Iapodian Culture

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Iapodian Culture

There are few data left on the area of Lika about the period of Early (23rd century B.C.) and Middle Bronze Age (16th century B.C.). The cattle-raising nomadic tribes in constant search for better grazing ground used to stay in habitats – caves where numerous remnants of material culture were found: broken pottery dishes, bone tools and the like.

On the basis of merging of autochthonous cultural traditions and the Pannonian influence of the Urn-field Culture, the end of the Late Bronze Age can be marked as the time of the emergence of the Iapodian Group. In the course of time the borders of their territory changed. The central Iapodian area encompassed Lika and the Ogulin-Plaški valley with part of Gorski Kotar and Kordun. However, the Iapodes also spread on the area of north-western Bosnia, including the middle course of the river Una (the Cazin and Bihać border-land), and sometimes they conquered the territory of the Croatian littoral.