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The methods of fishing and hunting in prehistory are a complex subject that needs to be analysed from different perspectives. Comprehensive analysis may enable reconstruction not only of subsistence and economy, but also of technology, social organization and cultural attitude towards the environment. Such studies must include various perspectives and also combine diverse data available from the archaeological record. The identification of fishing and hunting gear is not always easy or straightforward; some artefacts may have had another function, some parts may have been made from perishable materials. Among the Neolithic communities in South-East Europe, hunting and fishing preserved a certain role in the economy after the introduction of domesticated plants and animals. However, findings of hunting and fishing gear are not particularly rich, thus raising questions on the raw materials used and adequate identification of these items. In this paper, an overview will be offered of osseous artefacts identified as hunting and fishing gear recovered from Starčevo culture sites in Serbia; their techno-typological traits will be discussed, as well as their general place within the osseous industry and in the wider context of these communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Institute of Archaeology in Zagreb continued systematic archaeological excavations at Galovo site near Slavonski Brod in July 2017. The area of 55 m2 on the southwestern edge of the previously excavated part of the settlement was explored. This area mostly coincides with the surface surveyed by geophysical methods in 2016 (Botić 2017a: 144, Fig. 3). Two larger pit features (Figs. 1-3) were partially investigated and a large number of wooden posts of different dimensions were defined. Those two larger features are considerably shallowly dug in than the rest of the pit features from this site indicating younger phase of the settlement. This phase, defined for the first time during this year’s excavation, can be determined as the youngest according to ceramic finds which partly, instead of chaff tempering, exhibit sand tempering or tempering with admixtures of stone and chipped stone debris (Fig. 6). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Institute of Archaeology in Zagreb continued systematic archaeological excavations at Galovo site in July 2016. This year, the research of the section west and south of the working pit SU 3316/3317 explored in 2015 continued. West from this working pit a trench SU 3496/3497 of northwest-southeast orientation was excavated 18 m in length which represents the southern end of the large wooden fence SU 20 excavated in 1997 situated south of the large burial pit 9. Various large and small postholes were discovered in the trench with very large postholes situated every 2 m. This fence had an entrance 2 m wide in the part west of the large pit SU 3316/3317. Fragments of daub were found suggesting the firmer construction of the upper part of the fence. This fence was possibly built around the central part of the settlement. The southern end of the trench continues to the unexplored area of the site. Specific features of early Neolithic Galovo site are, among others, numerous fences explored previously which separated burial area from the settlement. This year's discovery of a part of the large fence around the central part of the settlement confirms a new dimension of the organization of early Neolithic life in the early stages of the development of Starčevo culture and completes the image of the settlements and life of the first European farmers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

U ožujku 2015. provedena su zaštitna istraživanja nalazišta AN 2 Donji Miholjac - Vrancari na trasi obilaznice grada Donjega Miholjca koje je smješteno jugozapadno od središta grada. Istraživanjima je potvrđeno postojanje naselja iz razdoblja neolitika koje je uočeno prilikom prethodno provedenoga terenskog pregleda. Vrlo su zanimljivi istraženi infrastrukturni objekti koji se mogu pripisati karakterističnom tipu tzv. duge kuće. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Institut za arheologiju iz Zagreba proveo je tijekom kolovoza 2015. nastavak sustavnih arheoloških istraživanja, koje obavlja od 1997. na zemljištu Galovo u sjeveroistočnom dijelu Slavonskog Broda. Ovogodišnjim radovima nastavljeno je istraživanje južnog dijela obredno ukopnog prostora istraženog 2014. s njegove istočne strane. Na udaljenosti od desetak metara od grobne jame prema istoku otkrivena je velika radna zemunica SJ 3316/3317. U njezinom sjevernom dijelu nađene su dvije lončarske peći veća i manja. U južnom dijelu zemunice nađena je kalotasta peć za dobivanje pepela i nedaleko od nje ukopani jarak s ostacima drvenih greda i glinenih utega od tkalačkog stana. Među keramikom nađeni su brojni ulomci lonaca, zdjela i zdjela na nozi, grube i fine fakture. Od posebnih nalaza nađeni su dijelovi žrtvenog stolića, ugaoni dio dva žrtvenika s nogom, tri noge različitih žrtvenika (jedna noga je zoomorfna), glinena perlica, dva dijela ruke od figure, protoma sa žrtvenika (glava divlje svinje), dio diska s rupom i nekoliko dijelova utega za tkalački stan. Od kamenih izrađevina nađene su raznovrsni alati, sječiva, strelice, krhotine, komadi brusnog kamenja, jezgre, dijelovi žrvnjeva, drobilica i nekoliko kamenih sjekira. U radnoj zemunici nađena je na nekoliko mjesta manja količina životinjskih kosti. Arheološka građa pripada stupnju Linear A starčevačke kulture. Otkriće radne zemunice s jugoistočne strane obredno - ukopnog prostora možda ukazuje na njegovu granicu prema naselju na ovoj jugoistočnoj strani ukopnog prostora. