Naslov
Prehistoric settlement at Virje-Volarski Breg/Sušine

Autori
Dizdar, Marko ; Ložnjak Dizdar, Daria

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Interdisciplinary Research into Iron Metallurgy along the Drava River in Croatia - The TransFER Project

Urednik/ci
Sekelj Ivančan, Tajana ; Karavidović, Tena

Izdavač
Archaeopress

Grad
Oxford

Godina
2021

Raspon stranica
122-145

ISBN
978-1-80327-103-3

Ključne riječi
settlement ; middle Drava Valley ; Late Bronze Age ; Late Iron Age ; household ; landscape ; pottery

Sažetak
Several years of excavations at the site of Virje–Volarski Breg/Sušine uncovered the remains of a settlement from the Late Bronze and Late Iron Ages. The finds of a bronze pin and potsherds from the Late Bronze Age enabled the dating of the settlement to the early and late phases of the Urnfield culture, with the settlement at Volarski Breg being older than the one at Sušine. The excavations revealed parts of La Tène settlement infrastructure, which indicated that it was a prominent lowland settlement from the Middle and Late La Tène. They included the exceptional discovery of a pit with the remains of a loom. Both for the organization of the La Tène culture settlement and for its pottery finds, there are parallels in the known settlements from the middle Drava valley and the neighbouring areas of north-eastern Slovenia and south-western Hungary. These settlements are considered to have a rural character and to be the result of the life needs of small agricultural communities integrated in the landscape. The explored parts of the infrastructure of these settlements show that they were organized around single households. The intensive habitation of the middle Drava valley in the Late Bronze and Late Iron Ages is not at all surprising, since the area was crossed by an important communication route between the south-eastern Alpine region and the Danube region.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Arheologija

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