Monbrodo - New Research on the Hillfort South of Rovinj near the Cisterna Bay

Sa？etak Istria is well-known for numerous hillfort settlements that have been built there since the beginning of the Early Bronze Age around 2000 BC. More than 400 are known, but fewer than a dozen have been researched. Therefore for most of them exact dating and assignment to different periods of occupation is uncertain and research on the development of hillforts and settlement systems in the Bronze and Iron Ages are difficult. Furthermore many of the settlements are endangered by agricultural or construction activities. To bring the Istrian hillfort settlements more into the focus of the research, an international team started a Korean-Croatian joint project in 20161 with excavations on the hillfort of Monbrodo south of the Cisterna Bay near Rovinj