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Time of Change: North Dalmatia in Late Iron Age

The Late Iron Age in Liburnia is marked by the dynamic and intensive transformation of culture that is still most conspicuous in funerary customs. In that regard distinct indicators of cultural changes are monumentalization of funerary architecture, placing a number of vessels from symposiast repertory in graves and accepting new aesthetic and technological aspects of producing metal jewellery and parts of attire as a consequence of increasingly pronounced penetration of Hellenistic and Roman cultural models into a more locally defined funerary ritual. Due to the poor state of research it is far more difficult to define changes in settlement contexts of the same period. Recent systematic research of two important settlements in the area of North Dalmatia, Gradina in Nadin (Nedinum) and Lergova gradina in Slivnica offered new specific insights into the organization of everyday life in this period. Only Late Iron Age horizon has been recorded in Lergova Gradina whereby stratigraphy was saved from subsequent disturbances. On the other hand research in Gradina in Nadin and the belonging necropolis, despite partially disturbed layers owing to lengthy continuity of life of almost 2000 years enabled a better understanding of the transformation of the urban part of the settlement over the centuries and a clearer recognition of autochthonous and foreign components that contributed therein.

North Dalmatia, Liburnians, Late Iron Age, Nadin, Lergova gradina

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