A Specific Type of Tholos in the Northern Adriatic

Burial mounds in the Region of Istria in the northern Adriatic have long been known but few of them have been excavated in the modern period. Interestingly, they are of different types, in regard to the manner of burial as well as kind of the stone-construction. One of them, on the hilltop of Maklavun, has the characteristics of a tholos. Its dating to the Middle Bronze Age is reasonably certain. The question arises whether the tholos, the form of which has rarely been found outside Greece, was built after prototypes from the Mycenaean world.Teržan Biba, Hänsel Bernhard. A Specific Type of Tholos in the Northern Adriatic. In: Ancestral Landscape. Burial mounds in the Copper and Bronze Ages (Central and Eastern Europe – Balkans – Adriatic – Aegean, 4th-2nd millennium B.C.) Proceedings of the International Conference held in Udine, May 15th-18th 2008. Lyon : Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux, 2012. pp. 163-170. (Travaux de la Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée. Série recherches archéologiques, 58