Original scientific paper

Late Bronze Age grave in Zbelava near Varaždin

Hrvoje Kalafatić ; Institute of Archaeology Zagreb
Saša Kovačević ; Institute of Archaeology Zagreb
Amelio Vekić ; Minstry of Culture, Conservation Department in Zagreb

Abstract

In 1997 archaeological rescue excavations were conducted
at the Zbelava-Pod lipom site on a section of the Zagreb-
Goričan motorway in the Drava River zone (Podravina)
near the city of Varaždin. The Pod lipom site was inhabited
in several epochs, most intensively in the late phase of
the Early Iron Age. During research in 1997, a grave was
found containing the charred remains of a deceased person
placed in an urn, which was culturally and chronologically
classified as Late Bronze Age. This is also the only
such find discovered during excavations in Zbelava, and it
belongs among the rarer finds of this type in the territory of
Varaždin’s Podravina and beyond.

Keywords

North-west Croatia; Podravina; Zbelava; Late Bronze Age; Urnfield culture; Virovitica group; urn grave

Hrčak ID:

60617

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/60617

Publication date:

1.9.2010.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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