Archaeological finds from the cave of Ciganska jama near Kočevje from the period after the Ice Age

Abstract

V prispevku večji del predstavljamo holocenske arheološke najdbe iz Ciganske jame, najpomembnejše gravettienske postaje na Slovenskem, ki je del sistema vodno aktivnih Željnskih jam. Med najdbami prevladuje keramika. Razvrstili smo jo na prazgodovinsko, ki je predmet detajlne obravnave, in na keramiko iz zgodovinskih obdobij. Analiza kaže, da je Ciganska jama služila kot občasno zatočišče človeku tudi v treh obdobjih mlajše prazgodovine: v času savske skupine, v obdobju lasinjske kulture in v obdobju horizonta keramike z brazdastim vrezom (HKBV). V rovu pri Stranski jami (del sistema Želnjskih jam) pa je bila morda tudi nekropola, grob oz. sakralni prostor, katere starosti, čeprav najdbe kažejo na neoeneolitik, brez radiometričnega datiranja fragmenta človeške lobanje ni mogoče podrobneje opredeliti.The article primarily presents the Holocene archaeological finds from the cave of Ciganska jama, the most important Gravettian station in Slovenia, which is part of the Željnske jame system of water active caves. Pottery prevails among the finds. It has been divided into prehistoric pottery, which is the subject of the detailed analysis, and pottery from the historical periods. The analysis reveals that Ciganska jama served as an occasional shelter for humans also in three periods of younger prehistory: at the time of the Sava group, the Lasinja culture, and the horizon of pottery with furrowed incisions (HKBV). The tunnel near Stranska jama (which is part of the Željnske jame cave system) could also have been a necropolis, a grave or a sacral area, the age of which, regardless of the fact that the finds point to the Neolithic-Eneolithic, cannot be defined in detail without radiometric dating of the human skull fragment

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