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
Publication date:
1.9.2010.
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