Exploring Second Iron Age Landscapes. The Necropolis from Zimnicea, on the Lower Danube (original) (raw)

Abstract

Considering the organization of the funerary space as a reflection of certain social aspects, we intend to analyze the meaning of tumuli graves dated in the second Iron Age in the lower Danube area in the context of necropoleis which can be associated with their contemporaneous settlements. The exploitation of landscape as funerary space is understood as strongly connected with topographic and strategic features of the terrain. When establishing a relation between the expressions of status in funerary practices with the presumed associated habitation and routes, one could point out to the existence of authority centers and models of using and organizing the funerary space as identity statements.

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a. Austro-Hungarian Map of the Danube in the area of Svistov-Zimnicea, made around 1890; b. Recent Satellite map of the same area showing the scale of landscape changhe after 1960’s; the yellow dot-line marks the former wetlands of the Danube transformed in agricultural lots.

a. Austro-Hungarian Map of the Danube in the area of Svistov-Zimnicea, made around 1890; b. Recent Satellite map of the same area showing the scale of landscape changhe after 1960’s; the yellow dot-line marks the former wetlands of the Danube transformed in agricultural lots.

Fig. 5. Zimnicea, Teleorman county. C12M1 double grave. Items found in the middle of the chamber toghether with cremated bones of an adult: a) iron sword, b) wheel-made bowl, c) kantharos, d) iron horse bit. Items found in the southwestern corner of the chamber among the cremated bones of a child: e) iron spearhead, f) silver pearl, g) bronze brooch, h) bronze bracelet, i) bronze finger ring, 1) glass beads. Ceramic vessels found outside the construction towards southeast: k), n) hand-made vessels; 1), m), 0) wheel-made vessels. Plan of the stone chamber p).

Fig. 5. Zimnicea, Teleorman county. C12M1 double grave. Items found in the middle of the chamber toghether with cremated bones of an adult: a) iron sword, b) wheel-made bowl, c) kantharos, d) iron horse bit. Items found in the southwestern corner of the chamber among the cremated bones of a child: e) iron spearhead, f) silver pearl, g) bronze brooch, h) bronze bracelet, i) bronze finger ring, 1) glass beads. Ceramic vessels found outside the construction towards southeast: k), n) hand-made vessels; 1), m), 0) wheel-made vessels. Plan of the stone chamber p).

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