Zbornik Lovranšćine, Vol. 10 No. 1, 2023.
Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.54130/zl.10.1.1
Bronze Age Sites of Opatija Karst (Pasjak, Šapjane, Loza II)
Nenad Smajila
orcid.org/0009-0006-0898-7550
Abstract
This paper presents three Bronze Age sites from the vicinity of the villages of Pasjak and Šapjane. A typological and stylistic, and technological analysis of the discovered material culture enables their approximate dating. For the first time available archaeological findings from all three neighbouring sites (prehistoric hillfort Pasjak, prehistoric hillfort Šapjane, cave site Loza II) were collected and analysed in one place. Due to the lack of systematic archaeological research, this area is poorly recognized archaeologically. The synthesis of archaeological findings gathered into mutually comparable groups, and their typological comparison with similar, accurately dated remains of material culture offered a clearer picture of the considered area within the indicative period. Presented results of the material culture analysis indicate that the sites existed at least from the Middle and Late Bronze Age until the Early Bronze Age. In addition to discovered findings of presumed local origin, fragments of remains of items imported from a wider, supra-regional area can also be recognized. Although the dating of material culture of the sites is only an approximation, a small step forward has been made in the manner of the interpretation of collected material culture from all three mentioned sites.
Keywords
prehistoric hillfort Pasjak; prehistoric hillfort Šapjane; cave site Loza II; Bronze Age; typology; dating
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313250
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Publication date:
27.12.2023.
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