Neolithic landscape of the Sopot culture in the area of Ðakovština

A vast network of Neolithic settlements belonging to the Sopot cultural perido was uncovered using aerial archaeology and magnetic prospection in Eastern Slavonia. The most striking common feature that all of these sites share is the presence of at least one circular ditch, but usually multiple ones, enclosing part of the site. These ditches have diameters of up to 180 metres. Between 2018 and 2024 the following sites were investigated with magnetometry: 

• Gorjani-Kremenjača i Topola (46.6 ha)
• Preslatinci-Ugljara (3.2 ha)
• Tomašanci-Dubrava i Gradina (16.8 ha)
• Vučevci-Ljestiča 1 (4.5 ha)
• Koritna-Pavitine (2.9 ha)
• Čepin-Kravičke Njive (5.8ha)

Results of magnetic prospection, remote sensing, and archaeological research can be found here:

Šošić Klindžić R, Kalafatić H, Šiljeg B, Hršak T (2019) Circles and ceramics through the centuries: Characteristics of Neolithic Sopot culture settlements/Krugovi i keramika kroz stoljeća: Značajke naselja sopotske kulture. Prilozi Instituta za Arheologiju u Zagrebu, 36, 41–84. https://doi.org/10.33254/piaz.36.2

Kalafatić H, Šošić Klindžić R, Šiljeg B (2020) Being Enclosed as a Lifestyle: Complex Neolithic Settlements of Eastern Croatia Re-Evaluated through Aerial and Magnetic Survey. Geosciences, 10, 384. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences10100384

Šošić Klindžić R, Meyer C, Milo P, Tencer T, Kalafatić H, Šiljeg B (2021) All Round: Workflow for the Identification of Neolithic Enclosure Sites of the Sopot Culture in Eastern Slavonia (Croatia). ArchéoSciences, 45–1, 123–126. https://doi.org/10.4000/archeosciences.8980

Šošić Klindžić R, Vuković M, Kalafatić H, Šiljeg B (2025) Digital surface models of crops used in archaeological feature detection – a case study of Late Neolithic site Tomašanci-Dubrava in Eastern Croatia, Peer Community Journal, 5: e140.