On some aspects of the Late Bronze Age burial costume from north Albania Rovena Kurti To cite this version: Rovena Kurti. On some aspects of the Late Bronze Age burial costume from north Albania. NEW ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES IN THE ALBANIAN REGIONS, Institut d’Archéologie de l’Albanie (Tirana), Jan 2017, Tirana, Albania. pp.207-242. halshs-01695818 HAL Id: halshs-01695818 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01695818 Submitted on 29 Jan 2018 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Copyright ACADEMY FOR ALBANIAN STUDIES INSTITUTE OF ARCHEOLOGY PROCEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE NEW ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES IN THE ALBANIAN REGIONS 30 - 31 JANUARY, TIRANA 2017 VOLUME I Botimet Albanologjike Tiranë 2017 PROCEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE NEW ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES IN THE ALBANIAN REGIONS I President Akad. Muzafer Korkuti TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial board: Professor Luan Përzhita (Director of Institute of Archeology) 1. Thomas C. HAUCK, Rudenc RUKA, Ilir GJIPALI, Jürgen RICHTER Professor Ilir Gjipali Neziri cave (Mati district, Albania): first results of archaeological research by (Head of Department of Prehistory) the “German Albanian Palaeolithic” programme (GAP) ......................................... 13 Professor Gëzim Hoxha 2. Rudenc RUKA, Zlatko PERHOČ (Head of Department of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages) Potential prehistoric sources of chert in the western lowland of Albania ................ 33 Associate Professor Belisa Muka 3. Adem BUNGURI (Head of Department of Antiquity) Models and ways of the Neolithization of Albania .................................................. 67 4. Ilir GJIPALI Layout Design: Radiocarbon dating of the Early Neolithic settlements in Albania and their Ana Pekmezi interpretation ............................................................................................................ 105 Cover: 3D Reconstruction of the theatre (Realised by F. Giannella) 5. Edlira ANDONI, Ergys HASA, Ilir GJIPALI Neolithic settlements on the western bank of Lake Ohrid: Pogradec and Lin 3 ....... 123 Image on the slipcase cover: The Theatre of Apollonia 6. Ergys HASA ISBN: The morphological and stylistic features of Eneolithic pottery of Maliq II ............. 141 7. Lorenc BEJKO 18. Catherine ABADIE - REYNAL, Eduard SHEHI, Brikena SHKODRA, Regional trends of cultural development during the Bronze Age in Albania ......... 165 Arnaud LEFEBVRE, La topographie de Dyrrhachium à la lumière des nouvelles découvertes .............. 393 8. Shafi GASHI The culture of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in Kosovo ............................. 183 19. Altin SKENDERAJ Nouvelles données sur l’urbanisme de la Ville-Basse à Apollonia d’Illyrie ............. 409 9. Rovena KURTI On some aspects of the Late Bronze Age burial costume from north Albania ....... 207 20. Olgita CEKA Roman portraits from the Museum of Apollonia ................................................... 421 10. Skënder ALIU The Late Bronze Age and Iron Age jewellery from Kolonja region ....................... 253 21. Lavdosh JAUPAJ Des inscriptions grecques d’Amantia et Matohasanaj : quelques réflexions ........... 443 11. Mixhaid POLOZHANI The typology of Illyrian helmets in the territory of Macedonia – FYROM .......... 275 22. Bashkim LAHI, Belisa MUKA Colonies and their hinterland in the light of recent archaeological excavations: 12. Muhamet BELA the case of Apollonia and Dimal ........................................................................... 455 Some characteristics of north-eastern Albania during the VI-V centuries B.C. .... 295 23. Albana META, Skënder MUÇAJ 13. Shpresa GJONGECAJ, Giuseppe LEPORE Hellenistic coinage of Byllis and the monetary reform around 38-30 B.C. ........... 475 Scavi recenti nella città di Phoinike ........................................................................ 309 24. Neritan CEKA, Olgita CEKA 14. Belisa MUKA, Enrico GIORGI, A peripolarchos inscription from the fortress of Matohasanaj .............................. 489 Le nuove ricerche della collaborazione Italo - Albanese a Butrinto 2015-2016) .............................................................................................................. 329 25. Sedat BARALIU, Premtim ALAJ Les importation grecque dans le territoire du Kosovo pendant l’âge du fer .......... 