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elbina na robu starega sveta
The Settlement on the Edge
of the Old World
P Nred skoraj 30 leti, ko je pisala svojo disertacijo o 31
starejši železni dobi na Štajerskem, je Biba Ter-
žan prav na primeru skromnih podatkov ter early 30 years ago, when she wrote her dis-
sertation on the Early Iron Age in Štajerska,
Biba Teržan noted, observing modest data
redkih najdb iz Ptuja opozorila na čudne spremembe and rare finds from Ptuj, strange changes in the town’s
v poselitvenem vzorcu – Ptujski grad, ena izmed naj- settlement pattern. Ptujski Grad, one of the most con-
večkrat vedno znova poseljenih lokacij na področju stantly populated locations in eastern Slovenia, was
vzhodne Slovenije, je ob koncu pozne bronaste dobe, apparently abandoned at the end of the Late Bronze
ko so se vsepovsod drugod na Štajerskem oblikovala Age, at a time when larger and more massive walls to
večja in z masivnimi obzidji obdana utrjena višinska fortify settlements were being built everywhere else
naselja, ki so označevala začetek novega obdobja že- in Styria, thus marking the start of a new era in the
lezne dobe, očitno opustel (Teržan 1990; Dular 2013, Iron Age (Teržan 1990; Dular 2013, 73-75). New settle-
73–75). Nove naselbine oziroma kratkotrajne sledi po- ments or short traces of human settlement occurred
selitve so se pojavile na nižje ležečih terasah ob poto- in low-lying terraces near the Grajena Stream and in
ku Grajeni na enem ter na Spodnji Hajdini na drugem Spodnja Hajdina on the other bank of Drava River.
bregu Drave. Vendar pa so tudi tam najdbe kazale po- However, discoveries there also demonstrated a sim-
dobno časovno sliko kot na drugih naselbinah vzhod- ilar chronological picture as in other settlements in
ne Slovenije – najmlajše, med katerimi so bile tudi tri- eastern Slovenia, the youngest being trilobated bronze
robe bronaste puščice, ki se jih je vedno tradicionalno arrowheads that were always traditionally interpreted
razlagalo kot skitske oborožitvene elemente, niso pre- as elements of Scythian weapons and did not exceed
segle obdobja starejšega dela Ha D (Dular, Tomanič the period of early Ha D (Dular, Tomanič Jevremov
Jevremov 2013, 111). Zdelo se je, kot da ni najdb iz ob- 2013, 111). It seemed as if there were no finds from the
dobja od sredine 6. stoletja do najstarejše keltske pose- period from the mid-6th century to the oldest Celtic
The Settlement on the Edge
of the Old World
P Nred skoraj 30 leti, ko je pisala svojo disertacijo o 31
starejši železni dobi na Štajerskem, je Biba Ter-
žan prav na primeru skromnih podatkov ter early 30 years ago, when she wrote her dis-
sertation on the Early Iron Age in Štajerska,
Biba Teržan noted, observing modest data
redkih najdb iz Ptuja opozorila na čudne spremembe and rare finds from Ptuj, strange changes in the town’s
v poselitvenem vzorcu – Ptujski grad, ena izmed naj- settlement pattern. Ptujski Grad, one of the most con-
večkrat vedno znova poseljenih lokacij na področju stantly populated locations in eastern Slovenia, was
vzhodne Slovenije, je ob koncu pozne bronaste dobe, apparently abandoned at the end of the Late Bronze
ko so se vsepovsod drugod na Štajerskem oblikovala Age, at a time when larger and more massive walls to
večja in z masivnimi obzidji obdana utrjena višinska fortify settlements were being built everywhere else
naselja, ki so označevala začetek novega obdobja že- in Styria, thus marking the start of a new era in the
lezne dobe, očitno opustel (Teržan 1990; Dular 2013, Iron Age (Teržan 1990; Dular 2013, 73-75). New settle-
73–75). Nove naselbine oziroma kratkotrajne sledi po- ments or short traces of human settlement occurred
selitve so se pojavile na nižje ležečih terasah ob poto- in low-lying terraces near the Grajena Stream and in
ku Grajeni na enem ter na Spodnji Hajdini na drugem Spodnja Hajdina on the other bank of Drava River.
bregu Drave. Vendar pa so tudi tam najdbe kazale po- However, discoveries there also demonstrated a sim-
dobno časovno sliko kot na drugih naselbinah vzhod- ilar chronological picture as in other settlements in
ne Slovenije – najmlajše, med katerimi so bile tudi tri- eastern Slovenia, the youngest being trilobated bronze
robe bronaste puščice, ki se jih je vedno tradicionalno arrowheads that were always traditionally interpreted
razlagalo kot skitske oborožitvene elemente, niso pre- as elements of Scythian weapons and did not exceed
segle obdobja starejšega dela Ha D (Dular, Tomanič the period of early Ha D (Dular, Tomanič Jevremov
Jevremov 2013, 111). Zdelo se je, kot da ni najdb iz ob- 2013, 111). It seemed as if there were no finds from the
dobja od sredine 6. stoletja do najstarejše keltske pose- period from the mid-6th century to the oldest Celtic
