scholarly journals Bronze age settlement and necropolis of Trnjane, near Bor - revision and new research results

Starinar ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 51-84
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Kapuran ◽  
Mario Gavranovic ◽  
Mathias Mehofer
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Copper Ore ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Settlement Area ◽  
Middle Bronze Age ◽  
New Research ◽  
Cultural Connections ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

In archaeological literature, the site of Trnjane, near Bor in eastern Serbia is known as an urn necropolis, with 43 discovered urn graves. The excavations in Trnjane took place between 1985 and 1987-1989, and continued in 1998. The investigations also included an excavation of a nearby settlement, but the results of this research were never published. In most of the previous studies, Trnjane was assigned to the Middle and Late Bronze Age, while the necropolis was often connected with the spread of the Urnfield Phenomena from Central Europe toward the Balkans. New investigations started in 2017 as cooperation between the Archaeological Institute in Belgrade and the Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology (OREA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences shed new light on the chronology and cultural assignment of Trnjane and other similar surrounding sites in the region of eastern Serbia. The excavation of the settlement area in 2017 and 2018 yielded numerous finds indicating metallurgical activities connected with copper ore smelting (slag and ores), while pottery finds showed a typological resemblance with an Early and Middle Bronze Age repertoire. The radiocarbon dates from the settlement area and from urn graves of the neighbouring necropolis also point to a much earlier time than previously assumed. The new chronological determination of Trnjane raises a set of new questions, especially regarding the cultural connections between central Europe and the Balkans and transfers of copper ore smelting technology in the Bronze Age.

scholarly journals Višeslojni tumul u Novom Selu kod Bijeljine

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-74
Author(s):  
Mario Gavranović ◽  
Lukas Waltenberger ◽  
Jelena Bulatović ◽  
Irene Petschko ◽  
Cornelius Meyer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Copper Age ◽  
Cultural Affiliation ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Middle Bronze Age ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The City ◽  
Burial Grounds

The first step of the investigations in Novo Selo near Bijeljina (Republic of Srpska), in the northeastern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina known as Semberija, took place between 2016 and 2019 in the frame of the project “Visualizing the Unknown Balkans,” initiated by the Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology (now Austrian Archaeological Institute) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the Museum of Semberija in Bijeljina. The slightly elevated mounds in Novo Selo and Muharine at the eastern outskirts of the city of Bijeljina remained unregistered in archaeological literature despite their exposed position. Following the results of magnetic prospecting in 2016 that indicated the existence of ditches and a variety of structures, the first excavation was carried out in late 2018 at the mound in Novo Selo. At that point, neither a chronology nor an interpretation of the large earth mounds could be put forward, since there were no comparable investigated structures in the surroundings or surface finds suggesting an approximate age. The excavations in Novo Selo revealed highly remarkable structures and the use of the place as burial grounds in the Late Copper Age (3200–2600 BC), the earliest stage of the Middle Bronze Age (1750–1650 BC), and finally in the late Middle Ages (1000–1300 AD). In terms of cultural affiliation, the Copper Age finds (pottery) and urn cremation burials correspond with the repertoire of the late Baden complex and the Kostolac culture, while the Middle Bronze Age inhumation burial shows similarities with the graves in the lower Drina valley. The discoveries made in Novo Selo exemplify the complexity of burial mounds and their importance for prehistoric communities, especially in an open landscape like Semberija, with multifarious influences from the Balkans, the Carpathian Basin, and the Danube area

scholarly journals Large tare vessels of the bronze age Turganic settlement in Orenburg Region

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 91-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalya Petrovna Salugina ◽  
Nina Leonidovna Morgunova ◽  
Mihail Aleksandrovich Turetskii
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Burial Mound ◽  
North Caucasus ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Orenburg Region ◽  
The North ◽  
Type Selection ◽  
Large Size ◽  
Culture Formation ◽  
Middle Bronze Age

In the ceramic collection of Turganic settlement in the Orenburg region there is a group of bronze age pottery, which by its morphological and technological indicators stands out sharply from the main group of dishes. They are large size vessels with massive aureoles and distended body. The authors called these vessels hums. The aim of this study is to identify cultural-chronological position of the specified group of dishes in the system of the antiquities of the early - middle bronze age. Within this group the authors distinguish two types. The basis for type selection was the particular design of the upper part of the vessel. The first type is ceramics from Turganic settlement and the vessel from the burial mound Perevolotsky I. Morphological and technological features, and a series of radiocarbon dates has allowed to date these vessels to the time of the yamnaya culture formation in the Volga-Ural region (Repinsky stage). The authors suggest that the appearance of such vessels should be an imitation of the Maikop pottery. It could be penetration of small groups of craftsmen or the intensification of contacts with the population of the North Caucasus. The second type of pottery from Turganic settlement is similar to the burial mound Kardailovsky I (mound 1, burial 3) in Orenburg region, in the Northern pre-Caspian, region of the Samara river, Kuban and the Dnieper. Researchers have noted the scarcity and originality of this dish. The chronological and cultural position of such vessels is determined within the III Millennium BC (calibrated values).

