Corneşti-Iarcuri:ten years of research at the largest prehistoric site in Europe.

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Corneşti-Iarcuri

10 years of research at the largest prehistoric site in Europe

The Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, the Muzeul Naţional al Banatului Timişoara and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, have been investigating the archaeology as well as the landscape context of the Late Bronze Age settlement of Iarcuri in the Romanian Banat region with the support of the Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft for the last 10 years. The site is composed of four walled earth and timber enclosures. Its size alone makes the site unique: The total length of all four enclosures is 33km, and the area encompassed by the walls is about 17,7 km². The investigations of the last 10 years have brought to light completely new insights into the defensive structures and the organisation of settlements during the south-eastern European Late Bronze Age (ca.1500 to 1200 BC). However, each new insight throws up a whole variety of new questions, which means that the research is really only in its early stages.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)   •
• What to Do with "Megasites" in Prehistory? Further Exploring the "Megasite" Conundrum

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Abstract Id(s): 15845