Some remarks on sex determination in the Central Balkans late bronze age necropoles with cremation burials
Some remarks on sex determination in the Central Balkans late bronze age necropoles with cremation burials

Summary/Abstract: Cremation is the predominant way of burying the dead in the Middle and Late Bronze Age cultures (second half of the II millennium B.C) which have been researched on the territory of today’s Serbia. There have been published stylistic and typological analyses of archaeological finds originating from several Bronze Age necropolises with cremation graves in Serbia. However, anthropological analyses of those necropolises have not been done and there has been preserved only a modest quantity of burnt human bones. Among larger necropolises with cremation graves where anthropological analyses have been done and published, we distinguish the following necropolises from the Late Bronze Age on the territory of Vojvodina: necropolis from Vojlovica (Rafinerija) near Pančevo and necropolis from the site Kaludjerske livade in Srem. South of the rivers Sava and Danube, we are familiar with preliminary anthropological analyses of necropolises Madjilka near Pirot and Mala Vrbica (Kudeljište) near Kladovo. The four above mentioned necropolises with cremation graves and urns, originating from the southern parts of Vojvodina and Eastern Serbia, have revealed modest but promising possibilities of comparative analyses of anthropological and archaeological finds from graves.

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