Zlatko Perhoč
Zlatko Perhoč graduated in art history and archaeology from the University of Zagreb, Croatia.
He was promoted to doctor of science (Dr. rer. nat. ) at the Nuturwissenschaftlich-Mathematische Gesamtfakultät, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany.
He is a specialist in material analysis of lithic artifacts for determining the provenance of the raw materials.
As an independent researcher, he participates in numerous complex and individual research projects on the Middle and Upper Paleolithic as well as the Neolithic in the Eastern Adriatic.
Phone: +385 925096409
Address: Zvaniška 7, 21403 Sutivan, Croatia
He was promoted to doctor of science (Dr. rer. nat. ) at the Nuturwissenschaftlich-Mathematische Gesamtfakultät, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany.
He is a specialist in material analysis of lithic artifacts for determining the provenance of the raw materials.
As an independent researcher, he participates in numerous complex and individual research projects on the Middle and Upper Paleolithic as well as the Neolithic in the Eastern Adriatic.
Phone: +385 925096409
Address: Zvaniška 7, 21403 Sutivan, Croatia
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source of data about the Neolithic of the Kvarner region and thereby an essential part of discussions about this period on the eastern Adriatic coast. Since this research was never fully published, the site was re-excavated in order to review previously obtained data about the cave usage in prehistory. The research results provided insight into the stratigraphic sequence of intact prehistoric archaeological deposits with Early and
Middle Neolithic finds. The analysis of stratification and artefacts contributes to our knowledge of complex mechanisms of neolithisation of the eastern Adriatic and confirms the undeniable informative and interpretative significance of the site in the studies of the northern Adriatic Neolithic.
archaeological sites composes a patchy record of the peopling of the plain itself. At the northern rim of the GAPR, characterized by a well-developed karst region, several caves and rock shelters record the presence of hunters of bisons and horses at the margins of the GPP and ibexes and cave bears in some hilly landscapes. Nonetheless, evidence of contacts across this area is provided by the exploitation of chert sources and by stylistic and technical similarities in the lithic industries. The work resumes the currently available multidisciplinary data and adds new
petroarchaeological evidence for reconstructing the settlement dynamics of the Gravettian – Epigravettian hunter-gatherers in this vast region up to the early Late Glacial, when the Prealpine and the Apennine foothills, along with the Dinarids, were persistently settled.
confirmed that it was an Impressed Ware site. Two radiocarbon dates also reveal that Rašinovac is among the earliest known Early Neolithic sites in the region (first century of the 6th millennium BC).
cultural stratigraphy (late Upper Palaeolithic, Bronze Age) is proposed here which differs from prior interpretations (late Upper Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Bronze Age). In terms of technology and typology, Kopačina exhibits considerable similarity to the Late Glacial industries of Vela Spila and Badanj. Microscopic and macroscopic analysis of a portion of the lithics set of finds has facilitated the definition of 8 petrographic groups, among which the group of local micritic cherts. The group of red and green radiolarites, although few in number, is an indicator of Kasnoglacijalna industrija lomljenog kamena pećine Kopačine Late Glacial knapped stone industry of Kopačina Cave.
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analysis of cherts from the region, in the course of which a comparative collection of geological samples and a respective data base
were formed. Middle Dalmatia is a part of the outer Dinaric Range, finally shaped by orogenesis during the Neogene, and acquiring
maritime character since the end of Pleistocene. Lithologically, the region is built of carbonate rocks that were deposited continuously
from Jurassic until Paleogene. Primary chert outcrops that appear within those rocks throughout the region are from Triassic, Jurassic,
Cretaceous, and (most often) Paleogene, with secondary accumulations formed during the Quaternary Period. This overview presents
results of the first phase of long-term research, aimed at correlating archaeological lithic inventories to regional sources of lithic raw
material.
focus is the deeply stratified multicomponent cave site of Vela spila on the island of Korčula. This central Dalmatian site yielded Epigravettian, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Aeneolithic and Bronze Age finds. Analyses of lithic artefacts from this site provided the groundwork for investigation of finds
belonging to older, contemporary or younger periods in the region. Lithic assemblages from several other sites located within and outside the region, ranging from Mousterian to the Bronze Age, were used for comparison.
Analysis of flaked stone artefacts involves determination of the raw material source, as well as the mode of raw material acquisition. In this research, archaeological methods, as well as macroscopic
geological and microscopic optical methods were applied. Correlation of artefacts with geological raw material sources was based on extensive fieldwork, a pioneering undertaking in the Adriatic
area. For that purpose, a collection of archaeological and geological samples was created, characteristics of each sample were established by macroanalyses and microanalyses, and recorded in a database. This work resulted in development of a basic methodology and a practical perspective that can be applied to future research within and beyond the region.
Comparative analyses of sites of different ages and geographic locations have provided informa-
tion about the change of lithic raw material procurement strategy. Two basic models of procurement were proposed in order to compare territorial organization and consequences of geomorphological changes on hunter-gatherers and farmers in the research area: the model of eastern Adriatic resources, and the model of western Adriatic resources. These models were applied to prehistoric sites on the eastern Adriatic, and were assigned to specific cultural stages of the analysed sites.
All Mousterian assemblages corresponded to the local model, while Epigravettian and Mesolithic assemblages corresponded to the model of local, local-regional, as well as more distant eastern
Adriatic resources. The model of western Adriatic resources largely corresponded to Neolithic, as well as Aeneolithic and early Bronze Age assemblages.
While some of the assemblages deviated from the assigned models, a general correlation exists between the two major resource zones and the major Stone Age periods. The eastern Adriatic resources model corresponds to pre-Neolithic periods, while the western Adriatic model corresponds post-Mesolithic periods. This fundamental change in procurement strategy is not just a consequence of the transition from hunting to agriculture, but is also related to changes in social context.
Since the beginning of the 6th millennium BC, the social element of the trans-Adriatic neolithisation was expressed by transfer, continuing over a period of several millennia, of technological innovations from the west to the east coast of central Adriatic. This included organized procurement
of raw materials through collection of allochthonous sources and the extraction of autochthonous sources, specialized production of prismatic blades, and overseas distribution. These processes were initiated by the pioneers, taken over by the colonists, and dispersed further through interaction between the incoming farmers and the local hunter-gatherers.