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ZALOG NEAR VERD. Stone Age hunters' camp at the western edge of the Ljubljansko barje Andrej GASPARI and Boris KAVUR Zalog near Verd. Hunters’ base camp on the shores of a lake? Abstract Zalog near Verd is the fi rst Stone Age site in Slovenia that was discovered and investigated using underwater research methodology. Only a small part of a larger site was destroyed, its remains subsequently researched and its function determined using the data from the uncovered fauna as well as bone and stone tools. The site is supposed to represent a special area of activity where the hunting prey was butchered. The context of the activity that took place on the documented part of the site includes an intriguing fi nd of a skull belonging to a 20- to 34-year-old woman. Key words: Slovenia, the Ljubljansko barje, archaeology, Mesolithic
*** 2006, (Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae, 11), 233 pp., 37 drawings, photos, tables, graphs and maps, 99 b-w drawings, photos, tables, graphs and maps, 20 x 29 cm, hardcover, ISBN 961-6568-57-4. |