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In July 2014, the Institute of Archaeology in Zagreb continued with systematic archaeological research that has been carried out at Galovo in the north east of Slavonski Brod since 1997. This year, research continued on the ritual-burial area of early Neolitihic settlement from Starčevo culture from the early stages of its development - Linear A phase. So far, five grave pits have been discovered: a large grave pit (16 x 7 m) with three burials, a small burial pit (1.5 x 1 m) with a child grave and three grave pits (5 x 5 m) with one burial each. A series of postholes were detected this year, two fences and a partition west of the large pit (probably burial) which goes on for 15 m in the NW - SE direction along the eastern profile of the quadrants, and stretches further east into the unexcavated area. At the edges of the quadrants, smaller pits have been discovered that continue into the unexcavated part of the field. According to pottery features, Galovo site in Slavonski Brod has, once again, confirmed that the structures belong to the Linear A phase of the Starčevo culture. Therefore, research is scheduled to continue in this area to gain a more complete insight into the organization and position of this burial ground divided by fences within a settlement, unique within the entire area of Starčevo culture in south east Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During July 2013 the Institute of Archaeology in Zagreb continued the systematic archaeological investigations of the Early Neolithic settlement of the Starčevo culture at the site of Galovo in the north-eastern part of Slavonski Brod. The settlement belongs to the Linear A period from the incipient phase of development of the Starčevo culture. The research was carried out in the framework of a scientific-research project of the Institute of Archaeology "Prehistoric identity of the first farming populations in continental Croatia" (197-1970685-0681), managed by Dr Zorko Marković, with the (retired) scientific advisor Dr Kornelija Minichreiter as assistant. A total of 3800 m² were investigated over the course of the 17-year long research. The investigations so far covered the northern and western parts of the burial space, which was separated within the settlement by means of wooden fences. This year the work continued in the southern part of the burial space, to the east of the area investigated in 2012. In this part of the site the archaeological research was for the first time preceded by 3D ground-penetrating radar survey of the area planned for excavation. The results of the GPR survey were corroborated by this year's excavation, which uncovered the upper portions of two larger pits, which will be excavated in the next year. It is presumed that these are grave pits containing human burials. The archaeological assemblage belongs to the Linear A phase, which corroborated the assumption that northern Croatia was an integral part of the central territory of the Starčevo culture, where settlements were erected through all its developmental phases (with the exception of the Monochrome phase). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The preventive archaeological researches performed in the sector no. 4 of the Sibiu-Orăştie Highway brought to light a multipart site, including a settlement and a sanctuary, belonging to early Neolithic, phase I of the Starčevo-Criş Culture. The present work looks at a sample of 1,006 bones, of which 309 bones collected from sanctuary' pits, 259 bones from the pit-houses on terraces I, II, and 438 bones from the complex C24, also located on terrace II as the sanctuary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In July 2012 the Institute of Archaeology in Zagreb resumed the archaeological excavations at the site of Galovo in the north-eastern part of Slavonski Brod. The site belongs to an Early Neolithic settlement of the Starčevo culture from the incipient--Linear A--phase of its evolution. The investigations have been carried out for the last 16 years, covering a total of 3600 m2. The work focused on the excavation in the trench abutting on the surface excavated in the previous year in the southern part of the ritual-burial area discovered in 1997, the first excavation season at Galovo. The excavations yielded another small grave pit, of the same shape as the grave pit discovered in 2011, with a single burial and a number of grave goods. The archaeological material belongs to the Linear A phase, corroborating the thesis that northern Croatia formed part of the core area of the Starčevo culture, where settlements were built throughout its evolutionary phases (with the exception of the Monochrome phase). