MULTI-LEVEL ARCHAEOLOGICAL APPROACH IN RESEARCH ON CENTRAL EUROPEAN URNFIELDS
Channel: European Association of Archaeologists
Date: 06/03/2021

There are at least three main characteristics common for most of the urnfield cultures in Central Europe in the late Bronze and early Iron Age: prevailing cremation, intense growth of number of graves and cemeteries and common incorporation of ceramics in funeral rituals. None of these have been so clear in archaeological evidence before the urnfield period and hundreds of pots filled with cremated human bones became an iconic picture of the late Bronze Age in many regions of Central Europe. That opens many research areas on the various levels: from microarchaeology of single urn to broad comparative regional and supra-regional studies. We want to present how this approaches have been realized in selected case studies from Central Europe in three stages of research. First level refers to the characteristics of a single burial or grave. At the second level selected properies of graves are studied both in synchronic and diachronic perspective while third level encompasses intra-site analysis. This study is a part of the project of the Polish National Centre for Science, NCN UMO-2016/23/B/HS3/00450.


Author(s): Baron, Justyna (University of Wroclaw) - Kuźbik, Radosław (Iskander, Archaeological Services)