Original scientific paper

Provenance of the Early Bronze Age Greenstone Axes from Monkodonja

Nina Zupančič ; University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Department of Geology Aškerčeva 12, SI-1000 Ljubljana
Simona Skobe ; University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Department of Geology Aškerčeva 12, SI-1000 Ljubljana
Miloš Miler ; Geological Survey of Slovenia Dimičeva ulica 14, SI-1000 Ljubljana
Kristina Mihovilić ; Archaeological Museum of Istria Carrarina 3, HR-52100 Pula
Bernhard Hänsel ; Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology Altensteinstraße 15, D-14195 Berlin
Biba Teržan ; University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of Archaeology Aškerčeva 2, SI-1000 Ljubljana

Abstract

This article covers three fragments of stone axes from the hillfort of
Monkodonja, for which a petrographical analysis was performed.
Shown here are the methods employed for this analysis and the
obtained results regarding the types and origins of stone. The
raw materials used for their manufacture, jade, serpentinite
and meta-diabase, stem from different sources. Most often
these materials were in use throughout the Late Neolithic and
Eneolithic, and in the case of Monkodonja, their use was also
dated at least through the first half of the 2nd millennium BC.

Keywords

Monkodonja; axes; jade; serpentinite; metadiabase

Hrčak ID:

129540

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/129540

Publication date:

18.11.2013.

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