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The results of the fourth season of archaeological research at Kalnik-Igrišče site
Snježana Karavanić
; Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia
Andreja Kudelić
orcid.org/0000-0003-2598-1653
; Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia
Filomena Sirovica
orcid.org/0000-0001-6662-8915
Abstract
During this year’s campaign, greater part of a late bronze age settlement was excavated (Kalnik-Igrišče II). The structure was built above ground, on poles that could be traced along the edge of the dig, on both the interior and the exterior side. Poles are almost identical in shape and dimension, with post holes 30 cm in diameter. Research shows that the house is accented under the east profile and continues along the plateau (terrace) that can be seen even today. We can’t give any conclusions about the exact dimensions of the building, but we can say that it was a large object. North part of the house probably served as an underground storage space (cellar). We documented an older horizon of the site in layers SU 153 and SU 143 in the north part of the probe with remains of a fireplace and a campfire site that were damaged with more recent interventions. We will get more conclusive data after the analysis of ceramic material found at the site.
The house was cut in the erosion deposit composed of soil and stone (SU 154). Ceramic material excavated during this campaign is typologically quite homogenous and can be ascribed to the late horizon of Urnfield culture or HaB-phase according to central European chronology. At the bottom of the SU 101 dig we can trace even older layers. We must not exclude the possibility of finding an eneolithic layer (Lasinja culture), which was documented this year in probe I, 100 meters southwest of our location.
In probe I, under the layer of erosion deposit and bronze age layer, intact layer of eneolithic material, i.e. Lasinja culture, was documented. Material remains, as well as the remains of buildings and other structures, that were dated to the New Era, late bronze age, as well as Lasinja culture, testify about rich cultural and historic landscape of Kalnik Mountains, with history that dates back as far as fourth millennia BC. Buried structures, as well as the remains of poles of overground houses and remains of a fireplace indicate that this location was a settlement.
Limited area of research didn’t give any clear answers about the everyday life of people living at this site during that period. We are also faced with new problems connected to the everyday use and function of explored objects, as well as questions of their temporal and spatial interrelation. But, having in mind those questions, we can say that we are presented with unexpected possibilities that the area of Igrišče was continually inhabited since the copper age, as well as obtaining new information and understanding of the history of Kalnik.
Keywords
Kalnik-Igrišče; Middle Ages; Late Bronze Age; Lasinja culture; settlement
Hrčak ID:
106372
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Publication date:
12.6.2012.
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