Funeral and ritual practices in cave sites during the Late Bronze Age Early Iron have been recognised multiple south of Carpathians. This paper presents first evidence for funeral use with such chronology north Unburned human remains dated to Ha B C/D identified two (Zbójecka Cave Bramka Rockshelter) located 500 m apart, Polish Jura. Additionally, a pottery deposit B2-C has found third (Ciasna ...

of the many diverse arts that flourished during the third millennium bc, textiles played an especiallysignificant role in society. archaeological textiles offer an important source of material cultural testimony fordaily life in ancient times- relating simultaneously to agriculture, pastoralism, trade, migration, ritual, and soforth as well as to craft technologies. the study of the techniques ...

abstract this article tries to look at the jewels of the ancient luristan (nowadays luristan province and some parts of ilam and kermanshah provinces), and to have a survey on this precious art and its typology. these jewels have been gathered by way of many scientific and unscientific excavations at last decades in the ancient sites like: kalmakareh, varkaboud, kalvali, sorkh dom, kamtarlan (k...

An intensive surface survey, covering an area of approximately 10.000 m2, was carried out at Grad, a hillfort in southern Dalmatia. Its aims were to obtain information relevant for determining the spatial extent of the site, its function(s), periods of occupation, degree of preservation, and potential for further investigation. Research strategy included mapping of the visible structural remain...

During an excavation of a Bronze Age, Füzesabony-culture cemetery at Encs (north-eastern Hungary), clay wagon model with spoked wheels (grave 1290) and three miniature solid were found 1389). Miniature wheel models in burials began to appear the Late Copper Age lasted until Iron Central Europe. Their presence allows several interpretations. These grave 1290 provide early evidence about appearan...

We analysed a small collection of three arrowheads and one piece spearhead. They were made flint metal andcome from the Bronze Early Iron Age settlement at Ruszowice in today SW Poland. Although only comesfrom pit, we argue they used by community occupying site beginning Urnfieldperiod which starts around 1300 BC. All four objects bear clear traces use including hafting sharpening provingthey e...

We present a range of exploratory methods at the intersection of geographical analysis and graph/network theory to investigate placement of Bronze age and Iron age hill forts in a landscape, utilising varying degrees of domain knowledge (expert/archaeologist). Techniques that we employ include: intervisibility/line-of-sight; visible area of hillforts; landcover and geomorphometrics; and network...