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SUMMARY:Aspects of Iron Age Burial Customs in the Hegau Region (Southwest 
 Germany)/ A hotspot of the Early Bronze Age – Aschheim and Kirchheim b. 
 München (Upper Bavaria): a multi-phase settlement site with a nearby ceme
 tery - Clara Schaller and Sabrina Kutscher
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CONTACT:Marianna Negro
DESCRIPTION:The Hegau region in south-west Germany and small parts of Swit
 zerland lies north-west of Lake Constance. Here the cemeteries of Singen "
 Nordstadtterrasse" and Hilzingen "Beim Steppbachwiesle" are located in clo
 se proximity to each other. Both are characterised by a long period of occ
 upation from the Late Neolithic or Late Bronze Age to the Middle Latène P
 eriod. They allow us not only to trace burial customs and their developmen
 t through almost the entire Iron Age\, but also to deal with questions of 
 cultural continuities and discontinuities to earlier phases of occupation.
  This is the aim of my PhD project. \nIt also seems worthwhile to compare 
 the two cemeteries\, which likely contain mostly flat graves\, with each o
 ther\, because despite their close spatial proximity there are clear diffe
 rences. These include not only the number of burials\, but also the burial
  customs themselves\, such as the choice of grave goods or the type of bur
 ial. Together with the surrounding groups of barrows\, this reveals a vari
 ety of burial customs in the Iron Age Hegau region. The talk will present 
 some initial results from these two sites\, especially with regard to the 
 type of burial\, the grave construction and the grave goods\, and thus giv
 e an overview over the development of Iron Age burial customs and their si
 milarities and differences.\n\nIn this lecture I will present the Early Br
 onze Age settlement activity at the southern edge of the Erdinger Moos\, i
 n the Munich gravel plain\, with the multi-phase settlement of Aschheim an
 d the cemetery of Kirchheim near Munich. The settlement of Aschheim was fo
 rmerly located at the edge of the alluvial forest in the low moor. During 
 the Early Bronze Age it extended like a belt across the southern part of t
 odays municpial area. Thanks to extensive excavations during the past two 
 decades\, a multi-phase Early Bronze Age settlement with at least 124 hous
 e plans has been uncovered on an area of 26 ha\, the chronological sequenc
 e of which is currently being investigated. With no nearby water sources\,
  the inhabitants relied on wells. This living area also contains three gro
 ups of burial groups with between two and 13 graves. Approximately 700 met
 res east of the previous excavation boundary\, 43 burials were discovered 
 in one of the most extensive Early Bronze Age cemeteries in southern Bavar
 ia. \n
LOCATION:McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Seminar Room
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