Pod, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Pod was a prehistoric settlement and hill fort located on a plateau on a slope of Mt Koprivnica near Bugojno in the upper valley of the river Vrbas in modern Bosnia and Herzegovina. The fortified site was first inhabited in the early Bronze Age[1] and even eneolithic (2500 to 1700 BC).[2] After the Bronze Age it was uninhabited for four centuries, until repopulated in the early Iron Age (~700 BC)[3] till the turn of the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE.[2] Stratified materials from Pod defined Central Bosnian cultural group of the late Bronze Age. It was declared a National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina.[4]

Excavations

Archaeological excavation was undertaken there led by Branka Raunig in 1973.[5]

References
  1. Coles, John M.; Harding, A. F. (1979). The bronze age in Europe: an introduction to the prehistory of Europe, c. 2000-700 BC. Taylor & Francis. p. 197. ISBN 978-0-416-70650-5.
  2. "Pod, a prehistoric hillfort settlement, the archaeological site". Decisions on Designation of Properties as National Monuments. Bosnia and Herzegovina Commission to Preserve National Monuments. 2008. Archived from the original on 27 September 2010. Retrieved 27 September 2010.
  3. Wilkes, John (1995). The Illyrians. The Peoples of Europe. Wiley–Blackwell. pp. 34, 50, 51, 204. ISBN 978-0-631-19807-9.
  4. "Commission to preserve national monuments". old.kons.gov.ba. Retrieved 2020-02-09.
  5. "Sjećanje na Branku Raunig (1935-2008)". Zemaljski muzej Bosne i Hercegovine (in Bosnian). 2018-06-13. Retrieved 2020-05-17.

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