The first Jevišovice culture cemetery in Moravia

Abstract

The article presents the first clearly documented (small) Jevišovice culture cremation cemetery in Moravia in the context of the essentially unknown burial practices of the given cultural formation. Two urn graves with typical pottery were identified during the excavation of trenches for utility lines near the historical centre of Brno (Polní St.) in close proximity to one another. Based on an analysis of the pottery vessels, the graves are dated to the late or final phase of the Jevišovice culture with certain ties to the region of southwest Slovakia. The article discusses the existing image of the burial rite of the Jevišovice culture and others in the Late Eneolithic. Small group cemeteries with apparent biritualism are a characteristic trait. A similar find situation was documented in southwest Slovakia likewise in the environment of the Jevišovice formation.