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Change in settlement positions regarding some major Holocene climate events: case study of two sites in Drava region

Institute of Archaeology (Zagreb) carried out a project “Strategic use of landscape” (IP-11-2013-3700) founded by Croatian Science Foundation in the period between 2014 and 2016 (Botić 2016a ; Marković et al. 2016). Project included the study of use of landscape in various time segments as well as data concerning natural resources (water, woods, arable land etc.) in a wider region of Našice in the middle Drava valley (Botić 2016a ; Marković et al. 2016). During this project several field surveys were conducted. In the last field survey conducted in the region east of Našice, Stipanovci – Planina 1 site was discovered (Marković, Botić 2017 ; Botić 2017). This site presents very interesting situation: finds from the late Iron Age (1st c. AD) were collected at the lowest altitude, finds from the final Neolithic and the beginning of the Eneolithic (4500-4000 BC) at the somewhat elevated position while finds from the beginning of the Bronze Age (2400-2200 BC) were collected at the most elevated position (Marković, Botić 2017 ; Botić 2017). These specific micro positions and estimated time sequences of finds indicate possible link to specific Holocene climate events: 4.2 ka BP event in the case of Early Bronze Age (2400-2200 BC), 6.0 ka BP event in the case of final Neolithic (4500-4000 BC) and so-called Roman optimum in the case of late Iron Age (McCormick et al. 2012 ; Botić 2017). Another site very close to Drava river in Donji Miholjac was excavated during Spring of 2015 on a southern by-pass road which yielded two waste pits from Early Bronze Age and two from late Iron Age (Botić 2016b). However, position of pits in a lowland area in the case of the Early Bronze Age finds suggests earlier temporal occupation of the site in comparison to the Stipanovci – Planina 1 site which was confirmed by one radiocarbon date and which could be placed at the very beginning of the 4.2 ka BP event. On both sites in wider Drava region link between paleohydrological condition changes and site position changes can be identified, spanning over various time segments. Examples chosen are by no means isolated.

northern Croatia ; Drava region ; settlement position change ; Holocene climate events

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