Utrjena prazgodovinska naselja v Mirenski in Temeniški dolini

Abstract

The subject of the paper relates to the field of settlement archaeology, taking into account site location, environmental characteristics, possiblc spatial communications etc. The discussion, comprising the area of central Slovenia (the valleys of the Mirna and Temenica) focuses on Iron Age settlement. but considers other archaeological periods as vvell (Eneolithic, Bronze Age, late Classical Antiquity). Presenting the results of test excavations at eight fortificd prehistoric scttlements, the paper centers on their chronological ordering and stratigraphic sequences; hovvever. other problems are also briefly addressed (fortifications, relationships between settlements and cemetcries).