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Figure 7: Mala Prepoved, Selection From a Grave (Glogović 2003, pl. 26, 175; 45, 342; Blečić Kavur 2021, fig. 2, 5) The Emergence of the Iron Age in Osor Through Representative Material Culture
in the same chronological horizon as the fe- in contexts dated to the early 8th century BCE
male from grave 6, i.e., in the second half of the (Pacciarelli 2001, 54, fig. 30; Tamburini-Müller
9th century and the beginning of the 8th cen- 2006, 39, pl. 2, 3.4–3.6; 64, 36; Lucentini 2007,
tury BCE, equivalent to phase 2 of the Kvarn- 104, fig. 6c).
er group (Glogović 2003, 45; Blečić Kavur 2010, The proposed chronological framework for
127–30). This corresponds to the contemporane- the use of the described jewellery assemblage, es-
ous chronological span in Italic contexts of cen- tablished through typological-stylistic and com-
tral and southern Italy, where single-part bow parative analysis, is further supported by the ab-
fibulae with a disc on the foot do not appear af- solute dating results of skeletal remains from
ter the 9th century BCE, i.e., after the initial three individuals to the final decades of the 9th
Primo Ferro 2 phase. Exceptions are found only