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Natural PlacesSite Name: Nakovana CaveCountry: Croatia Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Latitude: 42.999630N Longitude: 17.087170E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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The excavation of this unusual site, evidently sealed for the last 2,000 years, has provided new insight into the Illyrian people, contemporaries of the ancient Greeks. Until now, very little was known about the Illyrians' beliefs, cults and symbolic lives.
"This discovery is rare and provocative. The archaeological evidence we have found to date strongly points to some mysterious, previously unknown cult activity, which may have been practiced in secrecy by the Illyrians," said Dr. Tim Kaiser, Research Associate in the ROM's Department of Western Art and Culture and co-director of the Nakovana Cave project. "For archaeologists to find a sealed, undisturbed cave site is fairly unusual. Nakovana is like a window on a Mediterranean past that's much richer than we ever thought."
The Royal Ontario Museum has worked closely on this and related projects with a team of Croatian archaeologists, co-directed by Dr. Staso Forenbaher, of the Institute of Anthropology, Zagreb, Croatia.
The cave is located on a remote hillside at the western tip of the PeljesÌŒac Peninsula in southern Dalmatia
Source: The Royal Ontario Museum
Note: Oldest known astrologer's board discovered in Dalmatia
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