To browse Academia. The study investigates four-wheeled ceremonial wagons from the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age in Central Europe, particularly focusing on the Hallstatt period, detailing a catalogue of wagon-graves and exploring various forms of archaeological evidence.
The paper delves into the significance of ceremonial wagons in cultural practices of the time, illustrating their importance through extensive illustrations and discussions on associated grave goods and regional summaries.
Their presence allows of several interpretations. These spoked wheels of grave provide early evidence about the appearance of such in the Carpathian Basin. Focussing on the two graves from Encs, this article reports AMS radiocarbon dates that suggest the spoked wheels belong to the early second millennium BC. The Moravian region occupies a central position in the Northern part of the East Hallstatt culture. Both of them provide numerous information for the study of chronology. The wagon graves are of strategic importance for the interregional chronology.
The fact that the wagon was recognized in a grave with cremation burial is of key importance. Moravia plays an important role for comparison of chronology with neighbouring Bohemia, Slovakia, Austria and Poland. A technical and practical equestrian perspective. Horse and Rider in the late Viking Age. Equestrian burial in perspective.
The grave goods are directly comparable in type and quality to those found in the equestrian bur-ials. The wagon-body graves have for these reasons interpreted as the burials of upper-class women. The aim of the article is to present the wagon-body burials, particularly those with evidence of horses, and other burials with wagon equipment, as a counterpart to the equestrian burials with their focus on riding.
