Abstract #: 1727

CONTACTS AND MOBILITY BETWEEN THE CARPATHIAN BASIN AND THE TRIESTE KARST BASED ON MULTIDISCIPLINARY INVESTIGATIONS OF THE LJUBLJANA CULTURE POTTERY

Elena Leghissa1, Manuela Montagnari Kokelj2, Eugenia Colin3, Angelo De Min3, Viktória Kiss4, David Prokop5,6, Zsolt Kasztovszky7, Veronika Szilágyi7, Ildikó Harsányi7, Federico Bernardini8,9 1 ZRC SAZU, Institute of Archaeology, Novi Trg 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia 2 Department of Humanities, University of Trieste, Via Lazzaretto Vecchio 6-8, 34123 Trieste, Italy 3 Department of Mathematics and Geosciences, University of Trieste, Via Weiss 8, 34127 Trieste, Italy 4 Institute of Archaeology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences 5 CEITEC-Central European Institute of Technology, Purkyňova 123, 61200 Brno, Czech Republic 6 Brno University of Technology, Institute of Physical Engineering, Antonínská 548/1, 60190 Brno, Czech Republic 7 Nuclear Analysis and Radiography Department, Centre for Energy Research, Konkoly Thege 29-33, Budapest H-1121, Hungary 8 Centro Fermi, Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro di Studi e Ricerche 9 Multidisciplinary Laboratory, The “Abdus Salam” International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Strada Costiera 11, 34014 Trieste, Italy Corresponding author's e-mail: [email protected]

The Deschmann’s pile-dwellings near Ig (Dežmanova kolišča pri Igu), close to Ljubljana, are probably one of the most famous pile-dwellings of the 3rd millennium BC in the Alpine region: the first excavations were carried out in the 1870s and resumed only c. 90 years later in the same and adjacent areas of the Ljubljana Marshes (Ljubljansko barje). The publication of the materials by J. and P. Korošec in 1969 opened the way to various cultural interpretations, the most recent of which is that by E. Leghissa in 2017: according to her the older phase (28th – 26th century BC), is characterised by pottery of the so-called Ljubljansko barje variant of the Vučedol Culture (redefinition of Phase Ig I after Korošec 1959 and of Late Vučedol period-Vučedol C after Dimitrijević 1979), while the younger one (26th century BC to 25th century BC) has been named Ljubljana Culture (redefinition of Phase Ig II of Korošec 1959 and of Alpine variant of the Ljubljana Culture of Dimitrijević 1979 and of Classical Ljubljana Culture of Govedarica 1989). This study stresses numerous similarities of the Slovenian materials with the pottery of contemporary central European cultures, especially of Somogyvár-Vinkovci and Makó- Kosihy-Čaka cultures, but also with the closer Italian Karst, as indicated already before by other scholars. To check hypotheses based on typological comparisons and try to determine the mechanisms of cultural interactions that connected more or less distant regions, destructive – X-ray diffraction and optical microscopy – and non-destructive analyses – X- ray computed microtomography and prompt gamma activation analysis – have been carried out thanks to the collaboration of an interdisciplinary international team. The

Page 1 of 2 results obtained so far for the pottery materials attributed to the Ljubljana Culture will be presented at the EAA Conference in Budapest.

Keywords Deschmann’s pile dwellings, Ljubljana Culture, Trieste Karst, pottery archaeometric analyses, technology, provenance

Note/comment

Page 2 of 2