Editing Maribor (section)

===Prehistory===
The oldest known remnants of settlement in the Maribor area date back to the 5th millennium BC, at the time of the [[Chalcolithic]]. With the construction of Maribor's western bypass, larger settlements were discovered dating from the 44th to 42nd century BC. Another settlement from around the same period was also discovered in [[Spodnje Hoče]], a town right next to Maribor and another below Melje Hill near [[Malečnik]]. Another settlement below Melje Hill was also found dating to the 4th millennium BC.<ref name="Cresnar">{{cite book |last1=Črešnar |first1=Matija |title=Arheološka pot po Mariboru z okolico. Odsek I: Zgornje Radvanje – Spodnje Hoče / Archaeological Trail of Maribor and its Surroundings. Section I: Zgornje Radvanje – Spodnje Hoče |date=2012 |publisher=Zavodza varstvo kulturne dediščine Slovenije |location=Ljubljana |isbn=978-961-6420-94-5 |url=https://www.academia.edu/16981303 |access-date=14 May 2020}}</ref>

A more intense period of settlement of the Maribor area occurred in the 3rd millennium BC with the advent of the [[Bronze Age]]. In the 13th to 12th century BC, in the age of the [[Urnfield culture]], new settlements were found in [[Pekel, Maribor|Pekel]]. Around 1000 BC, new settlers moved to the Maribor area. An urnfield cemetery was found from that period in today's ''Mladinska ulica'' and another [[necropolis]] was also found in [[Pobrežje, Maribor|Pobrežje]].<ref name="Cresnar"/>