Catalogue of metal urns discovered in Europe (14th - 2nd centuries BC)

This dataset provides a list of archaeological sites that have provided metal cinerary urns. These occurrences were used for the doctoral thesis defended in December 2020, entitled "L'usage des textiles dans les pratiques funéraires : le cas des incinérations en urns métallique en Europe au Ier millénaire av. J.-C." (The use of textiles in funerary practices: the case of cremation in metal urns inEurope in the 1st millennium BC) (Paris, Sorbonne University). It represents a current state of art and needs to be supplemented and expanded by future work and research.

This dataset also constitutes the basis of the following two articles:- Desplanques E. (2022). Protohistoric metal-urn cremation burials (1400–100 BC): a pan-European phenomenon. Antiquity 96(389):1162-1178. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2022.109- Desplanques E. (2022). Les textiles dans les tombes gauloises à dépôt de crémation en vase métallique : usages pratiques, mises en scène et perspectives anthropologiques (seconde moitié du VIe s.-V e s. av. J.-C.). Gallia, 79(2):1-25. https://doi.org/10.4000/gallia.6684