A look at the social structure of the Iron-Age Dolenjska region (Lower Carniola)

Abstract

In the time of the Early Orion Age or Halstat period the present Slovene space reached a significant economic and cultural rise. Predominantly developed was the region of Dolenjska to which abundant iron ore deposits contributed. The society of that time that as can be understood from burial and settlement structures did not surpass the tribal cycle. It was organised in communities with chiefs at the head. At selecting a chief not only their origin was important but as well their heroic deeds ans personal charisma.