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A decorated bronze vessel, a wooden wheel and the remains of a Roman house answer different questions about the past. Together, they show why archaeology in Slovenia is more than a list of ancient objects: it connects materials, places and the circumstances in which people used them. The examples below move from prehistoric wetland settlements to Iron Age craftsmanship and Roman urban life. They are selected cases, not a complete history of every community that lived within the borders of modern Slovenia. The original Vače Situla, photographed in the National Museum of Slovenia on 5 August 2013. Photo: Eleassar , CC BY-SA 3.0 . Commons thumbnail; no new crop. Prehistoric settlements preserved in wet ground Slovenia is one of the six countries included in UNESCO’s Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps , inscribed in 2011. The serial property comprises 111 sites across the participating countries, with settlements dating broadly from around 5000 to 500 BCE. Those dates describe ...