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Excavation

  • Nekropola u Momišićima
  • Podgorica
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  • Montenegro
  • Podgorica

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  • The Italian Database is the result of a collaboration between:

    MIBAC (Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali - Direzione Generale per i Beni Archeologici),

    ICCD (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione) and

    AIAC (Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica).

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Summary (English)

  • During the period from 23.06.2008 – 18.07.2008., the protective archaeologic digging ups were done, organized by Public Institution “ The Museums and Galleries of Podgorica “, in the locality of Momisici-Dalmatian Street, which is in wide center of Podgorica. The total dimensions of the locality are 93.80×3m. Archaeological diggings up were done from West to South. Along 76 m of the locality, 19 sondes were set up, by dimensions 4×3 m, with average depth of 1m, while for the rest of the space of 17.80m; it was confirmed, with the help of mechanization and with the expert supervision, in the depth of 1.5m, that there are no any cultural layer in it.

    Between sonde 14 and 15,the control ditch has been set up, by dimensions 1×3 m,with height of 1 m,which was removed after technical recording. The tombs 1 and 2 in sonde one were deeper then the rest of necropola for 0.40 m ( the depth of).This finding coused the level lowering down also in the sonde two on the same level, with the goal of confirming the assumtion of the sterile layer bellow the tombs. After this, the control ditch has been set up in sonde two with the dimension 1.50 × 1.70 m,with the depth of 0.40 m, so on that final depth it was confirmed that the level bellow the tombs discovered is sterile. Also, in sonde six, the control ditch, by dimension of 0.40 m x 2.20 m and depth of 1.50 m,proved that bellow necropola there is no another, lower layer of tombs, but only the first layer of land..

    The locality consisted of surface layer, where, beside the digged earth , there was much of wasted constructing material and cultivated layer of land of light color with small stones where 68 tomb constructions in total were found with the defuncts .In tombs 1, 4, 15 i 32 the defuncts were found who were put one above another, which is probably done because of later burials of defuncts from the same family into existing tomb construction. In comparison of the tombs mentioned, the tomb 59 is double. i.e. it is consisted of two defuncts lying one beside the other. In tomb 46, the remains of mother with the child on her chests were found. The burials were done by inhumation of defuncts, who were put into tomb on their backs, with their hands crossed and put on the chests, very rarely on stomach or pelvic, while the legs of the defuncts completely streched out. The defuncts in tombs are oriented in direction West-East, with their head toward West and face toward East, acccording the Christian custom. The exception is the defunct in tomb 31, in sonde 8,who is, in comparison to all other tombs, oriented in direction North-South. This deviation is most likely caused by the position of the Sun, i.e. by the season of the year when the burila was completed, which was confirmed in previous campaigns. Although the skeleton material is in a bad condition,and extremely fragmented and crumbling, the certain results were accomplished with careful analyse,in the field at first, and after in the Laboratory for Antropology in the Natural-Mathematics Faculty in Podgorica.On the base of preserved extremities ,as well as parts of the skulls and jaws, the age and sex structure of the skeleton material was defined. The number of male and female skeletons are almost the same and they belong to the adultus category,not older than age of 45. Only a couple of skeletons were put in the maturus category (over age of 45), but the large percentage of skeletons were put into infans category I i II (from 6-14 years) and smaller percentage of juvenilis category (14-16 years),in comparison to total population. Also,the average height of body was calculated, done by methodology of Troter and Gleser, and that average height examined at male individuals is 172 cm,and that fact place them in the category of high population, especially if we take into consideration that it is about middle age population. I cranium and postcranium show that inhabitants from that period , from Momisici necropola were gracile. Tombs can be divided into three types, tombs with flat plates (most of them),with plates consisted of two parts and tombs as ordinary holes. The first type of the tombs are represented by the construction formed of random set of stone plates from each sides of skeleton and covers made of different shapeless thin stone plates.Tomb constructions are of different length and shape, often wider in head area in comparison to dimension in lower part of the body., so the tombs have trapeze or rectangle shape. The tombs with covering 2 plates appear in this year research, but not in early researches, as a tombs for population in adultus category, not only at infans population. There are no many tombs shaped as ordinary holes,but they are represented in all sonde, except in sonde 12 and 17. Regarding the tomb findings, 2 were found , and those are C findings .The first one is bronze ring discovered in tomb 43 – sonde 13, and the other one is bronze needle discovered in tomb 67 – sonde 19. The time frame of founding and activities of necropola is the same as that part of the cemetery which was archaeologically treated in campaign from 1999. When it was documented, and in this year research, the chronological frame of necropola activities is confirmed – since the end of 17th till mid of 20th Century, including the moder tombs.Simple tomb structure and rare tomb findings tell us about modest way of life of this inhabitants.

Director

  • Dejan Gazivoda - Republički zavod za zaštitu spomenika kulture Crne Gore

Team

  • Milica Žarić - JU Muzeji i galerije Podgorice
  • Zorica Stijepović - JU Muzeji i galerije Podgorice
  • Tanja Mijović - Centra za arheološka istraživanja Crne Gore
  • Vuk Marković

Research Body

  • Muzeji i galerije Podgorice

Funding Body

  • Glavni grad Podgorica

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