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Architecture of power or demise: Gigantic burial mounds of Podravina as parts of the Early Iron Age landscape. The Iron-Age-Danube project in the Plitvica-Bednja Rivers Basin (NW Croatia)

Jalžabet, Martijanec and Zbelava are considered to be well known sites of the Early Iron Age in Podravina (northwest Croatia). Although the sites helped us immensely to understand the development of the Early Iron Age in north Croatia, many important aspects concerning the sites, but also concerning the Early Iron Age landscape were still missing. This was the primary thought behind the decision on participation of the Institute of Archaeology in Zagreb in the “Monumentalized Early Iron Age Landscapes in the Danube River Basin” (“Iron-Age-Danube”) Interreg DTP project.1 The idea was to use modern instruments like LiDAR or geophysics together with the classic archaeological methods to research, protect and present the important archaeological landscape in Jalžabet. Regretfully, in September 2017, during the implementation of the Iron-Age-Danube project, the archeological team of the Institute of Archeology verifi ed that Gomila in Jalžabet – one of the most famous prehistoric monuments of the Republic of Croatia and one of the rare gigantic unexplored prehistoric burial mounds in Central Europe – was looted and severely damaged during the robbery. Due to the possible further damage to this valuable archaeological monument and thanks to the intervention funds of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, the Institute of Archeology started an immediate rescue excavation at the beginning of winter 2017, which continued in 2018 and 2019.

Jalžabet, Podravina region, central Croatia, the Early Iron Age, burial mounds, restoration

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