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  • A brief remark on selected iron age pottery from the Gradina monbrodo near the Cisterna bay in Istria
    Hellmuth Kramberger, Anja
    The paper deals with the fortified hilltop settlement Gradina Monbrodo on the west coast of Istria in Croatia. Istria is known for its specific form of settlements of the Gradina type, also called ... Castellieri or Kastellieri, with encircling fortified ramparts built in dry-stone technique using the local limestone. They first appeared in the late Early Bronze Age and were characteristic until the Iron Age. Although over 440 such hilltop settlements are known, only a very small number have been archaeologically examined. Accordingly, many questions remain unanswered, especially regarding the chronological classification and thus the simultaneous occupation of the fortified settlements. The level of knowledge about the Iron Age settlements is generally worse that of the Bronze Age. In view of the relatively well researched Iron Age urn-cemeteries, the state of knowledge about the Iron Age settlements seems unbalanced. The Gradina Monbrodo, which has so far been studied in three excavation campaigns between 2016–2018 as part of a Korean-Croatian joint project, could play a potential key role in the study of the Bronze to Iron Age transition, as well as in general for researches on Iron Age settlement activities. In this paper, selected pottery from the Gradina Monbrodo is presented for the first time and their chronological classification is discussed. This determination is of particular importance for a previously undated stratigraphic layer and potential transition horizon from the Bronze to the Iron Age and thus of chronological relevance.
    Vrsta gradiva - prispevek na konferenci
    Leto - 2021
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 108664579
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