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Eastern Slavonia and Western Srijem – contact zone during early phase of the Late Bronze Age

The area of Eastern Slavonia and Western Srijem was in many (pre)historical periods contact zone of various cultural phenomena. A similar situation occurs at the end of the Middle Bronze Age and the beginning of the Late Bronze Age when in this region developed Belegiš culture, Virovitica group and the Barice-Gređani group. The subject of this paper is research and clarification of the relations between these groups in the specified area. Looking at the territorial distribution of those communities, we can notice that the Virovitica group inhabited wider area of the river Drava Basin from western surroundings of Osijek, over the entire Croatian, Hungarian and Slovenian part of the river Drava Basin and penetrates far west in Austria. Eastern Slavonia at the present state of research represents a borderland in which the Virovitica group permeates with Barice-Gređani group and Belegiš culture.

landscape archaeology, Southern Carpathian Basin, bronze age, chronology, prehistory

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