THE RESEARCH STADIUM FOR THE BURRIAL GROUNDS FROM THE LOWER DANUBE IN THE 7TH - 10TH CENTURIES
THE RESEARCH STADIUM FOR THE BURRIAL GROUNDS FROM THE LOWER DANUBE IN THE 7TH - 10TH CENTURIES

Summary/Abstract: his article is a presentation of the cemeterries from the LowerDanube in a period in which the river was still a separation line between theSlavs and the nativs. The research of the funeral discoveries dated from the endof the Byzantine domination and from the period of the first Bulgarian empirebegan after the Second World War A big part of the excavations was made by J.Văžarova and D.I. Dimitrov in Bulgaria and by B. Mitrea in Romania. While theassignments of the Romanian scientists are governated by the ideea of pointingout the continuity and liability of the Romanians, the Bulgarian scientistsmanaged to earn their success by classifying the cemeteries. Văžarova makes adistinction between the cremation Slav cemeteries and the biritual Bulgariancemeteries and introduces a new group, the late inhumation cemetery assignedto the Christian period and to both ethnic groups, the Bulgarians and the Slavs

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