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Field Survey of the Plot in the Cadastral Municipalities of Beketinci, Čepinski Martinci and Vuka
Kornelija Minichreiter
; Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia
Zorko Marković
orcid.org/0000-0002-2342-0767
; Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
In 2009 the Institute of Archaeology from Zagreb began a systematic field survey of the plots stretching east and south of the excavated zone of the archaeological site Bentež near Beketinci, discovered in 2007 and 2008 within archaeological rescue excavations of the Slavonica motorway section from Osijek to Đakovo. This section is part of the international motorway Budapest – Ploče, which passes through eastern Croatia from Beli Manastir in the Baranja Region via Osijek and Đakovo to Svilaj on the Sava River. As this part of eastern Slavonia has not been surveyed in detail yet, the first systematic field survey of plots surrounding Beketinci and Vuka was conducted in order to get an overview of detailed topography of the wider surroundings of the explored prehistoric and mediaeval settlements. The area of the cadastral municipalities of Beketinci, Čepinski Martinci and Vuka is a part of the alluvial plain south of Osijek, in the geographical sense belonging to the lowland part of eastern Croatia’s territory. This part of the Drava River hinterland is the lowest area, with alluvial plains cross-cut by the rivers of Vuka, Karašica and Vučica. At the slightly elevated dry plots between those rivers, particularly along the Vuka River which (with 112 km) is the longest tributary of the Danube in Croatia, remains of numerous settlements from prehistoric and mediaeval periods were discovered. In field surveys of the plots eight archaeological sites were documented belonging to the prehistoric, antiquity and mediaeval periods. Systematic field surveys of the plots in these cadastral municipalities shall be continued within the Zagreb Institute of Archaeology’s Research Project Prehistoric Identity of the First Farming Populations of Continental Croatia (197-1970685-0681).
Keywords
field survey; prehistory; classical antiquity; Middle Ages; Beketinci; Vuka; East Slavonia; Croatia
Hrčak ID:
65261
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Publication date:
3.3.2011.
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