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One of the main aims of the project “Development and Heritage of the Military Orders in Croatia” (milOrd) by the Croatian Science Foundation was to acquire new findings through the effective cooperation and synergy of experts, scientists, and scholars in various disciplines. It intended to approach military orders, their activities, their influence on society, and the development of sites under their rule interdisciplinary, through tracking transformations in the repertoire of different categories of movable finds and immovable heritage from the selected researched sites. This was supposed to be achieved through multi-level parallel research. This presentation will briefly present the results of archaeological excavations of Stari grad (Old Town) with a chapel in Pakrac, conducted by the Institute of Archaeology from 2017 to 2020. It will put special emphasis on the interdisciplinary cooperation within the project – the role of historians in locating “St. John’s fort” and putting discovered finds into contexts, efforts of art historians in the use of stylistic analysis to add to the interpretation and dating of the architecture, to the results of bioarchaeological analyses combined with the radiocarbon dating results and the results of the analysis and dating of pottery material from Pakrac. This paper aims at stressing the advantages of cooperation between experts in various disciplines in the process of understanding a certain site. |
