Site Hierarchy and Ceramic Display: Regional Variation in Bronze Age Ceramic Assemblages in the Eastern Carpathian Basin

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Tell settlements have played a key role in the study of Middle Bronze Age (2000–1500 BC) societies in the Carpathian Basin since the end of the nineteenth century. Researchers primarily use data from these sites and cemeteries in discussions over relative and absolute chronologies, questions of variability in material culture, the extent of interaction networks or the interpretation of social structures. Little attention has been given so far to non-tell settlements and other shorter-lived sites of the same period, which significantly hinders our ability in the interpretation of these societies. This presentation focuses on Gyula 113, a Middle Bronze Age open settlement in the Körös Region in Eastern Hungary and compares its ceramic assemblage to tell settlements in the broader region. I combine ceramic stylistic analysis with spatial information to assess different decorative techniques and stylistic motifs in tell vs non-tell sites to help identify potential asymmetrical relationship between settlement types.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37358.0