The Abundance Revealing Status? First Iron Age Princely Necropolises in Western Serbia and their Relation to the Common Funerary Practice

Abstract

The paper treats different features of grave inventories in the First Iron Age graves in western Serbia. The number of objects in grave inventory and quality of each item are set as the main criteria for determination of groups. It is supposed that the quantity and quality of the grave goods, as well as massiveness of the grave structure and its position, represent the features that reveal status of the deceased.