What is today Ljubljansko barje (Ljubljana Marshes), was once covered by a lake. People would build first pile-dwelling sites already in the Neolithic, as well as pioneer metalworking in present-day Slovenia. Pile dwellings also appeared in area near Ig.

The technique of casting copper artifacts was adopted early on, in the 4th millennium BC, from the Carpathian Basin. At that time a local Ljubljana culture group (related to the Baden group, centered in Austria) developed in the area, characterized by its oldest wheel, copperworks and modestly-decorated pottery with furrowed incisions.

Goods originating from different parts of the world discovered in prehistoric settlements are indicative of the trading contacts and routes of that time. Analyses of such goods found in the Ljubljana Marshes point to contacts with the Balkans and, from the 4th millennium BC onwards, also with areas to the north of the Apennine peninsula and the Alps.

A dwelling could be made of densely-spaced houses made of ash and oak and a gabled roof, surrounded with a beech palisade. The houses were rectangular and rarely exceeded 30m2.

After a period of abandonment, between 3100 and 2800 BC, The pile dwellings rose up again, this time with the lavish pottery, idols, copper objects and other artforms of the Vucedol culture, which covered the wider Danube region.

The disconnected periods of settlement and abandonment shows that different peoples of different cultures inhabited the area between the 5th and 2nd millennium bc.

Sources: docs.google.com/document/d/1mnK9tpEvz9UgeVWuUh8fPF…

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