A Late Bronze Age foreign elite? Investigating mobility patterns at Seddin, Germany.

ABSTRACT: During the Late Bronze Age (ca. 11th-8th century BCE), far-reaching and extensive trade and exchange networks linked communities across Europe. The area around Seddin in north-western Brandenburg, Germany, has long been considered as at the core of one such networks. The degree of which the exchange practices involved in the circulations of goods and ideas was facilitated by people of different origins settling along the networks remains to be understood. To address this question, this study presents Sr isotope data of 29 cremated petrous bones from five neighbouring Late Bronze Age burial sites around Seddin, including the 9th century BCE Wickbold I burial mound. Modern environmental samples and archaeological soil samples were also analysed for 87Sr/86Sr to establish a bioavailable refer

SUBMITTER: Frank AB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12422465 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature