Fran Funtak, a Vukovar architect, designed a villa below the Streim family’s vineyard at Vučedol. It was built in 1918 entirely of reinforced concrete, a first for eastern Croatia. Since then the Villa Streim has figured prominently in archaeological studies of Vučedol. The villa is a protected cultural monument, restored according to strict preservation standards […]
Numerous scholars and archaeologists have studied the Vučedol Culture and its eponymous locality Vučedol, contributing to our knowledge of the culture and making its name widely known. Particularly noteworthy from Croatia have been Josip Brunšmid, Viktor Hoffiller and Stojan Dimitrijević, and over the past 30 years Aleksandar Durman has intensively reaserched the culture. Systematic archaeological […]
The Danube River’s right flanks in eastern Slavonia and western Srijem are covered by loess terraces 10 to 15 km wide. These allowed easy travel, and hosted permanent settlements for the first Neolithic agriculturalists in Europe (the Starčevo Culture), who in 6200 B.C. started to expand from the Anatolian Plateau, as well as for Indo-European […]
At the Vučedol site we find traces of many prehistoric cultures (listed from youngest to oldest layers; the dates refer to the beginning of settlement) Belegiš II Late Bronze Age 1300 BC Vinkovci Early Bronze Age 2500 BC Vučedol Eneolithic/Bronze Age 3000 BC Kostolac Eneolithic 3150 BC Baden […]
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