Attila Kreiter

Bronze Age Ceramic Economy: The Benta Valley, Hungary

AbstractWe describe the Bronze Age ceramic economy of the Benta Valley in Hungary. In the Bronze Age, long-distance trade in metals, metal objects, and other specialty items became central to expansive prestige goods exchange through Europe. Was that exchange in wealth, however, linked to broader developments of an integrated market system? The beginnings of market systems in prehistory are poorly understood. We suggest a means to investigate marketing by studying the changing ceramic economy of a region, rather than at a single site. Analysis of the ceramic inventory collected as part of the Benta Valley Project strongly suggests that, although ceramic production was quite sophisticated and probably specialized, exchange was highly localized (mostly within 10 km) and conducted through personalized community networks. Our ceramic study used three progressively finer-scaled analyses: inventorying ceramic forms and decoration to evaluate consumption patterns, petrographic analysis to describe manufacturing ...

Lengyeli eredetű hatások az Alföld kései neolitikumában. Pusztataskony-Ledence 1. feltárásának első eredményei. Appendix: Kerámiák petrográfiai vizsgálata Pusztataskony-Ledence 1. lelőhely, a tiszai kultúra települése és sírja anyagából@@@Influences of Lengyel origin in the Late Neolithic of the Great Hungarian Plain. First results from the excavations at Pusztataskony-Ledence 1. Appendix: Petrographic analysis of ceramics from a grave and the settlement of the Tisza culture at Pusztataskony-Ledence 1

An uncommon vessel was found in one of the graves on a settlement of the Tisza culture at Pusztataskony-Ledence 1, near Kiskore-Gat. The present study traces the cultural and chronological connections of the find, and attempts, by a comparative analysis of distinct elements of the site’s burial rite, to determine the character of the cultural effects expressed through them. A petrographic analysis of ceramic samples collected from the material of grave 1-718 and the settlement, written by A. Kreiter and O. Viktorik, is completing the article. | A tiszai kultura teruletenek eszaki reszen, Kiskore-Gat kozeleben fekvő lelőhelyen feltart sirok egyike kulonleges edenyt rejtett. A tanulmany kiserletet tesz a lelet kulturalis es kronologiai kapcsolatainak felterkepezesere, valamint a lelőhely temetkezeseiben megfigyelhető rituselemek szabalyossagainak osszehasonlito elemzese reven megprobalja behatarolni az ezeken keresztul megjelenő hatasok jelleget. A tanulmanyt a lelőhely anyagabol szarmazo mintak Kreiter Attila es Viktorik Orsolya altal keszitett keramiacsiszolat-elemzese egesziti ki.

Scythian Age settlement near Nagytarcsa

This paper deals with the archaeological material of a Scythian Age settlement excavated near Nagytarcsa in 2007. Located on the higher terrace of a stream, the site represents a characteristic lowland, hamlet-like settlement of the Vekerzug culture, where animal husbandry played an important role in subsistence. Based on diagnostic ceramic finds and radiocarbon dating the settlement can be assigned to the Ha D2 period. The archaeological description, as well as the evaluation of settlement features and finds, is supplemented with a detailed petrographic analysis with an emphasis on wheel-thrown and Hallstatt type ceramics. The petrographic and geochemical analysis of the sherds and sediments collected on the site aim to confirm archaeological interpretations in order to determine the provenance of the ceramics and to assess whether their technological characteristics suggest specialization in production.