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Cremation was the predominant burial practice during the Bronze Age and Iron Age in southern Carpathian Basin. We explored the diachronic variability of cremation funerary practices during those periods at six cemeteries in northern Croatia. Some of those cemeteries were of short duration (about 50 years), whileothers lasted much longer. Contents of the 146 graves were submitted to anthropological andzooarchaeological analyses, and a substantial number of graves were radiometrically dated. Cremated human bones were usually sampled for dating purposes, while cremated animal bones or charcoal were dated in just a few instances. Spatial (local and regional) and temporal variability in mortuary practices (funeral attire, urn selection, manner of the deposition of body remains, evidence of funerary feast, funeral scenography) indicates that cremation funerals were complex events. Fragmentary vestiges of those events allow us to investigate past communities and their members split into different biological sex, gender andage groups, their apparel, diet, activities within the community, mobility, and memories. We focus oninvestigation of reliably dated undisturbed burials in their geographical and temporal context. |
