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The Deposition of Human Remains in Settlements in Bronze Age Moravia (Czech Republic)
David Parma, Klára Šabatová
Mitteilungen der Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte Beiheft 3 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.30819/mbgaeu.b45.8 pp: 139-153 2025-01-14
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Stichworte/keywords: graves in settlement pits, vessel graves, settlement area, spatial separation of burial grounds, Bronze Age
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Parma, D., & Šabatová, K. (). The Deposition of Human Remains in Settlements in Bronze Age Moravia (Czech Republic). The Deposition of Human Remains in Settlements in Bronze Age Moravia (Czech Republic), , 139-153. doi:10.30819/mbgaeu.b45.8
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Abstract
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.
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