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It is widely accepted that the Liburni, at some point in the Iron Age, ruled over much of the Adriatic. Professor Slobodan Cace was the first scholar to truly challenge these narratives through a critique of the written sources. The aim of this paper is to build upon the work of Cace in seeking to rethink identities in pre-Roman Liburnia through analysis of ancient literary sources. It also takes a multidisciplinary approach, and seeks to address ideas about identity and cultural change through material culture. A re-examination is undertaken into Liburnian identity through archaeological evidence, and the transformations it apparently went through during the Iron Age, focusing on ideas about ethno-cultural identities and ‘Hellenization’ in interpretations of developments in Liburnia during the last 4 centuries BCE.

Opće je prihvaćeno da su Liburni u jednom periodu željeznog doba vladali velikim dijelom Jadrana. Profesor Slobodan Čače prvi je znanstvenik koji je, analizirajući pisane izvore, doista propitivao takve zaključke. Cilj ovog rada je stoga nadovezati se na znanstvenu djelatnost prof. Čače i pokušati kroz analizu antičkih pisanih izvora propitati pitanje identiteta u predrimskoj Liburniji. Osim toga, rad je multidisciplinaran te se obrađuje i poimanje identiteta i kulturnograzvoja kroz materijalnu kulturu. Preispituje se i liburnski identitet kroz arheološke nalaze, kao i transformacije koje je on doživio tijekom željeznog doba, a s osobitim fokusom na ideje o etno-kulturnim identitetima i “helenizaciji” u interpretaciji razvoja Liburnije tijekom zadnjih četiri stoljeća prije Krista., It is widely accepted that the Liburni, at some point in the Iron Age, ruled over much of the Adriatic. Professor Slobodan Čače was the first scholar to truly challenge these narratives through a critique of the written sources. The aim of this paper is to build upon the work of Čače in seeking to rethink identities in pre-Roman Liburnia through analysis of ancient literary sources. It also takes a multidisciplinary approach, and seeks to address ideas about identity and cultural change through material culture. A reexamination is undertaken into Liburnian identity through archaeological evidence, and the transformations it apparently went through during the Iron Age, focusing on ideas about ethno-cultural identities and ‘Hellenization’ in interpretations of developments in Liburnia during the last 4 centuries BCE.