Naslov
“Through the Looking Glass” – Late Bronze Age Burial Rite Seen through Computed Tomography Assisted Techniques

Autori
Kalafatić, Hrvoje ; Čavka, Mislav ; Mihaljević Marija

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

Izvornik
European Association of Archaeologists, 20 th Annual Meeting, Abstracts of the oral and poster presentations / Özgür Yılmaz - Istanbul : Archaeology &Art Publications Tur.San. ve Tic. Ltd Sti., 2014, 571-571

ISBN
978-605-396-287-8

Skup
European Association of Archaeologists, 20 th Annual Meeting

Mjesto i datum
Istanbul, Turska, 10.09.2014. - 14.09.2014

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
bronze age; cremation; funeral ritual; computed tomography

Sažetak
Late Bronze Age community in the River Sava Basin (eastern Croatia and northern Bosnia) has distinctive burial with urns reversed upside down. The first publications (Čović 1958) proposed that this is the result of ritual through which cremated bones of the deceased were spilled in the grave and then covered with reversed urn with bottom part facing up. Recent excavations of cemetery Mačkovac suggested that the bones are mostly concentrated at the bottom of reversed urn. This suggested different burial rite than previously proposed, so CT scanning is conducted to examine position of the bones and other finds in the urns. The results of CT scan confirmed that the cremated bones were concentrated at the bottom of urns. Further more, CT scanning of multiple graves also suggests pattern in collecting and positioning of bones and metal finds in the urn. Position of bones deposited at the bottom of the urn indicates that bones were laid in the grave already placed in urn and rotated together with urn during the burial ritual and that bones were probably wrapped in sheet (skin, textile).

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Temeljne medicinske znanosti, Arheologija, Etnologija i antropologija

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