Dragan Božič

Late La Tène-Roman cemetery in Novo mesto.
Ljubljanska cesta and Okrajno glavarstvo

5. On the relative chronology of the Late La Tène period in the south-eastern Alpine area and northern Italy

• 5.1 The Mokronog Group
• 5.2 Magdalensberg
• 5.3 Northern Italy
• 5.4 Comparison of chronologies

Comparative table of the relative chronologies.

The fifth chapter brings several new interpretations. In author's opinion the Italic settlement on Magdalensberg was founded by the time of LT D1b (probably the first three decennia of the 1st century BC) and not in the time of Octavian's campaign against Siscia and the Iapodes (35-33 BC), as supposed by Heimo Dolenz and some other Austrian archaeologists, and absolutely not in the years 16-15 BC, as Peter Gamper, the excavator of the Gurina above the Gail valley in Carinthia, has unconvincingly tried to prove.

For the area of northern Italy the chronology of Raffaele De Marinis is still in use, developed for the later phases of the La Tène period in Lombardy.

According to him his phase LT D2, corresponding by its contents to the middle European LT D1b, lasted till the beginning of the Augustan period, that is 30 BC. In Božič's opinion between the phase LTit D2 (as he has marked the phase LT D2 after De Marinis), characterised by Almgren 65 type fibulae and early conchoidal fibulae, and the middle Augustan period (from 15 BC till the beginning of AD), a phase LTit D3 existed, the typical forms of which are black-slipped plates of the Lamboglia 5/7 type and fibulae of Alesia, Gorica and Jezerine types.

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2008, Katalogi in monografije 39, 240 pages, 91 colour and b-w photos, drawings, tables and maps, 33 plates, 24 x 32,8 cm, hardcover, ISBN 978-961-6169-60-8.

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