Toys in the Copper Age

Children played games in the Bronze Age, too. The miniature ceramic dishes, decorated with the brushing technique, are most likely children's toys - dishes shaped as those used by adults. Miniature dishes are often found in prehistoric settlements and usually imitate the shapes of large dishes. Most recently a large number of such small dishes were excavated next to a hearth in Pulj, which leads us to surmise that they used to burn them as they were preparing food or that they had been used to prepare a specific type of food.