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Submitted by thecaptain on Tuesday, 24 March 2015  Page Views: 7162

Multi-periodSite Name: Hvar Island
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Hvar Town  Nearest Village: Hvar Town
Latitude: 43.167000N  Longitude: 16.667000E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
5 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
5 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
4

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Hvar Island submitted by thecaptain : The lovely island of Hvar is situated at an ancient crossroads of searoutes through the Adriatic Sea, and as such has many traces of history. This is Hvar town seen from its harbour. (Vote or comment on this photo)
The lovely island of Hvar, Central Dalmatia, Croatia, which gets 2800 hours of sunshine a year, is situated at an ancient crossroads of sea routes through the Adriatic Sea, and as such has many traces of history. It is known nowadays as a fashionable tourist island, and a producer of wine, lavender and honey. Hvar has been continuously populated since Neolithic times, with evidence of the inhabitation of several caves and finds of pottery dated back to 5000BC.

The earliest picture of a sailing boat found in Europe is that on a fragment of pottery from the neolithic settlement in the Grapèeva Cave on the island of Hvar, dating from 2500 BC.

There is more evidence of human settlement on the island during the Bronze Age, with a number of hilltop sites with bronze age pottery found across the island, several of which are very large and some equipped with defences. Hundreds of burial mounds from this period have been found across the island, several of them positioned in groups or cemeteries. Some of these mounds have massive proportions, up to four metres high and thirty metres in diameter. Within these tumuli the most frequent burial practice is a crouched burial within a rectangular stone cist.

During the Iron Age, there is an emergence of a settlement hierarchy amongst the Illyrian peoples who inhabited the islands and the shores of the Eastern Adriatic, and a series of defended enclosures dating to this period have been found. There is a wide variety of size for these sites, some not much more than a small wall sealing off a ridge, whilst others are large with massive ramparts and might have contained significant numbers of people. The Castle site above Hvar, which is possibly associated with the large barrow cemetery at Vira, appears to be in a position of power over the western part of the island. Pottery from this site indicates the settlement here as important within long distance trade networks from the eighth century B.C. onwards.

From this point, the Greeks became increasingly interested in the Adriatic, attracted to this area by the prospect of trade with the Illyrian people. Trade turned to settlement in 385/4 B.C. when the Greeks decided to start a colony on the Hvar island. The remains of this colony, known as Pharos, can still be seen in the town of Stari Grad at the head of the bay on the western side of the large northern plain. Some sections of its defensive wall still stand to several metres in height whilst excavation on the site has provided traces of Hellenistic houses.

Then along came the Romans in the first century BC, whatever did they do for the Hvar people? They were followed by the Byzantines, Slavs, Venetians, Turks, Austrians, French, English, Russians…… the rest is history.


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 3.2km SE 130° Tor Hillfort (Croatia)* Hillfort
 5.3km W 274° Purkin Kuk Hillfort* Hillfort
 5.9km WNW 288° Pharos Town wall* Hillfort
 5.9km WNW 286° Stari Grad Museum* Museum
 12.5km NNW 330° Zmajeva Spilja* Cave or Rock Shelter
 18.0km W 272° Hvar Castle Museum* Museum
 18.3km W 273° Fortica* Hillfort
 18.4km W 272° Hvar Museum* Museum
 19.3km W 278° Vira (Hvar)* Barrow Cemetery
 20.5km NNW 331° Brac Island* Ancient Village or Settlement
 25.7km NW 323° Gradina Rat Hillfort
 38.9km ESE 118° Nakovana Cave* Cave or Rock Shelter
 42.2km NNW 334° Diocletian's Palace* Ancient Palace
 42.4km NNW 332° Split Archaeological Museum* Museum
 44.0km NNW 340° Solin Town Gate* Ancient Village or Settlement
 44.0km NNW 340° Salona Town wall* Hillfort
 45.2km NNW 345° Klis Hillfort* Hillfort
 54.2km NW 318° Sutilija Hillfort* Hillfort
 55.9km N 4° Cetina Valley Ancient Village or Settlement
 78.2km E 97° Narona Museum* Museum
 78.3km E 97° Narona Town Wall* Hillfort
 83.5km E 84° Citluk-Greda-Illyrian observatory* Carving
 85.7km NW 326° Pokrovnik Ancient Village or Settlement
 85.9km E 95° Klepci tumuli 1* Round Barrow(s)
 86.0km E 95° Klepci tumuli 2* Round Barrow(s)
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GIS approaches to regional analysis: A case study of the island of Hvar by Andy B on Tuesday, 24 March 2015
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GIS Approaches to Regional Analysis: a Case Study of the Island of Hvar. Gaffney V, and Stančič Z

This monograph is an attempt to introduce GIS to a wider audience within Europe. No attempt has been made to provide a handbook to GIS applications or a review of available hardware and software, (although the references within the text lead to such information). The intention is simply to give the reader some insight into the potential of GIS for archaeological application. The first section introduces basic components and concepts of GIS, some of which may be unfamiliar to the general reader.

The second applies selected GRASS (Geographical Resources Analysis Support System) GIS modules to an archaeological and environmental database relating to the island of Hvar in Dalmatia, Yugoslavia. The problems approached within this section include; territorial boundary definition, the analysis of communication routes and the relationship of archaeological sites to agricultural land within their economic territories. Although the data used is specific to Yugoslavia and the karst region of Dalmatia, the research thems are general to most periods and areas of archaeological research and will be familiar to most archaeologists. Consequently, we hope that readers will interpret the results we have achieved in the light of their own interests. We should also stress that we have deliberately included several instances where the analyses were not as successful as we had hoped, generally the result of inadequacies in the archaeological or environmental databases. In doing so we hope that we can help others avoid some of the pitfalls which we ran headlong into.

Vincent Gaffney Department of Archaeology, University of Reading, Great Britain
Zoran Stančič, Department of Archaeology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

https://www.academia.edu/4237434/GIS_Approaches_to_Regional_Analysis_a_Case_Study_of_the_Island_of_Hvar._Gaffney_V_and_Stan%C4%8Di%C4%8D_Z
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