PROGRAMME & ABSTRACT BOOK Josip Juraj Strossmayer Square 14 ORGANIZERS Darija Ložnjak Dizdar Institute of Archaeology Petra Rajić Šikanjić Institute for Anthropological Research SCIENTIFIC BOARD Marie Louise Stig Sørensen University of Cambridge Carola Metzner-Nebelsick Ludwig Maximillian University of Munich Stašo Forenbaher Institute for Anthropological Research Marko Dizdar Institute of Archaeology PROGRAMME Thursday, 9th February 2017 Keynote lecture 9.30-10.10 Louis D. Nebelsick Warsaw, Poland Sparagmos. Ritual violence as a communicative agent in Late Bronze Age Europe A view from the grave 10.10-10.30 Aleksandar Kapuran, Belgrade, Serbia Raško Ramadanski, Senta, Serbia Velebit, Tumulus culture necropolis in the southern Carpathian Basin 10.30-10.50 Vojislav Filipović, Belgrade, Serbia Belotić-type bronze pins and the phenomenon of long pins 10.50-11.10 discussions 11.10-11.40 coffee break 11.40-12.00 Katarina Dmitrović, Čačak, Serbia Late Bronze horizon in Stapari necropolis and its relation with the neighbouring areas 12.00-12.20 Szilvi Guba, Szécsény, Hungary Ändernde Riten. Untersuchungen im Pilinyer Brandgräberfeld von Zagyvapálfalva, Nordostungarn LATE BRONZE AGE MORTUARY PRACTICES AND SOCIETY IN THE CARPATHIAN BASIN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 3 12.20-12.40 Friday, 10th February 2017 Katalin Jankovits, Budapest, Hungary Die Reste des Textiliensackes aus dem spätbronzezeitlichen Hügelgrab (Bz D1) von 9.30-9.50 Jánosháza in Westtransdanubien Brina Švor Jernejčič, Berlin, Germany First cremation burials in south-eastern Alpine region. 12.40-13.00 A short reflection Stašto Forenbaher, Daria Ložnjak Dizdar, Zagreb, Croatia Radiocarbron dating of Late Bronze Age cremated burials in northern Croatia 9.50-10.10 Snježana Karavanić, Zagreb, Croatia 13.00-13.20 discussions Velika Gorica and Dobova - two distinctive communities in Sava valley 13.20-15.00 lunch break 10.10-10.30 Matija Črešnar, Ljubljana, Slovenia 15.00-15.20 Urnfields of north-eastern Slovenia… the devil is in the details… Hrvoje Kalafatić, Zagreb, Croatia Reversing the urn: mortuary practices at the beginning of Late Bronze Age in Sava 10.30-10.50 River Basin Verena Tiedtke, Kiel, Germany Susanne Stroch, Berlin, Germany 15.20-15.40 Who are you? - Searching for the entombing society in the Late Bronze Age urn Marija Ljuština, Belgrade, Serbia field Müllrose (East Brandenburg) Belegiš Culture communities of Serbian part of the Carpathian Basin and their Southwestern neighbours: Interaction revealed through funerary practice 10.50-11.10 discussions 15.40-16.00 11.10-11.40 coffee break Michaela Fritzl, Wien, Austria Multiple and collective burials in Urnfield culture communities at Inzersdorf ob 11.40-12.00 der Traisen and beyond (Austria) Martina Blečić Kavur, Boris Kavur, Koper, Slovenia The tale of the Beauty and the Beast 16.00-16.20 Kitti Köhler, Tamas Hajdu, Budapest, Hungary 12.00-12.20 Comparative physical anthropological analysis of cremation cemeteries from the Siniša Radović, Daria Ložnjak Dizdar, Zagreb, Croatia Late Bronze Age Carpathian Basin Funerals and feasting: a story told by animal remains 16.20-16.40 12.20-12.40 Petra Rajić Šikanjić, Daria Ložnjak Dizdar, Zrinka Premužić, Zagreb, Croatia Joanna Sofaer, Southampton, UK Children in Late Bronze Age cemeteries in the northern Croatia Mimesis at the Late Bronze Age / Early Iron Age site of Vukovar Lijeva Bara 16.40-17.00 discussions 12.40-13.00 Jovan Koledin, Novi Sad, Serbia About funerary rites of Bosut culture 4 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE LATE BRONZE AGE MORTUARY PRACTICES AND SOCIETY IN THE CARPATHIAN BASIN LATE BRONZE AGE MORTUARY PRACTICES AND SOCIETY IN THE CARPATHIAN BASIN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 5 13.00-13.20 discussions ABSTRACTS 13.20-14.40 lunch break 14.40-15.00 Petra Stipančić, Novo Mesto, Slovenia Mortuary practice on Kapiteljska njiva in Novo Mesto at the end of Late Bronze Age and the beginning of Early Iron Age through grave goods 15.00-15.20 Daria Ložnjak Dizdar, Petra Rajić Šikanjić, Zrinka Premužić, Marko Dizdar, Stašo Keynote lecture Forenbaher, Siniša Radović, Zagreb, Croatia Diversity of ritual in Late Bronze Age mortuary practices in southern Carpathian Sparagmos Basin Ritual violence as a communicative agent in Late Bronze Age Europe A view from the grave 15.20-15.30 discussions Louis Daniel NEBELSICK 15.30-16.10 This talk aims to link the remarkable tradition of scrap-hoarding i.e. violently de- Marie-Louise Stig Sørensen, Cambridge, UK stroying bronze artefacts, curating the shattered remains and finally burying them Carola Metzner-Nebelsick, München, Germany to the violent act of destruction inherent to cremation ritual, the ritual drama which Concluding remarks spans the gap between the death and apotheosis. A segmented structuralist model I have proposed in the