Zgodovina raziskovanj železnodobnih naselij in poselitve v osrednji Sloveniji

Abstract

The article examines the history of Iron Age settlement research in central Slovenia. The mentions of settlements appear in the 17lh and 18th Centuries, but these were not the result of deliberate studies of the pre-Roman settlement of these regions. It is only possible to talk of proper research in the second half of the 19lh Century, when the Prehistoric Commission was set up in Vienna, and when the Regional Museum in Ljubljana and the Court Museum in Vienna began intensively to carry out excavations of the Iron Age cemeteries in Carniola. This was the period of the greatest research activity, which virtually ceased after the First World War. Research into prehistoric settlement began again in the sixties, when the National Museum from Ljubljana undertook systematic excavations on the Stična hillfort. An important contribution to the study of these problems was the lexicon "Arheološka najdišča Slovenije", which was published in 1975. A project has been undertaken in the last few years, which combines systematic field survey, geodetic survey and test excavation of prehistoric hillforts in Dolenjska.