TY - JOUR AU - Lie, Marian Adrian AU - Găvan, Alexandra AU - Kienlin, Tobias L. AU - Röpke, Astrid AU - Zickel, Mirijam AU - Zerl, Tanja TI - Exploring the chronostratigraphy of a Bronze Age settlement through core drilling JF - PRAEHISTORISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT J2 - PRAEHIST Z VL - 0 PY - 2024 IS - 0 SN - 0079-4848 DO - 10.1515/pz-2023-2026 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34687374 ID - 34687374 AB - Core drilling has been used successfully in archaeology for a variety of applications, including mapping stratigraphy across large areas, estimating feature depth and content, understanding site formation processes, as well as complementing information obtained through surface collection and geophysical survey. In this paper, we provide an overview of the first core drilling campaign carried out in 2021 on the outer settlement of the Bronze Age tell from Toboliu in western Romania. The overall aim of this coring program was to gather information regarding the nature of various features within the settlement, with a focus on the anomalies visible in the geomagnetic site plan. Based on 165 drilled cores, a reconstruction of the site’s stratigraphy is presented in this paper. This reconstruction was controlled and confirmed by excavations in one of the coring transects where the stratigraphic interpretation of the cores could be linked with the excavated stratigraphy. Additionally, samples for radiocarbon dating were collected from several cores. Based on this data, we discuss preliminary insights into possible house locations and preservation issues, as well as the chronological development and occupation sequence of this complex site. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Grigoriev, Stanislav TI - Chronology of the Seima-Turbino bronzes, early Shang Dynasty and Santorini eruption JF - PRAEHISTORISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT J2 - PRAEHIST Z PY - 2023 PG - 20 SN - 0079-4848 DO - 10.1515/pz-2023-2028 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34314741 ID - 34314741 AB - Seima-Turbino bronzes spread in Eurasia at the transition to the Late Bronze Age. However, the absolute chronology of this horizon remains unclear. Radiocarbon chronology now determines their interval to have been ca. 22nd-20th centuries BC, or the first third of the 2nd millennium BC. The presence of this tradition from Europe to China makes it possible to associate them with historical chronology. The basis for this is the chronologies of the early Shang Dynasty in China, Central Europe and the Shaft Graves of Greece. The Santorini eruption presents an opportunity to compare these chronologies. As a result, the Seima-Turbino bronzes are dated to the first half of the 17th century BC, or within the 18th century BC to the first half of the 16th century BC. This suggests that as the radiocarbon method develops, its results will be close to historical chronology. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Kiosak, Dmytro AU - Kotova, Nadezhda AU - Demchenko, Olha AU - Bardeckyi, Andrii AU - Werra, Dagmara H. TI - Verifying the chronology of Ukrainian Neolithic JF - PRAEHISTORISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT J2 - PRAEHIST Z PY - 2023 PG - 18 SN - 0079-4848 DO - 10.1515/pz-2022-2058 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34310328 ID - 34310328 N1 - Cited By :2 Export Date: 16 January 2024 Correspondence Address: Werra, D.H.; Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, 105, Solidarności Avenue, Poland; email: werra@iaepan.edu.pl AB - This paper addresses the earliest Neolithic phases in Ukraine: aspects relating to the chronology, methods and time of Neolithisation. In general, the earliest Neolithisation relates to the times of the Linear Pottery culture. Nevertheless, Ukraine has numerous eco-zones so the process could have been different in other zones. The authors emphasize that the key to getting closer to solving this problem is the chronology-re-dating and validation program. Hitherto dates of one culture or period of culture have been treated against each other. This article presents a small series of AMS from well-defined contexts of four sites, previously dated by the Kyiv radiocarbon facility. The results are compared with existing dates in order to establish the validity of existing chronologies for the Neolithic of Ukraine. Obtained results allowed the authors to conclude that the Kyiv dates should not be obligatorily treated as wrong. Furthermore, the authors reopened the discussion to establish what was the role of LBK and Azov-Dnieper culture communities in spreading farming and herding in Ukraine during the second half of the VIth millennium BC. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Szeliga, Marcin AU - Mroczek, Przemyslaw AU - Dobrowolski, Radoslaw AU - Chodorowski, Jacek AU - Litynska-Zajac, Maria AU - Moskal-del Hoyo, Magdalena AU - Pidek, Irena Agnieszka AU - Makowiecki, Daniel AU - Furmanek, Miroslaw AU - Plak, Andrzej AU - Barga-Wieclawska, Jadwiga AU - Zagorski, Piotr TI - Early farming settlement of the marginal zone of loess uplands and its palaeoenvironmental context - a case study of the Ilza Piedmont (S Poland) JF - PRAEHISTORISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT J2 - PRAEHIST Z PY - 2023 PG - 34 SN - 0079-4848 DO - 10.1515/pz-2023-2002 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34302941 ID - 34302941 N1 - Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Institute of Archaeology, Pl. Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej 4, Lublin, 20-031, Poland Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Kraśnicka 2d, Lublin, 20-718, Poland Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Centre for Archaeology of Hills and Uplands, Sławkowska 17, Kraków, 31-016, Poland Polish Academy of Sciences, W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Lubicz 46, Kraków, 31-512, Poland Nicolaus Copernicus University, Institute of Archaeology, Szosa Bydgoska 44/48, Toruń, 87-100, Poland University of Wrocław, Institute of Archaeology, Szewska 48, Wrocław, 50-139, Poland Jan Kochanowski University, Institute of Biology, Uniwersytecka 7, Kielce, 25-406, Poland Export Date: 20 March 2024 Correspondence Address: Szeliga, M.; Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Pl. Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej 4, Poland; email: marcin.szeliga@mail.umcs.pl AB - The results of previous researches conducted across the upland territories of Central Europe reflect a considerably close correlation between the settlement by prehistoric agricultural societies and the ranges of the local loess covers. This correspondence - caused mainly by the high utility value of the territories in question, especially the presence of fertile soils and convenient geomorphological and hydrological conditions - is apparent even for the earliest phase of the Neolithic, and is clearly confirmed for later periods of prehistory. Until recently, this state of research concurred the interpretation that the neighbouring non-loess uplands had not been permanently settled, but only temporarily penetrated in order to exploit local resources (e.g., flint outcrops). This observation also applies to the territory being the essential subject of this paper, that is the sandy loam areas of the Ilza Piedmont, which is the direct northern forefield of the loess Sandomierz Upland. The results of interdisciplinary research conducted in this territory during the last several years allow us to considerably complete and verify the previous findings. They clearly confirm the intense and long-lasting character of the local settlement between the Early Neolithic and the Early Iron Age, as well as the typically agricultural activities of societies linked with different cultures that successively settled the discussed area during that time period. The obtained data show us the previously little known phenomenon of forming and functioning of the settlement microregions occupying uplands located outside the range of the compact loess cover, that is within ecological and landscape zones that were not preferred by prehistoric, early agricultural societies inhabiting the old upland territories of Central Europe. They also indirectly indicate the considerable flexibility and adaptability of early farmers, which made it possible for them to effectively colonise the definitely less rich territories located outside the compact area of the loess uplands since as early as the earliest phase of the Neolithic. This fact creates important possibilities for future research, allowing us to suspect that analogous settlement clusters also existed across the peripheral zones of other Central European loess uplands. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Smisek, Michal AU - Molnarova, Miriam TI - Is it 'Sus-picious'? Revisiting the Presence of the Wild Boar on the Island of Crete JF - PRAEHISTORISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT J2 - PRAEHIST Z PY - 2023 PG - 29 SN - 0079-4848 DO - 10.1515/pz-2022-2064 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34272010 ID - 34272010 AB - The presence of wild boar on the island of Crete has been discussed since the beginning of Cretan archaeology. Presumed wild individuals are depicted on various types of objects from the Minoan period. Wild pig remains have been identified on several Cretan sites ranging from the Neolithic to the Byzantine period. Despite the relatively large number of such reports, the nature of evidence from the island is often unclear or at least questionable. Available biometric data do not support the establishment of a stable wild population on the island during its history. This paper provides a detailed overview of contemporary evidence and highlights the need for systematic data collection. LA - German DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Nielsen, S.K. AU - Johannsen, N.N. TI - Mortuary palisades, single graves and cultural admixture: The establishment of Corded Ware culture on the Jutland Peninsula JF - PRAEHISTORISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT J2 - PRAEHIST Z PY - 2023 SN - 0079-4848 DO - 10.1515/pz-2023-2022 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34190327 ID - 34190327 N1 - Export Date: 11 October 2023 Correspondence Address: Nielsen, S.K.; Vesthimmerlands Museum, Søndergade 44, Denmark; email: skn@vmus.dk LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Daroczi, Tibor-Tamas AU - Csanyi, Marietta AU - Tarnoki, Judit AU - Nagy, Fanni AU - Olsen, Jesper TI - Turkeve-Terehalom in the Eastern Carpathian Basin. Bronze Age multi-stratified site provides high-precision chronology with continental implications JF - PRAEHISTORISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT J2 - PRAEHIST Z PY - 2022 PG - 55 SN - 0079-4848 DO - 10.1515/pz-2022-2024 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33415133 ID - 33415133 AB - The multi-stratified site of Turkeve-Terehalom presents an exceptional opportunity to establish the start and the end of the Middle Bronze Age in the Eastern Carpathian Basin and to refine its inner chronology. The chronological potential of the site rests on the meticulous excavation campaigns over a decade. This potential has been harvested by linking stratified finds, particularly pottery, to narrow, calibrated age-ranges. The result has implications for local chronology while also prompting questions about how to synchronise long-range connectivity with central and northern Europe and the Aegean, as well. The resulting chronological model for Turkeve-Terehalom firstly challenges prevailing chronological views regarding the life-spans of Bronze Age structures with beaten clay floors, secondly the direction of the wave of destruction and/or abandonment of multi-stratified sites in the Carpathian Basin, and thirdly the continental networking during the Middle Bronze Age. