Резултати антрополошких проучавања скелета из гробова у налазишту Требениште

Abstract

The archaeological site at Gorenci, a village on the Lake Ohrid–Kičevo Road, was discovered by alien Bulgarian soldiers during World War I, who did not know the exact geography of the country which they invaded and gave it the name of the neighbouring village Trebenište. The first seven graves found at the site were robbed by Bulgarians and all the implements taken to the Museum in Sofia. These were later described by Filow and Škorpil. After World War I Professor Nikola Vulić of the University of Belgrade excavated the site from 1930 to 1933 and found more graves with much more implements of exceptional value. All these implements are very well known, but it is almost forgotten that Vulić also found some remains of human bones in one of the graves and asked Dr Branko Šljivić, the Head of the Department of Anatomy of the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade to undertake the anthropological study of these skeletal remains. Šljivić examined the bones and published the report in 1935. This report was quite forgotten because of the tragic events in Europe just before and during World War II, when Bulgarian and German forces once again performed their wild destruction of Yugoslav cultural heritage.