140 YEARS OF RESEARCH ON THE HALLSTATT PERIOD BURIAL SITE OF FRÖG IN CARINTHIA/AUSTRIA – AND NOW SOME NEW DATA

In the 1960s, the Austrian Bundesdenkmalamt (Federal Historic Monuments Office; abbreviated BDA) carried out emergency excavations in the burial site of Frög in the southern part of Carinthia. Unfortunately, the documentation became only available for scientific processing some years ago. The focus of my doctoral thesis, published in 2020, was to process this data, to review the excavation results of the 19th century and to integrate all data. An important point was the merging and entanglement of all existing grave field plans and the standardization of the grave mound designations. Based on the excavation results of the 1960s, where barrows were to a large extent completely excavated and documented for the first time, and thanks to the linking of the obtained data with the known data on pottery of the 19th century, the local pottery could finally be better defined. Since the metal finds were presented in detail by Gerhard Tomedi in 2002 they were only included in the analysis if necessary. Since detailed plans and profile drawings of graves were produced in the 1960s for the first time, analyses on grave architecture and burial rituals are now possible. These were put into relation with those of the excavation of the 19th century. The presented results are based on comparatively few unstolen graves.