scholarly journals Excavation of a Bronze Age funerary site at Loth Road, Sanday, Orkney

2007 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Sharman ◽  
Ann Clarke ◽  
Ann MacSween ◽  
Julie Roberts ◽  
Diane Alldritt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Human Bone ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Middle Bronze Age

Excavations in 1991 beside Loth Road, Sanday, revealed a funerary site, including two cists, which contained cremated human bone, and several pits. The cremation burial in one of the cists was contained in a soapstone vessel. These features presented evidence for the sorting, selection and differential deposition of pyre remains. The cists and pits were surmounted by a kerbed cairn of unusual construction. Radiocarbon dates from the pits placed the site in the Early to Middle Bronze Age.

scholarly journals Two Unusual Graves of the Late Medieval Period from the Bakhchisaray District of the Republic of Crimea

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
С.В. Сиротин ◽  
Д.С. Богачук ◽  
А.А. Волошинов ◽  
А.А. Тарасова ◽  
Х.Х. Мустафин ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Late Medieval Period ◽  
Anthropological Study ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Made In

В статье представлены результаты исследования двух уникальных коллективных захоронений, найденных при проведении охранно спасательных работ в Бахчисарайском районе Республики Крым в 2017 г. 2 м Бахчисарайским отрядом Крымской новостроечной экспедиции Института археологии РАН. Коллективные захоронения обезглавленных людей были совершены в южной поле кургана эпохи бронзы. Приводятся данные антропологического исследования, генетического анализа, а также результаты радиоуглеродного датирования. Датируются захоронения, по данным радиоуглеродного анализа, XIV XV вв. The paper reports on the studies of two unique collective graves found by the 2nd Bakhchisaray team of the Crimea expedition of the Institute of Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences, during the rescue and salvage excavations in the Bakhchisaray district of the Republic of Crimea in 2007. Collective graves of beheaded people were made in the southern skirt of a Bronze Age kurgan. The paper contains data of an anthropological study, genetic analysis as well as radiocarbon dating. The radiocarbon dates put the graves around the 14th 15th centuries.

New Radiocarbon Dates from Tel Kabri Support a High Middle Bronze Age Chronology

Radiocarbon ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 599-613 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Höflmayer ◽  
Assaf Yasur-Landau ◽  
Eric H Cline ◽  
Michael W Dee ◽  
Brita Lorentzen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Phase Iii ◽  
Final Phase ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Middle Bronze Age

AbstractThis article presents new radiocarbon evidence from the Middle Bronze Age palatial site of Tel Kabri (Israel). The final phase of the palace (Phase III) can be dated to Middle Bronze Age II, with an end date around the transition from Middle Bronze II to III or very early in Middle Bronze III. According to our14C data, the end of Tel Kabri Phase III (and thus the transition from Middle Bronze II to III) can be dated to ~1700 BC. This date is about 50–100 yr earlier than traditional chronological models for the Middle Bronze Age propose (~1650 BC according to the traditional chronology or ~1600 BC according to the low chronology).14C data from Tel Kabri thus add additional evidence for a higher Middle Bronze Age chronology for the Levant, consistent with recent14C evidence from Tell el-Dabca (Egypt), Tel Ifshar (Israel), and Tell el-Burak (Lebanon).

Geoarchaeological evidence for dredging in Tyre's ancient harbour, Levant

2006 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 164-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Marriner ◽  
Christophe Morhange
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Persian Period ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Base Level ◽  
Data Support ◽  
Middle Bronze Age ◽  
Natural Base

AbstractChrono-stratigraphic data from Tyre's ancient northern harbour delineate extensive dredging practices during the Greco-Roman and Byzantine periods. Radiocarbon dates from four cores consistently cluster between ca. 500 B.C. and 1000 A.D. and indicate rapid rates of sedimentation in the basin, namely ∼10 mm/yr during the Greco-Roman and Byzantine periods, compared to 0.5–1 mm/yr for the period 6000–4000 B.C. Absence of strata between 4000 B.C. and 500 B.C. is not consistent with a natural base-level sediment sink and cannot be interpreted as a depositional hiatus in the high-stand systems tract. Ancient dredging is further corroborated by persistent age-depth inversions within the fine-grained harbour facies. These data support removal of Middle Bronze Age to Persian period sediment strata, with deliberate overdeepening of the harbour bottom by Greco-Roman and Byzantine societies.

