Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.33254/piaz.39.1.3
Bronze and Iron Age settlements at the site of Osijek – Ciglana and Zeleno polje
Marijana Krmpotić
; Croatian Conservation Institute, Department for Archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia
Tajana Trbojević Vukičević
; Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Archaeological research at the site of Osijek – Ciglana and Zeleno polje revealed remains of a Bronze and Iron Age settlement. The earliest settlement was established during the Middle Bronze Age and was continually settled till the early phase of the Late Bronze Age. After a long hiatus, the site was settled again in the late phase of the Early Iron Age and in the Late La Tene period. Excavation of a larger area enabled researchers to track changes in the structure and organization of the settlement, while the conducted archaeozoological and archaeobotanical analyses testified to the economy of a population settled in the same area over a longer period of time. In the Bronze Age settlement, the most significant changes are noticeable at the turn of the early to the late phase of the Middle Bronze Age, which corresponds to the disappearance of encrusted pottery of the Middle Bronze Age and somewhat more common appearance of material assigned to the Tumulus culture. The results of archaeozoological and archaeobotanical analyses show that, regardless of the changes of archaeological cultures and periods, the economy of the population settled in the same area did not significantly alter.
Keywords
Bronze Age; Iron Age; settlement; archaeozoological analysis; archaeobotanical analysis; Osijek
Hrčak ID:
280989
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Publication date:
28.7.2022.
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