The Consequences of Cultural Encounters on Late Bronze Age Transylvania Cuisine and Subsistence Economies

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The transition to the Late Bronze Age in Transylvania around 1500 BCE coincided with the arrival of the Noua cultural group from the Eurasian Steppe. These new migrant communities arrived in a Transylvanian landscape that had been occupied by the Wietenberg cultural group for over 500 years. For nearly 150 years, communities with both the Noua and Wietenberg cultural identities lived and interacted within the same landscape. In this poster, we explore the consequences of these cultural encounters on the foodways of Transylvanian communities. Wietenberg communities relied upon a broad range of domesticated and wild resources. In contrast, Noua communities relied heavily on domesticated plant and animal resources. Drawing upon faunal, paleobotanical, and artifactual remains, we present new evidence for the exchange of food between Wietenberg and Noua communities. The processes of interaction in Late Bronze Age southwest Transylvania shed light on the socioeconomic context and consequences of migration.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• SAA 2021: General Sessions

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Abstract Id(s): 32774