Medieval cemetery at the Ilok-Krstbajer site (original) (raw)

Evliya Çelebi and the town cemetery of Ilok

ZBORNIK INSTITUTA ZA ARHEOLOGIJU SERTA INSTITUTI ARCHAEOLOGICI KNJIGA VOLUME 14, 2020

The aim of this paper is a presentation and archaeological confirmation of the written records by the Ottoman travelogue writer Evliya Celebi’s concerning the location of the town cemetery during the Ottoman Empire. The rescue excavation conducted in 2016 in the Vlatka Kraljevića Street in Ilok resulted in a limited number of burials with almost no grave-goods indicating the existence of an early modern period cemetery at this location. This assumption was additionally confirmed by radiocarbon dating of several human bone samples retrieved from the excavated burials. Beside the archaeological characteristics, this paper will also present the results of the bioarchaeological analysis. Key words: Evliya Çelebi, cemetery, early modern period, bioarchaeology

GRAVES FROM THE PALACE CENTRE -EAST SITE: AN ATTEMPT AT ETHNIC CULTURAL IDENTIFICATION OF BURIALS INTRA MUROS IN PLISKA

GRAVES FROM THE PALACE CENTRE – EAST SITE AN ATTEMPT AT ETHNIC CULTURAL IDENTIFICATION OF BURIALS, 2022

This study presents five graves discovered east of the Palace Centre in Pliska (fig. 1). They represent individual burials located in the inter-dwelling area (fig. 2). The graves' contexts were studied interdisciplinarily. The archaeological study provided data on the stratigraphy of the graves and detailed documentation of the burial pits and skeletal remains. The anthropological study provided information about the sex, age and height of the buried individuals, also their anatomical and anthropological features, disease (pathologies), traumas and medical manipulations that left traces on the bone remains. Stratigraphically, the graves date to the last phase of habitation of the medieval city (between the 30s/40s of the 11 th c. and the 60s of the 11 th c.). The newly studied graves can be placed in the context of the other intramural graves in the Inner City of Pliska, which makes it possible to clarify and summarize a wide range of issues related to the stratigraphy and chronology of the intramural graves and their connection with the demographic and ethnic cultural changes in the medieval city.

Taking stock of burial archaeology: An emerging discipline in Denmark

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