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The catalogue in front of you presents the exhibition with the same name. It is one of the results of ac-
tivities in framework of the international project co-financed by the European Commission entitled
Clash of Cultures in which University of Primorska was joined in collaboration with the kelten römer muse-
um manching from Germany, Zemaljski muzej Bosne i Hercegovine from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lošinjski muzej
from Croatia and Arheološki muzej Makedonije from Macedonia. It was intended to promote cultural contacts
between Mediterranean civilizations and prehistoric communities of Eastern and Central Europe in the Late
Iron Age. For the presentation less known, but nevertheless important archaeological sites were selected in
which contacts still recognisable in the archaeological record took place. The goal was to present their interna-
tional character, their intensity but also the local cultural elements developed in these centers. Ohrid, Ošanići,
Osor, Manching and Ptuj were not just important archaeological sites for demonstration of cultural contacts
but were metaphors for the demonstration of European cultural history.
The present book and exhibition are dedicated to one of the most important archaeological sites in Slovenia
- Ptuj. It came into existence as a collaboration project between the University of Primorska, Science and Re-
search Center, Institute for Mediterranean Heritage with the Regional Museum Ptuj-Ormož; Institute for
preservation of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia, Conservation center, Center for preventive archaeology; Na-
tional Museum of Slovenia and Regional Museum in Maribor. It presents the historical development of com-
munities settled on the territory of today’s Ptuj and its surroundings, their trade and cultural contacts in the pe-
riod between the 5th and 1st century BC when these prehistoric communities were included into networks of
contacts spanning from the Carpathian basin to the central Mediterranean, from the central Balkans to the
central Alps.
The catalogue in front of you presents the exhibition with the same name. It is one of the results of ac-
tivities in framework of the international project co-financed by the European Commission entitled
Clash of Cultures in which University of Primorska was joined in collaboration with the kelten römer muse-
um manching from Germany, Zemaljski muzej Bosne i Hercegovine from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lošinjski muzej
from Croatia and Arheološki muzej Makedonije from Macedonia. It was intended to promote cultural contacts
between Mediterranean civilizations and prehistoric communities of Eastern and Central Europe in the Late
Iron Age. For the presentation less known, but nevertheless important archaeological sites were selected in
which contacts still recognisable in the archaeological record took place. The goal was to present their interna-
tional character, their intensity but also the local cultural elements developed in these centers. Ohrid, Ošanići,
Osor, Manching and Ptuj were not just important archaeological sites for demonstration of cultural contacts
but were metaphors for the demonstration of European cultural history.
The present book and exhibition are dedicated to one of the most important archaeological sites in Slovenia
- Ptuj. It came into existence as a collaboration project between the University of Primorska, Science and Re-
search Center, Institute for Mediterranean Heritage with the Regional Museum Ptuj-Ormož; Institute for
preservation of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia, Conservation center, Center for preventive archaeology; Na-
tional Museum of Slovenia and Regional Museum in Maribor. It presents the historical development of com-
munities settled on the territory of today’s Ptuj and its surroundings, their trade and cultural contacts in the pe-
riod between the 5th and 1st century BC when these prehistoric communities were included into networks of
contacts spanning from the Carpathian basin to the central Mediterranean, from the central Balkans to the
central Alps.
