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Sociology and Anthropology Vol. 1(2), pp. 111 - 117
DOI: 10.13189/sa.2013.010210
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The Absence of Cremation Sites within Cemeteries of the Przeworsk and Wielbark Cultures in the Roman Period in Great Poland

Daniel Żychliński^*
THOR Archaeological Research Gniezno - Poland

ABSTRACT

The main purpose of this paper is to explain the absence of cremation sites within cemeteries of the Przeworsk and Wielbark communities in Great Poland – region located in western part of Poland. First of mentioned cultures existed there from the end of II century BC to the beginning of VI century AD (125/100 BC-500/510 AD). Second of them - the middle of the I century AD to 2nd half of the III century AD (40/50 AD-260/270 AD). Great Poland comprised part of Barbaricum, which was not very closely connected with the Roman Empire, but there is much evidence for contacts between those two regions. Based on current research connected with rites of passage observed in burial rituals of those communities, it seems obvious that cremation places – ustrina were located out of cemeteries and settlements in separated places near banks of the rivers, because they appertained to liminal zone. But busta located within necropolis were in fact graves and belonged to sacrum zone.

KEYWORDS
Burial Rite, Central Europe, Roman Period, Ustrina

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[1] Daniel Żychliński , "The Absence of Cremation Sites within Cemeteries of the Przeworsk and Wielbark Cultures in the Roman Period in Great Poland," Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 111 - 117, 2013. DOI: 10.13189/sa.2013.010210.

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Daniel Żychliński (2013). The Absence of Cremation Sites within Cemeteries of the Przeworsk and Wielbark Cultures in the Roman Period in Great Poland. Sociology and Anthropology, 1(2), 111 - 117. DOI: 10.13189/sa.2013.010210.