Radiocarbon dates and absolute chronology of the central European Early Bronze Age

Forenbaher, Stašo

doi:10.1017/s0003598x00045336

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“…This timespan correlates well with those established by Forenbaher (1993) and for the whole life of the culture (800 and 710 yr, respectively), since at Balatonıszöd the formative-early phase IA and the late classical phase IV were not attested. Thus, we witness here an extremely long, continuous, autochthonous development.…”

Section: Datingsupporting

confidence: 85%

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New Radiocarbon Dates for the Baden Culture

Horvath¹,

Svingor

Molnár

2008

Radiocarbon

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ABSTRACT. In -2002, a settlement of the Baden culture was excavated in the vicinity of Balatonıszöd. During the rescue excavation along the M7 highway, in an area of 100,000 m 2 , 2800 pits dug into the subsoil, 320 hearths, and cultural layers rich in material were discovered. The material of the Baden culture represents phases IB-IC (Boleraz), IIA (Transitional), IIB-III (Early Classical) according to N¢ emejcová-Pavúková's (1981, 1998) typological system. We took 20 samples from the large number of human and animal skeletons for radiocarbon dating, of which 16 measurements were successful. These results provide absolute dates for a Baden culture settlement with the longest occupation and the largest excavated surface in Hungary. This provides an opportunity to review the chronological position of the Baden culture, with special emphasis on its beginning and end.

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Section: Datingsupporting

confidence: 85%

“…After evaluating all the available 14 C dates for the period, Forenbaher (1993: Figure 4 on p 246) estimated the duration of the Baden culture at ~800 yr, placing it between 3600 and 2800 cal BC.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

New Radiocarbon Dates for the Baden Culture

Horvath¹,

Svingor

Molnár

2008

Radiocarbon

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“…These recalibrated 14 C dates do not show as much overlap between the Late Neolithic, Early Copper Age, and Middle Copper Age as the earlier chronologies (Forenbaher 1993;Hertelendi et al 1995;Gläser 1996), but there is significant continuity in material culture and social organization between the Late Neolithic, Early Copper Age, and Middle Copper Age on the plain. Based on these results, we suggest that the transition to the Early Copper Age took several centuries and began ~4550 cal BC at the end of the Late Neolithic period.…”

Section: Regional Short-term Patterns: the Transition To The Copper Amentioning

confidence: 76%

A Multiscalar Approach to Modeling the End of the Neolithic on the Great Hungarian Plain Using Calibrated Radiocarbon Dates

Yerkes

Gyucha²,

Parkinson

2009

Radiocarbon

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ABSTRACT. This article presents the results of a multiscalar analysis of 168 radiocarbon dates from Neolithic and Copper Age sites on the Great Hungarian Plain. We examined chronological patterns at different geographic scales to explore socioeconomic changes that occurred during the transition from the Neolithic to the Copper Age. The beginning and end of the Late Neolithic (5000-4500 cal BC) and Early Copper Age (4500-4000 cal BC) were modeled with 14 C dates calibrated with the CALIB 5.01 program and IntCal04 calibration curve. Our attempts to identify chronological subphases within these 500-yrlong periods were confounded by multiple intercepts in the calibration curve. The analysis indicated that terminal Late Neolithic (4700-4300 cal BC) and "transitional" Proto-Tiszapolgár occupations (4600-4250 cal BC) at tell sites were contemporary with initial Early Copper Age habitations (4450-4250 cal BC). Calibrated dates from small Early Copper Age settlements at Vésztı-Bikeri and Körösladány-Bikeri document changes in community and household organization that took place over several decades during the transition to the Copper Age. Bayesian analysis indicated that the small fortified sites were occupied contiguously in phases of 30-50 yr. The younger Körösladány-Bikeri site was established before the older Vésztı-Bikeri site was abandoned. When large nucleated Late Neolithic communities dispersed and established small Early Copper Age settlements, the pattern of vertical accretion that had created the Late Neolithic tells gave way to a pattern of horizontal settlement accretion at the smaller settlements.

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“…The aim of the dating study was to obtain radiocarbon determinations from two of the three main phases of occupation (the last phase did not produce samples) to provide an absolute date for the development of copper production in the region, and to establish a foundation for the dating of Early Bronze Age domestic pottery assemblages. With the exception of some recent dendrochronological work, there remain few absolute dates for the early Bronze Age in Central Europe (see Forenbaher 1993), and the dating of settlements is particularly problematic because they not only lack the metalwork that is needed to establish typological chronologies, but also because the indistinct form o f the domestic pottery does not allow fine chronological division. Given the early Bronze Age in Central Europe may have lasted 700-800 years (c. 2300-1600l1500 cal BC) radiocarbon dating was essential.…”

Section: Bromjield Shropsliirementioning

confidence: 99%