The publication Starinar as an organ of the SAS Institute of Archaeology

The lack of appropriate conditions for the work of the Serbian Archaeological Society after Liberation led to new chapters in the history of Serbian archaeology. One of the basic plans during the reorganisation of the Academy of Sciences in the new state was related to the establishment of an institute modelled on the Academy in the USSR. In this paper, we assumed that the process of establishing the Institute of Archaeology SAS, as the future leading institution of its kind in the country, influenced the termination of the Serbian Archaeological Society. This decision was made at the conference about founding an Institute of Archaeology, on the 8th of November 1945. The president of the society, Miloje Vasic, back then mentioned that what he presented during the session decided that the SAS be integrated, together with Starinar, within the framework of the SAS. However, by the end of December, this decision was changed when leading experts dealing with archaeology decided that the SAS and Starinar should join the Institute of Archaeology. From later archived news, we learn that manager Vladimir Petkovic first planned to present Starinar as an organ of the institution in 1947 when he was looking for sources of funding for printing in various ways. However, at the first session of the Institute of Archaeology, as well as during 1948-1949, we find data from which it can be concluded that there was a change in the name of the official newspaper. It is assumed that the intended titles of the academy?s publications, according to its Regulations (Glasnik, Zbornik, etc.), could have influenced the change in the name of Starinar, in which it was planned to publish the works of collaborators of the Archaeological Institute. However, at one of the SAS Presidency?s conference sessions from the autumn of 1949, the final decision about printing Starinar was made at the Archaeological Institute, which his associates, led by manager Vladimir Petkovic, accepted without complaints. The Institute of Archaeology SAS, after its official establishment, took over first the SAS tradition, and then also published Starinar. Today, a hundred and forty years since publishing the first archaeological magazine in Serbia, as part of the new series of Starinar, the Institute of Archaeology proudly continues to publish results of the archaeological works and other scientific fields from Serbia and abroad.