Archeological findings testify about life in the area of today's Baška Voda around 4.000 BC, and the main motif of inhabiting this area was the source of fresh water. In the Bronze age, in the times of cattle farmers moving to the Mediterranean, there comes to conflicts among different tribes around the water source and pasture-grounds, so at the elevation Gradina in the centre of today's town, for the defense of the water source, a forted settlements were formed which bulwark were made of dry-wall.
