Medieval jewelry and burial assemblages in Croatia : : a study of graves and grave goods, ca. 800 to ca. 1450 / / by Vladimir Sokol.

The Croatian medieval archaeological heritage from the 8th to the 15th century consists mostly of jewelry (earrings) findings from cemeteries. This book uses vertical and horizontal stratigraphy, on the basis of around 20,000 burial assemblages from 16 cemeteries (out of several hundred so far excav...

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Superior document:East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, Volume 36
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 ; Volume 36.
Physical Description:1 online resource (268 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • 1 A History of Research
  • 2 Cemeteries and Material Culture
  • 3 Cemetery Stratigraphy and the Classification of Material Culture
  • 4 Cemetery Horizons and Material Culture Phases
  • 5 The Development of Material Culture: Earrings and Their Evolution
  • 6 Grave Architecture
  • 1 Croat Burial Rites and Belief System
  • 2 Stone Cists: Late Antique or Early Medieval?
  • 3 Burial Customs
  • 4 Burial Horizons and Churches
  • 5 Cemeteries between the Mountains and the River Sava
  • 1 Earrings as Grave Goods
  • 2 Medieval Earrings in Croatia
  • Conclusion
  • List of Cited References
  • Index of Proper Names
  • Index of Geographical Names.