Late Roman Period Cremation Burials in the Eastern Periphery of the Trans Tisa Region – The Lower Mureș Valley

The study summarizes a chapter about the results – including preliminary ones – from my PhDdissertation, referring to the reinterpretation of the Late Roman period cremation burials from the Lower MureșValley. By analysing the literature and the archaeological material, I’ve noticed some controversial informationregardig these burials that couldn’t be ignored. Therefore, I intended to clarify the chronology of the burials andalso their broader connections within the Carpathian Basin. It seems quite certain that the cremation burialscan be dated between the second half of the 3rd century – end of 4th – beginning of the 5th centuries, and someof the urnes show connections with burial places from the Transylvanian Basin. Refering to their burial rite,itcan’t be derived from Late La Téne burial customs from the Lower Mureș Valley as previously assumed, but theyreflect several connections in the burial rite with the burial places from the Transylvanian Basin from the sameperiod. The scarce data doesn’t permit to draw some definite conclusions, but it left room for some potentialexplanations on hypothetical levels, like a possible migration of several communities from the TransylvanianBasin to the Trans Tisa region along the Mureș valley – maybe in several waves – starting from the second halfof the 3rd century.