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Bioarchaeology of the medieval Đakovo cemetery: archaeological and anthropological evidence for ethnic affiliation and migration

M. Šlaus
K. Filipec

Sažetak

The results of a multidisciplinary, bioarchaeological analysis of the medieval cemetery from Đakovo show that this site was, from the 11th to the 16th century, inhabited by two different populations. The first population, which inhabited this site from the 11 to the first half of the 13 century, and which comprises the first burial phase in the Đakovo cemetery, can archaeologically be defined by shallower graves and the presence of Bijelo Brdo culture, and early Croatian jewelry. Discriminant function analysis of crania from this burial phase indicates that this population belongs to the group of early Medieval Croat populations, the same populations which inhabited the sites of Nin-Ždrijac, Danilo and Mravinci. Discriminant function analysis also indicates that there is a clear difference between crania from this phase, and crania from the second burial phase. The second burial phase is archaeologically defined by deeper graves and a general paucity of material remains among which carrings made from simple open-ended wires and rings with a widened, decorated field were the most frequently recovered. Differences in cranial morphology between the two phases are primarily present in cranial length and width, and in facial breadth. Crania from the second burial phase represent the presence of a different population which inhabited Đakovo from the second half of the 13th to the 16th century. The identity of this population is, at present, unknown. The datation and geographical location of some of the sites inhabited by Early Medieval Croat populations is also of considerable interest. Use of the Nin-Ždrijac cemetery, located on the Eastern Dalmatian coast, is dated from the 8th to the 10th century. The Gomjenica cemetery in northern Bosnia is dated from the 10th to the 11th century, while the first Burial phase from Đakovo is dated from the 11th to the first half of the 13th century.
The demographic profiles of the two burial phases are very similar, reflecting a similar lifestyle, and in all probability, a continuance of exploitation of the same resources necessary for survival.

Ključne riječi

Biological distance; cranial variation; multivariate statistics; medieval Đakovo

Hrčak ID:

5464

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/5464

Datum izdavanja:

22.12.1998.

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