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Donji Vukojevac, north - rescue archaeological excavations on the Zagreb - Sisak highway
Kornelija Minichreiter
Zorko Marković
orcid.org/0000-0002-2342-0767
; Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
On the Zagreb - Sisak highway, section Velika Gorica, South - Lekenik, rescue archaeological excavations were conducted on the site Donji Vukojevac - North. During June and July 2010, a team of archaeologists from the Institute of Archaeology explored the 1000 m2 area on which a part of the settlement from the early Iron Age - La Tène period, 2000 years old, was discovered. The area designated for the research, Donji Vukojevac crossing, on the flat part of the large terrace extended 65 m to the north and 35 m to the south of the moderate slope towards the valley of the stream Koravac. Although the width of the excavation area was limited to just 10 m, a series of working and storage pits, wooden pole cuts and foundation trenches of rectangular houses were discovered on a flat terrace. The most significant discovery was made in the southern part of the excavation area on a gentle slope of the plateau, where the palisades and fundamental part of the earthen rampart 2 m wide was discovered and excavated 34 m in length. The newly discovered settlement in Donji Vukojevac can be dated to the La Tène period; it (the earthen rampart) resembles the one discovered under the building of the Zagreb City Museum in Opatička street in Zagreb Upper Town. At that time, the area south of Turopolje was occupied by Kolapiani, with the central fortified shrine on Turska kosa near Topusko. North of Turopolje the great tribe Jazi resided, and one of their centres was Sveti Petar Ludbreški. The large La Tène fortified settlement discovered in Donji Vukojevac probably belonged to an independent Pannonian tribe Andizets, who were a part of the tribal alliance of Celtic Tauriscs.
Keywords
the La Tène period; settlement; earthen ramparts; palisades; rescue excavations; the Zagreb - Sisak highway; Donji Vukojevac; Turopolje; central Croatia
Hrčak ID:
106374
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Publication date:
12.6.2012.
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