Naslov
Multiple Early Iron Age graves in Sotin and Batina – contribution to female life stages in the prehistoric societies in the Danube region

Autori
Ložnjak Dizdar, Daria ; Rajić Šikanjić, Petra

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Skup
Prehistoric communities along the Danube

Mjesto i datum
Osijek, Hrvatska, 28.11.2019. - 30.11.2019

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Early Iron Age, Middle Danubian Region, female graves, age

Sažetak
Excavated cemeteries are the best sources for the Early Iron Age in the Danube region. Two of them – Sotin and Batina – have been excavated in the last decade: Sotin by the Institute of Archaeology since 2008, and Batina by the Archaeological Museum Osijek since 2010. The burial practice is cremation, and the funerary rites associate these two sites with the contemporary cemeteries along the Danube, especially upstream. Interdisciplinary analyses of excavated graves have revealed many details of life and death in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in Sotin and Batina. This lecture will focus on the double and multiple graves in Sotin and Batina which indicate the identities of different age and sex groups in Iron Age communities. How the dead body was treated and laid in the grave, how the costume items and tools were placed in the grave, and what other goods are associated with the funerary rite – all of this depicts their life too. Some of the questions remain open, such as their family ties or relations that could have been a reason for burying them together. DNA analyses of cremated human remains are still in progress, so we cannot discuss these matters with certainty. It is possible to determine the age of death and the way of life, which is partly preserved in the anthropological remains and can be partly gleaned from the grave finds and the archaeological context. Most multiple graves in Sotin and Batina contain women, often with children, so we will try to present their social status in these Early Iron Age communities.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Arheologija

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