Collectivity Versus Individuality: the Warrior Ideology of Iron Age Burial Rites on Saaremaa
Volume 8 (2007): Weapons, Weaponry and Man (In memoriam Vytautas Kazakevičius), pp. 263–272
Pub. online: 9 November 2007
Type: Article
Open Access
Open Access
Received
24 February 2007
24 February 2007
Revised
26 May 2007
26 May 2007
Published
9 November 2007
9 November 2007
Abstract
The article presents an overview of burial customs on the Estonian island of Saaremaa from 1000BC up to Christianisation, discussing the social organisation behind the archaeological material. Special attention is paid to collective attitudes displayed in cemeteries where bones of different burials were completely mixed, and on transformation periods, which at times brought individual burials or the custom to deposit weapons in graves.