Opera_16_2009_Dendro2.pdf

In: VELUŠČEK, Anton (ur.) The Ljubljansko barje in the 2nd half of the 4th millennium BC, Opera Instituti archaeologici Sloveniae 16, IzA ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, 167-175, 2009

Stare gmajne Pile-Dwelling Settlement and its Era, 2009

In this chapter, we introduce two oak logboats from Stare gmajne. The comparatively well preserved vessels contain transverse reinforcements. Dendrochronological analysis showed that both logboats are contemporary to the pile-dwelling settlement; logboat 2 was made and used at the last stage of the settlement around 3109 ± 12 BC, while the logboat 1 was probably made c. 50 years earlier.

Journal of Archaeological Science, 2010

We present absolute dates of seven late Neolithic pile-dwellings on Ljubljansko barje, Slovenia. They were settled from ca. 3600 to 3332 (±10) and from 3160 to 3071 (±14) cal BC, as shown by investigations of wood using dendrochronology and radiocarbon wiggle-matching. We defined eleven periods of intensive tree felling (and building activities) and one major settlement gap (when no trees were felled) from 3332 to 3160 cal BC. A major settlement gap presumably also followed after 3071 cal BC (i.e., after the end date of the investigated sites). Our investigations included over 2500 pieces of wood, mainly from the piles on which the dwellings were built. Among important wooden artefacts were a wheel with axle (one of the oldest preserved wheels in the world) and two dugout canoes, all from the settlement phase from 3160 to 3100 cal BC. As shown by parallel studies, the economy in the sites was characterized by copper metallurgy, skilful wood processing and use, cultivation of domestic plants, gathering of wild plants, animal husbandry, hunting and fishing. The settlements were contemporaneous with a number of sites in the north of the Alps, the younger ones coincided with the lifetime of the Neolithic Iceman (Ötzi). Since Ljubljansko barje has a strategic position at the crossroads between western central and (south) eastern Europe the presented absolute dates provide a basis for their comparison with other dated contemporaneous sites (in the west), to revise the chronology of similar sites in the (south) east (which are not yet exactly dated), and to evaluate their interconnection and roles in cultural development in prehistory.

Arheološki vestnik 62 (2011)

The article presents the results of archaeological, dendrochronological, and archaeozoological research at four pile-dwelling settlements at the Ljubljansko barje, at the previously investigated Založnica and at the newly discovered Črni graben, Dušanovo, and Blato. During 2009 and 2010, we had documented and sampled archaeological finds (pottery), wooden remains of piles driven into the ground, on which the pile-dwellings were built, and animal bone remains. Dendrochronological analysis was performed on the samples of wood, comprising over 45 tree rings. The determinability of animal bones was high as expected (NISP = 42 at N = 70). Wood samples from Založnica, which was inhabited during the century prior to 2400 BC, were dated to the period between 2459 and 2457. Ash wood at Črni graben was mostly cut down in 2491 BC. The wood from the sites of Dušanovo and Blato could not be analysed because it had too few tree rings or was not sufficiently preserved. The archaeological finds at Založnica, Črni graben, and Dušanovo are assigned to the Somogyvár-Vinkovci culture. The pile-dwelling of Blato is later and most probably dates to the Middle Bronze Age. Thus it belongs to the group of similar settlements that mark the end of the pile-dwelling era at the Ljubljansko barje. The species composition of the animal remains sample, with a significant representation of hunted species, is also in line with such a time definition. A bovine phalange from the pile-dwelling of Črni graben reveals deformations that can be connected to the use of these animals as working animals.

Paper presents part of the research project results focused on the Ižica floodplain and archaeological sites Maharski and Resnikov prekop in Ljubljana Marshes. LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) imagery and radiocarbon dates of stratigraphic sequences from the Maharski prekop site and of a network of palaeochannels around the sit e clearly suggest that settlement was located in the floodplain, next to the active rivers, and not in the lake

Opuscula Archaeologica Radovi Arheološkog zavoda, Vol.28 No.1, 2004

U radu se ukratko navode rezultati terenskoga rada na Palagruži tijekom rujna 2003. koji je nastavak radova obavljenih 1996. i 2002. Opisuje se nalaz ulomaka keramičkoga cjedila iz ranoga neolitičkog razdoblja na položaju Jonkova njiva, nalazi kasnoantičke arhitekture («utvrde») otkriveni ispred crkve sv. Mihovila te brojni nalazi, osobito grčke i helenističke keramike, na južnoj padini koji također potvrđuju postojanje Diomedova svetišta na Palagruži. Georadarska prospekcija pokazala je da ispod kamenog pločnika za sakupljanje kišnice postoje stariji arhitektonski ostaci. Na Palagruži se postavljaju trojezične ploče koje upozoravaju posjetioce na važnost njezina očuvanja. Započet je i rad na projektu uređenja Salamandrije i arheološke zbirke u svjetioniku. This work briefly outlines the results of field work on the island of Palagruža conducted in September 2003 which was a resumption of works that commenced in 1996 and 2002. There are descriptions of the fragment of a ceramic strainer from the early Neolithic period found at Jonkova njiva, Late Roman architecture (“fortification”) discovered in front of the Church of St. Michael, and numerous finds, particularly of Greek and Hellenistic pottery, on the southern slope, which also confirms the existence of a Diomedes sanctuary on Palagruža. Georadar remote sensing has shown that there are older architectural remains under the stone pavement used to collect rainwater. Signs in three languages have been posted to caution visitors of the importance of their preservation. Works have also commenced on the project to landscape Salamandrija and set up an archeological collection in the lighthouse.

In: Lőrinczy G. (Hrsg.): A kőkortól a középkorig. Tanulmányok Trogmayer Ottó 60. születésnapjára – Von der Steinzeit bis zum Mittelalter. Studien zum 60. Geburtstag von Ottó Trogmayer. Szeged, 161–172., 1994

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