Ponijevo

Ponijevo is a village in the municipality of Žepče, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Historical records show that the village has been inhabited since the Neolithic. The modern Ponijevo is associated to foundation of a catholic parish in the village in the 19th century, and the migrations of Croats from Dalmatia and Herzegovina to this region during this period, as well as the migrations that ensued after the most recent Bosnian war.

== History == thumb|Darts found by Tomo Dragičević in 1896 at Čustuša field, where a Neolithic settlement "Kraljičino guvno" of the Butmir culture were discovered. Ponijevo has been inhabited in the Neolithic times, judging by the archeological site "Kraljičino guvno" (fields "Čustuša" and "Gajevi"), which are situated in the vicinity of the elementary school in Ponijevo. These archeological findings were first described in 1897 by Tomo Dragičević, an Austro-Hungarian soldier and an amateur archaeologist, who found various tools made of finely dressed stone, among them scrapers, darts, saws, drills, knives, hatchets, chisels, and grinders. The site was further explored by Ćiro Truhelka between 1906 and 1908, during which other Neolithic settlements in the wider Novi Šeher area were found. He discovered large pieces of ornamental ceramics, and established that people settled in this area perfected stone dressing to produce objects that were later used for trading. These neolithic findings are from one of eight archeological sites of the Butmir culture, and can be found at National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo.