“…The width of the individual's wound is substantial at 9 mm, the length not considerable at 29 mm. The width and length of the wound, coupled with the presence of terminal fractures, is more consistent with a heavy wedge-shaped weapon, such as a battle-axe (Figure 6), commonly used in late medieval warfare both in Europe and in the East (Stone, 1961;Popović, 1999).…”
Four late medieval burials were excavated at the site of Lepenski Vir in the Iron Gates Gorge, Serbia. One of the individuals, Lepenski Vir 62, exhibits evidence of a sharp-force trauma on the left parietal, consistent with a combat wound. None of the other contemporaneous individuals show any evidence of trauma or other pathology on the few preserved bones. We argue that the skeletons belong to soldiers involved in the border warfare on the Danube which was quite common at the end of the 14 th and the first half of the 15 th century between Serbian, Hungarian and Turkish forces.
“…The width of the individual's wound is substantial at 9 mm, the length not considerable at 29 mm. The width and length of the wound, coupled with the presence of terminal fractures, is more consistent with a heavy wedge-shaped weapon, such as a battle-axe (Figure 6), commonly used in late medieval warfare both in Europe and in the East (Stone, 1961;Popović, 1999).…”
Four late medieval burials were excavated at the site of Lepenski Vir in the Iron Gates Gorge, Serbia. One of the individuals, Lepenski Vir 62, exhibits evidence of a sharp-force trauma on the left parietal, consistent with a combat wound. None of the other contemporaneous individuals show any evidence of trauma or other pathology on the few preserved bones. We argue that the skeletons belong to soldiers involved in the border warfare on the Danube which was quite common at the end of the 14 th and the first half of the 15 th century between Serbian, Hungarian and Turkish forces.
“…The start of a second architectural phase, from the mid fourth century BC (Popović 2006), or more probably the beginning of the third century BC (see below), was marked by the construction of large ashlar masonry and mud-brick ramparts that expand the fortified area at the foot of the hill (the ‘ suburbium ’). As with the sites of Pistiros, Bylazora, Helis, Seuthopolis and other contemporaneous inland settlements of Thrace and Paeonia (Figure 1), Kale-Krševica shares many aspects of its material culture, including ceramics and technologies, with settlements in ancient Macedonia and the northern Aegean, indicating intensive contact with the Greek world (Popović 2006, 2012; Archibald 2013). Figure 1.Map showing the most prominent pre-Roman ‘Hellenised settlements’ and relevant Greek cities, with an inset site-plan of Kale-Krševica (figure by A Subotić, A. Nikolić & I. Vranić).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 94%
“…Post-colonial critiques of Hellenocentric narratives have been developed in a number of Mediterranean regions (Gosden 2004; Dietler 2010); Kale-Krševica offers the potential to contribute to this scholarly enterprise from a South-eastern European perspective. The biographical approach presented here reinterprets the most prominent ‘Greek’ structure at Kale-Krševica: a barrel-vaulted water reservoir, discovered in 2008 (Popović & Vukadinović 2011; Popović 2012: 25–30), by scrutinising what is ‘Greek’ about this technology, and the context of its construction and life-history. The unusual and apparently unique use of a barrel-vaulted structure for the collection of groundwater adds to our knowledge of Early Hellenistic hydraulic technology in this region (see Lewis 2000; Wilson 2008)—the first-known reservoir of its kind from the continental Balkans.…”
“…To put the performance measures into labor market context regional unemployment rates are also listed. (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10), small (11-50), medium (51-250), and large (250+). This table presents results for each of 25 regions in the Republic of Serbia with totals for the whole Republic listed in the bottom row.…”
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