New archeological localities with smelting economy in Podravina region

Sa？etak During the first two years of work on the research project of the Croatian Science Foundation Trans-FER(IP-06-2016-5047), ？Iron production along Drava river in the Antique period and in the Middle Ages: creation and transfer of knowledge, technologies and goods？ which is implemented in the Podravina region under the management of , Tajana Sekelj Ivan？an, Ph.D. from the Institute for archeology, systematic field inspections were carried out on several occasions with the objective of defining archelogical localities with traces of smelting economy. The paper presents results of field inspections of several positions, a part of which were selected based on toponomastics cartographic information and aerial footage. During the above mentioned inspections numerous new archeological localities from the periods of prehistory, Antique and the Middle Ages were identified. On several established localities traces of iron ore processing were observed. With reference to preliminary archeological research the paper also discusses applicability of methods used during field inspection in relation to the type of the researched localities