Practici funerare în Banat în a doua epocă a fierului. Mobilitate comunitară şi identităţi fluide
Funerary Practices in Banat in The Late Iron Age. Mobile Communities, Changing Identities

Summary/Abstract: The Late Iron Age in Banat was defined by three different cultural and chronological horizons: the “pre-Celtic” horizon (LT B1 – B1/B2: ca. 390/380 – 350/330 BC); the “Celtic” horizon (LT B1/B2 – C1: ca. 350/330 – 175 BC); the “Dacian” horizon (LT C2/D1 – D2). Geographically, Banat was a connecting region between Central European areas and those from the northern Balkans, being crossed by major routes on which local goods and those from the neighbouring territories were distributed. Consequently, the region in question was crossed and occupied successively by various groups and political entities which sought to control the exploitation and distribution of local natural resources. The Late Iron Age also witnessed this kind of human mobility. These population movements contributed to the successive reconfiguration of the local ethnic, cultural and social identities. Accordingly, the article aims to identify the characteristics and the dynamics of these collective identities throughout each of the aforementioned chronological and cultural horizon. Archaeological evidence that has been taken into consideration consists mainly of funerary discoveries resulting from a few representative cemeteries.

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