Reconstruction of the Habitation in the Ohrid Region during the Iron Age and the Archaic Period

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Reconstruction of the Habitation in the Ohrid Region during the Iron Age and the Archaic Period

Original language description

Until recently, the early history of the ancient Macedonia before the unification by the Argead dynastie (7th-4th ct. BC) had been studied mainly based on the literary evidence. Only few archaeological findings supplemented the information passed to us by Herodotus or Thucydides, although the situation has changed slightly in the last two decades. The intense excavations around the Thermaic Gulf unearthed several necropolises and settlements, which shed light on the socio-cultural development, economic and environmental fundaments or ideological beliefs. Distinctive data found in the necropolis around Thessaloniki are also attested at some iron age burial sites to the west of the gulf, reaching up to the lake Ohrid, with that at Trebenište or Ohrid (Gorna Porta) being the best known. The graves contained rich grave-goods, gold lozenge-shaped sheets which covered the mouth of the deceased, jewellery of the type &quot;Macedonian bronzes&quot;, imported weapons and pottery from Greece. Bearing the advance of the proto-state structures in the southern Macedonia in mind, the question arises how should one interpret this comparability of the burial goods, albeit there are some local nuances? Different explanations have been postulated in the past: expansion of the Argead dynastie, Hellenization etc. However, these assumptions were mainly constructed on a later historical evidence and a lack of verifiable archaeological data. This paper will introduce an ongoing survey project in the region of the lake Ohrid, a hub on a superregional connection between the Adriatic and Aegean Sea, later known as Via Egnatia. The project would first allow a detailed reconstruction of the historical landscape and - on this basis - the complex socio-cultural environment, in which the identity of the elites in this part of the ancient Macedonia was constructed in the early history.

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60102 - Archaeology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

100 years of Trebenishte

ISBN

978-954-9472-70-7

Number of pages of the result

9

Pages from-to

167-175

Number of pages of the book

405

Publisher name

National Archaeological Institute with Museum – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Place of publication

Sofia

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