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The site of AN 2 Beli Manastir – Popova Zemlja was excavated in 2014 and 2015 on the route of the future section of the A5 motorway from Osijek to Beli Manastir. Two horizons were identified, one from antiquity and the other from prehistory. The horizon of antiquity, dated to the 3rd century, is associated with two kilns for producing bricks, a child’s grave, and buried pits with finds. The prehistoric horizon contains numerous buried pits and ditches, particularly large-size pit structures, as well as graves with the dead in a curled position and a ditch regulating the water flow, which dominates the space because of its size and spread. On the basis of analogue examples of fragments of pottery and ornaments and the results of the analysis of skeleton remains by the 14C method, prehistoric life at the site went on through the Neolithic and Eneolithic cultures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The construction of the south lane of the southern bypass of the city of Osijek in 2013 prompted the rescue archaeological excavations of the site of Hermanov Vinograd (Herman’s vineyard), since the route ran across its northwest edge. The excavations, covering the largest area of the site yet (2.670 m²), found numerous archaeological structures of burials and layers pointing to architectural complexes of residential and defensive character. The examination of the stratigraphy identified four construction phases of the site, which were dated after the results of the radiocarbon analysis of the age of bone remains from grave 2. Numerous mobile archaeological materials in the form of potsherds, house daub, pottery, bone and stone objects, also indicate a site with the character of a settlement of the Sopot cultural sphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]