Fragmenting the Chieftain - Catalogue Late Bronze and Early Iron Age elite burials in the Low Countries

• Main Author: van der Vaart-Verschoof, Sasja (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Leiden Sidestone Press 2017
• Subjects: Prehistoric archaeology; archaeology; prehistory; Early Iron Age; Hallstatt C; elites; burial practice; funerary ritual; Low Countries; Hallstatt Culture; Northwest Europe; social differentiation; barrows
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

There is a cluster of Early Iron Age (800-500 BC) elite burials in the Low Countries in which bronze vessels, weaponry, horse-gear and wagons were interred as grave goods. Mostly imports from Central Europe, these objects are found brought together in varying configurations in cremation burials gene...