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Burials without bodies•
The symbolic burials of the Carpathian Basin and the Lower Danube region during the Late Neolithic and Copper Age
Testek nélküli temetkezések•
A Kárpát-medence és az Al-Duna vidék szimbolikus temetkezései a késő neolitikum és a rézkor idején
Introduction Symbolic burials are rare, but reoccurring features of Late Neolithic and Copper Age excavations in the Carpathian Basin and the Lower Danube region. The word itself usually labels archaeological features that are “although deliberately
Bachman Z., Bachmann B. The early Christian burial chambers of Pécs (in Hungarian), Műemléklap , No. 1, 2001, pp. 5–7. Bachman Z. Architectural conservation Hungary’s Roman underworld extensive architectural
recently explored sites it seems worthwhile to give a new assessment of the burial customs and chronological considerations of the funerary record ( Fig. 1 ). Fig. 1 Map of the sites and locations mentioned in the text. 1: Adaševci; 2: Alsónyék; 3: Atenica
excavation of grave 1660 Fig. 6. Drawing and photograph of the horse-dog burial, grave 545 Fig. 47. The main artefacts from grave 1660 Description of the burials Grave 1660 in the Tiszagyenda-Búszerző site On the western side of the riverbed of the Tisza
The Copper Age burial ground of Rákoscsaba, Major-hegy north, Budapest, District XVII (preliminary report)
Rézkori temetkezési hely: Budapest XVII. ker., Rákoscsaba, Major-hegy, észak (előzetes jelentés)
Age burial ground also came to light. The boundaries of the excavation were set out to target the Protoboleráz settlement primarily, in sync with the planned time-frame to investigate this particular occupation. Therefore, given the spatial and
This paper examines the possibility of a correlation between orthodoxy and brick burials, also investigating burials with brick and stone. Among the peoples inhabiting the Carpathian Basin the custom of brick burials had no direct antecedent. Based on our research brick burials seem to have been taken over from the Balkan, while concerning burials with stone the former Upper Hungary played an important role as well. The tradition can be traced back to an antique custom, persistent in orthodoxy, with the purpose of preserving the ephemeral and perishable body for eternity and assuring the deceased’s peace.
The Archaeology of Power in Lombard Female Burials in Central-Northern Italy. •
Marriage, Integration, Grave Goods and Status Symbols
grave goods in female burials of the immigrant generation. This corresponds to a crucial period for the transformation of early medieval customs and society which can be reconstructed, especially for the earliest phase, on the basis of archaeological
The investigation of ninth–eleventh century burials from Himod (NW Hungary)
Physical anthropology data in the light of artifact typology
, Baden cultures as well as the Celtic Iron Age. 1 In addition, 162 burials 2 and 110 features from a fourteenth–sixteenth century village came to light at the site. 3 The graves are distributed as follows: 25 graves belonged to the Carolingian section
A tihanyi altemplom régészeti kutatása
The archaeological research of the medieval crypt of Abbey of Tihany
Altenburg, new burials took place here. A total of ten burial pits have been identified, but the number of burials may have been higher due to the reuse of the graves ( Fig. 1 ) . Among these, the graves of the two abbots of Altenburg stand out, one of
approximate centre of a natural peninsula-like area of 7.5 km 2 . 1 The two excavation campaigns brought to light 194 burials altogether. However, some more probably had become destroyed earlier, during the construction of the farmstead buildings in the
