Bronze Age Population Replacement by Iron Age Peoples. Hillforts likely built during Bronze Age by people practicing excarnation These original builders were replaced by incoming Iron Age peoples Incoming peoples included Illyrian tribes with inhumation rituals and others with cremation practices
Here's a striking possibility: Bronze Age peoples who built these hillforts and practiced excarnation may have been replaced entirely by Iron Age groups. The Illyrians and other cultures who followed practiced different burial rituals.
Key Facts
- Hillforts likely built during Bronze Age by people practicing excarnation
- These original builders were replaced by incoming Iron Age peoples
- Incoming peoples included Illyrian tribes with inhumation rituals and others with cremation practices
- Original cyclopean wall builders did not survive despite building defensive walls
- Balkans has been patchwork of different peoples from Bronze Age to present
- Cyclopean builders across Europe were replaced and left only excarnated bones as trace
Source: Millennia of Population Replacement - Spotting Cyclopean Walls - Balkans by One-eyed giant building walls