Naslov
Into the great wide open

Autori
Lubšina Tušek, Marija ; Kavur, Boris ; Blečić Kavur, Martina

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

Izvornik
Beginning of the Late Bronze Age between the Eastern Alps and the Danube. Abstract Book / Ložnjak Dizdar, Daria ; Mihelić, Sanjin - Osijek, 2011, 3-4

Skup
Beginning of the Late Bronze Age between the Eastern Alps and the DAnube

Mjesto i datum
Osijek, Hrvatska, 20.10.2011. - 22.10.2011

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Pozvano predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Domaća recenzija

Ključne riječi
Zavrč; Slovenia; Early and Late Urnfield Culture; Material Culture; Relativ and Absolute Chronology; Continuity or replacement; revolution or evolution

Sažetak
Continuity or replacement, revolution or evolution – these are just some of the concepts used by archaeologists to describe cultural phenomena and their changes in the past. Concepts deriving from outside the archaeological field but still used to explain the observed intentionally structured artefacts and features described as archaeological remains. But the remains have a second dimension - they are structured in space. Nut just as dots on the map being thought of as if they would represent the reality of distribution and not only the state of research, but in an inversed perspective the space, the physical locality becomes an attractor, a sum of physical features in an landscape which caused the people in the past to repeatedly return on to this spot and to use it in a specific and unchanged way for centuries. One of such localities, one of such physical attractors in the landscape was also an at first glance unattractive foothill overlooking the river Drava at Zavrč on the border between today‘s Slovenia and Croatia. On a single locality graves belonging to the Early and Late Urnfield Culture as well as graves belonging to the Early Iron Age were discovered – several among them containing an exceptional richness and diversity of grave good demonstrating not only long range trade and exchange of prestigious goods but also changes in the social structures of the Bronze Age communities being visible as the creation of elites. For more than half a millennium and despite all the social, cultural and technological changes, people returned to this special place, overlooking the plains between Ormož and Ptuj to the north and Varaždin to the east, to bury their dead making it the single spot in the region with the longest continuity of specific activities where this and the other side met – the area of intersection between the realm of the living and of the dead where societies were able to demonstrate in a symbolic way their perspective of space and to structure according to their beliefs the realm of the dead we now observe as the archaeological record.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Povijest, Arheologija

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