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North Croatian Late Neolithic relative and absolute chronologies: current state of research

Relative chronology of the Late Neolithic in the Sava-Drava-Danube interfluve region (northern Croatia) was introduced in the 1960s and following decades when diversification of pottery styles was more closely studied and named as separate cultures. The most substantial contribution to building a micro-regional relative chronology based on the typology of pottery finds was that of S. Dimitrijević, with later attempts by Z. Marković to re-define relative chronology and add to the still scarce typology of already established pottery stiles. However, splitting up relative chronology into three or four stages of the same “culture” prevailed and is still in use. Attempts to define the absolute chronology are of a recent date and still scarce. Although a fair number of radiocarbon dates were published, especially in the last 20 years, the quality of samples, lack of sampling strategy, and problematic results received render most of them almost unusable. In addition, there have been no attempts to build a local chronology through combining Bayesian modelling of radiocarbon dates with full statistical seriation of finds from individual sites. Our paper focuses on problems related to the past methodology, a new approach to building a more precise local chronology and discusses conclusions about the Late Neolithic micro-regional chronology of several recently published papers.

Sava-Drava-Danube interfluve ; Late Neolithic ; history of research ; radiocarbon dates ; local chronology

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