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During June and July 2011 Institute of Archaeology in Zagreb continued systematic archaeological exploration of the settlement of the Starčevo culture located at Galovo, north-east from Slavonski Brod. These works were the continuation of the excavations in the area of the settlement which is situated on land south of the ritual-burial area that was first discovered during the 1997 excavations. Studies have shown that the burial area extends further to the south, which is confirmed by the discovery of another burial pit. In the central part of the burial pit the remains of a human skeleton in a cramped position were found, surrounded with numerous vessels, including painted footed bowls. A large lump of ochre was found just above the skeleton's leg bone. The skeleton was covered with soil mixed with fragments of pottery, numerous nuclei and various stone implements. The following ceramic items were found lying by the deceased: parts of clay weights, discs - the slingshot projectiles, parts of jewellery - drilled bead, 4 discs with a hole, the foot of an altar, the protome from an altar and a clay idol. This burial pit, by its shape, dimensions, a single burial and grave goods, is very reminiscent of the burial pit 15, discovered in 1997, where a chieftain or a shaman of the tribe was buried . Coal analysis by 14C method showed that this burial pit belongs to the middle phase of the settlement at Galovo which is dated to around 5700 BC. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2010, archaeological reconnoitring was continued jointly by experts from the Našice Regional Museum and the Institute of Archaeolog y in Zagreb. This time, the cadastral municipality of Podgorač was reconnoitred. 19 archaeological sites were documented, of which 6 belong to prehistoric periods, 9 to the Middle Ages, and 4 to both. Most of the sites were already known from before, while 3 are new. At three sites, trial-trenching had been conducted between 1970 and 1980. These are: the Starčevo culture settlement of Gaj; the Ražište settlement, which belongs to a special type of Sopot culture (Neolithic sites); and the late Litzen pottery and late Pannonian encrusted pottery Breške settlement (beginning of the middle Bronze Age). The archaeological prospecting of this cadastral municipality will be continued. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In July 2009, on the Galovo plot in the north-east section of Slavonski Brod, the Institute of Archaeology in Zagreb continued systematic archaeological excavations of the Early Neolithic Starčevo culture settlement belonging to its initial development stage, Linear A. During the 12 years of excavations, a surface of 3000 m² has been explored, out of which 372 m² were excavated in 2009. The work was done on the area which extended from last year's excavations in a part of the settlement stretching east of working pit-dwellings 205, 207 and 291 and southeast of the ritual burial area, unearthed in 1997, the first year of excavations. The above-ground rectangular structure 955 (the oldest unearthed Starčevo culture structure of this sort in Croatia) and pits 323, 1121 and 1155 were explored. The foundations of the above-ground structure 955 close the area in a horizontal rectangular projection of the size 7 x 7 m on the western, southern and eastern side, while towards the north the structure is open and the roof construction was supported by a series of posts placed at certain intervals. The structure's foundations consisted of ditches of an average width of 30 cm in which larger and smaller vertical wooden posts with 15 to 25 cm in diameter were densely placed. A series of posts bearing the roof construction were dug in the inner space of the structure, with three posts in the centre: a larger one, 50 cm in diameter and two smaller ones, 40 cm in diameter each. In the centre of the structure there were two more posts in a row from east to west. Many holes left from posts in the inner space of the structure suggest many years of its continuous use, during which the support of the large roof construction had to be renewed. In the central part of the structure, a group of various pottery pieces was found. The north-western part of the structure's foundations was damaged by latter shallow pit 323, which was, in its estern part, dug over the structure's foundations. Dating pit 323 in the period around 6070-5770 cal BC suggests that the above-ground structure was in use before this period (first phase of the settlement). The construction of the above-ground structures, according to the present state of research of settlements in the central Starčevo culture distribution area, began near the end of the Monochrome stage and at the beginning of Linear A stage. The unearthing of the above-ground house in the Starčevo settlement at the Galovo site in Slavonski Brod, belonging to Linear A stage, confirms that northern part of Croatia was an integral part of the central territory of