Agropastoralism in Bronze Age Transylvania: An analysis of faunal assemblages from the Geoagiu and Mureş Valleys

Summary

The Bronze Age was a period of dynamic social transformations in Transylvania. Unfortunately, there have been no systematic archaeological studies of the subsistence economy that funded, and was affected by, the social transformations of emergent inequality. In this poster, I present the first analysis of faunal assemblages from Bronze Age contexts in Transylvania. The faunal assemblages, collected during the 2012-2014 surveys of the Geoagiu and Mureş Valleys, provide the first opportunity to understand the diet and ecology of the communities living in southwest Transylvania. By monitoring similarities and differences in the use of animals across space and through time, and situating these practices within the broader regional context of the Carpathians, it is possible to shed new light onto the role of agropastoral economies in the dynamic social transformations of the Transylvanian Bronze Age.

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)   •
• New Perspectives on the Romanian Bronze Age

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