Brnjica culture


The Brnjica culture is an archaeological culture in present-day Serbia dating from 1400 BC.

Description

The cultural group formed out of this culture are the Moesi, a Daco-Thracian tribe formed in the Roman province of Moesia of present-day central Serbia.
It is also the non-Illyrian component in the Dardanian ethnogenesis.
The culture is characterized by several groups:
Brnjica type pottery has been found in Blageovgrad, Plovdiv, and a number of sites in Pelagonia, Lower Vardar, the island of Thasos and Thessaly dating to 13th and 12th century BC.

Sites

Donja Brnjica

The main site of the culture is a necropolis at Donja Brnjica, near Pristina.

Hisar

Hisar is a multi-periodal settlement at a hill near Leskovac.
Traces of life of the Brnjica culture are seen in the plateau that was protected by a deep moat with a palisade on its inner side, a fortification similar to that of another fortification on the Gradac site in Lanište in the Velika Morava basin.
A later Iron Age settlement existed at Hisar dating from the 6th century BC until the 4th century BC. Besides Greek fibulae and pottery, Triballi tombs have been excavated in 2005.