ARHEOLOŠKI VESTNIK

Inštitut za arheologijo  ZRC SAZU

ARHEOLOŠKI VESTNIK 70, 2019

Andreas BERNHARD, Mitja GUŠTIN

Zu einem frühhallstattzeitlichen Bogenschützen aus Kleinklein

Abstract

[An Early Hallstatt archer from Kleinklein] The archer buried in the Höchschusterwald tumulus group at Kleinklein, Austria, belongs to the Styrian-Pannonian community of the Early Iron Age. The goods from his cremation grave include a lugged and a winged axe, as well as a set of bone arrowheads and date the burial to Ha Clb. They shed light onto the social structure of warrior burials below the hillfort at Burgstallkogel. The grave has a close parallel in the inhumation Grave 42/1 at Kapiteljska njiva in Novo mesto, Slovenia, which also held arrowheads, but these in bronze, as well as a bronze spearhead and other goods that date it to the contemporary Podzemelj 2 of the Dolenjska group. In the first half of the 7th century BC, both burials were exceptional in the composition of the grave goods, associated with hunting and perhaps the excellence of stag hunters as depicted on the products of situla art several generations later.

Keywords: Early Iron Age, Styrian-Pannonian group, Kleinklein − Höchschusterwaldgruppe, Dolenjska group, archers

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