In Memoriam Professor Tatjana Bregant (1932–2002)

In Memoriam Professor Tatjana Bregant (1932–2002) Many of you knew and worked with the respected Professor Tatjana Bregant years before me. You were her colleagues and co-workers in the research at Ljubljansko barje and Celje Castle, and in Lupljanica and Obre in Bosnia. You saw and knew the aspirations she had, and the energy she put into establishing the chair of “Neolithic Archaeology” and the study and research programmes at the Department of Archaeology and the Science Institute of Filozofska Fakulteta in Ljubljana. As we say our goodbyes, let us remember some of her work, which will always be an important part of Slovenian archaeology: her teaching of generations of graduates and post-graduates; her systematic research work and protective excavations at Ljubljansko barje and then at Celje Castle; her pioneering work in establishing interdisciplinary research, and the research foundations she laid in studies of castle compounds and medieval pottery; and last, but not least, her many years as the editor of the Reports on researching the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and Eneolithic in Slovenia. Professor Tatjana Bregant died one day before her seventieth birthday. The Department of Archaeology at Filozofska Fakulteta in Ljubljana saw her graduate, receive her Ph.D., and then head the Neolithic teaching and research programmes until her retirement. She headed the research project The Neolithic and Eneolithic of Slovenia. She chaired the Prehistory Section of the Yugoslav Association of Archaeological Societies and the Prehistory Section of the Slovenian Archaeological Society. For twenty years she was the successful editor of the journal Poro≠ilo o raziskovanju paleolita, neolita in eneolita v Sloveniji III–XXI, known as Documenta Praehistorica recently. She will not be forgotten. V