Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.33254/piaz.35.5
New knowledge about the chronology of The Batina – Sredno cemetery at the beginning of the Early Iron Age
Zvonko Bojčić
; Archaeological museum Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
Daria Ložnjak Dizdar
orcid.org/0000-0002-5769-2269
; Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia
Tomislav Hršak
; Museum of Slavonia in Osijek, Archaeological department, Osijek, Croatia
Abstract
Batina (Kiskőszeg) is one of the most significant sites in the southern Carpathian Basin from the end of the Late Bronze Age and the beginning of the Early Iron Age. For more than a century, Batina has been the source of many exceptional finds, now stored in the collections of several European museums, which are considered to originate from destroyed funerary complexes and which helped define the chronology of the development of the Dalj Group. A systematic field survey was done to determine the location of the Dalj Group cemetery in Batina. Its results indicated that the cemetery could have been located in Sredno, a site south of the contemporary settlement on Gradac. This was followed by archaeological excavations in Sredno, which revealed many cremation graves of the Dalj Group from the Late Bronze Age and the beginning of the Early Iron Age. The graves contained ceramic, metal and glass finds, confirming the earlier hypotheses about the great significance of Batina as an important southern Pannonian centre from the end of the 2nd millennium BC and the first centuries of the 1st millennium BC, which stood on an important communication line along the Danube.
Keywords
Early Iron Age; cemetery; Batina; Dalj Group; Carpathian Basin; ceramic; chronology
Hrčak ID:
212022
URI
Publication date:
10.12.2018.
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