Early Bronze Age headdress. Markers of the social status in the Bell Beaker–Csepel Group

Ten out of the uncovered 155 burials of the Early Bronze Age Bell Beaker–Csepel Group at Szigetszentmiklós-Üdülősor had circular ditches. The largest circular ditch of the cemetery enclosed a grave with scattered ashes and two symbolic graves. The central burial of a man contained “prestige goods”: silver/electron plate ornaments. According to our hypothetical reconstruction, it was a headdress worn as a diadem fixed on some organic material. The special symbolic phenomena and the complexity of the grave goods indicate the social status of the buried individual.