Published: 2023-12-27 — Updated on 2023-12-27

Oksywie Culture inhumation graves

Anna Strobin
Archeologia Polski
Section: Studies
DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/APol68.2023.004

Abstract

Cremation was the predominant form of burial among members of the Oksywie Culture group. The first inhumation graves appeared in Pomerania, similarly as in the Przeworsk Culture, in the middle phase of the late Pre-Roman period. The grave inventories in these cases show a close resemblance to contemporaneous burials from Kuyavia. Inhumation burial numbers grow from the beginning of phase A3. Other changes are also observed at the same time in the cemeteries of the Oksywie Culture, including the elimination of weapons from grave inventories and a reduced number of cremation urn graves. The largest number of inhumation graves has been recorded for the transitional phase A3/B1, which is chronologically related to phase B1. The socio-religious changes initiated among population groups of the Oksywie Culture in the late Pre-Roman period popularized the changeover to the inhumation rite. The emergence of a new culture, the Wielbark Culture, characterized by a biritual form of funerary rites, was the effect of these changes associated with the broader economic and political transformation taking place in Europe at this time.

Keywords:

funerary rites, inhumation graves, Oksywie Culture, Pomerania, late Pre-Roman period, early Roman period

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Strobin, A. (2023). Oksywie Culture inhumation graves. Archeologia Polski, 68, 91–160. https://doi.org/10.23858/APol68.2023.004

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