Professional paper
The Traffic Significance of Jasenice in Prehistory and Antiquity
Tomislav Šarlija
; Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The area of Jasenice in professional literature has been poorly evaluated and archeological and historical research has so far avoided this region.The author argues that the territory of Jasenice was inhabited in prehistoric times and played an important role in in the transport connection of the southern parts of Velebit foothills with the trans-Velebit regions. Along with several already known hill forts, the author visited the area of Jasenice during 2008 and 2009 and discovered the existence of another nine hill forts, which are described in this paper for the first time. The author sets the fore-mentioned hill forts into the context of prehistoric and Roman communication routes which led through the territory of Jasenice – the road from Maslenica to Mali Alan, the road from Obrovac to Mali Alan and the maritime routes through Novsko Ždrilo, the Novigrad Sea and the Canyon of Zrmanja. These routes were secured, namely, by a whole system of hill forts, from Dračevac across Gradina west to the hamlet Zelenikovac, Visoka Glavica and Razvršje on the road Maslenica – Mali Alan, the hill fort Modrići and the hill fort at Fratarska glavica on the road Obrovac – Mali Alan to the control points along the fore-mentioned maritime routes – Gradina and Nadgradina in Modrič, the hill fort Razvršje and Pećina in Ždrilo. The aim of this paper is to encourage further exploration of the area and possible archeological research in some of the localities described in this text.
Keywords
Jasenice; traffic; prehistory; antiquity
Hrčak ID:
63834
URI
Publication date:
30.12.2010.
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