%0 Journal Article
%T The Middle Way of the Middle Avar Age: Remarks on the Semicircular Pendants with
Open-Work Ornament
%A Curta
%A Florin
%J -
%D 2016
%X Sa£¿etak A curious dispute has recently erupted between Ante Milo£¿evi£¿ and Maja Petrinec over an apparently insignificant category of artifacts¡ªthe semicircular pendants with open-work ornament, such as found in grave 54 of the cemetery excavated in Maklinovo Brdo, near the village of Ka£¿i£¿. Who then is right? At stake appears to be more than just chronology. For a long while now, Milo£¿evi£¿ has been an advocate for the continuity of the local population from Late Antiquity into the early Middle Ages. Petrinec, however, insists upon the cultural chasm separating the late antique from the earliest medieval assemblages that could be attributed to the ¡°Old Croats.¡± To say that grave 54 in the Ka£¿i£¿-Maklinovo brdo cemetery is of a 7th-century date is to imply, therefore, that that cemetery began much earlier than the date commonly accepted for the ¡°Old Croatian culture.¡± Ultimately, that also means to challenge the idea of a migration of the Croats into Croatia at some point during the 9th century. Through the examination of 21 semicircular pendants with open-work ornament known so far, this article proposes a new date for this category of artifacts. The specimen from Ston is very similar to that recently discovered in Krneza, which is associated with a belt suspension ring dated to the Middle Avar age (630-680). To a similar date points the association in grave 1 of the cemetery excavated in Prosek (Albania) of a semicircular pendant with a fibula with bent stem. The middle third of the 7th century is therefore most likely the date for the semicircular pendants with open-work ornament. In other words, those artifacts are neither of an early 7th-, nor of an 8th-century date. They are most likely of a different age - the Middle Avar age
%K Ka£¿i£¿ - Maklinovo brdo
%K Komani culture
%K middle Avar Age
%K Croatia
%K Albania
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