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Rescue archaeological excavations of the AS 4 Poljana Križevačka 1 site on the route of the A12 motorway, section Gradec – Kloštar Vojakovački
Marko Dizdar
orcid.org/0000-0003-3964-9002
; Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Rescue excavations of the AS 4 Poljana Križevačka 1 site on the route of the A12 motorway, section Gradec-Kloštar Vojakovački covered 36152 m2 and yielded the remains of settlements from prehistory, antiquity and the Middle Ages, including an exceptional amount of data about settlement infrastructure as well as abundant material remains. The site lies on a gentle oval elevation in the valley of the Glogovnica brook, on the south-western fringes of the Poljana Križevačka village. The excavated finds show that the salvage excavations uncovered the remains of settlements from several periods of prehistory – Copper Age (Lasinja culture), Early Bronze Age (Vinkovci culture) and Late Bronze Age (younger phase of the Urnfield culture). The Late Iron Age settlement of the La Tene culture probably continued to exist in the Early Roman period. The most intensive habitation was documented in the Late Middle Ages.
The intensity of habitation throughout these periods bears testimony to the exceptionally favourable position, surrounded by fertile land and situated on an important communication route connecting the upper Posavina region with the Križevci-Koprivnici area and the upper Podravina region.
Keywords
rescue excavation; Križevci; prehistory; antiquity; Middle Ages; settlement; infrastructure; Lasinja culture; Vinkovci culture; Urnfield culture; La Tene culture
Hrčak ID:
112038
URI
Publication date:
13.12.2013.
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