SLAVONIC BURIAL WITH WOODEN BUCKETS: THE AREA OF SPREAD, CHRONOLOGY, ROOTS OF THE TRADITION, SEMANTICS
Journal Title: Матеріали і дослідження з археології Прикарпаття і Волині - Year 2018, Vol 22, Issue
Abstract
One of the attributes of funeral implements of Slavs in XІ–XІІ centuries were wooden buckets, which were absent in Eastern Europe only in barrows of Ilmen Slavs, Vjatichi, partially Kryvichs. They are also found in those burial grounds, where the burials of Scandinavians were. At the same time, wooden buckets were present in necropolises in the vastness of Poland, Slovakia and Czechia. In two last countries, this tradition was common still from VI–VII centuries and most likely was borrowed from German tribe of Longobards. Sufficiently early, the similar burials emerged on the Slavs territories of Transylvania and Croatia (including Adriatic coast). In the Roman influence period, wooden buckets were came across rather often in burial grounds of the Przeworsk culture, Luboszice culture, the Wielbark culture and other Germanic ethnical cultures. In turn, Germanic tribes borrowed the custom to bury with buckets from the Celts (the La Tène culture). Written histories of Kievan Rus' times, some archaeological finds, as well as more the late folklore give ground to reveal the semantics of the bucket in intellectual culture as marriage-sexual symbol.
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Edvard ZAJKOŬSKI
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