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Spinning ladies from the Zvonimirovo–Veliko polje cemetery

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The Middle La Tène cemetery of Zvonimirovo–Veliko Polje contained
numerous graves of women with characteristic costume
and jewellery items and provisions for the afterlife, such as ceramic
vessels and animal bones. A smaller number of graves of
women included objects of everyday use, such as iron knives,
ceramic spindle-whorls and iron sewing needles; on a symbolic
level, together with costume and jewellery items, they represent
various aspects of women’s social identities in the community.
Likewise, these items probably indicate the chores that women
performed in their households on a daily basis. Since ceramic
spindle-whorls are the most numerous items in this group of
finds, associated with the making of spinning threads and accompanied
by sewing needles, it seems that the women devoted
part of their time to making and maintaining fabrics and clothing.
Therefore, ceramic spindle-whorls are seen as characteristic
gender-specific and age-specific items, as they are most often
found in the graves of adult women. The same conclusions can
be drawn from the other cemeteries of the La Tène culture in the
Carpathian Basin, where ceramic spindle-whorls also do not represent
a large group of finds, and are also most often found in the
graves of adult women.

Ključne riječi

ceramic spindle-whorls, graves of women, La Tène culture, Carpathian Basin, identity, age, household

Hrčak ID:

245865

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/245865

Datum izdavanja:

30.11.2020.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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