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W ere m ales bu r i ed W i t h W ea pons bet t er nou r ish ed t h a n t h e ot h er pa rt of t h e popu lat ion in t h e la t èn e per iod?pilot study of diet of selected individuals buried at Celtic cemetery in dubník, district of Nové Zámky, southwestern Slovakia 1Jozef bujna -sylva drtikolová Kaupová -mária hajnalová

The chronological sequence of the latest phases of prehistory in Central Europe is a critical question, concerning the relationship between the Hallstatt and La Téne periods, and their regional variants. My aim in this article is to draw attention to one source of chronological evidence, the pronounced Late Hallstatt pottery form which is represented by the bowl with curved neck and sharply carinateded belly, the ‘Knickwandschale’. The genesis of this form may be looked for in cups of the Middle Hallstatt period (Hallstatt C2–D1), and its final development in the Early La Téne period (La Téne A–Bl). Its long tradition and morphological development, together with its extraordinarily broad geographical distribution, make it one of the leading types for relative chronological periodization of the Late Hallstatt and Early La Téne periods as well as for the synchronization of cultural development in central Europe (FIGURE 1).