Anthropological traces of Slav presence in Kosovo and Metochia
At the current level of anthropological research on medieval populations of Kosovo and Metochia, the total of five skeleton series is available Matičane, Djonaj, Rezala, Kuline and, partly, Novo Brdo. The necropolises roughly cover the period between the tenth and sixteenth centuries. Their anthropo...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Institute for Balkan Studies SASA
2005-01-01
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| Series: | Balcanica |
| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-7653/2005/0350-76530536039M.pdf |
| Summary: | At the current level of anthropological research on medieval populations of Kosovo and Metochia, the total of five skeleton series is available Matičane, Djonaj, Rezala, Kuline and, partly, Novo Brdo. The necropolises roughly cover the period between the tenth and sixteenth centuries. Their anthropological contents indicate curvoccipital dolichocranial Slavs, and a planoccipital brachycranial population buried mostly around Orthodox churches. |
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| ISSN: | 0350-7653 |