Mgr. Peter Barta, PhD.,

Mgr. Peter Barta, PhD. is an archaeologist specialising in chronometric dating of cultural heritage. He has held research and teaching positions at universities and research institutions across Europe and Asia. He founded Slovakia’s first dendrochronological laboratory for archaeological and historic building samples and co-developed the project for the first Slovak archaeological mission abroad.

He has led and participated in research projects in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, France, Türkiye and Kuwait. He is an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at the American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) and a research partner of the European Archaeological Centre at Bibracte. He publishes in and reviews for journals indexed in Web of Science, Scopus and the Norwegian Register. His publications are available in the research publication databases of Comenius University in Bratislava and Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, as well as on academic online platforms.

He has worked intermittently at the Bratislava City Museum since 1991, focusing on Devín Castle, a National Cultural Monument and Slavic hillfort, and the UNESCO-listed Roman auxiliary fort of Gerulata in Rusovce.