Insular population of the Kvarner archipelago in the 5th Century: Mirine-Fulfinum and Martinšćica church complexe case studies

• Autores: Morana Čaušević Bully, Mario Novak, Anaïs Delliste, Sébastien Bully, Mario Carić
• Localización: Antiquité tardive: revue internationale d'histoire et d'archéologie, ISSN 1250-7334, Nº. 31, 2023 (Ejemplar dedicado a: La Méditerranée occidentale au Ve siècle), págs. 63-82
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • The research presented in this study was conducted within the program IATEKA-Interdisciplinary Approach to the Territorial Evolution of Kvarner Archipelago (Croatia) (UBFC-ISITE) on a corpus of the 5th-century insular population from two late antique sites: Mirine-Fulfinum on the island of Krk and Martinšćica on the island of Cres. Both living conditions and status of the inhabitants of those two sites are here studied through an interdisciplinary approach, combining, and confronting archaeological contexts with bioarchaeological, isotopic and aDNA data. The study showed that all members of these communities, of local and foreign origin, lived in harsh conditions and experienced a very low quality of life, regardless of their social status as given by the archaeological context. This led us to reconsider the definition of “privileged members of society” in the insular, northeastern Adriatic environments in the 5th century.