the Starčevo culture, where settlements grew in all its development stages (with the exception of Monochrome). Galovo settlement in Slavonski Brod with its archaeological inventory, its 14C dating and its most recent discovery of above-ground construction suggests that the upper course of Sava River (eastern and central Slavonia in northern Croatia) should, together with Vojvodina and Serbia, also be considered a part of original Starčevo culture development area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A survey of above-ground structures in the settlements within the central distribution area of the Starčevo culture at the present state of research reveals that this type of structure started to be built at the end of the Monochrome phase and the beginning of the Linear A phase. The discovery of an above-ground structure from the Linear A phase in the Starčevo settlement at Galovo in Slavonski Brod is more proof that eastern Croatia formed part of the central distribution area of the Starčevo culture, where settlements were built through all its developmental phases (with the exception of the Monochrome phase). The 14C dates have provided evidence that the development of the Starčevo culture in eastern Croatia, Vojvodina and Serbia was synchronous, and that the middle course of the Sava river in central and eastern Slavonia should definitely be considered part of the original area of development of the Starčevo culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A survey of above-ground structures in the settlements within the central distribution area of the Starčevo culture at the present state of research reveals that this type of structure started to be built at the end of the Monochrome phase and the beginning of the Linear A phase. The discovery of an above-ground structure from the Linear A phase in the Starčevo settlement at Galovo in Slavonski Brod is more proof that eastern Croatia formed part of the central distribution area of the Starčevo culture, where settlements were built through all its developmental phases (with the exception of the Monochrome phase). The 14C dates have provided evidence that the development of the Starčevo culture in eastern Croatia, Vojvodina and Serbia was synchronous, and that the middle course of the Sava river in central and eastern Slavonia should definitely be considered part of the original area of development of the Starčevo culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ten-year-long investigations of the Starčevo culture settlement at Galovo in Slavonski Brod yielded a large quantity of stone finds, which, in addition to ceramic finds make up the bulk of the movable inventory. This paper presents the stone finds discovered in the 2007 investigations in pit house SU 291. Taking into consideration the quantity of chipped stone artifacts, particularly the many cores as well as flakes and blades with cortex, it can be assumed that the structure served as a working pit house. The focus is placed on the chipped stone industry, with the presentation of the technological and typological analysis of the artifacts. The pit house yielded four fragments of polished stone tools, a whetstone for bone awls and numerous amorphous fragments of grindstone. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents the results of the lithic analysis of chipped stone artefacts from a Starcevo culture site at Zadubravlje. Blanks for tool production (fl akes, blades and bladelets) were produced at the site itself, mostly on the surface, although pit 19 probably functioned as a working area. It was established that the blades were produced by indirect percussion. Predominant tools are pieces with partial retouch and those with one retouched edge. Geometric forms are also present, although in small percentage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The archaeological picture of craft activities in the early Neolithic settlement of the Starčevo culture at Galovo in Slavonski Brod was complemented by the 2007 excavations with the discovery of working pit 291. Three working pits were discovered in the previous excavations in this part of the settlement: the large pit 155 and two smaller ones 205 and 207, dated by the 14C method to the same phase of settlement construction. The fourth working pit 291 was constructed to the southeast of pits 205 and 207 as an empty working space, without an oven or loom, where judging by its inventory leather clothing and footware were made. The large number of stone implements point to the processing of stone tools and weapons. Charcoal remains from working pit 291 were dated by the 14C method to the time from around 5710 to 5550 cal BC, which places this pit in the younger phase of the settlement's construction and its inventory in the early phase of development of the Starčevo culture, Linear A. