A long-lived cave site in the karstlands of the southern Dinaric mountains, located in the Trebisnjica Valley 20 km inland from Dubrovnik, in Dalmatia, Yugoslavia. 31 levels have been distinguished in a 20-metre stratigraphy: XXXI-V, Palaeolithic, with deposits of the Mousterian and Upper Palaeolithic covering the last two major glaciations; IVb-IVa, Early and Late Mesolithic respectively, with microlithic flint industries and a large faunal sample dominated by red deer and chamois; III, pottery of Early Neolithic Impressed ware type associated with a fauna dominated by hunted mammals; II, pottery of Danilo-Kakanj style associated with wild mammal bones and a macrolithic flint industry; I, a Late Bronze Age level with Hallstatt A-B metalwork.
The Macmillan dictionary of archaeology, Ruth D. Whitehouse, 1983Copied