Sokol Vladimir. Medieval Jewelry and Burial Assemblages in Croatia

Brill Academic Publishers, 2016. — 269 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, Vol. 36).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 excavated in Croatia), to establish relative and absolute chronology of jewelry and burial architecture divided into three horizons and four phases in comparison with materials from neighboring regions of Europe.Graves and Material Culture.
A History of Research.
Cemeteries and Material Culture.
Cemetery Stratigraphy and the Classification of Material Culture.
Cemetery Horizons and Material Culture Phases.
The Development of Material Culture: Earrings and Their Evolution.
Grave Architecture.
Interpretation and General Remarks.
Croat Burial Rites and Belief System.
Stone Cists: Late Antique or Early Medieval?
Burial Customs.
Burial Horizons and Churches.
Cemeteries between the Mountains and the River Sava.
Earrings.
Earrings as Grave Goods.
Medieval Earrings in Croatia.
Table of Absolute Chronology for Earrings 31 Basic Types.