UNESCO tentative site
Kokino (Macedonian: Кокино) is a Bronze Age archaeological
site in the Republic of Macedonia, approximately 30 km from the town of
Kumanovo, and about 6 km from the Serbian border, in the Staro Nagoričane
municipality. It is situated between about 1010 and 1030 m above sea level on
the Tatićev Kamen (Татиќев камен) summit and covers an area of about 90 by 50
meters, overlooking the eponymous hamlet of Kokino.
It was discovered by archeologist Jovica Stankovski,
director of the national museum in Kumanovo, in 2001. In 2002, Stankovski
together with Gorje Cenev (who is the head of a planetarium at a Youth Cultural
Center in Skopje) published the claim that the site contains a "megalithic
observatory and sacred site" (мегалитска опсерваторија и светилиште).
The oldest archaeological finds date from about the 19th
century BC, corresponding to the early European Bronze Age. It shows signs of
occupation for the period from the 19th to the 7th centuries BC. Finds from the
Middle Bronze Age (c. 16th to 14th centuries BC) are the most numerous (mainly
ceramic vessels, stone-mills and a few molds). An agglomeration from the Iron
Age was discovered in 2009.
The Kokino "megalithic observatory" should be
distinguished from the wider Kokino archaeological site. While the observatory
consists of two platforms of a combined area of about 5000 square meters, the
site covers about 30 hectares. From this area, an abundant amount of fragments
of ceramic vessels, dated to between the 19th and the 11th centuries BC. Also
found was a mould for casting bronze axes, and a pendant. The remains of
vessels filled with offerings were found deposited in cracks in the rocks,
which gave rise to the interpretation of the site as a "holy
mountain".
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