In Harmony with Fashion. The Earliest Graves in the Komini Necropolis, North Montenegro

Abstract

The paper presents observations about the beginnings of burials in the old necropolis of the settlement in Komini near Pljevlja, which is known in scientific literature as Municipium S… It is broadly believed that the earliest burials at Necropolis I were chronologically positioned in the 1st century AD or as early as the 1st century BC. Still, with a more detailed insight into archaeological material from graves discovered in 1973, which has not been thoroughly analysed up to now, data were obtained indicating that the earliest burials in Komini should be dated as early as the end of the 4th and the beginning of the 3rd century BC. These observations are even more significant because until now there have not been any data about funerary practice and grave forms for the period of the Late Iron Age in this area.