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Bërnicë e Poshtme
The researched Late Bronze and Early Iron Age site of the
Bërnica e Poshtme, is situated around 5 kilometers north of Pristina,
stretched along the Pristina-Podujeva (Besiana) road. This is a typical
flat necropolis whereas the cremation urn-burial was practiced. The
ashes of the deceased were stored in urns and buried inside either individual
or group graves in flatten areas, that in the archaeological literature
is known as the ‘urn-fields necropolis’.
Based on the results of research discovered material from this
burial complex, a particular method of grave construction was recorded.
The stone tholoid plates were set in
the shape of a semicircular grave base.
The urn-field burials were investigated
in the eighties of the last century, after
an accidental finding of an urn. Nevertheless,
since the discovery of this flat
necropolis, the archaeological culture
was named the Bërnica e Poshtme/
Donja Brnica Culture.
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Fig. 95. Two handle urn of the Bërnica Culture
(Kosovo Museum)
Fig. 96. Two handle urn of the Bërnica Culture
(Kosovo Museum)
Fig. 97. Two handle urn covered with lid-urn as discovered in
situ inside the Bërnica flat grave necropolis. Bërnica Culture,
(Kosovo Museum).
Fig. 98a. The site setting map of the Bërnica e Poshtme
archeological site, Prishtina Municipality.
Fig. 98. Orthophoto of the site setting of the Bërnica e
Poshtme necropolis.
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PRISHTINË
Badoc
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