Ana Mari\u0107 (b. 1983, Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a distinguished archaeologist specializing in the Early Iron Age. She completed her primary and secondary education in Zenica before enrolling in the History of Art and Archaeology program at the University of Zadar, Croatia, where she graduated in 2008. She pursued doctoral studies beginning in 2012 and successfully defended her dissertation, \u201cLate Cetosa and La T\u00e8ne Fibulae from Bosnia and Herzegovina\u201d, in September 2017 in Ljubljana under the supervision of Dr. Dragan Bo\u017ei\u010d, with commentary by Dr. Jana Horvat.<\/p>\n
Since 2009, Dr. Mari\u0107 has served as Curator for the Early Iron Age at the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo. She has curated and co-curated nine permanent and temporary exhibitions both at her home institution and at other museums in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. Between 2010 and 2019, she actively participated in 11 international archaeological conferences and has published nine scholarly articles.<\/p>\n
Dr. Mari\u0107 has been a member of the editorial board of the Herald of the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2017. She served as Head of the Archaeology Department at the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina from July 2018 to November 2021 and has been Deputy Director since November 2021. In October 2025, she was appointed Acting Director of the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina.<\/p>\n
She is fluent in English and has working knowledge of German and Italian. Dr. Mari\u0107 has been awarded a scholarship by the Institute of Archaeology, ZRC SAZU, for a research stay in Ljubljana and a scholarship by the German Archaeological Institute for research at the R\u00f6misch-Germanische Kommission in Frankfurt.<\/p>\n
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