Death and glory: Hallstatt burial customs from the archaeobotanical perspective of the necropolises at Kaptol (Croatia)

Šoštarić, Renata; Grbin, Josipa; Potrebica, Hrvoje

doi:10.33254/piaz.42.1.1

Prilozi Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu, Vol. 42 No. 1, 2025.

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Death and glory: Hallstatt burial customs from the archaeobotanical perspective of the necropolises at Kaptol (Croatia)

Renata Šoštarić orcid.org/0009-0000-9978-9766 ; Botanički zavod Biološkog odsjeka Prirodoslovno-matematičkog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska *
Josipa Grbin ; Sali, Hrvatska
Hrvoje Potrebica orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-4254 ; Odsjek za arheologiju Filozofskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska

* Dopisni autor.

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Šoštarić, R., Grbin, J. i Potrebica, H. (2025). Death and glory: Hallstatt burial customs from the archaeobotanical perspective of the necropolises at Kaptol (Croatia). Prilozi Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu, 42 (1), 5-52. https://doi.org/10.33254/piaz.42.1.1

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Šoštarić, Renata, et al. "Death and glory: Hallstatt burial customs from the archaeobotanical perspective of the necropolises at Kaptol (Croatia)." Prilozi Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu, vol. 42, br. 1, 2025, str. 5-52. https://doi.org/10.33254/piaz.42.1.1. Citirano 24.05.2026.

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Šoštarić, Renata, Josipa Grbin i Hrvoje Potrebica. "Death and glory: Hallstatt burial customs from the archaeobotanical perspective of the necropolises at Kaptol (Croatia)." Prilozi Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu 42, br. 1 (2025): 5-52. https://doi.org/10.33254/piaz.42.1.1

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Šoštarić, R., Grbin, J., i Potrebica, H. (2025). 'Death and glory: Hallstatt burial customs from the archaeobotanical perspective of the necropolises at Kaptol (Croatia)', Prilozi Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu, 42(1), str. 5-52. https://doi.org/10.33254/piaz.42.1.1

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Šoštarić R, Grbin J, Potrebica H. Death and glory: Hallstatt burial customs from the archaeobotanical perspective of the necropolises at Kaptol (Croatia). Prilozi Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu [Internet]. 2025 [pristupljeno 24.05.2026.];42(1):5-52. https://doi.org/10.33254/piaz.42.1.1

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R. Šoštarić, J. Grbin i H. Potrebica, "Death and glory: Hallstatt burial customs from the archaeobotanical perspective of the necropolises at Kaptol (Croatia)", Prilozi Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu, vol.42, br. 1, str. 5-52, 2025. [Online]. https://doi.org/10.33254/piaz.42.1.1

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Archaeobotanical analysis of 17 Kaptol tumuli has resulted in 46,829 identified carbonized botanical remains. Cereals are convincingly dominant in the processed material, and we also find fruits, legumes and weeds, which are probably a standard admixture of cereals. All the finds processed in this paper come from grave contexts, but they are not grave goods, but rather arrived in the graves during the sprinkling of the surface of the burial chamber with burnt remains from the pyre or with the remains of the deceased in urns. This fact indicates a much greater importance of ritual cremation in the funeral ritual than previously assumed, because we know that many valuable contributions were found with the body of the deceased on the pyre, sometimes including the most valued among cereals: wheat. Analysis of the quantity and type of botanical finds in the graves also showed a significant correlation with gender. That is, although male graves generally outnumber female graves in terms of the number of botanical finds, the most noticeable difference is the large quantity of cereals in male graves in comparison with the insignificant number of finds in female graves. Another interesting fact is that the only grave (tumulus 13 at the Gradca necropolis) attributed to a child by preliminary anthropological analysis does not contain any cereals at all, but does have a significant quantity of fruit and nuts.