Toward a Better Understanding of Prehistory of City of Hvar - Archaeological Research in the House Galić

U radu se predstavljaju i analiziraju rezultati zaštitnog arheološkog istraživanja provedenog krajem 2017. godine u privatnoj kući vlasnika Mladena Galića smještenoj u staroj jezgri grada Hvara, u predjelu Groda. Na osnovu tipološke analize materijala pronađenog u dvije arheološke sonde, ljudska aktivnost se na ovom prostoru odvija u širokom rasponu od kasnog brončanog doba te kroz željezno doba. U radu se pretpostavlja postojanje podgradinskog naselja na južnim padinama brda, koje je pripadalo utvrđenoj gradini na mjestu današnje tvrđave Fortice u gradu Hvaru.Contribution to prehistory of the city of Hvar - Archaeological excavations in the Galić house The surroundings of the city of Hvar, along with several caves, had been populated since the Neolithic. With the development of agriculture, commerce and sea trade and the influx of new settlers, the settlements adopted to these new times. In the Bronze Age had begun the settlement on the site of the city Fortress, Fortica, strongly fortified, with checkpoints to the east. It also had its necropolis, above the Vira bay, with lots of burial mounds. The acropolis, or higher part of the settlement on the hillfort itself, has been swept away by historical changes, but in its lower parts, within abs around the medieval ramparts in the present-day city quarter of Groda, finds of Bronze Age, Iron Age and Antique pottery have been ascertained in abundance, which proves that on this area life had developed in continuity for thousands of years; the hillfort in Hvar and the settlement under it, connected with the port, is a unique place in the maritime constellation of the Adriatic. Archaeological finds in the Galić house are not typical for a narrow prehistoric period or a specific ethnic group, but instead belong to pottery used from late Bronze Age and throughout the Iron Age on eastern Adriatic. The presence of imported pottery helps a lot; the only datable fragment comes from south Italy, 9th c. BCE. Nothing except pottery gas been found and there is a possibility that the original strata had been disturbed, due to steepness of the site, erosion and building of the house in the past. The pottery found on this site can be dated throughout the millennium BCE, and proves once again that the area of the city of Hvar was the most important settlement on this island in prehistory

Rescue excavation of “the Škoko house” in Stari Grad on Hvar island

Tijekom 2020. godine hvarska tvrtka Kantharos d.o.o. provela je manje zaštitno arheološko istraživanje u Starom Gradu na Hvaru na poziciji tzv. kuće Škoko. Lokacija istraživanja nalazi se 50ak metara jugozapadno od lokaliteta Remetin vrt te svega nekoliko metara južnije od dokumentirane dionice južnog poteza bedema grčkog grada Farosa. Obrada pokretnog materijala izvršena je u suradnji s Institutom za arheologiju.In 2020 Kantharos, a private archaeological company from Hvar, conducted a small rescue excavation in Stari Grad on Hvar, on the site of the so-called Kuća Škoko. The investigated location is situated around 50 meters southwest of Remete vrt site, as well as several meters south of the documented portion of the southern fortification of the Greek city of Pharos. The post-excavation analysis of the finds was conducted in cooperation with the Institute of Archaeology

Numismatic finds from the Roman site of Soline on Sv. Klement island in the Pakleni Archipelago near Hvar

Članak obrađuje numizmatičke nalaze koji su pronađeni tijekom arheoloških istraživanja rimske vile u uvali Soline na otoku Sv. Klement (Pakleni otoci, Hvar) u srednjoj Dalmaciji. Riječ je o 32 primjerka novca, od kojih su najstarije monete ilirskog kralja Baleja te rimski republikanski novac. Slijedi rimski carski novac, među kojim su najbrojniji kasnoantički primjerci, dok je najmlađa moneta kovana u Mletačkoj Republici. Tipološka, kulturno-povijesna, statistička te kontekstualna analiza ovih nalaza omogućava bolje razumijevanje kronologije ljudskih aktivnosti u okviru prirodnog i kulturnog krajolika otoka Sv. Klement te ujedno pridonosi poznavanju optjecaja najstarijeg novca, pa tako i gospodarsko-političkih prilika na prostoru srednje Dalmacije.The article analyzes the coins found during archaeological excavations at a Roman villa in Soline Cove on the island of Sv. Klement in the Pakleni Archipelago off the Central Dalmatian island of Hvar. The earliest among the 32 coins found there are the coins of Illyrian King Ballaios and Roman Republican coins. Then follow Roman Imperial coins (with the ones from Late Antiquity being the most numerous) and a coin struck in the Venetian Republic. The typological, cultural-historical, statistical and contextual analyses of these finds can help us better understand the chronology of human activities in the natural and cultural landscape of the island of Sv. Klement and improve our knowledge of the circulation of the earliest coins and economic and political situation in Central Dalmatia of the day

Archaeological excavations on Ivana Pavla II Street (the so-called Lupi plot) in Stari Grad on the island of Hvar (2021)

U radu se donose rezultati zaštitnih arheoloških iskopavanja koja je hvarska tvrtka Kantharos, u suradnji s Institutom za arheologiju, provela 2021. godine u Ulici Ivana Pavla II (tzv. parcela Lupi) u Starome Gradu na otoku Hvaru. Istraživanjem na predmetnoj lokaciji utvrđeno je postojanje antičkoga objekta, s ostacima arhitekture te popratnih pokretnih nalaza i životinjskih ostataka, koji ukazuju na intenzivno korištenje prostora tijekom grčkoga i rimskog perioda (od 4. st. pr. Kr. do 3. st. po Kr.), nakon čega dolazi do njegova napuštanja, vjerojatno zbog suženja gradskoga prostora evidentiranoga gradnjom novoga bedema.The paper presents the results of the archaeological rescue excavations that were conducted by the archaeological company Kantharos in cooperation with the Institute of Archaeology in 2021 on Ivana Pavla II Street (the so-called Lupi plot) in Stari Grad on the island of Hvar. The excavations found an ancient building, with the remains of architecture and concomitant artefacts and animal remains, indicating that the space was intensively used during the Greek and Roman periods (from the 4th century BC to the 3rd century AD), after which it was abandoned, probably because of the narrowing of the urban area indicated by the construction of a new rampart