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The Early Iron Age in the southern Carpathian Basin. The crossroads of identity

The classical approach to the study of this period applied to date distinguished between three phases of identity change during the Iron Age: the Urnfield Culture – the Hallstatt Culture – the La Tène Culture. In addition, the identity of individual communities has been based mostly on the typology of the material culture, and the identity change has been perceived as a direct reflection of the physical change in the population. Although the burial ritual will be used as basic source of information on identity of Iron Age communities, we will wherever possible apply the contextual approach. This means that the material culture will not be viewed only as a typological category, but rather it will be linked to the context of the grave inventory and the burial ritual. In line with the above, our proposed initial hypothesis is that in this region, during the Iron Age, there were four main phases of identity change: the Urnfield Culture – the Hallstatt Culture – the Late Hallstatt/Early La Tène horizon – the La Tène Culture. Although it is impossible to completely deny that populations moved, we intend to demonstrate that the mobility was far greater and more intensive at the level of individuals and small groups than at the level of whole communities. Furthermore, the key to the changed identity in certain phases of the Early Iron Age is probably not to be found only in population movements, but it is rather a far more complex process that should be studied on level of single communities.

Hallstatt ; burial customs ; identity ; Balkans ; Donja Dolina ; Kaptol

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