ŽIVOT NA VELEBITSKOJ VISORAVNI U PRETPOVIJESNO DOBA Veliko Rujno
THE LIFE ON VELEBIT PLATEAU IN THE PREHISTORY TIME

Summary/Abstract: Based on the archeological researches at Veliko Rujno, the author here reaches some conclusions the life on that plateau in the prehistory time. She describes further some peculiarities of the plateau ancient times and the style of living thereupon. But, the most of her attention has been dedicated to the archeological finds there. During researches, which have been analysed here, on site were opened eight sounds and found some cultural strata, meaning details of residential objects raised on the rock, wooden objects on the stone basis. In two sounds was found an object of three to four metres lengthwise, while could not be established. In the supposed centre of the house, on the floor, there was a fire-place and around it pottery fragments and small cattle bones, probably of gout, in other two sounds, near the fire-place, found one hollow ware made of baked clay in non-identified fragments. It most probably served for the acidification or for clotting of milk. In almost all sounds were found the grindstone fragments, which speaks continual living and activity of the inhabitants there in ancient times. The photographs of the locality, from the air, display the orthogonal division of the ground, which can be descended from early or late Bronze Age. From the same age come also all the ceramics found on the two different levels. Dry stone masonry objects, found in the base of ruin, were of special interest for the researcher as, according to the construction technique, they could be attributed to the megalithic. By further archeological researches close those structures their oldness will certainly be confirmed scientifically.

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