Grave Arrangements and Constructions of the Western Enclave of the south-eastern Urnfield Cultures from the Perspective of the Burial Ground at Radzovce (Slovakia)

• Authors: Vladimír Mitáš , Václav Furmánek

Title variants

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Typy pochówków i konstrukcji grobowych z zachodniej enklawy południowo-wschodniego kręgu kultur pól popielnicowych na przykładzie cmentarzyska w Radzovcach (Słowacja)

• Languages of publication: EN PL

Abstracts

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This paper deals with grave arrangements and constructions of the western enclave of the cultural complex of the South-eastern Urnfield cultures in its early (Piliny culture) and late phases (Kyjatice culture). The discussion is developed from a representative assemblage of finds from the almost completely excavated burial ground at Radzovce (dist. Lučenec) dated to the Middle and Late Bronze Ages. With 1334 excavated graves, this is amongst the largest cemeteries of the Urnfield period in Central Europe. This paper presents the analysis of types of grave arrangements (burial pits, graves marked with a stone) and of grave constructions (stones barrows, stone covering, stone boxes) in the context of grave inventories and the internal chronology of the burial ground. The five identified burial horizons are synchronous to stages BB2 (BC1) – HB

Keywords

EN

Slovakia; South-eastern Urnfield Cultures; Piliny Culture; Kyjatice Culture; Burial Ground; Grave Arrangements and Constructions; Chronology

• Publisher: Institute of Archaeology Rzeszów University, Fundacja Rzeszowskiego Ośrodka Archeologicznego
• Journal: Analecta Archaeologica Ressoviensia
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 8
• Pages: 107–141

Contributors

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Vladimír Mitáš

• The Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Archaeology, Akademická 2, 949 21 Nitra, Slovakia

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Václav Furmánek

• The Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Archaeology, Akademická 2, 949 21 Nitra, Slovakia