The volume contains 2 forewords and 17 papers including first results of the UEFISCDI project “Funeral culture and burial rites of the Late Hallstatt Period at the Lower Danube” conducted by Emilian Teleaga at the Archaeological Institute of the Romanian Academy, which were presented, together with related research, at an international conference for the 90th anniversary of the Prehistoric Institute at Philipps University Marburg from 30th Nov. to 2nd Dec. 2017. The contributions deal with the excavation method and reconstruction of Scythian kurgans and chamber tombs, historiographical problems with 7th- to 5th-century archaeological finds, the Hallstatt palaeo-environment of the E-Romanian Subcarpathians, surveys on the Dumbravă Plateau, the Late Hallstatt necropolis at Bârseşti, its tumuli excavated by S. Morintz and faunal remains, female burials of the “Scythian period” with weapons, funeral rites and anthropology at Teliţa, Greek graves in the western Pontic region, the cemetery at Valea Stânii, Early Iron Age burial customs in South-Western Transylvania and Northern Serbia, the tumuli “Royal Chairs” at Atenica, and funeral customs of the Alföld Group or Vekerzug Culture, respectively.weiterlesen