Summary (English)
During August and September 2006, the Križevci City Museum continued with its systematic excavations of the Neolithic site Brezovljani, which have been continuously carried out since 2002, with an area of 134 m² excavated. Excavations in 2006 explored a segment of the settlement that is assumed to have served as a cult center. The settlement belongs to the Brezovliani type of Sopot culture and originates from the Middle to the Late Neolithic (4900-4700/4600 BC). Among the excavated objects, a pit marked SJ 227 stands out due to its architecture, as it probably served as a sanctuary. This stratigraphic unit consists of a circular area, 1.28 m in diameter, to which access is provided by an elongated area (length 2 m and width 0.80 m) in which five steps are buried. The lowest step makes a semi-circular turn towards the narrow space in the circular part of the building, which descends in a funnel-like manner towards the bottom. To the east of this object was an ellipsoidal pit (dimensions 2.48×1.24 m), while in the southern part of the excavated area, a sunken floored building with a split floor plan was discovered. Artefacts are mainly represented by prehistoric pottery, where fragments of fine pottery decorated with red paint stand out. Most common motifs are horizontal and vertical lines placed under the rim on the inside or outside of the vessel. Among other pottery artefacts, a damaged figurine of a woman and a figurine in the shape of a human leg which was probably a part of a vessel, were found. Knapped flint tools (scrapers, blades) were collected among the lithic material. Late Medieval pottery was made on a fast-rotating pottery wheel, where pots with rounded bodies and pots with elongated and thickened rims stand out as the leading forms of vessels. The decoration is made by grooving horizontal lines and waves. A fragment of a green-glazed stove tile decorated with vegetable motifs was also found. Part of the prehistoric settlement was destroyed by the construction of a Late Medieval building that can roughly be dated from the second half of the 15th to the 17th century (Lana Okroša Rožić 2007, Hrvatski arheološki godišnjak 3/2006, 117-118).
- Lana Okroša Rožić 
Director
- Lana Okroša Rožić
Team
Research Body
- Gradski muzej Križevci
Funding Body
- Koprivničko-križevačka županija
- Ministarstvo kulture Republike Hrvatske
- Općina Sv. Ivan Žabno