SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ASPECTS OF THE BURIAL "KRAJČINOVIĆI-SLANA

Key-words: necropolis, celtic, helenistic and domestic material Abstract. The necropolis of Krajčinovići – Slana voda, with the twenty five half burned skelets of men and women, contents material, pottery, jewlery, weapons and bronze dishes of helenistic, celtic and domestic provenience. It is dated in the middle of the II century BC and in the cultural meaning is relevant with the transpassing from the second into the third phase of the celtic influence in Bosnia and Herzegowina by Marić. The circular position of the skelets with the legs to the center of necropolis and heads to the edge of it, without individual tombs and with regular order of archaeological material behinde them, tell about the changing of old, traditional way of burial in the unregular life condition, the war condition. In the year of 1971 was found and researched the necropolis in the village Krajčinovići near the town Priboj in the western part of Serbia (fig. 1). The necropolis was on the locality "Slana voda " ("Salty water"), and until now this necropolis stays in the science as a find of "Krajčinovići- Slana voda". It was published partly (Zotović 1985), and was partly mentioned and descased in some articals (Parović-Pešikan 1988; Zotović 1987), but the presentation of the full importance of this necropolis, the social-economic positions on the way of touch and influence of the ilirian, celtic and helenistic world in the time before roman conquest, unfortunately was never done