Šošić Klindžić, R.; Šiljeg, B.; Kalafatić, H. Multiscale and Multitemporal Remote Sensing for Neolithic Settlement Detection and Protection—The Case of Gorjani, Croatia. Remote Sens.2024, 16, 736.
Šošić Klindžić, R.; Šiljeg, B.; Kalafatić, H. Multiscale and Multitemporal Remote Sensing for Neolithic Settlement Detection and Protection—The Case of Gorjani, Croatia. Remote Sens. 2024, 16, 736.
Šošić Klindžić, R.; Šiljeg, B.; Kalafatić, H. Multiscale and Multitemporal Remote Sensing for Neolithic Settlement Detection and Protection—The Case of Gorjani, Croatia. Remote Sens.2024, 16, 736.
Šošić Klindžić, R.; Šiljeg, B.; Kalafatić, H. Multiscale and Multitemporal Remote Sensing for Neolithic Settlement Detection and Protection—The Case of Gorjani, Croatia. Remote Sens. 2024, 16, 736.
Abstract
The decade of research concentrating on the area of Easter Slavonia revealed abundance of large on complex late Neolithic sites. It changed profoundly how we perceive late Neolithic settlement and space size and organization. As s first step in particular site detection we mostly conducted aerial reconnaissance and satellite image analysis but also data from the field such as excavation. On detected potential sites we conducted intensive field surveys and confirmed the attribution to the late Neolithic by surface finds. On those confirmed sites in the vicinity of Đakovo, Croatia, magnetic survey was conducted on 5 sites so far and the results confirmed presence of large scale late Neolithic settlements with complex spatial organization and enclosure(s). Most complex remains so far is site Gorjani Kremenjača and Topole which we present in this paper where a remains of one or two settlements covers the area of 70 hectares and is currently in the process of formal protection as a cultural landscape by the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia. Special focus of the paper is the application of remote sensing in detection, archaeological confirmation and protection of the position Gorjani Topole.
Keywords
magnetic survey; aerial archaeology; late Neolithic; Eastern Croatia; enclosure; settlement organization
Subject
Arts and Humanities, Archaeology
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