Deposition of Human Remains in Settlement Features in Bronze Age Moravia (Czech Republic)

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.30819/mbgaeu.b45.8" target="_blank" >10.30819/mbgaeu.b45.8</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Deposition of Human Remains in Settlement Features in Bronze Age Moravia (Czech Republic)

Original language description

The deposition of human bodies in settlements is a phenomenon that has been continuously observed from prehistory to the Middle Ages. When dealing with human remains in settlements, it is necessary to distinguish between burials in grave pits – i.e., specialised burial features – and burials in formally distinct settlement features (so-called pit burials). However, from a terminological point of view, such pit burials are often not burials, but rather specific deposits in a settlement feature including human bodies. In Moravia, we have a good record of Bronze Age settlements and cemeteries, which allows us to track the occurrence of human remains in settlements over time and to evaluate the spatial relationship of burials in settlements to those in cemeteries. Burials in settlements, whether in settlement features or in grave pits are quite common in Moravia in the Early Bronze Age. The burials in settlement features were for many years considered such a typical element of the burial ritual at the end of the Early Bronze Age that they were in fact used as a dating criterion. From the Middle Bronze Age to the end of the Bronze Age, the occurrence of human bodies in settlement pits becomes an entirely exceptional phenomenon. The situation in Moravia is thus clearly different from the environment of the Knovíz Culture in Bohemia, where the deposition of human bodies in settlement features is quite common in the Late Bronze Age. A specific source are the sites dating to the beginning of the Late Bronze Age, where there are hundreds of human skeletons in contexts related to fortifications. Interpretations in these cases range from evidence of military conflict to long-used sacred sites.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60102 - Archaeology

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Mitteilungen der Berliner Gesellschaft fur Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte

ISSN

0178-7896

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

45

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

139-153

UT code for WoS article

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