Papers from the session 'Tumuli Graves - Status Symbol of the Dead in Bronze and Iron Ages in Europe' held at the XVI IUPPS World Congress (Florianopolis, 4-10 September 2011). Contents: 1) Tumuli Graves - Status symbol of the dead in Bronze and Iron Ages in Europe (Valeriu Sirbu, Cristian Schuster); 2) Rituals and death cults in recent prehistory in Central Portugal (Alto Ribatejo) (Alexandra Figueiredo); 3) The cave of Sa Omu and Tziu Giovanni Murgia, Funtana Arrubia, Nurallao (south-central Sardinia - Italy): First conclusions (Alexandra Figueiredo et al); 4) The Yamnaya burials from Sultana, in the context of the similar finds on the territory of Romania (Done Serbanescu, Alexandra Comsa); 5) Early Bronze Age burial mounds in South Romania (Cristian Schuster); 6) In Search for Prestige: Bronze Age Tumular Graves in West Serbia (Marija Ljustina, Katarina Dmitrovic); 7) Criteria for a social status typology in prehistory (Open model for discussion) (Lolita Nikolova); 8) 'Armed' Females of Iron Age Trans-Uralian Forest-Steppe: Social Reality or Status Identity? (Natalia Berseneva); 9) Funerary Monuments of the Scythian Amazons (Social Aspect) (Elena Fialko); 10) Between Etruscan, Greeks and Celts: change in the good graves of the Ligurian Iron Age necropolis (Davide Delfino); 11) 5th-4th c. BC Thracian Orphic Tumular Burials in Sliven Region (Southeastern Bulgaria) (Diana Dimitrova); Agighiol and Peretu - Graves at Getae Basilei (350-300 BC) at Lower Danube (Valeriu Sirbu).