The monograph presents the results of archaeological excavations at the Sodolek site in Slovenske gorice. The entire settlement was excavated with remains from the Middle and Late Bronze Ages. The monograph presents analyzes of the forms and decoration of ceramics, analyzes of the chronology and interpretations of individual outstanding contexts. The site is important because it serves for the absolute dating and cultural-historical definition of the end of the Middle and the beginning of the Late Bronze Age. An extensive complex of ditches with pottery designed and decorated in the Middle Bronze Age style was discovered at the site. The youngest layers were dated to the middle of the 15th century BC. Next to it, the remains of a settlement from the Late Bronze Age were discovered, the beginning of which can be dated to the 30s of the 15th century BC. The settlement consists of a small number of remains of houses circularly arranged around the central space. It is one of the few settlements that clearly shows the structure and spatial distribution of residential buildings. At the same time, the discovered structures allow the reconstruction of some supposedly ritual activities related to the construction and abandonment of the settlement. At the beginning, a ceramic depot with a selection of ceramics was deposited on the outskirts, and when abandoned, some larger vessels were buried inside the central, supposedly residential, building.
COBISS.SI-ID: 298095104
The article presents a re-evaluation of the Late Bronze Age grave 127 from the Pobrežje cemetery. The analysis of the find was compared with objects from grave 4/1911 from Velika Gorica in Croatia and with the hoard from Fridolfing in Germany. Analyzes of material culture were focused on the interpretation of posamentary fibulae, this is a group of multi-spiral fibulae of the Pobrežje type, anthropomorphic pendants and large Vadena-type knives, which are appendages in the graves of eminent women. Based on the connection of the material culture in the grave, we explained the ceremonial connection of the individual elements of the costume. The graves from Pobrežje and Velika Gorica were interpreted as the burials of eminent members of society from the time of the 11th cent. BC or Ha A2 / B1 levels according to Central European relative chronology. We recognized them as a reflection of the period when in the area of the Podravje and Posavje corridors there were intensive contacts of old, Carpathian-Pannonian and new, Alpine, cultural and technological influences, the fusion of which created a recognizable local aesthetics of the Late Bronze Age.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1541412292
The article publishes an analysis of grave 40 from the Zavrč cemetery and a comparative formal and chronological analysis of similar ceramic finds. Grave 40 is one of the oldest cremated graves in Slovenia and belongs to the very beginning of the Urnfield culture. Reconstruction of the ritual showed that the remains of the cremated deceased were buried in an urn, and some burnt fragments of vessels were thrown into the grave, which were cremated together with the deceased. The formal analysis of the urn showed that despite the fact that it belongs to the spectrum of forms that have comparisons among the oldest graves of this type from northern Croatia and southern Hungary, direct comparisons, especially in terms of shape and design of the handle, can be found only in eastern Slovenia. Consequently, we formulated the hypothesis that already in the oldest period of the Urnfield culture we can recognize the formation of local formal styles of ceramics. Absolutely dated contexts with similar finds in the discussed area demonstrate that the beginning of cremation in the region and thus the beginning of the Urnfield culture can be traced back to the 30s of the 15th cent. BC.
COBISS.SI-ID: 67396194