Titre du document / Document title

Újabb adatok a Nyugat-Dunántúl öskorának kereskedelmi és kulturális útvonalaihoz = Data to the Trade and Cultural Routes of Prehistoric Western TransdanubiaDonnées sur les routes commerciales et culturelles de la Transdanubie occidentale aux époques préhistoriques

Auteur(s) / Author(s)

BANFFY Eszter ⁽¹⁾ ;

Affiliation(s) du ou des auteurs / Author(s) Affiliation(s)

⁽¹⁾ MTA Régészeti Intézet, Budapest, HONGRIE

Résumé / Abstract

It is a wellknown fact, based on numerous older and more recent publications that the so-called Amber Route, connecting the Adriatic with the Baltic Region in the Roman period, had its prehistoric precedents in the Iron Age as well as in later periods of the Bronze Age. Recently, on the basis of new microregional research projects in the Hahót and the Kerka valley, County Zala, SW-Hungary, traces of the existence of chalcolithic and also neolithic trade and most probably also cultural routes could be reconstructed. The excavations at Zalaszentbalázs showed clearly that the chalcolithic changes reached Western Transdanubia in the final Lengyel phase and not later as it has been assumed. The late Lengyel finds show strong final Vinča influences from the Mid-Balkans, some new pottery types and techniques appear here which occur exclusively in westernmost Lengyel settlements and the Moravian Painted Pottery group. With the help of mixed assemblages along the Drava and Mura rivers to County Zala and further on till Lower Austria a cultural and trade route can be reconstructed which must have played an essencial role in the chalcolithisation process of Middle Europe. The latest excavations near the Slovenian border gave a good basis for somewhat similar reconstructions, but this time about an important trade route which most probably had its connection with the neolithisation of the Western Danube valley. The site Szentgyörgyvölgy-Pityerdomb can be dated to the initial phase of the Transdanubian Linear Pottery Culture, with extremely many reminiscenses of the South East European Starčevo Culture. The immense quantity of lithic finds all comes from the prehistoric mine of Szentgál near Veszpr6m, Eastern Transdanubia. The same raw material, the red radiolarite is typical also for coeval or somewhat younger sites of the Early LBC in Western Transdanubia. Similarly, the Szentgál radiolarite also occurs in the same period in Eastern Austria and Southern Germany. This

Revue / Journal Title

Savaria   ISSN 0230-1954 

Source / Source

1998-1999, vol. 24, n^o3, pp. 51-64 (2 p.)

Langue / Language

Hongrois
Revue : Anglais

Editeur / Publisher

Savaria Múzeum, Szombathely, HONGRIE  (1963) (Revue)

Mots-clés anglais / English Keywords

Moravian painted pottery ; Settlement ; Populating ; Manufacturing techniques ; Typology ; Lithic industry ; Influence ; Mine ; Vinca ; Excavation ; Trace ; Publication ; Trade ; Amber ; Adriatic ; Baltic sea ; Trade road ; Economy ; Hungary ; Europe ; Roman antiquity ; Iron Age ; Bronze Age ; Lengyel ; Chalcolithic ; Neolithic ;

Mots-clés français / French Keywords

Programme de recherche ; Moravie ; Raba ; Marcali ; Torna ; Valeur ; Matière première ; Transdanube ; Veszprém ; Szentgal ; Starcevo ; Szentgyοrgyvοgy-Piterdomb ; Danube ; Slovénie ; Rôle ; Basse-Autriche ; Mura ; Drava ; Vallée ; Zalaszentbalazs ; Zala ; Kerka ; Hahot ; Céramique peinte morave ; Habitat ; Peuplement ; Technique de fabrication ; Typologie ; Industrie lithique ; Influence ; Mine ; Vinća ; Fouille ; Trace ; Publication ; Commerce ; Ambre ; Adriatique ; Baltique ; Route commerciale ; Economie ; Hongrie ; Europe ; Antiquité romaine ; Age du Fer ; Age du Bronze ; Lengyel ; Chalcolithique ; Néolithique ;

Localisation / Location

INIST-CNRS, Cote INIST : 22750, 35400009983223.0050