The renowned archaeologist from Zagreb, Prof. Dr. Boris Graljuk, who has been dealing with archaeological research in the area of the northwestern Bosnia his entire life, was staying recently in a visit to Drvar, Bosansko Grahovo and Bosanski Petrovac, where he visited some of the famous and less famous archaeological sites.
In the area of Drvar, Prof. Graljuk visited the site of the medieval Visuć-Grad and archaeological sites Šobića glavica, Spasovina, Bastasi and Vrtoče. In Bosanski Petroval area, he visited the medieval church of St. George with a necropolis in Kolunić and the medieval town of Bilaj above the present village Bjelaja, while in the territory of Bosansko Grahovo he visited the medieval town of Unac above the Preodac village, as well as the archaeological sites Mramorno groblje, Gradina, Gradac, Brgovac, Duboka Luka, Perušovac, Korita and Obljaj.
Prof. Graljuk pointed out that the entire area of the southwestern Bosnia between Bihać and Livno, more precisely the area of Bosanski Petrovac, Drvar and Bosansko Grahovo, is a kind of archaeological Eldorado.
This is confirmed by the fact that in the past 100 years the world-renowned archaeologists expressed interest in this area, some of them being the great English archaeologist Arthur Evans and the father of Croatian archaeology Don Frane Bulić, and a series of other renowned national archaeologists of the National Museum in Sarajevo and archaeologists from modern times.
The mentioned area is abundant with prehistoric hill forts from the Iron and Bronze Age, localities from the period of Neolith can also be seen, and it is known that Paleolithic people lived in the cave Ledenica in Resanovci near Grahovo some 40.000 years ago.
Special archaeological stamp to this area was given in the period of the Roman rule, when roads were built to connect the Roman provinces Dalmatia and Pannonia, as well as the Alps and the Black Sea. Several Roman mileposts from this period are still preserved in the area of Drvar.
In this entire area there are archaeological findings from the pre-Romanesque, Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance periods, and of special value are numerous necropolises with tombstones (for example, the area of Grahovo and Livanjsko polje). However, many of them, unfortunately, have been jeopardized with construction and exposed to devastation in the past several decades.
(Source: klix.ba)
