Review article

Ervenica – part of a Vučedol culture settlement

Ina Miloglav ; Odsjek za arheologiju, Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska

Abstract

During rescue excavations conducted at the street address
Matije Gupca 8 at Ervenica in the city of Vinkovci
in 2003, the remains of a Vučedol horizon and
traces of human habitation during the late classical
B-2 stage of the Vučedol culture were discovered. A
large quantity of ceramics, remains of burned floors
and results of earlier research lead to the conclusion
that this site was part of a larger settlement that was
centred on the Tržnica (‘Marketplace’) tell. During research
so far conducted in the territory of Ervenica,
the remains of four house foundations and five waste
pits have been recorded. The link to the neighbouring
Tržnica tell is obvious due to the similarities between
the ceramics and above all the location on two naturally
elevated sites divided only by the confluence of
the Ervenica Stream into the Bosut River. Excavations
at Matije Gupca 8 have only confirmed the hypothesis
that two distinguished Vučedol sites simultaneously
existed in the Vinkovci territory as part of a single
settlement: the larger on the Tržnica tell centred on
the site of today’s Hotel Slavonija, and the somewhat
smaller one in neighbouring Ervenica.

Keywords

Vinkovci; Ervenica; Eneolithic; Vučedol Culture; settlement

Hrčak ID:

26715

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/26715

Publication date:

22.8.2008.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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