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Diversity of Late Bronze Age mortuary ritual practices in the Southern Carpathian Basin.

Late Bronze Age mortuary practices in the southern Carpathian Basin were unified in body treatment and similar in body disposal, but different in expressing material identity due to different capacities of each community (e.g. parts of attire, funeral feasts). The BAMPICa project, funded by the Croatian Science Foundation, has been researching mortuary practices and society in the southern Carpathian Basin. This project proposes to combine archaeology, bioarchaeology, archaeozoology and radiocarbon dating in order to expand the current knowledge of Late Bronze Age mortuary practices and society in the Carpathian Basin. Various classes of detailed information about mortuary practices have been collected by the BAMPICa research project. Questions related to ritual and identity that arose in several case studies focused on mortuary practices are addressed based on the analysis of body ornaments, body treatment, body disposal, urn selection, and the evidence of funerary feasts. When addressing those research questions, we focused on different sets of data recovered from samples, material and contexts. What were the activities that produced the observed data? Why were some activities more widespread than in the specific kinds of pottery or parts of attire found in cemeteries? How do rituals and identity performance interact in burial rites? Some of the common traits transcend the defined borders of contemporary regional or cultural groups: cremation as body treatment, individual graves for all community members, a funeral feast. We focus on discussions about ritual diversity during the Late Bronze Age in the southern Carpathian Basin and the possibility of understanding and conceptualizing it from the material evidence that we have.

Late Bronze Age ; mortuary practices ; southern Carpathian Basin ; cremation ; body disposal ; funeral feast ; communities ; identity ; ritual

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