Archaeologists in the Carpathian Basin are increasingly focused on social variability across the Bronze Age landscape. However, when it comes to mortuary variability, the difference in body treatments (cremation and inhumation) between populations impairs our ability to carry out regional comparisons and appreciate the range of community social organizations. In this paper, we compare mortuary assemblages from three Bronze Age culture areas on the Great Hungarian Plain. In our coarse quantitative framework, we characterize the intensity of funerary distinction as a proxy for complexity and identify structural variation across mortuary programs. We identify both horizontal and vertical differences in funerary assemblages and note horizontal differences that do not necessarily materialize vertically. The results also show that societies can represent varying values across the different measures, underlying the necessity of working with analytical frameworks which approach the question of complexity in a non-linear manner. We believe that the method offered here can be a useful addition to the toolkit of mortuary archaeologists who work in areas and/or time periods with various body treatment practices.

喀尔巴阡盆地的考古学家越来越关注青铜时代景观的社会变异性。然而，当谈到太平间变异性时，不同人群在身体处理（火葬和土葬）方面的差异削弱了我们进行区域比较和了解社区范围的能力社会组织。在本文中，我们比较了匈牙利大平原三个青铜时代文化区的太平间组合。在我们粗略的定量框架中，我们将葬礼区别的强度描述为复杂性的代表，并确定太平间项目的结构差异。我们识别葬礼组合中的水平和垂直差异，并注意到不一定在垂直方向上实现的水平差异。结果还表明，社会可以通过不同的措施代表不同的价值观，这表明有必要使用以非线性方式处理复杂性问题的分析框架。