Our study emphasizes the social and political role of Bronze Age women as agents of cultural hybridization and change, we may also argue that the integration into the kinship group of high-ranking women from outside, as a result of marriage exchanges, might have been crucial for the emerging elite of the 2nd millennium BC.

Claudio Cavazzuti

Probably there was a change in ideology and a different relationship with the afterlife, and with the sphere of the divine, we can not exclude, however, that cremation became widespread also as a practical response to epidemics, considering the increasing demographic size of the communities and the high degree of mobility and interconnectedness among different regions.

Claudio Cavazzuti

Cremated remains have been often neglected in the past studies, as bones are very fragmented and therefore considered scarcely informative, we can( now) better understand how society was organized, how people moved and how goods circulated. The more we know, the more we understand that the roots of our way of thinking have their origin in this fundamental period of European history.

Claudio Cavazzuti

It is extremely difficult to find pregnant women among cremations, as bones are usually very much fragmented and the remains of fetuses are very fragile.

Claudio Cavazzuti