Temporalities of Middle Bronze Age Cemeteries in Transylvania

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Middle Bronze Age in Transylvania was a time of rapid population growth and centralization, the emergence of shared regional identities mediated through mortuary practices, and the institutionalization of large-scale trade and exchange networks that moved metal and salt from this resource-rich area across the Carpathian Mountains and Basin. Communities established cemeteries where they buried urns filled with cremated remains. This poster presents the results of new radiocarbon dating and Bayesian modeling of mortuary activity at the two largest known cemeteries: Sebeș-Între Răstoace and Oarda de Jos/Limba-Șeșul Orzii. These new data demonstrate that mortuary activity at these sites occurred over a short period of time, which has consequences for our understanding contemporaneous variation in burial treatments, open access to burial rites, and processes of site abandonment during this important era of social, political, and economic transformation.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 39772.0