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Prehistoric Stone Disks from Entrances and Cemeteries of North-Eastern Adriatic Hillforts

Year: 2022

Type: article

Abstract: The paper presents a group of four, approximately 0.5m large, stone disks from entrances or cemeteries of two protohistoric hillforts of north-eastern Adriatic. The disks, having a sparse chronology with the exception of one dated to the Middle Bronze Age, show flat and plain surfaces or covered with sub-circular depressions. One disk shows two larger cup-marks at the centre of both faces. They are interpreted as ritual artefacts based on the association with sacred settlement locations and comparisons with similar coeval stones found mainly close to citadel entrances, burials and thresholds in the Aegean area and Anatolia.

Source: Documenta Praehistorica

DOI: 10.4312/dp.49.7

Authors: Federico Bernardini, Giacomo Vinci, Vanja Macovaz, Andrea Baucon, Angelo De Min, Stefano Furlani, Snežana Smolić

Institutions: The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Ca' Foscari University of Venice, University of Trieste, University of Florence, UNESCO

Language: English

Topic: Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies

Subfield: Archeology

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4285386158

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