TY - JOUR AU - Rebay-Salisbury, Katharina PY - 2019/05/02 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - 3. Personal Relationships between Co-buried Individuals in the Central European Early Bronze Age JF - AmS-Skrifter JA - AmS-Skrifter VL - IS - 26 SE - Articles DO - 10.31265/ams-skrifter.v0i26.208 UR - https://journals.uis.no/index.php/AmS-Skrifter/article/view/208 SP - 35-48 AB - <p>People were usually buried in single, individual graves in Early Bronze Age Austria and the surrounding areas, but there are some&nbsp;exceptions. In burials of two or more people, it is often the way that bodies were placed in relation to each other that suggests&nbsp;familiarity, if not family. This paper reviews the social relations expressed through co-burials, and aims to better understand&nbsp;relationships between couples, siblings, or parents and children. The chapter particularly highlights mother-child relationships&nbsp;and presents graves of pregnant women and graves of women and children buried together, in order to understand how such&nbsp;individuals were treated by their societies in death. Ages and age gaps between co-buried individuals reveal the most likely ages for&nbsp;life-transitions such as first motherhood and the addition of new family members. The analysis compares evidence from two different,&nbsp;but contemporary cultural groups (Únětice and Unterwölbing) to shed light on prehistoric gender relations, family structures&nbsp;and social organisation through the lens of the burial record.</p> ER -