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Fish bones from early medieval settlement Torčec-Ledine in northern Croatia

Torčec-Ledine is first explored Early Medieval Fisherman's settlement in the Drava River Basin on the Croatian territory. During the period from 2002 to 2004, the Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, under leadership of Tajana Sekelj Ivančan, has carried out a systematic research of the site. By archaeological excavations the eleven objects in type of shallowly dug-in one-space houses, of a rectangular form with rounded corners, has been analyzed as closed units. The most numerous finds among the objects are represented by pieces of ceramic pottery and animal bones. No human skeletal material has been found. Considerable part of the animal osteological material is not preserved enough for species determination or age and sex estimation. Mostly based on teeth specimens, archaeozoological analysis can confirm presents of cattle, small ruminants, domestic pig and dogs. As a proof of lifestyle, the most interesting are findings of fish bones. Those pieces are well preserved and present in every year findings. There were also small knives with a short blade, instruments made of bone and different kind of hooks made of metal. All mentioned leads to the conclusion that in the economy of the inhabitants of the early medieval settlement along the Drava Basin at Ledine, fishing played a major role in the period of the end of 10th to the end of 11th centuries.

fish bones ; medieval settlement ; cyprinus carpio

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