Original scientific paper
On how justified the term Bijelo Brdo culture is in medieval archaeology
Milica Radišić
orcid.org/0000-0001-9651-2016
; Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade, Serbia
Abstract
This paper addresses the issue of using the term “Bijelo Brdo culture” in medieval archaeology of Central Eastern Europe. Initially coined in the early 20th century as a collective term for artefacts from necropolises dating from the 10th to 11th/12th centuries and attributed to the Slavs within the medieval Hungarian state, the term has remained in use despite the fact that the approach in the analysis of archaeological finds on the basis of strictly ethnic principles has largely been abandoned. The term “Bijelo
Brdo culture” is used today in Slavic-speaking countries, particularly in Croatia, as a chronological-typological or technical term for distinct archaeological material. In Hungary, however, the same group of finds is referred to within a historical context, by using the phrase “necropolis/ finds from the (early) Árpád period,” a designation seen as more accurate in its historical context. After reviewing the history of research on thistopic, this paper explores the role and position of the southern Carpathian
Basin (the region encompassing the former Yugoslav countries) within socio-historical processes related to the formation of medieval Hungary. Despite some distinctive regional specificities in archaeological data from these areas, the author argues for harmonizing research terminology across all contemporary administrative regions that were part of medieval Hungary, to foster better understanding among scholarly communities studying the same period.
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329708
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Publication date:
31.12.2024.
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