Arenda – a Late Bronze Age Settlement and the Problem of the Settlement Pattern on the Drava Plain

Sa？etak Large–scale rescue archaeological excavations were conducted during 2010 within the project of building the Slobodnica – Donji Miholjac gas pipeline. The finds from a hitherto unpublished site Velimirovac – Arenda (AN32) are discussed in the first part of the paper. This settlement site is positioned at the very southern edge of the Drava plain. According to typological–chronological characteristics of the finds, the site is dated to BrD–HaA period. A preliminary interpretation of settlement patterns is suggested in the second part of the paper. The interpretation draws primarily on concepts of cultural biography and the so called ？wandering houses？