Naslov
WHOSE PASTURE IS IT? OVERLAPPING ETHNOLOGICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORDS FROM PREHISTORIC LANDSCAPE OF SOUTHERN VELEBIT MOUNTAIN, CROATIA

Autori
Grgurić Srzentić, Maja

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, ostalo

Skup
27th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) - Widening Horizons

Mjesto i datum
Kiel, Njemačka, 6.-11.9.2021

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
archaeology ; ethnography ; mountain ; prehistory ; transhumant pastoralism ; hillfort

Sažetak
Velebit mountain is a part of Dinaric Alps and the largest mountain range in Croatia. Stretching along the eastern Adriatic coast it forms a natural border between the Mediterranean and continental regions, as well as climates. A distinctive karst topography, harsh climate, sparse vegetation and water resources of the southern coastal area of Velebit make it a marginal landscape today, attractive only to hikers and tourists. But up until a few decades ago scattered highland summer pastures provided for transhumant pastoralists from surrounding coastal areas as well as for those from the inland. In this paper ethnographic records as well as archaeological field survey and limited data sets collected from rare archaeological excavations conducted in this area are combined in attempt to explain the presence and placement of prehistoric hillforts in southern Velebit region. This paper provides arguments that ethnographically recorded seasonal migratory routes might corelate with economically interdependent prehistoric communities in the coastal, highland and inland region of Velebit mountain.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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