entity · practice_france_1_cremation_urn_burial
Cremation with urn burial
Also known as: Urnfield burial practice, Champs d'Urnes funerary practice
A mortuary practice involving cremation and deposition of remains, often in urns and flat cemeteries.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1350 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · provides archaeological observation
La civilisation des Champs d'Urnes: Étude critique dans le Bassin parisien — Patrice Brun (1986)Separates burial evidence from population labels.
Locator: Mortuary chapters and critique of the Urnfield construct - informs · contextualizes
The Bronze Age in France — Claude Mordant (2013)Provides wider regional context.
Locator: Late Bronze Age mortuary synthesis
Research description
The practice varies in rite, grave form, chronology and social context. Its spread cannot by itself demonstrate migration, ethnicity, language, or membership in a single Urnfield people.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Analytical label, not an ethnicity
A modern archaeological grouping that must not be equated with a named people.
Why does this record have this property?
Independent evidence is required for mobility, language or identity.
- La civilisation des Champs d'Urnes: Étude critique dans le Bassin parisien
critiques interpretation · Mortuary critique
Evidence and sources
- supports · provides archaeological observation
La civilisation des Champs d'Urnes: Étude critique dans le Bassin parisien — Patrice Brun (1986)Separates burial evidence from population labels.
Locator: Mortuary chapters and critique of the Urnfield construct - supports · contextualizes
The Bronze Age in France — Claude Mordant (2013)Provides wider regional context.
Locator: Late Bronze Age mortuary synthesis