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Investigate the cultural context, biological profile, and funerary rituals of an urn burial dating to the Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age transition in Central Germany.

December 3, 2025Sprawozdania ArcheologiczneOpen Access

Burial customs and cultural change. A case study from Central Germany during the transition from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age

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MKMarta KorczyñskaUniversity of Cologne

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Bioarchaeological analysis reveals deliberate anatomical ordering within a transitional urn burial, highlighting complex funerary rituals during Bronze-to-Iron Age cultural shifts.

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Investigate the cultural context, biological profile, and funerary rituals of an urn burial dating to the Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age transition in Central Germany.
Conducted osteological and taphonomic assessments of cremated skeletal remains from an urn grave in Markranstädt, Saxony.
Utilized typochronological multivariate statistical analyses to evaluate cultural and chronological placement in the absence of distinctive grave goods.
Identified the skeletal remains as an adult aged 30–40 years with tall stature and no identifiable skeletal pathologies.
Uncovered structured taphonomic arrangement of cremated remains in the urn, including vertical orientation of lower limb epiphyses and horizontal arrangement of upper limb elements.

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Marta Korczyñska (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9fa0ac4e3da7c164efd05d https://doi.org/10.23858/sa/77.2025.1.4127

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Bioarchaeological analysis reveals deliberate anatomical ordering within a transitional urn burial, highlighting complex funerary rituals during Bronze-to-Iron Age cultural shifts.

Burial customs and cultural change. A case study from Central Germany during the transition from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age

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