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Toward a Better Understanding of Prehistory of City of Hvar - Archaeological Research in the House Galić
Eduard Visković
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Contribution to prehistory of the city of Hvar - Archaeological excavations in the Galić house
The surroundings of the city of Hvar, along with several caves, had been populated since the Neolithic. With the development of agriculture, commerce and sea trade and the influx of new settlers, the settlements adopted to these new times. In the Bronze Age had begun the settlement on the site of the city Fortress, Fortica, strongly fortified, with checkpoints to the east. It also had its necropolis, above the Vira bay, with lots of burial mounds. The acropolis, or higher part of the settlement on the hillfort itself, has been swept away by historical changes, but in its lower parts, within abs around the medieval ramparts in the present-day city quarter of Groda, finds of Bronze Age, Iron Age and Antique pottery have been ascertained in abundance, which proves that on this area life had developed in continuity for thousands of years; the hillfort in Hvar and the settlement under it, connected with the port, is a unique place in the maritime constellation of the Adriatic.
Archaeological finds in the Galić house are not typical for a narrow prehistoric period or a specific ethnic group, but instead belong to pottery used from late Bronze Age and throughout the Iron Age on eastern Adriatic. The presence of imported pottery helps a lot; the only datable fragment comes from south Italy, 9th c. BCE.
Nothing except pottery gas been found and there is a possibility that the original strata had been disturbed, due to steepness of the site, erosion and building of the house in the past.
The pottery found on this site can be dated throughout the millennium BCE, and proves once again that the area of the city of Hvar was the most important settlement on this island in prehistory.
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Datum izdavanja:
9.10.2019.
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