Beleške o Glasincu

Abstract

Glasinac, the plain east of Sarajevo, with thousands of burial mounds and hundreds of hillforts, represents one of cult prehistoric sites in the Balkans, which even after 120 years of intensive work and research has failed to provide adequate solutions to all the problems present. The first excavations at Glasinac were carried out in 1880, under the supervision of lieutenant engineer J. Lexsa, and the subsequent ones in 1886 under the management of captains F. Glossauer and J. Brudl. On establishing the National Museum in Sarajevo, the systematic research in Glasinac (1888-1897) started, conducted by C. Truhelka, D. Stratimirovic and F. Fiala. Between World War I and World War II there was some minor work carried out under M. Mandić (1937), while after World War II Glasinac was studied by B. Čović (1957) and B. Govedarica (from 1974 until 1990, intermittently). In addition to reports from these excavations, several books and studies on this subject were published by M. Hoernes, A. Benac, B. Čović, M. Garasanin, N. Lucentini, etc. The main topic of these considerations was the chronology of Glasinac material. At first it was predominantly thought to be Hallstatt; eventually, owing primarily to the work of A. Benac and B. Čović, it was established that the cultural development on the Glasinac Plain was continuous from the beginning of the Bronze Age until Late Iron Age. Benac and Covic gave also the basic chronological division of the archeological material into five phases, Glasinac I – V, which is, with some additional changes in certain types, still applied today.