past is expanded by a more fluid dynamic approach seeing destruction and fragmentation in cremation ritual as the culmination of the rites of separation and apotheosis that lie at the heart of the cremation process. On the basis of the early Urnfield period ostentatious grave Hart an der Alz the rituals that accompany the passage of the deceased from his bier to pyre and the pit are recon- structed focused on the hearse whose avian symbolism and ship like shape make it an appropriate vehicle to accompany the dead from private to public space and through the explosive and destructive transformation process on the pyre into an ancestral otherworld. Velebit, Tumulus culture necropolis in the southern Carpathian Basin Aleksandar KAPURAN, Raško RAMADANSKI The Velebit necropolis represents the southern edge to which the Hügelgräber cul- tural complex spread in the Carpathian Basin. Although two rescue investigations occurred in the 50’s and 70’s of the last century, results still remain unpublished. Mortuary practice represents biritual burials that indicate mixtures between new- comers and native tradition. Some of the material cultural finds permit us to specu- The Conference has been supported in part by Croatian Science Foundation late that members of this community were craftsmen or tradesmen, while the ma- under the project (IRP 11-2013-5327). jority of the population were probably cattle farmers. 6 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE LATE BRONZE AGE MORTUARY PRACTICES AND SOCIETY IN THE CARPATHIAN BASIN LATE BRONZE AGE MORTUARY PRACTICES AND SOCIETY IN THE CARPATHIAN BASIN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 7 Belotić-type bronze pins and the phenomenon of long pins for an indigenous population, which buried their dead in the mountainous area of Vojislav FILIPOVIĆ Western Serbia, while in the neighbouring areas – Middle Danube region or central Serbia can be followed completely different burial type – cremation in urns. Decorative bronze pins are a relatively common find in various prehistoric contexts, Based on the continuity of burying under the tumuli in the territory of Western primarily graves. European examples of prehistoric bronze pins are usually up to 20- Serbia that lasted for almost two millennia, where certain changes of the mortuary 25 cm in length, although there are examples that go up to 50 cm. These are pins practice represent a consequence of strong cultural influences, can assume the un- that were primarily used for decorating hair, while massive and bigger examples changed core of its local population. were probably worn as a part of the costume of that time. However, lone examples with length more than half meter appear occasionally, without any geographical and chronological patterns noticed, except for the part of northwestern Serbia and eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Late Bronze Age. Namely, in Br D period, Ändernde Riten. Untersuchungen im Pilinyer Brandgräberfeld von Zagyvapálfalva, in the area of the Jadar river valley and its tributaries and surrounding regions on the Nordostungarn left bank of the Drina river, more than a dozen bronze pins with lengths exceeding 50 Szilvia GUBA cm appear, while several examples are more than 1 meter in length. Most of these examples come from graves, or accidental finds, and although they Das spätbronzezeitliche Gräberfeld von Salgótarján-Zagyvapálfalva wurde systema- possess the form of a pin as an object, they certainly do not possess the adequate tisch erstmals in den 1920-er Jahren erforscht und insgesamt 220 Gräber freigelegt. functionality. This contribution certainly cannot and will not answer the question Die letzten Untersuchungen von 2007-2008 lieferten weitere 816 Brandgräber zum of what these artifacts were used for, instead it will attempt to reproblematize this Vorschein. phenomenon and point to the contexts of their find. Die neuesten Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die Anlegung des Gräberfeldes viel früher an- gesetzt werden kann, als zuvor angenommen. Die frühesten Gräber entstammen noch aus der mittleren Bronzezeit und sind mit der charakteristischen Keramik der Hatvan-Kultur ausgestattet. Einige Gräber können auf die Koszider-Periode datiert Late Bronze horizon in Stapari necropolis and its relation with the neighboring areas werden und weitere zeigen bereits frühe Pilinyer Formen. Die ununterbrochene Be- nutzung des Gräberfeldes ist auch am Ende der Pilinyer-Kultur gut erkennbar und die Katarina DMITROVIĆ urnenfelderzeitliche Umwandlung in die Kyjatice-Kultur verlief ebenso ohne Bruch. Das Lebenszeit des Gräberfeldes überspannt also fast 600 Jahre, in der die Art und Although it has been excavated for almost six decades ago, Stapari necropolis near Weise der Bestattungen oftmals verändert haben. In unserem Beitrag werden die Užice still attracts