ABSTRACT

Drawing on the results of new multi-method research in Grotta Regina Margherita—the largest known Middle Bronze Age mortuary cave in west-central Italy (ca. 1650–1450 b.c.)—this article helps to replace the generic idea of “collective burial” with a more precise understanding of how the bodies of the deceased were transformed into potent social, symbolic, and sensuous resources housed in caves. It contextualizes this process within a nuanced understanding of settlement and subsistence practices, in which relatively short-lived and small-scale agricultural communities extended inland to the edge of the Apennine Mountains, ritually demarcating mortuary assemblages in caves in the process.

摘要

在中西部意大利（约一六五零年至1450年绘制新的多方法的研究在里贾纳格罗塔玛格丽特-已知的最大的中东青铜时代太平间洞穴结果BC） -这种文章可以帮助取代“集体埋葬”的一般想法更准确地了解死者的尸体如何转化为洞穴中强大的社会、象征和感官资源。它将这一过程置于对定居和生存实践的细致理解中，在这些实践中，相对短命的小规模农业社区向内陆扩展到亚平宁山脉的边缘，在此过程中按仪式划分洞穴中的太平间组合。