Talk:Golasecca culture

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So, which is it? According to the article, the deceased were directly inhumed, yet "cremation persisted into the second period", followed by a sentence talking about graveside cremation and burial in terracotta pots, which contradicts what came before. See for yourself:


 * The Golasecca culture is best known by its burial customs, where an apparent ancestor cult imposed respect of the necropoli, a sacred area untouched by agrarian use or deforestation. The early-period burials took place in selected raised positions oriented with respect to the sun. Burial practices were direct inhumation or in lidded cistae. Stone circles and alignments are found.[9] Burial urns were painted with designs, with accessory ceramics, such as cups on tall bases. Bronze objects are usually of wearing apparel: pins and fibulas, armbands, rings, earrings, pendants and necklaces. Bronze vessels are rare. The practice of cremation persists into the second period (early sixth to mid-fourth centuries).
 * Cremation near the burial site, followed by ash and bone burials in terracotta jars, in excavated pits set at determined distances one from the other in scattered necropolises, characterize a culture of many small village settlements.

So, was cremation a later development, as it sounds (and as seems to be the pattern for that period in much of that part of Europe), or was cremation always practiced? Or is this just such a mess no one can tell? I vote for the final. 69.140.128.87 (talk) 05:50, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

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