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New Muli-disciplinary Data from the Neolithic in Serbia. The 2019 and 2021 Excavations at Svinjarička Čuka
Get PDFThe excavations at Svinjarička Čuka in the South Morava Valley in Serbia are presented with new primary data from the field and related material and scientific analyses. Newly recovered architectural remains from the classical Starčevo period revealed a variety of domestic features, so far belonging to an earlier and later occupation phase at the river terrace dating between 5700/5600 and 5500 BC. Details of the stratigraphy and certain materials are presented for selected domestic contexts, including one potential ‘Starčevo house’. Archaeological and scientific analyses are discussed and contextualised within the Neolithisation process in the chapters on new radiocarbon data and their Bayesian modelling, pottery studies, chipped stones and their raw material analyses, grinding kits, animal remains, archaeobotanical results and charcoal analysis. The later occupation at the site is presented with new results for the Middle and Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age, including domestic contexts, radiocarbon data and materials.Der Text bietet einen Überblick zu neuen Ergebnissen der Ausgrabungen und naturwissenschaftlichen Untersuchungen an der Fundstelle Svinjarička Čuka im südlichen Morava-Tal in Serbien. Kürzlich gefundene Architekturreste der klassischen Starčevo Kultur belegen eine Reihe unterschiedlicher Siedlungsbefunde, die sich bislang einer früheren und einer späteren Besiedlungsphase auf der Flussterrasse zuordnen lassen, die absolut zwischen 5700/5600 und 5500 calBC datiert werden kann. Die Stratigraphie und Aspekte des Fundmaterials ausgewählter Kontexte werden vorgestellt, darunter ein potentielles „Starčevo Haus“. Archäologische und naturwissenschaftliche Untersuchungen werden diskutiert und im Rahmen des Neolithisierungsprozesses kontextualisiert, mit Abschnitten zu neuen Radiokarbondatierungen und ihrer Bayesschen Modellierung, Keramikuntersuchungen, der geschlagenen Steinindustrie mit ihren Rohstoffquellen, Reibsteinen, den Faunenresten, den Ergebnissen von archäobotanischen und Holzkohleuntersuchungen. Die späteren Besiedlungsphasen des Fundplatzes werden mit neuen Ergebnissen zu Siedlungskontexten, Radiokarbondatierungen und Fundmaterial der mittleren und späten Bronzezeit und der frühen Eisenzeit vorgestellt
Researching Roman Mortars from the Danube Region - Archaeological Perspective of the MoDeCo2000 Project
Get PDFLime mortar is a building material that has been used since the 8th millennium BC. For thousands of years, people used it to make floors or plaster walls, while it was used as structural mortar from the period of the Roman Republic, after the beginning of the 2nd century BC (Artioli, Secco and Addis 2019: 172-173). The addition of pozzolanic materials enabled the development of Roman cement opus cementicium) and the erection of monumental and durable buildings (Adam 2005: 116-156). The first constructions built with lime mortar on the territory of modern-day Serbia appear in the 1st century AD, after the Roman conquest of these areas and their inclusion into the Roman Empire. Historical sources and fresco depictions testify to the manner of preparation and use of lime mortar during Antiquity. However, these sources mainly refer to the territories of modern-day Italy. The only sources for studying the technology of making lime mortar and the use of raw materials in the territory of Moesia Superior and Pannonia Inferior are the physical remains of the buildings built using this material, as well as the remains of the mortar-making process (e.g., lime slacking pits)
О словенским налазима на југу Аварског каганата
Get PDFИако су Словени представљали једну од најзначајнијих етничких група под аварском влашћу, њихова оставштина се најчешће не издваја довољно јасно, ни у односу на начин сахрањивања, нити према материјалној култури. Рад даје виђење начина на који се вршила етничка интерпретација раносредњовековних налазишта у Војводини, на југу некадашњег Каганата, и покушава да одреди налазе који би се са више сигурности могли приписати Словенима. Реч је о налазима урни, тзв. словенских фибула и поједниних посуда израђених без употребе витла. Малобројност тих налаза, распоређених углавном низ обалу Дунава, није сама по себи доказ о малом броју Словена на југу Каганата, чије је присуство на том простору посведочено у писаним изворима. Понуђене аналогије нашим налазима из несловенских контекста не оспоравају њихову могућу словенску атрибуцију, али служе као упозорење да етничко приписивање таквих предмета ваља вршити са више опреза
Aquae in the De Aedificiis : Territorial and administrative issues in Dacia Ripensis during the 6th century
No full textThis article explores the debate raised around the soundness of hypothetical structural
changes occurred in the administrative organization of the provinces along the Lower
Danube during the 6th century. The hypothesis of a gradual shift from a centralized provincial
administration towards a city-based governance has been advanced on the basis of the
information provided by the fourth book of Procopius' De Aedificiis. The manuscript shows
indeed an interesting incoherence in the categorization of the forts and fortified settlements
in the region, insofar as when describing the situation of Dacia Ripensis and Dacia
Mediterranea it abandons a province-based listing in favor of a city-based organization. This
has led different scholars to surmise a progressive increment in autonomy and power of major
settlements at the expense of the provincial central authority. This hypothesis, however,
presents several issues, which emerge evidently through the comparison of Procopius' work
with another relevant source of the time: the Novellae Iustiniani. The ambiguities around the
use of the lists in the De Aedificiis as evidence for administrative changes along the Lower
Danube will be analyzed within the historical frame provided by the development of the city
of Aquae, in Dacia Ripensis
Imported molluscs in the Central Balkans and Southern Carpathian Basin in the Neolithic revisited
