Pod, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Pod
Gradina Pod
Gradina Pod is located in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Gradina Pod
Gradina Pod
Shown within Bosnia and Herzegovina
Locationnear Bugojno
RegionBosnia and Herzegovina
Coordinates44°03′14″N 17°25′26″E / 44.05389°N 17.42389°E / 44.05389; 17.42389
TypeHillfort
History
PeriodsBronze Age, Iron Age

Pod is an archeological site in the municipality of Bugojno, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is a prehistoric settlement and hill fort located about 40 m above the bed of the river Poričnica [sv], a tributary of the Vrbas, on a slope of Mountain Koprivnica above the main road leading from Bugojno to Gornji Vakuf, in the settlement of Čipuljić, today an integral part of Bugojno.

The fortified site was first inhabited in the early Bronze Age[1] and even eneolithic (2500 to 1700 BC).[2] After the Bronze Age it was uninhabited for four centuries, until repopulated in the early Iron Age (~700 BC)[3] till the turn of the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE.[2] Stratified materials from Pod defined Central Bosnian cultural group of the late Bronze Age. It was declared a National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina.[4]

Excavations

Archaeological excavation was undertaken there led by Branka Raunig in 1973.[5]

References

  1. ^ Coles, John M.; Harding, A. F. (1979). The bronze age in Europe: an introduction to the prehistory of Europe, c. 2000-700 BC. Taylor & Francis. p. 197. ISBN 978-0-416-70650-5.
  2. ^ a b "Pod, a prehistoric hillfort settlement, the archaeological site". Decisions on Designation of Properties as National Monuments. Bosnia and Herzegovina Commission to Preserve National Monuments. 2008. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 27 September 2010.
  3. ^ Wilkes, John (1995). The Illyrians. The Peoples of Europe. Wiley–Blackwell. pp. 34, 50, 51, 204. ISBN 978-0-631-19807-9.
  4. ^ "Commission to preserve national monuments". old.kons.gov.ba. Retrieved 2020-02-09.
  5. ^ "Sjećanje na Branku Raunig (1935-2008)". Zemaljski muzej Bosne i Hercegovine (in Bosnian). 2018-06-13. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
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