jan 1, 700 BC - Oss

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Oss, the Netherlands

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"Oss, NL: Early bronze age elite burials also in NL> grave of Oss> bound sword. Huge vessel, distribution drink as feasts"(Anna-Feline)

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(Triggered by the excavations in Oss (cemeteries Vorstengraf and Zevenbergen) between 1997 and 2007, Fokkens and Fontijn have started to study Hallstatt ‘elite’ burials. The results of fieldwork have lead to a discussion of Early Hallstatt burials in the Netherlands and in relation to the Hallstatt world in general. We have come to realise that our monumental Hallstatt burials are the result of a funerary ritual in which the dead and the accompanying imported objects were deliberately transformed in a highly local manner – with grave goods being dismantled, folded and broken – and consciously interred in an ancestral barrow landscape. This research has now taken shape in a phD research project, entitled Constructing powerful identities. The conception and meaning of 'rich' Hallstatt burials in the Low Countries (800-500 BC).)(Leiden uni)

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