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The picture of development of the Starčevo culture in its incipient phases was significantly altered and complemented by the ten-year long systematic archaeological excavations of the settlement at Galovo in Slavonski Brod. The excavation results confirm that northern Croatia in the early neolithic also belonged to the central territory of development of this culture from its very earliest phase. The discovery of vessels with white-painted vegetative drop-shaped and linear motifs in the two work-pits 205 and 207 and in the large burial pit 9 with three skeletons in the Starčevo settlement of Galovo in Slavonski Brod, places these structures in the earlier phase of the settlement. Their chronological position determined by means of the stylistic features of the archaeological material was confirmed by 14C dating, which helped to establish three phases of construction of the structures in the settlement. The earliest phase comprises the western cult structures 149 and 389, the work-pits 205 and 207 and the large burial pit 9, dated to the time around 6100 to 5700 cal BC. Work-pit 155, dated to the time from approximately 5760 to 5630 cal BC, belongs to the middle phase, while the residential pit 37 and the small burial pit 15, dated from around 5380 to 4960 cal BC belong to the latest phase. These dates corroborate S. Dimitrijević's assumption regarding the existence of an earlier phase with white-painted motifs on vessels in the context of the incipient pre-barbotine phase of development of the Starčevo culture, Linear A, in the territory of northern Croatia. A comparison with identically painted vessels from the early neolithic settlements at Donja Branjevina II and III', Magareći Mlin near Apatin, Divostin I a-c, Drenovac I b, Zmajevac, Starčevo I, Gura Baciului I b, Anzabegovo I and Govrlevo I, backs up the attribution of the settlement at Galovo in Slavonski Brod to the phase of the white-painted motifs of the Linear A phase at the beginning of the development of the Sarčevo culture within the central territory of the Starčevo cultural complex. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the summer 2006, the Institute of Archaeology from Zagreb and the Museum of Brodsko Posavlje (Sava region of Slavonski Brod) from Slavonski Brod carried out phase ten of the systematic archaeological research of the early Neolithic settlement of the Starčevo culture at the plot of Galovo in Slavonski Brod (Northern Croatia). The area of 200 m² was researched in these works, continuing on the south and west side to the area excavated in the years before. In the residential part of the settlement, a working pit dwelling No. 207/208 was researched, placed northeastern from the working pit dwelling No. 205/206. The earth house consisted of five smaller work areas, in which a bread oven with a mould and an open hearth were discovered. The elongated pottery oven No. 257/258, with its furnace in the pit dwelling No. 205/206, was built within the space between both working pit dwelling. The crudely manufactured clay pottery - pots and bowls of a spherical or half-spherical form - was ornamented by engravings, imprints, carvings and plastic modellation. The finely manufactured pots coloured in red were ornamented by dark brown motifs of straight lines, and on some fragments, the drops and dash motif were drawn in white. The discovery of pots painted in white demonstrates that both working pit dwelling were contemporary, which classifies the house No. 207/208 as well as the house No. 205/206 (coal analyses by means of the 14 C method dated the house inventory to around 5800-5715 Cal BC) as belonging to an earlier phase of the Linear A stage of the Starčevo culture - specified by S. Dimitrijević as the white Linear A stage. The following special finds were discovered: altar legs, clay whorls (ornaments or a fly-wheel for a spindle), a clay projectile (for a sling in animal hunting), several pieces of processed bone and a part of a bone bodkin or sewing needle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

New radiocarbon dates for the Early Starčevo Culture confirm that the process of Neolithization in continental Croatia began already around the year 6000 BC. Evidence of this includes discovery of settlements in Zadubravlje and Slavonski Brod that belong to the initial phases of Starčevo Culture development - Linear A phase. The long duration of the Starcevo Culture is demonstrated by over one hundred recorded settlements from all phases of its development, from Linear A to the closing Spiraloid B phase. This confirms that the territory of continental Croatia was an integral component of the central Starčevo Culture zone and one of the key such zones in its emergence and existence. Typological and stylistic analyses of archaeological material from the settlement at Galovo in Slavonski Brod established that it belongs to the Linear A phase, which lasted for a considerable period of time. The first radiocarbon dating of a Starčevo Culture settlement in Croatia have determined a more precise chronological status of Slavonski Brod and Zadubravlje within the chronological scale of Early Neolithic settlements of the Starčevo Culture complex. Archaeological methods applied resulted in the discovery of two construction phases (vertical stratigraphy), while the third phase (horizontal stratigraphy) could only be determined using the 14C dating method. The dating of residential