Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.33254/piaz.35.3

TWIN CIRCLES: new insights in the Neolithic settlment pattern

Hrvoje Kalafatić ; Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia
Bartul Šiljeg orcid.org/0000-0003-2286-7775 ; Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Neolithic settlements (6th/5th millennium BC) encircled by moats were widespread throughout Europe, including eastern Croatia, on which there is an extensive bibliography. Excavations conducted over the last several years have confirmed the existence of thus far unrecorded methods for the formation and organization of such settlements in eastern Croatia – twin settlements. This new type of settlement was ascertained by means of remote sensing from aircraft and by means of drones, in combination with a series of satellite and aerial vertical photographs, while the results of field surveys of the sites so discovered have confirmed that they were generally multi-layered, long-term and attributed to the Sopot culture, so that they may be generally dated to the 5th millennium BC.

Keywords

prehistoric enclosures; Neolithic; Sopot culture; remote sensing; tells; landscape

Hrčak ID:

212020

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/212020

Publication date:

10.12.2018.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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