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Continuity and Abandonment on Islands of Quarnero and Northern Dalmatia from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages.

The paper explores the problem of continuity and discontinuity of settlements and other forms of space usage of the islands of Quarnero and Northern Dalmatia regions in the Eastern Adriatic. This area presents an interesting material for the study of development of Roman based infrastructure throughout Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages, because of multiple patterns of Roman era space use and subsequent landscape transformations. The goal is to identify main factors that shaped the changes of space use, or to see if such patterns exist at all. In turn, the selected area will be put in context of general historical tides of this turbulent period (the political break of Western Roman Empire, Byzantine-Gothic wars, Avaro-Slavic intrusions, migrations etc.). The paper will take in consideration archaeological remains, topographical aspects and written historical sources. Of the hindmost, of special note is the XXIX chapter of De Administrando Imperio by Constantine VII Porphyrogenites - a historical source of great value for understanding of islands of Eastern Adriatic in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages, but also a one whose words don’t always seem to correspond to the archaeological reality.

Continuity, Islands, Adriatic, Late Antiquity, Early Middle Ages

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