Funeral ritual in the late Bronze Age

The central theme of the exhibition is the tomb that was found in 1965 when building a house on a plot of 707/16 k. o. Kamnik. The honest finder is about finding objects that were hidden about 30-50 cm below the earth’s surface informed the Museum in Kamnik. Director and archaeologist Mirina Cvikl Zupančič, found that it was a grave that was covered with a stone slab. They were attached to it: the ash with ash and bone residues, the shingles and the bronze needle. The public was informed of this find through the media immediately (in 1965).

At the exhibition and in the catalogue accompanying it, the grave is placed in the wider European context of the culture of the glowing graveyards, which, according to the prevailing method of burial (fire burning and cremation – the ascension of the deceased) got its name. The Kamnik tomb is one of the oldest graves of this time, it falls into 13. – 12th and the first half of the 11th century BC.

In addition to the grave that we put at the foreground, we also touched upon the general characteristics of the Bronze Age, its time divisions, and other bronze-old finds from the Kamnik region were placed in the catalogue and showcases. Mostly they are random, individual finds, which nevertheless testify to the continuous settlement of Kamnik with the narrower hinterland from the early Bronze Age.

The Exhibition and the catalogue are work by Dr. Brina Škvor Jernejčič (Department of Archeology, University of Ljubljana) and Janja Železnikar (Intermunicipal Museum Kamnik). Designed by Vladimir Ristić. It was created with the financial support of the Municipality of Kamnik and the Ministry of Culture.