FUNERARY RITES AND BURIALS

TREATMENT OF THE CORPSE

• Large Bone piles and other evidence of secondary burial in the Middle Bronze and Iron Age
• Skeletons lying in the supine position placed in graves, cists and anthropoid coffins in the Late Bronze and Iron Age
• Evidence of mummification in bitumen
• Cremation urn and pyre burials in the Iron Age

GRAVE GOODS

• Presence of adornment items and weapons in burials
• Presence of games and games boards in Late Bronze and early Iron Age burials
• Evidence of wine and libation offerings in Late Bronze Age and early Iron Age