baleen whale from Bele Vode in Belgrade, Serbia. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 124(1): 151–162.
  • Roksandic, M., Radović, P., Lindal, J., 2018. Revising the hypodigm of Homo heidelbergensis: A view from the Eastern Mediterranean. Quaternary International 466/A: 66–81.
  • Ganić, M., Radović, P., Rundić, Lj., Bradić, K., Knežević, S., 2016. Traces of drilling predation in the Badenian Mollusks from the Rakovica stream (Belgrade, Serbia). Geologia Croatica 69/2: 205–212.
  • Alaburić, S., Radović, P., 2016. An early record of the moschid genus Micromeryx (Mammalia, Ruminantia). In Marković, Z., Milivojević, M. (Eds.), Life on the shore – geological and paleontological research in the Neogene of Sibnica and vicinity (Levač basin, Central Serbia). Part 1. Special Issue of the Natural History Museum in Belgrade, pp. 141–148.
  • Radović, P., 2016. Appendix: Bioarchaeological Analysis of Bronze Age Human Remains from the Čačak and Surrounding Area. In Dmitrović, K. (Ed.), Bronze Age Necropolises in the Čačak Region. National Museum Čačak, Čačak, pp. 273–303.
  • Roksandic, M., Radović, P., Alex, B. A., Pavić, S., Paunović, M., Marković, Z., 2014. Looking for hominins in Museum drawers – possible Upper Pleistocene specimens from Serbia: morphological descriptions and radiocarbon dating. In Mihailović, D. (Ed.), Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Research in the Central Balkans. Serbian Archaeological Society, Commission for the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic, Belgrade, pp. 7–19.
  • Mihailović, D., Milošević, S., Radović, P., 2014. New Data about the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic in the Western Morava valley. In Mihailović, D. (ed.) Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Research in the Central Balkans. Serbian Archaeological Society, Commission for the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic, Belgrade, pp. 57–68.
  • Radović, P., Lindal, J.A., Roksandic, M., 2014. A re-examination of the human fossil specimen from Bački Petrovac (Serbia). HOMO – Journal of Comparative Human Biology 65: 281–295.
  • Радовић, П., 2014. Бронзанодопска некропола Горело поље у Милочају код Краљева: анализа спаљених људских остатака. Наша прошлост 14: 57–64.
  • Радовић, П., 2014. Биоархеолошка анализа људских скелетних остатака са бронзанодопског локалитета Дубац у Јанчићима. Зборник радова Народног музеја у Чачку XLIII: 19–34.
  • Radović, P., Miladinović-Radmilović, N., 2013. A large supernumerary bone at bregma and metopism co-occurring in the skull of an ancient Roman. Archives of Biological Science Belgrade 65 (4): 1637–1643.
  • Radović, P., Alaburić, S., Marković, Z., Vlastić, S., 2013. New view on the Old Collection – ‘Pikermian fauna’ from the vicinity of Veles (Republic of Macedonia). Part 1 – Primates. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum in Belgrade 6: 7–29.
  • Радовић, П., 2013. Биоархеолошка анализа инхумираних скелетних остатака са некрополе Турска Црква у селу Горњи Лазац код Краљева. In Miladinović-Radmilović, N., Vitezović, S. (Eds.) Bioarchaeology in the Balkans. Balance and Perspectives: Papers of the Bioarchaeological Section of the Serbian Archaeological Society , Belgrade/Sremska Mitrovica, pp. 133–153.
  • Радовић, П., 2013. Кратак осврт на проблеме третмана људских скелетних остатака у музејима. In Miladinović-Radmilović, N., Vitezović, S. (Eds.) Bioarchaeology in the Balkans. Balance and Perspectives: Papers of the Bioarchaeological Section of the Serbian Archaeological Society : Belgrade/Sremska Mitrovica, pp. 3–12.
  • Čkonjević, B., Radović, P., 2012. Deinotherium giganteum from Adrani, Central Serbia. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum in Belgrade 5: 15–20.
  • Радовић, П., 2012. Антрополошка анализа инхумираних скелетних остатака са античке некрополе Ланиште код Баљевца. Наша прошлост 13: 52–
  • Радовић, П., 2012. Еволуција хоминина током средњег плеистоцена. Гласник Српског археолошког друштва 27: 215–248.
  • Радовић, П., 2011. Физичко-антрополошка анализа средњовековних скелетних остатака са локалитета Пањевац у Чукојевцу код Краљева. Наша прошлост 12: 57–72.

 

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