Get PDFThe trade and exchange of marine mollusc shells in the Neolithic and the Eneolithic in Europe is a very interesting topic that attracted attention by many scholars. The phenomenon of Spondylus trade in particular was addressed from different perspectives. However, the entire European region is not researched in an uniform way. In regions such as present-day Bulgaria or Hungary the evidence of marine molluscs is rich and diverse, mainly due to intensive research of cemeteries with rich burial equipment. The archaeological record from the area in between, namely western and central Balkans and the southern Carpathian basin (roughly present-day Serbia and Croatia) is somewhat different; furthermore, it was never systematically studied. The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of current evidence regarding the distribution of the imported marine mollusc shells in this region and also to re-analyse earlier hypotheses in the light of the current evidence. Some 40 years ago, it was suggested, after the information available at the time, that only the sites along the Danube took part in the Spondylus trade during the Late Neolithic. However, mollusc shells were present in the area already in the Early Neolithic Starčevo culture, furthermore, they may be found in the Late Neolithic in the entire Balkan area. The main obstacle for the interpretation is inadequate research, but also specific trait of the Neolithic in the area with very few burials discovered. Findings are limited to predominantly discarded, broken and/or lost ornaments from settlements and the quantity of ornaments seems modest in comparison with other parts of Europe. However, current evidence shows that the ornaments from mollusc were highly valued items, and that the central Balkan area was an important trading route through which these ornaments were further distributed throughout the Neolithic period.[https://www.e-a-a.org/eaa2022/]
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Праисторијске коштане индустрије са локалитета Бубањ – Ново Село
Get PDFLokalitet Bubanj spada među najznačajnije praistorijske lokalitete u Srbiji, i svakako je jedan od ključnih za praistoriju niškog regiona. Reviziona istraživanja koja su sprovedena od 2008. do 2014. godine na preostalom delu inače devastiranog lokaliteta, pružila su veoma značajne podatke o raznim aspektima života u praistoriji. Pored ostalog, prikupljena je veća količina faunalnih ostataka, iz kojih je izdvojeno oko sto osamdeset kostiju sa tragovima namerne modifikacije i upotrebe. Ovi nalazi omogućili su prvu detaljnu analizu koštane industrije u eneolitskom periodu na centralnom Balkanu, i dali su određene podatke i o koštanoj tehnologiji u starčevačkom periodu. Zbirka koštanih artefakata sastoji se od celih, korišćenih predmeta, alatki i neutilitarnih predmeta, kao i od određene količine otpadaka od proizvodnje. Zbirka je analizirana sa tehnološke strane, tačnije, analizirani su izbor sirovina, tehnologija izrade, tipologija, kao i tragovi upotrebe
The use of space and internal organization of the Late Neolithic settlement at Drenovac, Serbia
Get PDFThe site of Drenovac in central Serbia has been extensively researched through several projects from the 1970s to
present. In recent years, application of geophysical survey significantly changed a course in the investigation of the
use of space and spatial patterning. It provided means for targeted excavations and research of specific features
– houses, non-domestic buildings, ditches, etc. Comparing different lines of evidence obtained through recent systematic
excavations and geophysical surveying, we will present the complex history of the settlement and its internal
organization.
Drenovac is a large and long-lived settlement inhabited in the Early (6100-5900 BC) and the Late Neolithic (5300-
4700/4500 BC), with thick cultural deposits and complex stratigraphy. Detecting changes in size and internal organization
of the settlement during this long occupation proved to be a difficult task. While data on the earlier phases of
occupation are still limited, extensive research of the latest building horizon (Vinča-Pločnik phase) provided valuable
data for research of the settlement’s spatial organization and architecture. Thus the focus of this presentation will
be on this phase. On the macro level, we will discuss the settlement’s size, layout and internal organization. We will
evaluate both natural and cultural factors that could affect the specific patterning of different features. On the micro
level, we will turn to the individual houses and their immediate surroundings, and make some observations about
space division and use
Археолошки музеј на отвореном у Стапарској бањи крај Ужица: изградња и уређење простора
Get PDFАрхеолошки локалитет „Велика Градина“ налази се у селу Стапари покрај града Ужица, на узвишењу изнад реке Ђетиње. Истраживања обављена пре више од шест деценија показала су постојање вишеслојног праисторијског насеља на овом месту. Кроз пројекат прекограничне сарадње Републике Србије и Босне и Херцеговине под именом
New Life of Neolithic Heritage in Recognized Natural Areas of Great Importance – NeoLIFЕ, у периоду од 2018. до 2022. године развијена је и реализована идеја изградње археолошког музеја на отвореном заснована на постојању наведеног археолошког локалитета
Coin Hoards Dated to the Time of Maximinus I from the Territory of Present-Day Serbia
Get PDFThere are three known hoards from the territory of present-day Serbia
which end with coins of Maximinus I: the Supska II, Ravna and Mehovine hoards.
Taking into account the Roman division of the provinces, the hoards from Ravna and
Supska (II) originated from the territory of Upper Moesia, while the Mehovine hoard
represents a find from this period, deposited in Lower Pannonia. Since the latest pieces
in all three hoards are dated broadly from January/autumn AD 236 to the first quarter
of AD 238, the reasons for burying the finds may be different: the terror spread by
Maximinus’ agents when collecting taxes; the violence of the troops and of the local
administration; or a reaction to the news of the rebellions in Africa and in Rome
Compatible Mortars for the Architectural Conservation of the Danube Limes in Serbia – Importance of the Raw Component Characterisation
Get PDFRecipes for compatible mortars for conservation must be based on raw materials whose presence was determined during the characterisation of historical mortars used on buildings on which we perform renewal or repairs. Additional materials are often used that improve the resistance of conservation mortars to various influences, while all the time ensuring that they do not have any negative effects on any part of the structure