Isotopic evidence of millet consumption in the Middle Bronze Age of East-Central Europe

2021 ◽  
Vol 126 ◽  
pp. 105292
Author(s):  
Łukasz Pospieszny ◽  
Przemysław Makarowicz ◽  
Jamie Lewis ◽  
Jacek Górski ◽  
Halina Taras ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Isotopic Evidence ◽  
Middle Bronze Age

scholarly journals The Region of Caucasus and Central European-Carpathian Territory in the Final Eneolithic and the Bronze Age (a Contribution to the Transfer of Technologies and Knowledge)

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 531-548
Author(s):  
Jozef Bátora ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
North Caucasus ◽  
The North ◽  
Eurasian Steppe ◽  
Steppe Region ◽  
Middle Bronze Age ◽  
Danube Region ◽  
The Bronze Age

This article shows that the cultures in the Middle Danube/Carpathian territory were not just peripheral cultures of the developed Aegean-West Asian cultures, but also the western periphery of the Eurasian steppe region. From this aspect, the cultural-historical development in this area was influenced and associated with the cultural-historical development in the Caucasian and Northern Pontic regions as well. This is confirmed by several artifacts of the Caucasian character in the territory of Central Europe. First of all, we can mention single-edged copper axes, whose oldest exemplars in Europe come from the North Caucasus (the Maykop and Novosvobodnaya cultures). With the arrival of the Yamnaya culture, technology of their production emerged in the Northern Balkans and Central Europe along the Danube, through the Northern Pontic region. Their oldest exemplars in this territory are the Baniabic type axes. There are also weapons or tools; and jewellery which is represented by earrings of the so-called of Transylvania type associated mainly with the Únětice, Košťany and Otomani cultures in the Carpathian-middle Danube region. Their prototypes can be found in the North Pontic region — Yamnaya culture. The remaining cultural contacts between Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Bronze Age are confirmed by the dagger of the Srubnaya type from Sklabiňa in Central Slovakia. The existence of contacts between the Caucasian region and the territory of Central Europe as late as the final Bronze Age is proved by the finds of Cimmerian character. As a pars pro toto example, a dagger of the Kabardino-Pyatigorsk type from Malý Cetín in southwest Slovakia can be mentioned.

Excavation of Four Barrows, and a Middle Bronze Age Cremation Cemetery, at Heatherstone Grange, Bransgore, Hampshire

2018 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-89
Author(s):  
Richard Massey ◽  
Elaine L. Morris
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
South West ◽  
Middle Bronze Age

Excavation at Heatherstone Grange, Bransgore, Hampshire, investigated features identified in a previous evaluation. Area A included ring ditches representing two barrows. Barrow 1.1 held 40 secondary pits, including 34 cremation-related deposits of Middle Bronze Age date, and Barrow 1.2 had five inserted pits, including three cremation graves, one of which dated to the earlier Bronze Age, and was found with an accessory cup. A number of pits, not all associated with cremation burials, contained well-preserved urns of the regional Deverel-Rimbury tradition and occasional sherds from similar vessels, which produced a closely-clustered range of eight radiocarbon dates centred around 1300 BC. Of ten pits in Area C, three were cremation graves, of which one was radiocarbon-dated to the Early Bronze Age and associated with a collared urn, while four contained only pyre debris. Barrow 1.3, in Area E, to the south, enclosed five pits, including one associated with a beaker vessel, and was surrounded by a timber circle. Area F, further to the south-west, included two pits of domestic character with charcoal-rich fills and the remains of pottery vessels, together with the probable remains of a ditched enclosure and two sets of paired postholes. Area H, located to the north-west of Area E, partly revealed a ring ditch (Barrow 1.4), which enclosed two pits with charcoal-rich fills, one with a single Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age potsherd, and the other burnt and worked flint. A further undated pit was situated to the east of Barrow 1.4. The cremation cemetery inserted into Barrow 1.1 represents a substantial addition to the regional record of Middle Bronze Age cremation burials, and demonstrates important affinities with the contemporary cemeteries of the Stour Valley to the west, and sites on Cranborne Chase, to the north-west.

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