Educational trail
POŠTELA AND IRON AGE BURROW CEMETERIES
The fortified elevated settlement of Poštela, near Maribor, was one of the most important settlements between the Alps and the Pannonian Basin during the Early Iron Age period from the end of the 9th to the middle of the 6th century B.C. At that time, several burial sites belonged to the community living in Poštela, which stretched from the Habakuk plateau down to Pivola, where today, the best-preserved Iron Age burrow cemetery is located. The burrow cemetery, which lies in what is today the UM Botanical Garden, extends over an approximately 9-hectare area, and includes a few dozen tumuli, from the smallest of approx. 5m diameter and around 0.5m in height to the largest, which can be seen on the west edge of the burrow cemetery, the diameter of which exceeds 30m and reaches up to 5m or 6m in height.
THE COLLECTION OF EDIBLE AND USEFUL PLANTS, PALEOGARDEN
In the exhibition fields, you can see which plants were used in Styria during (pre)historic periods. The fields are designed chronologically, according to historic period, from the beginning of cultivating useful plants, important for the everyday diet of people living in this area. The plants in the exhibition fields represent the Early Stone Age, Copper Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age, Roman period, late antiquity, as well as the Early and High Middle Ages.
THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXHIBIT in the University of Maribor Botanical Garden
In the context of our archaeological exhibit, we take you on a walk through (pre)historic areas of north-eastern Slovenia and Austrian Styria, from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages. The exhibition presents the findings of interdisciplinary research in the field of archaeology, archeobotany, and archaeozoology in a modern and interactive way. The cherry on top of your visit will be the tour of a reconstruction of an Iron Age house from more than 2600 years ago.
