Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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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.