The presented paper deals with the analysis of the burial rite at the burial ground near Bučany. It was used from the late Hallstatt till the Early La Tène period. The main aim is to highlight certain aspects of the burial rite, which appears in inhumation as well as in cremation graves and confront the findings with a similar situation in the Middle Danube area. For these purposes the analysis works with elements such as treatment remains, placing and functional combinations of grave goods, dimensions and space modification of graves. When evaluating the main findings, the significant appearance of women graves in particular, as opposed to the warriors’ graves should be mentioned. Just in this group we can observe the greatest variability of the funeral ritual. By comparison of burial rite between cremation and inhumation graves some parallels appear in the way how mourners deposited interments in relation to cadavers and form of grave arrangement.
Pilismarót-Basaharc is a key site of the transition between the Early and the Late Iron Age, as well as of early Celtic presence in the Carpathian Basin. This study offers a brief overview of the site’s archaeological research and the employed excavation methods, followed by a description and discussion of the typical burial rites and the most frequent grave good types through five selected burials, with a special focus on amber, coral and glass beads, and on the origins and distribution of glass amphora beads in particular. The most distinctive artefact types of the Late Hallstatt and Early La Tène cultures attested at Pilismarót are reviewed and discussed, in particular Čurug-type and Early La Tène brooches. In addition to the archaeological finds, the assessment of the human remains was also undertaken. The broad picture emerging from the assessment of the finds is that the archaeological heritage of the Iron Age community which interred its dead at Pilismarót reflects both local traditions and strong Balkanic connections, alongside a pronounced process of early latènisation.
The paper deals with the cultural and spatial evaluation of numerous finds of the eastern type from Transdanubia, dated to the Ha D – Lt A stages. The main point of our interest was to provide a complex overview of these finds, focused mainly on the provenance, chronological aspect and possible interpretations of their occurrence in Transdanubia. Based on a detailed analysis of finds of the eastern type, it was possible in terms of their origin to determine four groups of finds in Transdanubia – finds of the Vekerzug culture from the first group and older types of arrowheads with an outer socket from the fourth group are most frequent. The occurrence of finds of the eastern type in Transdanubia shows similar tendencies as in the neighbouring regions of the Eastern Hallstatt culture, especially in Moravia. Both regions are special in terms of the frequency and type variability of Vekerzug finds. Especially arrowheads with an inner socket point to a new tradition in production of efficient weapon types in East-Central Europe and are, above all, an indicator of technological innovations. There are several concentrations of Vekerzug finds in Transdanubia: in its north-western and south-eastern parts, around Lake Balaton and in the Danube Bend area. The frequent presence of Vekerzug finds across Transdanubia shows the active contacts and peaceful interactions between the Vekerzug culture and the cultural regions to the west. We can consider the expansion of Vekerzug people into the western Budapest area and its surroundings. However, in other parts of Transdanubia, Vekerzug finds are evidence for cultural contacts of the local Hallstatt population with the Vekerzug culture.
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