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Brozio, Jan Piet AU - Feeser, Ingo AU - Heumueller, Marion AU - Mueller, Johannes AU - Corradini, Erica AU - Kirleis, Wiebke AU - Doerfler, Walter AU - Erkul, Ercan AU - Wunderlich, Tina TI - Hunte 4: Re-validation of a Bell Beaker domestic site in the Dummer region in northwestern Germany JF - PRAEHISTORISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT J2 - PRAEHIST Z PY - 2022 PG - 38 SN - 0079-4848 DO - 10.1515/pz-2022-2020 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33354519 ID - 33354519 N1 - Funding Agency and Grant Number: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [Sonderforschungsbereich 1266, 2901391021-SFB 1266] Funding text: We are grateful to Tanja Reiser, Kiel, for washing and sorting the waterlogged macrobotanical plant remains with extraordinary diligence. Carola Floors and Svetlana Ibens assisted during field work and laboratory analyses. The analysis of the stone artefacts was carried out together with the student project assistants Sonja Kindt and Julia Dietrich. We thank Susanne Beyer and Karin Winter for drawing the findings and Carsten Reckweg for reworking the graphics. We also thank Nicole Taylor for her English proofreading. We would like to acknowledge our debt of gratitude to the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for financing the Sonderforschungsbereich 1266 "TransformationsDimensionen. (DFG project number 2901391021-SFB 1266), which provided the basis for the results presented here. AB - One of the few areas of the central North European Plain with settlement structures of the Single Grave groups (SG) as well as the Bell Beaker (BB) phenomenon is the Dummer region in northwestern Germany. This region is characterised by extensive wetlands on the southern border of the Northern Lowland and has been subject of several research projects on Mesolithic and Neolithic sites since the last century. Archaeological prospections in the 1940s led to the detection of a domestic site of the BB groups at the Hunte 4 site. In 2020, new research was carried out at this site, which, through the integration of archaeology, geophysics and palynology, identified a Late SG and BB site and reconstructed the surrounding landscape. In contrast to the Hunte 1 settlement with building structures 2.5 km to the south, which also shows SG and BB activities, the results of the investigations at Hunte 4 point to a temporary use of the site. Consequently, a settlement system can be reconstructed in the region of the Dummer for the second half of the third millennium and at the beginning of the second millennium BCE, which consisted of at least one permanent settlement and at the minimum one temporarily used sites - several more could be presumed but have to yet be localised. At the same time, the Dummer region marks the southern border of a settlement system in the central Northern European Plain which is characterised by less domestic site, less permanent settlement sites and buildings structures. This contrasts with the increasing number of known settlement sites in the surrounding regions of the central Northern European Plain and suggests a higher translocality of individuals and groups in this area. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Tarbay, János Gábor TI - The Hajdúböszörmény-Csege-halom Hoard and its Related Finds in Europe JF - PRAEHISTORISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT J2 - PRAEHIST Z VL - aop PY - 2022 SP - 1 EP - 48 PG - 48 SN - 0079-4848 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33266435 ID - 33266435 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Luczkiewicz, Piotr AU - Pospieszny, Lukasz AU - Belka, Zdzislaw AU - Lukasik, Sylwia AU - Krenz-Niedbala, Marta AU - Kuziola, Aneta AU - Kleemann, Jorg TI - Elusive Goths in northern Poland: Initial isotopic insights of the pre-Roman and Roman period populations from the Wielbark Culture cemetery in Malbork-Wielbark JF - PRAEHISTORISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT J2 - PRAEHIST Z PY - 2022 PG - 15 SN - 0079-4848 DO - 10.1515/pz-2022-2030 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33010423 ID - 33010423 AB - From 19 inhumation graves from the cemetery in Malbork-Wielbark (northern Poland) samples (teeth) were collected for the analysis of strontium (Sr-87/Sr-86) isotopes in order to try to determine the origin of the subjects. The chronological range of the analyzed statistical sample covers about 300 years of over 600 years of necropolis history, i. e. the period from the end of the early pre-Roman period (phase A3 - the last decades BC) to the C1b phase of the Roman period (more or less the first half of the 3rd century AD). The results of the analysis indicate the local origin of the studied group, and at the same time constitute an interesting contribution to the discussion on the ethnic structure of the Wielbark culture. LA - English DB - MTMT ER -