Rectangular grave vessels and stamped ceramics from the roman period in the Central Balkans: A contribution to the study of prehistoric traditions during the Roman period

This paper discusses the rectangular grave vessels discovered, with cremated human remains, at several Roman period cemeteries in western Bulgaria northeast Macedonia and southeast Serbia. All the cemeteries show similar funerary rites, burial procedures and ceramics, suggesting a very conservative population whose culture was based on prehistoric traditions. In the second part of the paper, on the basis of the presented archaeological material and historic sources, the author tries to determine the ethnicity of the population who buried their dead at these sites