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New Sacred Places: Heritage Practices on Heritage Sites

The purpose of this presentation is to demonstrate the relationship between the modern construction of sacred places and prehistoric monuments. Prehistoric burial mounds or hilltop stone mounds are often places of multiperiod practices. For example, some medieval churches are placed on prehistoric mounds such as famous church of st. Nikola near Nin, or church st. Ivan Glavosjek in Malo Libinje on Velebit Mountain. In the Medieval period, burials are often placed on prehistoric burial mounds. Such practices are more often than not attributed to some essentialist properties of that particular place such as visual prominence, strategic value etc. These prehistoric mounds, especially those placed on hilltops on highly visible locations often share the same location with modern practices. During the 20th century, such places were often utilized in military operations. A monument was erected at one of these places (gradina Štrkovača near Polača, Zadar County) commemorating a specific traumatic event that happened there during the course of war in 1992. Our second example includes a completely different situation. A religious monument is being built on gradina Kremik near Primošten creating a controversy. Using these two examples we would like to explore issues such as how places become meaningful places, what is the nature of contemporary engagement with ancient monuments, how is collective memory and a sense of community constituted and maintain through interventions in the landscape etc.

Štrkovača ; war memorial ; stone cairn ; materiality

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