Naslov
To burn or not to burn – inhumation versus cremation at the end of the Bronze Age in the southern Carpathian Basin

Autori
Gavranović, Mario ; Ložnjak Dizdar, Daria

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

Skup
International workshop 2015.Socio-Environmental Dynamics over the Last 12000 Years: The Creation of Landscapes IV

Mjesto i datum
Kiel, Njemačka, 24.03.2015. - 27.03.2015

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Late Bronze Age, cremation, inhumation, southern Carpathian Basin, body treatment, grave goods

Sažetak
Cremation was usually way of burial in Carpathian Basin during the Late Bronze Age (Urnfield culture), while in Balkan area inhumation was the common mortuary practice at the same time. In paper we will discuss different modes of change in mortuary practices in different local communities at the end of Late Bronze Age in southern part of Carpathian Basin. On which way and how much inhumation was practiced by a different communities in different landscapes in border zone between this two different spatio- cultural circles. This change in traditional cremation way of burial started at the beginning of last thousand BC. Somewhere it was personal or choice few members of community, not always the elite, in others it was almost a rule. Also, it is visible some connections in burial practices between communities in the same communication networks on regional level. It is certain that change in mortuary practices was longer process. We will try to focus on few examples (Budinjak, Dolina/Donja Dolina, Mekote, Vukovar, Sotin) in different communication networks on the edge of two „worlds“ with different burial tradition and try to offer an answer for reasons on different way of mortuary practices. In some communities body treatments were different but grave goods were almost the same or similar, in other body treatments and grave goods were pretty much different. Somewhere the cemetery places were changed on microtopographical level. This examples impose different explanation for each one, and put models in question. Probably bottom-up explanations including geographic position, communication and social networks important for community could imbed changes in mortuary practices at the end of Late Bronze Age in southern Carpatian Basin.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Arheologija

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