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Burial Urns, Warrior Chiefs, and the Origins of the Celts
Tides of History
The Vatya Culture and Urn Burials
Not everybody in middle Bronze Age Europe practiced inhumation burial. The Vatya culture had already been cremating the dead and placing them in large urns for centuries, before about 1500 BC. But they coexisted with at least two different burial traditions literally right next door. In some cemeterias, women were more likely to be cremated than men; others, it was a matter of age. We can say a surprising amount about what they believed, or at least what some of them believed.
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