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imposing survey of the European ostentatious grave phenomenon has left a deep imprint on subsequent research. He argued that funeral luxury is a symptomatic reaction of the elites of simply structured societies thrust into crisis through the confrontation with civilisation. Analysts of Hallstatt Europe's "princely tombs" have reached a similar conclusion. They see the luxurious and often imported grave goods as elements of status display employed by elites involved in hierarchical power concentration galvanised by interaction with the Mediterranean sphere. 3 In this survey I will try augment this historical approach by interpreting these exceptional graves as an integral part of indigenous patterns of symbolic communication. Vessel sets, the hallmark of Late Bronze and Early Iron Age graves in eastern Central Europe, will stand in the centre of this essay. Their use and structure will be seen as facets of a far larger world of ritual practice and religious ideology. Monumental Early Urnfield Period tumuli from the rolling hill country in central Slovakia will stand at the beginning of this survey. Three great barrows near the neighbouring villages of Caka, Dedinka and Kolta form th
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- Author
- LOUIS DANIEL NEBELSICK
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)