In the vast majority of graves remains of wooden structures were observed.
Most of them were rectangular in shape, with three major types of grave pits. Ten fairly regular burial rows with a total of 196 graves were excavated.
The excavated area was 140 m×100 m, with graves concentrated in the south-east section measuring about 60 m×40 m. The cemetery was only partially explored, leaving the southern and eastern borders undefined. A rescue archaeological excavation was carried out later that year, when a mediaeval cemetery from the Late Avar period (710–830 AD) was partly excavated. It was discovered by accident in 2011 during construction works for a new football field. The site of Nuštar is situated in continental Croatia. It has been practiced in various regions since the prehistoric period for both medical and ritual reasons. Trepanation is a surgical procedure performed on the skull in order to remove a fragment of the bone using a sharp instrument or drill. During analysis of human skeletal remains, an individual with a large cranial lesion caused by trepanation was found.
Rescue archaeological excavation yielded 196 burials. Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, CroatiaĪbstract: The Avar period cemetery of Nuštar, situated in continental Croatia, is dated to the 8th and the beginning of the 9th century. Zrinka Premužić, Petra Rajić Šikanjić, Anita Rapan Papeša A case of Avar period trepanation from Croatia
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