509 15. Dhimitër ÇONDI The Antigonea koinon of Chaonians: the administrative organization of its 26. Sabina VESELI territory in Antiquity ............................................................................................... 337 Some military funerary contexts from Zgërdhesh .................................................. 531 16. Roberto PERNA, Dhimitër ÇONDI 27. Riza HASA, Brikena SHKODRA, Sabina VESELI Urban formation processes in the Drino valley in the late Classical A necropolis of the middle roman period (3rd to 4th century)? - and Hellenistic periods ............................................................................................ 353 Occasional finds from Mirakë, Elbasan ................................................................. 545 17. Piotr DYCZEK 28. Anton LULGJURAJ Rhizon/Risinium de novo in lucem proditus .......................................................... 375 New archaeological data from “Mali i Sumes” (Ulcinj / Ulqin - Montenegro) ............................................................................... 583 4 5 PROCCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE NEW ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES IN THE ALBANIAN REGION Stojiċ 2006: M. Stojiċ, Regional characteristics of the Brnjica cultural group, “Starinar”, LVI, Beograd 2006, 73-80. Tasiċ 1979: N. Tasiċ, Sahranivanje na nekropoli Boka u Prčevu kod Kline (Kosovo), Sahranivanje kod Ilira, In : (M. Garaśanin ed), “Zbornik Radova prikazanih na naučnom Skupi Srbske Akademije Nauka i Umjetnosti i Balkanološkog Instituta SANU”, (Zlatibor 10-12.05. 1976), Beograd 1979, 89-98. Todorović 1963: J. Todorović, Široko, Suva Reka- praistorijski tumuli,“Apregl”, 5, Beograd 1963, 47-48. Rovena KURTI ON SOME ASPECTS OF THE LATE BRONZE AGE BURIAL COSTUME FROM NORTH ALBANIA Introduction This paper aims to offer an outline of the main elements of the Late Bronze Age burial costume from north Albania, focusing more specifically on the dress and body ornaments. The study is based on the funerary evidence from previous publications of the different necropoleis excavated in the area, which consist exclusively of tumuli. In the context of a rich and updated literature from the neighboring regions, we have tried to reexamine the dating of some of the costume components from this part of the Albania, which appears inconsistent in the Albanian literature. Furthermore, the direct observations of the ornaments helped for a better understanding of their morphological features, and together with a closer analysis of the respective grave assemblages, they were all essential for a closer chronological framing. On one hand, these investigations revealed the presence of a modest, but still, an important corpus of Late Bronze Age ornaments, which allow tracking some of the main characteristics of the burial costume of this period. In a wider context, they offer important clues for the small- and large- scale inter-regional relations and how these are reflected in the burial costume of this period. However, on the other hand, we should stress from the beginning, that the available fragmentary data does not allow us to develop a full discussion on all the types of costumes present, or on the social identities expressed through them in the funerary ritual. Among the obstacles, it should be noted the total lack of 206 207 Rovena KURTI ON SOME ASPECTS OF THE LATE BRONZE AGE BURIAL COSTUME FROM NORTH ALBANIA anthropological data, some inconsistencies in the methods of documentation of the confirmed that certain types excavated tumuli, and particularly the fact that the tumuli of Çinamak, from the of pins attributed traditionally north-east corner of Albania, and to which belongs the most important part of the in Albanian studies to the ornaments, remain still unpublished systematically. first phase of the Iron Age, The Late Bronze Age in Albania, which after the local chronology belonged to the earliest phases corresponds generally to the middle 16th-12th/early 11th centuries B.C.1 (Middle of the use of Lofkënd tumulus Bronze Age and early Late Bronze Age in Central Europe and Central Balkans), is (14-12th centuries B.C.), or to the period of intense multidirectional exchanges and cultural influences, particularly the Late Bronze Age6. along the north-south routes. They are very well expressed in the grave contexts of this period, from the extreme north to the south of the country, where various Some general categories of objects of different origin or influence were found together. Dress considerations on LBA and body ornaments provide important evidence in this respect, but as it concerns costume elements from particularly the LBA period, they have remained peripheral in the discussions. south Albania