Assessment of an Iron Age skeletal assemblage from Romania, Tărtăria Podu Tărtăriei vest (Alba County, Romania)
Assessment of an Iron Age skeletal assemblage from Romania, Tărtăria Podu Tărtăriei vest (Alba County, Romania)

Summary/Abstract: A new archaeological site was discovered in 2012 in Romania in the river Mureș Valley, at Tărtăria (Alba County). Researchers have been able to date it during the first period of the Iron Age (middle Hallstatt, Basarabi culture). Excavation has revealed a collective burial containing the remains of seven individuals (six of which were articulated and a seventh only partially represented). Due to the very poor preservation and extreme degree of fragmentation of the material, anthropological analysis could only determine age at death for some of the individuals. This article discusses this common burial together with other individual funerary features have also been discovered in one of the trenches bordering the site. The skeletal assemblage from Tărtăria has analogies in other contemporary assemblages recovered from Hungary and Serbia and remains particularly important for our understanding of funerary rites during the early Iron Age in the Carpathian basin.

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