Monkodonja

[1][2][3] Monkodonja lies on a small hill, 81 m above sea level, and forms an irregular ellipse stretching east-west that is 250 m long and 160 m wide.

[5][6] Findings of so-called loaf-of-bread idols (or tavolette enigmatiche or Brotlaibidol) provide evidence of the integration into a Bronze Age communication network.

A silver denarius of Emperor Augustus dating 13 BC indicates sporadic visits to the site during the Roman Empire.

Between 1997 and 2009, multidisciplinary international research has been conducted under the leadership of Bernhard Hänsel, Kristina Mihovilić and Biba Teržan from the Freie Universität Berlin, the Archaeological Museum of Istria in Pula, and Arheološki muzej Istre, University in Ljubljana.

[10][11][12] The study emphasizes the integration of Monkodonja into the broad Early and Middle Bronze Age communication networks of the region.

1 km southeast of Monkodonja lies the Monsego or Mušego hill, where several stone burial mounds were discovered.

As in Monkodonja, grave goods in the form of bronze jewelry and several amber beads were found in the stone cists.

[17] In 2022, Biba Teržan and Kristina Mihovilić received a prize from the Croatian Archaeological Society (Hrvatsko arheološko društvo) for the publication of research results from Monkodonja.

[18] Bernhard Hänsel, Kristina Mihovilic, Biba Terzan: Monkodonja: Istraživanje protourbanog naselja brončanog doba Istre.

Knjiga 1—Iskopavanje i nalazi građevina/ Monkodonja: Forschungen zu einer protourbanen Siedlung der Bronzezeit Istriens.

Monkodonja: istraživanje protourbanog naselja brončanog doba Istre = Forschungen zu einer protourbanen Siedlung der Bronzezeit Istriens.

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