Archaeologia Adriatica, Vol. 15 No. 1, 2021.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.15291/archeo.3580
New Find of an Altar from the Neolithic Settlement of Smilčić
Brunislav Marijanović
; University of Zadar, Department of Archaeology, Zadar, Croatia
Abstract
The paper discusses a new find of two ceramic fragments from the Neolithic site of Barice in Smilčić recovered in the 2016/17 excavations. The sherds belong to a pottery object that in its morphological characteristics exhibits distinct similarity to roofs of the ceramic house models recorded at a number of sites in the region of southeastern
Europe. As all previously recovered finds were interpreted as a special kind of an altar, the find from Smilčić might also belong to the same group of finds, all the more since a similar find was found in an unknown context in the excavations in 1956/59 and 1962. The find was dated to the Middle Neolithic and attributed to the Danilo culture
on the basis of motifs executed on the preserved parts of the walls.
Keywords
Smilčić; settlement; Middle Neolithic; altar shaped as a house model
Hrčak ID:
272399
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Publication date:
14.2.2022.
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