Review article

The Gudnja Culture and Examples of Imports in Neolithic Dalmatia

Nikša Petrić

Abstract

For many years, specific bicolour and tricolour ceramics were found at Neolithic sites in Dalmatia which differed considerably from previously-known coloured ceramics of Dalmatian Neolithic cultures. At several sites it appears as an import, while in Vela Cave on the island of Korčula and in Gudnja Cavern on the Pelješac Peninsula it appears as a remarkable cultural group from the middle Neolithic with specific ceramographic and iconographic features. It was at one time defined as the Gudnja culture, under the marked influence of the Dimini style, with the corresponding analogies to similar cultures of Maliq-Kamnik in Albania, and the Sacloria and Serra d’Alto cultures in Apulia. The pluralism of cultures and communications in the Adriatic’s prehistory are supplemented by examples of direct imports to Neolithic Dalmatia, such as ceramic examples from Greece and Apulia, jade and nephrite axes and Campignien axes

Keywords

Dalmatia; Neolithic; Gudnja culture; import; ceramics; axes

Hrčak ID:

740

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/740

Publication date:

1.6.2004.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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