New archaeological and geoarchaeological investigations of the prehistoric site of Zecovi, near Prijedor, Bosnia i Herzegovina

Abstract

The article presents a project of an archaeological assessment of the very significant archaeological site of Zecovi. It is based on multidisciplinary methodological research of the Zecovi and its surroundings. "The aim of the research was to determine how the human factor influuenced the changes of the existing natural landscape the way how adjusted itself to this landscape. Project implementation was focused primarily to the centre of the site which has a specific shape (oppidum, tell, hill-top) and secondary focus was on the immediate and remote surrounding in order to acquire more realistic picture about the landscape in different archaeological periods from prehistory to modern time.