Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21857/ydkx2crn19
Dolina na Savi in the Heritage of Communication
Daria Ložnjak Dizdar
orcid.org/0000-0002-5769-2269
; Institut za arheologiju, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
Dolina na Savi is a settlement and a cemetery dated in the younger phase of the Late Bronze Age and the transition to the Early Iron Age. Traces of communication between communities along and across the river Sava through the centuries were discovered during septennial excavation. Dolina na Savi is situated across a very important site – Donja Dolina in northern Bosnia. Strategic points in a landscape such as Dolina and traces of life thereon open the questions about use of landscape, change of communication routes, and advantages and disadvantages of life along the river Sava, with the focus on the younger periods of prehistory. The data collected by archaeological research have shed a different light on the role of the river Sava in the communication network in the southern Carpathian Basin, in comparison with the picture of the role thereof present in modern history and currently. The heritage of communication is less visible, but exceptionally important in the research of landscape, the use of landscape, and the interpretation of the past. The orientation of the Požega Valley to the Sava Valley and natural communications by the Orljava Valley and clumps between Slavonian hills influenced strong connections of the Golden Valley with the Sava Valley, and involvement in a wider regional communication network. Better knowledge and understanding of local communication heritage have contributed to the bettering of wider regional knowledge and overview of historical events, especially in an important and dynamic communication area such as the interfluves of Drava and Sava.
Keywords
Dolina na Savi; settlement; cemetery; Late Bronze Age; river Sava; communications
Hrčak ID:
215769
URI
Publication date:
31.12.2018.
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