SOCIAL STRATIFICATION OF THE PREHISTORIC PERIOD IN BALI (2017)

Social stratification might have already existed in the Balinese community during prehistoric period. This phenomena were represented in burial systems. The burial systems can be divided into two categories namely burials with container and the other without container. The containers that were used in the burial system consist of jars, sacophagus, and bronze drums. The burial witout container was directly buried in the ground.

            Burial gifts comprise of metal artifacts, potteries, beads of glass, carnelian, and gold. These artifacts might have been imported from India, China, and other overseas countries. On the basis of burial systems, threatments of the deads and burial goods are assumed that social stratifications were already existed in the prehistoric period of the Balinese society.