Reflection of actions: The Late Bronze Age hoard from Moravička Sela, north-western Croatia

Martina Blečić Kavur; Boris Kavur; Ranko Starac

doi:10.35686/AR.2020.14

Authors

Martina Blečić Kavur Univerza na Primorskem, Fakulteta za humanistične študije, Titov trg 5, SI–6000 Koper https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7626-6484
Boris Kavur Univerza na Primorskem, Fakulteta za humanistične študije, Titov trg 5, SI–6000 Koper https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0930-2270
Ranko Starac Pomorski i povijesni muzej Hrvatskog primorja Rijeka, Muzejski trg 1, HR–51000 Rijeka

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35686/AR.2020.14

Keywords:

hoard, Late Bronze Age, Croatia, weapons, tools, cultural and social interactions

Abstract

The hoard from Moravička Sela in Gorski Kotar (Croatia), discovered thirty years ago, is a medium-sized hoard with a mixed composition, containing typologically different and differently preserved objects. With its defined, most likely reduced inventory, we have acquired a smaller number of tools and weapons, half products and items of symbolic importance. Its place of discovery could be included in the distribution of the hoards of the II Late Bronze Age horizon on the broader territory of Caput Adriae and its hinterland in the 13th and early 12th century BC. Its composition reflects, in particular, the cultural connections ranging from the south-eastern Alpine region to the wider Pannonian and Carpathian area. Therefore, the hoard from Moravička Sela can be interpreted as a materialized act of precisely determined cultural knowledge from a broader but contemporary cultural network of meaning.