The subject of this final thesis is the appearance and the beginning of incineration as a burial ritual on the area of the east Adriatic during prehistory. Incineration doesn't appear simultaneously nor with the same intensity in the entire mentioned area. On the east Adriatic incineration appears for the first time during the bronze age, within the Cetina culture. It appears in the early bronze age in the area of Dalmatia, and it is for the first time recorded on the site of Ervenik in the northern Dalmatia. Although its main area is the area of central Dalmatia around the Cetina river, incineration examples are also found in the surrounding area. Middle bronze age will be marked with the inhumation ritual. The sole exception is the single cremation burial from Nadin which is carbon-dated to that period. In the late bronze age cremation of the deceased is once again dominant. Incineration was mostly made on the special sites (funeral pyres), and the ashes with the bones of the deceased were usually placed in the urns and buried in the ground. After the late bronze age follows the iron age in which, with the exception of the area of Istria, the incineration ritual occurs occasionally and sporadically. In some areas such as the Iapydes and Kvarner we have biritual burials, while in the area of northern dalmatia, within the liburnian group, we only have a few examples. South of the river Krka, with the exception of the questionable cremation burial from Grudina, we have no incineration.