Contributions to dating the Late Bronze Age pottery in North–Western Romania
Contributions to dating the Late Bronze Age pottery in North–Western Romania

Summary/Abstract: In the 16th century BC significant social and economic transformations took place in North–Western Romania, reflected in the abandonment of the Middle Bronze Age tell settlements and the emergence of the Tumulus material culture. In the area between the Crasna, Crișul-Repede rivers, the Meseș Mountains, and in a large part of the Berettyó/Barcău–Körös/Criș region and the Upper Tisza valley in Hungary, the ceramic style, which developed as a mixture of the local Middle Bronze Age and the Tumulus pottery stylistic elements, is known in the literature as the Hajdúbagos/Pişcolt-Cehăluț, Cehăluț–Hajdúbagos, or Hajdúbagos/Cehăluț cultural group. The present paper contributes to the research of the Late Bronze Age with 14C data from Tășnad–Sere and attempts to systematise the Hajdúbagos–Cehăluț through pottery assemblages by a combined analysis of the available 14C dates from Tășnad–Sere and Recea–Valea Sulduba sites and the associated ceramic finds.

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