Dolina 2010. : rezultati probnih istraivanja prapovijesnog groblja Glavicice

For the second year, archaeological trial excavations of the Glavicice prehistoric cemetery in Dolina, Croatia, were conducted. The southernmost tumulus 6 was excavated, under which there were two incineration graves in a vertical stratigraphic relationship. The grave goods suggest that the deceased were buried at the beginning of the Iron Age (Ha C1a), thus connecting the tradition of cremation burials of the Urnfield culture with the Hallstatt fashion of marking graves by erecting tumuli. Both excavated tumuli (T 6 and T 8) in Dolina testify to a community that communicated with its contemporaries in the neighbourhood but also from a wider area. Besides parts of attire suggesting wider connections and the local expressions in pottery, there are other elements suggesting that the members of the community living in Dolina at the beginning of the Iron Age were open to innovations (e.g., the idea of tumuli), which they applied in their everyday life (burial with two incineration graves with separate mounds in a single tumulus). [Abridged Publication Abstract]