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.
Bronze Age Population Replacement by Iron Age Peoples
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
Sources
The Great Iron Age Hill Fort Hoax - Prehistoric Britainprehistoric-britain.co.uk
Celtic hill forts came into their own during the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age, aligning roughly with the inception of the first millennium ...
The development of the hillfort in prehistoric Ireland WILLIAM O'BRIENjstor.org
This paper presents the results of a recent investigation of hillfort chronology in Ireland. The first examples were built c.1400–1200 BC during ...
Letter From Wales - Hillforts of the Iron Age - Archaeology Magazinearchaeology.org
Archaeologists are currently excavating at hillforts in the Clwydian Range to understand both their construction and the conditions that convinced people to ...
Dig reveals Iron Age home of people who built and used iconic ...digventures.com
The impressive settlement is the likely home of people who built and used one of the most iconic prehistoric monuments in Oxfordshire.
Archaeologists make new discoveries at Bodbury Ring hillfortheritagedaily.com
The study has revealed that Bodbury Ring is six times larger than previously thought and is part of a much larger hillfort which enclosed the ...
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