The earliest wheel-turned pottery in the Carpathian Basin

Bibliographic Data

ID3782006
AuthorsPeter Romsauer (Slovak Academy of Sciences, corresponding author)
Year1991
Volume65
Issue247
Pages358-367
Publication date1991-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAntiquity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0003598x00079862
OpenAlexW2466200810
LanguageEN
Citations received9

The Carpathian Basin and its chronologyThe Carpathian Basin (FIGURE 1), irrespective of its peripheral parts, was divided in the Hallstatt period into two major cultural-geographical units, with the river Danube forming the border line. Significant changes occurred in the whole region at the beginning of the 6th century BC. The development of local groups, reaching a climax about the turn of the 7th and 6th centuries BC, was interrupted. In the broader East Alpine region this break is documented by the desertion of the majority of fortified and open settlements, and is marked by the end of burials under barrows and in flat cemeteries (Romsauer in press; Teržan 1990: 120-21). Approximately in the same period objects of Scythian origin come into use in the Great Hungarian Plain, and the Vekerzug group formed with its specific manifestations in material culture, settlement pattern and burial rite. Its traces are distributed practically all over the Plain and reach southwestern Slovakia. The earliest finds are dated to the mid 6th century BC - about 560 BC (Párducz 1974: 330; Dusek 1974: 405). The independent development of the Vekerzug group was terminated by historical Celtic expansion at the beginning of the La Tène B2 phase, dated, in general, to the mid 4th century BC (Bujna 1982: 377f., 397f.). During its 200 years of existence, the Vekerzug group acted as an important cultural link between the regions within the reach of the expanding Classical world

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Celtic languages · Chronology · Climax · Geography · Human settlement · Pannonian basin · Period (music) · Pottery · Structural basin · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Geology · History · Mineralogy and Gemology Studies · Paleontology

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