Beli Manastir - Sirine, rescue excavations of the prehistoric and medieval site AN 2A on the A5 highway, Beli Manastir-Osijek-Svilaj section in 2014

Rescue archaeological excavations at the Beli Manastir Sirine site on 48,061 m(2) brought numerous data about the population of this area during the Neolithic, Lasinja culture, encrusted pottery culture and the Middle Ages. Most of the structures researched in the settlement and the cemetery date back to the end of the Early Bronze Age of the south group of the encrusted pottery culture. This is why this site establishes a good example for studying settlement infrastructure and spatial relationships with the cemetery and rituals of the communities from this area whose members buried their dead there. Rescue excavations also suggested that the large river valleys such as the Danube and Drava valleys enabled natural communication routes that are still visible today, but that even between them there was communication on a smaller scale that was also exceptionally important for communication between prehistoric and medieval communities populating this area, which is certainly more difficult to identify and study without this type of research.