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      Human mobility in a Bronze Age Vatya ‘urnfield’ and the life history of a high-status woman

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          In this study, we present osteological and strontium isotope data of 29 individuals (26 cremations and 3 inhumations) from Szigetszentmiklós-Ürgehegy, one of the largest Middle Bronze Age cemeteries in Hungary. The site is located in the northern part of the Csepel Island (a few kilometres south of Budapest) and was in use between c. 2150 and 1500 BC, a period that saw the rise, the apogee, and, ultimately, the collapse of the Vatya culture in the plains of Central Hungary. The main aim of our study was to identify variation in mobility patterns among individuals of different sex/age/social status and among individuals treated with different burial rites using strontium isotope analysis. Changes in funerary rituals in Hungary have traditionally been associated with the crises of the tell cultures and the introgression of newcomers from the area of the Tumulus Culture in Central Europe around 1500 BC. Our results show only slight discrepancies between inhumations and cremations, as well as differences between adult males and females. The case of the richly furnished grave n. 241 is of particular interest. The urn contains the cremated bones of an adult woman and two 7 to 8-month-old foetuses, as well as remarkably prestigious goods. Using 87Sr/ 86Sr analysis of different dental and skeletal remains, which form in different life stages, we were able to reconstruct the potential movements of this high-status woman over almost her entire lifetime, from birth to her final days. Our study confirms the informative potential of strontium isotopes analyses performed on different cremated tissues. From a more general, historical perspective, our results reinforce the idea that exogamic practices were common in Bronze Age Central Europe and that kinship ties among high-rank individuals were probably functional in establishing or strengthening interconnections, alliances, and economic partnerships.

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                PLoS ONE
                Public Library of Science (San Francisco, CA USA )
                1932-6203
                28 July 2021
                2021
                : 16
                : 7
                : e0254360
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italia
                [2 ] Archaeology Department, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
                [3 ] Department of Biological Anthropology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
                [4 ] Department of Anthropology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary
                [5 ] Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna, Ravenna, Italy
                [6 ] Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
                [7 ] Museo delle Civiltà, Sezione di Bioarcheologia, Rome, Italy
                [8 ] University of Napoli “L’Orientale”, Naples, Italy
                [9 ] Hungarian National Museum, Budapest, Hungary
                [10 ] ICER Centre, Institute for Nuclear Research, Debrecen, Hungary
                [11 ] Institute of Archaeology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence, Budapest, Hungary
                Senckenberg Gesellschaft fur Naturforschung, GERMANY
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                Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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                https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7911-194X
                https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9338-5891
                https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4675-9875
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                PONE-D-20-34426
                10.1371/journal.pone.0254360
                8318297
                34319991
                0e400cb8-5dde-426f-95c7-c5f3f89ee222
                © 2021 Cavazzuti et al

                This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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                : 2 November 2020
                : 25 June 2021
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                Figures: 9, Tables: 6, Pages: 32
                Funding
                Funded by: hungarian academy of sciences
                Funded by: hungarian research, development and innovation office
                Award ID: FK128013
                Award Recipient :
                Funded by: momentum mobility research project
                Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100008530, european regional development fund;
                Award ID: GINOP-2.3.2-15-2016-00009 ‘ICER’
                This paper was supported by the Guest Researcher Fellowship granted by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; by the Momentum Mobility research project hosted by the Institute of Archaeology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence (Principal Investigator: Viktória Kiss) and by the grant from Hungarian Research, Development and Innovation Office, project number: FK128013 (Principal Investigator: Hajdu Tamás). The 14C measurements, conducted by the Atomki Laboratory, Debrecen were supported by the European Union and the State of Hungary, co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund in the project of GINOP-2.3.2-15-2016-00009 ‘ICER’.
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