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Settlement Dynamics in Late Bronze Age Northern Croatia

This paper draws on archaeological research on settlement patterning and landscape use at the end of the Middle and the beginning of the Late Bronze Age in Northern Croatia. It examines the spatial relations of two neighboring prehistoric populations that inhabited the basins of the Sava and Drava rivers at the time of “transition”. The article analyzes the way the two communities, known as Virovitica and Barice-Gređani groups, were interrelated in both settlement patterning and landscape use. This paper will use examples from recent excavations of the sites of Mačkovac-Crišnjevi, Orubica and Čepinski Martinci. It will show how internal settlement structure could be employed to develop not just the knowledge on scale and size, but rather that of a settlement as a “living system” – an arena of social, economic, cultural events and practices. In conclusion the paper suggests that the study of a particular Late Bronze Age settlement organization, defense systems, metallurgical activity and burial rites calls for new and complex analysis of the prehistoric socio-scape and landscape activities.

bronze age; settlement pattern; settlement planning; cemeteries; hoards; settlement territory

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