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monarhijo, gravitirajoč k moderniziranemu Trstu, zaradi Sticotti, B. Schiavuzzi, A. Puschi), and Vienna (C. Moser,
česar je del gradiva še danes shranjen v muzejskih usta- M. Hörnes, A. Gnirs) as, at the turn of the century, Istria
novah teh mest. Nekatera izkopavanja so izvajali tudi was Austrian coastal territory, part of the Austria–Hun-
lokalni raziskovalci, zlasti A. Amoroso za poreški muzej, gary dual monarchy, gravitating towards the what was
ki je raziskoval Beram in Picuge (Amoroso 1885; 1889). then a modernised Trieste, as a result of which part of
the archaeological material continues to be held by the
museums of these cities. Some of the excavations were
Poleg tega velja izpostaviti avtorje, ki so ponudili prve sin-
teze in predloge za rekonstrukcijo načina življenja prazgo- performed by local investigators, A. Amoroso in particular,
who worked for the museum in Poreč, and investigated
dovinskih prebivalcev Istre. Delo R. F. Burtona Notes on the the Beram and Picugi sites (Amoroso 1885; 1889).
Castellieri or Prehistoric Ruins of the Istrian Peninsula (1874)
predstavlja prvo znanstveno vrednotenje predzgodovinskih Of note are the authors who proposed the first syntheses
naselij, medtem ko je C. Marchesetti v pregledu Castellieri and reconstructions of the lives of the prehistoric inhab-
preistorici di Trieste e della Regione Giulia kritično obravnaval itants of Istria. R. F. Burton’s Notes on the Castellieri or
posamezna naselja in uvedbo obredov sežiga ter žarnih Prehistoric Ruins of the Istrian Peninsula thus constitutes
grobišč v kontekstu začetka železne dobe Istre, Krasa in the first academic treatment of these prehistoric hilltop
Kvarnerja (Marchesetti 1903; prim. Buršić-Matijašić 2007; settlements (Burton 1874), while C. Marchesetti’s review
2012; Mihovilić 2014, 14, 34–36). Castellieri preistorici di Trieste e della Regione Giulia (“The
Prehistoric Castles of Trieste and the Giulia Region”) is
a critical consideration of particular settlements and
Naslednje obdobje se nanaša na čas do 50. let 20. stoletja,
ko so se politične okoliščine temeljito spreminjale. Zaključi- of the emergence of the cremation rite and cremation
necropolises in the context of the Early Iron Age in Istria,
lo se bo s koncem druge svetovne vojne in z oblikovanjem and the Kras and Kvarner regions (Marchesetti 1903; cf.
nove države Jugoslavije ter z ustanovitvijo specializirane Buršić-Matijašić 2007; 2012; Mihovilić 2014, 14, 34–36).
muzejske ustanove za arheologijo, Arheološkega muzeja
Istre v Pulju leta 1947 (Matijašić 1983). Arheološka izkopa- The following phase covers the period up to the 1950s,
vanja predzgodovinskih najdišč s prihodom prve svetovne which saw profound political change. It closed with the
vojne so bila postopoma bodisi zaključena bodisi namerno end of the Second World War and the formation of the
prekinjena, kar je pomenilo konec pionirskih raziskovalnih new Yugoslavia, and the founding of a specialised ar-
del. Med obema vojnama so bila izvedena izkopavanja chaeological museum institution in Pula in 1947, the
gradišč Kas, Glavica in Vrčin, ki sta jih izvajala B. Tamaro Archaeological Museum of Istria (Matijašić 1983). With
Forlati in R. Battaglia (Battaglia 1958). Poleg obdelave the coming of the First World War the archaeological
excavation of prehistoric sites were gradually either com-
gradiva in objave rezultatov izkopavanj so bile izvedene pleted or intentionally terminated, which closed the era
tudi prve večje razstave, klasifikacija najdb, kulturne in of pioneering investigative work. The time between the
etnične determinacije ter morebitne kronološke določbe. two world wars saw the excavations of the hillfort sites
Najpomembnejše objavljeno delo je zagotovo monogra- of Kas, Glavica, and Vrčin, led by B. Tamaro Forlati and
fija A. Gnirsa Istria praeromana, v kateri so predstavljena R. Battaglia (Battaglia 1958). Besides the analysis of the
grobišča Pulja, Rovinja in Bal, ter vključitev istrske žele- collected material and the publication of the results of
znodobne materialne kulture v sintezi Italische Gräberkunde the excavation work, this period saw the first major exhi-
F. Duhna in F. v. Messerschmidta, širše v okviru venetske bitions, the classification of the recovered artefacts, the
kulture (Gnirs 1925; Degrassi 1933; Duhn, Messerschmidt cultural and ethnic identification, and proposed chronol-
1939; Mihovilić 2014, 14). Prav takrat sta bila objavljena ogies. By far the most significant of the works published
celovita katalogizacija in kritičen pregled kamnite plastike, at the time were A. Gnirs’ monography Istria praeromana,
ki je bila podpisana s strani B. Tamaro (1927), s čimer je which showcased the necropolises in Pula, Rovinj, and
nezakcijska skulptura dobila dokončno stilsko in krono- Bale, and the treatment of Istrian Iron Age material culture
loško determinacijo v umetnosti jadranskega prostora 7. in F. Duhn and F. v. Messerschmidt’s synthesis Italische
in 6. stoletja pr. n. št. Gräberkunde (“Italic Grave Studies”) in the broader context

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