pit-house 37 and burial pit 15 in the most recent structures in this part of the settlement allowed, for the first time, a scientifically-founded portrayal of the horizontal stratigraphy of one of the oldest Early Neolithic settlements in continental Croatia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In August 2010, the Institute of Archaeology in Zagreb continued systematic archaeological excavations of an early Neolithic Starčevo culture settlement in the north-eastern part of Slavonski Brod on the Galovo plot, which belongs to the initial development phase - Linear A stage. In the excavations, which have already lasted 13 years, 3200 m2 have been excavated, of which 200 m2 were excavated in 2010. The works comprised the continuation of the dig of the plot excavated last year in the part of the settlement stretching to the south-west of the ritual burial space discovered in 1997, the first year of excavations at Galovo. South-west of pit-dwelling 2012, pit 2010 was discovered and completely excavated. Its form and inventory are very similar to pits 41 and 43, which were dug south-west of pit-dwelling 37 in the northwestern part of the settlement. The horizontal projection of pit 2010 had an irregular round shape with diameters of 2.50 m (N-S) and 1.70 m (E-W), dug in sterile soil from the level of the settlement to a depth of 40 cm. On the north-eastern side, three steps were dug. The walls on the western, southern and eastern sides were vertical, and near the bottom a small elongated niche was dug 20 cm into the wall. On the margins of the pit, there were holes from wooden poles which probably bore the eaves above the pit. The upper part of the pit consisted of very black sticky soil with occasional pottery shards: two feet from a footed bowl, a handle of a larger pot and a small clay figurine (a pillared idol on which only the nose stands out). In the northern part of the pit, below a group of pottery items, there were several pieces of bone and charcoal. In the southern part of the pit, a number of stone artefacts were unearthed (microliths), parts of two footed bowls of fine structure, and part of a handled coarse-structured pot. Several pieces of burned earth (daub) of unknown purpose were also found. In the area north of pit 2010, the upper parts of pit dwelling 2012 were explored. In the upper layers of this large pit-dwelling, fragments of coarse pottery were found: pots variously decorated with appliqués, carved lines and fingerprints (the representation of a snake) along the edges. The handles found belong to this type of pot, as well as to parts of a belly with twin knobs suggesting that the pots used to hang on ropes. Among the coarse pottery, the bottom of a pot decorated with carved lines like a net stands out. The fine pottery includes footed bowls with traces of red paint visible on the surface. In these upper layers of the pit-dwelling, there were pieces of grindstones as well as stone artefacts: part of an axe with a hole in it, a small axe, various blades, bladelets, flakes and cores. The excavated structures and the moveable archaeological finds in them that were unearthed in 2010 belong, just as in past excavations, to the Linear A stage which, according to the current state of research, represents the initial development phase of the Starčevo culture on Croatian territory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: In Northern Croatia, more than hundred settlements are known from the period of the Starčevo culture, the first Neolithic period in south-east (SE) Europe. Here we present the 14C dating of nine charcoal samples from the Neolithic settlement Galovo in Slavonski Brod. According to archaeological findings, it belongs to the early phase (Linear A) of the Starčevo culture and has a special ritual–burial area separated by two wooden fences from its residential part. The vertical stratigraphy revealed two phases of the settlement construction in period 6070–5630calBC. In the younger phase (5380–4960calBC) the settlement expanded and the burial area became smaller. Combination of archaeological findings and 14C dates thus allowed a reconstruction of the 1000-year-long existence of this settlement that existed simultaneously with the nearby settlement Zadubravlje–Dužine, dated earlier to 6000–5000calBC. These are the first absolute dates of the beginning of neolithization in Northern Croatia. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

In July 2008, on the Galovo plot in the north-east section of Slavonski Brod, the Institute of Archaeolog y in Zagreb continued systematic archaeological excavations of the Neolithic Starčevo culture settlement belonging to its initial development stage. The work was carried out in a part of the settlement stretching east of working pits 205, 207 and 291 and encompassing the southern part of the ritual burial area, partly excavated in the first year of research. In the surface layer, the remains of two graves from the Bronze Age Barice-Gređani necropolis were discovered, while the upper parts of two large pit dwellings were found in the prehistoric humus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]