Childhood in Batina at the end of the late bronze age and the beginning of the early iron age

Batina is a multi-layered site situated on a prominent position above the Danube on Bansko Brdo in Baranja. This site holds particular significance for understanding the broader picture of settlement in the Middle Danube region during the Late Bronze Age and the beginning of the Early Iron Age, from the 11th to the 7th century BC. Numerous chance finds described in the literature are housed in nine different museums across Europe. Recent excavations, conducted since 2010 at the Sredno locality, have uncovered a flat cremation cemetery dated to the Late Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age, with evidence of burials under tumuli dated to the beginning of the Iron Age. A child-centred perspective was applied in the study of children?s traces at the Batina site. The collected traces of children (osteological remains from graves and archaeological artefacts) were compared with what is already known about the life of the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age community at Batina, as well as with contemporary sites at Sotin and Doroslovo in the vicinity within the Danube region.