Modelling mortuary populations at local and regional levels

Duffy, Paul R.; Paja, László; Parditka, Györgyi; Giblin, Julia

doi:10.1016/j.jaa.2019.01.003

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“…The Békés 103 cemetery is located at the confluence of the Black (Fekete-) and White (Fehér-) Körös Rivers in an area of dense Middle Bronze Age settlement (Duffy et al . 2014). These rivers drain the Apuseni Mountains in Transylvania to the east, the home of the contemporaneous Wietenberg group (Ciugudean & Quinn 2015).…”

Section: The Békés 103 Sitementioning

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The problem with tells: lessons learned from absolute dating of Bronze Age mortuary ceramics in Hungary

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Section: The Békés 103 Sitementioning

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“…1998), although the Bronze Age cemetery was not discovered at this time (Duffy et al . 2014). In 2011, we identified burnt human bone on the ground surface; since then, we have systematically collected cremated bone from across 3.2ha of the site (Figure 1).…”

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The problem with tells: lessons learned from absolute dating of Bronze Age mortuary ceramics in Hungary

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“…The cemetery is on the northern edge of the town of Békés in Hungary, near the confluence of the Fekete and Fehér Köros Rivers ( Crișul Negru and Crișul Alb in Romanian). It was excavated between 2011 and 2019, and has 68 graves, mostly cremations, which have been published and extensively radiocarbon dated [ 68 – 71 ]. The site was in use between 2460 and 1010 BC, but the most intensive period (Phase 4) was between 1600 and 1280 BC.…”

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“…At Szőreg-C, which was in use during multiple Bronze Age phases, burials were excluded if they could not be assigned to a particular phase [see 81,82]. My analysis excludes graves in all cemeteries that are recorded as 'disturbed' or 'destroyed', and only those burials from Békés 103 with preservation recorded as 'Good' or 'Very Good' [68]. See S1 Table in S1 File for the full list of burials included.…”

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River networks and funerary metal in the Bronze Age of the Carpathian Basin

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2020

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Archaeologists use differences in metals from burial contexts to identify variation in social inequalities during the European Bronze Age. Many have argued that these social inequalities depended on access to, and control of, trade routes. In this paper, I model critical gateways in the Tisza river-a river system in the Carpathian Basin that might have enabled privileged access to metal in some areas but not others. I then evaluate the concentration of metal on different topological nodes of the river network in an attempt to understand what best explains the distribution of metals across this landscape. I do this by describing Bronze Age metal consumption and display in cemeteries from four micro-regions of the Tisza, and compare them with network 'betweenness centrality' values for locations along the river. I find support for the argument that favourably located river nodes had better access to metal in the earlier part of the Bronze Age.

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“…The counties around Hunedoara—Alba to the east and Arad to the west—have been the focus of recent research into the development of social complexity in the Bronze Age (see Nicodemus 2014; O'Shea 1996, 2011; O'Shea and Nicodemus 2019; O'Shea et al 2019; Quinn 2017). Hunedoara also encompasses the headwaters of the Körös River, known as the Criș in Romania, which has seen significant regional archaeological work (Duffy 2014, 2015; Duffy, Paja et al 2019; Duffy, Parditka et al 2019; Duffy et al 2013). Therefore, Hunedoara is an important next piece of the regional puzzle.…”

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Transforming Legacy Spatial Data into Testable Hypotheses about Socioeconomic Organization

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2019

Adv. archaeol. pract.

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As archaeologists expand the accessibility of legacy data, they have an opportunity to use these datasets to design future research. We argue that legacy data can be a critical resource to help predict characteristics of sites and socioeconomic systems. In this article, we present a combined geographic information system (GIS) and network analysis methodology that turns site location data into testable hypotheses about site characteristics and the organization of regional settlement systems. We demonstrate the utility of this approach with a case study: Bronze Age (2700–1100 BC) settlement patterns in the mining region of Hunedoara in southwest Transylvania, Romania. We leverage unsystematically collected site location information in legacy datasets to develop testable predictions about sites, regional networks, and socioeconomic systems that can be evaluated through future systematic surveys and large-scale excavations. Such testable hypotheses can inform archaeological research design by providing a quantitative basis for determining where to focus research efforts and can also help secure funding and fieldwork permits. The method developed here can be applied in diverse archaeological contexts to reinvigorate legacy data as part of future archaeological research design.

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Modelling mortuary populations at local and regional levels

Cited by 13 publications

References 36 publications

The problem with tells: lessons learned from absolute dating of Bronze Age mortuary ceramics in Hungary

The problem with tells: lessons learned from absolute dating of Bronze Age mortuary ceramics in Hungary

River networks and funerary metal in the Bronze Age of the Carpathian Basin

Transforming Legacy Spatial Data into Testable Hypotheses about Socioeconomic Organization

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