Book

Bronze age cultures in central and eastern Europe

Mouton • The Hague • Published In 1965 • Pages:

By: Gimbutas, Marija.

Abstract

In the first half of this document Gimbutas presents an overview of the diagnostic artifacts, burial patterns, exchange and the economy from the Bronze Age covering Eastern Europe from eastern Germany and eastern Austria, to southern Finland, south to Greece, and east to the Ural Mountains and the Caucasus Mountains. Only the area that is covered by the Northeastern European Bronze Age was marked for OCM (Outline of Cultural Materials) codes. The area that was NOT marked includes the Balkans, Greece, Bulgaria, southern Ukraine east of the Dneiper River, and southern Russia or the lower Volga River region south to the Caucasus Mountains. These areas will be covered under future European traditions such as Andronovo, Caucasian Bronze Age, Scythian-Sarmatian, and Southeastern European Bronze Age. Gimbutas describes the artifacts, where and when they are found, what items were traded and the distances they were traded, what groups of people migrated and where they migrated to, and what group conquered who. She also discusses some of the influences different groups had on each other. This tradition contains many different groups who had many different kinds of cultural contacts with other groups and with groups outside this tradition. This makes the Northeastern European Bronze Age tradition rather confusing as there is frequent overlap with surrounding traditions. In the second half of the document Gimbutas presents overviews of various cultural groups including Pecica, Nagyrev, Hatvan, Otomani, Monteoru, Únĕtice, Tumulus, Urnfield, Luastian, Tisza, the Baltic Bronze Age, Kurgan, Bilopotok, Komarov, Fat'janovo, Balanovo, Abashevo, Turbino, Textile Pottery, Asbestos ware, Kiukais, and the Stone-barrow culture. She again discusses the diagnostic artifacts and also settlement patterns, architecture, burial patterns, and exchange.

HRAF PubDate

2012

Region

Europe

Sub Region

Eastern Europe

Document Type

Book

Evaluation

Creator Type

Archaeologist

Document Rating

4: Excellent Secondary Data

Analyst

Sarah Berry; 2011

Field Date

not specified

Coverage Date

circa 4000-2750 BP (2000-750 BC)

Coverage Place

central and eastern Europe to the Ural Mountains; Austria, Belarus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, and Ukraine

Notes

by Marija Gimbutas

Includes bibliographical references

LCCN

65023877

LCSH

Bronze age--Europe