Nova saznanja i problemi u proučavanju mramora (stećaka) sa teritorije Srbije

Abstract

According to the last listing (1996) 4.118 medieval tombstone monoliths (from 203 sites) labelled by the term stecak come from the territory of Serbia. That is not even close to the real num-ber of tombstones in Serbia due to the above mentioned reasons. Discoveries of the new monuments and locations with medieval tombstones in the systematic surveys conducted in the entire territory of Serbia (images 11-16), showed that among them there were types of tombstones specific for certain regions, but also those which could be connected to stecaks according to certain elements. They pointed out the necessity of systematic registrati-on and establishment of the unique typology of the monument forms in the entire territory of central Balkan, which should be treated under the general determinant of the medieval tombstones characteristics. They also draw attention to the necessity of archaeological excavations under marbles and including inter-disciplinary research, as well as reviewing the justification of not only the categorizations through which stecaks entered into sci-ence but also of the term stecak .