Tumuli graves : status symbol of the dead in the Bronze and Iron Ages in Europe
Subtitle: Les tombes tumulaires : symboles du statut des défunts dans les âges du Bronze et du fer en Europe
By: edited by Valeriu Sîrbu, Cristian Schuster
Contributors: Sîrbu, Valeriu, 1950-; Schuster, Cristian; International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences
Series: BAR international series -- 2396
Publisher: Archaeopress
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9781407309897
Subjects: Burial; Excavations (Archaeology); Congresses; Iron age; Mounds; Bronze age; Antiquities
Other titles: Tombes tumulaires : symboles du statut des défunts dans les âges du Bronze et du fer en Europe
Notes: "Proceedings of the XVI World Congress (Florianópolis, 4-10 September 2011), vol. 2, actes de la session 47."

"Union internationale des sciences préhistoriques et protohistoriques."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introductory note; title: Tumuli graves - status symbol of the dead in Bronze and Iron Ages in Europe / Valeriu Sîrbu, Cristian Schuster; title: Rituals and death cults in recent prehistory in central Portugal (Alto Ribatejo) / Alexandr Figueiredo; title: The cave of Sa Omu and Tziu Giovanni Murgia, Funtana Arrubia, Nurallao (south-central Sardinia-Italy): first conclusions / Alexandra Figueiredo ... [et al.]; title: The Yamnaya burials from Sultana, in the context of the similar finds on the territory of Romania / Done Şerbanescu, Alexandra Comşa; title: Early Bronze Age burial mounds in South Romania / Cristian Schuster; title: In search for prestige: Bronze Age tumular graves in West Serbia / Marija Ljuština, Katarina Dmitrović; title: Criteria for a social status typology in prehistory (open model for discussion) / Lolita Nikolova; title: "Armed" females of Iron Age Trans-Uralian Forest-Steppe: social reality or status identity? / Natalia Berseneva; title: Funerary monuments of the Scythian Amazons (social aspect) / Elena Fialko; title: Between Etruscan, Greeks and Celts: changement in the good graves of the Ligurian Iron Age necropolis / Davide Delfino; title: 5th-4th c. BC Thracian orphic tumular burials in Sliven Region (southeastern Bulgaria) / Diana Dimitrova; title: Agighiol and Peretu - graves at Getae Basilei (350-300 BC) at Lower Danube / Valeriu Sirbu.